Dinobots Retrospective [Guest-Starring Diamond Bolt] 

wait what Db say for him not to talk about that story then he tells that made me laugh hard anyways nice vid im subing

I love the fact that the Autobots built the Dinobots on the basic premise of "Those look like they probably kicked alot of ass."

"NO FAAAAAAAAAIIIIIIIIIIIIIR" ~ Rumble

Dinobots Cons: They're not too smart. Pros: They're...useful

That bit about the definition of "slag" just reminds me that it was a curse used by characters in Beast Wars. I lost count of how many times Rhinox would just exclaim: "Slag!"

"Me grimlock munch metal" "Grimlock no stupid me grimlock king"

Sludge's transformation in the animation clip at :30 is pretty thoughtful to the character. His front feet slam to the ground when his torso transforms and transformation alone creates a signature Sludge earthquake. It's so obnoxious that it's brilliant.

Diamond bolt:we don't speak of this abomination Also Diamond Bolt:tells the whole story

I consider myself lucky that my fiance loves to watch g1 with me because she LOVES the Dinobots especially Grimlock. I am also a huge Grimlock fan, and lov the Dinobots in general

Christmas 1985, under my tree was Grimlock!

volcanicus shall wipe the beast from the history of the franchise

"Worst issue ever" nice Simpsons ref. Made me snort

16:35 I think Grimlock just had a childlike curiosity about Cybertron because the "adult" Autobots like Optimus often talked about it.

Seeing The Beast after the release of the POTP Dinobots makes me want to see Volcanicus suplex The Beast.

"we will probably never have a dinobot combiner" welll that didn't age well

"we never will get an official Dinobots combiner" Hasbro:hold my beer 😆😆

Is it just me, or did Rodimus get along better with Grimlock better than Optimus ever did? Seemed to me like Optimus was just too much of a boyscout for Grimmy's tastes

I bet a dinobot combiner would be badass 15:09 HOLY SHI-

i like your final theory about a group of sparks on ice that were used to animate the Dinobots--it makes sense. Alternatively, what I always assumed regarding Transformer creation, was that in order for a new robot to gain sentience, two living Transformers had to donate a tiny fraction of their own life spark. This would then combine into a new unique life spark to be placed into a lifeless robot shell to animate it and give it sentience. When it came to the Dinobots, it just required some volunteers...

That's crazy how Grimlock ends up surviving to the end of the Transformers timeline into Beast Wars.

Slag sludge snarl swoop and grimlock!! I still have all five of them!! This was extremely informative in the best I've ever seen thank you for the video I love anything to do with g1 transformers. As a child all the way till about 15 years old they were all I collected and they're still the best toys I've ever seen!! I was looking forward to giving them to my son but I never one. And I really did not like the fact that they didn't combine to beat devastator!!! In 88 I actually made a profile for that combiner it would have been huge like predicane!! You guys read my mind

The Dinobot's are my favorite Transformers.

The Dinobots were so underrated

I always rationalized the all-blue Optimus is he was cold from falling in the river lol.

Wasn't expecting DB, this just made the retrospect even better!

My interpretation: The sparks of a dying strike team from cybertron were used, but not the personality components. Instead, wheeljack used brand new personality components he created either from spare parts of Teletran One, or spare parts of the ark, or even human made computer parts from earth. These spare parts being suboptimal is what made the dinobots simple minded, but their sparks being authentic is what made them alive. In a way it was kind of like robot reincarnation.

I like to imagine that Slag, Sludge, Swoop and Snarl were autobots damaged beyond repair by the Arc crash, who had to be completely rebuilt similarly to how you suggested. However, I also like to think that Grimlock was originally a decepticon. He just seems to fit the Decepticon personality typing very well.

Lmao when the beast was mentioned i felt the diamond summoning

One fan theory that makes sense is that the cartoon dinobots were simple-minded because having their sparks programmed from scratch without Vector Sigma meant they were "born" as toddlers rather than "teenagers" like normal Autobots and would get smarter as they aged and gained experience.

I was born in the 80s I love the dino bots they are some of my favorite transformers.

12:43 It must be so uncomfortable with all 4 Dinobots in 1 cage.

That original Swoop toy was so rare, and still a thing of beauty ...I'd do anything to get it back lol

I just found your channel. Thank you for posting! The 1980's transformers bring back some good childhood memories!!!

