TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on TITANS 

I remember Omega Supreme being quite popular when I was young, but my favorite toy of all was Trypticon. I carried him everwhere I went like a teddy bear, and I even had him lay on the pillow next to me while I slept. My dad eventually gave the toy to charity, but I always wished he hadn't. When I finally started to earn real money as an adult, I purchased the reissued Typticon a couple years ago and he sits in my room once more

I nearly cried when MetroPlex in 'Fall of Cybertron' gave his life to the ark and said "Till all are one". Even now, i get emotional when i remember that scene when his spark extinguishes.

“Metroplex heeds the call of the last prime!” Best game ever.

Gotta say, Metroplex's reveal in one of the Fall of Cybertron trailers remains one of my favorites. I still get chills every time I hear him say "Metroplex heeds the call of the last Prime".

My friend very kindly gave me his Skorponok when was poorly in hospital when I was young. It is still not only one of my most treasured Transformers (which I have kept), but one of my most treasured possessions. Such a wonderful thoughtful thing to do.

Anyone remember the'megatron crushed by metroplex' scene in foc/wfc games?

Titans appear. Unicron: *OH! What cute, little bots.*

Always impressed how these manage to be educational even as a longtime fan. Had never even heard of Metrobase, for instance!

Everyone:Fortress maxiumus is the tallest Toy Siege Unicron:Hold my energon

Bro “if the walls could talk” take that in for sec.. This is an amazing concept idea lore is crazy

“Why do you fire at me” Rip metroplex

What I'd give for one or more of the Titans to be in the live-action films. Imagine Metroplex and Trypticon battling it out in the heart of New York City.

I certainly love Trypticon and Metroplex along with Fortress Maximus as the giants they are, especially the role Metroplex had in Fall of Cybertron.

“Metroplex heeds the call of the last Prime.” Epic @5:00

Your channel is frigging great man. I've been a transformers nut since i was 4 please keep it up. I grew up with transformers from the very beginning.

My favorite titan transformer is definitely Metroplex. I remember as a child watching Transformers Cybertron and enjoying its iteration of the character. Then, Fall of Cybertron comes out, and his version there is fantastic. I love how he’s this secret weapon slumbering for years, waiting for the call by whichever prime needed him. That, and I love how he’s essentially a walking talking artillery platform, destroying everything I tell him to.

Trypticon is and will always be my favorite Transformers city, now calling it Titan. Could you do a video of both Metroplex and Trypticon. I would say do only Trypticon but you can't have Trypticon without Metroplex.

proud owner of gen 1 metroplex in pristine condition (originally gifted to me as a kid)

Could you do a Basics for the following: Humans- the fleshy pals that tag along for better or for worse The War- why are they fighting in the first place The Insecticons- the ravenous swarm Theme Songs- The songs that tell the story. Flight- Built in power or unique ability? Special Weapons- Unique weapons with names and backstories.

8:06 War for Cybertron Unicron Toy: You underestimate me Chris

Metroplex was always my favorite autobot

I like using the term 'citadel' to refer to these, as it sounds like city but means fortress.

I'd love to see a basics on TF Animated. That show stole my favorite show spot from Beast Wars, the one I grew up with. They both remain, in my opinion, the best written Transformers shows so far.

loved the battles between Metroplex & Trypticon in season 3 when I was a kid. Also, I was the only one of my friends to have Trypticon - it seemed everyone had Metroplex in the 80's, so that made me cool LOL, at least among my TF friends.

I once theorized there had to be a titan on Junkion too as a way to explain where the Junkions came from.

I liked it when Captain Kirk, with Ratchet's help, took control of Fortress Maximus, reformatted him as an Autobot-scale Enterprise, and fought Trypticon as Fortress Tiberius. That was cool.

I think I'm gonna have to pin this one - no, Omega Supreme isn't a Titan. He turns into a rocket launchpad, not a city. He's roughly the height of a combiner - he'd fit in the palm of a Titan's hand. He's now had a Titan-class figure released in the "Siege" line, but being a Titan-class figure isn't the same as being "A TITAN" in-fiction (elsewise Devastator and Predaking would count too), and while it's possible some media might take this approach with him in the future, none has yet. Same deal for Overlord, Star Convoy, Dai Atlas, Grandus, Gigastorm, etc - they are just tall, ordinary Transformers who, at best transform into bases scaled to be crewed by human/Micromaster-scale beings. That scale issue related to the matter of BlackZarak that a few people have brought up - my concern there was actually not "do I mention BlackZarak," but rather, "do I even mention Grand Maximus," because the fictional appearances of those these characters in the Masterforce cartoon only present them as being about combiner-height. In the end I went back to their tech specs, which specifically called out Grand as a huge fortress, and BlackZarak as shrunken from his original height, so I split the difference, also factoring in that Scorponok and BlackZarak are the same character, so I stressed that it was about "new characters," not "new toys," while also including a short clip of BZ. The greater complications of the Maximuses and Zaraks would, of course, be addressed in any future episodes dedicated to those individual characters.

