Iacon Underground Radio Network

Boulder takes the recruits on a trip to clean up underwater garbage, but can they stop being little chaos goblins for long enough to actually help? Then, the recruits try to get out of their chores by enlisting an incredibly cute cleaning robot, and it doesn’t go well! Join us this week for “All At … Continue reading

Hot Shot and Wedge compete to see if they can beat each other at the other’s specialty, but we’re too distracted by the Heroes of Cybertron cards. Then, can the recruits learn the very important lesson that sometimes you just gotta leave your poor autistic friend alone? Join us this week for the Rescue Bots … Continue reading

This week we discuss rumors of a Robosen Devastator, the flood of new toys showing up at every Walmart but ours, and TakaraTomy’s Wild King!

BLADES IS BACK! And he’s got a great idea to help the recruits work as a team: Cheerleading! Then he tries to teach Hot Shot some important lessons about flying. Good luck with that! Join us this week for the Rescue Bots Academy episodes “Go Team, Go!” and “The Secret of Flight”!

The recruits get a new rescue tool from Cybertron, and Hot Shot is too insecure to admit that he’s never used it! Then, the team is sent to a collapsing cave on a distant planet to save an alien plant that’s the last of its kind! But that plant kind of reminds us of someone… … Continue reading

This week on Iacon Underground Radio we discuss Toy Fair news and then go on a Transformers-adjacent trip to the movies for Mobile Suit Gundam: GQuuuuuuX!

A special guest teacher shows up at the Academy: It’s Grimlock, and he’s brought a whole pile of RiD2015 continuity with him! Then, Hot Shot learns how much he needs his teammates when he tries to do a rescue on his own! So is being scared of Dinobots racist, or is it more like being … Continue reading

When the recruits become convinced that someone’s about to be cut from the team, their determination to prove their worth only makes things worse! Then, Whirl tries to help Heatwave make a promo for the Academy, but nothing she records is good enough! What fandom meme gets a surprise nod? Join us this week for … Continue reading

Hoist is put in charge of a training mission, but can he keep Hot Shot and Wedge from wrecking everything trying to out-Main Character each other? Then, the recruits have an all-too-real rescue mission in Griffin Rock, and Medix has an unconventional idea to save the day! But what were the grown-ups doing that was … Continue reading

This week on Iacon Underground Radio: We’re getting back in the swing of things just in time for a big HasLab reveal!

The Academy kids want shiny new gadgets like the big bots have, so they get Hoist to invent some — but his prototypes need a lot of work! Then, the mayor has decided to carve the Rescue Bots’ faces into a mountain as a tourist attraction, and Hot Shot thinks he should be up there … Continue reading

David and Jen are back with a wrap-up of all the most memorable toys, fiction, and convention adventures of 2024!

The recruits learn the importance of ecosystems in one of Boulder’s training exercises! Then, Wedge becomes obsessed with improving the team’s response times, but his constant false alarms do more harm than good! Seriously though, what’s going on with all those tubes!? Join us this week for the Rescue Bots Academy episodes “Plan Bee” and … Continue reading

When Hot Shot damages their training dummy, he’s on babysitting duty until the misbehaving drone can be fixed! Then, Whirl takes charge of rescue training in the woods, but how will they all deal with getting trapped by a snow storm? And what two bots does Whirl remind us of the most? Join us this … Continue reading

While Jen finishes settling into the new house, here’s Rob and David discussing which Marvel characters could join a Lantern corp!

We’re heading back to the Aligned Universe for Rescue Bots Academy! Hot Shot has been asked by Optimus Prime himself to join the other Rescue Bot recruits on Earth, but is the hot-headed jock really cut out for rescue work? Can he at least manage to get along with his new classmates? And what is … Continue reading

Happy Holidays, everyone! As a special surprise this week, here’s our December 2022 Patreon episode about the He-Man and She-Ra Christmas Special!

Before we check back in on the Rescue Bots, we’re taking a side quest to the Savage Land for a timely visit to Kraven the Hunter! Can Spider-Man and his Amazing Friends stop the Hunter’s unnecessarily convoluted plan to create a dinosaur army? Which writer was clearly responsible for this episode? And what familiar song … Continue reading

Cyberverse season 1 wraps up with a bang as Bumblebee’s tiny group of Autobots tries to awaken the Ark and the Autobots inside before Shockwave’s Decepticons can destroy it! Can we finally get a proper cast of characters for this series? Who Says The Thing? And how are we feeling about this season as a … Continue reading

This week on Iacon Underground Radio we discuss the most important detail of a Megatronus toy, what’s new on streaming, and all the new old toys showing up at Ross and Ollie’s for the holidays!

Shockwave deploys a weapon that will wipe out all organic life on Earth! But how’s that supposed to help him defeat the Autobots, exactly? Then Windblade, Bumblebee, and Grimlock finally find the Ark in… exactly where we’d expect them to find it. Can they wake up the rest of the Autobots before the Decepticons get … Continue reading

Windblade faces down Slipstream and her Seekers to escape from the missile silo and get back to the mission! Then, Windblade and Bumblebee find Grimlock, but he’s gone feral! Can they get him back under control? And did they just completely destroy a city’s electrical grid? That seems like a problem! Join us this week … Continue reading

Bumblebee and Windblade track down an autonomous backup of the Ark’s computer, Teletraan-X, but it’s bait in a Decepticon trap! When Bee escapes but leaves Windblade behind, can Teletraan-X help remind him what real heroism looks like? And does Teletraan-X even know where the Ark is? Join us this week for “Teletraan-X” and “Matrix of … Continue reading

Bumblebee and Windblade go back to Bee’s memories of Maccadam’s bar on Cybertron, watching its descent into ruins as the war took hold. But wait, did Maccadam just give them a clue to finding the Ark? Then Shockwave tries to undermine their mission by corrupting Bee’s memories, but can the Decepticon convince him that he … Continue reading

This week on Iacon Underground Radio we discuss 2025 toy leaks, Missing Link reveals, and ideas for future Collaborative toys!