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The Rest is GIANT ROBOTS

Simon Furman & Andrew Wildman

THE REST IS GIANT ROBOTS - A PODCAST THAT"S MORE THAN MEETS THE EAR.Writer Simon Furman and artist Andrew Wildman go back to the beginning... Charting a 40-year stint in comics, TV animation, games and more, including - of course - a healthy discourse on the rise and fall and rise again of TRANSFORMERS, also now 40 years old. In a series of roughly chronological, informal chats, Furman and Wildman relive the ups and downs and highs of lows of the creative life, spotlighting key moments in their

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EP41: BEYOND OUR WILDEST IMAGINATIONS

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2026/03/21

We check back in on Transformers (The Animated) Movie, in its 40th anniversary year, and we're still pretty darn impressed.It's a year of big anniversaries for TRANSFORMERS, and none bigger than the original animated movie. Does it still hold up? Does that 80s metal soundtrack still rock our world? The movie that spawned countless comic sequels is re-released this year, and we travel back in time to our respective first encounters, and how it shaped our craft thereafter. Out of it even came, the

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EP40: THE DEFINITIVE ARTICLE

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2026/03/07

As our (joint and solo) career credits progress into 2016/2017 those robots in disguise still have a lot to say for themselves!We continue (after a gap) the chronological progression through our joint and respective careers with another couple of years' worth of storyboards, scripts and (editorial) stuff. There was a surprising amount going on in 2016, with screen credits galore (Poldark, Jericho, Shut In, Bear Grylls Young Adventurer) on the one side and TRANSFORMERS-related stuff (Definitive G1

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EP39: ONE PODCAST AFTER ANOTHER

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2026/02/21

Once again, we take a sideways step into the world of movies (and a little TV), to offer our humble opinions on the latest crop of cinematic offerings.We fight a duel with poisoned blades over Hamnet (well, not quite), dress down Downton Abbey The Grand Finale, dust off The Housemaid, blow hot and cold on House of Dynamite, mull over the Holdovers, endlessly dissect One Battle After Another, review Life of Chuck back to front, and sing the praises (?) of The Choral. The rest, as someone once wrote,

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EP38: NAME, RANK, SERIAL NUMBER...

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2026/02/17

We turn our attention to our much-neglected mailbag, endeavouring to provide meaningful answers (fat chance!) to your burning questions.It's long overdue trawl through the feedback we rashly suggested you send in (we accept Patreon, social media or via our Wildfur email - wildfurproductions@gmail.com), shining bright, interrogative lights on otherwise dim corners of our minds and memories. We address Andrew's restless drumsticks, the voice of Death's Head, scripting density, the storyboard/comics

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EP37: (W)RING OUT THE OLD...

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2026/01/10

We rehash– um, review 2025's high spots (and low blots) and look forward to what's coming up in 2026 for us both, maybe even a 'team-up'.It's been a year! 2025 gets a thorough shakedown as we consider Kickstarters, signings, live events, and even an award wedged in there somewhere, as well as our respective creative outputs - be it on page or screen. And we look forward to 2026 and what that might hold, not least several anniversaries, conventions and maybe even a new Furman/Wildman collaboration

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EP36: TURNING AND TURNING...

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2025/12/13

We continue our occasionally dizzying journey through our respective self-published works, and just about manage to keep things from falling apart.We go ever deeper into To The Death, Oxygen, Horizon and Five Points (and its' the in-the-works sequel, The Gyre), examining mistakes made and lessons learned along the way... like don't make your first go at creator-owned ten 48-page prestige-format print comics... but somehow we're still gung-ho to go to do something together with The Engine down the

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EP35: SELF(PUBLISHING)-ANALYSIS

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2025/11/29

The perils, pitfalls and perks of self-publishing come under scrutiny, as we delve into our respective creator-owned projects.We go in deep on To The Death, Oxygen, Horizon and Five Points (not to mention the in-the-works sequel to Five Points, The Gyre), both in terms of conception and the sometimes rocky road to print (or otherwise). It's been a learning curve since we both started developing our creator-owned projects and the how-to/when-to/in-what-form decisions, some good, some not-so, we've

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EP 34: REQUIEM FOR A DREAM

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2025/11/15

Another abrupt U-turn sees us back at the tail end of 2004, as the Dreamwave era of TRANSFORMERS implodes. But... it never ends!As TFNation continues to unearth and reconstitute buried (unpublished) treasures from the dying days of Dreamwave, we take a deep dive into those troubled last months of the company's tenure as TRANSFORMERS (comics) license holder to explain why it happened, what it meant to the creators affected, and why the script and art from those unpublished issues is only now seeing

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EP033 - NEXT GENERATION

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2025/11/05

Not a Star Trek spin-off, rather life - and workload - after RG1, as we disseminate the art of scaring up new work without looking desperate.We turn the spotlight on the period post-TRANSFORMERS: REGENERATION ONE, circa 2014-15, as TV storyboarding and Titan Comics - in the shape of Dragons: Riders of Berk - come to the rescue. There's an art to hitting up people for work without appearing needy, and we get into that a bit, as well as just our usual round-up of what else was on our respective

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EP 032

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2025/10/18

EP32: (RE-) START YOUR ENGINESWe loop back again, to get the inside story on our early 2000s shenanigans as Wildfur Productions, and answer other listener questions!The Engine: Industrial Strength - our first foray into creator-owned self-publishing - gets a fuller review, prompted by a listener request, as does the overall output of Wildfur Productions itself (though 'output' might be stretching the definition), plus we dip into our mailbag for more questions (and try and give semi-intelligible

