Not only was SnapTrap a favourite toy of my childhood, but I vividly remember the comic story arc which focussed on the Seacons as well. The ‘Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots’ play feature of the scapula mounted cannons was awesome and I could be mesmerised by causing the Seacon leader to repeatedly ‘put your guns up in the air, put your guns up, in the air.’ There was however also the UK Marvel comic plot line featuring Blaster and a female human character who somehow frustrated the entire Decepticon aquatic murder sextet in their own oceanic environment. Yes, that’s right - a ghetto blaster and a lady outsmarted and outfought the aforementioned sharks and piranhas with limbs. To this day I don’t know if it was the presence of SnapTrap or the lady being drawn in a bikini that has imprinted this on my memory 35 years later. Why can I recall this kind of shite, yet I can’t learn French?
@@Takeshi357- which comic run (UK, US it other) had the most issues or stories then? From what you’ve said there, I’m guessing that the US stories must have gotten reprinted or rerun in UK comics at some point as well? I was definitely not in possession of the money or specialist retailer contacts to be reading imports at the age I read this at and what I just assumed to be the only version of TF comics available then.
@@olyrhys8724 Marvel UK was just the US comic but with UK original stories sandwiched between them to pad it out since even though they split the US stories in half, the UK comic quickly caught up to the US publication rate on the account of being weekly instead of monthly. They did that a lot apparently. The old Star Wars comics have a bunch of UK only stories as well. Anyway I remember the story with Blaster and the babe at the beach vividly because it was one of the few Transformers comics I had growing up and it was the first chapter in the Underbase saga. It's pretty funny that they're introduced in that chapter and killed off in the last one, pretty ballsy of Uncle Bob to kill off a new toy.
@@Takeshi357that’s a really good point I had never considered - Transformers The Movie had that high kill count in the hope of selling more toys, yet backfired spectacularly in terms of public response. That was signed off by Hasbro and judged to be canon. What about cosmically empowered genocidal Starscream? Did his trail of destruction coincide with any discontinuation of toy lines? I remember a number of Pretender story arcs after Underbase Saga - was that deliberate as well?
@@olyrhys8724 I mean, yeah, pretty much everyone who gets offlined by cosmically powered Starscream is a discontinued toy. Almost everyone else who survives are characters introduced in '87 or later, with Seacons being the odd one out.
I love the puns, man, had me on the hook the entire time. Also love the fact that each of the limbs can turn into a .......uh....gun? for a Targetmaster mode. I can just imagine Snap Trap loaning them out to other combiner teams as excess weapons to earn a bit of coin on the side.
The way Skalor's fish arms are held out like that, I can't help but picture him hopping around like those Chinese ghosts with the dark circles under their eyes.
If you're bold enough to hack up your toys, you can give Snaptrap, and thus Piranacon himself, a head swivel. The head is on a square plank by itself, so if you unscrew the enormous amount of screws you need to unscrew to get to it, you can slice the corners off into a rounded octagon-type-configuration, and it swivels beautifully.
i appreciate you showcasing the targetmaster modes, usually people just presume they’re shite and skip past them except the one they legally have to do for showing the full combined form. i can admit they aren’t the most well considered modes ever, but i think they give the set a lot of play value in just fiddling around to find your favourite configurations.
Great review! I had the original Seacons. They were, and still are, fantastic. The simple idea to make weapons out of the smaller robots seems like it could have been adapted to ALL the G1 combiners. I do agree. The green head looks odd to me, The pinkish color of Overbite too. I seem to remember him as a purple color. Still a great set.
I've always thought the Seacons were a cool set, I've never gotten to experience them myself, though. I wish more late G1 stuff got re released every once in a while. I'd love a Headmaster Autobots set.
Those old plastic packaging. I miss the ROTF font on those packages, reminds me of the days when you could go to the store and the only starscream on the shelf looked like a broken dinner plate. Good times...
Hahaha, Still laughing at the puns at the end. Love the Seacons (That COLOR SCHEME!!!!) but my true love will always be for the Technobots and Computron. HASLAB or someone better give us the ultimate one, dripping in perfection, soon..... Or else maybe a LioKaiser.... but man... ain't Seacons pretty with all that Aqua Green and Pink? :D
Dublin City comics got a set of these in a trade about a year ago and Doc and I were going through the bits and we were convinced it was a KO, but I guess not.
