Transformers Studio Series 86 IRONHIDE & PROWL Buzzworthy Bumblebee Review 

This possibly is one of the most traumatic packs for TF fans born in the 80’s, they must be reliving those childhood memories! I like how they gave us the ER Prowl again but a bit annoying that he isn’t a clean rerelease and is in a two pack.

I wouldn't be suprised if they eventually give us a 2 pack of battle damage Optimus and Megatron

Thankfully there's a port on the blasted area, we're probably gonna see 3rd party sellers make a piece that can just tab in to port and make the windshield look somewhat normal and do something similar for prowl

I like to think this is Hasbro testing the waters to see if we'd want to see non-transparent pieces on future Generations figures, could also maybe lead to them expanding Studio Series further by including TV series' and giving us more accurate figures

This is the figure they should’ve released since the beginning, Yellow stripe✅ 0 clear plastic ✅✅✅ Better color matching due to lack of clear plastic ✅✅✅✅ Clean blue colored windows ✅✅✅✅✅

Such an iconic scene. Personally I think the death expressions and battle damage are chef's kiss. I wish Prowl had the orange eyes. That's the real missed opportunity!

Imagine if Prowl had orange light-piping. Now Hasbro is selling the corpses of your FAVORITE characters! Vaporized Starscream? Run-over Shrapnel? Blown up Wheeljack?

I have to disagree, if they’re gonna do dying Prowl, then give him the orange eyes at least… 😅

0:55 Poor Ark, kept getting holes blown into him. Maybe that's why his titan class figure had huge gaps/missing pieces, for show accuracy.

Well as soon as we get a 86 ratchet, the next set will be a dying ratchet and brawn. Also I could see them rereleasing a new clean prowl that’s exactly like this one but with a different head and no hole In the chest

I love that the tabs on the roof don't stand out in red. The translucent blue on the last version made it look like a fire department support vehicle. I think I'll just cover the window with blue cardboard and display as the vehicle.

I guess the colour is close enough to swap heads with the SS Ironhide, but you can’t swap the chest plate, because it has the transparent windscreen and that would stick out. Side note, I think the reason they couldn’t do the stripe was how bad colour matching yellow on blue transparent plastic is. Also it’d be hard to find a red that looks right with a yellow that works right… the new damaged version has the stripe because it doesn’t have any transparent plastic.

The back side windows not being painted for "it's g1 accuracy" is why I always tell people why we should not always be 1 to 1 with g1 accuracy

I JUST got this set! Simple solution for me was, got matching color paint for the windshield, popped Ironhide’s heads off and swapped the 86 version, took the pins off the front and also swapped. Painted the windshield, and bam! Now Prowl, I’m working on that. It’s a risk if you choose to customize it. For me, totally worth it!

I wished it was a clean version but however, I love these two❤❤❤❤❤❤

“Such heroic nonsense!” 💥 Okay jokes and quotes aside, the painted windows instead of clear plastic is a rather nice touch. They should make it a staple of the ‘86 line. Maybe DNA Designs can come in with some pieces that fill in the battle damaged

As you mentioned, optional swap out parts for non-damaged pieces would make this piece an instant buy as then, collectors would have the option to have toon accurate ironhide and prowl and not only corpses which only look good when they're posed dying.

Yay, we get to relive our childhood nightmares!

It is not a missed opportunity, because including swappable chests would have required them to completely re-engineer for the pieces to be swappable, and they weren't going to do that for a sideline that consists of mostly repaints. Extra heads, sure, that might have been feasible, depending on how they attach (if there are no screws), but chests?

Just got the two-pack at Toysrus this Thursday! It was a really pleasant surprise, as I thought they wouldn't release it until later this July! The background display and blast effects are a nice touch. I also have Studio Series 86 Ironhide, so now all I need is Brawn and the Earthrise figure of Prowl (you know, for continuity). Still, I didn't like their idea to kill off Ironhide. According to his character bios, he should have been tough enough to survive. In fact, in my stop-motion recreation I'm planning, as well as episode 1 of my "What if" styled anthology, the Decepticons will have upgraded their weapons to achieve this feat, and, in my splinter timeline, Ironhide will fake his deactivation until Megatron's boarding party throughs him out into space... until the Quintessons abduct him and give Ironhide a fate worse than death.

