transformers that are NOT transformers

Hasbro owns the rights to the Transformers brand, but they don’t own the rights to the concept of a transforming toy. Today we’re going to talk about well known companies that tried to make their own transforming toys, and if those toys worked or not. From Marvel to Digimon to Jurassic World, many have tried to mimic Hasbro’s success.
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[@dumbjakeworld]

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[@MerilynBinay]

you.are.so.greedy.for.toys.disguting

[@SimplySunky]

I find the concept of the Marvel MegaMorphs toyline to be hilarious. Like, The Avengers created giant transforming mechs to take out that one small guy, and that's overkilling it.

[@dumbjakeworld]

Yeah I agree 100%, but tbh they never stopped making stuff like this. Hasbro’s recent MechStrike is almost the exact same concept🤣

[@serPomiz]

well, bandai recently made a few SHFigurarts of some marvel heroes, and marvel managed to make 2 storylines about that, and it gets even "dumb fun"-er

[@primalconvoy]

Why would THE HULK need a mech? Even if he did, wouldn't be just end up smashing it to bits from the inside?

[@f-106deltadart]

Apparently the designs are based on some old Transtech designs

[@eclipticsolar5441]

The one "little guy" is Dr. Doom so it's understandable

[@prowlus]

little fact . Marvel Megamorphs Hulk and iron man were based on cancelled toy sketches of Transtech Starscream and Megatron

[@A-Microwave]

well that's wrong, it was the marvel crossovers by hasbro not the megamorphs that were based on those sketches

[@sonerec725]

@@A-Microwave nope, it was megamorphs. ironman is based on starscream, and hulk is based on Immorticon

[@EddieDalmunda]

This is why most companies keep everything their contract holders make. I'd flip the designs too if I were in that position.

[@petergriscom3431]

I still wish we'd gotten that Transtech animated series.

[@damiangallo4185]

Neo shifters were like, bootleg Bionicles, shelfwarm like crazy, in fact, even 15 ish years or so later, some are still in my town local toystore, with the boxes being yellowed to oblivion

[@dumbjakeworld]

Thats wild!

[@Lunacy4]

can i have one ill pay you

[@HunhowsShadowStalker]

I had two Neoshifters. I don't recall much of the story, but the faction names make me think it's some kind of religious war of the righteous Paladins vs the evil Templars.

[@LordCrate-du8zm]

Where is that store. I need to know for research purposes.

[@thomasrdiehl]

I have a lot of nostalgia for the Happy Meal transformers. They transformed from a McDonald's menu item into either a robot or a dinosaur. Those were just great. I think they even had a storyline.

[@dumbjakeworld]

A total classic!

[@dubuyajay9964]

​@@dumbjakeworld Part 3?

[@thedigitaldummy3098]

Since you mentioned Bandai, a lot of gunpla have transforming features despite being model kits and not toys per se. It’s impressive how well they work since it’s all plastic on plastic. No screws or hinges to hold anything place. No glue either. Granted they don’t always look the best (looking at the HG Wing Zero). The MG Zeta Gundam Ver. Ka is a technological marvel.

[@primalconvoy]

You could also include: - Bandai egg beasts (skeleton dinosaurs, Dracula, Frankenstein's monster, etc). - Ghostbusters transforming figures (Toilet, scooter, etc turn into ghost monsters). - Heman rocklord things (can't remember the name). - Matchbox cars that turned into alien robot things (you opened the cars and pulled out the compressed "robot" and transformed it, etc. - Some other Hotwheels-sized cars that turned into robots/animals (can't remember the names). - Gobots, Rocklords (and all the other tf robot toys that came out in parallel to TFs). - Werebears (cuddly teddybears that turned into monster bears by turning their faces and paws inside-out). - TMNT transforming action figures (Leonardo turned into a fire engine, I think?) - Dinosaurez (or something like that) by Bandai. Metallic dinosaur and prehistoric mammal fossils turned into robots. The main bad guy was called something like "Gigano Dragon" and turned into a silver oriental dragon. - Happy Meal transformers (the ones that turned from food and drink into robots) - The precursors to the infamous "Botbots".

