It’s the Holiday season & you all know what that means! TOYS! Well, if you’re our regular audience it means bills, party planning & crushing depression, but when you were a kid, the holidays meant toys & toys meant TRANSFORMERS! Even competing against GI Joe, He-Man & Go-Bots, the Transformers toy line always stood on top, and over 40 years later, the franchise shows no signs of slowing down. Returning guest Melodi ventures down the basement once again to look back at all things Transformers: the figures, the cartoons, the movies, the bed tent…we cover EVERYTHING! What did we REALLY learn from the robots in disguise? Why do the characters still resonate today? Is the Transformers: The Movie soundtrack the perfect distillation of the 80’s? We tackle these questions and more as we kick off the holiday season celebrating an iconic toy franchise that became so much more! Till all are one! Just don’t tell Hot Rod he’s getting coal in his stocking….

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