The Weirdest & Worst Transformers

[@mrsundaymovies]

Big Transformers fans might be upset I said Letters For Algernon when I meant to say Flowers for Algernon. Forgiveness?

[@baronroaster404]

I was steaming. Why no mention of Beast Wars, the ultimate transformer spin off

[@mrsundaymovies]

Because Beast Wars is LEGIT.

[@ianunger6985]

@@mrsundaymovies Yes.

[@markpiland2614]

You want forgiveness? Get religion.

[@doctormalcolm9259]

Ngl transformers robots in disguise 2001 and tf armada were underrated in my opinion. The starscream in armada was epic and skybite in RID was also epic. Both are epic

[@Xezian]

"IM ABOUT TO TRANSFORM INTO THE MOST POWERFUL WEAPON IN UNIVERSE" *transforms into a normal gun*

[@eddiethatvoguy7901]

uh that "normal gun" was powered by very highly unstable anti-matter in that episode. Sure it nearly killed him, but that's the price you pay for....ummm....temporary power...? I guess. IDK, megatron & cobra commander made really bad choices!

[@Remember_Bubblebutt]

@@eddiethatvoguy7901 haha, *W E L L , A C T U A L L Y*

[@flameconvoy7424]

†XΞZIAN† to be fair the tiny handgun hit like a bazooka so it was hilarious

[@MallThat]

It makes alot of sense that Megatron would have a tiny gun lmfao 🤣🤣🤣

[@Suisai13]

LOL, that normal gun one-shot killed half my beloved Autobots in TF the Movie though :(

[@louisalectube]

Fun fact of annoyance: Fortress Maximus is supposed to be a fort, and as a toy is larger than Metroplex, who is a *city*.

[@The_Punisher]

Exactly

[@toalesovikk7168]

That's not prime

[@Rejukem]

Metroplex was awesome in Fall of Cybertron

[@tgatt5759]

@@Rejukem I think you mean omega supreme

[@LoganBluth]

But he's the maximus fortress. He's fortress to the MAX! He's the biggest fortress anyone could possibly imagine, like..... 20 FEET ACROSS! (That's bigger than a city, right...?)

[@KingOfMadCows]

I believe the Rock Lords were easily defeated by the Paper Kings.

[@acgeewhiz]

You wouldn’t think so, but thems the rules.

[@angbald]

Unfortunately the paper kings were destroyed by the Scissor Sisters.

[@cartoonhistory353]

The scissoring sister have entertained the arena

[@thanos3784]

I'd have went with "Scissor Sultans", but good on ya.

[@trueblade444]

Y'all beat me with the scissor jokes

[@danielfoster7892]

“Grimlock dumb again” I was crying my eyes out😂🤣

[@Warsie-Fan]

As much as I love the cartoons, most of them where dumb. The in-universe reason why Grimlock talks the way he does is a malfunction in his vocal processors. It works to his advantage because his enemies misinterpret him as being stupid when in fact he is not.

[@HOTD108_]

@@Warsie-Fan There's a big difference between a story that is deliberately simplistic, and a story that is dumb.

[@Warsie-Fan]

@@HOTD108_ Relax, whatever you say pal.

[@Commander_Shepard.]

Most G1 episodes were pretty simplistic, but majority of Season 3 and 4 got unbearably dumb.

[@Warsie-Fan]

@@Commander_Shepard. Best episodes IMO, 'Heavy Metal War' & 'The Ultimate Doom' (3 parter). Best artistically drawn episodes IMO, 'Microbots' & 'Call Of The Primitives'.

[@Tremain]

Broadside might have been lame but that scene you showed where he flies in as a plane transforms into an aircraft carrier and crushes devastator and THEN he goes into robot form and gives a thumbs up is pretty much the best actual fighting scene in the original cartoon. THAT'S how transformers should fight, using their alt mode and mass shifting as part of their fighting, instead of just being robots who shot each other that happened to transform occasionally.

[@MockeryManor]

Tremain 100% agree 👍🏾

[@jamesianhutchison1165]

And this is exactly why I think Transformers:Devastation is the best Transformers game. The environments are a little bland but the combat is an absolute dream.