[@oldwarriorproductions6194]

The matchbox cars are called Parasites, The hot wheels may be either Robo Wheels or Attack Pack.

[@hiddenscorpiusXI]

Thought this was gonna be a video about the "transforming" toys which transformation is either bad or non-existent, like Robot Replicas, shell-formers, part-formers, etc.

[@dumbjakeworld]

Definitely a topic I'd like to cover in the future! Apologies for any confusion, I had a hard time titling this video myself. I hope you enjoyed it regardless!

[@Clueless_the1nonly]

You won't believe what video he just made...

[@neji667]

Those MegaBloks Neoshifters toys I used to joke and call them "Neoshitters" because literally any I bought or my brother bought broke immediately. Thank you for bringing back that memory!

[@taso8774]

The digivolving toys were my favorite toys as a kid. Season 2's toys were lacking to me but I loved season 1 and 3's toys. The digivolving playsets were cool too (evolved from one form to another, but also opened up to reveal a whole diorama inside of them with minifigs). I had all 3 of the season 3 digivolving playsets. I loved the digivolving toys so much that I ended up getting every single one of the rebooted Digivolving Spirits figures, even the blackwargreymon recolor lol. It's an absolute Travesty that they cancelled the new digivolving spirits line though. They had Gomamon>Zudomon, Palmon>Lillymon, Biyomon>Garudamon, Guilmon>Dukemon, and Impmon>Beelzemon figures in the works, but all were cancelled. They even showed prototypes of both Biyomon and Guilmon at toy shows, they looked so good, but never released. Hope to god they revive the line one day.

[@dumbjakeworld]

Wow I honestly didn't know digivolving spirits got canceled, that sucks. Was there a Wormmon playset? I either had wormmon or hawkmon, but I can't remember which

[@taso8774]

@@dumbjakeworld There's a Hawkmon one but I'm not seeing Wormmon, the line was called "Digimon Deluxe Playsets"

[@dumbjakeworld]

Thanks so much to everyone watching! This video is doing better than I ever could have hoped. Working on my next one now, will drop some hints in community posts so watch out for that and turn on notifications if you want to know when I post ASAP. see ya until then :D

[@ELCarnerojrLFDO]

In other words: Hasbro has a better idea called Transformers 😅

[@The_Fixit]

If you reply to me i'// sub and you are ool

[@Not_Not_Shark1]

Hey, bakugan isn't a transformers ripoff

[@dumbjakeworld]

@@Not_Not_Shark1 did I say it was?

[@dr.bright6272]

My car can become a dinosaur! Suck it traffic jams!!

[@russellhale8160]

Please continue this series. In like the early 10’s there were Switch n Go Dinos which were a lot of fun. They were extremely simple and had nice designs with little screens for eyes that would blink and stuff. Extremely fun for a kid. There’s also the Power Rangers Zords toys which were always unique and fun Hopefully those give you ideas!

[@dumbjakeworld]

I think I'll have to continue the series with all the great suggestions I've got

[@enigmatique1387]

Dude, Neoshifters, Megamophs and the Star Wars Transformers were my childhood!

[@TFanPage101]

I love the idea and designs of Neo Shifters. The only problem I had with the toys themselves was how brittle they were. It wasnt the quality of the plastic, the inner parts were too thin.

[@dumbjakeworld]

Yeah I wish I had mentioned that in the video because so many people have said this same thing. Bring back Neo Shifters Mega!!!

[@MisterSouji]

I like how he refrained from talking about the transforming Punisher toy.

[@dumbjakeworld]

LOL yeah that is a certified classic but also feels a bit like old hat, mostly wanted to focus on stuff people may have forgotten or normies have never heard of

[@joshuaglem1997]

As someone who's gotten a lot of the beastbox cubes, complete recommendation there. They're a little pricy for the size, but they make up for it with quality engineering and plastic. They're pretty dense and well made. The four monkey combiner is pretty baller. Also recommend the japanese crane, the ankylosaurus, archeopteryx, crab, and angler fish. The dogs are good, just a little complicated.

