AARGH! MY OPTICS!

CAUTION THIS POCAST CONTAINS SPOILERS! Back by unpopular demand to perform their civic duty and raise their voices above the din of hyperbole, brand worship and well meaning excessively forgiving boosterism... and give you an honest, even handed, fair assessment of the latest Transformers movie TRANSFORMERS ONE! So rip off those fandom blinkers, waft away the mists of nostalgia, put aside that brand loyalty and join Dave and Orion once more, back from extended hiatus to tell you what they REALLY think of the movie, as well as muse on why it's not quite setting the cash registers ringing.

Credits:

Hosts: Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia/Sleeves

Editing and Production: Orion Ghia/Sleeves

Intro music and stings: Oliver Prime

Outro Music: The Vidiprinter

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[DISCUSSION] Virtual Dave, Orion Ghia and special guest host Virtual Amy all went to TFNation 2022 and they can't wait to tell you all about it in excruciating detail! TFNation is the UK's premier Transformers convention and it's been way for 2 years! Which explains our host's excitement over getting down to Birmingham and 'nerding out' with their 'people'. Hear about the panels, the dealers room, the guests, the getting lost in carparks and listen as Orion's misanthropy slowly melts.

A huge thank you to everyone we met over the weekend, especially those who recorded 'stings' for us, we don't have all you names but you are loved... deeply.

Credits:

Hosts: Virtual Dave, Orion Ghia and Virtua Amy

Editing and Production: Orion Ghia

Intro music and stings: Oliver Prime

Outro Music: The Vidiprinter

Stings: Various

Chris McFeely “Beyond your wildest imagination” thread

https://twitter.com/chrismcfeely/status/1561079478771748865

Jack Lawrence https://twitter.com/JLawrence_Art

James Roberts https://twitter.com/jroberts332

Simon Furman https://twitter.com/SimonFurman3

Garry Chalk https://twitter.com/GarryChalkTalk

Cannedice Santora https://www.instagram.com/cannedice.santora/

Triple Takeover Toycast https://www.tripletakeover.com/

Go Go Andy Robo https://twitter.com/GoGoAndyRobo

Thew Adams Awesome Transformers Reviews https://youtu.be/zB9cqM94EM4

Kris Cater https://twitter.com/Drivaaar

Toy-fu https://twitter.com/ToyFu332 and https://www.facebook.com/toyfu332

Lucan’s Tees https://twitter.com/ZombiWorkshop and https://store.zombiworkshop.com/

Norfolk Miniatures https://twitter.com/Norfolk_Minis

Chess and Claude’s Workshop https://twitter.com/Captain_Ogilvy and https://twitter.com/Claudovel and https://ccworkshoppy.shop/

Gavin Spence https://www.youtube.com/c/GavinSpenceTRDQ and https://twitter.com/GeshGav

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[DISCUSSION] Sooner than expected(?) it's part three in the AARGH! MY OPTICS! series of discussions on Toy Collecting. This one is on displaying our toys. What good is collecting toys if you can’t show them off? Many toy collectors put as much time, money and effort into displaying their toys as they do collecting them. Orion and Dave certainly do, and now they've put the best part of two hours into chatting about it. The least you could do is listen right?

Credits:

Hosts: Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia

Editing and Production: Orion Ghia

Intro music and stings: Oliver Prime

Outro Music: The Vidiprinter

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[DISCUSSION] ...And now for something completely different! Having grown a little tired of talking about a massively popular and long running toy line and media franchise, Orion Ghia retreats to a much less well remembered and far shorter lived toy line of his youth... Coleco's STARCOM. Join Orion as he takes Virtual Dave along for the ride! They discuss the cartoon, the toys, the reason it failed and lament a toy line that was, all told, is one of the great hidden gems of the 1980s.

Credits:

Hosts: Virtual Dave, Orion Ghia/Sleeves

Editing and Production: Orion Ghia/Sleeves

Intro music and stings: Oliver Prime

Outro Music: The Vidiprinter

The Cartoon Series https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UCUzHub1p1Y&list=PLR_H6J1r9l5hKDIthbgUmZbBLyhkM2X5

Selection of Adverts https://youtu.be/Ya3UJGqy8Kg?si=GzV1ypcYb1VBH9IP

Transformerland https://www.transformerland.com/wiki/starcom-the-us-space-force/starcom-the-us-space-force/

Figure Archive http://figure-archive.net/toyline.aspx?toylineID=1219

Stacom HQ http://starcomhq.com/

Triple Takeover do Starcom https://www.tripletakeover.com/1730823/12170228-48-starcom

Secret Galaxy do Starcom https://youtu.be/7Fw2ZgNwlIE?si=gChoDn-NJoBBXrK6y

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CAUTION THIS POCAST CONTAINS SPOILERS! Welcome to a very special CROSSOVER episode of AARGH! MY OPTICS! Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia are joined by Galactosh and Sleeves (also know as Orion Ghia, I know its confusing but deal with it!) from comics podcast We're Got Back Issues, plus special guest host Michael Quintesson to chat about the first 6 issues and story arch of Skybound's brand new ongoing Transformers comic book! You'll find our discussion of issues 4 to 6 here on AARGH! MT OPTICS! and issues 1 to 3 over on We've Got Back issues... Fun right!?

Anyway please do join us to hear our hot takes on the latest reboot of the Transformers franchise as we talk robots, wrestling and PTSD!

Hear part 1 on We've Got Back Issues https://linktr.ee/wevegotbackissues

Credits

Transformers created by Hasbro Inc. and arguably Bob Budiansky

Creative talent: Daniel Warren Johnson, Mike Spicer and Rus Wooton

Hosts: Virtual Dave, Orion Ghia AKA Sleeves, Galactosh and Michael Quintesson

Editing and production: Orion Ghia

Episode art: Daniel Warren Johnson (Image/Skybound)

Intro music and stings: Oliver Prime

Outro Music: The Vidiprinter

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