Why Even Bother With The Masterpiece |

[@ThatToyGuy]

I've been told that this is supposed to light up.....mine doesn't, I'm chalking that down to it being pre production and mine just not working then. Yours should be fine if it does indeed light up.

[@DeathInTheSnow]

Nah, man. This whole line is just bust. This is a bloody awful look for a company. Normally they give away the freebies with additional paint apps or with collector's cards to make the toy/promo item look good. All you got was loose joints, a wing that falls out, a waist that comes off, and some free dirty tape to plug the hole.

[@Salty_Balls]

My prime won't light up either. Tried 3 different batteries. 😢

[@Gametester110-qf8vs]

I'll do one better: Why bother with the Masterpiece....at all? The MP line has been DONE to me for YEARS now. Ever since G1 2.0 hit the mainlines starting with Combiner Wars to the present. So much goodness, modern, good looking representations of every character you can think of, etc. *R.i.P Masterpiece line.*

[@Maximalguardian707]

​@@Gametester110-qf8vsindeed, every single figure in that line has massive issues, and they're so fricking expensive

[@marvinonstage]

​@Salty_Balls My Megatron eyes wouldn't light up either. The problem is they mash the LED electronics in so tight that they break the circuitry in the assembly process. I contacted Yolopark directly and they will ask you where you got it and to take a picture of thr electronics (So you will have to disassemble the head) and send them the Pic. I did that and got a new circuit board sent to me in the mail in about 2 weeks.

[@mrakimbo19]

Reviewing these is great for interaction because everyone who dislikes non transforming toys has to tell you

[@Saiyan1229]

Exactly😭

[@voltronimusprime3833]

4:52 "Deadpool fell over and landed on Megatron's crotch." Goddammit Deadpool!

[@Fuz_noodle]

Definitely sounds like a deadpool thing

[@KrisPSouls9258]

My daughter is definitely going to want that. Starscream is her favorite character.

[@Qublidon]

This is so wholesome to hear!

[@Ryder-a-Blaze]

I usually hate paint chips but I think it’s cool that this figure is embracing it

[@j0hn00]

It's just because usually a paint chip is a mar on a pristine looking figure. When the paint chipping is done purposely and done well, it makes the figure look realistic, like battle damage It also has the side bonus that if the figure's paint actually chips, it doesn't look out of place at all

[@MrReverbdeluxe]

I don't know if your copy didn't come with batteries or working lights, but the eyes should light up like Prime and Megatron did. All the promo pictures on Yolopark's preorder page show the eyes lit up and it's even listed in the features as "Detailed Head Sculpture & Eye Lighting Effects".

[@ThatToyGuy]

Hmmm....maybe it's cause mine is pre production but yeah I got no lights working then

[@theStridingRebel]

ain't that funny how the RED Starscream mold has a waist swivel, while this and pretty much almost every g1 starscream toy doesn't?

[@MinimusAmbusIII]

Don't. You. Fucking. DARE. Act like r.e.d. EVER did ANYTHING better than yolopark. You wash your mouth out with soap.

[@ZeroesToHeroes]

I absolutely love your reviews, dude. So hilarious and informative. Pre-ordered this guy immediately when they announced him! Megatron and Prime just came in yesterday and I'm super happy with them! I really hope we get Shockwave! (Shockwave fan here lol)

[@octobotimus]

I love how all starscream’s for some dumb reason are scared to use a small faux part of the cockpit to allow rotation. Deformatiom space starscream has a full 360 waist and still looks just as good.

[@rammsteinfan884]

The lack of waist swivel isn't yoloparks fault it's just the design of starscream I can't think of too many seeker figures that have a waist rotation

[@Crimson_Crow88]

Most 3p have them, it's not so much that it's hard Moreso how much you wanna follow the toon look

[@waterh2o299]

True

[@Saturnlock]

They could just pull an Armada Optimus and put the waist joint below the skirt. Or they could have had the top parts of the skirt rotate with the torso. There were so many other solutions to this problem than to just not bother. And this figure doesn't even have the excuse of needing to transform.

