Here's 10 of 2000's Best Transformers Toys

[@fun2building]

The idea that Y2K didn't do anything is a common misunderstanding of the system and all the workers that spent dozens of hours keeping things running correctly

[@russellharrell2747]

It was a potential disaster that was mitigated with hard work. Mostly because the economic sectors that would have been affected included the financial industry as well as power generation. You don’t mess with those guys.

[@LLawliet2]

Also there were locations were equipment was disabled/hampered. Some hospitals had deaths due to the outages.

[@JonathanChaotic]

There was also a man in Russia whose bank account went nuts for a minute and he had like $6m for a short time. That was one of the bigger fears people had but it was just a few people that we known of. I find that to be a fun lil story from y2k

[@misterpeterman]

I always thought BlackArachnia’s forehead made her look kind of like a Klingon. That made the figure a bit cooler for me since I’m a Star Trek nerd.

[@samurexatlas7373]

5:09 QuetzalcoatlUS, not the deity and anime woman of massive size. Ironically I know it from the Jurassic World series.

[@isuckatusernames4297]

I know it from the Mexican folklore myths.

[@RKStrikerJK5]

The Bangles were back together too, so 2000 was a pretty good year!

[@megagundamva2694]

I LOVE ULTRA CLASS JET STORM i have mine and still intact and still chrome

[@Varatho]

There was a legitimate problem with the y2k bug, but it was largely overblown: Most databases used two digits for the date, which would cause problems in automated systems. Most notably systems used for financial transactions and inventory control. And while that would have caused considerable hardship if people suddenly lost all the money in their bank accounts, or if the military lost track of their weapons. It would not, as some people speculated at the time, turn your personal computers and household appliances into ticking timebombs at the stroke of midnight. There were actually quite a few people working on the problem to make sure it wouldn't come to pass (my uncle was one). But as is the tradition with IT work: When the techs do their job well, nobody notices it.

[@fun2building]

Dude I am SO tired of "lol nothing happen" like yeah you didn't notice anything happen because the people did their jobs

[@Alverant]

@@fun2building I was one of them. Worked myself sick due to late nights.

[@OptimusPhillip]

My parents told me about how they would pull all-nighters trying to patch out Y2K bugs before 2000 rolled around. Which is extra impressive, now that I think about it, since my Mom was pregnant with me at that time.

[@wakeangel2001]

I bought your Blackarachnia a few years ago, not the original Beast Machines version but one of her later decepticon repaints. It is still precious to me

[@treebotreviews]

19:29 just got the OTFCC version of this at BotCon. It is flipping gorgeous and that means I can complete the skywarp cyclonus combo.

[@QueenStodge]

I really like how Thrust's head looks a bit like a bionicle head

[@dylancrossman8502]

I really appreciate the parsing Car Robots/RiD into 2001, as otherwise it well and truly would have been an extremely slanted list (Though Beast Machines does have more than the usual share of duds). The toys aren't especially accurate for a lot of Beast Machines, but they are a lot of fun, especially the Vehicons. I was generally being pretty selective during Beast Machines, but Night Viper is the big regret for not getting. Glad to see a bit of Mutant love here! I am VERY surprised not to see Obsidian on this list though (TFWiki at least says he's 2000). They're up against stiff competition for next year, but I do hope Blast Punch Primal and Night Slash Cheetor make the list for 2001

[@The-Asylum-Files]

I have the Universe repaint of number 3 and love the sheer goofiness of it, looks really cool next to my BM basics Scavenger

[@RetroDark_The_Wizard]

I love Beast machines

[@dainatalvirk6853]

It is a good series, I'm glad we got core class cheator to go with the thrilling 30 deluxe tankor

[@badwalnutt]

beast machines time!!!!!

[@SixshotRevan]

Mirage was my first Beast Machines toy, and he became an instant favorite. Especially when I read the bio on the back of his card and found out he could teleport like Skywarp.

[@eduardoalamo1240]

Makes me wonder if one day the Mutants could return as actual triple-changers, maybe in the toyline after Legacy, since I always felt despite their obscurity there is some potential for storytelling.

[@ampeater777]

3 of my favorite transformers as a kid. The pterodactyl, jetstorm, and black arachnea were all amazing. My arachnea was orange with purple detail

[@megagrey]

"The mutants..." I kept thinking I had clicked on a X-Men or ThunderCats video by mistake.

[@tahumphreys6543]

Airazor is also technically a dinosaur

[@abrahampedroza7246]

airrazor is a dinosaur and skydive isn't

[@Martynde]

as was said in the comic of the time, the Mutants were "unmarketable product".