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EP31: G2 - Too

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2025/10/04

By popular demand (well, one listener) we U-turn and backtrack to GENERATION 2, and go in-deep on the second coming of TRANSFORMERS.It's 1993 (again) and Marvel unleash TRANSFORMERS: GENERATION 2 on an unsuspecting comics buying public. Something of a continuation of the original TRANSFORMERS series, and at the same time something new and very 90s in its stylings and attitudes, G2 lasted only 12 issues but its impact resonates to this day. Plus we talk about TRANSFORMERS DAY (and the debut of a new

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EP30: OH... SUPERMAN

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2025/09/20

We continue our movie round-up from a few podcasts ago, and find that while we believe a man can fly, that was about it. Join us for another savaging of recent silver screen (and small screen) offerings, as we take a step back from the hype and expectations of The Man of Steel's new cinematic incarnation and apply our patented movie credulity curve to proceedings. Plus, we consider F1, Mission Impossible Final Reckoning, Thunderbolts, Peacemaker, Alien: Earth and Star Trek: Strange New

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EP29: LIVE FROM TFN!

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2025/09/06

We chat, on stage, in front of an actual live audience, about Kickstarters and the enduring legacy of Marvel's TRANSFORMERS comics. We're at TFNation, bringing you our 29th The Rest is Giant Robots from a never-before-seen vantage point (it seems we have legs, both literally and metaphorically... who knew?), i.e. live, on stage, in front of a hugely appreciative crowd at the UK's premier TRANSFORMERS event, dissecting the recent Skybound compendium editions and just why it became the most subscribed

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Ep028 - THE REST OF WHAT WE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT THEN

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2025/08/23

EP 28: THE REST OF WHAT WE DIDN'T TALK ABOUT THENWe delve into other stuff that kept us busy while Regeneration One was in full swing, inc. Death's Head, Doctor Who and The Ramones (??).Join us for a mixed bag of now and then, as we discuss the recent (and best yet?) TFNation (TRANSFORMERS convention) and revisit former career glories from nearly fifteen years ago, including the bits where Death's Head briefly returns to his rightful Marvel Comics place in print (and toy). Plus, a plan of sorts for

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EP 27: THE INDIFFERENT TWO

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2025/08/09

We go to the movies, again, and do a lot of shoulder-shrugging and mutter 'meh' a lot as we 'review' Fantastic Four and other recent releases.With more than enough movies in our quiver, we take aim at the recent crop of multiplex-friendly summer blockbusters, including Fantastic Four: First Steps, Jurassic World: Rebirth, and - in less blockbustery and more bonkers way - 28 Years Later. Plus a bunch of others, culled from more home-based viewing, in which, faced with Galactus and a bunch of

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EP 26- THE COMIC TO END ALL COMICS

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2025/07/30

We pick up the threads of our TRANSFORMERS Regeneration One discourse and go all the way to issue #100 in a 4-issue limited series!2013-14 saw us both in full Regeneration One swing, until one of us wasn't. We analyse the whys and wherefores of that, and how the series grew and evolved from a five-issue pitch into a 20+ issue beast, featuring guest artists Geoff Senior, Guido Guidi, Jose Delbo and more. Naturally, we lose the thread a few times, but we get to the end in the end. For those of you not

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EP25: THE EDITOR WHO CAME IN FROM THE COLD

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2025/07/12

It's our RIGR anniversary special - and our very special guest is TRANSFORMERS UK editor and ZOIDS writer Ian Rimmer!We debrief former IPC/Marvel UK editor and writer, Ian Rimmer, the man who shaped TRANSFORMERS UK (from the shadows) into the mid-80s market leader boy's adventure comic fans still talk about to this day. But who is this editorial enigma? What forces honed a clandestine photo-strip scribe into a publishing powerhouse? If you're expecting serious, in-depth discourse then you're new to

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EP 24: TALKIN' 'BOUT OUR RE-GENERATION

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2025/06/28

We chart the sometimes rocky and certainly twisty road to Regeneration One, IDW's continuation of the original (Marvel) TRANSFORMERS series.As far back as 2009, discussions with IDW editorial were underway that would reunite us - and inker Stephen Baskerville - as the creative team on Marvel's founding/grounding TRANSFORMERS comic, picking up from issue #80 of that series, But getting it off the ground would take three years, helped along by comics new site Newsarama and a fan petition (not to

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EP023- HATTER MATTER

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2025/06/14

Both of us get whisked off into a Multiverse of (Matt Hatter) madness as we join the Pinewood-based production team at Platinum Films.It's a continuation of last episode's chatter, as we delve deeper into our respective roles on the hit animated CITV show The Matt Hatter Chronicles. Four seasons plus a feature length episode and even a foray into the world of Bear Grylls makes for much to discuss, and our prime listeners get advance word on our upcoming 25th episode's SPECIAL GUEST!LINKS:Simon

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EP22: ON THE CIRCUIT

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2025/05/31

We talk comic (and TRANSFORMERS) conventions, and how they've changed - for us and for the attendees - from the mid-80s to now. Plus, we kick-off our mutual Matt Hatter recollections.Back in the day, conventions were more about promoting whatever work we were doing at the same, while these days - while that remains true - they're also a revenue stream for us freelance writers and artists. Good thing? Bad thing? If you're expecting us to reach any hard and fast conclusions, you really haven't been

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