Earthrise Has Been Kinda.....Garbage 

I still love the concepts behind these figures, but the amount of reports coming in about nearly every figure having massive QC/tolerance/paint issues and that's it, that's all you get, Hasbro literally can't replace it what's broken as that's all that was made has been ridiculous (Soundtrack is from FTL by the way in case anyone is curious)

You know how we say Earthrise is just like a mini-masterpiece line? Well Masterpiece has been pretty notorious as of late for all it's QC and breakage issues, so I guess Earthrise is just trying to be authentic, lol

The excessive amount of exclusives are intolerable!

We live in a society where Bumblebee is sold as a Walmart exclusive

Me as a NECA fan: first time?

The biggest problem... is store exclusives. :(

I find it interesting that earthrise does have a lot of issues and then you look at ss and they seem fine.

Distribution and scalpers are my bigest frustration. They need to reprint this series.

“Smaller and more brittle.” Bionicle Fans: Welcome to the club.

This feels like a problem with them moving their factories to Vietnam or some other southeast Asian country where people will work in sweatshops for the dollar. Combined with the cost of plastic and a global depression, and the inflation we've been experiencing without an increase to wages, yeah, this is definitely not acceptable. A product as expensive as some transformer toys, especially the masterpiece line, should not be having this many issues. I'm sort of glad that I haven't bought a transformer in a long time, since if this was my main hobby and source of entertainment I'd probably find myself in a pit of despair.

Im really glad someone brought this up and your bringing more people's attention to it.

About sunstreaker's colour matching I thought we had accepted that hasbro can never colour match yellows

"And THIS guy got two left heels! Huzzah!" Funny. I have a Classics Bumblebee with two left fists. So if nothing else, it's not like this is a NEW problem. The only problem with Earthrise that I'VE run into is Doubledealer being a bit floppy, which I'm going to try to fix with a little nail polish in the joints.

These figures be disintegrating like the Matix in ROTF 🤣

As much as like Earthrise I’m inclined to agree

Also the figs being all exclusive is another problem.

It's really weird to see these figures break when you breathe on them wrong. I grew up with the Dark of the Moon Transformers and the generations line that went with that and those things never broke on me even after I dropped them down the stairs or something dumb like that. I love transformers and I really want to actually play with these figures and I fear I can't which is really sad.

Also, earthrise should've been longer like we should've gotten earthrise sideswipe molds and hound molds. Earthrise shouldn't have been the shortest line so far.

Most of my earthrise figure that have QC issues were exclusives Edit: my Gigawatt’s wheel just comes off I can’t transform my lifeline without stress marks And I don’t need to explain the problem with Grapple

Gotta love how they’re going to increase the prices for Kingdom again.

The lot of QC issues has really stopped me from getting any earthrise figures, they just dont feel as solid as they used to

Honestly, videos like this from bigger channels like you make me feel like all the crap I got in discord for not thinking this line was the second coming of Christ hasn't been for nothing. Also, finally understand where the name came from. :P

Issues I’ve experienced: Arcee’s loose hip joint. Astrotrain’s knees are too loose that when he has the backpack he falls over. Megatron’s head gets stuck when pushing it down while transforming, which I assume why the head eventually broke off when it fell over. So I had to get a new one; and when trying to push up his tight head, one of the pegs that keep his head on broke off. Prime’s upper torso won’t peg on all the way. Starscream’s Wings will pop off during transformation. Doubledealer’s legs will pop off the mushroom pegs sometimes, and his arm can’t hold his gun up. Alot of the 5mm ports on Shockwave’s armor won’t hold the pegs right. (even though he’s siege)

MaYbE yOu WeReNt GeNtLe EnOuGh WiTh YoUr FiGuReS. Maybe a figure shouldn't disentragrate in my hands because I did the thing it is supposed to do

I recently got Smokescreen and this copy wouldn't completely seal up into car mode. I decided to get another copy from another store and it didn't have the same issue! I compared the two figures and I noted that the one that wouldn't seal up had this massive bump in the plastic on one of the connecting pieces/hinges attached to the roof of the car. This bump presses up against the port for the gun to go into and this keeps everything from sealing together nicely. If someone can shave that down then they're probably golden because the second copy I got was perfectly smooth in that same region. If @The Lazy Eyebrow wants pictures I got them. Also kinda happy in a way that my Cliffjumper isn't the only one with a loose backpack. But I am grateful his backpack at least stays on, it just doesn't feel as solid when I grab him around his torso.

