Loser double-comment I know, but I’ve only been collecting since mid-2022, and the LG Arcee mold’s transformation feels SUPER unique and fun to me, making me wonder if maybe its steps were more common before the John Warden era. As it stands, the way her legs kinda fold PAST her torso and then go BACK to make the rear wheels, with the seat formed from a mashup of torso and pelvis that really hides her robot mode well, is all very distinct from anything I’ve done with a WFC/Legacy figure. Not meant as like some kind of objection, just fascinated to know if maybe your apathy toward it is because her kind of contortionist transformation was maybe more common back in the T30/Classics/etc. days
Also, yes. I'm gonna rip BOTH your ears off. Toxitron had an awesome back story in Mayhem. Tortured experiment cooked up by the sadistic jagoffs Oil Slick and Loud Pedal. The Wreckers were the first people to treat him with basic decency.
So let’s see here: Nickelodeon prime, Australian Mirage, happy Dead End, 90’s sideswipe, Cheeto’s Jazz, Weak bladder Arcee, the Scooby doo crossover, silver burnout, and banana grimlock
The hound weapons that come with Jazz are intended to combine and peg into his back to give him a shoulder-mounted cannon like the G2 concept art he's based off of It's a bit too far back to be "shoulder mounted" but they did try
@@PerspectiveEndYou're welcome. I didn't really get the joke, since my Family doesn't use 409 (In fact, I don't know if It's available here in Poland), but I wanted to be the one to point it out.
If there´s no fiction for it, let´s make up one of it! Mirage´s uglier brother, the toxic avenger of Cybertron, and Grimlock´s dumb sibling, plus Senator Crosscut trying to prevent them from poisoning the Energon of Iacon... Hey, that could be a cool history.
Toxitron has a complicated history. Basically he was a figure intended as a Universe repaint of G2 Prime/RID 2000 Scourge, but got cancelled. Then Botcon did their CW rendition of him and built upon the little bit of lore he had being an experimental clone of Optimus Prime who seeped toxic sludge from every orifice in his body with a whacked-out mind to match. So yeah, ANOTHER Optimus clone, but at least he's a more unique rendition of such. And fun fact, the Toxitron line, sans Toxitron, is all based on unused G2 decos.
@@PerspectiveEndI think in the botcon story for Toxitron, he was created by the decepticons and saved by the wreckers and then he became the torso of their combiner, but I could be wrong
The Transformers Toxitron Collection are pretty cool. -Toxitron himself looks cool. Like the lime green, light/bright purple and grey colors. The orange Matrix of Leadership he comes with, I call the Matoxic. Matrix and toxic blend together. -Watermelon Mirage looks like he took up residence in Florida. -Dead End looks more lively then his G1 personality. I'm surprised that he didn't have a name change like the G2 Dragstrip figure from the Velocitron set renamed Shadowstrip. -Sunset Sideswipe looks very relax. Like he chills by the beach. -Orange Jazz is cool. The first unreleased version of G2 Jazz that was just concept art. He feels like Jazz got a job as a spokesman for SunnyD. Like the added weapons. -Lazer Cycle Jazz. She is base on another unreleased G2 Jazz, but got a toy but was cancelled. Everything about this figure, I like, but the tightly whities should have stayed white. -G2 Grimlock looks cool. In robot and dino modes, I prefer these colors over the old G2 blue colors. But wish the aqua blue tiger stripes went further up his back instead of being on the tail. -Buzzworthy Bumblebee Tow Line... I have mixed feeling about. I wish he wasn't a repaint with a new head from existing mold, and look more like his RID2001 self. But at the same time, like the new look. -Crosscut is cool. Honestly like this mold over Skids.
Toxitron's colors aren't as good in person. These colors on Deadend's robot mode with the altmode of the normal one would be great. Agreed the Tiger Stripes needed to not stop.
