X-Brawn, Prowl & Sideburn - Transformer R.I.D. 

I remember when my uncle gave me my first transformer, it was side burn, took me forever to figure out the transformation on my own

Personally I prefer Prowl. Why? Because I have 3 older siblings, and one younger brother, not the middle child, but close enough. Also. I enjoy his protocol rule based life style, not as wild or reckless as his brothers, and follows orders better. Also, he's a friggen robo lambo.

Sideburn is actually my favorite transformer I own. I wish there were more complicated ones out there like him.

these guys really bring back memories. RID was the first time I got into Transformers toys, though Beast Wars/Machines was what introduced me to the series

man this kicked me in the nostalgia. i remember having x-brawn when i was younger.

he missed folding x-brawn's back wheels forwards to become knee covers in robot mode.

So much nostalgia, thanks for the upload. I remember having all three when I was a kid but they all had missing pieces of course

If they ever make a masterpiece of sideburn, then we all know what we need after that: MP Red Sports Car, not transformable.

Your supposed to push the bonnet section into the square hole in his torso before pushing the waist up for Prowl, also for X-Brawn you forgot to fold his back wheels into his shins

The hood of the car in Prowl's robot mode can be tucked into his back

i have them but the powered up versions still i love them

FIY: The ones in the thumbnails are Hasbro version. The ones Baltmatrix was reviewing are Takara version. Simple! Takara versions only had faction symbols in Robot mode.

love this group! thanks for always bringing us more content!

My favorite was probably Omega prime or prowl

11:20 If you fold up the hood before you slide the legs up it actually compresses much neater and tighter into his body.

I found the exact takara version of prowl in my local comic book store and it has the Autobot logo in front of the car in car mode

I have the American 1st repaint of X-Brawn, he's a nice figure, yes he was repainted into Ratchet in Universe (the least repainted of the 3). All 3 got powered up repaints, but Prowl & Sideburn got repainted in to other characters as well. In Universe 2003 Prowl was repainted into Inferno (my brother has him), Sunstreaker & Sideswipe, While Sideburn was repainted & retooled into sisters Roulette (Autobot) & Shadow Striker (Decepticon). I like these figures, & I hope to get sideburn one of these days!

when you got to Sideburn and said "We're gonna start by opening the doors," i began to notice a trend.

I have the Sideburn version of Speedbreaker. I like how these three look like real cars in alt mode. Almost like a precursor to the alternators line

I actually liked this line because they got as close to G1 as you could possibly get. I have x Brawn in the Wheeljack Color Scheme, and the Blue version of Prowl. I have the Blue Sideburn. All great figures. Personally, I wish we had more figures like this,

i used to have them, i miss this figures so much they were and still are uber cool

Actually, the release of RID Megatron and Galvatron were both the retooled (albeit VERY slightly) Car Robots Gigatron/Galvatron mold. The retool added a pair of tabs for the... "mammoth" mode. No big loss if all you have is the original. It's still doable, it just doesn't have anywhere to connect firmly.

Good God, Speedbreaker almost makes me thankful for cheap and easy transformations.

It's not an issue.Just transformed it wrong.I have X-Brawn and Prowl but I still need Sideburn.You should fold the bumper in and it has to show on the torso then you fold the hood down.

I had been investigating and it seems the car was picked for two reasons: It looks cool and fast, which is a deterrent for other people; and not only it works on police issues, but also for medical emergencies, like organ transport for hospitals. Yeah, some Italian's new heart was probably transported from the other side of the Boot Country by Prowl... Yeah... It also seems that, every once in a while, Lamboghini donates a pair of their cars to replace the one they sent before, just like normal police do with their own cars when they have the money (difference: Lamborghini DONATES his vehicles, so it costs the Polizia zero Euros to renew the fleet).

can someone find a tutorial on how to transform side burn back to vehicle mode? cant seem to get his right arm past his hips or rotate on the blue piece holding in..

Actually the US version of X-Brawn IS different. There are no tail lights and the headlights have been mostly painted over, leaving small round headlights instead of the normal ones.

If you watch closely at the video, he is trying to collapse the kibble on Prowl's back, but doesn't know how.

You forgot to say Speedbreaker gets a powered up form too, never mind. The CGI was used to make the intro cooler, but were also re-used for the break bumpers between commercial breaks.

I have a u.s. versiin if x brawn and sideburn when I go t them as a kid. X brawn was easy to transform however that side burn was a side burn in the ass. At times I remember getting so frustrated that just gave up cuz of the pieces falling out of place. Id say a 7/10 of a pain in the ass for side burn in my book.

baltmatrix transforms X-Brawn (Wild Ride), and Sideburn (Speed Breaker) without popping off!