[@JDRider02]

Funny enough the RED series Starscream does have a rotating waist not hampered by the canopy

[@dustyyshellz1320]

Yessir and the ones who swivel look awful doing so

[@atthesync]

The hands on the yolopark figures are based on the cartoon I believe, they look large and human-ish in g1 often

[@magosd0minus]

I love the Yolopark figures. Not transforming is a shame but you're paying for amazing paintwork and great articulation. The lack of a waist swivel is a shame. Would have been nice to let us maybe pull it up and out. It would look weird but weird articulation is better than barely any.

[@mustard3331]

Wdym not transforming is a shame? Who cares if it doesn't transform

[@magosd0minus]

@mustard3331 Well I'm sure most people would prefer they be capable of transformation considering the whole gimmick of Transformers is them turning into vehicles. I personally don't mind it much

[@yozzzeh]

tbf even if they had made more space behind the cockpit, I feel like it's still going to bump into the red bit on the side, which probably leaves you with the same amount of swivel, while also takes away the structural integrity of the cod piece, which may or may not be needed for the bits that shift up and down

[@RedFlame796]

I think it's a case of the design limiting articulation, I don't see how you could make the cockpit a solid piece while keeping part of it going into the croch and still retain articulation

[@coolcrusaders7778]

I like transforming my Transformers, but I also like Yolopark. I think a collector can have an appreciate both. That being said, these are a good value overall for the price and likeness of the character. Also compaired to the mp these things are strikingly close in likeness. The mp transforms but I've heard many just leave them on shelves in bot mode and rarely transform the mp. These figures could be paired will with model kit vehicals as well. Overall this starscream looks great and hopefully they will make the seeker trio. Thanks for the review.

[@KarltheCarGuy]

i wonder what a Yolopark Soundwave or Shockwave would look like

[@JoesMama-ci3yl]

8:09 he does have LEDs, not only is it in the product shots, it’s in Prime vs Prime’s review.

[@ObsidianXprimex]

4:52 “oh your poor wife”

[@Mystic2760]

_"this is embarrassing"_

[@voltronimusprime3833]

"All the dinosaurs fear the T-Rex."

[@Tantotron_]

He does have LEDs?

[@helltrackz04]

thanks for the review! i preordered thanks to you. love starscream and can’t wait to find out how i want to display him!

[@JasonSawyer]

Feels like they could've put a rail inside the waist piece for the cockpit to slide into on either side without ruining the stability. And - they didn't include the trademark Starscream evil grin! That's just unacceptable to me.

[@deceptigtar]

They could have easily had a track carved into the waist so when you turned the waist the cockpit would just move into those groves

[@stephenmaximo4017]

Wow!! A $100 MP scale Starscream? If I didn't already have the 3.0, I'd grab this in a heartbeat. Also, Skywarp and Thundercracker.

[@thefirstguyjaek255]

We need a similar silhouette in a Hasbro figure. They’ve already proved they can do it with the new SS86 Prime. The current seeker mold is not good at all

[@Tantotron_]

They could have easily made a fix for the waist swivel. Not sure why they didn’t. Otherwise, I LOVE THESE! I am buying and dreaming when the Bayverse Bots come out! Knight Prime Looks EPIC!

[@APR-oe1pz]

Perfectly in character for Deadpool tbh xD

[@PrimeB127Smokescreen]

Deadpool being Deadpool without trying and behind marvels back is crazy😂😂 Plz Deadpool review

[@Quill538]

I love how they look battle damaged reminds me of skybound

[@juzoinui4627]

I might get this guy , he looks so close to the MP , I love Yolopark

[@The_Bulette]

HEAVILY debating flipping my MPs an just grabbin this an the megs to go with my Marvel Comics mainline figures.

