One of the most common questions I get asked is, you know, how do I start day trading? So what me and my mentor about it for our viewers on YouTube is create a free mentorship course that reveals our 12 secrets that every single brand new day trader should know before they get started. But please take note that there is limited seating every single week. So please reserve your spot at myinvestingclub.co. Link is in the description. All right. So that mental exhaustion, because it happens to everybody and it's pivotal for me because I'm just about exhausted right now in about every sense of the word. And so we're going to talk about that today. So anyway, I don't have a rant this week, but anyway, we're going to be going over the market sentiment of this webinar. We'll go over the risk, targets and entries and exits of all the movers that, you know, we could have got this week using, you know, this basic support and resistance lines. Then we'll go over mental exhaustion. And if any time you have a SPRJ, really 26, I haven't looked at it since. And then Q&A anytime throughout the webinar and yeah, slump trading, Kilo just posted it. If you haven't, if you're watching this on repeat and you haven't seen it in a while in its episode 65, you know, it's a great webinar to watch before this one. This one kind of build up that one. You don't actually have to be in a trading sump to be exhausted, but normally it kind of happens that way. All right. So let's get going. All right. So we had a couple of bulls this week, which was kind of, you know, kind of refreshing. You know, we had SPRT, TCAT, RGC and AMC where I think the biggest four bullish stocks that we saw this week in small cap land. I don't know if you want to call AMC a small cap. It's really not, but it trades like a, it kind of trades like a small cap as far as kind of this craziness is concerned and volatility. But also like, you know, the smaller caps were looking up to AMC and gaining some momentum off of it. And so I put it on here. It's a bull, you know, as far as the sentiment is concerned, other than that pretty much everything died as we've been seeing pretty much every stock due in small cap land for the last couple of months, but we did have some strong bulls, TCAT, RGC and SPRT, they were really strong. That's very bullish for the market.   And I thought it was really funny tweet because it did not age well because they offered like the next day today, this morning. So I thought that was pretty funny, but it very bearish the fact that, you know, it just, it makes longs really like nervous to hold anything overnight when we're kind of in offering season of the market, when you want to just a whole bunch of offerings at the market. It just makes it very, you know, I had it the other day, I was thinking about taking a trade on TCAT yesterday. I was thinking about taking the trade on TCAT overnight because it held view up all day.  Like it was just in my mind.  And I just felt like, no, and that was a possibility.  I really wanted to take the trade. I would have looked it up, but I wasn't that stoked on it. Anyway, as far as the overall market is concerned, if you recall last week, I was talking about how like, I felt like we reached like, in my opinion, is like kind of like the worst market of all as far as sentiment is concerned. And what I meant by that is it feels like a cranky market, meaning the market's not going up and, and Oren, Oren chimed in last week. And we kind of, you know, kind of talked to, talked about that too, how there is a discrepancy between how well the indexes are doing and how well individual stocks are faring and how individual stocks are really still in the shitter, whereas the indexes are kind of just at all time high shilling because of FANG, you know, basically it's just five, six, seven, eight, nine companies, really just ADTX, SGOC, SGOC was a good one. I really wish I would have traded it because it was the cleanest mover all day, in my opinion. Yeah, we'll go over SGOC, ADTX, VPTH and TCAP. TCAP, what day do you want to go over? Because it normally takes about like five or 10 minutes for each ticker. And I think that's all the ones that we can do. RGC, I really don't want to go over RGC. I don't think anybody should be trading it. I mean, nobody should be trading it. I don't even want to go over. It's too, no one should be trading it like. So TCAP today, one, two, three, four. GSMG, that one was just a strict range trader. I'll briefly go over that one, but okay, let's go over the first one. SGOC, oh yeah, I have to get rid of this, huh? So SGOC is the one I wish I would have traded because it was clean. But I didn't really see it until this move. So like in hindsight, this would have been a great trade, but I can't say that I took it because I was probably in another trade or two. But this is a good first bounce trade. And so here's the, if any of you guys saw my boot camp idea or my boot camp video, you'll know of this idea where if the one minute first bounce looks kind of fucked, I tend to zoom out and go for the five minute one, which is, it's funny like yesterday or something, I made a call on one stock and then I left, I had left already, but it was a stock that, I was like, oh, probably 950 needs to be the bounce, the necessary bouncer for the stock. And I bounced right off 950 and then made a new high. I think it was TCAP. Yeah, it was TCAP. Yeah, it was definitely TCAP. And it's like when the first bounce looks a little fucked in the one minute, then I tend to zoom out and go for the five minute one, just because if the one minute is dirty, then maybe the five minutes is kind of cleaner. That's kind of the way I like to do it. And this is a nice, I mean, look at how clean this looks, a nice bounce off eight on the five minute chart. And this one minute is a little kind of messy here. You know, it's just kind of like, on a one minute first bounce, I'm kind of looking forward here at eight. This kind of, I'm looking for this kind of bounce off eight. And I, you know, if I would have traded it, I would have missed.  You can try here, you know, and it would have, it gave you a little try.  But then like, you can try again on this eight here. If you just zoom out a little bit. This is where I think a trade could have been taken. I don't know if you can see it, but it's a solid eight buy for a first bounce on this kind of move. Yeah. And so eight 20 seat. That's that kind of one minute first bounce. And it was kind of like the problem with the one minute first bounce was these two candles looked really harsh. These two candles look really harsh and probably scared some longs out. So you buy here eight 20, it looks great off at this kind of level here.  And then you have to stop out. Right. Yeah, there. I don't really see an eight 20 daily. Oh, right there. I thought that was eight 11. But yeah, yeah, yeah. And so yeah, it's worth a try. It really is. But then like, you know, you stop out. This is where you can say maybe eight holds. It's, you know, a wider timeframe. You have to size down, widen your timeframe a little bit.  Maybe, you know, I think this was a perfect hold of eight, but this didn't have to be perfect. You know, the wider timeframe you go, the more slip that you're going to get. So like, you know, you could have bought here at eight. What you really have to allow this to do is to kind of come down here and maybe have a red candle to be wop and then maybe back up and then come back. You really have to give it that the wider timeframe you go, the more stuff that you have to give you guys should write that down. Thank you so much for watching our video. If you want to see more of our videos, please subscribe to our YouTube channel by clicking the button here. We do our best to post a new video every single day. If you have any questions about MIC or any general trading questions, please text Tosh using the number here. Also stay up to date by watching some of our most recent videos right over here.