My theory is, that Wheeljack studied how to make life before the war however since the war broke out he never got a chance to fully develop the personality components nor the sparks entirely, so he combined them into some sort of pseudo brain module, he kept them aboard the ark, and he saw the opportunity to make this brain module work with the dinobots which is why he was so excited about it. However when it didn't work his plan and the Dinobots were imprisoned he tried to figure out what went wrong when we found out that several pieces of the Brain Module were on the floor and damaged, as such he rebuilt the missing prices built in a plug in to where he could place it on top of brain module he duplicated this three times and then boom the Dinobots can think better and now have psudeo sparks, he would later repeat this process with Swoop and Snarl.

My brother always loved grimlock, he always begged my parents to look for a tf animated grimlock which was his favorite version of grimlock ever, then my grandma got him a fall of Cybertron grimlock which made him happy.

Wow...never knew their history was so complicated. Ill just stick to the G1 cartoon story line. Everything else seems over complicated.

Well done! I also LOVED the Dinobots! The G1 origin is how I will always remember the Dinobots. With that said to answer your question, I don't think the G1 Dinobots have traditional sparks like the other Transformers but thanks to the genius of Wheeljack and Ratchet, they have their own kind of spark. Keep up the great work!

You know... I been wondering something for some time. According to Swoop's TFwiki page. He's the friendliest and most outgoing of the Dinobots. He's surprisingly good natured, kind, and upbeat. So... why hasn't Hasbro made him a kid appeal character by now? He'd fit in great along side Bumblebee, Cheetor, Hot Shot, Sideswipe, and Hot Rod. I honestly think this a worthy discussion to make a video on.

I brought the new Slash from a department store not knowing it's a female OR that there's a renewed Dinobot team, now I'm so happy!

I find myself thinking on the dinobots alot. I have the warm fuzzy memories on them.

I like these retrospectives

I'd always wondered why my Snarl toy had that seemingly-useless hatch on his chest. Now I know 👍

You simply do a superb job providing us with these detailed history lessons of the different Transformers. Thank you.

The Beast Within comic's story as bad as it may be, it's a masterpiece compared to Bayformers.

Back when Diamond Bolt's channel featured Transformers... Back when I was subscribed.

Great video the Dinobots have always been my favorite.

Takara needs to make a masterpiece dinobots that can combine into the beast

I agree with the theory on their connection with cybertron also love the 1986 movie scene with Kupp and Grimlock when Kupp starts telling his stories.

I simply love the G1 storyline. The rest doesn't make any sense.

Volcanicus exists in Earth Wars the game. Great combiner though.

When I heard the first "Wait", I was like "DIAMONDBOLT?!!"

11:06 It is also a curse word in that continuity as well (I think it was first used on the beast era).

''u wrong and ugly to'' -Grimlock

The G1 dinobots were made dumb. :) Love em though

Anyone else notice how Beast Wars Grimlock has a cow's hide?

I remember having a G1 Grimlock back when it came out in 85, a gift from my beloved grandma.

I had Sludge as a kid. Nostalgia makes him one of my top favs. Really wish I had taken better care of it.

I love when cool youtubers make a cameo on other cool channels (cough) (cough) diamond bolt on rodimus Primal channel (cough)

Swoop is my favorite. I didn't know he had a rivalry with Divebomb, now I want to read the U.K. comics.

G1 Story makes for sense. Being build on earth to help the autobots. Also I had snarl when I was a kid back in 1986 or 1987 I don't remember. lol 😅

D.B.:"... and probably never will!" Me:(holding potp volcanicus)"Go on!"

If theory for the dinobot does make sense and plus that could also be the reason why the constructicon were rebuild on earth

DB is here! That is all kinds of awesome!

very well detailed video well done Rodimus Prime one of my many favorites the Dinobots :) keep it up .

I cant commend you enough on these resteopective videos.

"Transformers Power of the Primes Dinobots" (I don't need it) (I don't need it) (I don't need it) (I..don't...need it) *I NEEEEEEED IT*

Well done! One of my favorite episodes from the G1 Era, of course with the Dinobots, was "Call of the Primitives". That was a great episode in all respects.

One of the best set of Transformers to come out of the series.

AYYYYY DIAMOND BOLT! HECK YEAH!

If everything combines the uniqueness will leave

Interesting info, etc, and about the dinobots having sparks is a great perspective.