[@joshua7529]

@@jamesianhutchison1165 Who do you prefer using in Devastation? Also, it's always nice to find someone else who has played that game.

[@jamesianhutchison1165]

@@joshua7529 In all honesty I play all 5 (7 as I picked up the limited edition with Nemesis Prime and Red Alert) on a loop. Still trying to farm/max out my S+ Grade weapons. Kinda hit a wall when I unlocked Magnus difficulty though. Horrendously difficult to time your counters and parries! 😅

[@joshua7529]

@@jamesianhutchison1165 I've given them all a shot, but I prefer playing Optimus Prime and Grimlock most of the time. Also, I've also tried hunting down SS weapons, but some of them can't reach that level. I was sad to learn that Prime's Energon Axe cannot reach a grade higher than B.

[@woody_you_want]

A cheeky YMCA joke = a well earned like

[@maryautumn2465]

ARCEE: sarcasticly "Hey Jack, you're a human, build me a small intestine"

[@Keltrunner]

James and nick are the best thing since sliced bread.

[@luc_8710]

you mean since Betty White?

[@magnamic5614]

OMG! I’d love some sliced bread right n... ...be right back. I’m back BABYYYY! I made a BIG SANDWICH! Yummy. (of a barn)

[@Keltrunner]

Just made a big sandwedge now with some betty slideced white bread. =)

[@narcspector]

Corn of Cobbolin™ creators

[@ajet0452]

But are they the pitts or the pits?

[@alerioflores8182]

the scream at 9:25 did it for me, there’s the only serotonin i’ll be getting for a while.

[@LastAphelion]

Kinda want that clip as a react more often now ngl

[@battleupsaber462]

I'd argue that the Action Masters actually were in retrospect a really good thing for the Transformers franchise. Why? Because it was the first time Hasbro made new toys of several of the first-year characters from 1984 and 1985 (Soundwave, Prowl etc.) It was the first time Hasbro realized that the characters themselves had become popular enough to sell toys. Compared to before, when Hasbro simply viewed them as product names that could be replaced once the next wave of toys hit (hence the infamous mass slaughter in the 1986 movie).

[@EDZ1LLA]

I found this utterly fascinating

[@PredaConvoy]

I agree totally. As a kid in the UK it was not only a way to get characters we loved that had stopped being available, but also some who had never seen release on our side of the pond (I got Blaster for that reason!) I'm also fond of the Action Master original characters, Krok and Kick-Off for example.

[@ronnyclayton194]

In the beggining the toys were felt to be more important.But after the first season in1984 the show and charachters were what made it so special by mid 1985 even if the toy figures are so unique they could have just added more transformers instead of killing their major animated charachters that 7 year old children like me when I seen the 1986 movie slaughter most of the cast that me and many other children had formed a bond with.

[@Brickerbrack]

Not _quite._ The first re-uses of characters were Powermaster Optimus Prime, and then the Classic Pretenders (Bumblebee, Jazz, Grimlock and Starscream). And I think it was actually the response to Prime's death that convinced them of how popular the characters were (and also convinced them to modify the GI Joe movie so Duke only went into a coma for a bit)...

[@sprinkle61]

The mass slaughter was the best thing to ever happen to a children's show. First off, generation 1 sucked, especially that dumb red van and ambulance. I was cheering inside when they were summarily executed. Second, the new transformers were noticably better toys, especially the two Decepticon Double Changers, Insectacons, Devastator, Dinobots, Blaster, and Perceptor. Some of them were silly, but all were very memorable, and it was a new character overload. Third, that movie was intended to be a little edgy, and that is a good thing. A movie version of a TV show NEEDS to be noticeably better than the show, so its worth going to a theatre for. If you were at all into Transformers, you HAD to see this movie, because everything changed after it in the TV show, so you were CLEARLY left behind if you didn't see it.

[@maxxfelton2673]

I can’t believe this one guy does the voice for Nick and James EDIT: This guy does the voice for James, Nick, AND Mason

[@Phuongyyy]

I believe you mean Nick and Mason

[@maxxfelton2673]

Phuong Le I’m such a fool

[@willhancock2453]

AND the dog!

[@maxxfelton2673]

Will Hancock how could I have forgotten? He’s at least one of the kids, too right?