Hi, and welcome to the session. Let's work out the following question. The question says the Cartesian equation of a line r 66-2 is equal to 3y plus 1 is equal to 2z minus 2 Find a the direction ratios of the line and be the Cartesian and vector equations of the line Parallel to this line and passing through the point 2 minus 1 minus 1 So let us see the solution to this question The given line is 6x minus 2 is equal to 3y plus 1 is equal to 2z minus 2 This implies 6 into x minus 1 by 3 is equal to 3 into y plus 1 by 3 is equal to 2 into z minus 1 Dividing by 6 we get x minus 1 by 3 divided by 1 is equal to y plus 1 by 3 divided by 2 is equal to z minus 1 divided by 3 therefore Direction ratios of the line are 1 2 3 this is our answer to the a part now Cartesian equation of a line the point a that is 2 minus 1 minus 1 and Parallel to given line Is x minus 2 divided by 1 is equal to y plus 1 divided by 2 is equal to z plus 1 divided by 3 now for vector equation of This line position Vector of P is Vector a is equal to 2i cap minus j cap minus k cap Also vector v is equal to 1i cap plus 2j cap plus 3k cap So the required equation of the line is Vector r is equal to vector a plus lambda times vector b hence Vector r is equal to 2i cap minus j cap minus k cap Plus lambda times i cap plus 2j cap Plus 3k cap this is our answer to the second part And also this is the answer So I hope that you understood the solution and enjoyed the session have a good day


Good day, fellow investors. The stock that I wanted to have a model on is Enel Generation Chile, a utility in Chile from my list of Chilean stocks that I discussed in the previous Chile video. So I will go through the stock. It is a relatively good investment. It gives a good yield. It gives growth. It gives stability. It gives a lot of things that a lot of people are looking for in their portfolio, especially for dividend investors. So if you are such an investor, you might be interested in something like that. It doesn't really fit my threshold, but my investment threshold risk reward is extremely high. So even good investments like this one don't hit that. Let's dig into the company and analyze, give an overview and see what's the risk reward, what's the potential long-term yield. So Enel, the stock really dropped significantly the last months, the last year. So I really want to see, okay, what's going on with the company? Why it dropped so much? Is there a potential investment? And this is what led me to analyzing the whole market in Chile. The market has been a little bit overvalued, but these two utilities in Chile might be undervalued. The generation ownership structure Enel, the Italian company owns the company in Chile, 60% of it. And then some of it are traded on the New York Stock Exchange, some on the Chilean Stock Exchange. What's very nice is that the company offers a mix, generation mix from Hydro, from Coil, from Oil, and a little bit, just a little bit, not even seeable here from Wind. But that allows them to give them stable production, which is very important for a utility energy producer, as they can then manage between if they have more water, what's cheaper, what's more expensive, etc., etc. Stability, very important. So that said, they have Hydro, they have Thermal, they have some Wind, but mostly Hydro, Coil, Coil, and Oil and Gas. Future sales are relatively fixed through tenders with the government agency that ensures stable margins and they have 150% of the available energy production in the last tender from the government, of course. That's good. They have a health debt maturity profile, long-term maturities. Total debt is 1.2 billion, which is not much when you compare it to what 300-400 billion in available cash flows that will come in the next few years per year. The cash flow operation is still just 212,000 has been, they pay a lot in dividends, so 360 paid in dividends, but that was also because of some sales of assets. So I expect the dividends to be around 200 million in the future. So don't look at that 10% yield and think it will be recurring. However, the company has invested a lot in growth. They have some new projects coming online. There is more demand for energy in Chile and they expect to increase the EBITDA and dividend policy payout ratio from 60-50% in 2016 as they invested a lot to 70% in 2020. So higher dividends are to be expected. The dividend growth player this is to be like Yoda. The target is to improve EBITDA by 26% up till 2019 as they will lower CAPEX, they will lower investments, they will just keep maintaining, which is much, much cheaper, which means there will be more cash flows for dividends. So with net income a bit higher, let's say they get to 500 billion pesos or 790 million in net income. This is a little bit stretched, perhaps we could get to 2.87 per share. That would be very, very positive. That would give a price earnings ratio of 7.14 in 2020, implying a 14% return. When 70% of that goes to dividends, that would be 2% for a 10% yield on current prices. However, there is often the Chilean tax that's often not mentioned of 35% withholding tax on dividends, but which would make it fall to 6.5, but on that 45% that's deducted you have to add back 50% of the taxes that has been paid to the net income. I didn't dig into the tax system, but that's something you should do before investing. So it might drop to 20%, which makes things a little bit better. However, the trailing earnings are 347 billion pesos, so it's more likely with a 26% increase that earnings will be around 400 billion pesos. This would equal to 640 million or 2.29 in earnings per share. That makes things much less attractive. The dividend would then be 1.6, which is then 7.8, with the taxes we are down to 6%, which is not an incredible yield. So I think that the company will lead to a 10% long-term return. We might see it go back from 2.30 from the current 20 as everything fits and everything cools down. The other company in Chile that also dropped a lot has assets in Argentina and Brazil, which is a different story. Those countries are not as stable in Chile. So this stock might be down because the peer from Chile, which is not actually from Chile, is already also down. So different sentiment, nothing changes in the numbers or perhaps I didn't see it, so correct me if you see that. So there is really potential for 20 to 30, there is potential for a dividend yield of 7, 8% in the long-term, perhaps growing slowly to 9, 10% over the long-term. So if you're looking for a good dividend player in a stable country like Chile, emerging country that might see more energy consumption, especially if copper explodes. So that's something, an interesting play to see how it fits your portfolio. For me, it might be interesting if it goes down to 15. You never know, 15 and below, then it might hit my risk-reward threshold, which is very stretched. So this finishes my preliminary research. I have it now in a small model, in my file. If it ever hits 15, 14, then I just, okay, I have the data quickly, should I buy, I research again, and then I see whether it's a buy or not. And that's what I do. I have a lot of stocks, more adding every week, something, something to watch to see. And then when I have a lot of stocks, 200, hopefully, then I can see, okay, I can immediately know what I cover, what I buy, and that's what I do as I am a full-time stock market researcher. Check the link below for my stock market research platform, if you are interested in that. Looking forward to your comments and I'll see you in the next video.


