I would completely avoid the Ravage USB. I just wouldn't plug a storage device into my PC unless I *knew* it was from a legitimate and reputable company.
That one bug combiner made me think a bit, they made the dinobots a combiner when originally they weren’t, I’m surprised that the insecticons weren’t also turned into a combiner at one point (unless they were and I just don’t know about it)
There was actually a set of jet crash combiners in RID 2015. They were called Skysledge and Stormhammer, who were then redecoed into Shockdrive and Warnado.
I got the not-prime pens. They actually come with a spare ink cartridge. It actually writes decently but the plastic feels weird. Not soft, but very light. Just to have as a desk top thing to write on a post-it works 👍!
There's probably some symbolism to the red and blue beetles thing, I don't know. I know that the kabuto/kuwagata pairing is super common as a yin-yang type thing.
I've actually seen a review. Someone actually had a original G1 Grimlock and bought a Knock Off version off Temu to compare them and he couldn't tell the difference at all. About the only real difference be could find was that they used a plastic clam shell bubble inside the packaging when the original were actually packaged in styrofoam. The plastic clam shells weren't in use yet during G1 and since there were never officially reissues that's about the only way you can tell they're fake. Kinda of makes you wander if Temu could recast the Dinobots and make the toys indistinguishable from the original why can't Hasbro remake them?
From what I know, ever since the start of the original Transformers, Hasbro never really designed the toys, they simply paid Takara Tomy in Japan for their random transforming robot toy lines and wrote a unifying story around them. They've had decades of a close partnership, but lot of their major releases on the more complex and highly detailed transformers are at the mercy of Takara Tomy making/remaking a toy first, because they own the molds. Third party makers can just bootleg the whole thing without worrying about the IP balance between Hasbro and Tomy.
I originally found the "Ultraman Mini Truck" figures in gashapon machines in China. I found at least 8 versions of the "Bug Combiner" over the years. The "Dino Brick Bots" are KOd from Lego. The "Dinozaurs AoE Colors" have 2 versions, different robot heads and chest. I seem to remember the "Pen Bots" did come with extra pen refills. The Tractor is a Korean Tobot "Tobot Mini" and "Tobot Deluxe Tank Plane Metro". The original "Zodiac Armed Fighters Set of 12" that came out in 2013 was translucent plastic.
That astrological combiner used to exist as an all clear set that was I believe meant to be accessories for the old TFC Starcats combiners (which were good). I may actually pick it up. I bought a crash combiner set that actually turned out to be quite good, oversized from original, good springs etc I was pleasantly surprised.
i really like the idea of a combiner being made out of many smaller robots instead of like 5-6 bigger ones, i'd love for a future tf toyline to play with that idea with like new minicons or something
a HUGE problem with knock off USB and sd cards is using tricks to fake how big they look to the computer, so the pc will think it's 16 gigs when it's only 4 then when it's full it starts writing over previous data not knowing what happening
I’m kinda dismayed there are no official China-localized Korean transformer brand toys on Temu unlike Aliexpress and Taobao and all we got are bootlegs of the Tobot V Rangers team in "eeevil Shattered Glass colors" who are professional adult veterans striking out on their own without their repugnant beastly Ultra Commander. And then Terracle the Tractor and Metron the subway sometimes randomly joins them from a different universe.
It's a really bad idea to encourage people to buy a knockoff Device Label USB drive (or knockoff unbranded USB drives in general for that matter.) I bought one & I know for a fact that it's oversized, has lousy quality control, & some of these have been reported to have malware on them.
The spikes on the tail of a stegasaurus is called a Thagomizer because paleontologists actually didn't have a name for it but loved when it got called a thagomizer in a Far Side comic.
Temu: we love ripping you off with these transformers Hasbro: we may have some that are like that, but most of the time, we got figures you will enjoy with pretty good quality. with several sublines like studio series, there’s a figure for mostly everyone
21:13 Those jets do actually exist, I have them. They were never made in those colors but they do exist. The first one you showed that was forming pants for Optimus Prime for some reason, was originally released as Skysledge and then repainted as Shockdrive. The other one that is shown combining with Strongarm for some reason, was originally Stormhammer and then repainted as Warnado. I'm calling out the fact that they're packaged with Optimus and Strongarm because the official versions those two jets were packaged together not with those characters. The original Autobot set combined into Skyhammer and the Decepticon repaint was Shocknado. The Decepticon version is the one I have which is why I know they exist. The Autobot set was mostly white with some red paint apps and the Decepticon set was actually colored to match Galvatronus. I literally bought them just to try to replace 2 of Galvatronus' limbs not liking the reuse of the same molds but they don't really work as limbs for the 5 set combiners. Optimus and Strongarm were actually originally meant to go together and the Optimus was retooled slightly and repacked with Grimlock.
