#transformers #legacy #studioseries Wanna help support the channel / thattoyguy Twitter: / thattoyguy101 Instagram @thattoyguy1011 The Goofiest Of Combiners…..And Grimlock’s A Digger | #transformers RID2001 Landfill (Build King)
I've always known him as Build King, since I originally imported the Car Robot toys back in '00. Fiddly to be sure, but he has such interesting combined modes and a great design.
Haven't touched this toy in like 15yrs and I can still remember it's transformation like it was yesterday. I remember how hard it was to track down all 4 back in the day.
I just look at Heavy Load's face and all I can image is him just saying something mischievous or stupid like "I just took a shit..." but in duke nukems voice for some reason
eh, this is the least of this thing's problems. characters changing designs and alt modes, names being used on characters that have nothing to do with the original, those are nothing unusual
With the omega Prime being a thing hopefully we could see a legacy landfill. Wedge/Grimlock could be deluxes while heavyload/hightower could be deluxes but if the combiner needs bulk voyager class. Or a commander box set cause magnaboss opens up that possibility of smaller combiners being a commander box set This a very unique combiner team we usually don’t get 4 bot combiners and they have a cool gimmick to rotate the combiners design to your liking. There is some repaints of this team mainly an all yellow construction team and maybe a G1 devestator colour so there’s repaint possibilities for a legacy version
Love RID 2001 because it had memorable characters and insane combiners like this. Really happy Onega Prime is getting a HasLab. I would absolutely fall over if we get good redos of the build team and Rail Racer.
I just really loved how completely different all of the combiners were in RID. We got a straight reissue of Bruticus as "Ruination", a straight recolor of Dreadwind and Smokejumper, a mashup Scramble City and Sentai Super Robot in the Build Team, a Japanese Train Combiner™, and a classic Super Robot in Omega Prime.
I love this combiner team. Such great, fun colourful designs and entertainingly challenging transformations. I liked them so much I bought them three times over; the Wal Mart all-yellow version is nice and the predictable Constructicon repaints Universe gave us are also nice! This era of Transformers from around the turn of the century is my absolute favourite period and these four chunky builders are a good example of why; so much experimentation and innovation going on around this time. Brilliant.
When I was like 4 or 5, my best friend had this set, and I still remember Wedge so vividly, but I never had a name to put to it. So glad to see someone revive that memory for me and give a name to the toy. I should go buy a copy. I'd love to see more RID2001 videos, because the more I look into it, the more I suspect it might have been my first exposure to the franchise Now Ive just got to find out what a giant-ass heavily chromed purple and turquoise transformer owned by one of my brother's childhood friends was
I picked up Landfill at Toronto's TF con. Very happy to get it, as RID Grimlock was the very first transformer I ever own. So nice to get him again along with the full team.
This series had the most awesome combiners. Optimus was a single robot combiner, Optimus and Magnus were a 2 robot combiner, Raiden was a 3 combiner, these guys used 4 members, and Ruinitron had the traditional 5. So much variety.
Oh boy I remember this set of toys, well, not SPECIFICALLY this set, when I was younger, except they were all done up in Heavyload's color scheme and all came in 1 packaging so you didn't have to buy them separately, still have them to this day, Ah fun memories....
I have ton constructicon repaint of those figures. While the instructions did help, what really help me was actually remembering how the combining was done in the 2001 anime. While they are the same molds as the Build Team (that's what they were called), the coloring of the constructicon repaints were definitely more uniform. Still it does have all the same issues you would have. Me personally I was just happy to have something that reused the same molds.
This saddens me, because while I bought basically the entire first wave of RID and a lot of later figures, I was 14 when it was running and Ruination was the only combiner I completed. I only got Grimlock and Wedge from Landfill, and I didn't get any of the Trains.