Live from San Francisco, it's theCUBE. Covering Red Hat Summit 2018. Brought to you by Red Hat. Hello, welcome back everyone. Day three of wall-to-wall coverage here at Red Hat Summit 2018, live in San Francisco, California here at Moscone West. I'm John Troyer, your co-host of theCUBE with John Troyer, analyst co-host this week. He's the co-founder of Tech Reckoning, advisory and community development firm. Our next guest is Arvest Suthi, Senior Vice President General Manager Ulu Packard Enterprise's point next, HPE. Great to see you, thanks for coming on. Great to see you as well, thank you. So I'll see, there's no secret HPE's been partners, been partnering with companies for many generations. Red Hat is one of the big strategic partner. A lot of services, opportunities, a lot of transformation happening. And the biggest thing is that true private cloud and hybrid cloud and public cloud, it's all happening in IoT Edge. It's kind of seeing pretty clearly what's happening. On-premise isn't going away. It's going to look like clouds, going to run like a cloud, has to work with a cloud or clouds, plural. And then you've got the IoT Edge out there, all kind of coming together with software, Kubernetes, containers, all kind of being glue layers in here. So it must be good for you guys to think, okay, customers can now see what you guys have been promoting. So what is HPE doing with Red Hat? How does that tie into that transformation with the cloud? You said it very well, John. In fact, when we talk to our customers, whether they realize or not, it's a hybrid world and their environments are hybrid. And like you said, private class are also not going anywhere. In fact, we did the CTP acquisition, RedPixie acquisition, and this is really all to help clients on their cloud journey. It doesn't really matter to us whether the workload ends up in AWS, Google, Azure or on-prem or dedicated infrastructure. So that's actually been a huge plus for us to really have a seat at the table, to have a discussion around customer workload strategy. Now, partner like Red Hat, I mean, we've been together, working together for probably about 18 years now, and it's been a long-standing partnership who are their number one OEM partner, but also the point you made, I think from services standpoint, it's just a huge opportunity. Customers tell us anyone can do infrastructure service when they're looking for platform as a service. So jointly with our consumption capabilities and Red Hat OpenShift, now we're giving them true container platform as a service. Containerization, we were talking yesterday on our wrap-up, you can bring in the new without killing the old, and, but it's really fundamental because people want cloud scale, they want horizontally scalable application, DevOps and programming, infrastructure as code, but they can't just throw out their legacy stuff. What containers does allows them to nurture those applications and workloads and let it take its natural course. This is actually good for services because you can, there's a solution there. That's right, there's absolutely, in fact, customers tell us when they're looking for the platform, it's not just to help them on their new build. They're looking for help also to run the existing environment. And most of the times it's not practical to refactor, re-architect every single of the legacy applications. And because some of them applications, as you know, they were done to leverage the performance optimization on the underlying infrastructure piece of it. And so one of the things we're doing jointly with Red Hat is leverage containerization to provide the portability for the applications to move in between the different environments. And whether it's private cloud, public cloud, but the key thing is portability and mobility and that's a great spot for containerization. Give some use cases of customers, take us through a day in the life of maybe a couple of different examples where you guys are engaging with Red Hat where you're coming in, the customers are like, okay, here's my situation. What are some of the trends and patterns that you see with customers? What specifically, are you aware, is a workload moving it to the multiple clouds? Is it more, you know, re-platforming on-premise? What are some of the things that you guys are doing to serve us? I would say bulk of our engagements, and that's one thing that we feel really good about jointly with Red Hat, we have really shifted our engagement model to be much more outcome-driven. So the discussions with the clients always start off with like a workshop. And within that workshop, we're actually understanding where the customer really is trying to go, what business outcomes they're trying to achieve before we start to kind of push a specific technology stack or specific solution set. And by having that alignment, in fact, we talk about that IT needs to be embedded with the business, not the alignment, embedded with the business. And because the role of IT has changed, so when we talk about workload, right, it's about, you know, no longer, and I talked about this earlier today, you're no longer running workloads just within the four-wall data center. And the traditional view of that IT owns and operates the four-wall data center, that's just dead. And so it's really more about managing the supply chain. And so we talk about the overall workload strategy, which workloads make the most sense to go in public cloud, private cloud. And then the discussion also centers around their application portfolio and really understanding which applications truly need to be cloud native, which ones do really need to be just the lift and shift. And this whole portability concept comes into play. And that's one thing, jointly with Red Hat, because Red Hat is really good jointly with us on driving these kind of innovation workshops. And you heard this earlier today as well. And that's just the fun of it. I mean, no longer you're talking about PowerPoint presentations, this and that. It's getting in a room, getting on a whiteboard and talking about what kind of journey really makes sense for that particular customer. That's been really notable here this week at this conference, right? There's a lot of tech, a lot of software talked about. But also on the keynotes, a lot of people talking about culture, transformation, getting beyond your process and the places you get stuck as IT professionals. So that's a great way to approach it, right? Nobody starts with a list of skills. And absolutely, the other point is that one of the things that always gets missed is the focus around the management of change. And that's one of the key pieces we emphasize so that not just the business processes, but the culture, the people, how do you kind of bring them along the change journey? So we actually put a lot of emphasis on the whole area around management of change. We actually have a practice that does, this is one of the key areas they focus on. And so you're absolutely right, key focus area. I did want to flip to the products for a second. There was an announcement here now and talk a little bit about HP Synergy, Composable Infrastructure with OpenShift. Maybe if you have a headline on exactly how you guys describe Synergy and then maybe how are we working with OpenShift? So the HP Synergy, the best way I can describe it is it is truly industry's first composable infrastructure. And it gives you the ability to pool fluid resources and with software intelligence built in and unified API, it really gives you the ability to pool the resources that you need for specific application. In fact, I use the analogy, it's kind of like building Legos and you kind of pull it together based on what you're trying to do at a given moment and then you decompose it and build something new. So it's all done via software and truly gives you that flexibility that the customers have been seeking. So it's just to me, it's got a great market traction across the globe and we're just seeing country momentum and jointly with Red Hat, what we've done is now with announcing new solutions like the one you refer to to support Ansible Automation of the Red Hat OpenShift on the Synergy platform with the three bar and the nimble product lines. And it just helps scale the OpenShift and while making container operations simple, scalable, and more importantly, repeatable. I got to give you a props. I want to make sure that I get this out there because you guys were early with Composable. Dave Vellante and I had a debate on this that one of your HPE discovers where I was really loving the Composable message. Although it's kind of for a different reason, but at that time, DevOps was really picking up steam, but it's actually happening now. This is three years later. The level of granularity now at the services level as microservices as it comes to the architecture of the future, the services model is literally what do you want? If not, here's the solution. It's like what do you need, right? So you're buying off the menu, if you will. So that changes the game. So