[@mikelamacchia6297]

I wouldnt mind new hands for megatron more like what starscream has but black

[@TheGreatSoundwave]

I would love to see them do a model of Soundwave and Grimlock

[@RodimusMinor1987]

Can you swap the heads on Oprimus and Starscream to recreate that scene where Starscream was disguised as Optimus I hope that we get a Wheeljack Hotrod and Glavatron

[@meowm.7108]

You can ive seen another review where they do it

[@RodimusMinor1987]

@@meowm.7108 Awesome

[@kevinlee6672]

No more MP figure for me!!! Yolopark got my money 💰. Keep them coming Yolo!!!!

[@didIet1]

you only live once?

[@thetruth1013]

Just got the yolo megatron in today. Gonna get this one when he drops! Gonna get the ss86 starscream from Ollie’s and keep him in jet mode

[@Hazel-II]

Have you ever thought about getting energon omega supreme? Its a pretty unique big boy.

[@pixelprowl-ib7fd]

hehe ima get him now

[@nintendoconvert4045]

It’s all about that waist, ‘bout that waist: no swivel. 😂 sorry I couldn’t resist

[@j0hn00]

The waist joint thing bothers me so much. On the MP, sure, it's gotta transform which complicates things quite a bit. On this guy, you could just have the red pelvis part hollow behind so that turning the waist lets the bottom part of the cockpit slide behind it, if that makes sense

[@saberwing7930]

Why even bother with the Masterpiece? Because I want my Transformers figures to, I dunno, transform? Kind of a core part of the concept. However, I can see this being useful for collectors who might want to have a figure in both modes. You can have the MP for vehicle mode, and then get this for robot mode. Then you can display Starscream alongside his jet mode.

[@kirbymarchbarcena]

I hope the official release will no longer have the issues shown here.

[@divyarajsingh2004]

Should have designed the cockpit to sink in the torso to facilitate waist swivel

[@TheHalf_Canadian]

"why bother with the asterpiece?" because it transforms? like a transformer is supposed to?

[@spacegoji1954]

Yo I’m the 200th like :D love your content btw, keep up the great work

[@Qublidon]

The sidecrunch adds SOO Much! But it does suck that they flopped on the waist swivel… anyway! I feel like instead of buying a $300 Figure. You get to buy the well articulated version for $60 dolars AND you have enough to buy the smaller Studio Series version. I mean look at how a lot of studio series are Mini MPs! Even if they start doing commander version of every character, still way less than the MP! $60 for Yolopark articulation and $70 for commander studio series!

[@khaniqbalam2071]

Will get him soon 😊

[@scarletscout2598]

I can excuse the most of the build quality as a model kit builder Since it is advertised as a model kit I assumed all of them have to be handled as a model kit with caution

[@MaskedCyclistMook]

No waist swivel on a non transforming figure? For how much? Heresy.

[@JasonVoorheesUnstoppable]

Hot take but I would have preferred a waist swivel over the drop down hips

[@JRJohnson1701]

Masterpiece were nice at the start, but are just too 'toon accurate' which translates to: little to no paint or detailing, complex/fiddly transformations that just aren't fun and take too long, transformations that don't match the original toy, and so on. I moved on to the Earthrise scale because it's cheaper, and it's relatively G1 accurate, and Toyhax makes it feel more G1. Only downside is the vehicle modes aren't licensed, so they're inaccurate. I do wish there were a 3rd party that would risk doing Earthrise scale real-world alt-modes, relatively G1 accurate transformations with as few concessions as possible made for modern poseability and robot-mode looks (Sunstreaker MP had a partial chest due to Robot torso scaling, which I thought was ok). For example, SS86 Jazz was great, but he needed the doors come of either side, and his feet were not entirely accurate. I don't need the metal skids, just the rear window of the car to split onto either leg like G1. Sideswipe is another. The arms should have the doors hanging off them, and the legs should simply fold in like other figures (Cyclonus, for example), rather than flip upside down, which is not accurate to the G1 transformation. Just start with the vehicle modes, make them in-scale to one another at 1:32 scale and real-world accurate. Then, make the robot mode scale as closely as possible to the scale chart we see online from G1. Study the G1/Diaclone/Microman transformation, and do that, but then make the fewest concessions possible due to modern poseability and engineering (hands folding into arms instead of popping off, etc). Finally, make the robot mode diaclone accurate, except where the animation departed radically, such as Trailbreaker's head. And for Ironhide/Ratchet, those are special cases that should be studied for their most common transformation and lose the sled / mecha look of G1/diaclone. Wheeljack does need some help with his alt mode in comparison to G1. Earthrise is just...off.