Hasbro needs to realize that we don't want clear plastic in car roofs, forearms, clips, unions or as an entire vehicle door. As a frequent buyer with a limited amount of money and other responsibilities, it hurts to see stress marks on figures that I almost never touch. It's just so unfair to get official figures that are time bombs and will break out of nothing sometime in the future.

You made some excellent points. It's like what the hell were they thinking? Lol great review as always. I just got the two IDW box sets the ones you reviewed recently. That miner megatron is wicked!!!

Honestly I don’t mind the battle damage, but it would be nice to have an extra head and not just a screaming head

I love that transformation section ❤️ definitely would like to see more of that in future vids

I think we have to draw a distinction between missed opportunities (wants) and what they have done (needs) - they gave us toys of a huge fan favourite scene from the movie which a few years ago would have been an absolutely pipe dream. To then say they also should have included more parts and head swaps seems to be asking an awful lot and would absolutely destroy the point of this pack in the first place? Hasbro move to satisfy fans desires with cool packs like this one to then have “actually add more and do this” levelled at them - there has to be some reasonable expectations on this stuff.

For some reason, My local target already had this pack on sale for half price. Picked it up and it’s great, really enjoying the blast effects as well as the figures themselves. Trying to figure out a custom design for a filler piece that covers up Ironhides chest.

Great review PrimeVsPrime!! I just want Ratchet with solid plastic windows from the SS86 Ironhide mold. lol Keep on being amazing.

Literally pre-ordered this set just to finally get Prowl into my collection. I'm hoping some 3rd party comes in with swappable chests though. If that happens, then the Ironhide will be my main Ironhide as well!

I completely agree with your review and critiques PvP, and while I do think that the shaded in windows are better than the transparent ones, a part of me kind of wants the transparent version to match with all the older figures (eg. Having a Prowl with colored windows along with the transparent window Bluestreak, having a Ratchet with colored windows along with the transparent window Ironhide, etc.) Because with the prices nowadays, I don't know how keen I would be in getting another Bluestreak or another Ironhide just for transparent vs colored windows, if you know what I mean. I try to avoid getting two versions of the same character (the rumored Commander SS86 Ultra Magnus might be an exception though, we'll see how good he turns out).

These figures look so cool and I agree with you. They could have come with swappable heads and chest plates. I may skip these two but I would love to have gotten them. Out of curiosity what type of stands do you use?

I can’t wait to see you review the buzz worthy bumblebee Grimlock!

Alternate pieces would be AMAZING in all their figures!

Yeah, I agree. Definitely needed the attachable/detachable pieces. That was the FIRST thing I thought.

I would love to get a clean version of 86 Prowl and as I said from time to time, nearly everyone from the 86 animated movie including Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Megatron and anyone that some people missed and that they’re on at the after market for ridiculous prices (e.g. Thrust, Dirge and Ramjet)

I do want to get an earth mode prowl, but not with the battle damage. I'll wait to see if they release a cleaner version of him, or a re release of the earthrise version.

Thank you for that rant. I feel completely the same way about wanting one good clean release.

What action figure stands do you use for your intro also amazing video

This could have been a great meet in the middle opportunity. I would be willing to pay a little more for this set if it did have swappable clean accessories. As opposed to just straight up having to spend more money on different figures. They could have given us that and made more money still by just charging a bit more for extra accessories.

Damn, you can really see how much your Prowl has yellowed when you put him right next to a brand new white Prowl.