congratulations on having that Composable message first, but I got to ask you the impact to the engagements. So you now have menu of services. Does that change how you guys go to marketing? You mentioned you do kickoff meetings, you do the needs assessments. I get that, you know, check, good approach. But the customers now, they just want to make sure it's custom for them. How does that change your engagement? Yeah, you know, at the CXO level, the discussion, no matter which way you start the discussion, it tends to kind of follow into, you know, a few buckets. Whether it's about generating additional revenue, going to market quicker, or it's about safe to invest, reducing their operating expenses, or it's about securing their information network. And so one of the things we find is, especially if you take a look at even the containers, you know, applications, deploying it, it's one thing to deploy in the test and development environment. But if you're trying to scale that within an enterprise, the enterprises look for added features, whether it's security, whether it's persistent storage. And again, the focus always turns into what can you do to help drive the total cost of ownership down? And I think with Red Hat, this is one thing that works great with open standards. The focus is really much more around not just the simplicity, reducing costs, but it's also about improving performance, whether it's in physical or virtual environment. So if you're right, the menu of services, whether it's talking about IoT use case, and I think you're going to see more and more of that with the user experience focus that we talked about, context of your apps. Look at, I mean, I used the example of going to the airport or getting into whatever transportation you're using these days, but going from point A to point B, you're no longer fumbling through cash or credit cards, but it's a very easy experience, much more personalized, much more usable. And a lot of what some of the hospitality franchises are doing, whether you look at Starwood properties, Marriott, you know, now you use your mobile device to access your room. And as soon as you get into some of the hotel properties, as soon as you access their Wi-Fi coverage, all of a sudden you can actually, the hotel property picks you up, they can provide you with the navigation, how to get to your room. And depending on your profile and whether you've opted in or opted out, they will push and their partners will push some specific services to you. So how are we able to create that kind of experience and drive additional revenue? And all that is possible to the point you just made is truly a flourishing ecosystem of microservices and apps driven by the APIs. I think the business has now seen that, which is great about having a clear line of sight that these new apps and new experiences is going to drive top line revenue for your customers. I got to ask you about the services now. With more services comes more delivery, right? So options, ecosystem. You guys have a pretty big ecosystem, Red Hat has a lot of other providers. You guys always worked well with multiple companies. How are you guys engaging on point next with now new sets of service providers in your network? You got cloud service, and you got someone actually, maybe it could be an integrator, it could be a software developer. How do you deal with the new stakeholders in your equation? You know, after all the spin matches have been completed now, and I think after the DXE one, it really opened up the door to get a lot of the system integrers back to the table because they don't really view us as a competitor anymore because we no longer have for this, the large, the EDS acquisition that we had now with DXE. So, you know, whether you look at Accenture, whether you look at Deloitte and other key asides, we're actually partnering with them very well, both in terms of joint solution creation, but also when we talk about two digital transformation for a client, the lot of expertise they bring to us is very complementary to what we have. So one of the things we do very well is really around the technology advisory services. What some of these asides do, they kind of bring more of the business advisory services as well as the specific vertical depth around the specific verticals, whether it's the FSIs, whether it's retail. So when somebody's talking about retail of the future or something like that, you marry the two together and you have a strong value proposition. So I think the area that we have to put a lot more emphasis upon is more around program management. And because now you actually are trying to show that one outcome for the client, so it's very important whether you're working with the ISVs, whether you're working with the asides, whether you're working with the other integrators and your own resources, how you kind of bring that pool together around specific tracks to deliver a one common objective for the client. So program management plays a huge role in this process. For the folks watching, what should they know about HPE Pointnext that they may or may not know about or should know about that highlights what you guys are doing and you can simplify, what is the value proposition that Pointnext is bringing to customers? Yeah. You know, as the brand itself states Pointnext, it's really about working with the clients on defining what's next in their journey. And so one of the things I will say is and a lot of people get surprised by this, even after all the spin merge, we are 25,000 plus people strong. And we have a lot of great differentiation when it comes to some of these solutions. And one thing we do very well is partner. And whether it's Red Hat and other asides and bring some unique innovative solutions to the market. And one of the things Jim talked about here is all about accelerating user-driven innovation. And when you take a look at some of the use cases we're rolling out, and I talked about the analytics with the OneAI project and how we're helping manufacturing clients or other use cases to truly analyze patterns and predict failures and increase productivity. These discussions customers truly trust us. With the Red Pixie and CTP acquisition, we no longer just having on-prem discussions. We have a strong public cloud knowledge and it doesn't matter whether your cloud journey involves AWS, Google Azure and whatnot, we're able to actually provide a very objective roadmap for the workload strategy and the transformation journey. The users in the communities, as Jim pointed out, he interviewed me yesterday, the communities in open source are now also your customers. So your customers are also participating in these projects upstream. Are you guys doing an open source work? What's Pointnext doing? Are you guys relying on that community? Is there a crossover between your customers and those users in the open source community? Yeah, I mean, you know, we've always had a very strong partnership with the open source communities. We contributed a lot to the open source communities. And if you take a look at now, as we're working with the number of this next generation of partners, whether it's Docker, Scalety and Redhead and others, it's truly opened up the boundaries as to what can we push to drive new kind of solutions there. And I love what some of the speakers said yesterday. You remember the example from Boston Children's Hospital where they talked about where they didn't want to deal with the complexity. They'd rather focus on what they do best. And so one of the things we're focused on with the open source communities is the driving more standardization and automation. And so you can run applications at scale. You can run analytics at scale. And I think those are some of the things we bring to the table. And then the real thing about what's going on now is with these abstraction layers is an opportunity to create new services and accelerate the services. So congratulations, great to have you on the program. Thanks for sharing the update. And congratulations on your deep partnership with Red Hat. Good to see HP point next doing well. Thanks for coming on. Thank you so much. Live coverage here in San Francisco, California for Red Hat Summit 2018 will continue. I'm John Furrier, John Troyer. Stay with us. More coverage after this short break. Oftentimes the communities already know about a facility that's a problematic because they smell it, they see it, but...