[@niclennox2555]

Who Voices MasO?

[@doggedout]

I found "The Choking Hazard" transformers kind of distasteful.

[@adamgrogory]

Please tell me what that was

[@garethholman1050]

I agree, if you're choking then it really wouldn't taste very nice at all.

[@pathevermore3683]

nah, the transforming punisher figure was made by toy biz, not tomy/takara/hasbro. edit: oh, you meant LITERAL chocking hazard, nevermind then.

[@rickdavis32]

Thats because you shouldnt taste them!

[@sprinkle61]

I thought they tasted pretty good, until they stopped going down, then it was a problem. If they didn't transform into a small paistry, there would have been much less chance of a hapless human trying to eat them...

[@agustinpereira3128]

Not Maso making a Kate Bush running up that hill joke 2 years before stranger things brought it back 💀

[@itsabroom8402]

"The Character was 22 iches tall...cost a hundred US dollars...the absolute stone on these guys to put out a toy that big" Hasbro: *Laughs in USS Flagg*

[@mr.osclasses5054]

RIGHT?! I only know of one person who claims to have had the Flagg. That thing was a monster and I had zero hope of getting it. I felt accomplished when I got the General, but that was well after the popularity was dropping around 1990.

[@StageRight123]

@@mr.osclasses5054 I actually had the USS Flagg when I was a kid. I saved up my allowance for like 6 months to buy that thing. It was 7 feet long if I remember correctly.

[@roguelead72]

I was just thinking that, shit once you outgrew that thing, you could use it as a coffee table.

[@Takeshi357]

Also Fortress Maximus got reissued. You can get him for 200-300 dollars. USS Flagg in the other hand has _not_ been reissued.

[@sonerec725]

*laughs in haslab unicron*

[@christopherstoudt1446]

"Transformers! Upon sent disguise" -- what 9 year old me thought the commercial jingle said

[@r0yaltyproductions642]

Lol I thought it said Robots in the sky 😂

[@holdenwynn2195]

I always thought it said “Ninjas in the skies”

[@-libertyprimev1-902]

@@r0yaltyproductions642 see this is what I thought all the Flying Transformers had to say...

[@Cheesypotato57]

"More than meets the eye" to little kid me was "Normanintsiaye"

[@raam726]

I also thought it said robots in the sky

[@emmaseckso1870]

Props for the “Kate Bush style” reference a full year before her resurgence 👍

[@ericrobles7530]

These guys are very underrated. One of my fav KZbin channels

[@MCUHQ]

1.18 million subscribers

[@thuggy222]

I 100% agree they deserve much more love

[@josephikrakowski1137]

Bruh they have 1.8 million subscribers Yep that’s pretty underrated

[@samjackson9560]

Josephi Krakowski *1.18

[@pepsififa3205]

Guy that's exactly what I was just thinking

[@Zalaczar90]

You guys should do a review on Netflix series: Transformers Siege!

[@raven4152001]

- i'm sure they will. It's not like they have a whole lot of movies to review. 😄

[@BryanTheBigMac]

Is It Out?

[@haydosthemagician1427]

Its out now i think

[@cartoonhistory353]

It just got released 😂🤣Mfs haven’t even got threw episode yet

[@DJSockmonkeyMusic]

War for cybertron came out on Netflix Australia yesterday

[@adamaumiller1144]

That Kate Bush reference was one year too early to be topical. Shame.

[@gkm077]

“Kate Bush style” is a world class joke... with no problems.

[@FasterThanSoup]

I read your comment before that part came up. Agreed - world class.

[@inthedeadhours]

I wish I could be on this team of writers...perhaps God will swap our places.

[@dvt1393]

That was indeed perfection.

[@zephilandevol]

Wuther you on about...ing... heights

[@Transfixed]

A Kate Bush joke in a Transformers video, and it's not even my birthday

[@JakeTylenol]

“Let’s take a break from transformers” *makes another transformers video*

[@GBHickz]

fun fact: when the dinobots appeared in the comic, they talked normal. Then they dumbed down how Grimlock spoke for later issues.

[@walrusArmageddon]

Say what you wabt about dumbing him down, but grimlocks voice is *iconic*

[@scr0ngle108]

Brain (matrix?) damage?