Excellent video. I find the Transformers canon/timeline one of the more confusing and extense. It makes it interesting, but videos like these help you sort out what the heck is what and where things originated from. In other words: GREAT JOB!

A giant space warship that transforms into a robot and is crewed by smaller-than-normal members of a race? Hmm… Super Dimension Fortress Maximus amirite?

Another great episode Chris, a very neat look at the Titans.

What would be awesome(and totally unexpected) would be an episode telling the story about the Transformers that accompanied each Titan(Scamper, Six Gun, Slammer, Full-Tilt.)Even diving into the “Titan Masters” they have now. Though Windblade being flushed out would be cool too despite those who dont care for her.

Can you do a basics on Prowl? He has had an interesting history. I love your channel. Keep up the great videos!

I would love to see Hasbro make a New Titan figure that’s actually a scramble city combiner where the four limb bots are about leader class sized and the main body figure is about Combiner Wars Devastator sized. They could actually call the full figure Scramble City and have it as the home/ birthplace of the combiners that have that combiner style. That would be cool

I used to think that Metroplex and Fortress Maximus wear the same transformer but work given different names for different transformer installations. That is until I realized that the two Titans had different overall designs.

I wanna see a Basics episode on the Wreckers.

Thanks again for your time on this! Awesome, as always.Springer and/or the Wreckers re my suggestions for a topic.

Could you do an episode on the Quintessons and the Trans-Organics, or Primacron and the Oracle?

I remember getting Metroplex from my grandma when I was 10 or so. Still exciting to think about!!!!

Trypticon is my favorite of course. I'm so glad to have gotten him, in the last batch (a good one for the hips and tail problem) in the titans returns line, so nice, so big

Big fan of your work here. Always amazed to learn new things about Transformers. Keep up the good work.

This was great, and seeing Omega Supreme in a gunnery position on the shoulder of Metroplex @9:00 gives you a great perspective of his size

it’s been so good seeing titans show up on tv screens the past couple of years, cyberverse was so kind to us and the wfc trilogy bringing back the omega sentinels was pretty neat.

I enjoy revisiting some of your older videos! Nice to have it playing the background...

A tid bit left out is the Japanese side lore to explain Brave Maximus is the first of the three Maximus, which Fortress based his transtector on.

I am extremely fortunate to have all three Titan class! They are HUGE!!!

I like to see the Basics on Mini-cons. (Going from the largest Cybertronian's to the smallest.)

What an awesome sense of scale that one comic book drawing gives you in regard to their size. Metroplex has both Omega Supreme and Superion sitting on top of him, making them both look like little bugs crawling around on him

I would totally love to see the basics on sideways

My favorite Titan has always been Fortress Maximus, he has always stood taller than Metroplex, for he Fortress Maximus is the poster bot for Titan Transformers. :3 Anyone else agree? :D

An episode of the basics about either Nightbeat, Skylynx, Tailgate, or Whirl

Really nice series of videos (the basics) keep it on man, great stuff.

The comics and Cyberverse Cartoons have introduced more Titans such as Lodestar, Cargohold, Citadel, Waypoint, Iaconus, Croaton and reimagined the Dweller as a Titan.

Great video as always. I stopped at Windblade as I don't want to get a spoiler ahead of my IDW Phase 2 Vol. 7 arriving tomorrow :-D

History of Smokescreen (or the Datsun "brothres" in general) would be awesome.

Your channel is awesome!Keep doing the series!Also can you make the basics on minicons?

The phrase "by the Allspark of Cybertron!" was used as an expression of surprise in the Transformers Cybertron cartoon.

The basics on wheeljack

I’d love to see a character focus on Beachcomber or Cosmos, or a look at the Quintessons. I know that Hasbro apparently doesn’t want that to be the case anymore, but their role as the creators of the Transformers is really interesting

Great vid as always, I did feel Black Zarak and Gigastorm could have done with a mention though.

