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Apparently didn't know the missile pegs in underneath. I didn't get instructions so it completely crossed my mind my bad. Thanks for informing me tho

Old clear plastic 🤝 old gold plastic: being absolutely terrifying to handle

"Here, take the blue one for free." "Oh....thanks dude." "No.....thank you .😁"

To sum it up, clear plastic has a 90% chance of being horrible

2001 RID figures are still my absolute favorites. The realistic vehicle modes with the rubber tires and vac-metal painted parts is how I pretty much got into transformers.

Normalize Painted Windows and Clear plastic Inserts.

That blue Dodge Viper is Speed Breaker from Car Robots because Takara didn’t print the Autobot insignia on this figure and the red Dodge Viper is Side Burn because Hasbro did print the Autobot insignia on the roof. You have a Japanese version and an American version of the same figure.

That random Bumblebee one-step caught me insanely off guard

That seller really did just indirectly say "Here, he's your problem now."

Love your channel! Store the projectile alongside the undercarriage (there are two tabs on the missile and two slots on one of his thighs!) and it is an exhaust pipe! Also, his pistol is also a knife, just like with ShadowStriker, so SideBurn -does- have that melee option! Keep up the awesome work, and good get on finding the two in such good condition. SideBurn was the first Transformer I bought for myself with my own money (at 19, I believe) fresh from a Toys'R'Us, haha, back in like 2000-ish... Love that figure!!

Just a heads up,the missile actually tabs into the slots on the leg on OG Sideways/Super Sideways, and sits under the car as a muffler, no sticking out the pooper needed!

Sideburn is a toy I have no business loving as much as I do. The Dodge Viper alt mode (and asymmetrical bot mode) makes me like way more than I should.

have to agree, Legacy Shadow Striker is a great figure. People gave it so much shit when it leaked but I love it. It's just so DIFFERENT to most of what we've gotten recently. The way it transforms is just so unique and satisfying, even if the car mode isn't the best. It feels cold. metal. alien. Like a Decepticon should. Gives off major Terminator vibes. The clear plastic where the roof clips onto the hinge joint did break on mine but it still holds on by one of the clips. But other than that she's great. can't wait for Side Burn. Hopefully we get Roulette too.

Hey, for the old versions missile, it tabs into the leg in car mode to become the exhaust.

The missle pegs into his leg and look like an exhaust pipe, if I remember correctly.

Yes, some of those RID 2001 are a pain to transform but they have their own charm. My favorite Transformer line of all time by the way. Two tips from a RID collector: 1.- The missile can be placed as an exhaust pipe for the viper. Look for the thighs of the robot, you'll see two slots, and the missile has two tabs, you just have to line them up to give the appearance of a high performance exhaust. 2.- Once each 6 months, carefully take out the rubber wheels from the wheel frame, undust them with a small brush (don't water them) then put them in a small container with lid (you can use a small bag instead) with a good amount of liquid glycerin, enough to cover them and leave about 1 cm of liquid of liquid above the wheels, looks for bubbles in the wheels, use a toothpick to get rid of them, and place them in a place undisturbed for 24 hours. After that, use a dry absorbent paper towel to get rid of the excedent glycerin, place them in another paper towel for one hour in the shadow, and put them again in the figure. The wheels will rehydrate and prevent the cracks to appear.

Sideburn turning red in his super mode is so funny to me, he's become the very thing he lusts over: a red car lmao

11:24 BUMBLE-FLIP!!!

With Shadowstriker, if you want to not lose the gun in vehicle mode, it fits right in between her arms before you close the roof.

One thing I like to do with the Shadowstriker is put the bumper on the gun in sword configuration to make a pickaxe

All I want to come out of this mold is a two pack with the bot con style Shadow Striker and Roulette or just a Roulette. I really really like that design they had in that bot con two pack, I have no idea what makes it so appealing to me but it is. But there's no way I'm paying those crazy after market prices for the original so hopefully they do a remake at some point

11:24 not gonna lie that autochanging bee kinda jumpscared me, my "oh shit figure fell" anxiety spiked and then confusion when it turned into a brick. was not expecting that

Those RID molds are what I expected the movie figures to be. I kinda miss them.

The old toy looks neat, but also just man, that seems like a bit of a nightmare today thanks to the ball joints and clear plastic. Legacy Shadow Striker, meanwhile, is just great. Zero complaints from me. She's a really great figure, and I'd really be interested in seeing how they retool her into Sideburn.

RID 01 Sideburn aka If Beast Wars Neo Mach Kick was a car instead of a horse.

I own the original blue one, and while the wheels haven't cracked, and the bumper has never popped off, the top of the car is stressed and the joint cracked. Crazy how complicated this mold felt back in the day. Really like the Shadowstriker mold though holding out for the Sideburn. Really hope the body gets some unofficial Viper retooling.

