Here's 10 of 1999's Best Transformers

[@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho]

The virgin Optimus Minor vs the chad Spittor

[@nucleonegro9762]

Why do i get the feeling the next top will be consisting of mostly vehicons?

[@samurexatlas7373]

@@nucleonegro9762 because they don't need to mimic the BS the Maximals did. Savage/Noble won't even touch the list.

[@CarnoReviews]

It’ll probably be a lot of Car Robots, I’m already guessing that Fire Convoy will be number one

[@samurexatlas7373]

@@CarnoReviews We gotta do 2000 first, Vehicons being Beast Machines

[@CarnoReviews]

@@samurexatlas7373 car robots came out in Japan in 2000, and TJ seems to be going by earliest release, so it should be in the next one.

[@samurexatlas7373]

@@CarnoReviews I see. Well then. 2001 is gonna be weird

[@samurexatlas7373]

3:30 Then they also made a moon bunny that.... didn't really transform

[@RialVestro]

Yes it does, it transforms just as much as Optimus Minor and BM Silverbolt... wait why hasn't Moon been on Plastic Addict yet?

[@demokratorkodo]

Merci!

[@mattr75]

I own the Cryotek repaint of TM2 Megatron. He's great, and I hope the Legacy figure gets repainted into him too

[@RialVestro]

He should. I mean Legacy Megatron got released with the wrong head mold. Megatron and Cryotek have different head sculpts and the Legacy version for some reason inexplicably came with Cryotek's head making him even less accurate to the cartoon than his original figure.

[@samurexatlas7373]

11:34 It has the money bags Let's put it to that.

[@DanDen-gh7si]

2:14 why do dinosaur toys allow you to show their innards?

[@samurexatlas7373]

Death gimmick

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

Booby trap modes was the reoccurring theme for the new preadcon toys for beast wars neo.

[@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho]

It funny

[@IMosuGoji]

Jurassic Park

[@neolabcustoms]

2005 is going to be HARD to choose lolll

[@Metadoodles94]

Im so glad I got Big convoy last year (the anime colors reissue) He weirdly looks REALLY good with modern toys. He looks great next to Legacy magmatron too.

[@charliejenkins3211]

A got the nemesis prime version of him, he’s really fun tbh

[@purplewolfranger22]

​@@charliejenkins3211I'm so fuckin jealous of you. I'm a nemesis prime collector on the level of thew with skywarp. That nemesis prime big convoy is a crown jewel I've needed for my collection.

[@NerdRahtio]

That mythical creature, the raccoon dog/ Tanuki, is a one of those rare cryptids that turned out to be real, well kinda. No booze etc, but they did discover a real animal resembling the mythic description and named it the Tanuki

[@RialVestro]

In America we call them raccoons.

[@syafiqjabar]

​@@RialVestro Raccoons are procyonids though. Tanukis are actual canids

[@maximaldinotrap]

Despite looking like raccoons, Tanuki are not ​@@RialVestro

[@karatgaming5792]

Glad to see the best toy of 99 is Magmatron, one of the coolest combiners in Beast Wars next to Magnaboss!

[@Crimson_Crow88]

Perhaps you should add a spoiler line for those that didn't watch yet?

[@karatgaming5792]

@@Crimson_Crow88 I seen many of them, and they all look great. Dragon Megatron and Tigerhawk are definitely some of the best toys from 99 also!

[@SpaceCase1214]

I'd argue that he's less of a combiner than a Duo, or in this case Trio, con.

[@Saturnlock]

​@@Crimson_Crow88perhaps don't look at the comments if you haven't watched yet?

[@Saturnlock]

Does he really count as a combiner? He's really more of a Triocon.

[@elizabethfranklin7788]

Big Convoy would be my number 1, but mad respect for Magmatron being chosen. Great year for toys.

[@treebotreviews]

Big convoy is still my favorite beast wars figure. I have the encore anime colors version. Just wish DNA followed through with the matrix buster or the Takara mall version was more widely available.

[@RialVestro]

