Battle Bands | Ashens

[@TCWordz]

Hey, hey! That black one was _ULTRA RARE!_

[@thomasjenkins7506]

+Tommy59375 it's well done now.

[@somekindoflandcow]

+Tommy59375 is it really 'ultra rare' if it comes in the starter kit?

[@christianmunso7482]

+somekindoflandcow Well you could say Rare Cards in the starter sets that came out in the early 2000's of Yu-Gi-Oh are actually rare as fuck but then again nobody cares about these rubber band things lol

[@fizz576]

Why do you even know that

[@DOSRetroGamer]

@Yoshi Licks Well, usually it's just a playing card made of thin cardboard, so *technically* this has higher value 😁

[@prismglider5922]

The disappointment Ashens experiences at the beginning after figuring out what these are is my favorite thing ever.

[@33melonpaws77]

there's more effort put into the excessive packaging than into the products themselves.

[@donnk]

Battle Bands! 95% packaging + air 5% actual product

[@josef733]

Lays

[@donnk]

***** yea especially the big bags

[@ste887]

***** the running joke in england is, its what each nation does after eating a bag, Europe goes walking whereas America just has a lie down and a little sleep

[@ste887]

***** and rightly so. We have real castles not what Disney thought they could get away with plastic ones in Europe. Reminds me of a izzard sketch

[@TheBrianJ]

This might be my favorite review you've ever done, just because of the slow realization of how shit the product is.

[@2x4noah]

I'd love if these are in the next lootcrate

[@chronospammer2073]

MrIce Tea55 Brilliant. Absolutely brilliant. Great way to contribute there pal.

[@dopemonkey1188]

I love that sudden pause he took as he realized what they were.... I'm actually surprised he didn't realize what they were immediately

[@markog07]

Now that they're melted together they have become the ultimate Battle Band!

[@MrPodaky]

"Collect stretch and destroy" Well that's pretty suggestive when you think about it.

[@conheaton1111]

He did exactly that.

[@samholdsworth420]

That's how I treat my women

[@InkRose]

That they were. I think I still have a few from back then...

[@DemonicAkumi]

This was made by a prophet of Ashen. "Collect" He sure did. "Stretch" He did for a few. "Destroy" Well... yeah. Always like coming back to this video as you can genuinely hear the annoyance from him with how shitty this thing is.

[@KoboldCloaca]

The sentence "2010, no, not that old." Gave me whiplash

[@Gold_Tail]

Did anyone notice the "elements" symbols on the front of the box were mana symbols?

[@camerabox1]

mtg?

[@Gold_Tail]

Yeah.

[@BadButNotSad]

***** LOL, Wizards of the Coast should sue them :D

[@KrispyKrabby]

Ah, 2010 was indeed the year when the kids used to have rubber bands in a shape of something around their wrists. Now, in 2016, kids have...rubber bands around their wrists, just without the shape...Kids are boring nowadays.

[@ryandevan2793]

also kids are stupid now, but lets not get into that.

[@bigalwaldron5038]

Yeah, I remember the whole silly band craze, everyone was in on it, I had a huge collection of them until 6th grade when we started trading pencil toppers. Good times.

[@Ben_the_Rosafan]

The Battle Bands Twitter account has been inactive for exactly three years today.

[@TheMadAfrican1]

Not exactly, but still, 9 years ago now.

[@Pizzscn]

Silly Bandz were around in 2010. That was the year they really took off.

[@QuiteFranklyNoOne]

Ah, yes, collect them all!... Except you're going to have bloody trouble remembering the one's you need and even more bloody trouble remembering the one's you have!

[@gridline]

Ashens is the only person I know who can nonchalantly talk about rubber bands while a burning plank is sitting on his furniture

[@hbaggg]

Apparently the gray ones are 'Ultra rare'

[@KimmieSasumori]

+Skaterboybob They're medium rare now

[@heroponjohn4180]

*BADUM TSH*

[@ricedonut6567]

If their product did not made an impact on the market. Then those gray ones aren't ultra rare to the eyes of many

[@DOSRetroGamer]

I like how they promote the dragon whelp thing as if it was in any way special or less shit than the other rubber bands vaguely in the shape of something.