[@snoot6629]

52 toys and Luck cat in general makes amazing toys , there was a megazord one before thats well proportioned , articulate , transforms into boxes and into animals too , krazy shit

[@4FrogsStacked]

Great video! I was very surprised by your subscriber count, I thought you'd have somewhere between 20k and 120k. The video was entertaining, edited well, and scripted well. Keep up the KZbin grind, man! I think your future is very bright

[@dumbjakeworld]

Thank you, that's really encouraging. I have a new video dropping Friday afternoon!

[@MushaGundamMKIII]

Sometime in the 2000s, Bandai released a Zaku II figure that transformed into a Magellan Tank. Dunno if the line went beyond that, but it's neat to see something from Gundam that isn't supposed to be a transformer at all turn into something that is completely unrelated, and have both modes end up looking good. 2Old4Toys made a video on it like 15 years ago, and that's the only reason I know of it's existence.

[@JamiesonHorton]

Congrats on the success of this video! You explain things really well, and deserve the views.

[@dumbjakeworld]

Thanks so much. I appreciate that!

[@epsilonthedragon1249]

Holy shit. I HAD a Neo Shifter growing up. The Turbofly Shifter, apparently. I had no idea what it was, or anything, since I got it as a gift without seeing any commercials, but coming off of Metroid Prime and Sonic for the first time or two, I was in love with things that turned into balls. I wish I still had it somewhere.

[@EthanKironus8067]

SECONDED. I nearly fainted when I recognized the one I owned at 1:35 . I abused the heck out of the light-up eye/head. I can't remember if I had two, I might have. Blows my mind to know that they had a lore cooking, but I guess there's hardly a toy like that which doesn't.

[@MailOrderGamers]

You missed the TMNT mutator toys that transformed from normal version to mutated version.

[@blobfischli]

Love this video, but i have a small improvement idea: if you dont want to animate your character thingy, you could wiggle it around (A bit like the Shorts Creator "RoyalPear"). But thank you very much, please keep doing what you do❤

[@Sejikan]

good video but the dinosaur gets in the way of the commercials

[@TheAluren]

I'm not surprised you mentioned the Animorphs Transformers, but it WAS unexpected!

[@dumbjakeworld]

I always love to bring up those weirdos

[@KRBrickBot]

The Western transforming robot landscape is limited, probably because Transformers is synonymous with it, but besides Japan, Korea and China as of the past decade are absolutely killing it with countless original robot franchises. The most popular competitors are Tobot and Hello Carbot.

[@dumbjakeworld]

That's a great point! Maybe I'll take a look at some Korean and Chinese TF type toys in the future 🤔

[@sinteleon]

And there's also the classic bakugan, which has been around for quite a while now, and a mix between yugioh and transformers.

[@supersonicfan1444]

If you ever make a follow up video, one interesting line was ionix, a line of toys by spinmaster from the mid 2010s. They were different animals and humanoids/robots that transformed into lego bricks. There were some pokemon and how to train your dragon ones and an original ip called tenkai knights

[@TarsonTalon]

For some strange reason, I suddenly want transforming toys from 'The THING'.

[@dumbjakeworld]

That would be very weird but very cool!

[@heyheyitsjae2475]

1:27 Funny enough, I got a couple Neo Shifters back in my BIONICLE/Transformers days and didn't find them as cool as either of those, but I did love the little guys included.

[@dethkruzer]

I think this video does well to highlight how difficult engineering a transforming toy can be. Especially if one mode is an animal.

[@SynapticBoomstick]

I had the Animorphs T-Rex growing up. I kept it in dinosaur mode a lot of the time because the three human figures were just plain strange to look at. One was a regular dude who had these two huge dinosaur legs for arms and a blocky battery pack for a torso and the other two had heads and body chunks for arms or legs. Very weird but definitely my vibe.