I feel the same about Towline, the scraphook mold doesn't fit him. He looks strange and out of place, not a big fan on the Laser prime mold, he looks good but a little skinny at the shoulders, I don't mind the look of it but it looks strange on the RID Scourge repaint
Laser Cycle is a "he" - it's based off of yet another unreleased concept for Jazz. The reason the Legacy Prime Arcee's mold is so androgynous (which is the actual reason why people hated it) was so that it could be used as a female character for Prime Arcee (and Flamewar) and as a male character for Road Rocket - and now Laser Cycle Jazz.
The whole G2 Deception thing on Toxitron is because it isn't following the Botcon version, it's following the generalised version of Toxitron that Hasbro haven't bothered much to explain. Basically, Bizzaro Optimus. I need explain no more.
Just picked up the sideswipe last weekend and i love him! As soon as i saw those colors in person on a store peg i grabbed it instantly and a week later im still in love with the deco!
It would be weird if this was The Grimlock in the collection. (Though with the various Optimus body-types, Toxitron wouldn't stand out so much, we could call that Mirage "Barrage", every other G2 Autobot in the subline would make good genericons, and I have seen Crosscut be used as a type of Autotrooper before.)
Yeah! I actually thought about buying a Crosscut and using him as an Autotrooper. I thought he would go well with my two Legacy Red Cogs as part of a small team of troopers. But when I saw him on shelves, I just didn't feel interested enough to buy him, especially since I already have Skids
I got the Grimlock, tbh, I get the criticism, but as the only chance I could get this mold, I have went to bed transforming this thing. I enjoy it more than it has any right to be.
only one I actually bothered to pick up was Mirage, and that's mostly because I've never had a mirage toy. honestly super happy with him I'm glad you dug him
Oh my God I am such a fanboy of you I am so glad that got your problems fixed on the technical side and you are back stronger than ever. PSI about pissed my panties when you started talking about hers. As always your servant Warren
I got Dorito Jaz and Watermelon Mirage, and am still hoping to find Lemonwipe close to MSRP rather than 2-3x aftermarket markup. Jazz I used a little metallic lime green paint to pick out his visor (and WOW does that ever make it pop more) and he's easily entered into my favorites. Mirage, well, mostly makes me long for one in his normal colors, and think about busting out the 5mm drill bit to put a hole for his missile launcher to mount to in the tire that ends up behind his right shoulder. Lemonwipe... it's that sunset paint app. That's it, the whole thing that draws me to this figure. Why do I have to have such bad taste, and why do I not care? Ah well. At least it's the version of the mold I don't have yet, unlike the other four copies of Siegeswipe (original red, Diaclone yellow, G2 black, and "G2 Diaclone" blue editions) and I guess you can count Gigawatt too.
With this new line I was excited for it mainly because I wanted to get the grimlock since I missed out on it, to me this line is for those that missed out on some of the molds like grimlock, jazz, mirage which is great, the line to me is good but I understand the criticisms on it
I cant believe they gave sideswipe red alerts head. I was gonna get this guy and watermelon mirage to go with dorito jazz but im not sure due to the wrong head
I have obtained gamer edition Beakertron and Cliffjumper. Both are not good, though Beakertron is somewhat less... unless you count the pointless knee joints.
@@PerspectiveEnd You're welcome. You and Jobby will always be my favorite reviewers. I actually own the 86 Grimlock and it's one of my favorite figures, so I will probably look into buying this version
interesting (at least to me) that the boxart for g2 sideswipe as the correct head and normal colored face unlike the actual figure. Cloudcover is also semi interesting to me being he's a g2 conehead. If he was just the regular er starscream repaint I would care even less.
Was just binging your content yesterday, so this is a joy to see! Hope your speaker problem has been fixed, and don’t forget to buy Grimlock a birthday cake!
Ngl i like toxitron And i love how they handled him in the animated comics and made him like bizarro and made him say sentences backwards like him too I mean he basically is a pseudo optimus so it would make sense why
Grimlock looks like a boss in bot mode but the trex mode kinda feel a lil bit cheap. I guess it needs more blue stripes or just blue, cuz the yellow color falls off in trex mode imo. It's just unappealing, or they can just give him a slightly darker tone of yellow in order to make his t-rex mode worth the price.
