The Transformers: The Movie (1986)
Just like the movie they are covering, the ActionBoyz are more than meets the eye. Wait till you hear Gabrus make the famous transforming sound. You won’t believe Stanger’s rambling story about a toy he got for Christmas but can’t remember what it was. And witness Rodgers touch the matrix this episode and become Rodgimus Prime. It’s TRANSFORMERS: THE MOVIE this week. Merry Christmas ActionBabyz
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Nice to hear the guys getting through their childhood toy envy.
all-time classic episode the holiday extravaganza you guys should really release this one for free if you haven't already. Happy holidays happy new year thanks for all the hours of joy y'all have given me. andddd maybe trump will be visited by three ghosts xmas eve and wake up a new man? maybe an elaborate psyop operation with holograms and smoke and hallucinogenics could achieve this??
Hell yeah
I used go through the McDonald’s drive through just for their eggnog shakes. Damn, I miss those!
Because I am a Very Fun Person, I did the (very basic) math: This Action Boyz episode is approximately 189 minutes long, making it 2.25 times longer than the film it is discussing (84 minutes). I think this is a record? The episode on Rumble in the Bronx is 180 minutes and that film is 87 minutes, making that episode 2.07 times longer than the movie. Is there anything that breaks the might of the Autobots in this regard?
Based on my data (I know, I know) the closest is Ninja III with 192 minute pod and 92 minute film resulting in 2.09 ratio. Of course, in the future we'll have Firewalker with 229/105 = 2.19.
I got an unopened copy of Pokémon Silver from a friend when it came out. He was a rich kid and his parents got him gold and silver, he didn’t like the Pokémon on the box, so I got it. My mom chopped it up with a hatchet screaming about how those games are of the devil because the “pocket monsters” evolve.
Some people might find this extreme but it sounds pretty mundane to me. I remember when my church held an emergency meeting about how to deal with Pokémon and Harry Potter.
Action Boyz is the most relatable podcast ever if you’re from the east coast and were born in 1982.
I think it's weird how much Mank is getting knocked for historical accuracy. It doesn't distort the facts more egregiously than any other film that's based on a true story. I get not liking it because it's pretty dry without a lot going on, but I think film buffs have been a bit too protective of Orson Welles' legacy or whatever.
I could listen to gabrus talk about beast wars for hours.
Even Thomas Pynchon likes Beast Wars. He references a few of the characters in his last novel, Bleeding Edge.
oh man Rolling Thunder! I had that shit. My aunt and uncle who we only saw once or twice a year would always get me a crazy ass playset or like real nunchucks/bordeline inappropriate weapons for a kid. They loved toys and video games they would buy all the new games as they came out they'd pull out shoeboxes of new games to play when we went over there.. uncle's a right wing gun nut even as a kid I remember him spouting Rush Limbaugh propaganda. Used to remember staring up at a big leather thing he would plop down on top of the big wooden TV, in hindsight I realize it was his gun
Took me back to when my mom threw out all our Transformers, GI Joes, etc. because me and my brother absolutely refused to clean our room. Still upsetting 30 years later.
I owned this soundtrack and absolutely love it til this day.
There is a really cool Devastator currently up for preorder on Amazon for $150
Hit & Run was my favorite GI Joe. It blew my fucking mind when Rodgers brought him up
Hit & Run was a fucking great figure.
On a scale of 1-10, what base level of rage do you guys think Rodgers starts from?
I’m the Rodgers of my friend group so I’m going to guess he starts at an 8
Canceled my subscription. Only activated it again for this episode and Rodgers can't stop complaining about it even though it's a stone cold classic.
You're listening to a podcast where people talk about an 85-minute movie for 3 hours. They all say multiple times that they liked it.
This is one of the funniest ActionBoyz episodes ever. 😂
I had a die cast Starscream when I was 6 or 7 that got stolen when I took it to day care with me. I always wonder what the kind of man I would have become had my future not been snuffed out that day.
