The Master Builders | Transformers: Generation 1 | Season 2 | E12 | Hasbro Pulse 

“Well if he’s not impressed I’ll be DEpressed” lmao I can’t

Ah yes. The great father Optimus disciplined his children without shaming them.

Ah yes, that one episode where Optimus Prime plays basket ball.

Optimus Prime: So let me get this right. And feel free to correct me if at any time I get something even slightly wrong. I told you two NOT to build an energy source the Decepticons would want. So you HIRED the Decepticons to build it behind my back! Is this correct?! Hoist and Grapple: Yes, Optimus. Optimus: Hoist, you can go start cleaning! *Hoist transforms and goes start cleaning* And YOU! I want you to stand in the corner for 15 minutes and think about what you did! THEN you can go help Hoist with the cleanup process! Grapple: Yes, sir. *turns his head around 180*

"Those traitors should be deconstructed at once mighty Megatron!" Pot calling the kettle black eh Starscream

18:26 Smokescreen: Just call me the Autobot who isn’t therreee. Mirage: Hold my energon.

Optimus at least attempting to have fun is just something we need more often. Not to say I dislike him being more serious, but I just feel like it would be nice if he does goof around a little bit. Also feel really bad for Grapple. An amazing idea and he couldn’t even enjoy it.

"Here, Spike! Compute, quickly!" "And just what does your doohickey do?" I'll always have a soft spot for goofball Optimus Prime.

12:01 Long Haul being adorable because in his heart he just wants to build, and Grapple being giddy with excitement over his creation. There’s an absolute purity here

I think the Constructicons in this episode actually weren’t initially helping Hoist and Grapple under Megatron’s orders. I’m gonna take their side and say I think they may have actually been telling a half-truth and wanted a good use of their talents. One of the rare occurrences in the original series where it occurs to you that the Decepticons may not all be single-minded evil My defense is the Constructicons had to be threatened into revealing a double-cross plan, and they seemed to genuinely enjoy building the tower (except for Longhaul). Also couldn’t that tower, as powerful as it is, have ended the war single-handedly? I mean the whole war was fought because of a resource shortage on Cybertron, wasn’t it?

I like how most of the people commenting aren't actually talking about the episode as a whole, they just like Optimus Prime playing basketball (I'm not complaining I think it's funny too)

It's kinda funny how Starscream was holding a gun when he has guns on his arms. Also, when i first saw this episode I thought the most prized possesion of Megatrons was his arm cannon.

"ahhh my LOOOOYAAAL Constructicons!!!" love that line!!! lol

@21:05 Optimus Prime is a true leader and in a way a father...He makes them learn their lesson the hard way - alone to teach them a life lesson. This is why 80s Transformers will always have excellent story

Optimus playing basketball is literally the greatest thing the transformers franchise ever gave us and nothing can change my mind!!!

Its cool to see that Autobots and Decepticons all have their own hobbies, like how the Constructicons were actually going to help them build it for fun, until they found out they where being spied on and then betrayed the Autobots Overall if there was no war they would be a good team.

12:19 “Yes! It’s amazing what friends can do together!” *Insert wah wah music here.*

16:46 I remember seeing that for years as a "HA HA HA! NO" meme. But I always really liked this episode with how the constructicons took the initiative to trick Grapple and Hoist. But they were doing it in service to Megatron and the decepticon cause. Plus giving Grapple such an ego in this worked to show the autobots were not perfect heroes either. Even how the constructicons were getting Grapple to do some of the work for them while padding his ego was another nice touch. Did anyone else think Scrapper was the leader or at least the spokesman for the constructicons? I don't know if it was ever established who was the leader of the group.

"And if he's not impressed, I'll be... depressed." Every Gen Z during online school., I swear!

Damn. ..I'm a millennial but I can't help but feel this must have been hella exciting to watch as a kid !

10:40 Prime should've been called for a *double dribble violation* since he stopped dribbling at 10:35

16:46 and thus, the legendary reaction gif was born

I don't get why Grapple got down about his tower. Optimus didn't disapprove of the tower itself, he was just being prudent due to the fact that the Decepticons could exploit it. And lo and behold, that's exactly what happened.