[@dumbjakeworld]

I lost a piece at some point so I just had two weirdo figures 🤣

[@yoshi_923]

surprised you didnt mention the D&D Diclings. They're little 20 sided dice that turn into different D&D monsters like Owlbears and Mimics. I own the mimic one and I find it really fun to transform and the design really cool

[@Jcc2224]

Awesome vid! I've been curious about that T-Rex Jeep for a while so seeing you cover it made me wanna watch. I love "alternative" Transformers. They're not all great but some are really fun. I just ordered the big Gotham City Guardian off of Amazon for only 35 bucks, and given it was the flagship 100 dollar Christmas toy for 2023, I'd say that's a decent deal. I wonder how it'll turn out. Great vid!!

[@dumbjakeworld]

Dude thanks for the comment I love your vids, I just looked up the Gotham City Guardian and wow yeah 35 bucks is a steal. I would def watch a vid on it if you made one!

[@theprimo100]

That first entry unlocked a very old memory

[@pcjpeh0f9wh]

I've had an ear from one of those Gargomon toys in my unsorted bin of legos and i've wondered what it was for almost 20 years... I completely forgot about it until now lol

[@mimmikyute]

I rewatched the OG digimon series when it was on Netflix a couple years back. It’s not just nostalgia, that first season (50something episodes!!!) really holds up. Puppetmon still scares me.

[@jameshamaker9321]

neo shifters, does sound interesting as a video subject, as well as a type of robotic toy that turns into a car or something like a tank.

[@tunakann7629]

OMG I had one of those little ball guys in my big bin of Legos and I always wondered where it came from!!

[@xarakiel7724]

you bringing up neo shifters unlocked a core memory. i just bought a new in box one because of nostalgia.

[@Anton_Kalgin]

What about Macross Valkyries? These are transforming toys (and models), solidly from a different series and are pretty cool. One of them sort of became Transformer - Jetfire original toy is an old VF-1S mold. (Also, Mospeada fighters and armor-bikes, because someone will mention the hack-dub).

[@thomasboguszewski7288]

You can go back even farther! When I was little I had a bunch of transforming Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles toys that were clearly piggybacking off of Transformers' success.

[@dumbjakeworld]

Oh my gosh what a great point I totally forgot about those guys!

[@loonytunescrazy]

I got a lot of them too

[@Toy_Tomb]

The idea of The Hulk being fully hulled out but driving a mech for some reason hurts my head

[@red_crayon9771]

Really wished Gobots and even those Zybots were mentioned. Especially since a couple other transformer wannabes ripped each other's designs

[@seatspud]

I remember GoBots. And Rock Lords.

[@johngavin1175]

I like Gobots/Machine Robo. I had a couple of Zybots. Didn't know Zybots had a combiner till like 5 yrs ago,and it's very strange looking.

[@r.a.fgattaiguy845]

1:29 holy sh*t I´ve had this memory of a weird robot toy that I couldn´t pinpoint for years and it´s this thing, I´m subbing just for your help with that it felt refreshing to finally figure that one out

[@deriqdgraves]

You get a sub and like just from being a fellow Gargomon lover, but also would love to see you talk about more obscure or semi-related figures too!

[@dumbjakeworld]

Gargomon lovers unite!

[@damianl2108]

I can't help but see the jeep rex yelling "FIGHT ME!"

[@chutas]

Thank you for unlocking my Neo Shifter memory I had when I was a child

[@crazygalemt]

I have white noise for beast boxes I own. I hope they make an owl beast ride figure. As I would love that and seeing some more owls in 52toys line.

[@pupusaboi]

Bro you unlocked a deep memory with the Marvel Toy Biz. I used to have Spider-Man and it was like one of my favorites as a kid lol

[@pluralfuture9362]

So, fun fact. I had the Spider-Man MegaMorphs toy as a kid because I really liked Spider-Man and we saw it at a garage sale. But we weren't told it could transform, so I was always confused as to why his head could change into that more spider-like form. Unfortunately, we sold it ourselves when I was about 12, funnily enough in another garage sale. I can only hope the kid who got it enjoyed it. Or even funnier would be if it was still bouncing around, being constantly sold in garage sales because the kids who get it are just super confused about it. Though I guess nowadays it would be sold on Ebay or something.

