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Monday Jan 14, 2019
Monday Jan 14, 2019
We are back, and boy the first episode of 2019 is a doosy. grab a drink and strap into that favorite chair of yours as we cover holiday news and re cap BumbleBee.
Welcome to Australian Transformers Weekly, bringing you transformers news from around the world.
This is episode 177, we are recording live on January 11th, 2019
In this episode we’ll be talking about
- On tonight's show we have a couple of quick news stories before we go head long into a round table discussion of attacks Knights Bumble Bee.
- All that and more coming up after this.
Cut to Intro:
Opening credits (8bit Transformers Theme)
What have you been up to this week?
NEWS
00:05:44 G1 Reissues
It's the 80s all over again with Bumblebee in cinemas now, so it seems fitting that a lot of this week's news is 80s reissues!
G1 Soundwave Reissue Revealed
http://news.tfw2005.com/2019/01/02/g1-soundwave-reissue-revealed-380038
00:10:32 G1 Optimus on shelves now
http://news.tfw2005.com/2019/01/07/g1-optimus-prime-reissue-spotted-at-walmart-380513
00:15:43 New G1 Gears And Warparth Reissues Revealed
http://news.tfw2005.com/2019/01/07/new-g1-gears-and-warparth-reissues-revealed-380523
Other News
00:18:41 Bumblebee Movie Studio Series Shatter – In-Hand Images
http://news.tfw2005.com/2019/01/06/bumblebee-movie-studio-series-shatter-in-hand-images-380463
00:25:03 Studio Series Bumblebee Movie Optimus Prime
News In Brief
00:29:07 3A DLX Blitzwing Official New Images And Description http://news.tfw2005.com/2019/01/10/3a-dlx-blitzwing-from-the-bumblebee-movie-official-new-images-and-description-380587
00:32:49 Generations Selects Swoop First Packaging Images http://news.tfw2005.com/2019/01/06/generations-selects-swoop-first-packaging-images-380439
00:33:50 All Components of Studio Series Devastator Combiner Revealed with Release Schedule http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/all-components-of-studio-series-devastator-combiner-revealed-with-release-schedule/42684/
00:35:33 Zeta Toys Reveals Zeta Bar, Where Everyone Knows Your Third Party Toys' Names https://tformers.com/zeta-toys-reveals-zeta-bar-where-everyone-knows-your-third-party-toys-names/34584/news.html
(I WANT THIS - JASON)
00:38:02 THE MAIN DISCUSSION
Bumblebee
Overall thoughts to start with
- Did you like it?
- How many times have you seen it?
- Ratings/scores?
- Brad 2/5
- Max 4.5/5
- Jason - 3.5/5
Characters
- Humans
- Charlie
- Burns
- Memo
- Others
- Transformers
- Bumblebee
- Shatter & Dropkick
- Others (lead into discussion of Cybertron scenes)
Best things
- Cybertron scenes
- House egging scene
- Creative deaths
- Narrow focus
- Visceral, coherent action
- Lack of military worship
- Bumblebee served two roles
- Always comes back to robots
- Love of transformation
Worst things
- Charlie's family is terrible
- Diving stuff
- Padding despite short run time
- Characters aren’t named
- Blitzwing
Meta
- Sequel - Is there a future?
- Box office performance
- https://www.boxofficemojo.com/movies/?id=transformers6.htm
- Paramount Pictures Declare Transformers: Bumblebee Is Solidly Profitable http://news.tfw2005.com/2019/01/10/paramount-pictures-declare-transformers-bumblebee-is-solidly-profitable-380662
- Animated film on Cybertron
- Optimus Prime
- Critical success
- 93% Fresh https://www.rottentomatoes.com/m/bumblebee/
- Franchise
- Box office performance
- Is it a reboot?
- Jason thinks so - “remix” - but still based on the films that have come before
- No WW2
- Producer says no!
- What was changed?
- Cena's character
- G1 Megatron
- Geewunners will never be happy
Introducing brad’s “how is this different to the previous films” game round (cancelled)
01:52:36 NEW ACQUISITIONS
Max: nada
Jason: mighty mug Star Scream
Brad: nil
01:57:05 TCCA BUSINESS
-thank you to everyone that donated for the Xmas drive, prizes have been sent out.
-keep a eye out for local Australia Day meet ups.
OUTRO
- Thank you for listening! And if you’re watching along with the live record, thanks for checking us out.
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- That’s all from us, we’ll be back with more Transformers news next week.
End Credits (added in post)
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