[@shifty0212]

No Megatron in gun mode for an accessory? That’s a little weird for a Starscream figure.

[@coolcrusaders7778]

@@shifty0212 that came with the Optimus

[@shifty0212]

@@coolcrusaders7778 Ahhh. That explains it then. Strange to put it with Optimus & not Starscream though.

[@coolcrusaders7778]

@@shifty0212 there is one scene with Optimus using Megatron in gun form in G1. I think that since yolopark is contracted they have to wait for each character to be approved by hasbro. So that means they might have just decided to put it in with Optimus in case they were only able to make those two characters in the amk pro line.

[@rihaanbagrial9625]

Have you seen the Yolopark amk prototype tarn yet?

[@RonLorLeona]

Wait what? No LED light feature? That's not cool, that's not cool at all! but I still like it, I'll still gonna buy one😃

[@DylanAdrian-B1112]

Hey toy guy can you keep adding the song get through

[@OverBenthousand]

Honestly I don’t care about LED eyes. I painted over the eyes of both my Optimus and Megatron because I don’t like the dead eye look on the shelf. These are my favorite Transformers figures but they could take the LED function out of them completely and take 5-10 bucks off and I’d be fine. Looking forward to getting him next month. Optimus and Megatron are damn near perfection when it comes to aesthetic and shelf presence.

[@YaboyAJ_NG]

Yolopark would be great if it had a scale. It's too big for mainline and it's too small for masterpiece

[@michaelp9061]

Tbh this put the MPs to shame. Absolute banger

[@King_Shockwave_]

Yolopark its killing it

[@DeathInTheSnow]

You mean their business model? This feels like the TF Red series all over again...

[@MinimusAmbusIII]

​@@DeathInTheSnow no the fuck it doesn't. Don't you fucking dare compare yolopark to those shitty rubber, out of scale, inaccurate, breakable pieces of plastic shit. The red line was an actual dumpster fire. Every amk figure so far from Yolopark is a slam dunk.

[@Peixeflito]

​​@@DeathInTheSnow Bro, you're comparing a piece of plastic with a figure with metal, incredible articulation and LEDs "but It doesn't transforme" ok that's your opinion and that's Fine.

[@MathematicalMike]

I wish the paint job on my masterpiece collection was as good as this…

[@Arklegend2169]

Are the blast effects for this compatible with other figures or does it only work for starscream?

[@360degressboy]

You can say this isthe closest will ever get a skybound style figure 😆

[@MinimusAmbusIII]

Skyboud starscream is literally just g1 starscream. Idk what you're talking about.

[@banobobot]

The hands the way they do because they want it to look like the animation models, which have those kinds of hands. Less mechanical and moreso human gloves with bands around each joint.

[@astrocigarettes1072]

Yes Ive heard of Air Commander Starscream

[@returnedtomonkey8886]

There are so few mps that are still worth it now. One of them though imo is MP13 Soundwave. Looks great, easy transformation, and can hold 3 cassettes at the same time. Esit: It just hit me. Hope they make an amk pro galvatron,

[@adachi3984]

looks like shit and acoustic wave sweeps

[@DragoonMS]

Why bother with the MP? Because while the process is annoying as fuuuuuuck - and this is true of MP3, MP11, and MP52 - the MP molds actually transform. And daaaaaamn, the jet mode on MP52 is worth the annoyance. So the "chipping" layering technique is basically the battle damage/play wear that Hasbruh tried and woefully failed to pull off with Siege. (Though that Wreckers G1 toy colored repaint of Siege Springer does a much better job of it than literally everything else in Siege, not sure why Hasbro couldn't sustain that) Huh. I hope - if they didn't do it already - that they do a retool of Optimus to include a compatible Starscream head & wings...yesss!!