[@MezTZO]

I used to have a collection of the Neo-Shifters character bios; unfortunately the drive I saved them on went kaput, and with the shutdown of the Neo-Shifters site I never got to replace them.

[@CoolPorygon]

If you ever get into 2000s MegaBloks stuff, definitely check out their early Dragons stuff. It was a terrible Lego parallel because it didn't have much rebuildability, but the pieces themselves were so cool. Lots of detailed structures, and the minifigs and big dragons incorporated metal/magnets in them for interactions

[@TrueNomadSkies]

Probably my favourite non transformer transformer (along with my random dollar store insect ones) has gotta be my ninja turtle transformer from the 90's. I think they were called Mutations, and the one I have goes from a Porsche to an action figure. His head goes visibly inside the car for car mode, and honestly I feel it still holds up today.

[@maskedriderweaver4122]

For the record, the Mega Morphs had their own comic. Each figure came with a mini-comic that was a chapter in the story, though later on they released a graphic novel or compilation of all of them. I got a copy off eBay. Also, while Shapeshifters was full of Spiderman characters, there were several from the X-Men stories and a few from the Avengers as well.

[@ultamate_am1goz679]

If you ever do a part 2, be sure to Include switch-a-go Dinos tbh that those were my favorite non transformers

[@dumbjakeworld]

Stay tuned, April 1st 👀

[@PixelaGames2000]

There’s this toys that I had as a kid, I think they’re called…Zoobles? They were little balls that would transform into these little creatures. I loved those little guys

[@dumbjakeworld]

I'll have to look into that! The name is definitely recognizable to me but I can't picure them

[@Not_Not_Shark1]

Those I'm pretty sure are just the girl version of bakugan. Bakugan is NOT a knockoff of transformers

[@ignika84]

I hope he does a video on 52Toys in general. It’s always nice to see Beast Box get some love. I have 30 figures already and I will eventually get more

[@craftboy338]

OH MY GOODNESS I HAD FORGOTEN WHAT THEY WERE CALLED, but I was OBSESSED with NEO-Shifters as a kid!!! Huge flashbacks!!!

[@mm39607]

Awesome video man!!! And they all look so so cool! I'd really like a video for each of the first 3 lines you showed, they look insanely amazing.

[@Pikachu0909]

"He's got pants now!" gold. absolute gold

[@T_PLAYER]

greetings, this video made me remember that i myself have owned bootleg transformers. i did some digging for about 10 minutes, and i seem to have found the toyline my parents bought from. its the roadbot line, and looking at the pictures, i know i owned several of them. i am from central/eastern europe, so i have absolutely no idea how well-spread these things were, nor how much of a quality product the roadbot line was, but i do know i had fun with them. my favorite one was a large yellow hummer transformer

[@dumbjakeworld]

Awesome I'll have to look into that!

[@airworks7809]

Roadbots were my inteo to tranformers, and they were cool. Simpler, but not trashy

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

8:34 I only remember the commercials for these, on the back of the comics.

[@RareVBlue]

The Gobots Rock lords toys were one of my favorites as a kid. They were basically transforming rocks.

[@matthewjoyner1595]

Bro you forgot the Dicelings from Dungeons & Dragons. They’re these creatures that transform into dice. They’re really fun and kind of silly. Love them!

[@dumbjakeworld]

Oh my god you're so right

[@bushybeardedbear]

There was a Beast Drive prototype that was shown recently, turns into a house cat and it's just adorable.

[@dumbjakeworld]

Absolutely. There's also a gorilla that turns into a bigass truck

[@bushybeardedbear]

@@dumbjakeworld I haven't seen the Gorilla Truck, I need to find that! Also, I think I might sub here.

[@dumbjakeworld]

@@bushybeardedbear thanks man I appreciate the support! I have more content on the way!