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Though I'm sure she could be murdered before she'd bother to write a letter herself. She's not well. She works too hard. And if she slaps your face, don't quit. Don't slap back.  And for some reason, very, very frightened. Also, as I'm sure you'll agree, Ms. Flora Stewart is the greatest actress in the world. I never heard of you. What have you done lately? Ms. Stewart's secretary said we should come here to her home. Never mind, never mind. Here, Sonny, grab that light plug. Light plug? Here be downstairs in a minute, her husband.  Oh, here, I'll do it. Ask the dark bear for a pill.  Real sharp dialogue. Why didn't you say plug in the phonograph? Wouldn't you like a chair, young lady?  Listen. It drops as the gentle rays from heaven upon the place. All right, listen. It is twice blessed. It's blessed him that gives and gives and takes. Is that her, George? I guess so. His mightiest in the mightiest. It becomes a thrown-in monarch better than his crime. Ten years ago.  This makes me cry.  Yes. So what do you do? I'm crying. So yattata, yattata, yattata.  The quality of mercy is not strained. It drops as the gentle rain from heaven upon the place. It is twice blessed. It's blessed him that gives and takes. It's blessed him that gives and takes. His mightiest in the mightiest. Well, somebody's got to answer that thing. It becomes a thrown-in monarch better than his crime. Maybe a call from my own client. For the love of horses, will you all please shut up? Miss Stewart, from New York. She don't know anybody in New York hang up. They got no appreciation anyway. Wait a minute, wait a minute, wait a minute.  Flora, baby.  Give me that telephone.  Hello. Operator, I'm so sorry. Will you please tell your party in New York that Miss Flora Stewart caught cold in a Turkish bath? There's a dear girl. She's thrown in the towel until Christmas. Well, this looks like the birth of a nation. Miss Stewart, my name is... Never mind. Doctor, what are you doing here? Get out. Well, now, Flora, for heaven's sake, we haven't seen each other since your big tour. An absence makes you so much fonder. Now, go quack at somebody else. I'm busy. But you're not well, either. I noticed last night when we met on the street. I'm sorry, my dear, but your way past a check-up. Now, now, don't push me. I'm fine. I'm perfect. There's nothing wrong at all with me. You're worried, upset.  Maybe you can talk to your wife like that, but not to me. Go on, darling.  You know that mortician's understudy has the nerve to think I should give up the stage. Me. It's like asking Grant to give up his tomb. Jake. Jake. Where is he? Where'd he go? If you mean that guy who cries and whose face you slapped, I don't think he liked it. He walked into the other room. What is it, a bar? The quality of mercy is not strained. It droppeth as the gentle rain from my hand. He probably could use a drink. Who is Jake? Your husband? My husband's name is Kenneth. Jake is my agent for 25 years. But don't look that up. He's in love with me.  So is my husband.  And I love him, my husband. And they all worry about me, but he doesn't mind if I slap his face. Jake doesn't. He just likes my phonograph records. Well, look, Miss George. I know. I know you're George Valentine, and I'm all upset, and you're here to straighten everything out. There's confusion and... You, dear. Oh, excuse me. I'm Claire Brooks. Mr. Valentine and I work together. Oh. Well, what are you looking so serious for? Eat, drink, and be merry. I thought I might go to work on him myself. That's all. Darling, don't worry. I'll slow down, will you? I'm trying to get it straight. You've been threatened. Blackmailed, your secretary said. Yes. A very husky voice, quite a cloak and dagger. He's phoned every night for three nights running. You'll see for yourself maybe later on. Any connection between those calls? The one you just had from New York? The one you wouldn't answer? What? Oh, no. No, that's different. I started my tour six months ago in New York. That was just somebody I met there. This other voice is from town, I'm sure, and only a man could open the window like that, don't you think? Do what? Make the records. Records? Please, Mr. York, start at the beginning. Well, some of the records I've made of my performances on stage are master records. They're not commercial, just originals, the only ones. And three nights ago, someone broke in the window to my study, ransacked things, and took one out and broke it all over the rug. Go on, darling. Well, uh, blue swan was the first one. That's a play five years ago. It only lasted a couple of weeks. Then it was Alice Adams. I just tried that for the first time on tour. And then last night it was my recording of... Wait a minute. You mean every night a different record is broken and nothing else is touched? No. And then I get a phone call and the voice says, unless you leave $10,000 tonight in the study, I'll break every record you have. And I'll tell everybody what I know about... Well, tell what he knows about what. Well, you don't think I'm going to tell you? Really, darling, I don't know you that well yet. Oh, for the lover. Lady, can't you stop acting for once? But you're here to catch him. You're not here to write my biography. Well, do so for my money. You can either tell or... Stop it! Don't yell at me. You're here now. You'll help. I'm not the detective. I'm just so frightened I can't think straight. You can look around. You'll find some clues. Lady, you're going to stick around and give them to me. Oh, I've got such a headache. I can't even see you. It's my house. I'll do what I like. I want to lie down and forget you all of it.  There's a case, not a case. When you don't know what it is. Now, let's take a look at the study where those records are kept. Do you ever see so many crazy people? Maybe that's how we clear the air, Brooks.  Doors locked. Locked? Well, listen... There must be another door around through the sun room. Oh, hello, Mr. Valentine. I didn't realize I left the catch on. Are you the secretary who wrote us, Betty Robinson? Yes, it's me. I'm just doing some work in here.  What? Oh, I guess Miss Stewart wanted you to see the records that were broken. Yeah, yeah, sure. Stuff this prowler brace up. She saved all the pieces. Put them in an envelope. I thought you might get fingerprints or something. I doubt it. Those records look more pulverized than stepped on. Is this the cabinet they were taken out of? Oh, yes, yes, right there. See, how often do you water those zinnias out there? What? Oh, out the window. Uh, there's a gardener every day. The beds are pretty. Yeah, wet right now, all right. Only no marks on the rug. I don't understand. Well, this is a window, isn't it? Mr. Eastman, who comes in from the outside. Easy enough to force, all right? Yes, it's been found open, or it was this morning. Only... he makes no tracks on the rug. And out there, he'd have to stand in the wet floor a bit. And the window could be left open from the inside so that it would only look like somebody. Oh, oh, no. If you think there's anyone inside this house... I don't think anything yet, Miss Robinson, except that maybe you could use some Kleenex. What? Here, honey, not your lipstick, you masquerad. You've been crying, haven't you? No. You're here just to do something for Miss Stewart. Okay. And you're here to say nothing. I've been her secretary for six years. She's the most wonderful person in the world. Why drag that in? Because you've been packing your suitcase? Yes. Yes, I'm leaving for a little vacation. It has absolutely nothing to do with why you're here. You can take care of her now. Hey, Guy, I told you I want to be left alone. Miss Brock, make him. I have a job, so I'm doing it, Miss Stewart. I'm asking, who smokes cigars? What? Nice, fancy cigars from the smell of them. It's Jake, isn't it? That agent of yours? No, it's my husband. Jake's never smoked in his life. Oh, your husband, I'd like to meet him. Oh, he's around someplace. A big shaggy poodle who adores me. Uh-huh. How does he get along with your secretary? Huh? Darling, have you seen her? Nothing but a little fox terrier. Trails me around with such a worshipping look. Why? I'm so tired, I don't think very strict. I'm not going to bother you with why anything, Miss Stewart. Oh, but I'm scared. Someone threatened me. I hired you to come here. Thank you, but we're only trying to understand your household. This is so simple. It's blackmail. Sure, sure. Somebody from the outside. The people in this house have nothing to do with anything. They love me. But it must be a little hard living with a person who's been as famous as you have already a legend. Being married to you, working for you? Already a legend. Huh. Of course, I'm peculiar. I'm selfish. There's nothing in the world as important as my work. And I've been working so hard. I've done nothing but work every minute for the last six months. It was my own tour. I even organized and backed it myself. What's the matter? That's stuff in your lap. What were you doing when we came in? Cleaning a gun. Here, you see. What in the name of... Sister, give me that thing before I... Darling, maybe it's got a bullet in it. How do you know? Now, look, lady... Mr. Valentine, I'm frightened. I want to have a gun. Not the way you handle it, Sister. Now, come on. Also, I'm too much for you, am I? My blackmail is too much for you, so you're afraid of my case. Well, baby, you can just... I said give me that gun. No! Okay, okay, lady, okay. Now, nobody's hurt.  Of course I have, darling. I still have everything. Call me a legend, will you? Baby, you better be careful.  