The Dinobots KO are surprisingly good display pieces but definitely I wouldn’t trust in transforming them multiple times. Their stickers also don’t stick to the bots.
anyone else think that white optimus with his trailer is just him being coat in the heat resistant metal before he fought rodimus in the return of optimus prime two parter
i had one of those device label ravages for my first year of college I saved all my papers on it until the usb part fell out It still worked but it got very hot when ever i wanted to remove it so I stopped using it.
I got a Sunstreaker, Mirage, and Wheeljack from Ali. They are good. Very very slight differences in the box art but the figs are virtually identical to the originals. There are different people doing reproductions in China. Choose wisely. Some vendors are better than others.
Oh yeah, I'll trust the stated capacity of an already IP-infringing product (including the trademarked faction symbol), when fraudulent USB sticks/SD cards are already well-documented in the fly-by-night online marketplace.
Those first dinosaur transformers are neat because their Beast Modes are based on the Lego Jurassic World molds. The spiky T-Rex in the Indominus Rex.
🤓um actually some of the Jurassic world LEGO dinosaurs are re colors of the dinosaurs introduced in LEGO Dino 2010
That's what I was thinking!
Was thinking the exact same thing
That's why they look like Lego
Those bootleg dinosaurs look like they're knocked off LEGO designs but made to transform.
I would completely avoid the Ravage USB. I just wouldn't plug a storage device into my PC unless I *knew* it was from a legitimate and reputable company.
Yeah, feels like the kinda thing that'd be loaded with malware
Or if you can swap the guts out with a real usb
I have an official ravage USB from hasbro
That Eye Robot looks like something Beast Wars Megatron would leave in a room with someone as a torture method.
That one bug combiner made me think a bit, they made the dinobots a combiner when originally they weren’t, I’m surprised that the insecticons weren’t also turned into a combiner at one point
(unless they were and I just don’t know about it)
They have Tobots style packaging because they are bootlegs of Tobots. Just a different size and aesthetic from most of the Tobot toys.
17:11 Ah yes my favorite combiner, the mighty "F".
There was actually a set of jet crash combiners in RID 2015. They were called Skysledge and Stormhammer, who were then redecoed into Shockdrive and Warnado.
I got the not-prime pens. They actually come with a spare ink cartridge. It actually writes decently but the plastic feels weird. Not soft, but very light. Just to have as a desk top thing to write on a post-it works 👍!
There's probably some symbolism to the red and blue beetles thing, I don't know. I know that the kabuto/kuwagata pairing is super common as a yin-yang type thing.
I've actually seen a review. Someone actually had a original G1 Grimlock and bought a Knock Off version off Temu to compare them and he couldn't tell the difference at all. About the only real difference be could find was that they used a plastic clam shell bubble inside the packaging when the original were actually packaged in styrofoam. The plastic clam shells weren't in use yet during G1 and since there were never officially reissues that's about the only way you can tell they're fake. Kinda of makes you wander if Temu could recast the Dinobots and make the toys indistinguishable from the original why can't Hasbro remake them?
From what I know, ever since the start of the original Transformers, Hasbro never really designed the toys, they simply paid Takara Tomy in Japan for their random transforming robot toy lines and wrote a unifying story around them. They've had decades of a close partnership, but lot of their major releases on the more complex and highly detailed transformers are at the mercy of Takara Tomy making/remaking a toy first, because they own the molds.
Third party makers can just bootleg the whole thing without worrying about the IP balance between Hasbro and Tomy.
I originally found the "Ultraman Mini Truck" figures in gashapon machines in China. I found at least 8 versions of the "Bug Combiner" over the years. The "Dino Brick Bots" are KOd from Lego. The "Dinozaurs AoE Colors" have 2 versions, different robot heads and chest. I seem to remember the "Pen Bots" did come with extra pen refills. The Tractor is a Korean Tobot "Tobot Mini" and "Tobot Deluxe Tank Plane Metro". The original "Zodiac Armed Fighters Set of 12" that came out in 2013 was translucent plastic.
That astrological combiner used to exist as an all clear set that was I believe meant to be accessories for the old TFC Starcats combiners (which were good). I may actually pick it up. I bought a crash combiner set that actually turned out to be quite good, oversized from original, good springs etc I was pleasantly surprised.
i really like the idea of a combiner being made out of many smaller robots instead of like 5-6 bigger ones, i'd love for a future tf toyline to play with that idea with like new minicons or something
Note: Don’t actually purchase from Temu. They tried to harvest the credit card of one of my family members.
the eye robot is my next warlock/cleric's patron/god, if not the character itself xD
They always pick Red and Blue For Beetles because they have one or two Horns like Oni's so Japanese Ogres.