I appreciate how in *depth* you went with those puns, they were *leagues* better than anything i could *cod* up with. Id even go as far as to say im a bit *shellfish* of you for doing so
As kids in the 80's, during half term and the like we used to have to spend the time at our Gran's cuz both parents were working. One time as we were being dropped off, we were told to pick a hand, left or right, and were given a Seacon each to play with. I got Nautilator, my brother got Seawing. So Nautilator is the best Seacon for these very scientific reasons.
I don't know a single fact about these toys outside of their Basics episode, but they're one of my favourite teams all the same. Probably because the Japanese names of King Poseidon and God Neptune are just so awesome.
I spent so many years trying to get a set of these guys and when I got them in 2016/2017, it was worth it, easily my favourite combiner nowadays, they're just goofy and unique
I've been slowly collecting the original G1 released seacons for the last few years and I just love them, so far I've got tentakill, seawing and nautilator all complete with in tact enough stickers, everyone else but snaptrap seem like a pain in the arse to find complete in a condition I'd be happy with though unfortunately, I wont let myself pick up snaptrap though until I have the rest of the team so I can enjoy them all individually as their own thing because I find them all so fascinating in their own ways. Maybe this year I can finish up the team but I've been telling myself that since 2020😂
Some very fish-ny puns going on here. I'm surprised Repugnus wasn't used for fish food. Got this set a few years ago. Nice set. My favourites are Snap Trap, Seawing & Overbite. Though I also have the selects Seacons plus G1 Snap Trap and Tentakil.
Finally, my favorite team has their time in the limelight. SeaWing was the only one I had as a kid, so naturally he's my favorite. Also I'm proud of Gavin for not opening up the Manta Ray mouth in robot mode, something I can say I've definitely NEVER done ever.
"My Barracuda was in the shop, so I was in a rented Stingray & it was overheating. I pulled into a Shell Station & they said I'd blown a seal. I said, Fix the dam thing & leave my private life out of it, ok pal?" -- Kip Adotta, _Wet Dream_
I bought the new Knockoff recently(which is weirdly green for some reason) and for £13 it’s pretty good, and owning an actual tentakill and watching this video it’s weird seeing all the changes that they have made, especially making Seawing a back pack, and downswing snaptrap to be core/legends scale. And just for the record Tentakill is the best Seacon, no competition.
I guess there technically IS a definitive set up for who is which limb based on his animation model that was only used for the marvel comics. (As seen on his g1 character profile by Bob budianski) Nautilator is the right arm, Seawing the left arm, Skalor the right leg, and Tentakil as the left leg
I honestly can't tell if that's true or something my mind made up over the years, but I remember seeing this on shelves at a store and thinking to myself ''wtf is that'' before leaving. Years later I feel dumb, but I didn't know any better at the time
By far my favourite combiner after Abominus but Christ...the idea of a shark with legs is probably one of my worst nightmares. No more mocking the toothy bastards down at the aquarium....shudder!!
I never had any of these guys. At the time, I was trying to complete the Terrorcons. Anyway maybe I’m just nostalgic but I will trade articulation for a good, solid toy any day. I know many G1 characters have their legs fused together or can’t raise their arms, but I just prefer that to the gangly and scrawny toys of today.
It took me a while to realize at 1:45 you're saying "there are six Seacons" instead of "there are sexy 'cons". Still, you would've been right either way. Speaking of sexy 'cons, I kinda wish Tentakil here could've become a standalone character that manages to eclipse his role as just a combiner limb like Swindle did. Accoring to his bio he's kind of a manipulative, silver-tongued devil who loves to weasel his way into the hearts of his would-be victims with false affirmations, lulling them into a false sense of comradery before wrecking their shit to Kingdom Come like the parasocial creepozoid he is. Oh, and he'd definitely be humming Underwater Love by Faith No More to himself while cracking chumps open.