You made that looks so easy but i had an absolute nightmare getting that roof tabbed in

Red Sideburn was my first new Transformers toy I brought as an adult

I just bought a huge RID 2001 collection, after seeing your luck with Sideburns 2001, I think that I am going leave mine in the car mode that most came to me in,lol

The first time I transformed the Side Burn redeco of Shadow striker, I could not for the life of me taking the roof on the double hinge. I ended up removing the hinge so I could still peg in the roof and be able to use the entire side roof gimmick.

The missle has two tabs that are meant to slot into the right thigh when in alt mode, that makes it a proper exhaust instead if a poo

Great video. I don't like transparent plastic not just because that it's more weaker than solid plastic, it's also because of paint matching. Which always sucks. Always prefer painted Windows.

I remember having that blue one way back when RID 2001 was still airing

The new one could also be repainted into Movie Crosshairs, with how the doors become a cape in robot mode

The gold gun on the old one is a knife and the red missile is a muffler to be pegged in the leg.

The modern design might be better as it's not reliant on balljoints, but it just doesn't look right. I liked that the Speedbreaker/ Sideburn mold was pretty slim and tight looking (which is why it worked well for the original Shadowstriker and Roulette). The new version's boxy looking body and skinny limbs just doesn't have the same panache as the original. I'm not a fan of Shadowstriker's alt mode either, it just looks a bit dumpy and less sporty. I bet though that this is one of those toys that's awesome in hand and I'm just not feeling it from what I'm seeing on the interwebs.

Oh hey, I literally got Sideburn a few days ago Also, the missile actually tabs on to the right leg on the underside of the vehicle mode

If you pay attention, you'll notice there are TWO tabs on the missile and, conveniently, there are a pair of holes in his leg under the car. The missile tabs in there and becomes the car's exhaust pipe!

fun fact: you can actually fit the gun inside the car mode on the new one! you just have to put it in with the handle facing up before you put the roof on.

I can't wait to see how the new one looks as Sideburn...but uhm, you missed the missile tabbing on the leg in car mode to give the car an exhaust in the original!

I still can’t get past how Shadow Striker is a mash up of two versions of the character, and thus fails to represent either very well.

You can store the missile on the old one under the car using the rectangular pegs on its sides. The narrow end sticks out the back like an exhaust

RID Sideburn was one of my childhood favorites 😊

I've had both the blue and red Side Burns since new. I think I transformed the blue one twice (into robot and back to car) and the red one has pretty much just been in vehicle mode for the past 23 years. Prowl and X-Brawn were so much more fun to transform.

For anyone who wants the figure to be more like the Cyberverse design. You could swap the limbs with other spare transformers that have mushroom pegs to give her a more Cyberverse design, pretty sure her legs is a close match to Windblades legs. or custom paint the figure to match the show if you down want to comprimise the transformation.

I really hope that when they do make the new Sideburn out of the new mold, I do hope they reshell the vehicle mode to be more Viper-ish.

I know this may seem off topic but since there has been an announcement for a ss 86 commander class megatron in the works and despite him being a tank,I was thinking maybe you can do a review on toyworld's hegemon, supposedly the last good mainline scale gun mode megatron and seeing if modern engineering is able to make what hegemon is better

That was the only TF, I came in contact with. A friend of mine had the blue version,---minus the back bumper......

I have the Botcon Roulette and Shadowstriker. I cant bring myself to transform them out of fear they will explode.

transformation defined in one sentence for Sideburn Takara dai atlas quality

My very first Transformers figure was RID 2001 Sideburn

Im going to wait until the new Sideburn is released to check this mold out. Though i still want one of the original versions to have all 3 Autobot Brothers.

RID 2001 Side Burn a lot smaller then I thought he would be.

0:18 What I wanted to hear the most about Legacy Shadow Striker since I have her in my collection Also fun fact: Regarding the RID 2001 anime, the production for Episode 3 onwards kinda went downhill largely due to 9/11, which began the day after the second episode aired.

I love the Viper. I have both Red and Blue still MOC! I bought 2 of each so I could play with them!

In a fit of madness I legit threw Side Burn in the trash rather than transform him back into a car to pack him away. And then I threw away his brothers because...sometimes I do dumb shit.

Don't know if anyone else has pointed it out yet, but you can actually store the missile underneath like an exhaust, one leg has two little holes to receive the tabs on the missile

I think clear plastic breakages is what spelled the end for my original red Side Burn... I know the bumper often came off the gun and maybe the rook joint broke but i dunno. It's been 10-15 years since i lost him BUT i got a new one last year iirc.

And there was no front-end retooling.

The missile does store on the original. It has 2 pegs , and one of his leg's it has 2 groves for the missile to tab on

It's a shame that the new Legacy Sideburn didn't get a new remolded car front and that the flames in the new version are hardly noticeable. I wanted to buy it but I couldn't justify the price for such an underwhelming figure that isn't as good as the original Japanese version.

I hate those shoulders so damn much. The thing that tics me off the most is that they are set too far back for good reason. I can't wait to have the time to mod mine.