[@PipeFoxDream]

"It looks like a map of fucking Calgary" Accurate statement.

[@aserta]

This whole video my mouth was on the floor. This is incredible. There should be a hell for the people who made this.

[@SuperEekie64]

The cards, packaging, and pretty much everything that isn't the bands actually look pretty decent. Such a shame the main mechanic of the game had to be something cheaper and more gimmicky than Pogs

[@Silver_wind_1987_]

Pogs at least HAD ART on them and could also be decorated if you wanted...or used as paper weights or could have magnets glued into the backs so they could become fridge magnets...

[@fastbreak333]

The sad thing is, I looked it up and there were kids that were excited to get these things because of the silly bands craze. As soon as that fad went, so did this product. From what I read, the bands are pretty high quality and would last pretty well, but the mat would be torn up after a few days (kids can be rough on their toys). So yeah, all in all, it was just a dumb way to cash in on silly bands and died out as soon as the fad faded.

[@KevoBeyblade]

I remember silly bands being "the thing" like 3 years ago. Glad i never bought them. Its funny how a pack of 20 would go for about 15 bucks and now they are like 1 dollar.

[@LtheOriginal]

"Leviathan" and here I was, thinking that was Dracula's castle in Castlevania

[@sliceofpistudios]

This product greatly disappoints me, they had so much potential, reading the lore on the cards, it seems like they put some thought into this, and they had some dam good ideas for monsters, I mean, fucking octopus pirate, that sounds amazing. But sadly, instead of taking the awesome route and making an RPG with all this lore-crafting skills, they make a fucking rubberband card game

[@Blah146]

YEAH MAN RUBBER BANDS, ACTION PACKED RUBBER BANDS.

[@monkeyfan250]

+Blah One Four Six One Three Five that comment made my day XD

[@randominternetsurfersurfin7595]

sliceofpi productions "fucking octopus pirate,that sounds amazing",I'm assuming you've never watched pirates of the Caribbean

[@LilMissLilaBug]

i haven't heard the phrase "bloody nora" in AGES! well done ashens for bringing it back :)

[@aSlumberingStarKing]

"we cant afford to do actual figures, but we've got this massive pile of elastic bands instead.."

[@IrunoHatake]

I remember these things from middle school! Everyone EVER used to have them, and they'd always be showing off what cools ones they had. I never really saw the point. :P

[@ThereMayBeLions]

4:17 It's the map to Cyrodil from Elder Scrolls Oblivion o.o

[@ducciboi]

When you see the burnt board of shame, you know shit is about to go down.

[@MatiProbably]

I would be incapable of coming up with an idea as shit as this.

[@AgentTasmania]

Because you don't work in marketing and thus give humanity a trace of credit, so such an idea would be ejected the moment it entered your mind.

[@MegaAstroFan18]

AgentTasmania Cashing in on a fad is perfectly normal in business. Problem is it's a fad.

[@MegaAstroFan18]

AgentTasmania Also it wouldn't be the marketing department that came up with this.

[@AgentTasmania]

MegaAstroFan18 I didn't say department.

[@MegaAstroFan18]

Can't really see what else you could possibly mean. Marketing is a department in a business.

[@chizzicle]

The black ones, including the emperor's assassin, are supposed to be "ultra rare". But then again, this dragon whelp pack is apparently a starter pack, so to include an "ultra rare" one in starter pack automatically makes it not all that rare

[@wtabutle7060]

He got an ultra rare

[@Yasha277]

Out of everything he ever burned, this was the most satisfying.

[@apersonontheinternet424]

"Words fail me that this product exists." Pretty much my thoughts, too, but I can't stop giggling over Ashens' reaction. :D

[@AmericaTheEnslaved]

i love how the burn board is just chilling in the background he whole time.

[@FPSGamer48]

So this was created during the Silly Bandz craze it seems...because I was one of those kids in 6th grade who loved Silly Bandz

[@chipwreck7301]

That rushing sound was the joke that went straight over your head

[@TGCM]

Woo! Calgary!