[@HazeBre3]

I will buy a Thundercracker if they make one

[@unorthdoxcleric6953]

Damm it looks good. Yeha the hansa RE SLIGHTLY TOO BIG and yes he should def be able to swivel those hips

[@Cdr2002]

I think I kinda hate cartoon accurate to a fault Starscream figures. Like… him specifically

[@MinimusAmbusIII]

What's the problem???

[@Cdr2002]

@@MinimusAmbusIII half of them can’t figure out waist swivels, his hands tend to look kinda weird, and his faces are always super weird looking to me. Like his face didn’t… stretch like that in the show. The heads always feel too wide as well. What was wrong with the MP-03/MP-11 head? Was that not hyper-accurate enough? And why do people act like Maketoys Howling Meteor basically doesn’t count? You ever notice that? It’s weird

[@MinimusAmbusIII]

@Cdr2002 his face absolutely did do that in the show, but most of it comes from his facial expressions in the movie, since those were way more expressive. The waist swivel thing is not an accuracy problem, it's a company problem. It would be extremely easy to give an accurate starscream figure a proper waist. (Crimson wing) the head thing I kinda understand, but I really don't see that as much of a problem. The hands in g1 were always just human hands with gloves on them since mechanical hands would be too hard to animate. I do think that is weird also, and I much prefer idw's style of hands.

[@Cdr2002]

@@MinimusAmbusIII yeah crimson wing is cool

[@laurencegoldenstar]

Brilliant review

[@transformabrick5372]

Bought ss Starscream (06) and he’s missing parts 😔

[@braydenpage1808]

4:50 Deadpool did that on purpose I'm sure of it 🤣

[@StaticZenn]

Eh its really cool but im not a big fan of transformers that dont transform tbh

[@sarahteel8731]

HotTake! The R.e.d toy line is overhated!

[@Megatron44567]

Fr

[@waterh2o299]

It was alright but could have been WAY better

[@MinimusAmbusIII]

Absolutely not 😂 that shit was a dumpster fire Stop coping

[@BrownDracula]

Everyone..its YOLOPART...not PARK lol

[@Fuzzball_gaming]

NO WAIST SWIVEL!?!?!??!?!?! 💀

[@andrewg-jj1bg]

Hope they send tlk Optimus prime that should be releasing soon

[@onemansvideos2134]

arm removal cool battle damage

[@thunde_from_httyd2]

Ummm hey toy guy do you know who glyph is ?

[@usuck1883]

This figure puts the Super 7 Ultimates version to shame…

[@fireconvoy3804]

"Why even bother with the mp" It can transform

[@thatonequeergundamfan71]

and you don't even transform it The issue with you people is that you talk this much about a tf not transforming yet you guys barely transform it and complain about inaccuracies

[@steveplaceholder6522]

4:53 that's something deadpool would do

[@ThatRandomDude14]

This or their megaton may be my first non transforming transformer

[@michaeljohnson4624]

Love starscream

[@W0LF2000-]

Nah i found a way to pooth ss86 bumblebee

[@Lukusprime]

I’m on a budget but I’ve learned that if I compromise based on my budget I’ll just be disappointed and buy the expensive thing eventually anyway, so for me I’ve learned to just save the money I would be spending on the “compromise” and just wait until I can afford the thing I actually want.

[@Decepticon.mp3]

I feel like tarn is the strongest out of all of them, the rest are terrible..

[@LuntshTabilGaeming]

Ok 👍

[@DeathInTheSnow]

I appreciate you demonstrating how badly put together this toy is. I had seen quite a few people saying their past Yolopark ones had quality control issues, and now this is the third one in a row (fucking tape? Really? In the demonstration unit used to promote the toy?) that has them too. You can still SS86 Coronation Starscream at a discount for around $50, and he can transform, has way more accessories, and a throne. He also doesn't fall apart, which is the biggest dealbreaker for me. So I thank you for being honest enough to show us all of the flaws.

[@gaylordfocker7990]

You can get the 3P Deformation Space masterpiece for $70. This thing is worthless.