Imagine of the Autobots had a counterpart to the Seacons called the Aquabots. They could be boats and ships. What do you guys think? What would the names be? Oh and we need a combiner name and 6 of them considering the Seacons are 6
I'm surprised by how much i like the Seacons, because i don't like when team members share a colour scheme, that's why i don't like the Aerialbots that much. But those colours and beast modes are too good to dislike.
aside from snaptraps head being green witch isn't a big deal cause I have the OG figure, my main issue is the plastic, its so fragile feeling, this thing is a display item only as far as I'm concerned, if I want to get a set to play with, Il hunt down some loose OG figures
Really wish any version of these bastards were easier to find. They're always some premium release. I should be able to buy the little freaks from a department store.
I have this set and Snaptrap has these springs that are kinda messed up, but otherwise it’s a good set. I still have my BotCon Seascons too, but the plastic quality of those is better.
Great review this is my profile pic. Mine is missing the weapons so I made most of there guns out of modeling clay and some lego so I can do there taget master modes.
Those puns in the end were so hard to swallow. No, that's a bird pun! Argh! All those plastics certainly seem egregious after a year or two of buying new toys that lessened them down to a bit, it sometimes does bother me when I do buy an old toy or another series when it makes me think of it having even a smidget of plastic in it. I will say, though, the neon colours certainly help make the Seacons stand out a bit, and make you realise how few neon coloured characters there are these days.
Interesting fact, Overbite was supposed to be the targetmaster, but Nautilator is just so fucking stupid and incompetent that he ended up being the gun
Hold on, is this set really Gamara and an assortment of his monstrous rivals? Were the designers binging old kaiju movies? Could then just not agree on which limb design to reject and so had to pretend it was also a Targetmaster?
I've tried to speak more like my actual self this video - kinda like I used to do when I started. Felt like I was getting further and further from how I talk - putting on some kind of weird accent that folks could easier understand. But fuck that. Y'know?
The Seasons are the best combiners
I love the seasons too
Fall is my favorite
Primus is the reason...
Based and agreed
There should really only be 4 of them 🤷♂️
I think Hasbro should do another version of these guys for Legacy.
The Takara ones are hella expensive.
Core Class Seacons? 🐚
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Yeah and the takara ones could have used better design aesthetics.
There's a KO set of these guys that are core class, essentially. It's pretty good a for crappy KO set, haha
and they deserve to not be a bunch of prime wars retools
Not only was SnapTrap a favourite toy of my childhood, but I vividly remember the comic story arc which focussed on the Seacons as well.
The ‘Rock ‘em Sock ‘em Robots’ play feature of the scapula mounted cannons was awesome and I could be mesmerised by causing the Seacon leader to repeatedly ‘put your guns up in the air, put your guns up, in the air.’
There was however also the UK Marvel comic plot line featuring Blaster and a female human character who somehow frustrated the entire Decepticon aquatic murder sextet in their own oceanic environment. Yes, that’s right - a ghetto blaster and a lady outsmarted and outfought the aforementioned sharks and piranhas with limbs.
To this day I don’t know if it was the presence of SnapTrap or the lady being drawn in a bikini that has imprinted this on my memory 35 years later.
Why can I recall this kind of shite, yet I can’t learn French?
That was a Marvel US story
@@Takeshi357- which comic run (UK, US it other) had the most issues or stories then?
From what you’ve said there, I’m guessing that the US stories must have gotten reprinted or rerun in UK comics at some point as well?
I was definitely not in possession of the money or specialist retailer contacts to be reading imports at the age I read this at and what I just assumed to be the only version of TF comics available then.
@@olyrhys8724 Marvel UK was just the US comic but with UK original stories sandwiched between them to pad it out since even though they split the US stories in half, the UK comic quickly caught up to the US publication rate on the account of being weekly instead of monthly.
They did that a lot apparently. The old Star Wars comics have a bunch of UK only stories as well.
Anyway I remember the story with Blaster and the babe at the beach vividly because it was one of the few Transformers comics I had growing up and it was the first chapter in the Underbase saga. It's pretty funny that they're introduced in that chapter and killed off in the last one, pretty ballsy of Uncle Bob to kill off a new toy.
@@Takeshi357that’s a really good point I had never considered - Transformers The Movie had that high kill count in the hope of selling more toys, yet backfired spectacularly in terms of public response. That was signed off by Hasbro and judged to be canon.