Sideburn was the very first transformer I ever had when I was a kid.

The blue one is the japanese one. You can tell because the japanese one has no autobot logo on the roof.

You can have the old figure hold both his guns as melee weapons too FYI

I have the Transformers universe black viper repaint of Sideburn And I keep him in his box most of the time because I don't want to risk breaking the figure.

I'm so curious if I still had all of my RiD figures if they would've stood the test of time.

0:49 correction, Sideburn *SUPERCHARGED* !!!!

you got left hand sideburn and right hand sideburn. And the new one is registered as no party preference 👍

I had no idea she was based off a older mold tbh

Car robots had the best alt modes. They'll never beat those classics.

The missle pegs on the bottom of the car to make the ail pipe

Sideburn Finally find his red car ❤❤❤

Toy Guy, get rid of those Sideburns!

ngl I'm a sucker for the dodge viper and if they do any sort of slight retooling to make it look more like a dodge viper I'll buy one no hesitation

i bought the infamous hasbro version of MP09 and after a year both its arms fell off for no other reason than shoddy materials i managed to get a replacement upper body off ebay i repaired him and put him in storage and i darent look at it never mind pick it up as i know his knees have a bad habit of falling off to . and they say master pieces are the best of the best ! yeah right

The key ideology to modern transformers is sacrifice the vehicle mode even combiner wars vehicle modes get a lot more love than current stuff this video shows that off very well. Not saying it’s a bad thing! I prefer the characters over the cars but it is a thing.

Man, the new mold looks cool in robot mode, but man, vehicle mode just kinda sucks. Hope we get some decent remolding to make it look more like a Viper.

My copy is permanently in vehicle mode now due to its age. The clear plastic sockets and joints are gone or broken. Hope the new one gets some remolding.

Hey, great review! Any chance you can review some of the Earthspark figures next?

I do prefer the look of the old figure, partly from nostalgia and partly because the bulkiness looks reminiscent of samurai armor.

Finally I found one of your videos within a day of release

I just got the Black and red version of the original sideburn this week, mines missing the rear bumper but he’s a fun figure to mess with.

It just might be I'm lucky but my x brawn and side burn are both perfectly fine and I've had them since 2000/2001. I think there has been some paint chipping but other than that they have been fine, the one I've had looseness and breaking from clear plastic was prowl, I got three different prowls as a kid and the first two broke, so far the third hasn't yet but it has become very lose sadly

so the red and blue onces are autobots but the purple remodel of the "same?" character is a decepticon?... what?

The missile can be stored on the leg like a muffler in altmode

I just got the new one and I actually am scared of one of the parts of transforming it. It's the back wheels where it looks like a cape

With Legacy Shadowstriker, I for the life of me cannot get the car bonnet tab into the robot thigh cos the tab piece wouldn't go inside as intended (keep going outside)! I had to cut the tabs off and it goes in perfectly!

Shadowstriker done dirty

Its genuinely so upsetting that shadowstriker wasn't made to look like the asymmetrical Frankenstein like she was in cyberverse. Honestly completely turned me off from the figure. Chalked this one up on the board as one of the big misses hasbro has done.

I kinda have an issue with how the new mold feels like the chest is forced out too far or the shoulders are set too far back, the overall silhouette just doesn't look as good as the original, but then again the original is a real mess build-wise, you really can't win.

If you've experienced the mold then you know why the seller gave you both. Also there was an all clear plastic version part of a box set with his brothers, I call the box set "The Ticket To TF Hell" cause there all made of nothing but clear plastic! Just Why!

I bought two just so she can hold two swords... Then a lil kid saw me playing with her and i was intending to have three of each kickbacks at the tIme and i gave him the extra shadow striker because i just can't NOT.. (plus im 42) now i want to get another one to keep in the package.. despite not having a fully closed package nowadays.. ih, amd hose insecti-clones? Turnes out he had two six year old siblings. Yeah.. LoL Now i want to branch my new collection off and get figures before WFC. I am remembering how much i loved this Sideburn! I had his from every packaging, colors, and even the Takara mold. He seemed to have a better feel ro him. (I felt the Binal tech was better than Alternators as well.. does anyone ever notice that with the diff between Takara and Hasbro? Or is it just holding an over seas figure that has sometimes different paint a trick of light (so to speak)?

i would just by it for the dodge viper mode (godamn boi) and paint job

You want to hear a tale of clear plastic terror? Beast Machines Deluxe Class Optimus Primal.

Happy first day of March!

Do t know if I want the shadowstriker or not, I loved the character in cyber verse but I just don't know

rid 2001 is such a wild rid of designs for me because some of the toys there had siem really good articulations and coule have probs been a 2014 generations mould easily.

I just hope they retool the front end for Sideburn cause it's so ugly. I am also hyped to see how they do the other 2 brothers

I despise the new shadow striker like it shares no design traits other than the head I remember being worried it would be a knockout remold but I now wish we got that