Tomy

But first a little bit about Transformers itself, so the site that summed up for both of these things.

Based on a popular toy line from Takara Tomy and adapted by Hasbro into a merchandising metroplex, the ancient war between Olapots and Decepticons reaches new heights, with Earth as a battlefield and our continuing existence hanging in the balance.

which accurately describes the Transformers as a whole, either version.

Now, you have, as many of us do, like we've probably encountered Transformers in some way, shape or form at some point in our life and we either for it or against it or don't really care about it.

I'm Gary, your host bot, and there's a bunch of Transformers news at the start of the show this week.

Firstly, Takara Tomy have announced a new dramatic capture series set of toys and this is the first one that's caught my attention because Ratchet is there and he's in like a really nicely done paint job.

I don't know, it just looks different than any other Ratchet toys I've seen.

His legs are super chunky and the colors are really bright and vivid.

I'm hoping those are interested in this thing.

In terms of Asian news, uh, we had the Takara Tomy's T-Spark Transformers Evangelion Unit-01, which was the Optimus Prime, and now we have the 02.

Uh, this time it's Hot Rod who's been turned into, uh, Unit-02, which was, uh, Asuka's, I think her name was.

Uh, so this is Rodimus Prime Evangelion.

Yeah.

So hopefully, hopefully they can do, you know, a good job engineering that without, you know, borrowing from Takara Tomy's work 40 years ago.

Yeah.

But I got to say, if I want a Hot Wheels Transformers mashup, I'm going to go with whatever Hasbro puts together instead of whatever Mattel puts together if I have to pick.