[@Alexius01]

I dont really see flaws except the waist joint. Still a solid figure which will add a lot to anyones collection

[@OverBenthousand]

“All the flaws”? He didn’t complain about many flaws at all and coronation star scream is ass.. A lot of you guys unreasonably hate “non transforming transformers” because the Bot mode is so focused on that the ones that Transform look like crap compared to it. I would rather have a damn near perfectly faithful robot than a meh robot that turns into a shitty looking jet.. and coronation SS also had ZERO waist articulation.. so.. on that aspect these two have the same “flaws.”

[@DeathInTheSnow]

You guys are protecting _hard_ about this. Like, "I'm an employee not paid enough at Yolopark" levels of hard. I mean, he literally had the wing fall off, made a huge point about the waist not rotating (which is a pretty basic thing to achieve these days), and he demonstrated that by having the waist pop off easily, only to reveal it could potentially _pop off even easier_ were it not for the tape somebody wedged in there. And to top it off, it doesn't even light up like it's supposed to. Literally broken out of the box. And that doesn't include the fact he hates the hands, the faces and it's too short to be an MP, which is the comparison he tried to make.

[@Alexius01]

@@DeathInTheSnow maybe because he owns a pre production sample? Ever considered that? The figure is coming out in Q4 for the the worldwide consumers. Those early figures often come with issues which are being fixed. I have amk pro megatron and optimus, they both are solid with tight connections. And about that waist joint.. You can obviously see why it is not possible because the jet canopy reaches into his lower section. even in his original G1 form. And who cares? Not even MP starscream was able to pull it off.

[@valarmathypalpanaban7928]

No ab crunch? Easy pass.

[@Qublidon]

He does? He lacks waist swivel, they honestly could have done an upper body swivel too like Primal!

[@valarmathypalpanaban7928]

@@Qublidon exactly, kinda disappointed that even a model kit couldn't do it.

[@martinbauzon7450]

🎉🎉🎉🎉

[@Hypercannon77]

I would never buy a transformer that doesn’t transform

[@JimmyRacchumi]

Starscream is failure lollolollol

[@tec5x5]

Does not transform easy pass

[@VAULT-TEC_INC.]

Please 90% of the people never transform the rows and rows of robots sitting on their shelves.

[@FizzySprinkles]

​@@VAULT-TEC_INC.I do

[@elitegamer21005]

So? Just because it doesn’t transform doesn’t mean it’s bad

[@nujevad28]

I'm in the camp of not buying expensive non transforming transformers.

[@waterh2o299]

​@@nujevad28 They cheap tho

[@Omar_ZX]

I like my transformers to transform thank you very much

[@W0LF2000-]

Hehehhe i can pooth ss86 bumblebee

[@Pseudoslotter]

Wsg

[@DevasiaMentalityGaming]

Get back to me when these figures are somehow NOT in an incredibly awkward size class that doesn't really fit with either mainline OR masterpiece...

[@floofer6699]

Non transforming figure.

[@onionrovirosa]

if it doesn't transform is not a transformers....yolopark ara amazing .... but needs to transform

[@thatonequeergundamfan71]

its a transformer literally

[@TJsVette]

Why get the masterpiece, easy, it transforms...I don't collect non transforming transformers period. Defeats the purpose.

[@thatonequeergundamfan71]

Yet you don't even transform it

[@TJsVette]

@thatonequeergundamfan71 i actually play with them lol. I work from home so I always have a few on my desk during the day while I'm waiting on work to come in.

[@thatonequeergundamfan71]

@@TJsVette brother you don't play a masterpiece figure thats the whole point why brother get a masterpiece figure when you're gonna transform it ONCE

[@TJsVette]

@thatonequeergundamfan71 not me, if I'm spending money on it, I'm going to play with it lol

[@TJsVette]

@thatonequeergundamfan71 that's like buying a sports car and leaving it in the driveway and never driving it. Why get it if you don't plan on playing with it?

[@grimlocktheking2010]

amazing

[@jmurray1110]

A booby trap that actually catches boobies