It's sad. I was looking forward on buying some earthrise figures. This is something Hasbro can't keep getting away with. Thank you for telling us this.

remember when transformers didn't have gaps like in rotf

Well.. someone said it!

Hate to say it but Hasbro might as well delay Kingdom and Rerelease Earthrise as a whole Edit: BY RECALLING THE WHOLE DAMN LINE

Great Video, I lucked out and didn't have the breakage issues but did have missing parts that I was able to replace with store returns. Except my damn Super Megatron. A lot of what you touched on hit the nail on the head, great figures and concepts....put together in the cheapest way possible.

All these QC & other issues, while deluxes have reached their highest price-point YET (US market). Can see why so many fans turn to 3P

The QC, the exclusives and the price hike they jabbed us with when Siege started have made me really cut back on what I even try to find.

I can agree with a lot of this. My Trailbreaker's arm was so tight, I broke a piece off the roof trying to transform him. That was day one out of the package. I've been having issues tabbing multiple figures together in vehicle mode and had just assumed it was me doing something wrong. Hell, I had trouble getting Lifeline and Elita-1 into vehicle mode (Arcee, not so much) at all!

Anyone remember the old RotF and Animated toylines? I miss those days

I haven't had any of these problems fortunately, but this is definitely really disappointing. It just ruins it.

I can definitely agree it’s super frustrating on all fronts. When the toys come, even with QC issues, can still be fun, but these issues shouldn’t really be a thing since they know better (or at least they should). A whole other issue this year as well has been distribution. It’s been so incredibly difficult for lots of people to get nearly anything past wave one. And with half the toys being exclusives? It’s all just been not great. I’m still gonna work toward making my collection what I want it to be, just this years been all sorts of messy

Problems with Earthrise: -Tiny leaders and deluxes. -Partsforming. -Exclusives. Other than that I think the line was awesome, and slightly better than Siege.

I have most of the earthrise figures, luckily I haven’t had most of these issues. I think I’m just overly happy with how good they look, as “mini masterpieces”. The mismatching colors really doesn’t bother me as much as I feel like it should, same with the ironhide/ratchet feet. However this video is seriously valid. I feel like earthrise could’ve been so much more than it was. The exclusives definitely didn’t help. I feel like the state of the world could have had a big part in some of this stuff. Here’s to hoping kingdom has less qc issues. I feel for the people that got these issues. I’m glad someone made a video on it. Love your channel btw.

God has been kind to me, I haven’t had a single issue on my figures, so far

I luckily have been spared these issues, but I also wanna say that I am grateful for people like you and the other reviewers who are around to review and analyze these figures so the rest of us don’t have to go in blind. You are awesome, my dude!

Hey, it's my thumbnails! 😀 Really great video! I've noticed the same drop in QC over the course of the last year. I hope they get their stuff together with Kingdom.

I got an earth rise Bumblebee and he was missing one of his pieces to his rocket launcher. My brother also ordered Optimus and after one time of him transforming Optimus it started to develop stress marks under the truck panel, not to mention during transformations of Earthrise Optimus the head wouldn’t fold in properly and would scrape the paint off of the head revealing red, I’ve also had many problems with siege figures, such as Starscream: one day I was transforming him and the connection point between Siege Starscream and his wings snapped. Although with that problem I just used some plastic glue it was still irritating none the less. These are my main problems with Earthrise and Siege Transformers.

Makes me glad that I skipped most of these guys. The only one that I bought was Optimus who, thankfully, doesn't have any problems on my copy. I hope this isn't a sign of things to come in Kingdom and SS86; I'm actually looking forward to a lot of those lines.

The only problems of Earthrise is the mismatched colours on Sunstreaker and a broken shoulder cannon slot for Netflix Wheeljack... Now I can’t even use the shoulder cannon for him! Luckily I'm getting the Earthrise Wheeljack now

Lol "planet you". I'm gonna still that.

Almost every reviewer has mentioned some of these things, thankfully I've not really experienced any of the variable issues (except Hoist's super loose joints) but I and I'm sure many others appreciate you standing up and pointing these out honestly quite unreasonable q/c issues👍

I cant stop saying “thank you” like you (in a normal intro.) lol

I tried Earthrise Hoist, Sunstreaker and Trailbreaker, after attempting to transform Hoist and Sunstreaker into their alt modes, and failing to do so (Hoist's hips refused to swivel all the way, and Sunstreaker's roof does not want to tab in all the way)... I didn't even open Trailbreaker's package and returned all three to the store. I got my money back, but the store owner used the excuse "they are just kid toys". Apparantly kids do not get to have properly functioning toys these days...