Even if they didn’t have the budget to add swappable parts, they could’ve at least added a small windshield piece to connect to the port on Ironhide’s chest, just to fill it out.

im thinking ironhide will get a buzzworthy bumblebee reissue with his strip and painted windshield like they did with kup

Thought I can agree we can get switchable parts. There ate downsides like having to retool the figure from the ground up and marking the price up to be more expensive. We gotta be careful what we wish for because at the end it'll come to bite us hard

Right with you on alternate parts. I'd rather pay a little more for an extra head sculpt than have to repurchase the same mold "but better!" Just make it correctly the first time.

Prime vs prime what studio series is the best Mirage Or Optimus primal (my opinion is Primal)

Dam I love this so much ❤ also thanks for the vid prime 😊

I reckon it would be fairly straightforward to make a mould from Ironsides front torso and produce a resin insert which you could then paint to match, you could then have the best of both worlds

Hopefully they will come out a set of transformers roll call. They could have the different characters with the same old in different packs. For instance have mirage, Ironhide, and wheeljack in one then have prowl, ratchet, and sunstreak in another and so on. Personally the battle damage death scenes of the characters should have been like the R. E. D figures. Then they could have came out with the classic transformation figures that would been more toon accurate. Hopefully I can get a version of several of them. Kind of looking forward to the four pack which has a Autobot trooper that is the Cybertron form that they took the mold for Ironhide and ratchet. Another option that is also a question, would you want a pack of the same character but different molds from different movie evolution lines? Like ratchet, Ironhide, prowl, Cliff jumper, and any other?

I already pre-ordered these because I don't have a Prowl and well...they are from a pivotal moment in the 86 film that traumatized most of us kids, so well, why not? However, I do hope that they release a proper Ironhide & Prowl with these G1 accurate colors in the future. At least give us Prowl! He's so damn expensive.

They should have done painted battle damage like in siege so we could rub it off, especially if they weren’t going to give us interchangeable parts

Prowl was one of my favorite transformers growing up but his death animation in the movie was pretty cool

Easy pass. Love the original release with clear plastic pieces. And like you said, battle/death damage should be swappable parts.

I bet a third party could pretty easily make a bit that can fit cleanly into the "broken glass" area, allowing for a toyhax decal to cover the entire front window.

I don't see why they couldn't at least give us pieces to peg onto the exposed pieces to clean them up a little bit, I mean a piece that could peg into the windshield on Ironhide and another on Prowl would have been nice, wouldn't it?

Picked yhis up for $27 today, great deal, great figures, very happy with them so far

"We do get two blast effects with this set so you can have Ironhide and Prowl die the same time". This for me is easily the RU-vid comment of the week. I have no idea why but it tickled me and I am still trying to suppress laughter as I am writing this comment. Good job PVP.

You should do more transformations like this.

Do u think we will get a regular studio series 86 Prowl and a studio series 86 Bluestreak?

Its so good to make some shooting effects! I want these

They made their corpses into toys that’s just gruesome

I still really cannot believe they did this. Like imagine being a kid on Christmas and opening presents and the first thing you see is your favorite transformers CORPSE.

In the end you can 3d print ironhide's windshield and for prowl sand the details down and repaint it (Edit) use rubbing alcohol to remove the burnt details on prwol

I missed Earthrise Prowl and the improvements made to Ironhide here are phenomenal. I would have definitely bought this set if they had included the alternate parts. But the way it is, I have ZERO use for it. Such a shame.

great video Mr Prime

good job about Transformers Studio Series 86 Buzzworthy Bumblebee Ironhide and Prowl Action Figure

What's the odd that a 3P will make a non damage window to covered the damaged window cos you got the 5mm port in the front and aswell a normal head to replace the horrific one?

There’s one rule about this channel: Never forget the music intro

I love how the intro montage is just them getting obliterated😂😂😂

Bro They Looks So Amazing, I Wish They Would Work On The Studio Series Leader Class Megatron From 86 Transformers The Movie

I wonder if it would be worth it to parts swap some pieces to make one better figure. An experiment for the more brave customizers out there, perhaps.