What about cosmically empowered genocidal Starscream? Did his trail of destruction coincide with any discontinuation of toy lines?
I remember a number of Pretender story arcs after Underbase Saga - was that deliberate as well?
@@olyrhys8724 I mean, yeah, pretty much everyone who gets offlined by cosmically powered Starscream is a discontinued toy. Almost everyone else who survives are characters introduced in '87 or later, with Seacons being the odd one out.
I love the puns, man, had me on the hook the entire time. Also love the fact that each of the limbs can turn into a .......uh....gun? for a Targetmaster mode. I can just imagine Snap Trap loaning them out to other combiner teams as excess weapons to earn a bit of coin on the side.
The way Skalor's fish arms are held out like that, I can't help but picture him hopping around like those Chinese ghosts with the dark circles under their eyes.
I had a few of those boys as a kid, including the original Snaptrap. My pride and joy, back in the day.
G1 figures in ROTF boxing makes my head hurt.
There’s something uncanny about it.
I'm loving this practically movie length review! Every member gets the love and attention they deserve.
* sniffles loud and wipes away tears * It's bloody MAGNIFICENT.
BEST G1 COMBINER. GOD I LOVE HIM.
That headsculpt is second to none.
Snaptrap was the first ever transformer i owned as a kid so he has a special place in my heart.
I love Tentakill the most. His name, his pink coloration, his alt mode, his horrible personality--just an absolute winner where it counts!
If you're bold enough to hack up your toys, you can give Snaptrap, and thus Piranacon himself, a head swivel. The head is on a square plank by itself, so if you unscrew the enormous amount of screws you need to unscrew to get to it, you can slice the corners off into a rounded octagon-type-configuration, and it swivels beautifully.
i appreciate you showcasing the targetmaster modes, usually people just presume they’re shite and skip past them except the one they legally have to do for showing the full combined form. i can admit they aren’t the most well considered modes ever, but i think they give the set a lot of play value in just fiddling around to find your favourite configurations.
Man, all these guys alt-modes are adorable. I love them all
Overbite is my favourite, randomly bought him as a kid, didn't know he was part of a team, I just liked how cool and weird he looked.
Great review! I had the original Seacons. They were, and still are, fantastic. The simple idea to make weapons out of the smaller robots seems like it could have been adapted to ALL the G1 combiners.
I do agree. The green head looks odd to me, The pinkish color of Overbite too. I seem to remember him as a purple color. Still a great set.
Oh the seacons, the combiner team that lives the most in my head for whatever reason. They are freaks but like proud freaks.
I've always thought the Seacons were a cool set, I've never gotten to experience them myself, though.
I wish more late G1 stuff got re released every once in a while. I'd love a Headmaster Autobots set.
Those old plastic packaging. I miss the ROTF font on those packages, reminds me of the days when you could go to the store and the only starscream on the shelf looked like a broken dinner plate. Good times...
Me and my wife both agree that Snaptrap is our favorite. We’re suckers for big colorful turtles with cannons
The seacons! They're my favorite combiner and it's great to see you cover it
That colour scheme is definetly an all-timer!
Hahaha, Still laughing at the puns at the end. Love the Seacons (That COLOR SCHEME!!!!) but my true love will always be for the Technobots and Computron. HASLAB or someone better give us the ultimate one, dripping in perfection, soon..... Or else maybe a LioKaiser.... but man... ain't Seacons pretty with all that Aqua Green and Pink? :D
Dublin City comics got a set of these in a trade about a year ago and Doc and I were going through the bits and we were convinced it was a KO, but I guess not.
The Seacons are low key underrated honestly.
I appreciate how in *depth* you went with those puns, they were *leagues* better than anything i could *cod* up with. Id even go as far as to say im a bit *shellfish* of you for doing so
One of the best combiners, and maybe the best Scramble City guys. Right up there alongside Abominus, Predaking, Liokaiser and Raiden.
Snaptrap is just Onslaught and blastoise fuzed together
This is such an awesome set. Great combiner and fantastic individual lil guys too. Snaptrap is also the original Blastoise.
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Hope you're having a break at some point Gav! Thanks again!
