Here's 10 Ugly Transformers Repaints

[@Katarn84]

G2 Combaticons camo is pure genius. Why care about blending in an environment, when you can make the eyes of whoever looks in their general direction BLEED?

[@Kylorin235]

The G2 combaticons blend perfectly in a 90s arcade too! Seriously I lost Vortex as a kid by placing him on the birthday table lol.

[@larrychilders6599]

Or how about Combaticons in UCP

[@jaredhebert942]

I love the G2 Stunticons move than their G1 palettes for similar reasons, make brain go brrr

[@benningtoncheemingwan9168]

@@larrychilders6599 Which just makes it worse. At least G2 Brawl and Megs can blend into a jungle

[@larrychilders6599]

@@benningtoncheemingwan9168yeah they'd get killed

[@NightBladeSpearichu]

For the Cybertron Dino Megatron I just like to think he scanned an undead T-Rex for an alt mode.

[@mutagen28]

Bold to go after a G2 combaticon considering how many people love that specific G2 color scheme

[@Fuzzy_Barbarian]

TJ just isn't a rad dudicus

[@TheAxelandx1]

Yeah no, I don't like LSD Bruticus either.

[@thunderstudent]

I cringe every time I see that deco! 🤮

[@primusvsunicron1]

Now we need 10 Beautiful Transformers Repaints

[@tidepoolclipper8657]

Many Transformers repaints manage to be decent. Then there are the repaints that are worthy in heir own right or even manage to be better than the original. Favorites for me include Cybertron Galvatron, Siege Soundblaster SG-EX, Universe Toxitron, Robots in Disguise Scourge, Shattered Glass Optimus Prime, Shattered Glass Jetfire, Titan Black Zarak, Armada Powerlinx Jetfire, Armada Optimus Prime final colors animated version, Energon Tidal Wave before his energy scarring, Energon Demolisher, Generations Thundercracker, Generations Skywarp, Generations Hotlink, Deluxe Class Breakaway, Energon Omega Sentinel, Universe Landquake, black and green G2 Sideswipe, and Animated Starscream clones.

[@KRBrickBot]

I surmise they fail at color theory, too many primaries or too analogous or hues and shades are off, but moreso unattractive arrangement of colored parts.

[@ShadowPrime69]

color theory? matpat’s secret 6th channel?

[@otaking3582]

Shining Ultra Magnus is actually one of Optimus Prime's alternate color schemes in DreamMix TV World Fighters (minus the armor, obviously). Yes, I am a nerd that recognizes stuff like that.

[@tbonejenkins8807]

Sweet!

[@chickennugget481]

i think the yellow optimus is cool it's just that the piss onesie ruins it

[@bigstve61345]

Little known fact. Astrotrain loved Creamsicles so he changed his color scheme to reflect his love for them 🤣🤣

[@ufg2036]

I think he looks like he plays for the Denver Broncos

[@marsandcobblesproductions3501]

​@@ufg2036 Looks more like a Shattered Glass version of him

[@TheBowserPrime]

I actually don't mind how G2 Swindle looks. Something about the orangish-red and the purple camo on him kinda strikes me a little charming, even if it is garish. To me, a G2 figure I would say is worst is Slingshot/Quickslinger. Not taking into the account that the original G2 figure is a ticking time-bomb due to GPS, but I never liked how much he stuck out amongst the other Aerialbots. With the others, there's that uniform color scheme of blue, red, silver, grey, white all around them. And then Slingshot comes decides he wants to be the one to stick out and it just looks ugly with all the gold across him.

[@Toastman30K]

if you think Hong kong police cars are ugly, imagine a transformer turning into an irish Gardai Car (Gardai is the irish law enforcement) they too have neon yellow/blue decals over a white car, but depending on the car, the yellow blue can be as little as a stripe along the side, to as much as the entire side of the Slagging car! I've seen some where the only uncovered bit is the roof! Imagine that as a transformer, it'd probably glow in the dark

[@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho]

Shattered Glass Barricade maybe?

