RID 2015 Extravaganza! The Underrated  

"I had Grimlock, his elbows exploded, I no longer have Grimock" was hilarious!

RID had interesting designs. It’s a shame the show didn’t give it justice. At least the toys are sweet. Fingers crossed we get updates to some of these characters into Legacy Evo. Also as a big fan of Mirage I approve of your statement.

Fracture, Thunderhoof, Thermador, and Blastwave are my favorites. I love their freaky qualities, bringing some fun weirdo energy to the collection.

Nabbed my first RID the other day - Quillfire. Well-made, ridiculous and a perfect desk bot.

While I never had any desire to collect any of these, I still appreciate the look back as a whole, and subjectively what made these worth buying in the first place. Designs as a whole are very good just never liked the hollow/simplified approach that seemed to carry over from Beast Hunters/that era of Generations toys. Really excited to see what Hasbro can do with the Strong Arm design as a deluxe in Legacy though.

I like the new design of Mirage mainly the voice and vehicle mode but I still like the robot mode.

If you can find ToyHax’s sticker fixer, you can fix Bee’s stickers. And I have a theory, based on Bumblebee’s design from the show, I think that Bumblebee was supposed to be Smokescreen. The RID Bumblebee design has more in common with the Prime Smokescreen design than Prime Bumblebee, and personality wise he seems to be more like Smokescreen. I think they wanted to use Smokescreen, but Hasbro jumped in and said “Use Bumblebee! We need to sell Bumblebees!!!” I could be wrong, but I don’t think I am.

When I was a child, I had the warrior class Steeljaw, and because the design of the elbows, I thought they he just didn’t have them, until now

Bisk/thermidor was a recent buy of mine, as well as scorponok. Love em both, thermidor is a cool simple uniqe transformation and looks good in both forms. Also got a megatronus when the show was out, and also gives me vehicon vibes, like a tank or heavy duty vehicon.

Bisk is my absolute favorite. The only problem is the way his head was designed makes it prone to falling apart - the rubbery face doesn't like to stay connected to the hard back piece. I ended up super gluing it back together, which has held up so far.

I wasn't into combiner wars that time so these guys were all I picked up, by today's standards most of them are lacking in many areas but theyre still really fun to mess with. I particularly love the decepticons with their weird animal designs. I kinda regret not picking up some of the later figures in combiner force since they seem to be really good like soundwave, stormshot, blastwave and bisk/ thermidor

On Bee there is a small tab that you can cut a little (Emgo points it out) that locks the back leg kibble further down and gives him heels. I remember doing it on mine and had no standing problems afterwards.

I used to own the bumblebee and grimlock figures, I am still on the hunt for that grimlock cause it was an awesome figure.

I remember this show. I would watch that one episode where they combine for the first time over and over again.

I have all of the RID2015 Autobots. I didn’t get any of the Decepticons because they were all really weird in that series, but I loved the Transformers from that line. They were very fun to transform, very clever, and often surprising ways to do things.

Brooo I loved this line! Still do! Not expensive, but still had very clever engineering and designs, and I didn't mind that the plastic was not great. I wonder if the new Earthspark deluxes and warriors are similar to these figures? Also, you NEED to get the RiD Warrior Soundwave if you haven't already got him! Him and Thermidor are probably my favourites, and I have most of the warriors :)

The red claw on top of steel jaw's police deco looks like the siren on a police car, a weird one but it does the job

I need to get into some of this RiD line. I had a 3 step Grimlock but moved that on. Got a 3 step Thunderhoof too. They kinda aren't my normal thing though seeing as they're pretty much big slabs with a neat transformation gimmick. But, I have the Warrior class Bisk figure on the way that I purchased off Bretosaur. Looking forward to that. As far as I'm aware it never came out in the UK, which probably explains why I've had trouble finding one for sale.

I remember getting warrior class sound wave(the one with no gimmicks). Dang that thing was one of the best RID warrior classes ever

I had Drift as a kid and he was SOOO much fun. I'm considering getting an oversized Wei Jiang KO of it.

I have warrior bludgeon and his pretool/repaint blastwave(?). Really cool mold, and both paint schemes work really well. I really want to get bisk, his figure always looked really fun

I like RID 2015 and I do hope that it'll get the Legacy Treatment. BTW,I plan on getting some of the Toys from that line that being Drift and Jazz.