I heard from a friend of mine in The Marines, the dinobots did combine once in 1 episode and they were called Prehistorian. They were in a more furturistic episode where the Autobot Wheelie has a Decepticon girlfriend (who's also a sniper with a gigantic sniper cannon) who turns into a Maserati.

Robots are great. Transforming robots are even greater and transforming robots that can combine into a bigger robot, are badass freaking awesome. Funny thing about the for is, I don't think the Dinobots needed to combine. Sure it would have been fantastic, but I always remembered them as being so powerful, that as a team, there were very few Decepticons (Individuals or combiners) that could beat them. Not invincible, but the strongest over-all.

if im in the uk I will still call slag, slag because I grew up with that name

You wrong and you ugly too! LMAO That line always cracked me up!

Well it's very nice seeing rodimus and diamondbolt colab as one really love it best vid ever 😊

Also, very cool and informative video. Thanks! and make more . :) Please

No, the Autobots clearly listen to Spike as if they've never heard of dinosaurs at all. So obviously as Spike explains to them what "Earth" dinosaurs are or were, Wheeljack simply models them after them and thus they never pre-existed anywhere else. Also, in the episode where they do back to Cybertron to recover cybertronium, they don't feel any ill effects like the other autobots because they are clearly NOT from Cybertron. However, there is no reason not to believe sparks (from elsewhere) weren't used to give them life, because if they don't have sparks, Wheeljack could have simply just constructed an army of them. It's the limited number of sparks that prevents this... at least in my own head. BUT great video as always RP. You do a fantastic job and I have no idea why your subs are struggling. It goes to show on youtube that the BEST channels, often have the lowest subs. People love to support the idiots not talented people. Good luck!

I do like how dark emergon from WoC, the raw energon from Beast Wars and the antielectrons inside Unicron from g1 all look like sinister purple energy sources.

I like the way they came to be in fall of cybertron, but i also really like what you said at the end of the video about wheeljack using the sparks, and personalities of some dead squad of autobots for the dinobots. Thats gonna be my official head cannon for them in g1 now i think.

I always thought of the dinobots as Wheeljack's kids, but just his. Maybe that's why they're not so smart. Maybe it normally takes a mech and a femme to make a sparkling, but if it's just from one bot, then the sparkling isn't as fully developed or smart. But that's just my theory.

I agree with rodimus primal, the dino bots are awesome

Oh nice I hadn't realized all blue optimus but thanks for pointing that out to me I had to rewind and check and yep, there he is. It's going to take me a few minutes to unsee that. :-)

1:15 really glad you brought this up I'm an aspiring paleontologist but also a Dinobot's fan and I hate to see it when Grimlock is built with the outdated T rex form.

It sure is annoying how some of these guys keep getting name changes.

That was another informative video. Not to spoiler the video, but nice small collaboration.

I Loved dinosaurs when i was growing up and I still love them today in fact my favourite movie is jurassic park and it would be no surprise that transformers would have robot dinosaurs even though they were supposed to be cars plains and objects and the dinobots quickly became my favourite characters

These are my favorite videos on RU-vid!! Another Home run brother!

You have a lot of updating to do! (Thanks to myself, and a mountain of fans) The name Swoop, Hasbro now owns again, which we just got Space Ape to update in the Transformers game, Earth Wars. Same with Sludge. Of course the Dinobots have a Spark, it's what gives them life. Otherwise they would all be like Astrotrain's army of mindless machines! ;)

Subscribed to Diamond Bolt because he's a fellow Aussie (by the sounds of him)

Amazing video bro. Can't wait to see more

Thank God they finally got a combiner. Even though this video is four years old

DIAMONDBOLT

welp thank hasbro that the new power of the primes dinobot combiner isnt another "the beast"

Another great video Rodimus Primal!

Slag was my first Transformer and I'm glad you brought up his name as it was funny to me that they named him slag, me being from the UK.

Am I the only one who actually likes their robot forms more

Can you do a Dinobot (Beast Wars) Retrospective next. 👍😁

I'm not gonna lie and say that I grew up watching G1 cartoon, I was born in 97 but my dad showed me the G1 movie and I loved the dinobots. I now own the Power of the Primes dinobots to complete my childhood dream.

Not only do we have Grimlock and the other dinobots, We have Diamondbolt. This my favourite out of all your videos.