I'll tell you, by the end of this episode, I felt so bad for Grapple, he seemed genuineley excited for his project to be complete, the constructicons were real bullies for using him and Hoist.

“Im driving for a lay off”😂

You know, grapple and hoist really should’ve been a little more distrustful of the Constructicons.

So let me understand this: Perceptor is the autobot scientist. Ratchet and Wheeljack are the repairmen. Hoist and Grapple are the autobot inventors. When I was younger I thought they were all the same. But they each have a specific craft. They all seem to do their craft interchangeably.

Imagine a labourer having to explain to his boss that a bunch of hire trucks without drivers showed up, took ALL of the building materials and left... I don't think he'd find work again lol

“Constructicons, form Devastator like you’ve never formed Devastator before! ...Twice in one episode!”

the 6 G1 transformers constructions 1. Scrapper / Front End Loader 2. Mixmaster / Cement Truck 3. Long Haul / Huge Haul Truck 4. Hook / Mobile Crane Truck 5. Bonecrusher / Bulldozer 6. Scavenger / Excavator

Ugh. Get this, bring that. I thought I was finally going to build something. Long Haul was my favorite Constructicon.

Season two Megatron was just straight Savage all through the season

i like to believe the constructicons were being completely legit with grapple and hoist when they offered to help build the solar tower, but turned only because megatron threatened them then again, given what the robo smasher did to the constructicons in "the secret of omega supreme," it's more likely the betrayal was planned all along then again again, the constructicons have three different, separate origin stories throughout the show so who really knows

10:42 I gotta get me a pair of Air Primes.

Optimus Prime is Ballin’

A hard lesson learnt for Grapple. Prime didn’t really disapprove of his proposal but only withheld it because Grapple missed the important point, how to prevent the Decepticons from exploiting his work. Grapple simply went ahead with his project without realising the consequences. In the end, though he was disappointed his solar tower was destroyed in the end, he found some consolation that his inventions worked. In the next few episodes, he made improvements in his architecture and did not make the same mistakes as he did in this episodes.

13:24 My favorite scene.

Megatron's deus ex machina "We have a giant tower giving us a limitless amount of energy, Devastator has proven time and time again he's easily outsmarted, I won't bring my best seekers or Soundwave to deal with the Autobots"

Imagine playing on this basketball court, the height of these rims must be 30feet minimum 10:56

I can only applaud Hasbro for the fiendish brilliance of their marketing strategy...I'm 42 old and watching a cartoon from my childhood, a cartoon on which I have spent a rather embarrassing amount of money collecting toys of. But I regret NOTHING!!! MWAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA.

This episode and The Golden Lagoon were great episodes, especially by typical 80s standards. Poignant and, actually, kind of depressing.

3:01 "...condition magenta!" Magenta sounds like the least threatening of all the conditions.

Optimus patted them so hard Hoist lost an arm! LOL

It be nice if the world could build energy solar power towers like that one that Grappler built.

Man grapple is more a constructi-con than the constructi-con themselves 😅

6:31 Look who's talking, 'Screamer.

Does anyone feel bad for the construction guy at 9:33?😕

Fun fact the voice actor for grapple also voiced splinter in the 1987 teenage mutant ninja turtles series

Great episode. Good writing and the animation is outstanding compared to other episodes! 🥳

An episode that teaches one about deception, manipulation, and how to let go of things that aren’t meant to be. Amazing.

Apparently, Prime was very upset with Grapple defying his order.

Grapple (and Hoist) knows his way through engineering skills than the Constructicons when it comes to building, Scavenger doesn't know how to weld, all it takes requires "temperature and timing" that's what Grapple told him. Well, except for Hauler, he could've use his extra help right about now!

11:38 Trust these guys? Why not? Sure, they still have their guns aimed at us, but it's totally fine!

20:58 "Apologies accepted." Fucking badass

Grapple is a true hero that no one knew

Optimus Prime playing basketball will always be cool.😎

I forgot that Casey Kasem played the computer voice for both the Super Friends computer and the Transformers computer, Teletran One.