Fracture is my favorite by far of the line. I have that one and the brown decepticon they are so fun to transform and mess around

Grejevor/Rollbar is by far my favorite rid deco and mold, it's just that good. I gave mine siege Aimless because it's the only gun with a handle long enough to not fit the kibble but other than that she's perfect

Scorpinok’s head looks like a Halo elite’s head

There's an original GoBot called Scorp that has a fairly sleek scorpion alt mode. Always liked that one as a kid. Totally forgot about it until I watched this...

the rid toyline kind of strikes me as a new age animated in a way. not quite as much budget, but very dedicated to the style of the show and trying a bunch of new stuff in terms of character design. seriously, the rid decepticons rule.

I have the soundwave from this line, and he’s pretty cool

I feel so old knowing that I grew up with rescue bots and RID

Soundwave, Skywarp and Windblade are the favourite warrior class toys I have of the RiD 2015 line

"When he's in a pose he's fine, but when he's standing still he just falls over" rid skorpanok is the same as my opinion on kingdom cyclonus

15:08 when you mentioned earthspark bee I grabbed my figure of bee that's nearby and threw him at the screen

Worst thing about the toyline is how many good character designs didnt get toys

I wish the show had advertised these better as a kid, because I was really on a hate train for it after the art-style change. I hated all the little gimmicky figures and the "weird" designs. I feel like if they'd done a little more to show off just what these toys were, 13 year old me would have been much more interested. In the last few months I've found basically complete Soundwave, Snapdragon, Strongarm, and Prowl. Pretty solid figures, definitely interested in grabbing more.

RID15 is the one toy line I somehow have the most figures from xD Cool to see the alternate decos of the figures I own :)

The only one I have is warrior blurr. He’s a pretty solid figure. Some of the adventures repaints look pretty awesome. Have you seen the Platnium Edition Bee and Grimlock. The grimlock is a remold of the FoC one remolded to look like RiD 15, it’s pretty cool looking

I’m telling you now. The warrior class grimlock is very good. A solid amount of articulation and nothing feels loose (and I’ve had mine since it came out) heavily recommend

I quite like these toys. Neat designs, and they were rather cheap. That Warrior Grimlock is one of the best grimlocks I know.

Fracture is blast affect compatible! OMg thank you so much for telling me!

i acctually used to love the rid show

I got the RID Warrior Class Soundwave and he is fantastic!

I had the original jazz and on the back the paint didn’t match the packaging so I was confused when I saw the thumbnail lol

5:39, It wasn’t you, it was the one-armed man!

Scorponok claws reminds me of Beast Machines Night Viper snake tail & robot legs work.

There was something in RID 2015 that differs from prime is that a lot of creativity that was used and the result is making a lot of new decepticons like Thunderhoof and Underbite and even some character models like Ped and Steeljaw were used for different decepticons like Crustacion and Polarclaw , What was weird about the series was the transformation sequence scenes like bumblebee's car headlights become part of the chest and the windshield(I think) the legion and One Step versions borrow things from that like the legion uses the windshield as the chest The one step version however borrows the transformation style of the show transformation so this is an example of how weird the transformations were in the show , Another example , Blurr's car spoiler ends up as a part of the backpack instead on the shoulders

nice and i do feel old now

I have the strascream from this line , i got it on a tianguis ( it's like a flea market but with stupidly cheap things)

I liked a lot of the Rid 2015 designs My favorite soundwave is the RID 2015

"Skullerkeem" kinda sound like one of those dubiously sensible yet awesome names JPG1 characters usually have.

"RID 2015 was EIGHT YEARS AGO" That hurt.

Thunder hoof and bisk are my top two that I need to get

hey, i still have steeljaw and grimlock from this series. Suprisingly, steeljaws tail still holds him up, and grimlocks is also totally fine(his elbows are fine too, especially suprising considering my younger brother use to play with it when he was much younger)

14:43 I'm gonna be seeing that face in my nightmares for the next 7 months

I remember having the rid steeljaw figure it was a pain in the ass to handle just because it would fall over every time I would set it down! Eventually the thing ended up breaking because I accidentally set a dresser drawer on it

I think you kinda showed the biggest strengths and weaknesses of these figures. Design wise, I couldn’t point out a design that downright doesn’t work, but certain weird QC and engineering things bring figures down a notch, COUGH, COUGH, Grimlock arms. However, when the design comes out without any of that stuff, the figure hits HARD. I love RID drift so much I picked up all the variants.

14:03 thank you someone finally spoke the truth instead of pulling a g1 loyalist

I have the version of Grimlock in G1 colors, sadly one of his heel spurs broke off after he was accidentally buried under a pile of laundry

I love the jazz in this line

the grimlock was the most screen accurate in bpth modes. it he was just voyager size with a few more points of articulation, it would have been perfect

I’m guessing the claw being red was Bc if you plug in on top of his vehicle mode it’s supposed to resemble a lightbar

With Scorponok I would recommend the Beast Wars styler retool with a new head

I need to get more. Only got Strongarm, Windblade (masked) and Soundwave (who I will turn into Animated Springer if I get another).

