Triple Takeover | Transformers: Generation 1 | Season 2 | E36 | Hasbro Pulse 

Soundwave was taking the kids to Disneyland for vacation.

Because if Soundwave had been there this episode, their little coup would have been dead in the water.

SoundWave and Shockwave follow logic, which is pretty much keeping the faction from fighting each other.

If soundwave was there he would be loyal to Megatron.

@@Moviefan-s8flikewise, Shockwave would’ve stayed loyal to Megatron had he been on Earth, instead of Cybertron. 😉

It's always funny to hear him say that.🤣😂

Favorite segment from the whole g1

never going to have these kinds of dialogues in cartoons nowdays.

Ha Ha yeah that's awesomely cool

That's why g1 is my favorite

When your annoying crush asks you if you need him to so something.

Lmao..😂

Apparently, second-in-command for Decepticons are serious business.

LOL I CAN'T HAHAHA 🤣

The TFwiki is a treasure.

Do you think the coach should be locked in jail for aiding and abetting a known criminal

He gave great security advice…!

They are, nothing but kids brawls in the sandbox. Optimus find such nonsense too imature for him and autobots to be part of it.

Decepticon Civil Wars are fcuk--all to do with Optimus Prime and all the rest off the AutoBots.. And passed on as 100% internalized “domestic squabbles founded on such nonsense too immature to even comprehend..

the new low tier god

Ye he was very supportive of his trains. Like a father to his young children.

Yeah, the Astroforce deserves a break, it’s not their fault they weren’t smart enough. They really did their best.

I'm not sure how much sentience pr self awareness his drones have, but yes, of all the Decepticons he wouldn't be the worst to have to work for. I'd hate to work for Blitzwing though. 😕

And then Blitzwing be over here treating his advisor like AmorAltra treats his workers.

Meanwhile, Blitzwing showed *exactly* why he shouldn’t lead this episode. His mistreatment of his employees blew up in his face spectacularly near the end. And of all the people to try and double cross, he thought the *Constructicons* would be easy targets.

Train noises loaded, sir! Um... now what?

9:47

​@@zagnorch1336F I R E

Trains led by Choo-Choo Brain! 🤣

To be fair, he genuinely cared about his troops

Yes, he was quite Humble 😌

Also what tf were the autobots doing becoming a throne?

@@micahh9351 ... what 😒 ☹️ 🫤?

​@@micahh9351well, after being smashed by Blitzwing, that's how the Constructicons "fixed" them.

It's what makes him a great leader. He'd rather roll with his autobots than rule over them. He never sees himself as separate or above his men, he's right there with them.

Legendary scene

Loving the old cartoon and anime

Well, most football coaches are not used to or prepared to deal with tanks entering stadiums.

Lol. Right

@@cutercills9x9productions9Or Decepticons.

Yes but he's fast

@@blueraccoon1088 😁

devastator isnt wrong though lmao

I really enjoyed seeing Devastator smack Star scream out of the air in jet mode

"Yes, but I'm FAAAAST!!!!!!!!"

What’s even more hilarious is the fact it ends up working! Blitzwing was able to defeat (if not outright DESTROY) 11 Autobots because of it. Even Megatron would have been impressed.

@@AgentMaroon78 indeed

It’s actually pretty impressive they did such a good job given such vague instructions, honestly. That maze wiped out more Autobots in 2 minutes than most Decepticons have in 2 years.

@@AgentMaroon78 No! What's even more hilarious is that Scrapper didn't even know how exactly big it was and the other constructicons got lost in it because it was freaking big. No wonder the decepticons can't a chieve a victory! Megatron is surrounded by idiots.

​@@HypercatZonly the smartest and strongest cons lead Meg's was a idiot himself

This and the "booby trap episode", along with the power glide love story, and Tracks going to a dance club are the episodes I remember most( I had a dvd volume of this section of the season)😂

Blaster and tracks episode my favorite

​@@owensanfordstuffmegatron was raging in powerglide episode😂

Bayverse Lockdown kinda copied that line from Blitzwing. "An alliance is like a contract, and contracts, like humans, expire."

Blitzwing's right about that part about contracts.

Sounds like a Ferengi Rule of Acquisition.

@@zagnorch1336 Well Star Trek did crossover with Transformers at some point, so… Swindle would probably be an ally of the Ferengi.