This set actually fit to G1 aesthetics. I have a -Cybertron Landmine -Car Robots Combiner Landfill redeco both to yellow orange -G1 Grapple , -G1 Micromaster Erector with Flatbed-battlestation. Sure played with it 10 years ago as an autobot Buildbot subgroup as counterpart to Constructions though Landmine, Grapple and Erector is not part of combiner mode. I renamed him Baseframe (I know it's weird I was a kid) as he is the Shockwave-esque leader and the buildbots were his team. Also had a Grapple which is his right-handman renamed Flexbeam. They left Cybertron on a mission to a Cybertron colony as a construction team that somehow got sucked into a wormhole and ended up in G1 where they work behind the scenes to help rebuild on damage control cause by the Earth Autobot Deception war but not interfering in a war they were not a part of. Hey I was a kid with a hyper imagination so don't judge. I remember putting them in a box somewhere. Maybe I would display em it was a part of me growing up. I would like to get a Cybertron Quickmix if it's not too expensive online and add that. Its a big figure. Maybe a Rescue Bot Wedge the one with a trailer base, saw that and it wasnt that bad, its quite cool actually. Since I have a Landfill and I really want a Cybertron Gigantion Quickmix, I'll finish it up with a Generations Double Targetmaster Scoop. Just because they were a G1 Double targetmaster team of Scoop, Landfill and Quickmix, and I know there is no way I can get my hands on G1s, or maybe too much of a hastle since they are really old. I don't know my dad just buys me construction bots as a kid. Never bothered me. I mean my friends had Optmus and starscreams and Bumblebee the popular ones. Im happy with mine. And used to work well with my lego base and city builds.
Got these goobers on my shelf in front of me haha. They are odd combined but fun in Alt mode and are very articulated in bot mode, I like em, why I had to pick em all up again.
You missed that hightower has little black pegs that flip out near his front wheels (the ones that become his shoulders), they exist bc crane trucks IRL have anchors that fold out to lock them in place so they don’t fall over while lifting things. While the IRL ones don’t exactly look or work like that, it is neat they put something in to add “realism”.
I actually have this guy. About 4 years ago I was at this place that would sell old games and toys. Which they sold old transformers they had in the time I start going to it and seeing their selection some really good stuff like Armada Unicron, Cybertron Primus, RID 2001 Optimus Prime mint in box (I had wanted to pick it up, but it was $200 American) and even a Beast Wars II Lio Convoy (which I picked up eventually before they closed for good.) and a version of this team was one of the things I saw there, but it was the Yellow version of the team in a box set. It was $52 American so I said why not and picked it up. It sits proudly combined on top of my IKEA desk alongside all the rest of my other pinnacles of my collection (including my Lio Convoy) though I don’t like to touch it much as the dump trucks foot hinged cracked as a result of them never being played with for over 19 years because they were fresh in box when I got them (well as fresh in box as you can be when the plastic window broke. Causing the rubber bands to dry out)
Got my Build Team at the end of 2017. Hightower, Grimlock and Wedge were loose but complete $40. Sealed (not for long) Heavyload was $45. Always liked how Landfill was unique. Maybe not the best execution, but still nice. I would like to see Hasbro attempt another combiner like him.
Tbf, toys back then are more for play rather than display (I know most toys today still do) so not just the articulation, being able to stand for display doesn't matter when they used to just end up in kids' tubs of toys after playing with it. I think it's fun and nostalgic.
I bought this backnwhen it came out during the early years of adult collecting because it was the closest to G1 they had in a while. It wasn't too bad for the time.
I can't help, but scream, "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!" Landfill looks so wired the way you transform Grimlock. The gray parts of Grimlock legs are hidden behind the Wedge's tread's. You don't rotate 180 degrees. When you do that, you're basically keeping them in the same position as before. You rotate 90° so that you can bend the joints upward, hiding the gray behind Wedge. Bringing the arms up higher, giving the figure a cleaner look. Not making it look so awkward.
I had the Universe Devastator version of this mold as a kid. The Grimlock redeco broke nearly immediately so i was never able to actually use the combiner.
If they ever do a Legacy version of Landfill, the team members' molds might be viable for doing the BWII Autorollers and making a combiner out of them as well! Although I do wonder how they could possibly retool a bulldozer, excavator, dump truck or crane into an APC or a fighter jet...
I got to point out that you missed transformed landfill in 2 areas one with hightower toes they need to point out not up like heavy load and the 2nd is the arms you need to rotate 90 with the holes on the top and bend to look like upside down V, this will bring the shoulders up inline with wedge’s treads.
Build King always felt to me like a design intended for a Brave series that got reimagined for Transformers, even moreso than JRX does. The excavator being named 'Grimlock' is definitely symptomatic of Early 2000s Hasbro Trademark Maintenance
Fun fact: The Japanese and American versions of Grimlock are ever so slightly tooled differently(I used to own both, kept the Japanese version, but also later got the all yellow WalMart version) with the cab windows being retooled. The difference was prolly too insignificant to mention in the Wiki...
You forgot to say “Ohhh Yeah!” when you transformed Grimlock. Just kidding, he seems not fun, falling over so much, and being difficult to pose. His anime character was great, as was Wedge. Yes, let’s give the Legacy line a shot to fix issues and create a great update. 👍