I remember when in italy metroplex and trypticon were sold....i sooo wanted them but they were fucking expensive ...every time i saw their pics in the comic books i started to drool

I remember asking you if you were going to do an episode on the Titans as well as Powermasters, Targetmasters, Female Transformers, etc. I’m glad that the Titans now have one

And as Windblade said herself The Titans have returned

The 2nd TF comic I made when I was young highlighted Metroplex and was going to have Trypticon, but it was so much work it fizzled out about halfway through.

Another Great Vid! How about the basics on Transformers Prime?

Wow, c'est tres magnifique! Another great video. I am glad that you have done this video as I have been curious about this topic for some time. I am curious why you didn't mention Black Zarak, hope that's right, from the Japanese series. Maybe I missed it, I kind of wish you had done some more on the "partner" robots that were part of the city bots, like Six Gun, Scrambler, Cog, and so on. Was also curious why Omega Supreme nor Overlord were part of this series. Thanks for all the info, can't wait for the next one.

Picking up Black Zarak today... my 8th Titan. Awesome toys.

You mentioned the difficulty of scale for figures. I always thought the Energon line did this really well. Prime, Galvatron, and Omega stood their right size next to other bots, yet if you put them next to Unicorn and Primus planet figures, they matched the scale there for when they grew to larger sizes in the show. The scale matched for whichever figure they were next to.

Metroplex and Trypticon where my favorite Titans! Fortress Maximus and Scorpiox felt more like transforming spaceships!!

Fort Max is one of my fav in the IDW comics

Just remember, next year we will get a colossal third party fortress maximus whos probably the size of 6 MP transformers

I'm in awe of the size of these lads! Absolute units!

It's a shame due to their size and how expensive they would be, they can't make many of them in toy form. I originally thought only four of them existist like Metroplex, Fortress Maxiumus, Scorponok and Trypicon but thanks to that Cyberverse cartoon showing more, I wanted to see those new ones in toy forms!

This man needs a raise

How about an episode on Waspinator? Waspinator good bot. Bzzz

Excellent exposè. I had always wanted to read more about the Titans in the G1 Marvel comics back in the 80s. It's great seeing them used by IDW more now :-)

After I watched this I could only hear in my head was: imagine if all of them could combine

What I love about these videos is they are great research for my own Transformers continuity fic (hopefully I'll be able to start writing by the end of the year). Debating on kind of using a composite character for Omega Supreme and Fortress Maximus. Cause why shouldn't old OS be the biggest thing there is?

2:09 That's 100% a Pegasus-class ship from Mobile Suit Gundam, and nobody can tell me any different.

Really bummed that IDW didn't reimagine the Beast Wars bases Orcanoch and Arachnid as Titans, although I do love to bits thier reuse of Armada Tidal Wave Tako Tank would have made a great partner vehicle to Orcanoch too, ala Metroplex and Six-Gun

If I remember correctly... Fortress Maximus was a head master in the animated series, and his head master was a bit whiny as I recall... but none the less, I loved Fortress Maximus.

"Run the giant Bumblebee had come back for revenge"- Megatron

My favourite one yet

I like to think of Fort Max with his city form, he just shrinks down to his robot form. I mean, that kinda stuff isn't too rare in TF anyway.

Ow yeah! Thanks for this video!

Hey your videos are awesome and I was wondering if you could do a video on the autobot perceptor

One guy made a giant wood and 3d printed metroplex to hold his transformers toys. Pictures online. Awesome

My favorite TITAN is Fortress Maximus

7:30 ah yes the toy that i remembered being released and is still the most expensive

Please consider a Basics video on Scorponok! My favorite of the citybots

I want those toys! Thanks for the vid!

9:06, Omega Supreme is just sitting there with a turret like.....I'm with this guy

Great Episode. Thank you.

I would love to see a basics on triple changers or multiform transformers in general.

9:09 I'm sorry is that OMEGA SUPREME standing on his shoulder?! That's one way to show how literally titanic these titans are.

Yknow the ancient origin and Titan naming immediately make Greek Mythology Titans come to mind for me

My Favorite BaseFormer is Brave Maximus BY FAR!!! The most powerful of all, created by Primus to destroy Unicron, he is a force to be recon with. He is so powerful that he only reacts to Humans and Unicron himself to attack!!! Plus the mold and paint scheme is the best of all!!!

Ooh. I didn't expectthis as a subject

0:30 sweet pic 1:23 heh heh 2:25 1 of my favorite titan pics thanks chris

I heard Predaking was the only combiner who didn’t fall victim to any mental restraints

Titan is also a name givin to the giant autobot destroyer tanks from war for cybertron, decepticon storyline. The part where they raid the iacon vault.