Him being a combiner was for the combiner wars toy, before that the collectors club made him an Optimus repaint where in animated, he was bizzaro Optimus Prime. He wasn’t a combiner until combiner wars needed to sell toys
I saw how newage interpreted the paint job for Bananalock. There was a silver stripe where the ride stripe should be in the dino torso, here's way more of the pattern on the tail and shouldeers/dinolegs and there's just generally way more blue spread around than he Legacy one. It's really just a sea of yellow on this one @_@
@@PerspectiveEnd I've just noticed that the G1 Sideswipe had a spoiler, as did the original black G2 Sideswipe figure. Wonder why they left it off of this repaint one?
Have you seen the Toyhax sheets for Lemonwipe? It takes that sunset paint app and turns it up to eleven. Dorito Jazz importing some racing stripe flavor ends up looking really rad too, and the added color breakup on Pis-Cee takes it from bleh up to meh, if you didn't get rid of her already. Watermelon Mirage gets his gator stuff covered up with a lot of blobby lava lamp themes details, making him into an interesting OC instead of a random repaint where they threw darts at the neon color wheel, so that's kind of cool. The leadwers are the big disappointment of the lot, in that Grimlock doesn't include any more teal stripes to deck out his dino legs/bot arms or flanks/wings. I've been seriously considering picking him up now that he's started going on sale, but if I do I'll have to get some pearlized teal paint and handle that myself I guess. Toxitron meanwhile does add his name in big jagged 90s appropriate crazy letters down the side of the trailer and a bunch of cables and displays inside for its base mode, but just the usual scattering of G1-toy-like random greeble stickers and coverups for the transparent plastic to the cab/robot. I guess he's consistent in his disappointment? At least he's a different character to justify keeping a copy of the mold when I have the original versions of Laser OP and Nemesis Convoy and the WFCS/E toys are both better versions of Optimus Prime, though. Oh, and apparently according to convention comics lore he's working with the Wreckers because the Decepticons used him as an experimental subject and he wants to krump themwith the hate of a whole WAAAGH of 40k orks, and also latched onto them as the first bots to interact with him after a long damn while stuck conscious but frozen in place or something typically TF comics grimderpy. My 40k reference was intentional.
I saw them, they were pretty cool, but I can't say that I love the figure enough to want to put more money into it. I agree, Grimlock needed more stripes. That's a strange story they gave him as thats not super like the Toxic avenger at all, since he wasn't a bad dude before getting mutated.
I went to Walmart while on a West Virginia vacation just this past weekend and stumbled across Toxitron and Grimlock. Unfortunately, it was only a pit stop, and I didn't have enough for a leader. One day I'll own a Grimlock. One day. (i also got paid the very next day. just salt in the wound)
Out of all of these I would probably want the Toxitron, and Towline the most. Mirage I'm going to wait for the Crasher repack going into next year which now gives me a reason to order that Gobots pack if still available. I did come across most of the deluxe figures December last year and almost decided on Jazz, Sideswipe, and Deadend but I instead got SS Nightbird, and Mirage as I wanted something a bit more involved, and devisive. i do not regret my decision. .
I think I remember hearing this Toxitron was meant to be RID2001 scourge who was killed and had his corpse turned into Toxitron. So he’s basically a acid zombie
I bought Toxitron because I didn't have a version of that figure yet and for the most part I really liked him. He is flawed, but I can look past it for how fun he is, though yeah that transformation can suck a little. Grimlock I found on shelves once so far, but I already have the 86 version and I didn't think there was enough tiger striping on the G2 version so I skipped that one. I'm happy some other collector will probably be getting that version though. It's one of my all time favorite figures too
Toxitron is basically Bizarro from DC, he’s a clone of Optimus prime created by the decepticons and has the intellect of sludge But he became more of an hero and eventually led his own wrecker team cause nobody else was left other than like, Bluestreak, and Impactor He’s not supposed to be a combiner but that one was just because Combiner Wars existed at the time He was from Universe 2003
If no one is alive but those guys, I don't know if I'd call them a Wreckers team? I mean Laser Cycle is as much Jazz as Q is Wheeljack, and Dino is Mirage.