Now Earth rise ironhide and prowl are expensive now and I’m disappointed in hasbro now I really wanted er ironhide

Correction on the pegs for Grapple: That is not a quality control issue, that is a straight up design flaw. To quote DrLockdown: “If you take a look at the pegs designed to hold the truck together, you’ll notice they’ve hollowed them out to cut back the cost a bit. This has caused a small part of the peg to jut out at the bottom, creating a sort of toothed design. That in itself is no cause for concern, but then you take a look at the holes at the bottom of the feet. You’ll notice they’ve added a nice bit of rivet detail on the inside, pretty cool right? Well here’s the problem. In doing so, they’ve put panel lines at the circumference at the bottom creating a groove for the peg to lock into, with no clearance for the thing slot out, once it’s stuck in there, it’s permanently stuck in there.”

i like Earthrise but the QC, parts forming, the amount of exclusives, the feel of the plastics have brought down.

Thank you for posting this. I'm lucky I haven't had any issues with my Earthrise figures, but I will keep all of this in mind. I'm ok with the Botcon version Bugbite so I don't need the Earthrise version. Same with the Thrilling 30 Arcee. Paint issues I can live with. Finding an Earthrise Soundwave, Bumblebee, and Thrust are now my only issues. UPDATE: Only missing Earthrise Thrust.

I think having high standards for something you spend your own money on is not at all "being negative", I think toys are too unimportant to have low standards for.

I had my ironhide come with cracking hinges on the windshield. It's mainly because the factory workers just gave up and the figure isn't assembled correctly. So if you want to tab in on both side for that windshield, you have to twist it slightly. And we all know how brittle clear plastic is

4:26 that happened to my copy of Starscream as well

Here's a few issues I've had: ER Grapple pegs breaking off, one 3 days after getting the figure, one a month later Buzzworthy Silversteak's back hood broke off when I was literally UNBOXING HIM. I had to glue it back on (luckily, theres a panel you can glue it onto without affecting transformation) And last that I can think of, my Earthrise Optimus Prime's truck mode cab doesn't tab down, and his legs don't stay together.

The engineering and look of the figures still manages to wow me, but with the number of issues with my ER figures makes me not want to "play" with them. I'm fine just leaving them on a shelf, but unlike my Siege collection, I'm hesitant to handle them. I don't ever want to transform them because I fear breaking them or chipping paint.

The worst part is that the QC is no better and is even worse in some areas, the prices are going up, the deluxe figures are downsizing again to around an average of 4.5 inches, and I am just sick of inferior products. First, Rattraps head snaps in half out of the box and I have to glue it back on to the socket, seemingly no big deal. Then reports of a tab in Cheetors head pretty much being guaranteed to break are are popping up on multiple transformers pages, beast wars Megatron is made of a rubbery material that is outright glued to plastic that will someday dry up and crack, a hinge on Warpaths leg snapped off from transforming it EXACTLY THE WAY THE INSTRUCTIONS TOLD ME TO DO SO leaving a gigantic tab in the back to have to partsform in to the tank, the paint chips off easier than ever, I could go on. Even the best figures out of the Earthrise line have given me issues, like classics prime having a panel that formed the side of the truck snapping off, cliffjumpers autobot logo essentially rubbing off in 2-3 weeks, the paint has pretty much worn off my wheeljack to the point of looking like he melted, the windscreen broke too, Gigawatt had a back tire break off and I had to spend an hour snapping it back in to place, smokescreen's windscreen cracked and he snapped in half at the waste joint, I could go on. I am really wishing we were back in the reveal the shield/classics era. Yes, the engineering was simplified with less articulation, but at least they weren't barely painted, guaranteed to self-destruct after a couple of weeks, and hollowed out to fuck or downsized.

I can forgive sunstreaker a bit, yellow is admittedly a very hard color to get right, and even though the QC on all my figures have been fine, I can’t deny ER has been a QC nightmare

My QC issues: Chipping on the seeker head. Warped left foot on sunstreaker. ER Trailbreaker had no tolerance in his arms or legs. Snapdragon's headmaster paint stripped. MY VERY EXCLUSIVE RATCHET had wrapped paint bubbles everywhere that had to be removed.

The only earthrise figure I have in collection is wheeljack, and a while ago, your arm simply disengaged during the transformation, and it was very difficult to fit.

