Appearing on ABC Radio National to talk Transformers

This coming Monday I will be appearing as a guest on ABC Radio National, on the show Life Matters, hosted by Jacinta Parsons.

My co-guest will be Dr Katriina Heljakka, a researcher in the toyification of culture, toy design and the hybrid and transgenerational dimensions of ludic practices.

Together we will discussing the culture of adult toy collectors, the different forms and mindsets adult collecting takes, and their relationship to my life’s journey as a Transformers Collector.

So tune in at 9.25am on Monday the 11th of November to ABC Radio National, or listen online at https://www.abc.net.au/listen/live/radionational

https://youtube.com/shorts/aq8quyXyu...FpC5o0Sf2zykwX

Today I was interviewed on National Radio about the ‘Kidult’ trend and my #Transformers collecting. If you would like to listen follow the link 😃

https://www.bigangrytrev.com/trev-in...-kidult-trend/

A great listen.

The question about "collection" or "play" was a good one from the interviewer.

I wonder when hearing about this in a radio medium, what are people picturing when they hear about such a large collection (and they are probably underestimating it!).

Cheers Paul 👍🏻

Yeah, that’s why at the start I tried to give a good description of the shed. But considering people who have seen photos and vids of The Transformatorium still say it doesn’t prepare them for when they see the real thing, I’m guessing a verbal description probably isn’t much chop 😋

So Trev. Any more appearences planned on your way to building your Transformers based media empire?
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Originally Posted by DELTAprime

So Trev. Any more appearences planned on your way to building your Transformers based media empire?
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Well, I’ve done interviews on a few YouTube channels as well as in regional newspapers, on national tv, national radio etc.

So I dunno - magazines? But besides gardening and hunting do they even make magazines anymore? You think Better Homes & Garden’s might do a story on ‘How to spruce up your collectors shed for the coming season’? 😄

Turns out Hasbro Aus has been keeping abreast with all this media stuff going on - got a nice surprise from them in the mail yesterday 😃: https://www.bigangrytrev.com/surpris...e-from-hasbro/

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Originally Posted by DELTAprime

So Trev. Any more appearences planned on your way to building your Transformers based media empire?
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Tomorrow around 1pm AEST I’ll be interviewed on the ‘Children of Primus’ YT channel - a Canadian/American TF chat.

It will be live streaming here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LOhY-24VRNI

I’m kinda interested in how they know you have a large collection……. I’m sure you don’t go around advertising that you do😂

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Originally Posted by BigTransformerTrev

This coming Monday I will be appearing as a guest on ABC Radio National, on the show Life Matters, hosted by Jacinta Parsons.

My co-guest will be Dr Katriina Heljakka, a researcher in the toyification of culture, toy design and the hybrid and transgenerational dimensions of ludic practices.

Together we will discussing the culture of adult toy collectors, the different forms and mindsets adult collecting takes, and their relationship to my life’s journey as a Transformers Collector.

So tune in at 9.25am on Monday the 11th of November to ABC Radio National, or listen online at https://www.abc.net.au/listen/live/radionational

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Sounds kinda interesting, is there a recorded version somewhere for me to listen to Trev?

Just answered my own question, there is, here is the link:

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/progra...toys/104577990

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Originally Posted by DELTAprime

So Trev. Any more appearences planned on your way to building your Transformers based media empire?
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Well a few weeks ago I got contacted by the office of the MP for Calare - they are interested in coming out and getting some shots of him visiting the shed - trying to appeal to as broad a base of voters as possible and to show he’s not just for Farmers & Miners. I get the feeling though he’ll only actually turn up here if he is really struggling in the polls and is looking for any media they can get.

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Originally Posted by sideswipes brother

I’m kinda interested in how they know you have a large collection……. I’m sure you don’t go around advertising that you do😂

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If you really want the progression:


*Years ago got contacted by lady in charge of. Marketing for Hasbro in the US. They had seen photos and wanted to use them for a presentation.
*Hasbro US then worded Hasbro AU up about me which is why I get invites to a lot of their events.
*Hasbro AU then worded up Paramount because of all the various TF movies and media coming out, so free movie tickets.
*Paramount owns channel 10 who air The Project, so when they wanted a TF story to go along with TFOne hitting the cinemas they sent them to me.
*Someone at ABC RN saw the story on The Project then hit me up to do an interview on one of their shows.

It’s all just word of mouth, and really Im nothing more than a resource they contact when they think I’ll be good advertising for them, and then throw me some free stuff as way of thanks.

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Originally Posted by Tetsuwan Convoy

Sounds kinda interesting, is there a recorded version somewhere for me to listen to Trev?

Just answered my own question, there is, here is the link:

https://www.abc.net.au/listen/progra...toys/104577990

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Hope you enjoyed it mate 👍🏻