@@myriadmediamusings Ah yes, the G1 guys crossing over with the animated versions of the TOS crew. I have a digital copy of that particular IDW comic mini-series. They even got (SPOILER ALERT) the Enterprise to transform into a giant robot controlled by Capt. Kirk! Just pure silly fun, that one. What I wouldn't give for a transforming Titan-scale Enterprise...

He should have (and probably did off-screen) more damage in the movie.

Depends I guess. Prime almost died in S1 cause he took multiple shots to his Power Regulator and god knows how powerful of an explosion to said same area, THEN was shot again.

As long as the spark isn't gone.

I mean, unless you count the coach. We never see him leave the locker during or after the flood.

Skids is run over and is never seen again, so someone died

Admits own weakness, acknowledges own strengths

Starscream is smart too! He could have used his intelligence to help others if he chose to do what was right.

When you think about it, Starscream admits he's stupid and a wimp in the same episode.

Plus, he was smart enough to know not to trust the Quintessions unlike his master, Galvatron and his Decepticon comrades.

@@kirongauff4934 At that point of the series even Sunbow Cartoon Cobra Commander was smarter than Galvatron.

@@MinasTsambanis to be fair, Galvatron's logic circuits were fried after Rodimus Prime hurled him through space at the end of the movie. And give his recent experience at being as Unicron's herald/slave, he would know better not to trust the Quintessions and their deceitful nature if his logic circuits weren't fried.

His Transformers Siege Toy looks good only his shuttle mode looks a bit off. I wish they made the character cool like Springer but have him be the evil equivalent. The idea of a guy that delivers stuff and then travels into the air as a shuttle appeals to me. Like This guy can transport your cargo to any place you wish. It's like a space trucker.

@@UToobUsername01 I own that particular toy, and I agree his shuttle mode could have looked a bit better. I purchased a third-party upgrade that made his vertical stabilizer (tail) more prominent, which doubles as a handgun when Astrotrain's in robot mode. If you want a truly authentic-looking space shuttle, you can't beat Sky Lynx from the Earthrise line.

Astrotrain was humongously close to making a train combiner if he could think of it

All hail Blitzwing. I always thought he had a badass name too.

To be fair, Astrotrain at least managed to scrounge up some Energon cubes for the cause...

Both had their successes and failures. Blitzwing took out a massive chunk of the Autobots and had a heavily defended base but was a poor leader, and his mistreatment of his group caused things to fall apart. Astrotrain had loyal troops and was able to get a ton of energon...but his troops just weren’t smart enough to be helpful.

Blitzwing took out 4 autobots by himself

I like the story because of Astrotrain's goals. I really like trains.🚂🚃🚄🚅🚆🚈

@@kirongauff4934 speaking of that, I kinda wish his train force was a reference to Thomas and friends. Like have an LNER A3 Pacific in a reference to Gordon or an LMS Black 5 in a somewhat reference to Henry.

@@shadowjeremy3083 me too, I love that series. I wish that his force would've included a little cheeky blue tank engine that is actually quite deadly and useful.

@@shadowjeremy3083 me too, I love that series. I wish that his force would've included a little cheeky blue tank engine that is actually quite deadly and useful.

@@shadowjeremy3083 me too, I love that series. I wish that his force would've included a little cheeky blue tank engine that is actually quite deadly and useful.

thats Thrust. he got's a twisted sense of humor

But can he lead ant-droids to a picnic?

Before that, Thundercracker also made fun of him Thrust : Hey Astrotrain! How’s ur job working on the railroads Astrotrain: Show some respect to ur Leader Thundercracker : Leader? How did u figure that, Chug-Chug Brain 🤣🤣🤣?

Megatron was worse when he said Starscream couldn't even lead anti-droids to a picnic. Then again, he's right.

^Swindle

And thus another meme was born.

8:19 is one of my favorites

"Tell you what...why don't you build a bridge...and JUMP OFF IT!"

My favorite is "Why don't you go build a bridge...AND JUMP OFF IT?!?!?!!"

He was actually a pretty good second in command. Better than Starscream, at least.

And that's Why, no offense, Astrotrain and Blitzwing in this episode are dimwits for attempting to lead the Decepticons, and Starscream thought he himself was the dimwitted one.

@@usamazahid3882 It's why it's such a fun episode, the both try their own ways yet fail miserably. I mean come on, Astrotrain makes trains that are stuck to tracks into his troops, and Blitzwing asks for military advise from a football coach. They're dumbasses.