[@digdugdoggy]

The pretenders, dont you mean instagrammers? Zing!

[@mrsundaymovies]

GOT EM.

[@digdugdoggy]

@@mrsundaymovies you called flowers for algernon letters for algernon. It has been you who has been got, my friend.

[@grahamthiel2254]

@@digdugdoggy ZING

[@EasyCure0]

They prefer to be called "influencers" but the only thing they influence is me to vomit.

[@ricbaines1424]

Broadside, whilst technically 'a boat', is specifically an aircraft carrier. As his other mode's a plane, this is probably one of the most extreme examples of size-changing.

[@jamesperkins191]

20 ton plane into a 80,000 ton aircraft carrier

[@sibylsaint]

I was that kid. I had Fortress Maximus and I loved it!!! 25 years later, facing homelessness, I sold it to a collector. I'll never get it back. Seeing him here in the video brought back a lot of happy memories.

[@rolandbaldwin]

The best thing about Grimlock is in the most recent cartoons he's been incredibly smart and eloquent and only does the dino voice in dino mode.

[@Quantum_Magnus]

Loving all this Transformers content. While it’s mostly negative, I’m always down for honest criticism for it. Love the transformers forever.

[@dajokahbaby1506]

Well most of the negativity is directed towards Micheal Bay

[@kuniosaiki]

As long as the negativity sticks with bayformers (tbh most of the fandom thinks like these dudes anyways), then it’s calm.

[@ryantheanimator1156]

@@kuniosaiki I still have a soft spot for the first Bayformers, I think that was the best one out of the bunch, though.

[@kuniosaiki]

Ryan The Animator I agree, the first movie ain’t that bad, it’s just slowly downhill from there.

[@srj34]

I'm surprised Ratchet and Ironhide weren't worth at least a quick mention, since their faces were just a windshield.

[@BBmetalhead04]

If you think these are weird transformers, two words: Kiss Players

[@BBmetalhead04]

Deusvultimus Maxgenitalius You’re not the only one cursed with knowledge.

[@995ahmedbarakat2]

Oh no.

[@frick_____you]

I think we'd all like to keep pretending Kiss Players never happened.

[@ThreadBomb]

I just now learned about this genius idea. Damn, I wish there was an anime of it!

[@doctormalcolm9259]

@BBmetalhead04 oh lord kiss players. I don’t want to remember that

[@MightyMurloc]

Years later, I think this is maybe my favourite video of yours, you both have such unbridled joy in your voices for a franchise who's live action movies nearly killed you.

[@Rav_Ram]

They made the transformers in the early 2000's needlessly complicated to transform. As soon as i attempted to transform one i would just give up and never touch it again.

[@maxbrandt6]

I feel your pain, there was this Ultra Magnus toy I got for my wife's little boy for Christmas 2002 that was exactly like that and with an instruction pamphlet about 17 feet long when fully open!

[@BagOfMagicFood]

​@@SirGrimLockSmithVIII Add in Beast Wars Neo!

[@derdes4475]

*looking at my Transformers Masterpieces* Yeah.... About that...

[@karenkreidler286]

I’ve never heard this tfs season theme “autobots triple changers battle the evil forces of the decpticon triple changers” What season was that from?

[@thegrouchization]

@@karenkreidler286 Probably from a commercial.

[@brandonbyers9944]

When I heard the YMCA comment, I was both stunned, and amazed by how beautiful it was. Truly, we have hit peak comedy. Thank you James. Thank you.

[@MegaJSK123]

Man, that Shia scream gets me every f*cking time! 😂😂😂

[@teddy-fl6hm]

It always works, you could use it in any context and it would be hilarious.

[@Midrealm_DM]

4:00 - Broadside was not afriad of water, the gyroscope in his balance center was faulty, causing him to become seasick when on the ocean waves.

[@roguelead72]

I thought Silverbolt was the one scared of heights.

[@andrewsuryali8540]

@@roguelead72 Both of them were. The difference is that Silverbolt powers through his fear while Broadside just cowers.