Fun fact : my first Earthrise Doubledealer arrived with one of the arms not screwed in at the shoulders. Yep, the QC on the figure was so bad that someone on the assembly line, didn't bother to screw in one of the arms and it made it through QC checks. Also, my first Kingdom Cyclonus somehow had the fist/jet exhaust section pinned into the forearm at an angle, causing the entire thing to shear the first time I rotated it for the transformation. In other words, the QC problems which plagued Earthrise, don't appear to be going anywhere anytime soon.

And this is how lazy eyebrow lost 500 salty subscribers

I haven't experienced a lot of these issues,as I only have ER Prime, but after spending months tracking down ER Prime, I noticed virtually every issue you mentioned for him except with the feet, including an additional issue. The hinge that is used to form the top of his chest started suffering stress marks the very first time I transformed it. I also noticed that the paint almost immediately began coming off of the back of his head and it's almost at the point where I'll have to repaint it. This sucks because I adore this design.

Thats why im scares to buy these "they look good" do

I'm just grateful with how lucky I've been with these figures because, good lord, these issues are inexcusable. ESPECIALLY on exclusives like Bluestreak and Ratchet and Bug Bite and so forth. The toys are mostly really good, but only when they aren't breaking like this. The biggest takeaway really should be this: DO NOT make important joints in translucent plastic. That will more than likely end in tragedy. Even Studio Series hasn't exactly been immune. I just picked up Jetfire(A figure from last year, but my Walmart oddly restocked that Wave a couple weeks ago when I went to look for Bumblebee) and when I first transformed him back from his Blackbird mode, I ended up breaking the pin section of one of the pieces that tabs into his chest, the parts tied to soft plastic, which now dangles loosely. While that luckily isn't fatal and works with Jetfire's character, it's still a worrying problem that one needs to keep a watch for. Hope the SS86 and Kingdom figures aren't this prone to failure.

crazy how Kingdom fixed everything, I mean there are no exclusives

So funny story, I got Grappler for Christmas and I sat down and started figuring out the transformation without the instructions. So while I sat there, my dad and uncle watched me figure out how to transform grappler (they both grew up with g1). I successfully transformed it and when I transformed it back, the peg that went in one of the feet just said *adios* and I sat there completely speechless. My dad and uncle sat there in silence, you could feel the pain and tragedy I was feeling. The peg is still in the foot and honestly I might just keep it there, he is gonna be in robot mode when I display him with the others by omega supreme so I am not stressing over it.

The inside leg pegs of my Optimus prime just broke off, just sheared right off the first time I tried to transform it, right out of the box

Thank you sir. Appreciate objective criticism, I didn't realize they were using clear plastic for some of the hinges. For the price points these issues are inexcusable.

People asking why I haven't bought an Earthrise figure yet. Me:

The exclusivity is terrible. Wal-Mart is constantly horrible at restocking. As soon as Bumblebee went available online, it sold out immediately. And looking for it in store is almost impossible with an almost constantly empty toy aisle. And need I add that the Wal-Mart website has never restocked.

Yea I agree, I love the new engineering that they put into most of these figures, but hasbro, where's the quality control?

I've noticed the somewhat fragile/brittle feel on some of the figures, but I've been lucky enough to not have issues thus far. Here's hoping I retain said luck. EDIT: The insane amount of exclusives driving up prices on popular/mainline characters along with the general price hiking and down-sizing of figures is driving me up the wall. It's hard to maintain any hobbies in addition to TF collecting at this point. An extra $5 USD or so per figure isn't that much, but if you're out to get several figures it adds up FAST.

A wheel on my Wheeljack doesn’t work. It bugs me.

My ER prime had the whole "chest doesn't sit flush" deal going on. His right shoulder/cab area always clicks just out of place. His right kneecap was also inexplicably glued to the leg so that it couldn't open, which was odd since that area shouldn't have glue at all. I managed to fix it by luck with a knife, a thumb tack, and some super glue, but I shouldn't have needed to spend 3 hours whittling away at a knee joint.

all I have to say is I've been very lucky with mine. knocking on wood as I type this.

Also a problem I had with Starscream was a giant glump of plastic that sat in his elbow between where the two parts were connected by a pin. It bent the plastic in the wrong way, and had I not removed it, he would not have a functional, if not unbroken elbow. Unfortunately I was too caught up in fixing it that I forgot to document it

I feel like a strike is in order to make these guy get their stuff together. for the buyers.