🤣🤣🤣🤣

20:25 I see two traitors here

@@kelvinwoo3134 Such a great episode.🤣🤣

And how he just completely owned them both, to the point Starscream had to comment on just how pissed Optimus was. 😂

Megatron: Mosquitoes?! Then feel my BITE!

Also Starscream: Prime must be on overload! He.... Megatron: Shut Up!🤣

He is both.

@@donmccullen1973 Are you implying that a guy who almost constantly rants about his intention of deposing Megatron as Decepticon leader-- often within earshot of Megatron himself-- isn't exactly the sharpest knife in the tool shed?

@@zagnorch1336 Yeah, that same guy that led Megatron into a trap and got trapped himself. That one.

@@zagnorch1336 Starscream is an egomaniac, that makes him both a liar and an idiot! Megatron should have reprogrammed Starscream eons ago! Soundwave would make a better leader than either Megatron or Starscream, so would Shockwave!

Should've used that thing he used on the Constructicons. I only think he didn't because he wanted Old Yeller to keep him on his toes... er, boot tips.

And yet Scrapper was able to turn them into robot mode, somehow. This episode was like a looney tunes cartoon.

I thought those were drones to replicate them, not actually BE them. the carnage he induced was BRUTAL.

How did they go from crushed cars-damaged robots

Yea that was pretty brutal. I think thats the last appearances of these autobots too 😂

The autobots were weaklings.

Why I’m watching the video right now :)

Optimus Prime is very brave & heroic while saving Spike's life from the flood & the damage.

Bots

YEAH !!!

Optimus Prime is AWESOME 4000!!!!😀👍🚛

Truly an underrated Optimus Prime quote.

With friends

Good times seeing the autobots roll back then.made you wanna get in your ride and blast some good 80d rock and hiphop

Yeah after Devastator kicked their @$$es

He's also the only one with the most power to put an end to usurpers. 19:42

The results of "Transformers: The Movie" illustrates your point perfectly. In only a year's time, the entire Decepticon army falls into complete disarray without proper leadership.

Usually things tend to fall apart with starscream at the wheel (ie the Cybertron games and idw1), Soundwave sometimes takes command too with mixed results (worked well in Cyberverse, not so good in idw1), and shockwave, yeah don’t wanna imagine what’ll happen with that guy in command.

@@2bdaqueen268 Starscream needs to learn and grow a lot to become a competent leader, but he got the spirit if you ask me. Haven't checked on Cyberverse and IDW but to me Soundwave is not the type to lead a large faction, he will be more suitable to command a division (specialize in intelligence, logistics, communication) in a faction or follow order from a supreme leader (i.e Megatron). And Shockwave,...yeah, just NO.

@@daothucanh9621 he does have spirit but usually either he can’t command respect or trust from people, can’t back up his bravado, or is too egotistical, corrupt and self centered, and cause of this he usually ends up losing everything. Soundwave mostly steps up when Megatron or all other leaders aren’t available, he can do a decent job (he actually did better then pretty much all decepticon leaders in Cyberverse alone). Shocky is someone you want on your side but definitely not in charge.

Chairs not made out of Autobot soldiers.

@@kirongauff4934 they probably want that one back especially.

If I were Prime, I would find the squabbles of the Deceptions funny as long as I could laugh.

Yep. If the Decepticons inadvertently hit one of the Autobots, then the Autobots are provoked into fighting back. Typical Prime procedure. And Optimus's wise words is the best example.

Yep

Megs showed them.all why he leads He never had no more trouble out of the triple changers again or the constructions Screamer sadly never learns

@@chrisedwards3214 facts

This is why G1 Megs is superior to any other version. He has the biggest asswhuppin count.

@@yagamijubei28, Мегатрон из Трансформеры: Прайм может с этим легко поспорить. Однако, G1 - всё же оригинал.

Hahahah

Did Kyle Shanahan hire Scrapper to scheme against Devante Adams?

Scavenger somewhere in the maze: “Hello?”

Astrotrain is starting to act like Starscream when his plan always end in failure

Definitely one of my most favorite lines from the show

1 of Optimus Prime's best lines no doubt.

Was very nice of the other Autobots, even Tracks who cares about his looks, were willing to stack themselves into a throne for Optimus.