Rapugnes's anger at the end made me laugh
YOOOOOOOO HOLY SHIT I LOVE THE SEACONS THEYRE MY FAVORITE its great to see you reviewing them
Oh nice to finally see them, you have mentioned these creeps a couple of time before. :)
i got this giftset from Santa Claus! the only g1 combiner I had as a kid- lucky to get it- great review!
I do hope someday we can have another go at these guys in Generations, proper new figures with new molds, not a bunch of retools
God, I remember the trashing Encore Bruticus got for it's mold degradation, but at least he could stand upright when combined!
Man, right after I finished my custom CW Turtler, this shows up on my feed. This must be destiny haha
As kids in the 80's, during half term and the like we used to have to spend the time at our Gran's cuz both parents were working. One time as we were being dropped off, we were told to pick a hand, left or right, and were given a Seacon each to play with. I got Nautilator, my brother got Seawing. So Nautilator is the best Seacon for these very scientific reasons.
I don't know a single fact about these toys outside of their Basics episode, but they're one of my favourite teams all the same.
Probably because the Japanese names of King Poseidon and God Neptune are just so awesome.
That sea of puns at the end
I spent so many years trying to get a set of these guys and when I got them in 2016/2017, it was worth it, easily my favourite combiner nowadays, they're just goofy and unique
Man, I still regret not asking my parents enough to get me this set, back when it was available for cheap, but importing from BBTS was very scary
I've been slowly collecting the original G1 released seacons for the last few years and I just love them, so far I've got tentakill, seawing and nautilator all complete with in tact enough stickers, everyone else but snaptrap seem like a pain in the arse to find complete in a condition I'd be happy with though unfortunately, I wont let myself pick up snaptrap though until I have the rest of the team so I can enjoy them all individually as their own thing because I find them all so fascinating in their own ways. Maybe this year I can finish up the team but I've been telling myself that since 2020😂
Some very fish-ny puns going on here. I'm surprised Repugnus wasn't used for fish food. Got this set a few years ago. Nice set. My favourites are Snap Trap, Seawing & Overbite. Though I also have the selects Seacons plus G1 Snap Trap and Tentakil.
I saw this in stores back when it was out, but I literally just bought this last month
Nice PLAICE you've got!
Oh for cod's hake that was a terrible pun!
Finally, my favorite team has their time in the limelight. SeaWing was the only one I had as a kid, so naturally he's my favorite.
Also I'm proud of Gavin for not opening up the Manta Ray mouth in robot mode, something I can say I've definitely NEVER done ever.
I was wondering about his skinny shins at the start, hehe
I'm used to Tentakil being female in the BW2 cartoon so I guess she's the stand out for me.
"My Barracuda was in the shop, so I was in a rented Stingray & it was overheating. I pulled into a Shell Station & they said I'd blown a seal. I said, Fix the dam thing & leave my private life out of it, ok pal?" -- Kip Adotta, _Wet Dream_
Wow, this is a remarkably cool combiner set... I'd love to AQUA-ire it.
Great set can always find these easily
One of these guys had a cameo in the disaster artist
I bought the new Knockoff recently(which is weirdly green for some reason) and for £13 it’s pretty good, and owning an actual tentakill and watching this video it’s weird seeing all the changes that they have made, especially making Seawing a back pack, and downswing snaptrap to be core/legends scale.
And just for the record Tentakill is the best Seacon, no competition.
I guess there technically IS a definitive set up for who is which limb based on his animation model that was only used for the marvel comics. (As seen on his g1 character profile by Bob budianski) Nautilator is the right arm, Seawing the left arm, Skalor the right leg, and Tentakil as the left leg
Horseshit
Only thing I know about the seacons is someone keeps sending Thew Adams weird fanart of him and Tentakill.
Amazing alt-modes.
It is a travesty that the Seacons are not used more in fiction, because they are cooler than most of the other Decepticon combiner teams
I love Nautilator’s bio. He’s such a loser it’s hilarious.
I honestly can't tell if that's true or something my mind made up over the years, but I remember seeing this on shelves at a store and thinking to myself ''wtf is that'' before leaving. Years later I feel dumb, but I didn't know any better at the time
Fuck yeah, seacons!