[@jamesperkins191]

I loved the Dinobots. In the original cartoon, they were talking about making new Autobots, the kid says, 'Dinosaurs are strong, why not do them?' and Wheeljack just does it because he's a scientist, but he's a MAD scientist.

[@ZoMbArDmEnT]

I just discovered you guys yesterday and I can’t stop watching your content. You two are hilarious to listen to and you bring up such amazingly good points in the Transformers Universe and Man of Steel Universe Caravan of Garbage

[@purplepulpinc.8504]

"...like a babooshka doll" Two Kate Bush references in one vid? I think somebody's a fan *wink wink nudge nudge*

[@jaxontee3201]

6:05 it all makes sense now. Daniel Craig has no time to die because he’s too busy transforming and fighting off decepticons

[@ThreadBomb]

We need a James Bond/Transformers crossover.

[@HarmoniousFists7]

9:23 editing keeps me coming back

[@ForPetesake552]

Great video!! You guys brought back a lot of characters that I completely forgot about. Well done.

[@Kinnakeeter]

The Dinobots were frigging awesome. I was already crazy about dinosaurs when I was a child and the Dinobots just made it better

[@denisarabinka3508]

Ahahah, when you said "Babushka doll" i lost it. It's actually called Matrioshka doll in Belarus and Russia, and the word Babushka actually means "Grandmother" and an elderly woman in general. It's hilarious that english speakers actually call this things Babushkas) it's kinda dark honestly,old woman stuffed with smaller old women Damn,now I'm creepped out

[@Corbomite_Meatballs]

It's like a Baba clown car, and they're all piling out to nag you about eating and how cold they are.

[@andrewsuryali8540]

I remember a funny political Matryoshka doll I saw a few years back in a tour. It was Putin - Medvedev - Putin - Yeltsin - Gorby. It took me about a day to figure out why there were two Putins there, but by the time I caught on and wanted to buy it, the tour group had already left the city.

[@romxxii]

Not even a single mention of Rung, the Autobot whose alt mode was so ridiculously dumb even in-universe he didn't want other Autobots to know what it was.

[@LunatiqHigh]

You remember the official Transformer cards? Grimlock is one of the smartest among the autobots.I think I remember him having something like a 9 out of 10 on the intelligence scale.. Wasn't he described as intelligent in the comics too? I know he took over the Autobots a few times and saved them a lot. Didn't he take over the Autobots a few times too?

[@poldivina27]

3:50 ben from canada (editor) doesn’t disappoints on every “but joke” 😂

[@whatsorry4914]

this video was actually edited by RAWcollings, they have a rotation of a few different editors that just all have a consistent style to fit the vibe of James’ channel

[@poldivina27]

Got it!

[@kurosakid5201]

Good video and some excellent edits there from Collings! Well timed too with that new War for Cybertron Mini series hitting Netflix today. I vaguely remember owning a Hot Rod and RC toy when I was kid. I also remember my friend had a Fortress Maximus and a Devastator and would never let me play with them 😑 I was more of a Beast Wars kid anyway 😂

[@Joltimus22]

You didn't even talk about Reflector, the Decepticon trio who all combine into a single camera? I'm absolutely loving all these Transformers videos guys, keep up the great work as usual.

[@bignasty4874]

Also, wasn't Reflector kind of the opposite of a gestalt? It was 3 bots, but one mind, even when separated...I think.

[@Joltimus22]

@@bignasty4874 Yeah, I believe so.

[@treynevs4888]

I remember Transformers once had a tie-in with Animorphs. I had a big one that was Jake, Cassie, and Marco combining into a T-Rex. I think I got it for my birthday or something. It was very strange, but I loved it because I was all about dem Animorphs.

[@toyotatacoma1616]

I vividly remember finding one of those, Tobias I think, at my middle school library. I had no idea why it had all the transformers branding (honestly I still don’t), but it was exactly the thing to appeal to 10yr old me.

[@thelicensednerd1626]

My god this was great you should do something along these lines more often like a toyline throwback

[@Meatle.]

Fun fact: Peter Cullen and Frank Welker voiced gobots and rocklords,they also voiced optimus prime,ironhide,megatron,soundwave,and ravage.

[@timkinss]

Cullen also voiced Venger in the D&D cartoon, which I grew up never knowing

[@Meatle.]