[@deltadark2665]

I don’t know how I only just realized “Vehicon” is derived from “Vehicle” 😭

[@karatgaming5792]

Glad to see Jetstorm at the top of the list, his Ultra Class figure is loads of fun and the best of what Beast Machines could offer.

[@ericbay398]

Skydive was a dinosaur? All this time, I thought he was a pelican.

[@RialVestro]

My 2000 top ten list so apparently Car Robots came out a year earlier in Japan so we got both Beast Machines and RID2001 to talk about. And no, I did not cheat on my list but I am still talking about both Car Robots and Beast Machines. 10. Longhorn: I always kind of liked this guy, his front legs are weapons but they aren't removable and there are little hands molded in that are easy to miss in beast mode unless you're specifically looking for them. 9. Night Viper: Again they managed to turn a snake into a robot which is impressive engineering. Especially at a Basic class size scale. I would usually ignore the basics but I couldn't for Beast Machines because of figures like this. 8. Skydive: He reminds me of TM Terrorsaur with the way his wings transform into arms. I like to head canon that there's an alternate reality where Terrorsaur survived the Beast Wars and switched sides during Beast Machines becoming the Maximal Skydive because he didn't want to have his sparked ripped out and reprogrammed as a Vehicon like Waspinator. 7. Snarl: The only Beast Machines toy I could never find and I really like this design. I can imagine an alternate universe where Leo Prime shows up durring Beast Machines and gets reformatted into this design. 6. Scavenger: I like this little Cybertronian construction vehicle. BTW I love all the Vehicon designs and it was really hard not to just make the whole list Vehicons. 5. Mirage: The other Vehicle mold I had to have on this list. I think I've made it clear how I feel about F1 racer designs and adding the alien aethetic of the Beast Machines vehicons on top of that, LOVE it. One of the my favorite things about these designs is that actually look like living self driving vehicles that don't need drivers. 4. Powerlinx Side Burn: Yes I'm specifying the Powerlinx version because this is my preferred color scheme for the character. 3. Landfill: And now I cheat! Although Buildking was released as a Multipack in Japan I don't recall them ever doing this with the American release. Anyway, I love this combiner. It's engineered in a why where they have 3 different combinations and can swap between them without taking any parts off. The 3 bots forming the limbs rotate around a central connection point in the torso. I've never seen any other combiner with similar engineering. 2. Omega Prime: And now I cheat AGAIN! Because he's technically figures but it's a combiner and I can't have one without the other. I'm going to excuse that the tires tire to dust after 10 years and I can't even touch mine anymore because of that. It's still a really cool design that was fun to mess with when I had them new. 1. Galvatron: I'm specifying Galvatron for 2 reasons, the first because I prefer the color scheme and more importantly because when we're talking about the Japanese release Devil Gigatron is actually a retool with 10 modes (and a secret 11th mode) but the original Gigatron version of the mold doesn't have all the extra retooling. In the U.S. Megatron was released using the Devil Gigatron version of the mold. And this is still one of my favorite figures YEARS later. So that's why he's my number 1. By the way, Jetstorm, Tankor, and Thrust would have make my list but I didn't have room for them and there were non show characters I wanted to talk about more. And next year there are very few new molds because it's what's left of Beast Meachines and RID2001 in the U.S. nothing new really came out in Japan. I'm not cheating in 2001 either so just know that my number 1 is a complete joke that would not have made the list if I included RID2001. But I put Galvatron here and since TJ kind of changed the rules I'm fully expecting Galvatron to be his number 1 in the next video.

[@Bakuopp]

Love seeing Skydive finally get some acknowledgement! Please remember, though, that not every big reptile from the Mesozoic was actually a dinosaur... To keep it simple: - Dinosaurs - Land dwelling reptiles that walked with their legs directly beneath their bodies (birds eventually fall under this category, Avian vs Non-Avian dinosaurs) - Marine reptiles - Mosasaurs, plesiosaurs, etc. - Pterosaurs - Winged reptiles that utilize a long wing-finger and membranes for flight (Pteranodon, Quetzalcoatlus, etc.)

[@JonCrs10]

You know whats funny? Mirage GT is KINDA like BM Mirage inverted.

[@nucleonegro9762]

My money is on vehicons dominating the top Well, if we don't count the mutants as maximals i guessed right, otherwise we have a tie

[@AimeeRose1997]

It's usually the tops that do the dominating.

[@Ayrton-Da-Silva]

Mirage is my favourite transformer from childhood so I'm very glad it is on the top 10 list 🔥

[@AU79PLUS1]

Hasbro NEEDS to do a white Owl Bear DnD crossover and make it Ice Bird's pre-mutant Fuzor form. (It's canon to the cardbacks that the Mutants were Fuzors.)