We'll return to tonight's adventure of George Valentine in just a moment. Listen to the difference. 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Ask for it at standard stations and independent chevron gas stations where they say and mean, we take better care of your car. Back to tonight's adventure of George Valentine, the greatest actress in the world, Laura Stewart.  Well, if your name is George Valentine, you're convinced that there's a lot going on in Ms. Stewart's strange household besides just black nail, particularly when she pulls a gun on you. Look at the great detective. Okay, okay, ladies. So you win round one. Round one, throw in the ammonia, folks.  You're not big enough to help me. All you can do is try to pad your part with guesses about things that don't matter. Well, darling, ta-ta. Oh, turn it off, Deuce. Maybe I don't slap back, but I got bad news for you. I'm staying. Oh, thank you, Mr. Valentine. And it's not true what you think. People do love me like I've loved them. Oh, sure, sure, lady. I love you too. Don't you listen to the critics. I think you're still the greatest actress in the world. You act all the time. Yes, yes, full of cobwebs, isn't it?  Look, Mr. Stewart, I wanted to meet you because... Mr. Stewart. Oh, listen to me. Laughing is no joke by this time. I'm Kenneth, yes, but Kenneth McLaughlin. Yeah, have a drink. Oh, thanks. Do you expect her to take my name? Well, ever hear of Aphrodite's husband, Sarah Bernhardt's?  How much of it do you drink every day? Enough to remember the name McLaughlin. Don't think anything of that. Been married 18 years and I adore her. Everybody does, can't help themselves. Sure, sure, keep telling it to yourself. What do I say now? I beg your pardon? No, you tell me what you do for a living.  Okay, so she's the moneymaker. She give you an allowance? No. No, I can't be in sell- Oh, stop smiling. I'll be goaded into saying anything. You ask about my wife, Mr. Valentine. What's there to say? She's been on tour for six months.  A galloping ingenue. I've barely seen her. Why are you here today? I don't know that. Why won't she see me today? Why anything? Who cares? Have a drink. Of course she's insufferable, selfish. But so what? Have a drink. That's right, Buster. Tell me how it is to be tied to the great lady, how she never thinks of you the way Betty does. What?  Excuse me, Mr. Valentine. Don't tell me you didn't know she was going, not after that little scene you must have had in the study when you ducked out just before we came in. I'll get out of my way.    She lives for herself and her career and nobody else. And all the time, right under her nose, you and her secretary about... Mr. Valentine, I'm warning you that... Mr. Valentine, Mr. Valentine, come here. Oh, now what? All right, what is it, Betty? Another photograph, I can... I was just on my way out. I was walking through here. Yeah, well, you're not leaving now. Here, let me see. It was all in pieces, on the rug, the same places as the others. That person's been here again. And the window drapes shoved aside again. Only this time the windows closed. What? Yeah, you heard me, so you're not leaving. Nobody's leaving. Mr. Valentine. I shoved matches in the frame. The last time I was in here, the window can't be opened. But somebody tried awful hard. Here, you see? Handprints all over the top of the glass. Inside. Yeah, sure, of course. I thought so before, now I know it. So we're going to find out whose prints those are. Which one of the people inside this house has been trying to frighten Flora Stewart out of $10,000? You ever swindled blood out of a Turner Valentine? I'm business manager to a bunch of back taxes, that's all. And that Betty, if she had half her brain, would have quit long ago. She hasn't been paid in four months. Clear it up, will you, Jake? Okay. Okay, I'll clear it up. This star client of mine has flat broke. Flora Stewart? Oh, no, wait a minute. She used to make a fortune. And that tourist, you hear? Financing herself in all the parts she wanted to do. Playing the city she thought liked her. Whether the houses were good or not. Promoting herself with producers, I tell you, friend, it's cleaned out everything she had left.  What? Montague. It is not hand or foot. So you still don't understand anything? No arm, no face, nor any other part belonging to a man. Yes, soft hearted, Jake. But it's there. Can't you hear it? In that old record? She makes me cry. Sure, I love her. She tears people apart. She's, she's often that world of her own. She can't help it. You think she gets two pins for what happens to her? But am I supposed to be a watchdog forever? I can't order her around. Nobody can. Nobody ever could.  Bruxy, I'm just beginning to realize what this is all about. Wait a minute. George, that was a shot. Oh, George, no. It's flour. Yeah, dead Bruxy. She's dead.  Get a client you can't understand and then let her be killed. It must have been her own gun that was used. It's gone. She was scared to death. She really was frightened. Bruxy's sick and upset. Oh, George, stop it. She wanted protection. She would have said... Hey, wait a minute. Hey, what happened? You hear that? Yeah. Yeah, I hear it, Jake. Car starting. A car starting. Get out of the way. Well, thanks. She didn't run over me. All right, Betty, get out. Stay where you are. Come on, come on. I know you have. Miss Stewart's. Get away from me. Don't touch me. I killed her. Betty. Yes, I killed her. Now what are you going to do, Betty? Suppose you just take it easy.   I loved her, too.  Just because you lived with an actress doesn't mean you have to wait to take her. I killed her.  You come one step closer.  Yeah. Yeah, look who's coming, Betty. The boyfriend himself. I'm totally excitement. I was on the sleep. Betty says she killed your wife. What? Flora? Yeah, yeah, that's right. Little Betty here managed to wrestle her gun away. Can you imagine? And then with one shot, see, all right, sister, give me that gun. That's better. You don't have to pretend. You don't have to cover for him. Betty. Betty, what in heaven is that? All right, now, Jay, tell me something. Did Flora carry life insurance? Huh? Yes. Yes, as a matter of fact, quite a bit. Took it out just recently. It was the only way I could get it to save. Why? Because after we heard the shot, Betty, it took us a little time to find out where it came from. But you were upstairs already. What did you do? Run in there, see the body, see a gun, and think Kenneth had actually killed her? Yes. With me in the house and Jake, didn't you notice the cotton wadding, the cleaning fluid, the gun oil? That's right, George. Yeah. If I found a setup like that, I'd be more inclined to think her death was an accident. All right, now, come on inside. We're going to phone back to New York. Okay, thanks, operator. Keep on trying to locate that party in New York, will you? All right, I know it's awful sudden.  She really tore people apart, didn't she? But an accident right in the middle of all that blackmail business? Oh, George, no, it's too convenient. Yes, Valentina, if you don't explain what... I'm just guessing, Jake, adding two and two. In the first place, that blackmail thing, she put that up herself. Well, she must have. Look at the records that were so carefully broken. Alice Adams, the part of an adolescent girl, just recorded this year on tour. She might have been able to play that part well 30 years ago. And then Blue Swan, a flop that lasted two weeks. And then this last one, a turkey you said, don't you see? All her recent performances, all her bad performances, she broke the records herself to get rid of them. But why would she call you? Well, she wanted me here because it was all phony, it was all an act. And she made a big point of having me see her cleaning a gun, handling it clumsily. She wanted us for witnesses, wanted us to testify she died accidentally. That's right, Bruxy. And I don't think I need to kick myself. She would have done it anyway. Yeah, the big selfish actress, so self-centered. But she knew she wrecked lives. And the rest of it wasn't an act. She was frightened all right. But she had to keep on being a star. She was sick. The doctor said she'd have to give up the stage. It was her whole life. She had to keep working. Feeble flat gesture, wasn't it? But maybe she figured it was the least she could do for all of you. Yeah, that's right. Make a death look like it was an accident. So the insurance companies wouldn't refuse to pay off on suicide. Oh, look. She went on tour to play all the parts she used to like, burning the candle at both ends for the last big try, financing herself, the great actress. But I noticed her biggest successes were in the past. She still was great, Sonny. You sure about that? Hello? Hello, Miss Stewart there? Uh, who is this, please? I know all about Miss Stewart, at least I think I do. Well, tell her it's James Sharon. James Sharon? The producer? Give me that phone. Hold a check, okay. Wait a minute. How about you taking a message? Maybe it'll be easier that way. Well, nothing is easy, friend, but go ahead. Well, she's been haunting me for