And yellowing plastic is often caused by ABS (flame retardant) additives reacting with the plastic polymers over time. An oxidising bleach like NapiSan Vanish or even Hydrogen Peroxide fixes it. You'll have to search around online for methods suitable for you.

I like Side Burn. The blue version reminds me of Tracks and the red version is like Hot Rod. Odd that he doesn't actually have his own color scheme, he just seems to steal his colors from other characters. He's also notorious for being one of the only kid friendly characters who isn't yellow.

sideburn has always been my favorite since he was the dumbass of the three XD that and iv always liked his aesthetic i like the character so much i have my own fan fiction of him and the brothers :) i may have to find these guys online now

I come from germany and live there and as i was in Italia with my family i saw the police Lamborginy i hope i wrote it right. But it looks awesome i understand not why they have it but i was told it is more as promo for the police and works as so they have only 2 of them, and they look so cool it was a joy to sea them. Mfg. Lancelot

when i had these guys they had diffrent names on the boxes i got, prowl was inferno, x-brawn was trailbreaker and sideburn was sideswipe

x-brawn may be my favorite robot mode out of the three because of his left arm. it's interesting!

Well x-brawn/ wild ride originally was going to be made into a trailbreaker but they lost rights or something so they made him into ratchet

The Shellformer aesthetic was big in Japan in the 90's. Look at the Japanese Beast Wars series: they gave us Big Convoy. And dear lord, Dead End...

All the kibble+ball joints+parts of alt modes becoming arms and such reminds me a lot of Beast Wars figures, just with vehicular alt modes instead of animals.

Just bought these on eBay at a really cheap price. Can't wait to get them. by the way did you mange to get a missile for prowl?

I have all 3 super mode versions of the toys, but they all have problems. X-brawn's paint is chipping off. Prowl's door hinge ball joint plastic snapped, and won't stay on. Sideburn, well, I don't know where he is. Let's just say he is probably in pieces somewhere. I always keep all 3 in vehicle mode.

Sideburn is one of my personal favorite figures, yes he has kibble, but his robot mode is one of the few that it kind of works for. I absolutely love his vehicle mode though, which is probably why i like the figure so much. The only one I don't have is Prowl, and I am going to get him eventually. X Brawn is a good looking figure, the silver plastic really sticks out when they are on display, but the robot mode isn't my favorite.

loved this toyline cuz of sum of the realistic alt modes and the articulation

Pretty crazy figures no matter how you look at them. X-Brawn's mould would've worked well for a Hellboy transformer crossover methinks. If they switched the arms ofc. Still... 8 years since the review and longer still since I once owned X-Brawn.

Neat review as always, but you forgot a few steps on Prowl/Machalert. You can collpase the entire hood by that double-hinge just before you collapse the crotch into the body. Then the windshield can be tucked downwards aswell, creating a very neatly organised back.

The red repaint of sideburn was my first ever transformer. I still prefer the red version over the blue because of that, eventhough blue is my favourite colour.

ya, somebody has likely mentioned this, but wildrider actually has some molding differences so he looks alot less like the mercedes, they of coarse where all stamped with big red autobot insignias

I've heard the the reason there were Lamborgini police cars in Italy for emergencies such as heart transplants and other things of that nature. The same article said that one of the two made was involved in an accident.

x brawn is a cybertronian fisto, his front bumper will also un peg for some sort of blade weapon that he can hold as well

I was just wondering if your Speedbreaker came with a small chromed weapon? Reason being I remember Sideburn coming with it and pegged into its waist area.

im looking for a transformer with fairly complex transformation, any size, and a price range between 0$ and 100$ any ideas?

Just by curiosity How many missiles did you buy for a collection so far ?

exactly what i was thinking, thats what the hole in the torso is for, it totally folds flat under the roof/windscreen

Hey Spada! if you pull the legs down on machalert you can fold the backpack down making it pretty much flush part of the hinge goes into the hole in his back, great review!

Because they wanted to make it 3D for the intro just as a way to show they could make 3D like the Americans. Honestly, it wasn't that bad considering this is Japan circa Beast Machines.

Love RID Prowl. Hate the fact that his doors are clear plastic. They snapped on me after owning it for 3 years. :X

"im going on ebay to buy a missile"---fantastic...sounds like a daily thing, nothing special...

you have prowl transformed slightly off. Prowl's back part (hood of the car) is supposed to collapse in on itself and go in the little box hole.

on takara version of autobot brothers has no autobot symbol in vehicle mode, but in hasbro version has autobot symbol in vehicle mode.

