Ngl transformers robots in disguise 2001 and tf armada were underrated in my opinion. The starscream in armada was epic and skybite in RID was also epic. Both are epic
But he's the maximus fortress. He's fortress to the MAX! He's the biggest fortress anyone could possibly imagine, like..... 20 FEET ACROSS! (That's bigger than a city, right...?)
uh that "normal gun" was powered by very highly unstable anti-matter in that episode. Sure it nearly killed him, but that's the price you pay for....ummm....temporary power...? I guess. IDK, megatron & cobra commander made really bad choices!
As much as I love the cartoons, most of them where dumb. The in-universe reason why Grimlock talks the way he does is a malfunction in his vocal processors. It works to his advantage because his enemies misinterpret him as being stupid when in fact he is not.
@@Commander_Shepard. Best episodes IMO, 'Heavy Metal War' & 'The Ultimate Doom' (3 parter). Best artistically drawn episodes IMO, 'Microbots' & 'Call Of The Primitives'.
Broadside might have been lame but that scene you showed where he flies in as a plane transforms into an aircraft carrier and crushes devastator and THEN he goes into robot form and gives a thumbs up is pretty much the best actual fighting scene in the original cartoon. THAT'S how transformers should fight, using their alt mode and mass shifting as part of their fighting, instead of just being robots who shot each other that happened to transform occasionally.
And this is exactly why I think Transformers:Devastation is the best Transformers game. The environments are a little bland but the combat is an absolute dream.
@@joshua7529 In all honesty I play all 5 (7 as I picked up the limited edition with Nemesis Prime and Red Alert) on a loop. Still trying to farm/max out my S+ Grade weapons. Kinda hit a wall when I unlocked Magnus difficulty though. Horrendously difficult to time your counters and parries! 😅
@@jamesianhutchison1165 I've given them all a shot, but I prefer playing Optimus Prime and Grimlock most of the time. Also, I've also tried hunting down SS weapons, but some of them can't reach that level. I was sad to learn that Prime's Energon Axe cannot reach a grade higher than B.
I'd argue that the Action Masters actually were in retrospect a really good thing for the Transformers franchise. Why? Because it was the first time Hasbro made new toys of several of the first-year characters from 1984 and 1985 (Soundwave, Prowl etc.) It was the first time Hasbro realized that the characters themselves had become popular enough to sell toys. Compared to before, when Hasbro simply viewed them as product names that could be replaced once the next wave of toys hit (hence the infamous mass slaughter in the 1986 movie).
I agree totally. As a kid in the UK it was not only a way to get characters we loved that had stopped being available, but also some who had never seen release on our side of the pond (I got Blaster for that reason!) I'm also fond of the Action Master original characters, Krok and Kick-Off for example.
In the beggining the toys were felt to be more important.But after the first season in1984 the show and charachters were what made it so special by mid 1985 even if the toy figures are so unique they could have just added more transformers instead of killing their major animated charachters that 7 year old children like me when I seen the 1986 movie slaughter most of the cast that me and many other children had formed a bond with.
Not _quite._ The first re-uses of characters were Powermaster Optimus Prime, and then the Classic Pretenders (Bumblebee, Jazz, Grimlock and Starscream). And I think it was actually the response to Prime's death that convinced them of how popular the characters were (and also convinced them to modify the GI Joe movie so Duke only went into a coma for a bit)...
The mass slaughter was the best thing to ever happen to a children's show. First off, generation 1 sucked, especially that dumb red van and ambulance. I was cheering inside when they were summarily executed. Second, the new transformers were noticably better toys, especially the two Decepticon Double Changers, Insectacons, Devastator, Dinobots, Blaster, and Perceptor. Some of them were silly, but all were very memorable, and it was a new character overload. Third, that movie was intended to be a little edgy, and that is a good thing. A movie version of a TV show NEEDS to be noticeably better than the show, so its worth going to a theatre for. If you were at all into Transformers, you HAD to see this movie, because everything changed after it in the TV show, so you were CLEARLY left behind if you didn't see it.
I thought they tasted pretty good, until they stopped going down, then it was a problem. If they didn't transform into a small paistry, there would have been much less chance of a hapless human trying to eat them...
"The Character was 22 iches tall...cost a hundred US dollars...the absolute stone on these guys to put out a toy that big" Hasbro: *Laughs in USS Flagg*
RIGHT?! I only know of one person who claims to have had the Flagg. That thing was a monster and I had zero hope of getting it. I felt accomplished when I got the General, but that was well after the popularity was dropping around 1990.
@@mr.osclasses5054 I actually had the USS Flagg when I was a kid. I saved up my allowance for like 6 months to buy that thing. It was 7 feet long if I remember correctly.
Broadside, whilst technically 'a boat', is specifically an aircraft carrier. As his other mode's a plane, this is probably one of the most extreme examples of size-changing.
I was that kid. I had Fortress Maximus and I loved it!!! 25 years later, facing homelessness, I sold it to a collector. I'll never get it back. Seeing him here in the video brought back a lot of happy memories.
Years later, I think this is maybe my favourite video of yours, you both have such unbridled joy in your voices for a franchise who's live action movies nearly killed you.