My top ten for 1999 and there's one that I did not include which I'm sure is going to be on TJ's list. I didn't include it because I didn't like how it handled it's kibble in robot mod but I will tell he's the LAST figure I eliminated when I was narrowing down the list for my top 10. So yeah we gotta talk about Beast Wars Neo now as well at TM2. 10. Iguanus: Not the best figure but I do like that his neck frills are hinged so they can actually be posed unlike the original version where he was molded in a permanent attack position. 9. Cybershark: Will totally admit he also has some kibble issues but I like sharks. 8. Blackarachnia: Fairly good but she does have some inaccurate detail which is weird cosidering most of the Transmetal designs were far more accurate to the toys than the first season Beast Wars. 7. Prowl: The first Owl before Nightshade was a thing. And is it weird that I kind of want to see a Nightshade repainted in these colors? 6. Dinobot: Also has some inaccurate details but it's closer than Blackarachnia and I've always loved the creepy skeliton meets Borg appearance of this design. 5. Heinrad: The dude is a working alarm clock. How often do we get Transformers toys with actual working functional things built into them. Granted you can't access the button to turn off the alarm while he's in beast mode which would force you to transform him into robot mode just to turn it off but I just think it's cool that he actually has a real functional use built in and the design is pretty good as well. 4. Colada: It's pretty impressive that they got a robot out of a snake. Granted they used the cobra neck to hide most of the robot but it works. 3. Big Convoy: One of the first toys to have a removable Matrix accessory. Granted he's a shellformer and it's been demonstrated that you can basically remove all of his kibble from the robot and build the Mammoth mode without the robot even being attached that's the main reason I didn't rank him higher. But it's still a really good figure with a lot of cool play features. 2. Tigerhawk: He also has some inaccurate features that aren't in the show, mainly that hawk or falcon mask that he can wear over the tiger head. And yeah his name is Tigerfalcon in Japan because Airrazor was originally meant to be a falcon but the show in America decided she was a hawk. 1. Megatron: This figure has a known factory defect. There's a trigger on his back that controls the movement of the dragon head and it has a locking mechnaism meant to keep the head upright in the "vehicle" mode. This part was installed BACKWARDS on almost every copy of the figure making it so you could not lock the head in the correct position and it would just droop down. I didn't know that part was backwards for YEARS and then found out all I had to do to fix my ONE issue with this figure was take out one screw, flip it around, and screw it back in place. Even before I made that repair I'd still have called this the best figure of the year. He never even uses that vehicle mode in the show that I can remember and it's a freaking DRAGON Megatron, who doesn't love Dragon Megatron? I'm surprised I seem to like the asymmetrical TM2 designs more than TJ does cause my list is mostly Hasbro with a few Takara figures and TJ's is mostly Takara with a few Hasbro figures. And you know what... I don't hate anything on TJ's list. The dead mode and odd weapon modes are a bit weird which is why I didn't include those figures but they're non intrusive gimmicks so they're still good figures that aren't really hindered by it. I almost included them on my list but I just like the TM2s more and needed to clear room for them so I got rid of all the weird gimmick figures. The only one I really disagree with is Magmatron. Honestly I would like him if the individual beasts had their own robot modes so he was a combiner like Magnaboss and Tripredacus. I don't like that Magmatron is just one robot and not a real combiner. I actually had a chance to get that figure when he came out during Beast Machines and I just looked at him and went "where are the individual robot modes" I had the same issue with Power Core combiners cause the drones aren't characters so they technically combiners, it's just ONE guy with a super mode not a combiner team. Maybe I'm just bias judging the figure for what I think it should be rather than what it is. Not really a bad figure for what it is, just not what I was expecting, I wanted it to do more, so it's not on my list and you will not change my mind.

[@megatronacepticon]

Magmatron still holds up today. The play value, the level of engineering wizardry that went into it, and it's intuitive to transform. Just from looking at pictures of what you're supposed to end up with you can tell how it moves and how it transforms, there's no frustration, no 'how the hell could that possibly end up there?' nonsense, just straight-up play. He's extremely fun to mess with, probably one of the best mess with Transformers of all time.

[@ShadowWingTronix]

Stampy is one of the few Japan Transformers I own and he's one of my favorite Transformers overall.

[@walterlopez5054]

"In 40 years we've only had 2 owls" Incorrect. We have 3. Tm2 Prowl Earthspark Nightshade And Mutant Icebird.

[@benjaminwiseman6567]

Two owls that transform into robots

[@fishpop]

3:03 "This is my ultimate weapon!" "What, behind the bunny?" "It *IS* the bunny!"

[@TheSharkKing45]

(Insert Monty python and the holy grail quote here)

[@fishpop]

@@TheSharkKing45 Sort of but i was referencing an old Eyeson TF stop motion,

[@dylancrossman8502]

I have a ton of love for the BW Neo Maximals. I am a bit surprised not to see TM II Dinobot on this list though.

[@thebeestingconspiracy]

If I learned anything today, it's that I need Stampy and Heinrad almost as much as I need G1 Jetfire and Shockwave.

[@ninomitchell2039]

I still have my tigerhawk toy and i believe i have the triceratops one. Admittedly, i have the repaints, but my only complaints when i really played with them were how loose some of the joints on tigerhawk were and that the triceratops had wasn't detachable in robot mode. I get it's a 25 year old mold at this point, but i would love to see some form of update to a lot of the ones in this video now that I'm seeing a lot of them fresh (and some for the first time).

[@RialVestro]

I looked through the comments and no one has made the Monty Python reference yet so I'll just do it myself! Tim: There he is! 3:19 King Arthur: Where? Tim: There! 3:19 King Arthur: What? Behind the rabbit? Tim: It *is* the rabbit! King Arthur: You silly sod! Tim: What? King Arthur: You got us all worked up! Tim: Well, that's no ordinary rabbit. King Arthur: Ohh. Tim: He's more than meets the eye. Sir Robin: Wrong franchise, Eric Idle's not even in this scene.