@@timkinss That's pretty cool.

[@robvegas9354]

Peter Cullen also popped up on duck tales

[@maldon3659]

Peter Cullen also played Eyeore from Winnie The Pooh and Monterey Jack from Chip n, Dale Rescue Rangers

[@mr.osclasses5054]

Cullen makes a very brief voice appearance in The Goofy Movie. The song "After Today" at the beginning of the film, he voices the fat bus driver singing "I'm gonna sit on my butt."

[@aztektheultimatewoman]

A Transformer living inside Fortress Maximus would be like a human living inside a giant.

[@jamesperkins191]

The 2011 Meteoplex has stickers that are like windows, featuring several Autobots looking out... So even Scamper (included to man Meteoplex's emplaced guns) should massively out scale regular characters

[@welsh78]

“Letters for Algernon”? The guys in your book club are never going to stop ribbing you for that one. 😬

[@kevthepoet]

9:23 that edit! 😂👌🏾

[@OneNationUnderPug]

My favorite weird transformers are -Skullcruncher, a Decepticon crocodile who eats people because he self conscious about eating people. -Missfire, a Decepticon so bad at being a soldier he flunked our off the Decepticon Military College 4627 times.

[@Puggapillar]

i don't like being this early, it feels lonely

[@nathangathercole6888]

your are not alone anymore!

[@bryzantine1571]

I don't mind this time. There was an earthquake here at 4:30 am and I've been up since then

[@patricktsai2303]

Same

[@patricktsai2303]

@@bryzantine1571 stay safe

[@bryzantine1571]

@@patricktsai2303 thanks. Hopefully there isnt another one while I'm at work. Already made an emergency kit for my dog and and gave a extra key to my neighbor

[@BurnRoddy]

Oh man, the Rock Lords. _What a classic !_ It was Tonka's atempt to Make My Pet Rock Great Again. Even tho there was no internet yet the amount of backlash these recieved was legedary because sales were abysmal, however a cartoon series was probably all it needed for most of us kids who were into GoBots to have digged them silly things.

[@danjordan2625]

5:40 Maso was on that Kate Bush train early

[@TheCreator17]

6:05 You guys had the opportunity to put the new Halo Infinite Craig.....and you let it slip through your grasp. Great job still! :D

[@FutureDeep]

Hot Rod caught the opportunity first.

[@dilemmawhatson]

“Subscribe yeh I guess if u want” Man. If I wasn’t already subscribed, that delivery would’ve had me sold

[@ultramaximusreviews]

You can get the reissue Encore series Fortress Maximus for a few hundred dollars - and it's brand new but same old mold.

[@epicmadnesss]

When I was 7 I really wanted the deluxe edition Soundwave with all the tapes, I never got him. The first thing I bought with my first paycheck from my first job was Soundwave, I feel that vibe James, just fulfill your gribe and buy yours

[@mattshaw5179]

I remember rock lords! I loved them as a child! In hindsight they were really crap!!

[@epicmadnesss]

This reminds me of one of your earlier videos that actually made me subscribe to you back in 2013, it was the top 5 worst transformers I think. Love this one

[@WolfA4]

Imagine naming your kid's cartoon rock themed character "crackpot", in the 1980s.

[@christianmanka3884]

HOLY SHIT HE MADE A KATE BUSH REFERENCE 2 YEARS BEFORE STRANGER THINGS MADE THAT SONG POPULAR!!!!

[@Rozza2k]

My older brother had a rock lord toy and I have only just realised that's what they are called after 27 years....I called him boulder boy ffs 🤣

[@suprizeoptomist4680]

Megatron: "I will transform into the most powerful weapon in the universe!" Also Megatron: transforms into a Walther P38... The most powerful weapon in the universe.

[@carlosr1176]

My brother has an entire room filled with almost EVERY transformer made. Even the big ones. My childhood is living in that room vicariously through him.

[@TheComixkid2099]

Waitaminute, I had one of those RockLord toys when I was a youth. I had no idea it was connected to Go-Bots.

[@Dorian_sapiens]

I just left an almost identical comment before I saw yours. Small world, eh?