They made the transformers in the early 2000's needlessly complicated to transform. As soon as i attempted to transform one i would just give up and never touch it again.
I feel your pain, there was this Ultra Magnus toy I got for my wife's little boy for Christmas 2002 that was exactly like that and with an instruction pamphlet about 17 feet long when fully open!
I loved the Dinobots. In the original cartoon, they were talking about making new Autobots, the kid says, 'Dinosaurs are strong, why not do them?' and Wheeljack just does it because he's a scientist, but he's a MAD scientist.
I just discovered you guys yesterday and I can’t stop watching your content. You two are hilarious to listen to and you bring up such amazingly good points in the Transformers Universe and Man of Steel Universe Caravan of Garbage
Ahahah, when you said "Babushka doll" i lost it. It's actually called Matrioshka doll in Belarus and Russia, and the word Babushka actually means "Grandmother" and an elderly woman in general. It's hilarious that english speakers actually call this things Babushkas) it's kinda dark honestly,old woman stuffed with smaller old women Damn,now I'm creepped out
I remember a funny political Matryoshka doll I saw a few years back in a tour. It was Putin - Medvedev - Putin - Yeltsin - Gorby. It took me about a day to figure out why there were two Putins there, but by the time I caught on and wanted to buy it, the tour group had already left the city.
Cullen makes a very brief voice appearance in The Goofy Movie. The song "After Today" at the beginning of the film, he voices the fat bus driver singing "I'm gonna sit on my butt."
Not even a single mention of Rung, the Autobot whose alt mode was so ridiculously dumb even in-universe he didn't want other Autobots to know what it was.
You didn't even talk about Reflector, the Decepticon trio who all combine into a single camera? I'm absolutely loving all these Transformers videos guys, keep up the great work as usual.
this video was actually edited by RAWcollings, they have a rotation of a few different editors that just all have a consistent style to fit the vibe of James’ channel
You remember the official Transformer cards? Grimlock is one of the smartest among the autobots.I think I remember him having something like a 9 out of 10 on the intelligence scale.. Wasn't he described as intelligent in the comics too? I know he took over the Autobots a few times and saved them a lot. Didn't he take over the Autobots a few times too?
I remember Transformers once had a tie-in with Animorphs. I had a big one that was Jake, Cassie, and Marco combining into a T-Rex. I think I got it for my birthday or something. It was very strange, but I loved it because I was all about dem Animorphs.
I vividly remember finding one of those, Tobias I think, at my middle school library. I had no idea why it had all the transformers branding (honestly I still don’t), but it was exactly the thing to appeal to 10yr old me.
The 2011 Meteoplex has stickers that are like windows, featuring several Autobots looking out... So even Scamper (included to man Meteoplex's emplaced guns) should massively out scale regular characters
My favorite weird transformers are -Skullcruncher, a Decepticon crocodile who eats people because he self conscious about eating people. -Missfire, a Decepticon so bad at being a soldier he flunked our off the Decepticon Military College 4627 times.
@@patricktsai2303 thanks. Hopefully there isnt another one while I'm at work. Already made an emergency kit for my dog and and gave a extra key to my neighbor
Good video and some excellent edits there from Collings! Well timed too with that new War for Cybertron Mini series hitting Netflix today. I vaguely remember owning a Hot Rod and RC toy when I was kid. I also remember my friend had a Fortress Maximus and a Devastator and would never let me play with them 😑 I was more of a Beast Wars kid anyway 😂
Oh man, the Rock Lords. _What a classic !_ It was Tonka's atempt to Make My Pet Rock Great Again. Even tho there was no internet yet the amount of backlash these recieved was legedary because sales were abysmal, however a cartoon series was probably all it needed for most of us kids who were into GoBots to have digged them silly things.
When I was 7 I really wanted the deluxe edition Soundwave with all the tapes, I never got him. The first thing I bought with my first paycheck from my first job was Soundwave, I feel that vibe James, just fulfill your gribe and buy yours
I did have Skorponok, & absolutely loved him. He was one of the few I had whose arm didn't break off at some point. That was a real problem for my poor troops, losing arms. Metroplex's snapped off the day after Christmas.
This reminds me of one of your earlier videos that actually made me subscribe to you back in 2013, it was the top 5 worst transformers I think. Love this one
I was that child who got Metroplex (as a joint bday/Xmas present) but what’s worse is; by the time opening time came around I was just about too old to care about transformers anymore. So I played with it half-heartedly for a bit then eventually sold the whole collection to a kid at school who is presumably now a millionaire.
Megatron: "I will transform into the most powerful weapon in the universe!" Also Megatron: transforms into a Walther P38... The most powerful weapon in the universe.