[@Alverant]

Hold on, literally thousands of programmers spent weeks making sure Y2K didn't happen! I was one of them! You're calling my work "nothing"?

[@defenderprime8046]

Beast Machines was not up to par with Beast Wars, but despite that, I still enjoyed watching the series and was curious on how it would end eventually. The toys, inaccurate for the most part (especially poor Silverbot), I still collected and got many of them, the Vehicons got the better toys, I agree on that, in all, to me, Beast Machines deserves a 6/10 as a whole, cartoon and toys. Beast Wars was more a 9/10 to me, be free to disagree with me, that's Ok.

[@therussianwanderer4851]

2:17 Now that's how you do "evergreen", Hasbro.

[@MikeD974]

My 10 - 10. Thrust 9. Buzzsaw 8. Geckobot 7. Mirage 6. Airraptor 5. Mechatron 4. Tankor 3. Obsidian 2. Blastcharge 1. Ultra class jetstorm

[@shadowynne]

I am all in with blackarachnia I love that figure.

[@jimmyrobot3170]

Hey TJ, I don’t know if you’ll see this, but I think it’d be cool if you did a video on the history of Brave/Yuusha!

[@zoltanperei4789]

No Tank and motorcycle drone on the list?

[@russellharrell2747]

They were fine, maybe honorable mentions. I’d put Scavenger over them however.

[@JonathanChaotic]

17:50 I feel like Kingdom Black Arachnia and Legacy Tarantulas deserve a lil more credit, ESPECIALLY 'Black because DAMN DOES SHE FREAK ME THE SCRAP OUT!

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

Tjomega neglects the fact if he went with option 1, *rid2001 Bruticus would have been in the top 10.* the Damned hellhound deserves it!

[@mattr75]

I wish I had Night Viper

[@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho]

Grabbed the Studio Series Lambro Deluxe wave from my local Walmart. Gamer Edition Sideswipe’s better than expected (man just needs better vehicle mode ground clearance and ankle tilts); BBM Concept Art Sunstreaker is my number 1 until he’s dethroned at some point (which is going to be hard to do given how solid he is). That, and Deluxes being $20 again makes me feel like I’m right back in 2019 at the height of Siege. Honestly, if Beast Machines gets any further presence in Legacy+, I’d love to see a hybrid half-toy, half-show approach taken to the designs. Focus on the show but incorporate gimmicks from the original toys (ex: Primal’s shuriken or Tankor’s buzzsaw man pants).

[@Benjamin0119]

Good list. I liked the Ultra Jetstorm, but I was pretty disappointed when I unpacked him a couple years ago and saw all the chrome paint flaking off. I was never rough with the toy and none of my Transmetals or other chrome painted Transformers have done this. Is it a defect with this figure specifically? I like Blackarachnia. I missed out on her Beast Wars toy, so I was happy to get her in this form. And didn't know how inaccurate her Beast Wars toy was til way later. Mine doesn't stand on the spider legs as well because the joints are a bit loose now, but she still stands up ok.

[@Martynde]

No point having rules if they're just going to be broken when they become inconvenient.

[@maximaldinotrap]

I wish I still had Beast Machines Sky Dive

[@benjaminwiseman6567]

I feel like the Beast Machines line was actually really good as a whole. It just had a few bad toys (e.g. Buzzsaw) and lacked show accuracy. My top ten from 2000 would be: 10. Skydive 9. Blackarachnia 8. Night Viper 7. Deluxe Optimus Primal 6. Snarl 5. Megatron 4. Obsidian 3. Blastcharge 2. Jetstorm 1. Tankor If I could count the Dinobots, a few of them would be in here.

[@NerdRahtio]

I actually loved Buzzsaw, curious as to what you didn’t like about him?

[@benjaminwiseman6567]

@@NerdRahtio he looked dumb, and his gimmick was a stinger on a spring that didn't do anything. He shelf-warmed for years in my area.

[@QueenStodge]

Breaking the rules is the best way to go

[@tonyjackson4078]

Curious how a BM list would play out, I agree Thrust gets too much hate. For a not show accurate motorcycle guy he's pretty nice.

[@EungsuLee]

Come to think of it, doesn't Wingfinger (the fossilizer dude) kinda resembles Skydive?

[@Megarover]

This list is basically what toys from Beast Machines were actually worth playing with.

[@calebjohnson3537]

well i guess the good food is gone

[@blimbam]

blastcharge is definitely gonna be number 1

[@benjaminwiseman6567]

Hey, I love him personally. TJ has made it clear that he thinks Blastcharge is too weird.

[@brickgaming4264]

1026!??!