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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CAUTION THIS POCAST CONTAINS SPOILERS! Back by unpopular demand Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia/Sleeves reconvene to discuss the latest Transformers movie to hit theaters a month late in the UK! TRANSFOMERS ONE! In part 1 of this deep dive we discuss the production history of the movie and pour over the plot giving our thoughts and musings along the way. Part 2 will follow in a couple of days with our final verdict!

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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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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[DISCUSSION] WE'RE BACK! After eleven months off and some deliberation over a topic Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia return to the podwaves to discuss a firm favourite of theirs.. Transformers Robots in Disguise! No not that one! Or that one! No the first one the one from 2001 the one that Hasbro essentially disowned for 20 years.. YES that one! YES we heard about the Haslab! YES Orion has a controversial opinion on it! Join us as we delve into the 'wacky' TV show and the random delight of a toy line that really had no right be as good as it was.

Credits:

Hosts: Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia

Editing and Production: Orion Ghia

Intro music and stings: Oliver Prime

Outro Music: The Vidiprinter

Watch Transformers Robots In Disguise https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLlcmNU-jCJ6O9V5oAqboIhpUYobts1ZUl

Watch Transformers Car Robots https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLPNHgwrrD-gg7B-s1sGCOFrCuCXKVlY8O

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[TOTB/DISCUSSION] Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year! What's this in the toe of you Christmas stocking? Why it's the third annual AARGH! MY OPTICS! Top Of The Bots Podcast! As is customary this time of year Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia get together IN REAL LIFE and discuss the previous year.. Dave and Orion exchange presents and shoot the shit about 2023 and run down their favourite 5 action figures of the year, yeah that's right FIVE we shortened it so we could talk about other stuff is that ok with you?! We're doing this for free you know!

Check out Orion and Dave's Instagram profiles for images of their choices:

https://www.instagram.com/orion_ghia/

https://www.instagram.com/virtualdave26/

Credits:

Hosts: Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia

Editing and Production: Orion Ghia

Into Music and Stings: Oliver Prime

Outro Music: The Vidiprinter

Play House Brighton (Where Override came from) https://www.facebook.com/modelshobbiestoysgames/

Jay AKA Robot Garbage https://www.instagram.com/robotgarbage/

Dave's Comics Brighton https://www.davescomics.co.uk/

Retroblasting video: https://youtu.be/Ev7IhRRFVTM?si=UU2QaQZOBhXx4KvS

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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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[DISCUSSION] It's TFNation time again! This time Virtual Dave and Virtual Amy go (so Orion Ghia doesn't have too) and report back on their experience on UKs biggest and BEST Transformers convention! Hear 'live' updates from the con, custom made stings by it's guests and patrons and Orion quizzing them both on that actually happened the other weekend in Birmingham!

A huge thank you to everyone Dave and Amy meet over the weekend, especially those who recorded 'stings' for us... we love you all!

Credits:

Hosts: Virtual Dave, Orion Ghia

Guest Host: Virtua Amy

Editing and Production: Orion Ghia

Intro music and stings: Oliver Prime

Outro Music: The Vidiprinter

Stings: Various... including Gary Chalk, Thew Adams, Jeremey Levy, Jack Lawrence, Gav Spence, Plastic Craic, Lucan Tees and more!

Visit TFNation: https://tfnation.com/

Thew Adams: https://www.youtube.com/@UCP3AVTw_73U_8jMzLw5TbEg

Chris McFeely https://www.youtube.com/@UCAPhTcmL-a69jL1KWOPe7GA

DiamondBolt https://www.youtube.com/@UCaPGKhms7rUVjpBceeJUdUQ

Gav Spence https://www.youtube.com/@UC64sMcUNRWAUlKeEceZOlRA

Matrix Test: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rhBfSJ54rro

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[DISCUSSION/REVIEW] Couldn't quite fit this all into one show, so here is part 2 of our deep dive into the Spider-verse movies. In this part Orion, Dave and special guest host Galactosh tell you what they really thought of Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse and do their version of a Spider-man movie hit parade! Tangents include, 90's comics, video games and of course... toys.

Credits:

Hosts: Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia

Guest Host: Galactosh

Editing and Production: Orion Ghia

Intro music, stings and TOTP music: Oliver Prime

Outro Music: The Vidiprinter

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[DISCUSSION/REVIEW] So Spider-man: Across the Spider-verse FINALLY came out. So we thought it was about time we FINNALLY get around to talking about Spider-man: Into the Spider-verse and it's sequel, cos we just haven't got the time to wait for the final one! Join Orion and Dave AND returning guest host Galactosh as we talk, Miles Morales, Spider-gwen, Peter B Parker, Spider-Ham etc etc as well how nonsensical Canon Events truly are.

Credits:

Hosts: Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia

Guest Host: Galactosh

Editing and Production: Orion Ghia

Intro music and stings: Oliver Prime

Outro Music: The Vidiprinter

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[DISCUSSION] Way back in episode 16 we made a rod for our back by talking about Transformers Armada, the first in a trio of Transformers franchises that would become known as the Unicron Trilogy. Thus dooming ourselves to talk about the subsequent two parts.... and this is episode covers the much maligned second part of the trilogy... Transformers Energon! We discuss the show, the 'plot' the bad dubbing, the Japanese Superlink show, the terrible pacing, the lazy theme tune, the surprisingly overlooked toys and much much more!

Credits:

Hosts: Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia

Clip of Episode 25 features: Simon Furman

Editing and Production: Orion Ghia

Intro music and stings: Oliver Prime

Outro Music: The Vidiprinter

Clips taken from: Transformers Energon and Transformers Superlink

Links

Transformers Energon episodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=33ww_XWhJ-Q&list=PLDDB6F272B52928F6

Transformers Superlink episodes: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kvCBKFpf6jM&list=PLPNHgwrrD-gjUCy6_rtUK0dPAkGlP5bfy

The 'missing' episode "Return! Our Scorponok": https://youtu.be/AwbazKWUzjw

TFwiki page on the comic featuring AARGH! MY OPTICS!: https://tfwiki.net/wiki/Transformers:_Energon_(comic)

Our interview with Simon Furman: https://youtu.be/BEEj48ciYM4

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