@@PerspectiveEnd that, and I’m a completionist for the WFC trilogy and legacy trilogy (already got everything in the WFC trilogy, exclusives and all, I’m also the dude who bought Thew’s Haslab Unicron)
11:36 I am still waiting for that other Skids looking dude (who is i think named something like Burn rocket) before I grab a version of the Skids mould
@@PerspectiveEnd yeah that's why I don't do repaints that often, I like the siege seeker mold, but I think I'm fine with just starscream and thundercracker as anymore then 2 just feels excessive unless its a very heavy retool
I would name g2 sideswipe "Sunset", if ya don't mind. Heck, i got some other names for the other guys. G2 Dead End: "meteorflash" G2 jazz: "Heatkick" G2 GRIMLOCK:"Grindcore" G2 Mirage:"Springsteen"
Agreed about Tow-Line; I had to sand down the peg holding the front bumper/feet together, and I tend to put the exhaust pipes up from the side doors as smokestacks [and disappointingly I haven’t seen the Toxitron line on Walmart shelves/pegs yet]
The only thing I know about toxitron is that he was apparently a cancelled universe toy, I just think of him as this strange experiment that neither side of the war can knows who made him, he just showed up. I also like to call his stuff the might of sour candy
I picked up the Toxitron Grimlock because of your review of the Studio Series. Genuinely fantastic but I can understand why the repaint doesn't do it for you. I do agree that it should have had more tiger stripes.
Great video PerspectiveEnd!!! Will you also get Cloudcover? My favorite figures from this subline are Toxitron. Laser Cycle. and Cloudcover. due to them not being G2 versions of G1 characters. lol Keep on being amazing.
At this point no. I did my Repaints Palooza, and I forgot he exists. I'm not going to pick him up now that I'm looking to offload most of the wave again.
@@PerspectiveEnd I understand. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and for shining a black light on these, as I call them, "Crayola" Transformers! lol :D
Alright so, never at any point were we told that these things would glow. You got your hopes up for soemthing we were never promised. Also I don’t get your point on KD mirage being Inferior. The kingdom gains so much more than one lost shoulder port. It got rid of the heinous transformation, only called that because of a really long strut. He wasn’t one whole process, he was 2 half hazardous shoved together. Also he gained an ab crunch out of it. Plus if you piss him right, there’s a port in the back of the shoulder for the launcher. I agree that this line is mostly a snooze fest, but the three largest go pretty hard.
I renamed the G2 Mirage into Blacklight and the G2 Jazz into Heat Streak and once I get the G2 alternate Sideswipe he will forever be Sundown from then on.
If you as me, TowLine needed slightly more retooling other then the head. You know like get rid of the metal patches, wheel spikes, engine, grill spikes, and mad max window covers, because if they did that then he would look less like a junkion. Which he basically isn't.
I in no way think g2 has the most pleasing color scheme, but this is so retroactively 90s that I just couldn't but pick up one, which was my boy "Orange Jazz". Now if could only get g2 dreadwing. His gatling gun is ILLIN after all
Imagine instead of this line just doing repaints of previous figures they just re-release the original figures in the G2 colors It would be pretty interesting for them to re-release the G2 figures
I might get just Toxitron because that color scheme kicks A$$ And because I still don’t have that Laser Prime mould which I kinda really want. I hate the Laser mould but I think will either get him or Scourge
@@PerspectiveEnd My pleasure, as always. BTW: Thanks to this vid, and a little luck, I picked up the G2 Mirage at Walmart earlier. I haven’t gotten around to grabbing the Kingdom version yet, so I figured, why not get a cool looking place holder. Seeing the colors in person didn’t hurt the decision, either.