[@Wolfman3077]

Yes they were, there was a animated movie called Gobots Battle of the Rocklords in which both species met. Thing that they got wrong though is that while nugget is a robot Rocklord the others were not robots, but aliens that were living rocks.

[@thedarknesscallingme]

Couldnt buy Fortress Maximus in the 80's, almost forty years later still cant buy it lol

[@jean-paulaudette9246]

I did have Skorponok, & absolutely loved him. He was one of the few I had whose arm didn't break off at some point. That was a real problem for my poor troops, losing arms. Metroplex's snapped off the day after Christmas.

[@cartkart1]

Ultra Magnus wasn’t a cost cutting measure, the Diaclone mold he was based on was another release of the Optimus mold with different armor

[@radicaldreamer]

At 6:08 when James said "Denver", I thought for sure there would be a picture of Denver from "Denver the last Dinosaur"

[@weavehole]

I was that child who got Metroplex (as a joint bday/Xmas present) but what’s worse is; by the time opening time came around I was just about too old to care about transformers anymore. So I played with it half-heartedly for a bit then eventually sold the whole collection to a kid at school who is presumably now a millionaire.

[@shawnabdulcarim1785]

I love the editing and dynamic here bloody brilliant stuff guys

[@rawcollings]

You're a gosh darn legend Shawn.

[@JacobHillSBD]

Man, you guys are really getting up my alley these past few weeks. Love me some Transformers. It's like it's my favorite thing or something.

[@WARWITHWARWICK]

5:44 niceee

[@eggocompo]

I would pitch it for them to have a fortress maximus they just need to set it up and make a video when they get it

[@cartkart1]

I love how Wheeljack and Ratchet were just like GUYS YKNOW WHAT WOULD BE *REALLY COOL*

[@quasi19812002]

Hot Rod - great looking toy, great looking alt mode. Requested for my birthday Rodimus prime - who's legs didnt even bend - what i got for my birthday. I'm not still bitter.

[@devonbohner4927]

Of corse when they’re talking about pretenders they don’t mention Sari. Let me explain- in 2007, Transformers Animated was released on the Cartoon Network- it was sorta like Hasbro’s way of cashing in on both the Anime craze and the Stylized-Teen-Superhero craze of the 2000s. Sari Sumdac was the Autobot’s human companion of this series- she’s Indian (I guess?) and voiced by Tara Strong- Aka the goddess of female voices. Hopefully she won’t go through any controversies surrounding this character in the next few months. Sari had this Allspark-Key-Plot-Devise thing that was created by the Allspark- ya know, that cube thin from the live action movies? Yeah, that. Everybody wants it, because it can A: create new Cybertronian life and B: solve everybody’s problems. Say Bumblebee gets hurt in some battle- Sari just puts her key in his port and boom- he’s back to normal. Witch kinda makes Ratchet’s inclusion in the show kinda pointless. But check it out, this is where it gets wierd- In the season 2 finale, Sari gets hurt, and there’s this big reveal show showing her skin- but it’s not human muscles- there’s light blue circuitry in there, it’s made out of metal. She’s a Cybertronian. A techno-organic, to be more specific. Turns out Isaac Sumdac- Sari’s father- actually found her in a Cybertronian stasis pod as a sparkling- witch is just a transformers version of a baby. She scans his likeness, and he adopts her as her “daughter”. She doesn’t take it well. Some time after, the Autobots are fighting a Rock Lord (yes, THOSE Rock Lords) and they’re losing. Sari decides to put the key into her chest- and it upgrades her, she goes through cyber-puberty. She looks about 16-18 years old now. She’s got a sorta Iron-Man looking spark on her chest. But that’s not all- she can turn herself into a Cybertronian. Her armor has the same colors as her clothes, she’s got energy blades in her arms, blasters in her arms, everything in her arms now. She’s a Swiss-army-Bot basically. And after this series ended, she never returned, not even in a cameo. It’s kinda disappointing, she had a good relationship with the Autobots, and the idea of a half human half Cybertronian can lead to some great storylines. And we still have no clue where she came from... TL;DR: My Life As A Teenage Cybertronian

[@cdubsoptional7849]

That's life in the big city

[@samishi2811]

Well yeah, of course she didn’t appear again once the series ended, basically no “human” characters ever appear in more than one series. Look at the kids from prime, or Sam from the movies, they basically always stay in their own respective continuities.