For Bug Bite: Yeah, I had that same issue with the arms. Had to take out the mushroom pegs on the shoulders and sand them down, because of the plastic flesh left over. He also has the bad peg connection that Cliffjumper has

I’d say about 75% percent of the figures most fans want(1984-1985 G1 characters) are some type of exclusive

There is some color mismatch in my ER Smokescreen, too, namely the black parts: the wheel and most other black parts are actualy a little green in color, while the lower abdomen is pure black...

I can't possibly afford all of the Siege, Earthrise, and Kingdom figures since I chose to focus on Studio Series back in 2018 and everyone going around calling them mini masterpieces is really giving me a sour taste in my mouth.

My cliffjumper's shoulder would have fallen down, so I need the backpack to keep his shoulders up.... but now that peg is starting to be loose

Haven't opened any of my wfc figures, now I'm gonna treat them all like masterpieces, transform slow and carefully and hope nothing breaks

QC issues I have with Earthrise: Earthrise Optimus Prime’s head becomes loose and floppy, but only at certain angles. If you look at his head from above, Southeast and Northwest are really loose, and there’s a bit of paint missing inside the chest windows; only on one of them. The pin on his right hand falls out if you move the fingers. ER Cliffjumper’s backpack is loose because the peg doesn’t hold into his back. I have to use tweezers to pull out the black peg on the backpack. The tolerances on basically all his joints are bad. ER Sky Lynx’s wings don’t tab in. Siege Skytread’s tank mode doesn’t hold together well and the turret doesn’t stay in. (Edit I fixed the tank mode, see my video about how I fixed it.) ER Smokescreen’s roof panel doesn’t like up quite right with the back windows. After one transformation he got a stress mark on one of the pegs and now he can’t transform entirely. He also has a green splotch of paint on the back of his head. ER Starscream seems fine so far, but I haven’t been able to get him to jet mode. I think this is more of a me problem and not the figure, because I think I’m doing something wrong. (Edit: ‘tis my fault, I was just struggling with the transformation; mine has no QC issues) It’s kind of jarring because I got a few ER figures for Christmas, as well as POTP Rippersnapper. All my ER figures have had at least a little QC issues, and Rippersnapper is near perfect. At least my BotBots are fine.

Reminds me that my Studio Series 2007 Bumblebee came with two left shin guards

Never had a problem with any of my Transformers purchases until the War for Cybertron series released, so that does say something. I knew about existing qc issues on previous lines, but always seemed to luck out when I'd get my copy... even when buying multiple of the same figure. Today, it seems like I get a dud in every wave. Several of the issues you touched on were also affecting my purchases and with a lot of these figures being "exclusive" or the low distribution of the "final wave" syndrome and the fact that each individual figure has an extremely smaller shelf life than in the past makes it too difficult to find a replacement for a shoddy set. I'm glad I'm close to finishing my collection. Seems like prices will be trending upward, while quality sinks downward. Awesome video 👍

Great Criticisms! I feel like I suffer for loving the Hasbro mainline toys

I'm fine with the color mismatches, it's the pieces that come off and can't be put back on, removed items and left feets that annoy me. Shouldn't be acceptable from Hasbro tbh, if anything this has simply informed me of what to be careful for in regards to the figures I was going to get and all I can say is thank you

4:10 that happened with my copy of Grapple as well

Thankfully I haven't really had any issues with my earthrise figures breaking, except for one, and that would be arcee, the white plastic used for one of the joints that allow her front wheels to turn inwards is badly cracked, and will more than likely break off completely in the near future, and part of her thigh is just straight up cracked. Because of this, I'm now very cautious about white plastic joints on earthrise figures...

Yay I got featured for ratchet!!! Wait that's not a good thing lol

One note about Gigawatt. The Mr Fusion not clipping in correctly is an easy fix. You just need to apply a lot of pressure the way it's supposed to go. The tire is easy to understand though.

Earthrise has been kinda...... S U S

5:19 I had the same issue, it's because the hinge in his chest bended so things didn't folded up right. Just use a hair dryer to heat the big square hinge inside his chest (the one that helps you clip the bumper into the windows) and bend it to the correct angle.

After watching this....I'm probably gonna skip a lot of these. This is just *so* disappointing to hear about

Translucent plastic is the worst. You'd think they would have learned there lessons by now.

Im a model builder and the broken parts just present a new modification to me

This may be extending into SS86 as well. The sides of Hotrods vehicle mode is held together by small clips at the ends of each arms pipes. Due to this, they're prone to snapping from the stress of pulling the front back.