Australian Transformers Weekly Ep 234, 30th April 2021
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Welcome to Australian Transformers Weekly, bringing you Transformers news from around the world and across Australia.   This is episode 234.  We are recording live on Friday, April 30th, 2021.   In this episode we’ll be talking about Shattered glass tyrants, Final images of masterpiece skids, More movie news, And we discuss the new price rise on plastic  All that and much more coming up…. All this and more is coming up in this week’s episode - after this!   Notable things that happened this week? NEWS 00:06:24 Shattered Glass Megatron announced https://www.facebook.com/ToyReel/photos/pcb.1025989961141715/1025989544475090/ Worth revisiting the rumour list from a few weeks ago: TRA GEN SHATTERED GLASS 1 (DELUXE GOLD BUG (WFC S CLIFFJUMPERREDECO - CLOSED ECOMM PACKAGING) TRA GEN SHATTERED GLASS 2 (DELUXE BLURR REDECO - CLOSED ECOMM PACKAGING) TRA GEN SHATTERED GLASS VOYAGER STARSCREAM TRA GEN SHATTERED GLASS VOYAGER MEGATRON TRA GEN SHATTERED GLASS COMMANDER JETFIRE (WFC S JETFIRE REDECO - CLOSED ECOMM PACKAGING)   00:20:34 Takara Tomy Transformers Masterpiece MP-53 Skids New Official In-Hand Images https://news.tfw2005.com/2021/04/28/takara-tomy-transformers-masterpiece-mp-53-skids-new-official-in-hand-images-432605   00:32:16 Something called Ruckus Rally. https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/first-image-of-art-for-upcoming-transformers-botbots-vehicles/45884/  … are you still into BotBots? Were you ever…?   00:38:25 Transformers 7 rumoured to star Dominique Fishback https://news.tfw2005.com/2021/04/29/dominique-fishback-lands-lead-role-in-transformers-7-432755  … and apparently isn’t anything to do with Lorenzo DiBonaventura. Article points out this is a Skydance production (directed by Steven Caple Jr)   00:45:44 THE MAIN DISCUSSION  Hasbro To Raise Toy Prices Due To Raw Material Costs https://news.tfw2005.com/2021/04/27/hasbro-to-raise-toy-prices-due-to-raw-material-costs-432594   Of course prices go up - raw materials prices go up constantly. Whats a reasonable price? When was the last price rise in Australia? (Kmart is still 29/50/90) Masterpiece prices went up … and sort of came back down. How much have you spent on your collection? … and do you feel like that’s too much? 01:NEW ACQUISITIONS   Jason:  Bradley: Brad: unicron,    OUTRO Thank you for listening! And if you’re watching along with the live record, thanks for checking us out.   To find out more about these stories, you’ll find the links to them all and more in the show notes.   Want to get in touch with us? Please do! We love listener feedback. Our official site is on Podbean: transformersweekly.podbean.com  Facebook page is called Australian Transformers Weekly; and We’re all in the Transformers Collectors Club Australia group on Facebook.   If you’re not already subscribed, you can find the podcast on your podcatcher of choice. The RSS feed link is on the website and in the show notes - https://transformersweekly.podbean.com/feed   This podcast is a production of Transformers Collectors Club Australia. TCCA is a registered club in Victoria, run by volunteers donating their time, effort, energy (and money) to make it better for everyone. Our goal is to connect Transformers fans around the country, and we do it by engaging the collecting community.  You can find more information about the benefits of TCCA membership and how to show your support for what we do at transformerscca.com    OFFWORLD TCCA is Transformers Collectors Club Australia on Facebook and “transformerscca” on Twitter. Jason is on Twitter at-jm-77 Bradley is on Twitch at-groovy-guy-gaming   That’s all from us. We’ll be back with more Transformers news soon.   END CREDITS  
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