Who knew that a self-destruct button on the tower could have gone a long way?

Listen - at 7:34, and 9:22, these are the only two times, in the American 80s G1 Transformers cartoon’s entire run, that Bonecrusher speaks in his proper voice (that voice is certainly a nod to his strength) [although he still mustn’t have had that much strength, given that the Constructicons formed Devastator, who’s even the only gestalt I like]. Interestingly, and, coincidentally, they’re both after Hook speaking, and both before (followed by Long Haul speaking). Oh, and gotta love Mixmaster’s line ‘Right here, buster! Stand aside!’, when he transforms to robot mode (virtually his best ever line, in the show’s entire run).

Constructicons, my favorite Transformers.

"If he's not impressed then I'll be depressed."

I am 13 years old and i think this is the best tranformers show, and the best generation

Optimus Prime made a slam dunk at 10:45!

9:12 the way scrapper transforms is just weird

Absolutely love this episode, and the upgrades to the vehicle modes after the “The Autobot Run” 🙂

13:44 Megatron sets up Grapple and Hoist.

"The tower is so large that the top is in a different time zone than the bottom." Bud, I don't think that's how time zones worn.

2:05 my guy optimus

19:23 Megatron: My magnificent tower! Nothing but junk! You Autobots shall pay for this!!

1:20 Hoist and Grapple best duo

My favorite g1 episode. Hilarious and endearing

10:30 iconic 😁

I think Optimus' newest and loveliest Hobby is Basketball😀

Ah, Optimus and basketball, playing with his friends and teamates. We need more relaxing time for these bots and even cons (if they want it)

16:45 meme origin

Constructicons are nice now

6:21 “Back on Cybertron”? But they were built on Earth in a cavern! :-P

They gave the autobots a run for their money on this one.

Here, Spike. Compute quickly!

“Just call me the Autobot, who isn’t THEERRRE.”

8:32 I love how his jaw drops after seeing energon

Happy 38th Anniversary "TRANSFORMERS G1" (SEPTEMBER 17, 1984-NOVEMBER 11, 1987)!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

If this episode was about fishing, they would have called it "The Master Baiters."

Optimus: *pat pat*

youd think megatrons most prized possession is his Fusion Cannon.

At 15:12, I think Optimus should've told Spike to stay behind before declaring an attack.

"Get this! Bring that! I thought i was finally gonna build something." *insert me and the birds by duster*

@ 12:12 the Takara Masterpiece MP-35 Grapple comes with a face with that same goofy smile. 😂

10:28 prime is balling

The solar tower had already been created by Humans earlier in the series lol

"That's so tall, the top is in a different time zone than the bottom" has to be the stupidest sentence ever uttered. Maybe Spike should spend more time in school and less playing robot basketball

This episode was great! Tons of character flair and surprisingly good animation

16:45 “HAHAHA NO”.

The Decepticons finally got their hands on an energy source which doesnt destroy the world or threatens to do so if mishandled, so why the Autobots dont build their own tower so it become a farming simulator for both? Endless Energy for Cybertron incoming!

What a bittersweet episode, definitely one of my favorites. Also kinda funny how Megatron did next to nothing to defend the tower.

This episode is adorable

Thank you for sharing these episodes!

Prime got skills!

What I meant, by Bonecrusher not having that much strength, hence the Constructicons formed Devastator, is the point of these teams combining (I prefer the five individual Combaticons to the combined form of Bruticus, the five individual Stunticons to the combined form of Menasor, the five individual Predacons to the combined form of Predaking, the five individual Terrorcons to the combined form of Abominus, the five individual Aerialbots to the combined form of Superion, the five individual Protectobots to the combined form of Defensor and the five individual Technobots to the combined form of Computron) - these teams combined to become more powerful (as they were weaker on their own). I’m aware I’ve posted, to videos of other Transformers episodes, uploaded by the same user as this one, why the Dinobots never combined - again, because there wasn’t any need / there was no need for them to combine, given that they were, already, merely equally as powerful on their own.

I think I watched this episode about 100 times since it was aired and the fight scene felt different. Maybe I am getting old or it was different :D