years to put in something big, but I can't anymore. I wrote her I could get her a small part and would phone her for an answer. For a slap in the face. She knows the truth as well as I do. What does she want to make me suffer for? I love her, but... Why don't you say it straight, Mr. Sharon? Candles all burned out, my friend. The anginews. She had to quit the stage. Maybe she could have even done that. The stage had already quit her. She didn't have any life outside the theater. That's right, Brooks. She'd been slipping for years and she must have known it too. That last disastrous tour was the payoff. They all knew it. You could never admit it to anyone. Yeah, particularly Jake in there. Wagon hitched to a burned-out star. Flora wasn't all selfish, George. Trying to pour a third act curtain like that. It hadn't been for Betty interfering. The accidental death stunt might have gone through. That insurance idea to help the people she'd hurt clumsy as it was might have worked. George, it doesn't make any difference. They don't care about the money. Don't blame yourself for having to expose them. Yeah, I know. Jake's still in there beating himself. She really had these people tied up in knots, didn't she? Helen Keats was not her heart. Leo Patrick's majesty. Atlanta's better heart. Sad duperity of mothers. How do you explain a woman like that, George? I don't understand. Maybe you don't. Listen.  Listen to the difference. In a few seconds you will hear Geiger counters measuring automobile engine wear. The engines are equipped with irradiated piston rings, which make it possible for the Geiger counters to detect wear as it occurs. You will hear authentic scientific proof that new RPM motor oil cuts in half the wear rate of critical engine parts, doubles the life of the average auto engine between major overhauls due to lubrication. First, let's listen to the Geiger counter slowly click off the low wear rate of new RPM. Now, the much faster wear rate of a premium type oil is designated by the American Petroleum Institute. Now, new RPM again. You have just heard Geiger counters clicking off the scientific proof that new RPM motor oil is years ahead. Yes, years ahead. New RPM doubles engine life between major overhauls due to lubrication. Try it. Sold with a money-back guarantee of satisfaction at independent Chevron gas stations and standard stations, where they say and mean, we take better care of your car. Tonight's adventure of George Valentine has been brought to you by Standard Oil Company of California on behalf of independent Chevron gas stations and standard stations throughout the West. Robert Daley has starred as George with Virginia Greg as Brooksy. Let George do it is written by David Victor and Jackson Gillis and directed by Don Clark. Jeanette Nolan was heard as Flora, Charlotte Lawrence as Betty, Sydney Miller as Jake, Larry Dobkin as Kenneth, Stanley Farrar as Sharon. The music is composed and presented by Eddie Dunstetter, your announcer, John Heaston. Listen again next week, same time, same station, to let George do it. This is the Mutual Don Lee Broadcasting System.


Patriot Prime Reviews is a channel for adult collectors and may not be suitable for children under 13 years of age. Viewer discretion is advised. Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another video review. But before I get started, I need you guys to do me a favor. If you're watching this video right here and have not subscribed to Patriot Prime Reviews, please hit that subscribe button right now. It won't cost you a thing but will help me and my channel out tremendously. Also, I am proud to announce that ToyHacks.com is sponsoring this review. You know me. I absolutely love ToyHacks decals. About 75% of my collection has benefited from their products all the way from Generation 1 to the new modern figures. ToyHacks provides label sets, upgrade kits, and display backdrops for Transformers toys of all types and generations. 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Now this Astro Train transforms into a steam locomotive which is much more akin to his original Generation 1 toy, opposed to the space locomotive he transformed into in Titan's Return. Now this locomotive looks awesome. The molded details on this is amazing. You can see the pistons, the rivets, the plating. I mean this thing looks fantastic. Here on the front, you got the light, the smokestack, the wheels, and he's got lots of wheels. Very free rolling. This guy rolls really, really good. My one complaint is I wish he had more paint applications. The only real paint applications he has. He's got black here on the front, the Tampagraph Decepticon logo there. Silver paint along these pipes which look really good. I can't get over the details on this figure. That just looks amazing. But he could have used a little bit more paint. Now this locomotive mode has a coal car or tender attached to the back, which is really cool because a coal car or tender is what they use to hold the fuel that powered the steam locomotive. You can detach this. It attaches with these three pegs right there that hook into Astro Train's patented thrusters, just like the Generation 1 toy. And speaking of the Generation 1 toy, here is Earthrise Astro Train with Generation 1 Astro Train. As you can see, they really favor each other right down to those thrusters on the back. Now taking a closer look at the tender box, this is the extra accessory that you get that makes this Voyager sized figure a leader class price point. The tender box really doesn't look like a box car from a train because he has tank treads opposed to train wheels. But still, pretty solid piece. Lots of wheels can roll on either side. You see wheels on the top. That goes into another mode. Now go ahead and transform the tender box. You're going to take the sides, pop these open, and flip this section around here, right there. Completely opens up, and instead of holding fuel for the train, he's got weapons and lots of weapons. Get these detached here. Two of these blasters, both of these blasters look exactly the same. So you got two of these, one heavy cannon, or one heavy rifle, one sexual Tyrannosaurus minigun. And if you don't know what that means, please see the disclaimer at the front of this video. And one missile pod. So Astro train comes loaded with weapons, which is really, really cool. And then you have the tender box looking like this, which we'll come to later on. Now let's get Astro train transformed into shuttle mode.  It'll snap into place so it looks like that. Then the side of the trains here, unpeg these slightly. Flipping the train over these sections here, fold these up, and bring these down. Once again, very slightly because you need room to take this section and rotate all the way around. Do that on both sides. And now you can fully bring the wings all the way down. Now you're going to take these sections, bring those down, take this part right here, and you're going to split apart.  If I can get it. Once this is apart, you're going to take the light and smokestack of the train and fold those in like so. Then bring this section around, kind of fiddly, all these parts to get out of the way. There we go. Do that on both sides. Much easier like that, finally opened up. So once you have the shuttle nose cone out, you're going to snap and put these together. Snap these into place rather, squeeze those, and bring these sections back. Snapping those in place. On the back here, get your thumbnail in, flip these little sections up on each side, and rotate this up and over, extending the tail fin. Now what you're going to have to do on the back is snap loose the engine section. You're going to split this apart slightly so you can get that little notch right there to go into this groove. So get that down, locked in place, you're going to bring the thrusters back up. This is the hardest part of the transformation. Okay, got those in. It still didn't click. Like I said, this is a very fiddly little section. There we go. I've got it locked in place now. Get the wings snapped back in place. And there we have Astro Train in space shuttle mode. And just like the locomotive mode, this mode is very reminiscent of the Generation 1 figure. But there is one glaring problem. This whole section right here just looks unfinished. It's like Hasbro ran out of ideas on how to fix that and just said, ah, hell with it, throw it in the package. So any 3D company out there, there's a couple of ports right on top. You make a section to fit over that. I'll be the first one in line. But other than that glaring problem, space shuttle mode doesn't look bad. I like the front. Lots of nice molded details. Paint applications look really good. The applications there on the windows. This stripe right here, which is also a throwback to Generation 1. Tampa Graph Decepticon logos on each wing and nice paint job along the side of the wings. Turning the vehicle around. You see the thrusters once again. I really didn't go over those in train mode. But look at the details right there. I love the molded detailing on