[@periclod1877]

my only experience with the last entry, is a black and blue spider man that turned into a bat, that mysteriously appeared in my room one day, hiding amongst my transformers shelf. To this day I have no idea where it came from

[@theamazingastronaut]

8:06 Toybiz was actually bought by Marvel. But then Marvel went bankrupt and had to make a lot of deals.

[@Mecharnie_Dobbs]

1:20 Could these have inspired the asteroid like forms of the Bayverse Transformers when they first landed on Earth, two years later, in 2007?

[@dumbjakeworld]

Maybe! It would be a cool connection if they were!

[@legostarwarsman2111]

I had gotten a neo shifters toy at a birthday party when i was in like 3rd grade and totally had no memory of what it was! for years and years the pieces have been in my lego bins and completely perplexed me. I am so happy i coincidentally have gotten to the bottom of that! thank you so much!!!

[@dumbjakeworld]

No problem glad I was able to help you out in a small way :D

[@B.-T.]

You got a few dates mixed up. The Transformers Crossovers stuff mentionned early on was late 2000s (starting 2008) not early 2000s, and Hasbro snagging the Marvel license from Toy Biz was mid 2000s (iirc the Spider-Man 3 toyline was one of their first things released alongside continuing the Marvel Legends line).

[@jonothanthrace1530]

I used to have a bunch of vending machine toys that were little (like maybe an inch or two tall) insect-to-robot transformers and they were my favorite for a good while. Granted, they were more partsformers than anything else, but still, insect transformers have always been a favorite and not enough of them exist.

[@HyperactiveProductions]

some great toys to check out are the Bakugan line. they are Golf Ball sized balls that have magnets and snap into cool creatures when they are place on metal

[@dumbjakeworld]

Oh you don't have to tell me, I'm a cerified OG Bakugan Master!

[@Tonk.mp4]

3:34 im sure I saw that from an Korean tv show back in 2018 where there’s more of these..

[@StevenDolce]

Neo Shifters wasn’t the only transforming robot toyline from Mega Bloks. Remember Transforming Blok Bots?

[@thatswhatshesaid2777]

Technically, for Blok Bots you had to rebuild them into vehicles, kinda like Kreo

[@StevenDolce]

They call them partformers.

[@ElverGalarga-yy8hf]

Bro, I had the MegaMorph Spider-Man, it was so damn well articulated, and the feel of the plastic, compared to today's standards, was amazing. I really miss Toy Biz figures...

[@camhedmr_5593]

I remember these redbull toys/models which transforms from redbull cans to vehicles(the tall european can turns into a plane, and the stubby thai/chinese can turns into mini coopers)

[@Macktehduck]

the spiderman megamorph activated a memory of having that exact spiderman mech like I remember the slightly metallic spiderman and the chest opening I don't think I actually realised it was a transforming toy tho

[@petergriscom3431]

I have a Lopmon that transforms into Cherubimon, and the Lopmon form looks cute enough that I still display it in my room. Weirdly enough, I watched a ton of Digimon back in the day, but my brain retained next to none of it.

[@Prince_Of_Fish]

i had the spiderman and ghost rider megamorphs. that was a nice recovered memory.

[@AJordan44-]

I had two of the Marvel MegaMorphs, the Spider-Man and the Wolverine ones, they were freaking awesome to me. I loved mechs, transformers, marvel and any kind of robots, so it was very fun to me. I also had the Star Wars Death Star transformer, and that was amazing, but very complicated

[@Ch4osKing66]

My dad has all of the Marvel Megamorphs, he displays them mint condition still in the boxes in his office

[@Gumba117]

Mattel around the early 2000s had their own Transforming vehicle line called "Modifighters". They were kinda an urban take on transformers and they kinda looked like ghetto go bots lmao. some of the cars were kinda cool tho like they had cars like the scion XB and a Ferrari 430. u should check them out

[@3417gekkou]

I think multiple toys that transform into essentially the same thing but in radical different ways for one form, like with beastbox, is an interesting idea. Takara does something vaguely similar with the shinkalion toys since they're all bullet trains iirc but they're a lot more similar to eachother than they could be. The toys for super sentai series Zyuohger also flirted with the box mode thing in a more simple fashion as well.