I thought whilst watching it that those football terms translated rather well into military tactics. I'm British and hate sport so I don't know how many other terms might be viable too, but sport is essentially just civilised war so probably quite a few :P It's cool (pun absolutely intended) that they got the temperature Astrotrain states so close to actual 'absolute zero' though. I'd guess that might've been deliberate, given how cartoons often use hyperbolic values for effect. Whether or not they froze would be down to a bunch of other factors too though, and since we're talking about giant shape-shifting alien robots... yeah :P But why did Megatron freeze so much faster than Starscream? Screamer knew it was coming so I guess he could've bumped up his internal heating system, but you'd still expect the leader of the Decepticons to be able to do the same in an emergency, and be well-engineered enough to withstand the cold longer... 🤔

Huh I mean you right

Guess it's back to being the Decepticons' resident Taxicab!

Lets say Trailbreaker is unique in doing his forceshields in a fictional way.

including the other Decepticons too.

I thought it was funny too. Although Starscream made poor choices, I found his antics amusing.

And remember: This is the hard drive from a *1985* Computer. (Did computers even have Hard Drives back then? I seen to remember everything required floppy disks...)

It's likely that the Korean animators were tired and drew in their sleep or someone didn't indicate clearly on the dope sheet for the animation WHICH character was supposed to have his mouth animated! From that angle, they didn't have to animate the coach's mouth when he was giving into Blitzwing's demands! I honestly don't know WHY they animated Blitzwing's mouth anyway other than may a) they were tired or b) have SOME motion for those few seconds since the coach clearly wasn't in position for us to see his mouth! I have a feeling a scrub animator did this scene. They upped their game in Transformers The Movie (1986) and made fewer mistakes in that film.

​​@@AvengerII Most of the cartoon was made by Japanese. And it isn't entirely the fault of the animators. This is the result of the poor communication between Hasbro and the studio, between 2 different languages, and also, the rushed schedule. When you translate a scrip in English to Japanese, there will be mistakes. You should know that animator is a very harsh job. They work long hours with little pay.

That’s not thundercracker

😅😅😅

That’s Thrust. Thundercracker is blue

Someone has a choo choo brain

That was thrust with ramjets voice

No, Blitzwing still lived, as he appeared in season 3.

@@DefLeppardVanHalen i think he was talking about prowl

@@DamagerZeOptimus prowl was never the same after this episode, being run over by a tank couldn’t be repaired properly and one shot by Scavenger did him in.

Will say he is honest

Kinda like in the movie, where Ultra Magnus is literally blown to pieces, and then reassembled and revived by the Junkions. Meanwhile, Optimus Prime didn't suffer nearly as much damage during his fatal bout with Megatron earlier...

Just thinking the same thing

@@zagnorch1336 thats explained due to his toy which is a white prime in armour. His primary body wasnt destroyed and remained protected within the armour.

@@yagamijubei28 Not true for the cartoon. In the cartoon he is NOT a white prime in body armor.

@@Ionstorm2002 Magnus is based off the toy, hes a white prime in armour. The original toy shows that he is. The movie originally was to sell him, hot rod, kup galvatron, cyclonus, scourge and many new transformers that werent in the series.

agreed

Definitely in my top ten.

Right? It made me emotional as well because of my love for trains and how it reflected on my bullied times, (when the seekers start making fun of astro train) I know its just an 80s cartoon but it hit too close to home

Japan got an Autobot combiner team of trains... but not us. Currently Hasbro's selling all six of them in Masterpiece form... if you're down to spend 150$ x 6 to form Raiden.

You can watch Aalgar rewies, they are wery funny.

Who's UltraPrimal?

@@TF80s A youtuber

And does absolutely nothing.

Devasator is one big target, in a multi person brawl it's most likely better to try and outnumber the others as a team.

Their Sparks wasn't destroyed

@@darkneon5637 Yet some of them died easily in the movie.

@@hunterhq295 plot bullets have variable fatality levels depending on whether we need to raise the stakes or remove outdated toylines from production

Skids: truly one of the least loved G1 homies. That dude, Pipes, Gears and Bluestreak probably hung out a lot in G1 Limbo, I'd imagine...

@@thepolarphantasm2319 Don’t forget Trailbreaker. He didn’t get much love either lol.

@@39Hundred trailbreaker, grapple and hoist are still my homies because of that shit lol

and (come season 3, post-movie) is never seen again (along with Grapple, Hoist, Inferno, Red Alert, Smokescreen, Sunstreaker, Tracks and Trailbreaker) it’s like the Autobot equivalent of Unicron, offscreen, in the movie, killing Shockwave, and even Reflector, when he high fives the former’s Decepticon tower (hence neither Decepticon is seen again, thereafter, in season 3); this leads to the Autobots (very out of the ordinary) feeling sorry for those two Decepticons