[@palaguin]

Being a self-identified penguin, my favorite this year will be Break, even if he's the epitome of a shellformer. I wish I had a Big Convoy; Takara had a task of Mammoth proportions to create it.

[@CuddyFox]

I hope they bring out some more of these toys out to the west. I love to get my hands on Stampy and Heinrad.

[@XenotHedgehog]

I still wish the Dragon Megatron we got in Legacy had the dragster mode. Even if it wasn't a great mode in the original toy, that's still play value that we didn't get, and even the DNA Design upgrade kit doesn't include parts for it. Not to mention Tigerhawk's beast mode visor.

[@inesatt1313]

I love your list

[@vanhopecomedy]

I came here to see where Animorphs would rank, and I wasn’t disappointed Jake was number one.

[@henryalberts539]

Less than the kibble issues, I think Big Convoy could take number one if he had articulation of any kind in mammoth mode.

[@marknewland9314]

Time to party like it’s 1999!

[@TheDragonDAFan98]

Are you going to save the Car Robots/RID2001 toys for the 2001 list?

[@masterfarr8265]

Fire convoy is gonna be in the top 5 for next year

[@mikeyfourbarrel8473]

I realize that these are technically just opinions but I’ll be damned if I don’t agree with nearly every one of these picks. Awesome job with this list, TJ…as always.

[@BaranKRool]

Heinrad has BALLS. Big round balls. There.

[@Undrave]

Tanuki are real animals too >.>

[@benjaminwiseman6567]

I think you're selling Transmetal 2s short, but the Beast Wars Neo line did have some gems. Some Transmetal 2s had fragile chrome and other vulnerabilities, but I think you have to ignore that when ranking them, but maybe add that as a note as I have done below in my rankings: 10. Transmetal 2 Nightglider 9. Transmetal 2 Spittor 8. Neo Cohrada 7. Neo Saberback 6. Neo Break 5. Transmetal 2 Iguanus (fragile chrome and frills) 4. Transmetal 2 Dinobot (fragile chrome and rubber parts) 3. Neo Guildart 2. Neo Big Convoy 1. Transmetal 2 Megatron (fragile chrome and rubber parts)

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

I'm thinking rid 2001 bruticus might get a chance of being in the top 10 of 2001 if all the Car robot molds get placed in 2000. The damned hellhound deserves a W.

[@ReaverPrime]

I missed alot of this year because of life at the time. Apparently, I didn't miss much, considering I really don't like asymmetry.

[@Yamato09097]

Woooo the year I was born!!

[@ryanharper2898]

Stampy will make a good scout and messenger

[@MikeD974]

My 10 . - 10.Archadis. 9. Colaida 8. Metal terrorsaurer 7. Metal rampage 6. Transmetal black widow 5. Transmetal dinobot4. Saberback 3. Tigerhawk 2. Rockbuster 1. transmetal Megatron

[@RialVestro]

You realize like three of those are from previous years and don't even qualify right? You seem to put Rockbuster in your top 10 for every year but you're only suppose to include him for the year he was actually released in.

[@benjaminwiseman6567]

Wrong year on some of these

[@FlameWar05]

Put Magmatron on the bottom of the list and then it’s perfect

[@ruubensoto7754]

You ever review a transformers figure that no one ever made a video of it

[@fun2building]

1999 bizarre summer

[@DragoonMS]

Beast Machines had toys other than Blackarachnia that actually didn't suck?? (To be fair, her mold had a crap color scheme. It was only her repaints later on - the Unicron tainted Universe Blackarachnia and the frosty femme Universe Crystalwidow - that were nicer uses of the mold...nice presentations of a nice toy. And it's unfortunate that they never bothered with a show accurate redo.)

[@megagrey]

BNUUY!

[@cliffjumper1984]

that #1 with the magnasuar all animals combined looks horrid IMO

[@lawsonallen7741]

Beast Wars 2 & Neo need U.S. Cartoons. Like how Car robots be came RID.

[@lynngreen7978]

For those who are curious, but not as OCD as I am: Doing these every Tuesday, TJ will reach 2023 Top 10 on December 10th. Except, I see he did a Here's 10 for 22 and 23 already. So take that back to Nov. 26th for a Here's 10 of 2021, instead of his previous format best of 2021. What I'm hoping for is, after the Here's 10 of 2024, he takes the 41 #1s, and does the ten best #1s.

[@mikehusanj1704]

Optimal Optimus:"im I A joke to you?"

[@IMosuGoji]

that was last year

[@am_like_goijar]

that was 1998

[@rubiconprime1429]

I hate Heinrad’s voice in the BW2 Japanese dub so much

[@Podvoiski]

This was just an excuse to show off BW Neo figures, wasn’t it?