Is it possible to take sideburns hood and doors section down to make that movie crosshairs look? It would limit some articulation but I would prefer doing that than having that weird backpack

I had power when I was probably just three and maybe all of them including Optimus and Ultra Magnus

I used to have the X-brawn figure when i was very little. Not a bad figure but that arm was weird

Great review. FYI, if you fold Mach Alert/Prowl's hood up against his butt before you push the legs up it will sit flush with his back and look much better.

Good times. This actually gave me hope.

My favorite out of the three Autobot Brothers is X-Brawn :)

I got speed breaker, i remember getting it as a kid, geez did it take me ages to transform him.

I love these guys, but there are a few differences to the USA/UK ones. Prowls chest isnt clear for a start, X-Brawn has molding differences on the headlights and a few other bits. all done to avoid having to pay mercedes royalties. i dug mine out and have found that both my std and supercharged prowls are broken in the same way the ball joints on the doors are cracked, so a word of warning DO NOT PACK HIM IN ROBOT MODE ALWAYS FOLD HIM UP.

The split screen gimmick with the three of them is well done, but a bit distracting... I didn't know which car you were talking about at any given time because I didn't know their names. Good review, though, keep it up! :)

so sideburn is basically Smokescreen and X Brawn is Bluestreak

How is it, that modern Transformations got easier, and require fewer steps, and yet the figures ended up better looking with less kibble in both modes.

Oh god, I loved X-Brawn as a kid. Now I gotta go find a new one...

i used to have all 3 of these but they all got broken and lost to time but im wanting to re add them to my collection :3

actually its not, the RID megatron is car robots galvatron but in the megatron colours so he has the extra hinges for all 10 modes

Not much, actually. You could probably find them on eBay for less than 20 apiece.

i remember having these as a kid how much do they go for now becuase i feel like buying them again to experience nostalgia

***** where did you get the turntables from i was thinking on getting one for myself soon

Which is the best out of the three? sideburn, x-brawn or prowl?

on a scale of 1 to 10 how hard is sideburn ?

Prowl is supposed to have an autobot logo on his hood, I got mine as a kid and he had that detail what happened to it

Mach Alert & Speedbreaker have the most complex transformations.

I use to have Speedbreaker/Sideburn and my only gripe with him was transforming him. My least favorite transformation to do in that line has to be Optimus and Magnus in their combined mode. Great review as usual, though.

Does Prowl(the police car) have fold out magnifying lens in the car bits that are hovering over his shoulders?

Prefer Prowl's Japanese name Mach Alert.

I have all three brothers with all accessories and the only yellowing is on the guns for prowl.

Prowl, X-Brawn, and Side Burn. I was lucky enough to have these guys as a kid. They're great figures. Plus they can fit on Ultra Magnus's vehicle mode. (\I I/)

pop a balljoint.. is that like popping your spine when you've been sitting at the computer all day?

I loved Machalert as a kid!!!!

hate to correct you but the US is the galvatron mold which has some differences from japan megatron

Actually, no, the USA versions aren't the same as the Japanese versions. X-Brawn has different head and tail lights so as to avoid any Mercedes trademarks. I can't recall if there are differences with the other two or not. Also...where is Side Burn's knife?

when you transform prowl push the hinge connected to the bumper thought the hole before pushing up the legs to reduce the kibble

I know CA highway patrol has several lamborghini's and RISP are looking into the idea of getting a few as well

Your Speedbreaker is missing it's secondary gun. There was a little chrome gun that pegged into it's butt. The gun also has two different pegs for it to hold so that the gun can also be used as a dual bladed knife. Random thought: The gun/blade I'm talking about also reminds me of one of the many weapons from the old toy-biz Wolverine/spy/weapon-x toy in black (or blue) with the gold holders all over and the "scouter" on the head.

hey baltmatrix you messed up in transforming mach alert. what you are supposed to do is have the hinges for the hood fold into the chest cavity then push the waist up

You can tell they're brothers with their robot modes.

Sort of....Gigatron could only transform into six modes and ONLY six modes, from what I know, the English version, actually re-uses Galvatron's mold and can actually transform into the ten different modes.

Machalert and wildrider were the two i had, i remember seeing all of them. But! Wildrider had a ball joint on the waist if i remember correctly. I somehow had parts broken on it when i had it and i lost the top. Other then that, they are fairly similer to the amarican versions

Im pretty sure Sideburn or Speedbreaker was supposed to come with a dagger as well.

What Happened to X-Brawn's right hand?

I'm surprised there weren't/aren't more tf suvs given their rise in popularity