[@SlurpeeTheUnholy]

Your #2 pick is one of my most-wanted Transformers toys. I see where you're coming from but I just adore that militaristic color scheme for a jet transformer, especially with the USAF emblems on the wings.

[@evlynm]

Oh my, such a fun topic. Now we need a top 10 best garish repaints! :D

[@tidepoolclipper8657]

Tidal Wave's second color scheme in Armada is conceptually garish. Yet, it manages to fit Tidal Wave well. If anything, I remember his original overly purple color scheme the least.

[@redlion-paladin4609]

It's actually fitting that MP Soundwave is a 'Year of the GOAT' figure.

[@Cdr2002]

I think the G2 Combaticons are charming actually

[@actofcawd209]

13:54 The only part of that toy I like is the yellow and black Optimus Prime. However, you have a point, the clear yellow Ultra Magnus looks hideous, serves no purpose besides being a badly colored mess. Should've had some black and white parts on the robot mode itself to make it not look so ugly.

[@itsme-notyou]

The g2s are quintessential 90s. Every super soaker, inline skates, trapper keeper looked like this. It's garish but I have the nostalgia feels.

[@OptimusPhillip]

Honestly, the G2 Combaticons would've done better to just go with dazzle camouflage. It would still have been ugly, but it would've made sense. It's been noted that the Marvel Comics adaptation of the 86 movie did use yellow light for that Matrix glow scene... but seeing as Japan never _got_ that comic, I can't imagine that's what Takara was going for with Shining Magnus.

[@dn22pkkdd476]

15:42 the Robot mode looks like a Glatorian era Bionicle. I absolutely love it. So cool

[@Twin_Takoyaki]

It’s even cooler in person. Circuit goes so hard

[@kalelharrison2162]

I own the year of the goat MP Soundwave. I can get the issues with the colour scheme but overall I’m happy to own him. It was by far the cheapest way at the time to get an MP Soundwave complete with the all the cassettes without having to pay a crap ton on the second hand market.

[@dragonranger8456]

Big brain play right here...

[@TheAxelandx1]

Okay so I agree with everything on this list, except Circuit, that repaint of Hftd Axor is so good looking to me. I think it's amazing and I still really want one.

[@kendrickvieraramos]

13:25 look it’s urine Magnus

[@misterbadguy7325]

Circuit's a redeco of Axor because G1 Circuit was a redeco of G1 Axer.

[@tbonejenkins8807]

Piss Magnus is yellow because that's how the "shining" scene was colored in Marvel's adaptation of the movie. I have the Newage version of the guy and it glows in the dark, which makes it cool (IMO) and the transparent actually doesn't feel too bad.

[@SnyperMac1]

Well Tj, having 2 kids pf my own now i can assure you that baby vomit tends to be white, however other digestive discharges do come out that particular shade of green

[@harrisonwhaley7872]

G2 Combaticons were before their time. Rappers do camo like that on their fancy cars all the time. Look up Young Dolph’s fleet of cars he owned before he passed away, it was the white and red Russian camo that was popularized in COD

[@marcch72]

I think they also did a LaserPrime in the same deco as that Soundwave

[@DragoonMS]

They certainly did, which was odd: charge almost MP level money for a reissue of a G2 figure (which was the RiD01 revamp of the Car Robots retooling), alongside a reissue of an actual Masterpiece (with the same color scheme).

[@stevebazin127]

The laser prime is horrendous, but it's hard to mess up MP Soundwave.

[@DragoonMS]

@@stevebazin127 But mess it up, they did.

[@audiobotguy0357]

I'm suprised Armada Terrorsaur wasn't mentioned here

[@aqualiens4080]

Numbers 8, 7, and 2 are proof of the adage that one man's trash is another man's treasure for me. I loved Animated Roadbuster and BotCon 2013 Thundercracker. As an ARMY brat, I have always been an absolute sucker for military paint schemes, although I do acknowledge that they saturated the O.D. green on Thundercracker a bit too much. It's definitely kinda loud LOL As for G2 Swindle..."what was he blending into?", I hear you ask... ...the 90's, bro. He was blending into the 90's hahaha. As absurd as those paint jobs were, I did own them [G2 Combaticons] back when they were new, and I adored them. I could never explain why, but I had such an affinity for the G2 repaints (in general) as a kid. My favorites were the Dinobots, including that weird all-blue Grimlock.