[@dumbjakeworld]

I would be so into a western line of robots that just turn into trains

[@manjackson2772]

Hasbro's been doing that too, with the D&D Dicelings.

[@sinteleon]

And there's the king of these concept, bakugan.

[@techformsmaster930]

Beastdrive sounds like a more complex version of Switch and Go Dinos. Honestly sounds really cool

[@Testsubject276]

Man I remember seeing neo shifters in stores. I still have most of the parts somewhere but some of the plastic has degraded over time. God i miss Mega's original IPs.

[@NerdRahtio]

I have several beast box figs. They remind me of the animal bot cannon fodder in the Megaman X games

[@dr.bright6272]

I remember having the Boba Fett/Slave I transformer....for about a week before I lost it at the park.

[@Joyy_Da]

52toys (which Is Five-Two btw not Fifty-Two) Beastbox are so fantastic I have like 25 ATM and building big walls of cubes with all these little animals are amazing I'd definitely recommend getting the Owl mould, the new Squid Mould (Downspiral) and the new mythological White Tiger, BaiHu. They're some of my personal favourites

[@xenovious]

before beastbox theres another toyline back in the days that were pretty much a box aswell but w variety of accesories and playability Machine Robo Mugenbine(infinite combination) series

[@jamesblanco7323]

I got the big TRex that turns into a Jeep, and love it in both modes. The Jeep is probably more like a Mini Cooper in terms of proportions, while I just love the TRex mode. For what it's accomplishing, I think the kibble is acceptable. It's crazy to think that, at least when I got it, it was only a few dollars more than a deluxe class Transformers toy. I love it, couldn't resist grabbing one on Amazon.

[@thekoifishcoyote8762]

I used to have a couple you didn't mention. One was a robot that turned into a dinosaur I got from a zoo, while another was a power ranger (black jungle fury if you're wondering) if you're interest that turned into a motorcycle. No clue who made either but the dino one was pretty well done if I remember right.

[@GolfPapa01]

Thank you for reminding me of Neo Shifters and unlocking a big part of my nostalgia

[@kyleyuen245]

I got a bunch of the star wars transformers, both the older and newer waves. I think of the 3 old ones (vader/tie advanced, obiwan/jedi interceptor, anakin/ jedi interceptor) i think both interceptors are broken in some way. Of the way smaller newer ones I gave like 4 or 5 and like them more than the old ones because they're less unweildy and while looking worse they cover more characters Would love to see you you talk about them

[@Starcrafter23]

Oh shit, I actually had the Wolverine Megamorph, I feel like a core memory has been unlocked.

[@jonathanwarrdddedcxddeecec4787]

I have two neo shifters. A green one and wolverine. They are made outta really brittle cheap plastic and break very easily. I’ve done my best to take care of the two I have but they have many broken parts .

[@jonathanwarrdddedcxddeecec4787]

I have the somewhat rare copy of the original dvd release of the digimon movie with the original poster too but the poster has seen better days

[@UnfamiliarEyes]

I once saw a bootleg transformer at a dollar store with Beachcomber’s head. I thought it was pretty funny they chose such an obscure character for it.

[@B.-T.]

Just the head? What was the rest of him?

[@AxZelAnimations30]

Might wanna check some random Chinese KOs. I'm pretty sure there's alot but one that definitely comes to mind is that Thomas the Tank Engine combiner.

[@Captain8ball]

1:40 oh my God I had these as a kid, my dad got them from Ross I had a red one and a green one neoshifters, but they were so fragile. The parts were like bionical, but all in the worst ways. The pieces were pretty much irreplaceable since The parts were unique only those sets. Also, they were extremely top-heavy.

[@LuluTeala]

how is the jeep/T-Rex a shellformer, not a shellformer and a panelformer at the same time? That's hilarious. I kind of want it just because of how much I love T-Rexes though.

[@dumbjakeworld]

I'm the same way lol, it looks bad but also... kinda want it

[@3_14pie]

that dog that turns into a box is just straight up blade wolf from revengeance lmao