[@DreadNaught1012]

The amount of disappointment that you can hear when he discovers they literally are rubber bands is priceless. I have never heard him get that disappointed.

[@tetragrade]

Why did the battke mat say SOPT on it?

[@tetragrade]

*battle

[@danya023]

I think that was supposed to say 20PT, as in 20 points. We can't be sure about what that means unless we have the rules, and apparently no one cares about those. (I do, but I'm a raving lunatic so what do you expect?)

[@CaptainAmphy]

Ashens to Ashens, dust to dust... none can withstand the mighty power of the torch.

[@thedoctor9808]

This was posted on my birthday.

[@Yousie6]

That the same as my sisters b-day

[@Themaniacnextdoor]

Watching those monstrosities bubble as they melted pleased me.

[@justduncannohiro]

wait, is the giant rat wearing rubber gloves? XD

[@lampini]

the best part is the last 30 when ashens is tearing apart this whole concept while the battle bands are burning up

[@Ronninioh]

why am i addicted to ashens videoss ????

[@AgentTasmania]

Because the dry humour in comfortable moderation is morish.

[@cavan8553]

Me too, God help me

[@H4ZM4TT]

those used to be a thing here in the u.s. called silly bandz. they were actually pretty popular a couple years ago. they weren't marketed as a game though, just bands you wear on your wrist that looked like things when you took them off

[@DOSRetroGamer]

00:59 "crappy silhoutte" if only he knew that is the actual object!

[@xHUBBARD117x]

Please upload more! You're the only guy I look forward to. :)

[@AskDrannik]

Diogenes of Sinope was less cynical than this product.

[@Liz-vm5ej]

AskDrannik Yea, but he was a dog

[@eustacequinlank7418]

If you stare hard enough, there appears to be what looks to be a melting grumpy alien face in the 'pyre'. Although I always see tortured faces in flames when I look at them for too long.

[@TiberianFiend]

Look at those sad MtG ripoff symbols and character names.

[@TiberianFiend]

+TV-94 Magic: the Gathering

[@Koisheep]

+Tiberian Fiend *Thank you gif*

[@christianmunso7482]

except for the blue one, those are just waves but I get what you mean. They even got lore on the cards with the rubber bands, like who cares unless you actually establish a actual world like in Magic

[@LPetal86]

Aww, I was hoping the cards would get tossed into the flames too. Interesting to see the board now has a delightful array of colors melted into it :D

[@sl840]

Pogs 2.0

[@Azariachan]

Pogs were awesome, man. XD

[@christianmunso7482]

don't you dare compare these to pogs, pogs may of been a fad but at least they were actually pretty cool I guess

[@MMDAMV]

Christian Munso I really enjoy how your comment gets progressively less confident

[@Tillyard86]

Dam! I would not be that calm with that big a fire on my sofa!

[@PowerGlove84]

these are silly bands just re named and in different packaging lol

[@cardinalximenez4505]

They're certainly silly.

[@CanadianMods1]

I love having a video every other day! Keep it up!!!!!

[@TheShadowfexx]

thye are piles of crap and they bad mouth about rats! rats are lovely pets just not wild ones lol

[@MattHolbaev]

Does anyone else get really happy and laugh when something burns in an Ashens video?

[@Applezapify]

YESSS FINALLY SOMEONE UNDERSTANDSSS

[@CrazyRiverOtter]

I remember the very first thing he burnt. I felt all warm and fuzzy inside.

[@frankfei1532]

In my memory, wooden boards and sofas are flammable

[@RCVideoDude]

Silly Bandz were exactly like this and they were crazy popular with elementary and middle school kids for a while in America. I don't know how well they fared if they existed over in Europe though.

[@natebyrne4573]

I love when the chopping board is on the couch. Blowtorch!

[@CaptainAmphy]

Out there, some kid has these rubber band toys, and he's the only person he/she knows that touches them, and they've been used so much they retain their shape even less than when they were fresh from the package.

[@ItssMeRobin]

This keeps me in awe.