[@Alexisilver]

I can say this about Desert Camo Brawl The tolerances are much better than the first version. He's got not trouble plugging his shoulders into place

[@XboxTF2Tidbits]

I actually really like that soundwave with the clear colour scheme

[@RialVestro]

I'm surprised nothing from the Universe toy line ended up in this list since you've mentioned it before and you could probably fill an entire here's 10 with just that one toy line.

[@mrheroprimes]

I have transformers collector club Circuit as a birthday gift one year.

[@Twin_Takoyaki]

Awesome

[@notrom5731]

The Astro train recolor looks like he was involved in some kind of transportation accident and was fused with skyfire/Jetfire somehow...

[@Traph]

That Machine Wars homage Thundercracker looks awesome to me.

[@thesharkkiddo8703]

Oh my god circuit is so bad I love it I forgot it existed

[@toysmostwanted]

I love my FunPub Circuit. He really pops on my shelf and I love that he looks so different from Axer and Lockdown.

[@Twin_Takoyaki]

REAL

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

Botcon cindersaur rains Supreme! Beautifully hideous! Or that piss trans-yellow titans return Sentinel Prime. Edit: ah yes, the second best painted version of the Cybertron beast megatron mold!

[@Bigdaddyweese]

Swindle looks like the Alley Viper from Cobra

[@robrice7246]

5:06 I know that BotCon stories repurposed this as an OG character named Star Dasher.

[@diegodankquixote-wry3242]

A Pirate verison of Astrotrain was an awesome idea!

[@BobTheAwesomeBob]

That animated one looks like brawn

[@Maximalguardian707]

I liked some of those colors

[@Cyber_Horse_Studios87]

“SpongeBob Brawl isn’t real, he can’t hurt you.” SpongeBob Brawl: 9:40

[@DJKCP]

21:00 If they wanted to go with a stealth soundwave, he definitely should've been all clear, at least he would be visually consistent

[@warrenlafnear3384]

Lol, what the heck would you call some of those colors? Do they even have names?! Lol

[@8U1KH34D]

Hongkong police? Um no? Its based on a British police car 😂

[@marceldebruijn5888]

My theory, as a Dutchman, is that someone at Hasbro is a Netherlands Enthousiast. The early Dutch flags were Orange White and Blue (but overtime the Orange became Red) And I LOVE this paintscheme!!!!

[@dustbuster9768]

You got it all wrong. The Combaticons are NOT hiding. They want you know they are coming to kick your butt!

[@tylerprime3547]

2:57 funny I’ve been working on doing a shattered glass theme combiner wars and thought about doing barricade in the theme of a British police car so yellow and blue and all that

[@mxes5938]

the most recent Buzzworthy Bumblebee Dinobot that looks like a skinned chicken with orange wrestling gear and chesthair, also Generations G2 Megatron, both regular purple/green and the combat camo version. offensively fugly modern figures in my opinion

[@dergrat]

My least fav repaint is Kingdom BW Dinobot

[@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho]

Dark Energon TFP Optimus gets my vote. I’m admittedly partial to the clashing dark red and baby blue, but that orange just completely wrecks the whole thing.

[@williampedroza6830]

I had the clear sound wave as a kid the plastic breaks everywhere you think it would witch is everywhere

[@RKStrikerJK5]

4:30 I never figured it out, either, but it was the best bet I had to get a new G1 Astrotrain. :p

[@HORRIOR1]

13:52 Ironic of this episode to come out right after the Rick and Morty Pissmaster episode...

[@soundblasterreviews376]

Damn where's universe silverbolt lol

[@ReaperRedeemer2112]

When I saw the thumbnail I immediately thought "Year Of The Goat MP Soundwave better be #1" and here we are.