By far my favourite combiner after Abominus but Christ...the idea of a shark with legs is probably one of my worst nightmares. No more mocking the toothy bastards down at the aquarium....shudder!!
Trouter Space, I'm crying😂
Sea sea sea sea, sea sea sea sea, six six six Seaconsssss
I never had any of these guys. At the time, I was trying to complete the Terrorcons. Anyway maybe I’m just nostalgic but I will trade articulation for a good, solid toy any day. I know many G1 characters have their legs fused together or can’t raise their arms, but I just prefer that to the gangly and scrawny toys of today.
It took me a while to realize at 1:45 you're saying "there are six Seacons" instead of "there are sexy 'cons". Still, you would've been right either way.
Speaking of sexy 'cons, I kinda wish Tentakil here could've become a standalone character that manages to eclipse his role as just a combiner limb like Swindle did. Accoring to his bio he's kind of a manipulative, silver-tongued devil who loves to weasel his way into the hearts of his would-be victims with false affirmations, lulling them into a false sense of comradery before wrecking their shit to Kingdom Come like the parasocial creepozoid he is. Oh, and he'd definitely be humming Underwater Love by Faith No More to himself while cracking chumps open.
Love the Seacons!
Imagine of the Autobots had a counterpart to the Seacons called the Aquabots. They could be boats and ships. What do you guys think? What would the names be? Oh and we need a combiner name and 6 of them considering the Seacons are 6
I like the lobster one best
I'm surprised by how much i like the Seacons, because i don't like when team members share a colour scheme, that's why i don't like the Aerialbots that much. But those colours and beast modes are too good to dislike.
aside from snaptraps head being green witch isn't a big deal cause I have the OG figure, my main issue is the plastic, its so fragile feeling, this thing is a display item only as far as I'm concerned, if I want to get a set to play with, Il hunt down some loose OG figures
Really wish any version of these bastards were easier to find. They're always some premium release. I should be able to buy the little freaks from a department store.
I have this set and Snaptrap has these springs that are kinda messed up, but otherwise it’s a good set. I still have my BotCon Seascons too, but the plastic quality of those is better.
Love it, and the puns!
Not gonna lie, my fav Seacon is God Neptune.
Overbite's my favorite
The instructions said they're a level 4 transformation difficulty? Alright mate
Think Rippersnapper is like a... disgraced former member?
Or are him and Overbite like catty rivals who are mad the other came in the same dress?
Great review this is my profile pic. Mine is missing the weapons so I made most of there guns out of modeling clay and some lego so I can do there taget master modes.
Those puns in the end were so hard to swallow. No, that's a bird pun! Argh!
All those plastics certainly seem egregious after a year or two of buying new toys that lessened them down to a bit, it sometimes does bother me when I do buy an old toy or another series when it makes me think of it having even a smidget of plastic in it.
I will say, though, the neon colours certainly help make the Seacons stand out a bit, and make you realise how few neon coloured characters there are these days.
Hope you've had a good day
Interesting fact, Overbite was supposed to be the targetmaster, but Nautilator is just so fucking stupid and incompetent that he ended up being the gun
SEA SEA SEA SEACONS!
Hold on, is this set really Gamara and an assortment of his monstrous rivals? Were the designers binging old kaiju movies? Could then just not agree on which limb design to reject and so had to pretend it was also a Targetmaster?
Gavin, can you also store YOUR gun under your chin? Can Repugnus?
Yes
Cool
Gav u doin ok? you sounded more tired than usual :o i hope youre giving yourself enough downtime between viddies
I've tried to speak more like my actual self this video - kinda like I used to do when I started. Felt like I was getting further and further from how I talk - putting on some kind of weird accent that folks could easier understand. But fuck that. Y'know?
Some might you went too far with the sea puns. I say you didn't go too far enough. Exceptio-fin-al!
I got one but my turtler/snaptrap has two left thighs
Hello Gavin
Hello Lex
Not sure if i'm Herring you properly so i'll just be Whiting a short comment.
Overbite and Streetwise are my only transformers toys back then that I could buy on a discount from my lunch money 🥲
Snap Traps alt mode is a Blastoise
Thanks as always, Gavin!!!