Oh man that sucks. I bet you were heart broken. I know I was when my brand new Secret Wars Spider-Man was stolen before I even got a chance to play with it.
Omega Supreme might the Transformer Rhino was looking for
ZZ Top were a Zombies imitation band. The Zombies were a UK band and were a hit in the US, but no one knew what they looked like in the US. So bands would book themselves as the Zombies and played their songs, ZZ Top were one of those bands.
did not know this! I would contend though that ZZ Top eclipsed the Zombies a billion times over since
I went to tell my wife about how all the Boyz's wives were sick of them relaying them minutia from media and I got as far as "On this week's Action Boyz" before she interrupted me with "I don't care"
Transformer toy trauma... I traded my Optimus Prime for a Centurions toy because my parents wouldn’t let me have war toys. The kid was a total bully, and he gave me the Centurion, but it was missing like 75% of the accessories, so I tried to get my Optimus back... and he just broke it in front of me on the playground... bullies were real wild cards.
Stanger’s mystery gift was Omega Supreme, right?
The colors he describes doesn’t sound quite right, but I think it was Omega Supreme too.
One Christmas I got the GI Joe aircraft carrier. My dad and WW2 vet granddad spent a day putting it together. 1 year later I destroyed it by recreating a WWF bodyslam with my friend
Just got to the part where they decided to talk about the movie lol. First hour and change was brilliant, as always, but especially good this time.
Transformers are what happens when you rawdog the cars for cars?
remember the Crash Test Dummies toys. My brother and I would film them crashing into things and watch it back in slow motion with our mom's huge video camera that used the full size VHS tapes
I was OBSESSED with those in elementary school
Fuckin love ZZ Top, dudes-
would definitely drop another 3 bucks a month for a U Talkin' U2 Stanger-led rip-off show covering ZZ Top's discography, just tossing this out into the ether
def recommend the comic book 'Transformers vs GI Joe" by Tom Scioli. Its super fun and inventive and the art is great (very Jack Kirby). It's way better than it should be, if that makes any sense.
Rodgers notes for this are probably 90 pages long
Which Coffey sister is Rodgers dating?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4tc6UbEYI4M
Ben's story about the kids fucking breaking all of his toys enraged me. Jesus Christ.
I love that Ben called a front screen room an Arizona Room — we’ve always called them Florida Rooms and the idea that different regions assign a different state name to that room is simply delightful
I know this is lamer than toys but I had all the animated Disney clamshell VHS tapes and when I got back from grad school they were all gone. And no one will fess up. They are worth some money now but more importantly an aesthetically appealing collectable. Furious.
My mom had those and after she died I still can't bring myself to throw them away. There is something very comforting about seeing them on a shelf.
Labatt Blue call out!
Does someone remember what animated show from the late 90s had the throwaway joke about kids driving inside a Transformer in car mode, who then get smashed to a pulp when he transforms into a robot and just stands there leaking blood? I've had this stuck in my head forever.
Feels robot chicken to me.
THANK YOU!!!!!!
Yea so that weird cartoon where the kid morphs into a car is “Turbo Teen.” Quite shitty indeed...
There's an episode of the Transformers show titled "The Girl Who Loved Powerglide"...
Air Quims, ABZ windbreakers and a pair of gape gloves. I’ll be coming more than Arnold.
Bit off topic, but I was watching the first Avengers movie this weekend with my kids and Loki calls Black Widow 'quim'. I had to rewind it to be sure and then still looked it up, but yeah. It blew my mind. I always thought Gabrus came up with that.
Scored by Vince Dicola of Rocky IV fame.
He's got the touch.
Holy Shit. I literally drop my phone when I saw the movie. This is my all time fav as a kid.
Orson Welles’ final movie. -2 out of 16 people found this helpful
One of my most anticipated listens of this podcast's history. Christmas just came 4 days early...and so did I 🙃