[@dinoandy909]

It's funny, I only got Machine Wars Thundercracker because of this video. This feels like a color palette I'd hate under normal circumstances, but I just like it for some reason? Either way this was a fun video, I didn't even know half of these existed!

[@mattr75]

When I think of ugly looking color schemes, I often remember that BM Silverbolt had a pretty ugly one

[@SgtScorpious]

Hey hey hey That Green Megs is Amazing thank you very much

[@teletraaniv]

idk TJ, literally the only color scheme you mentioned on this that I agree with is Shining Magnus, ...well and Barricade, yellow just really a'int his color. But then again, I love a lot of these color schemes just for how outlandish and absurd they are. I also always kind of viewed Jungle Planet Megatron as some sort of undead version as a kid, so that always made the color scheme for that one just click more.

[@glenkelly898]

Yo TJ i hope youve been well, im 22 now and havent picked back up on your videos since i was in 8th grade, hope to see more of your videos on your feed, and just know you still got OG's in the subscriber lot🤙🤙🤙

[@OhioFanatic97]

Not limited enough, when I went to Botcon 2015, they were offering free toys to kids under 12. The toys were all unsold Machine Wars Thundercrackers. They had this giant bin behind the entrance desk where they'd hand one out to the kids.

[@Kefkaownsall]

At least the joints on the 1st entry aren't clear

[@PixelsNcreatureS]

I kinda want number 3 🤪

[@Twin_Takoyaki]

It rules.

[@BobTheAwesomeBob]

I’m ok with the orange on astrotrain if they painted it so the wheels and thrusters would be black it would help the unfinished look of the orange

[@otaking3582]

Personally I think it's fine the way it is. Maybe it's just because it reminds me of the spaceship toys I had when I was a kid.

[@LuminousPrime]

What most people don't know about the G2 Combaticons, is that the purple is not actually camouflage. They own their own vineyard and enjoy making wine in their down time

[@secoreymcfarquhar9551]

8:28 Maybe they're at Woodstock and the colors distract the hippies.

[@goemonbeatsnaruto]

funny thing is in some shops when preording fall of cybertron you get a code for g1 optimus skin (minus the trailor )or the g2 combaticons/bruticus skin

[@KRBrickBot]

Colored wheels on any car toy are unappealing to the adult mind, plus how do you get colored rubber tires in real life?

[@davewire87]

Got me a Super 7 Banzai-tron. Thanks for the extra discount. I was seriously on the fence with this one but your discount code on top of the Black Friday deal finally won me over.

[@Cdr2002]

That fucking Astrotrain made me giggle

[@TFormers2002]

How about the Year of the Goat Laser Prime who has a similar color to Soundwave. And adds pink to it.

[@larrychilders6599]

13:28 that is Piss Magnus

[@dexterdexter8208]

My theory on Platinum Astrotrain and Blitzwing is that they were canceled G2 color schemes that never even had artwork that saw the light of day until they were released in Platinum. I feel like that would make the most sense because just look at them hideous things.

[@chapeljohn9462]

13:24 Ooooohhh gosh, I've NEVER seen that much translucent plastic... on one figure!! ON ONE FIGURE!!!!!

[@MisterRickSinister]

ALL HAIL THE PROMO CODES!!!

[@mindwipe8788]

The Astrotrain I think is referencing WingWaver’s color scheme from Transformers Victory.

[@Twin_Takoyaki]

I actually really like G2 Swindle 😢

[@robrift]

They did the same for a Chinese Lunar new year G2 Optimus Prime they added black accents and chrome trailer, but it is quite hideous and I do like clear plastic toys.

[@rayvinson1414]

I kept expecting the Transformers Universe Silverbolt. The purple and yellow Beast Wars repaint was horrendous.

[@Ranma_Leopard]

Very enjoyable video

[@ultramaximusreviews]

I love my Year of MP Soundwave... so great in hand. & the BW Megatron is a great figure too the dino is awesome looking

[@hotwheelsbrothers687]

4:41 That could be SG Astrotrain!!!! For a modern repaint

[@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho]

SG Astrotrain would either be a Hiro from Thomas and Friends homage (black, gold and red) or Legacy Galaxy Shuttle with the original Astrotrain head as an homage to the Japanese release of original Astrotrain.