[@LuckyPunkProd]

On the bright side, those rubber bands make great mini bonfires.

[@TotalMysticalBlue]

Over here in "america", we have these rubber bands called silly bands and they are basically in the shape of every character from anything you've ever known, people get hundreds of them and wear them around their entire arm. essentially what those weird rubber band shapes are

[@TheAZBros]

The advertising on the box was pretty good I think a person would be disappointed that the product was merely silly bands.

[@a.tapes_]

I saw these recently at a Walgreens. They were like $5 on clearance! Me and my roommate had a great laugh at their expense.

[@NonPlayerCharacterLP]

Ashens may very well be the best British man on KZbin.

[@LordPeng1]

I was a little bit surprised that they were very flammable rubber. I was under the impression that at least the original weird rubberbands were made of silicone, which is quite difficult to set on fire (you can buy oven mitts and cake 'pans' made from silicone).

[@olivermuxworthy]

I get excited when I see the burned chopping board in the background :D

[@Bigmonongo]

so your telling me, toys now a days are just rubber bands that 4 year olds fling at each other? Great Job Lads!

[@CarpeVolante]

"Collect, stretch and destroy" is kind of my love life in one sentence.

[@DarkDoge]

1:05 by flicking a rubber band at them hence battle band hence th... *as he chuckles, he then realizes as he stops chuckling..... he realizes the bullgarbage that he is holding in his hands*

[@mattmaleski1379]

As soon as i see the shelf i know its going to be funny

[@influencehistory8879]

I love it when ashens uploads videos.

[@LukeSparrow221]

You make my day Ashens!

[@mprospero]

"Let's copy the MTG symbols no one will notice".

[@MrDk1979]

I love it when he says "well done lads"

[@purEvil84]

i got scared for a sec when the blow torch didn't go on right away....

[@cave6300]

In the US (possibly only in some areas) there was a fad a couple years ago called Silly Bandz (notice the "z"). It was pretty much just like this, but it was just rubber bands (bandz?) that formed things such as bannanas for example. I remeber thinking it was stupid, but then trying to get some.

[@JakobOrWhatever]

And now they have come out with those loom bands, the ones that you make bracelets and other things

[@Shinobi33]

What?! I would've love these as kid. Never saw them here in Florida.

[@AdrianWoodUK]

You just know there's a Battle Bands collector who's been after the "ultra rare" Empress Assassin, and cried when they saw this video.

[@UndeadZeds]

Best fake fly avatar I've seen yet

[@1MYOWN1]

it;s like they sorta re-etched the molds used in the making of various, failing, shaped rubber bands, and rebranded them... Signs like Robo Snake, and that faery-witch Time traveler are ostensibly a witch riding on a broom, and a really badly molded snake..

[@juliox9]

XD i have never seen ashens so confused, in all the time i have been watching him XD

[@Elgauno]

All of those things reminded me of silhouettes of racetracks,The orange one particularly reminded me of the Nurburgring.

[@curiouscatface]

Ashen's tomb stone is bound to read something along the lines of 'Death by inhalation of cheap burning toy fumes...'

[@StevenLepore]

You need to film the objects burning in their entirety! I want to watch the whole thing burn!

[@Mirenkorax]

I saw a bunch of these the other day in the Walgreens clearance section.

[@VSigma725]

Even Crazy Bones lasted like a year back when I collected those in elementary school.

[@HandsomeJezdaNikki]

OOH!!!! tonight is my night!! another video!! what luck!! thank you.

[@guyfawkes8131]

At the end it looked like a rainbow-eating cat with insides that are like skittles just exploded

[@wazfallout3pokey]

In Canada too, I remember seeing everyone wearing them in 2010.

[@InvisibleToOnlyYou]

The horror in his voice = perfection

[@Name2site]

3:40 to 3:57 LOL. You can hear all the ear plug wearers screaming from miles around when they hear this. Also, rubber burns suprisingly well. Just look at that big flame!

[@Sylvelourie]

I'm only about 1 minute into the video and wondering how the heck Ashens hasn't realized these are rubber bands. I understood that right away, especially from the "stretch" part of the slogan.