First I'm shilling Disney, now it's McDonalds. Always looking out for the little guy. I think I'm getting over my cold. My voice sounds better? Also I got a new mic. Anyway that's enough for tonight, diary. Goodnight.
As someone who used to work at McDonald's as a student I can assure you our costumers have never seen a single rat in our fine establishment! I always used to make sure to tenderize the little fuckers into a pulp so they can be mixed into the patties seamlessly.
These little dudes remind me of early Final Fantasy sprites. Simplistic, but oddly detailed and fun! (And then Beast Machines the show looks like those odd Nintendo Power illustrations)
Beast Machines toys are the ultimate "don't judge a book by its' cover" example, they look super weird, but some of them are absolute gems, specially Tankor.
I have the basic tank drone and i can recommend that little death machine fella with full heart. Nice detailes, painting, show accurate sculpting and *chrome* cannon! When was the last time we saw chrome on a transformer on this size class?
I've been picking up a lot of the scout figures recently and they're all in pretty fun even silverbolt but he's fun an the same way the room is but the rest of them are great
My main experience with a beast machines mold is when they took the deluxe Jetstorm figure and repainted it into Skywarp for the first universe line, and that figure rules! Show accuracy was not a strong point but a lot of the figures themselves seem like a good time.
Ah you feel old Gavin? I was a wee boy when these came out. I remember how excited I was to get Tankor in a happy meal (it's a shame you couldn't find him, he's excellent) The reveal that they were twenty years old made me all the more aware of how much I've grown since. How much of myself have I left behind in pursuit of adulthood? Not much apparently 'cause I'm watching some other sack of bones talk about children's toys.
I think you just unlocked some kind of primal memory with that Jetstorm toy, because I definitely recall having played with such a toy once. I would have been about six years old at the time, so any recollection would be understandably fuzzy.
Oooooh no. I’m not having that last frame, no thank you. Although I will send this video to a friend if they’re high off their ass for a harmless little scare.
I had three of the Happy Meal toys: Tankor, the manta ray and a beetle. Honestly I liked the beetle way more than I should've. Almost obsessively so. Tankor was a nice little guy, too. I like to think of him sitting in a recliner, sipping tea and reading a paper in-between scenes.
Beast Machines is one of my favorite series. The animation was amazing for the time (and still not to bad). What I liked was it was transformers on cybertron with no stupid humans. Most of the toys were pretty good. 20+ years later (with years and years of transformations) they are still payable.
I recall owning Megatron, and if I remember correctly, I always had him mistransformed. I'd have his dragon head deployed in robot mode, so that his dragon mode would become "winged man" mode instead.
the stalwart dedication to no kind of sign off or outro whatsoever is honestly a bright spot of consistency and respect for time in this benighted world
In short, those are "quarky" toys. In a good way suprizingly. Also, isn't it funny how rattrap expretion at the end gives you the "I'M WATCHING YOU" feeling.
It's a shame when the Happy Meal toys get closer to the CGI model of the show than many of the official Hasbro figures. Especially Tankor. I would definitely recommend trying to get him if you can. It's a surprisingly well articulated little guy.
I have a lot of love for Beast Machines, I have an Optimus Primal that is a nightmare of clear plastic, but he looks insane and throws a snot coloured "ninja star" and opens his chest. I keep thinking about buying the killer turkey version of Silverbolt but never quite like it more than anything else I want on the rare days living in the UK isn't a financial disaster.(i.e. the last Friday of the month...beats getting liver cancer by increment doesn't it?) The series is phenomenal, its like if Pez* got pushed down some stairs and was told to illustrate a religious tale, in the dark or never be allowed out of the cellar ever again. *Pez designed the best of the mid-nineties rave flyers. Mainly for the big ones like Helter Skelter, Dreamscape et al....
Strange, I was just watching some old reviews from this channel and right before I was about to leave to go somewhere else, a new video came out. I see what you did there Gavin👀 also I’m glad Beast Machines has been getting more love from the community recently, it wasn’t as bad as some people make it out to be
For whatever reason I really dig the basic vehicons. Still trying to track down the thrust and tankor molds, but I've the RiD repaints of the other 4 and they're all a good time.
This reminds me of how a McDonald's Energon Megatron was one of my first figures. I can't remember much about it other than the fact that I liked it a decent bit. You know, I suppose
Oh man. That last frame of the vid. Haunting. I keep seeing these on my frequent visits to tfwiki to look at Beast Wars toys and always thought they looked adorably goofy. The head on Cheetor is especially brilliant.
I bought something from a US eBay seller in the early 2000s and as an extra and unknown to me they chucked in a near complete set (missing packaging Tankor and Thrust's smoke accessories). Perhaps they won the scholarship and were in the process of ditching their old toy obsessed life behind. Never could part with them for some reason. They have a strange appeal which is fitting for anything Beast Machines.
Aww yeah! Good review. I've always had a great respect for these transforming McDonalds toys (partway cuz I grew up with em!) and I've always really liked this BM set. And it always tickled me some were more show accurate than their other toys.
Likely the 2nd best transforming happy meal set, next to the Food Changeables, and above either Animated or those Wendy's Go Bots. Definitely get Nightscream when you can. Even if the retail toy was competent, it would *still* be better. Great little toy.
That Jetstorm was my very first transformers toy. I wish I didn’t lose it or could find it online so as to give it a very special place in my collection.
The beast wars and beast machine McDonalds toys were the best the more recent McDonalds transformers usually don't even transform anymore and the original beast wars toys were of all unique characters so definitely the best time to be a kid
Can't be worse than blastcharge or whatever his name is, I mean you ARE getting them for free basically, also idk why you'd want show accuracy seeing as the maximals in the show are fucking terrifying
Actually, you don't have that many beast machines videos on the channel. Like, did you ever do a video on nightscream? Everybody talks trash on him, it's sad, I'd watch that.
Did you know that Cheetor also doubles as a Goombah from that awesome Super Mario Bros. live action movie? Nah, I'm kidding, that movie sucked koopah shells.
