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Radio Free Cybertron: The Transformers Podcast

Brian Kilby

Radio Free Cybertron is The Transformers Podcast! The world’s first and best. We’ve been bringing you the latest from around the Transformers world since 1999! Weekly news and reviews on all...

Episodes

20 of 117 episodes

Radio Free Cybertron 1001 – Transformers Hits Minecraft, Plus a Mystery Godzilla Collab

Hasbro addresses the fallout from the canceled Target Studio Series MTMTE exclusives this week, while TakaraTomy steps in with a TS-37 Stars...

Aug 21, 2026

Radio Free Cybertron 1000 – Forty Years of the Touch, a Thousand Episodes of Us

Episode 1,000 — or 1,001, we lost count on air. Transformers: The Movie turns 40 with theater tickets on sale, Hasbro's Apology Tour box get...

2:34:43Aug 15, 2026

Radio Free Cybertron 999 – Missing Link Soundwave Doubles Up While Target Cancels Everything

Two Missing Link Soundwaves land this week, Target cancels a wave of MTMTE preorders, and a Predaking repaint gets dubbed "police predicting...

50:30Aug 8, 2026

Radio Free Cybertron 998 – Four Decades Later, Hasbro Says Sorry With a CG Short

SDCC 2026 gave collectors Alpha Bravo, G2 Wild Rider, Titan Class Dinobot Scorn, IDW Nautica, and a Beast Wars Maximal Collection multipack....

58:03Jul 31, 2026

Radio Free Cybertron 997 – Hasbro’s Strong Q2, a Stuck Starscream, and a Pinball Machine Brian Can’t Stop Talking About

Hasbro's Q2 numbers are up, but Transformers didn't make the highlight reel — and Starscream can't catch a break at Target. Plus: a Deceptic...

50:50Jul 24, 2026

Radio Free Cybertron 996 – Matrix Measuring Contest

Studio Series is going full sandbox, G1 cartoon Coneheads are (eventually) coming, and a made-to-order Seeker set has the crew cautiously op...

Jul 17, 2026

Radio Free Cybertron 995 – Chris Returns to Fact-Check 30 Years of Botcon History

Chris returns from his hiatus just in time to dissect the new Studio Series Seeker Storm Pack, deliver a masterclass on Sunstorm's tortured...

1:04:30Jul 10, 2026

Radio Free Cybertron 994 – Here’s Your Gun Megatron

Tonka x Transformers gets its first look, and the Surprise Countdown Calendar hides a gun-mode Megatron. Yolopark's movie Ironhide shows its...

32:40Jul 3, 2026

Radio Free Cybertron 993 – Five Years of Dinobots

The 2027 Titan is Age of Extinction Scorn — and the Dinobots are coming for the next five years. Flame Toys floods GMHS 2026 with prototypes...

40:27Jun 26, 2026

Radio Free Cybertron 992 – Pinball Wizard: The G1 Transformers Table Ships

The G1 Transformers pinball is shipping — and Brian's Limited edition came with a $1,500 surprise. The crew breaks down in-hand Insecticons,...

35:04Jun 20, 2026

Radio Free Cybertron 991 – Truly Outrageous: Jem Crosses Over at SDCC 2026

Jem and the Holograms meets the Kiss Players cassettes in Hasbro's wildest SDCC exclusive yet. Add a cereal-box Optimus Prime, Megazarak, an...

51:02Jun 12, 2026

Radio Free Cybertron 990 – Siege Greenlight Is Back (And Cheaper)

ElevenLabs is licensing Hasbro's Transformers characters for commercial AI voice use — and the RFC crew is not entirely sold on it. Also thi...

1:06:52Jun 5, 2026

Radio Free Cybertron 989 – Hasbro Files the “Makits” Trademark — What Does It Mean?

Hasbro has filed a trademark for "Hasbro Makits," a new in-house model kit line — and the RFC crew has a lot of thoughts about what that cou...

53:21May 29, 2026

Radio Free Cybertron 988 – Dare to Be Disappointed

Brian put a deposit on the Stern Pinball Transformers: More Than Meets the Eye machine before the official reveal. Liokaiser is shipping, Th...

47:00May 23, 2026

Radio Free Cybertron 987 – Stern Warning: Brian’s Collection Must Get Smaller So His G1 Transformers Pinball Machine Can Get Bigger

The Shizuoka Hobby Show brought a flood of reveals — Gigastorm, Beast Wars II Galvatron, Missing Link Ratchet and Ironhide, and more — but t...

1:07:58May 16, 2026