[@jaredhebert942]

@@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho the latter would work better as SG to me (the FunPub Armada Jetfire redeco/repurpose bores me), but I'd prefer the Hiro palette go to a new Autobot counterpart - considering how many molds have been shared among both factions over the years for different characters, I'm kinda surprised they never really did the same for characters like the Triple Changers to give the molds more to do

[@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho]

@@jaredhebert942 Maybe Hiro colors Astrotrain could be called "Grandpuff" (a nod to the RWS/Thomas story of the same name and the old D51 from RID 2001) or "DRX" (homage to Rail Racer's Japanese name).

[@Tanookicatoon]

9:02...Didn't they show way later on, that Cybertron does indeed have red and purple fire swamps? lol

[@amirrashidan3047]

The Cybertron Jungle Planet Megatron has a Cyber Key port at the T-Rex mode's butthole. Man if Jobbythehong gets his hand on this figure, he'll probably have a field day.

[@outpost206]

I like G2 Swindle because he looks like a Cobra Alley Viper.

[@toysmostwanted]

Needs a part 2 of repaints so bad that they became good. I nominate Prime Dead End and 2007 movie All Spark Power Incinerator.

[@tidepoolclipper8657]

I'd think some people would like to see you mention repaints you find to be nicer than the original version of the molds, outside of your favorites.

[@jaredhawken3692]

G2 combaticons said they were done with hiding and just got dripped out

[@keithdearborn6466]

I love the Soundwave figure, I love the copper and the clear, but you are 100% correct... it makes zero sense. Now, the most recent repaint of G1 Soundwave... Balintron, I think it's called, with the yellow smiley face paint job... that looks like Piss Magnus and YOTG Soundwave had a surrogate child through Chelsea Clinton, and dropped it off the ugly tree... and it hit every branch on the way down. Please do another top 10 uglier or Fugly repaints and add that one. This was a fun video!

[@demonwolf3286]

I think that bw megatron would look good in an updated figure (edit) I didn't know there's a orange creamsicle soundwave

[@mjlee29]

Circuit’s original figure came out in the 90’s and I remember when I was a kid that those 90’s neon colors were in popular on real vehicles, clothing, etc. However on a Transformer though, those colors will never be in style.

[@mrkicker11181]

Megatron legit looks like a ghoul

[@jaredhebert942]

Honestly, I kinda like the look as its own thing even if it's weird for BW Megs

[@ConstanceMists]

As someone who owned the botcon machine wars figures at one point, I still have the Starscream and Mirage, I actually like Thundercracker from that set and don’t think it was nearly as bad as any of the others

[@marknewland9314]

I’m surprised Universe 2 Heavy Load didn’t make it. The Safety Orange with the Toxic Green just looks gross to me. To the point where I redecoed the figure in Constructicon Colors and called it Mixmaster. World of difference!

[@drschonify]

I don't know. I kinda love that Soundwave.

[@tommy2longview]

I can't say I disagree with any of these choices although I don't mind the Circuit soo much. Not a great color match but I love the mold.

[@Trebleshot]

YOTG Soundwave reminds me of wrapped caramels from an artisan candy shop. But I'd argue that the J.Balvin version of his G1 toy is worse. Also if you count BW Soundwave, he did sport copper/caramel colors then. It was all GPS but it technically counts, haha.

[@hotwheelsbrothers687]

Did you add the Happy Holidays Optimus prime?!

[@sagebrooks6907]

Puke neon yellow is horid

[@tidepoolclipper8657]

I'm willing to throw in Cybertron Demolisher, Armada Encore Unicron (looks less like Unicron of Light and more so Unicron admitting tons of radiation), Unite Warriors Grand Scourge, G2 MotorMaster, G2 Mirage, Unused G2 Yellow Sideswipe, and G2 Camouflage Hero Megatron as more examples.