Is the black area behind Strongarm’s hood in both mode supposed to be the grill or windshield in the animation model? I know the toy did fake alt mode parts, so it was never clear to me

i used to have grimlock and fracture but the grimlock figure just vanished and i forgot about it for a while, now i just have fracture

I have the g1 stlyed RID grimlock and last montb his leg tail thing just fell off lol

the tfa color scheme for steeljaw is pretty good

4:24 It's red specifically for this mode. It's supposed to be the lightbar.

I have literally never seen these toys before. Also what in the world is that Jazz face?

i got the soundwave one, and it was awesome

The only figures I have from this are storm shot (I call him Jetfire cause heaven forbid a small Jetfire releases that's affordable) Soundwave, and Starscream. They are all pretty solid to me. Starscream is definitely the one that might be in need of an upgrade but they are all pretty solid

While I appreciate the RID15 toyline, I think I prefer the Takara version, Transformers Adventure mainly because it has animate toyline figs like Lockdown, Swoop and Slug in his AOE colors (And this is coming from someone who has never owned both toys)

I got the drift and jazz from buyee aswell

RID2015 gave us the best Windblade figure imo. It just needed better paint.

i have the RID 2015 thermidor (warrior class) figure and its actually pretty good

Hey that toy guy ur Steel jaw was miss transformed u gotta rotate the end of his tail 180 then flip it in that way it looks better and im pretty sure rolls better too

Remember the RID app that you would scan the toy then you would be able to play as that character

YES! FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTANDS THAT RID MIGHT NOT JUST BE THEIR THING! THANK YOU! I liked RID because I haven't watched Prime at the time, so thank you for not saying that the show is straight bad!

I have RID drift but in an orange and black color variant and I don't know if that's special or not

Funny when i was a kid ordering the figure that this mysterious red and green transformers figure is really rid bumblebee i can recodnize the car his head design i knew it was bumblebee but with green and red i think blue design

My original TF Prime Optimus does the same thing with the arms as Takara Strongarm

I have 3 of the legends class of this show, strong arm, optimus and steeljaw

I remember I bought the bumblebee figure with my grandparents in the mountains, and when I brought it home, I immediately lost it

your problem isn’t just a takara or you thing I believe, so I had hasbro versions of the mold and got the 1st one with problems but when I got a 2nd one it dint have any problems (probably just a early run thing but im not sure)

Only figures I got from the line were Soundwave and G1 Grimlock.

At least Phatom Jaw's red claw looks like police lights in vehicle mode

I really like the vehicle modes for a lot of these toys(and the designs for the vehicle modes in general besides bumblebee and prime) but man do the robot modes designs suck as toys and in the show definitely the only thing that doesnt make me want to pick these up.

The claw is a light bar in car mode

Jazz is actually a heavy retool/rework of tfp rid bee

I have scorpinoc but I lost one of his arms…. I’m still angry cause I have the claws stil!

The claw on the police guy are supposed to be the sirens on a police car

I apologize in advance for horni But the “friend who likes strongarm to much” Probably has a strongarm figure in a cuum jar 😂

I wasn’t actually aware they made toyhax labels for rid 15 stuff.

I actually think RID15 was a decent show albeit one with a case of severely undeveloped story elements, namely the situation on Cybertron, partially let down by Hasbro’s insistence on maintaining the aligned continuity at the time forcing comparisons to Prime into peoples minds. Though I will be fair to it in that regard, I think story arcs directly following up elements from Prime like the often-acclaimed Starscream arc were very well handled and I think if more TF fans were honest they’d admit that there are MANY episodes of Prime that are just as kid friendly as most of RID15, especially the mostly-filler of season 1. The show wasn’t in super serious mode all the time the way it’s gone down in history as being

The sticker are to be scanned for the animated android game ...to unlock characters and coins

I actually had a version of Fracture where he had his minicons that could launch out of him but it burned down along with my house almost a decade ago. Pain. Edit: Also the motorcycle mode was broken due to the whole minicon thing and nothing would tab in properly. More pain.

I enjoyed these toys I had like a inverted bumblebee and a G1 recolor for grimlock and the jazz I colored my bumblebee all black to make like a Knight rider transformer idk lol and the jazz's articulation was interesting and I wasn't a fan of that and the grimlock was fine lol

The starscream figure from this line has issues, but it is a pretty cool figure to be honest!

I used to have the combiner and the game thats what the stickers are for

Btw the 86 arcee qc problem is able to be fixed if you peg the waist joint in fully

I have Fracture, but I lost his gun and his arms fell off and I lost those too=\