Of corse when they’re talking about pretenders they don’t mention Sari. Let me explain- in 2007, Transformers Animated was released on the Cartoon Network- it was sorta like Hasbro’s way of cashing in on both the Anime craze and the Stylized-Teen-Superhero craze of the 2000s. Sari Sumdac was the Autobot’s human companion of this series- she’s Indian (I guess?) and voiced by Tara Strong- Aka the goddess of female voices. Hopefully she won’t go through any controversies surrounding this character in the next few months. Sari had this Allspark-Key-Plot-Devise thing that was created by the Allspark- ya know, that cube thin from the live action movies? Yeah, that. Everybody wants it, because it can A: create new Cybertronian life and B: solve everybody’s problems. Say Bumblebee gets hurt in some battle- Sari just puts her key in his port and boom- he’s back to normal. Witch kinda makes Ratchet’s inclusion in the show kinda pointless. But check it out, this is where it gets wierd- In the season 2 finale, Sari gets hurt, and there’s this big reveal show showing her skin- but it’s not human muscles- there’s light blue circuitry in there, it’s made out of metal. She’s a Cybertronian. A techno-organic, to be more specific. Turns out Isaac Sumdac- Sari’s father- actually found her in a Cybertronian stasis pod as a sparkling- witch is just a transformers version of a baby. She scans his likeness, and he adopts her as her “daughter”. She doesn’t take it well. Some time after, the Autobots are fighting a Rock Lord (yes, THOSE Rock Lords) and they’re losing. Sari decides to put the key into her chest- and it upgrades her, she goes through cyber-puberty. She looks about 16-18 years old now. She’s got a sorta Iron-Man looking spark on her chest. But that’s not all- she can turn herself into a Cybertronian. Her armor has the same colors as her clothes, she’s got energy blades in her arms, blasters in her arms, everything in her arms now. She’s a Swiss-army-Bot basically. And after this series ended, she never returned, not even in a cameo. It’s kinda disappointing, she had a good relationship with the Autobots, and the idea of a half human half Cybertronian can lead to some great storylines. And we still have no clue where she came from... TL;DR: My Life As A Teenage Cybertronian
Well yeah, of course she didn’t appear again once the series ended, basically no “human” characters ever appear in more than one series. Look at the kids from prime, or Sam from the movies, they basically always stay in their own respective continuities.
My brother has an entire room filled with almost EVERY transformer made. Even the big ones. My childhood is living in that room vicariously through him.
Yes they were, there was a animated movie called Gobots Battle of the Rocklords in which both species met. Thing that they got wrong though is that while nugget is a robot Rocklord the others were not robots, but aliens that were living rocks.
I remember someone once told me Fortress Maximus could use other transformers for his head. Like the Grand Mal from Beast Machines, but I never could find any images to prove this.
I once had a Transformers dream about an Autobot named Foy who was neither a Cybertronian nor a robot. He was a talking sentient tuskless bluish-gray earth walrus with a flipper-drawn Autobot symbol medallion hanging around his neck. Yeah. Although he looked useless, Foy had two super powers. 1. He was impervious to harm. He still felt pain from an attack but he wouldn't be wounded from the damage he took. 2. When Foy spoke his own name, anyone who heard it was overcome with a strong desire to physically assault him. This desire would vanish after the attacker struck Foy. None of the Autobots had ever heard of Foy before encountering him and they had no idea why he considered himself to be an Autobot. Optimus Prime somehow saw value in Foy and accepted him into their ranks. This is pretty much the worst concept on RU-vid. Sorry for sharing. 😭
This had probably been mentioned before, but Broadside wasn't afraid of water, it was that his gyrostabilizers would get severely disoriented when he was floating in his aircraft carrier mode on the ocean, making him... well... seasick!
My favorite part of the Transformers is they’re just based off a toy line but through the comics and cartoons they’ve come to have this ridiculously complicated lore and story. Highly recommend the IDW comics btw.
The silver one was pretty cool. And I try think the concept was unfairly maligned - they’re orbital free-fall troops, they hit like a Meteor, and then can fight survivors afterwards. With a good writer they could be hella scary.
Hot Rod - great looking toy, great looking alt mode. Requested for my birthday Rodimus prime - who's legs didnt even bend - what i got for my birthday. I'm not still bitter.
You're saying the American pretenders aren't convincingly disguised (which is true) but show footage of Masterforce where the pretenders shrink in size to appear believably human, those are different types of transformer.
Many Transformers have dumb features and character quirks, but the absolute worst Transformer is Beast Machines Nightscream, who thanks the Maximals for giving him a family at one moment but acts like a dickhead in the next. With that clump of hair hanging over his face-one of many awful features of his design-they're clearly trying to make a "John Connor" out of him but with none of the likeability. They try to redeem him through his friendship with Noble, but that friendship's based on practically nothing.
I know it's not that important but it just frustrates me when people do this. Hot rod/Rodimus prime isn't and mobile home or a wenibego or whatever. Hot rod is what people in 1986 thought a car would look like in 2005. Same with Rodimus except with a truck.
Yup. Dinobots, Insectacons and the whole Beast Wars thing. Basically any of the animal transformers. Kinda defeated the whole "robots in *disguise*" tagline. I know Beast Wars was a little different in that they had a different surface material when in beast mode but the toys looked dreadful. For me Beast Wars was their "jump the shark" moment.
You could always preorder the Encore Fortress Maximus for about $400 (plus shipping and handling) from BBTS or do what I did and get the Car Robots Brave Maximus.