I got lucky as I got both Prowl and Ironhide for a measly $35 as the owner hated Ironhide so much. I bought it immediately. Guess I never knew about all the transparent pieces as I colored Ironhide's windows black and Toyhax decals for Prowl. I bought this simply because of the G1 colors.

I’m probably gonna pick this up and then 3D print a cover for ironhide and a head / chest for prowl

Finally, I’ve been wanting this figure

I am looking at the prowl comparison, and saying that they have the tooling for the chest price is not 100% accurate, because the ss86 prowl has bumperettes and the lights are now molded into the bumper piece.

Agreed. I do NOT want dead versions of characters or versions of characters as they are getting sniped. It's traumatic to watch our beloved characters get blown to pieces as it is in the movie without freezing that moment and constantly reliving it.

Maybe add on kits can give us a piece to plug on Ironhides chest to fill the battle damage and make it so you can pop the piece out when you recreate the scene

To be frank, Hasbro could not make BB Ironhide and Prowl with swappable parts or else it could have made the two-pack a little more expensive.

Very cool video primevsprime

They killed off iron hide so quick in Transformers the movie. (Also can i get pinned?)

With Ironhide, the red plastic is the same color as the ss86 one?

What kind of blue and red color they use?

It’s good to see prowl and ironhide. I still don’t really get why a 2 pack when we really need a single prowl figure. Maybe hasbro will make a 86 prowl that’s not damaged. Hopefully this isn’t the only 86 prowl we get.

Funny enough this fixes half the problems I had with the normal version, it now has a yellow strip, there’s not like 3 different reds, and they painted the back windows, and the lights that are molded in for ratchet are less visible, and the ugly hinges and panel lines are harder to depict. My only problems are that there is still the weird gap in between his chest and waist, and it would have been cool to see a swapable chest Now prowl here is good, but now I need need a clean prowl that’s like this

I originally passed on this set when it was in store but picked it up at a discount store when I saw it.

Love the scathing critiques

Also I would like to see that transforming t rex. And btw are u a jurassic world fan? I love both tf and jw and jp

See, I'm fine with no clear plastic on Ironhide. He's a bit too complicated for it and there's just too much of him to be made clear and color matching is a bit hard for Hasbro apparently. Prowl I would have left his roof clear and painted white as I think that part can have clear windows easily but his shins in white with painted windows would be great. It seems to me that Hasbro could strike a balance on clear parts vs painted. In terms of the painted windows, I really wish they would do a darker metallic blue. I'm just not a huge fan of the sky blue no matter how animation accurate they might be.

Might just get these for the blast effect bits, but hey! Maybe I can use Ironhide and prowl for a med-bay scene if they release a studio series ratchet!

They should also include the smoke coming out of the eyes and mouth effect for more childhood traumatic experience.

I think I may repaint prowls eyes to give him that dying expression more pop.

The screen accuracy and solid plastic are great additions, but I spent not only so much to get the original Earthrise set, but on subsequent upgrade kits, weapons and Reprolabels, I can't justify purchasing this set. That's one more set for someone else to get.

i wish they had the friggin smoke that trickled out of prowls mouth accesory that ruined my innocence

No matter how hard I try...I cannot get the front roof section above the windscreen to join up with the rest of the roof once the side panels flip up

I’m torn. I want this but think it’s a lot for figures I already have. Hopefully it goes on clearance like some of the other Buzzworthy toys. I can wait

Hey are you gonna get the upgrade kit for transmetal 2 megatron

I wish they had another glass to switch with the broken one! That would have been so cool

I really hope they make a clean studio series 86 prowl

I can already see the sparkless customs lmao. You could stick a gun on prowls blast effect lol

Once i get this set, i can show my therapist where my PTSD originated with a reenactment of the shuttle scene with my Toys.........

I absolutely agree with the part changing but. Tho they need to nail it good and not screw it up

Awww, they could have at least put mini smoke machines in Prowls eye sockets for that genuine '86 Movie death scene 😁😁