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Episode 15 of the Twincast is now up and available to download here. This time around Seibertron staff discuss:



BotCon 2011 Motormaster, with its controversial mold choice,



The newest galleries, including Windcharger, Wheeljack and Thundercracker.



Dark Of The Moon news including reveals of the toyline.



The newest comics including Infestation and issue 17 of the ongoing comic.



And Ask The Twincast: "How do you guys feel about the GEEWUNNERS perspective of the fandom who see everthing new and different as bad?"

Once again you can find the podcast here.

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This was my first listen, and I have to ask, whats with the "Saber-tron"?

Seibertron and Cybertron should be pronounced the same way. (Sy -ber- tron)

seiba-men from DBZ was pronounced (sy -ba- men). Maybe someone already posted about this, but like I said it's ma' first listen, and hearing it like that wrinkles my brain

Poyguimogul wrote:This was my first listen, and I have to ask, whats with the "Saber-tron"?

Seibertron and Cybertron should be pronounced the same way. (Sy -ber- tron)

seiba-men from DBZ was pronounced (sy -ba- men). Maybe someone already posted about this, but like I said it's ma' first listen, and hearing it like that wrinkles my brain

Afraid not. In the Japanese fiction セイバートロン (Seibertron) is the name of the planet, pronounced "sabertron" while サイバトロン (Cybertron) is the name of the heroic faction. Note the different symbol at the beginning.

where are my gummi chewy sweets!?

I see. (U win this round Diem, with all your techno-jargin)

about the comic reveal - "He saw the Micheal Bay film portrayal of himself and all the graphic pseudo-yaoi-porn of Himself and xStarscream or xProwl, and decided it was time for some pay back." - his new name is Busta Kap, and he likes guns and rap.

Perhaps we should address the pronounciation on the next podcast.

It is officially pronounced "say-ber-tron".

awesome podcast.

Poyguimogul wrote:This was my first listen, and I have to ask, whats with the "Saber-tron"?

Seibertron and Cybertron should be pronounced the same way. (Sy -ber- tron)

seiba-men from DBZ was pronounced (sy -ba- men). Maybe someone already posted about this, but like I said it's ma' first listen, and hearing it like that wrinkles my brain

Have you watched any of the Japanese Transformers cartoons in the past? You can hear it right off the bat in this video clip from the first episode of Transformers Headmasters.

Personally, I don't think it's fair saying that they were slacking off or not being creative enough with Optimus Prime.

I think it just comes down to personal preference.

DJW had planned that Motormaster would be the same chassis as Optimus Prime since before the show started airing. So it was always going to be Prime, rather than it being a case of not trying hard enough.

I personally much prefer the Prime mould, as I find the Wreck-gar truck to be too cartoony for Motormaster, and additionally I've always thought of Motormaster as being kind of a mirror to Prime ever since that G1 "King of the Road" episode where they went head-to-head.

But like I said, it comes down to personal preference. I much prefer Prime, but then it probably helps that I don't have a black Prime already. And I doubt that a large percentage of the fandom who are picking up the box set do either.

Oilspill wrote:Personally, I don't think it's fair saying that they were slacking off or not being creative enough with Optimus Prime.

I think it just comes down to personal preference.

DJW had planned that Motormaster would be the same chassis as Optimus Prime since before the show started airing. So it was always going to be Prime, rather than it being a case of not trying hard enough.

Didn't I say that? I thought I said that...