this figure. Plenty of ports so you can actually utilize all the different weapons to really arm this space shuttle up. Brandon, I don't think he's going to do much flying, but it's something you can do. Now I do wish that they gave him another missile pod. I mean, he only gets one, but I like to have my figures symmetrical. So I wish we got one extra rocket pod. So let me go ahead and get these weapons off so I can bring in the tender box from earlier. As you remember, I had it unfolded like this for shuttle mode. You're going to bring these sections forward. So now seeing the tank treads on the bottom. Bring that part up too. It kind of becomes a shuttle transport. But unfortunately, it really won't lay flat. So you can just kind of put Astro Train there on top of it and, you know, it's like he's rolling up to the launch bay. And speaking of launch bay, that's where the secondary form of this launch pad comes into place. You're going to take this section down and rotate it so it looks like that. Take these sections, fold those out. Now these little pegs here rotate around. So you want to make sure and rotate them to match up to Astro Train's thrusters here. So let's see. Two on the bottom. Let's do it like this. We'll peg that into Astro Train's thrusters. Let me zoom my camera back. You now have a launch bay that can actually be utilized by some of the Earthrise MicroMasters like so. Plus you can also add weaponry to the base to really arm it up and add to the playability. So there's something you can do if you so choose. And before I forget, here's a quick comparison of Earthrise Astro Train's Shuttle Mode with Generation 1 Astro Train. Now let's get Astro Train transformed into Robot Mode. The first thing you're going to do is split the whole front half of the shuttle just like so, bringing these sections out and around. And these will actually slide down and cover up the shuttle nose cone. So it looks like this. On the back, you've got these gray sections. You're going to unpag on each side. Flip those around. Those will click into place. And those, of course, form Astro Train's feet. Here on the chest, you're going to flip these sections up on either side and bring this whole assembly. Well, after you unclip it from that very problematic thruster, now you're going to bring this whole assembly, folding the tail fin around, putting down like so, revealing Astro Train's face, and take these side panels and clip down. Now you're going to take this wing section. It's on a hinge that you want to bring down and around. Take the thrusters, fold all the way back. These sections here are the arms. You're going to bring these down and they will lock into place right there on the side. Mine got to apply a little bit of pressure. Now we're going to simply unfold the arms, swing those around, flip the fists out. Do the same on the other side. There we go. This back section, you want to get this down, locked into place. And it'll snap in place nice and secure. Now down here on the legs, these little sections right here, there is a rotation. And what you're supposed to do, there's a little clip right here, is you rotate from this circle, this hole right here, to this one. I have no idea why it really doesn't add that much to the figure, but the instructions say to do so. So there you go. And there you have AstroTrain in Robot Mode. There is one final step in the transformation that I did forget to show off. You have to take these flaps right here and bring those down, revealing AstroTrain's abs. Now we have AstroTrain fully transformed in Robot Mode. And this Robot Mode looks great. He looks just like he stepped right out of the 1980s television show. So G1, it just looks awesome. Tons of molded details throughout the figure. I can't get over the details on these modern figures. It looks great. His paint details, they're a little lacking though. He does have some paint there on those newly revealed abs. Up here on the head sculpt, there's yellow stripe. And if you can see in there, he does have some red beady eyes with a chrome face. Very solid figure. Not much hollowness to him at all. A little bit on the inside of the legs, but that's not too bad. Now as far as articulation is concerned, the arms can go up and down. And they could do a complete 360 if it wasn't for the wings. He also has a bicep swivel and let's see, no wrist rotation. The head can do a complete 360. Elbow bend of course. He does have a waist swivel, surprisingly. Legs can go up and down all around. He does have a knee bend and no knee rotation. And there is a ankle tilt. So lots of posibility to this guy. He looks great. And of course you can add some of his many weapons to him. Let's give him the mega cannon there and the minigun. Let's see if I can under sling that. Oh yeah, that looks awesome. I really like this figure. Now Astro Train can also use the tinder box in this mode. You're going to take this front section right here and these slide right off. Well, one does. So right here you have, in other words, shoes. So we're going to peg these into the bottom of his feet. You have these holes right there that match up to the pegs. One and two, which give him a little bit more height. Let me move the camera back slightly. The rest of the tinder box, you kind of fold up, bring this section up and over. You're going to rotate it around and place it underneath the tinder box. Fold all this back up and then this pegs into Astro Train's back. Line those pegs up and there you go.   But you can't see it from the front, but still that's something I probably won't do at all.  Astro Train's robot mode has plenty of ports as well, so you can add the rest of those weapons. We can give him some ankle cannons and we can put this rocket pod up here on this shoulder. And now we have Earthrise Astro Train all armed and ready for battle. Astro Train does have one final gimmick. You can take all of the weapons that he comes with and combine them to form a mega weapon. So you've got the minigun attached to that to the larger rifle, like so. Then you've got the two similar blasters. There's little pegs on the side that they will go right here on the end. And now the missile pod, it connects right there on the bottom. Make sure and have the peg that sticks out facing front. And there is Astro Train's mega gun. So let's bring Astro Train out. Put the mega weapon in his hand and there you go. He is ready to lay down some pain. And now for some quick size comparisons. Here is War for Cybertron Earthrise Astro Train with Generation 1 Megatron, Generation 1 Astro Train, War for Cybertron Siege 35th Anniversary Megatron and Titan's Return Astro Train. And herein lies the problem. Earthrise Astro Train is a $50 leader class figure where Titan's Return Astro Train was a $30 Voyager class figure. Now of course you could add Astro Train's platform shoes here, but it still really doesn't make that much of a difference. Transformers War for Cybertron Earthrise Astro Train really surprised me. This figure is so much better than what I was originally expecting. I absolutely love the robot mode. I love the locomotive mode. The shuttle mode, it's a little lacking with that really messy middle, but it works. It does look like a Generation 1 shuttle. Now he is a leader class figure, but he's a Voyager size. Now that really puts me off. Granted you're paying that extra $20 for the tender box, which is, it's cool. I mean it adds to the train mode and it's neat to have that little base for the shuttle, but for robot mode, how I display my figures, it's a useless piece that's going to be in storage, so I'm not real keen on spending that extra $20 for that piece. So there you go guys, Transformers War for Cybertron Earthrise Astro Train. So does a War for Cybertron Earthrise Astro Train belong in your collection? I'm kind of torn on this one. I am one of those that is not a big fan of paying $50 for a leader class figure. Granted you do get a pretty cool accessory that can be utilized in all the modes, though the robot mode version sucks. And that's where my problem lies is I display my bots in robot mode. This piece is not used, so this is going to be in storage. But he is a great figure. He's tons of fun, fun to transform, a lot easier to transform than Ape Face and Springer in my opinion, and he's got tons of playability. The locomotive mode is great. The shuttle mode, it's okay. It's got that big gap on the back. I'm not a big fan of. And the robot mode is fantastic. Granted, he could use a little bit of decals. And fortunately, I'm going to take care of that. I got a brand new set of Toy Hacks decals right here. And as a big thank you to Michael Welch for lending me this figure to review, I'm going to Toy Hacks him up for you. So once again, thank you so much, Mike. And guys, thank you for stopping by and checking out my video. Don't forget to like. Don't forget to subscribe. And don't forget to hit that bell icon to get notified when I upload new reviews. Once again, this is Patriot Prime signing out. Hula!


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