AARGH! MY OPTICS!

[DISCUSSION] In Episode 16 of AARGH! MY OPTICS! We travel way back 20 year to the ancient times of 2002 as Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia revisit Transformers Armada! The line that heralded the true return to vehicle modes, Autobots, Deceptions, kid friendly gimmicks and play patterns and kicked of the Unicorn Trilogy, setting the direction for the franchise for the next five years. Join us as we tal...

[DISCUSSION] Part 4!? But wait, I though we'd finished talking about Toy Collecting? Nope! NEVER! In this episode Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia continue our series of episodes on Toy Collecting by delving deeper into discussing collecting goals, targets, limits, styles and what the ‘end game’ is, if there even is one, for toy collectors both in general and personally. This jolly little podcast cover...

[DISCUSSION] You like Spider-man right? Of course you do! And I bet you have enjoyed at least on Spider-man movie right? Of course you have! So why not join Virtual Dave, Orion Ghia and special guest host Galac-tosh as we discuss the Spider-man's various live action outing on the silver screen. From Sam Raimi's 'trilogy' through the 'Amazing' Marc Webb years and right up to date with Tom Holland's...

[TOTB/DISCUSSION] Happy New Year! In this very special festive episode of AARGH! MY OPTICS! Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia get together IN REAL LIFE and discuss 2021. Kicking off with the first annual Top of the Bots year in review, the lads run down their favourite 10 action figures of the year before exchanging Christmas presents and sharing their highlights, disappointments, surprises etc etc of 2...

[DISCUSSION/REVIEW] Merry Christmas everyone! What better to celebrate the season of goodwill than deep dive into a movie where Hasbro mercilessly kill off our heroes! YAY! Yes in this very special Xmas podcast we welcome back guest host Michael Quintesson to discuss THE definitive Transformers animated feature... Transformers The Movie! This is the big one, the one we've been building up to all y...

[DISCUSSION] A podcast that isn't about Transformers? What!? Seriously!? This is commercial suicide surely? Lucky for AARGH! MY OPTICS! we have so few listeners losing a few wont matter much! YAY! With Halloween in the rear-view mirror and Ghostbuster Afterlife about to hit cinemas very soon, Orion Ghia and Virtual Dave take a break from Cybertron and transforming robots and turn their attention t...

[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 in...

[REVIEW] It's finally over! the Netflix War For Cybertron has reached it's conclusion in the final 6 episode mini season titled KINGDOM! Join Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia as they sift through the smoking remains of the latest Transformers TV show looking for something... ANYTHING good to say about it! Nah, it's not that bad but you'll only know what they really thought about it if you download this...

[DISCUSSION] Welcome to a very special edition of AARGH! MY OPTICS! What’s so ‘very special’ about it? we hear you ask, well it’s special because we have a guest host! Yes, for the first (and hopefully not the last) time we’ve invited a friend of the podcast on to chew the fat with Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia. His name is (not) Michael Quintesson and he has a very special connection to Headmasters...

[DISCUSSION] The long awaited second part in AARGH! MY OPTICS! series of discussions on Toy Collecting. In which Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia discuss hunting down those ever elusive toys! Where do they hunt them? How do that catch them? What traps do they use and more importantly what traps to they fall into in the process? Toy hunting is almost as exciting and fraught with danger as owning them. J...

[DISCUSSION] Outside of the obvious, why do Transformers transform? What is the purpose of an ‘alt-mode’? Dave and Orion get all philosophical on us and ask the big questions about Transformation and Alternate Modes like… Who came up with it first? The goodies or the baddies? What’s that noise all about? And do they see out of their windshields then? Or are their headlights their ’eyes’? How does...

[TOTB] For it's fifth episode AARGH! MY OPTICS! tries something a bit different. In something they're calling Top Of The Bots Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia countdown they're top or bottom 3 favourite and least favourite Transformers toy lines. Expect surprising choices, confusion and occasional mild disagreement as our two hosts chat their way through their thoughts on Transformers toy lines through...

[REVIEW] We have our reviewing hats back on, and this time it's one of those bloody awful live action movies! Sadist Virtual Dave inflicts 2018's Bumblebee upon Orion Ghia triggering his PTSD from that time he totally lost faith in the franchise... but it's not all bad! Tune in to hear the AARGH! MY OPTICS! lad's thoughts on a touching story about a teenage Smiths fan and her mute robot/car boyfri...

[DISCUSSION] The first part in a series of self-indulgent discussions from the AARGH! MY OPTICS! lads on their own toy collecting habits. Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia have a long meandering chin wag about what they collect, why they collect it and the rules them impose on themselves to prevent it spiralling horribly out of control. How did a fast food giant get Dave into toy collecting toys? Why ha...

[DISCUSSION] Welcome to the first discussion podcast from AARGH! MY OPTICS! No critique, no nonsensical ratings, just meandering jibber jabber about one of our favourite parts of the franchise, the now legendry 90s relaunch of Transformers... Beast Wars! The toys, the shows, the video games you totally forgot about.... we try (and likely fail) to cover it all. Orion Ghia and Virtual Dave reminisce...

[REVIEW] In the very first (sorta) episode of AARGH! MY OPTICS! Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia discuss the recent Netflix animated mini series Transformers War For Cybertron: Earthrise! They sing its praises, bemoan it's short fallings, pat themselves on the backs for some of their predictions and have a jolly old time doing so... maybe you will too? Why not give it a listen, what have you got to los...

[REVIEW] In this bonus episode of AARGH! MY OPTICS! Virtual Dave and Orion Ghia go over their thoughts on the Netflix animated mini series Transformers War For Cybertron: Siege, give it an arbitrary rating and give their spookily accurate/wildly inaccurate predictions for Transformers War For Cybertron: Earthrise based upon the trailer. What did they love? What did they hate? What were their highl...