[@devonbohner4927]

Charles Johnston That’s life in the big orange spaceship we call home witch is also a Godzilla-sized robot.

[@orionlax626]

@@samishi2811 True, except for the humans from G1. The Witwickys all have several cameos in Animated, for example.

[@harperellenburg]

I'm here for all your Kate Bush jokes.

[@aipom004]

sammeeeeee

[@jonseyjones321]

Love the Raycon ad, ahaha. Raycon doesn't ship to Australia and we're Australian. Gotta Get Dat Money!

[@Kasaaz]

Great, now Denver the Last Dinosaur is stuck in my head again.

[@6thsavage]

You forgot my Ex! First we were very much in love and happy, then I transformed into a loser so she left me! It’s PC gone mad!

[@mr.osclasses5054]

Nice swerve. I thought you were going to say she transformed into a raging bitch or some other colorful term!

[@Freddyfan1428]

This had probably been mentioned before, but Broadside wasn't afraid of water, it was that his gyrostabilizers would get severely disoriented when he was floating in his aircraft carrier mode on the ocean, making him... well... seasick!

[@bjnowak]

Poor Ben looking all these clips up! Man ton of work

[@BelieveThePanda]

I appreciate being able to laugh within the first 30 seconds, these lads are a top class act

[@jaxontee3201]

We’re really going in on this whole Transformers thing eh?

[@thetramp123]

Did these movies break your brains or did they *transform* them?

[@bambro1349]

I would argue that saying they are all computers and therefore should be experts in computers us the same as saying all humans should be experts in biology

[@jonathanprince707]

I remember someone once told me Fortress Maximus could use other transformers for his head. Like the Grand Mal from Beast Machines, but I never could find any images to prove this.

[@MegaJSK123]

Beast Wars fans... where ya at?

[@46chambersoflife]

Its honestly how I was I introduced to transformers and I had to know more about them

[@MixedFeelers]

MAXIMIZE!

[@bastardskelly9239]

I know it's not that important but it just frustrates me when people do this. Hot rod/Rodimus prime isn't and mobile home or a wenibego or whatever. Hot rod is what people in 1986 thought a car would look like in 2005. Same with Rodimus except with a truck.

[@der_benson4478]

So the people in 1986 predicted the mid 2000's real estate crash and they thought the solution was for everybody to drive mobile homes? That's genius!

[@Armored-Cat]

Still have my rock lords, nugget and the silver dude, plus one that just transforms into a square.

[@jamesperkins191]

The silver one was pretty cool. And I try think the concept was unfairly maligned - they’re orbital free-fall troops, they hit like a Meteor, and then can fight survivors afterwards. With a good writer they could be hella scary.

[@unlimitedrabbit]

I once had a Transformers dream about an Autobot named Foy who was neither a Cybertronian nor a robot. He was a talking sentient tuskless bluish-gray earth walrus with a flipper-drawn Autobot symbol medallion hanging around his neck. Yeah. Although he looked useless, Foy had two super powers. 1. He was impervious to harm. He still felt pain from an attack but he wouldn't be wounded from the damage he took. 2. When Foy spoke his own name, anyone who heard it was overcome with a strong desire to physically assault him. This desire would vanish after the attacker struck Foy. None of the Autobots had ever heard of Foy before encountering him and they had no idea why he considered himself to be an Autobot. Optimus Prime somehow saw value in Foy and accepted him into their ranks. This is pretty much the worst concept on KZbin. Sorry for sharing. 😭

[@orangepotato2386]

The netflix transformers series is weird Optimus is so weird in that show. Siege

[@XplodingTurtle]

Maybe that's because it's a different version of him?

[@jimthar17]

Don't forget the GI JOE aircraft carrier was also a hundred dollars in the 80's.

[@MattRolls5280]

He's a rare triple changer. He can change into a jet but he's afraid of heights. He can change into a boat but hes afraid of water. There is a 0.0% that idea was conceived while sober.

[@henrypollock1886]

I didn’t watch transformers as a kid or play with the toys because I’m 15 but I enjoy watching these grown men talk about them