Insecticons

And if you wonder how much I paid for it, a boxed G1 shrapnel, the next most expensive item I got was more than meets the eye, Studio Series Hot Rod.

I mean, yeah, Insecticons don't tend to go for a ton of money.

Yeah.

He is gorgeous.

And even with the 20% off sale, the only reason I picked those two up was because it was like an hour before the showing of the movie yesterday when I was at Target killing time.

Your Target was surprisingly well stocked.

Well, the Insecticons did come through the mail, but there was a set there.

Yeah, no, I've seen plenty of Insecticon sets on Target shelves.

And he's got the Decepticon logo on his shoulder, I think, and I'm thinking maybe it's shattered glass, where in the shattered glass universe, it's the heroic Decepticons versus the evil Autobots.

but I liked it I mean I don't mind any kind of continuation that has to do with Welker and Colin the fact that they didn't get it didn't sound like they got Dan Gilvezan to play Bumblebee though but whoever played Soundwave did a good job that sounded just like Soundwave um And the Insecticons, they were in it as well.

That was pretty cool.

It's just, it seems like no matter what, and Bumblebee is right in this because he says everybody you get in contact with dies.

You can't say that.

Yeah.

Thundercracker and one of the Insecticons I don't remember became the Sweeps.

Skywarp and another I think the other Insecticon who I don't remember became Scourge.

When I first saw the, the, like, first fight scene after, uh, Optimus gets into the dreamscape where he's, like, you know, rolling through this kind of abandoned, uh, like, abandoned planet, we saw Skywarp and Thundercracker.

We saw some Insecticons.

And I thought what they were doing, it was referencing kinda to what you just mentioned there, Jeremy.

Like, other characters that had died in the movie are the ones fighting in this, like, dreamscape.

When I first saw the first fight scene after Optimus gets into the dreamscape where he's rolling through this abandoned planet, We saw Skywarp and Thundercracker.

We saw some Insecticons, and I thought what they were doing, it was referencing kind of to what you just mentioned there, Jeremy, like other characters that had died in the movie are the ones fighting in this dreamscape.

But then they bring Soundwave in, and it's like, well, he didn't die.

What's going on here?

I genuinely thought they were like, Constructicons, unionize! Ha ha ha!

Starscream personally dumps Megatron, Skywarp, Thundercracker, and the Insecticons out, realizing, okay, I definitely don't need you, don't need you, definitely don't need you, and you're disgusting because you guys are insects.

It's really important to say that Megatron was still able to speak.

He was not dead.

There's still, like, the Coneheads that I still don't have that they haven't made in this line.

And I think I need the Insecticons as well.

But that's about it.

There's not really a lot of fucking Decepticons.

The confirmed roster comes out to nine named Decepticons.

A one-off dude called Macabre, the Insecticons, Shrapnel, Bombshell, and Kickback, The Coneheads, Ramjet, Durge, and Thrust, and the Triple Changers, Blitzwing, and Octane.

Astrotrain just sort of shows up at the meeting point, message in hand from Megatron, without it ever being made clear if he was actually one of the intended targets, or just happened to be standing there.

But it seems pretty intentional to me, so I'm lumping him in with the group for consistency's sake.