And just these 2 beetles are often pitched against each other, so these colors further juxtuposes them
These aren’t Transformers, these are Alien Robot Shapeshifter Warriors.
The Zodiac combiner is at least a unique concept
14:06 he has a little Green Beret! That’s so cute 😂
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Those device specs are probably fake. If you use that USB stick, you're likely to get corrupted data. 😬
a HUGE problem with knock off USB and sd cards is using tricks to fake how big they look to the computer, so the pc will think it's 16 gigs when it's only 4 then when it's full it starts writing over previous data not knowing what happening
Wham, bam, it's the dino-jam with the DinoZaurs!
I had Bug Combiner back in childhood, though in different colors. And it was actually pretty neat.
I would love it if a company redid Dinozaurs with modern articulation and metallic paint instead of chrome.
That tank and boat, if they ever come to Dollar Tree I'm there.
The "durable and reliable children's toy" line actually doesn't look to bad.....lol, I'm kinda into the tank figure too.
I’m kinda dismayed there are no official China-localized Korean transformer brand toys on Temu unlike Aliexpress and Taobao and all we got are bootlegs of the Tobot V Rangers team in "eeevil Shattered Glass colors" who are professional adult veterans striking out on their own without their repugnant beastly Ultra Commander.
And then Terracle the Tractor and Metron the subway sometimes randomly joins them from a different universe.
I’ve been seeing Temu ads a lot lately popping up on my Facebook wall with transformers. I look forward to this.
I would be careful with something that you plug into your computer cuz it could easily be a backdoor for someone else
It's a really bad idea to encourage people to buy a knockoff Device Label USB drive (or knockoff unbranded USB drives in general for that matter.) I bought one & I know for a fact that it's oversized, has lousy quality control, & some of these have been reported to have malware on them.
What puzzles me is, just how many knock off Transformers figure use the same head sculpt as G1 Optimus Prime.
The spikes on the tail of a stegasaurus is called a Thagomizer because paleontologists actually didn't have a name for it but loved when it got called a thagomizer in a Far Side comic.
Did not expect Ultraman + Transformers
2:07 This is basically just a G1 version of the Year of the Horse MP-10
7:08 I'm pretty sure Thew Adams received one of these in one of his "Dammit...Open!" unboxing videos some time ago.
Temu: we love ripping you off with these transformers
Hasbro: we may have some that are like that, but most of the time, we got figures you will enjoy with pretty good quality. with several sublines like studio series, there’s a figure for mostly everyone
I'm also guessing the insect combiner has a cicada for the core bot.
12:24 That's an Ornithomimus at best!
I got the Beasts Cool Team Combination Mecha Constellation Team off Temu and I absolutely love it!!
yeah, that USB Ravage will def blow up your computer.
I kinda want the troop builder pins, just to see if I can give them actual vehicle modes
21:13 Those jets do actually exist, I have them. They were never made in those colors but they do exist.
The first one you showed that was forming pants for Optimus Prime for some reason, was originally released as Skysledge and then repainted as Shockdrive. The other one that is shown combining with Strongarm for some reason, was originally Stormhammer and then repainted as Warnado.
I'm calling out the fact that they're packaged with Optimus and Strongarm because the official versions those two jets were packaged together not with those characters. The original Autobot set combined into Skyhammer and the Decepticon repaint was Shocknado. The Decepticon version is the one I have which is why I know they exist.
The Autobot set was mostly white with some red paint apps and the Decepticon set was actually colored to match Galvatronus. I literally bought them just to try to replace 2 of Galvatronus' limbs not liking the reuse of the same molds but they don't really work as limbs for the 5 set combiners.
Optimus and Strongarm were actually originally meant to go together and the Optimus was retooled slightly and repacked with Grimlock.
The USB ravage legit looks like a Boston dynamics ravage. Where's that crossover?!?
ultraformers
crossover of the century
The Dinobots KO are surprisingly good display pieces but definitely I wouldn’t trust in transforming them multiple times. Their stickers also don’t stick to the bots.
anyone else think that white optimus with his trailer is just him being coat in the heat resistant metal before he fought rodimus in the return of optimus prime two parter
Idk, I think the last one looks neat, makes me think of a Mixels Voltron
11:34 a poor man’s BW megatron
22:24 does that LEGO transformer actually transform?
These are some of my favorite type of vid that TJ makes for us! 😆
honestly the last one looks like some wanted to make optimus prime out of Lego mixels and they got close but it looks weird
I brought the KO soundwave frome Temu and its not bad it even came with the stickers 😊
i had one of those device label ravages for my first year of college I saved all my papers on it until the usb part fell out It still worked but it got very hot when ever i wanted to remove it so I stopped using it.
My G1 Sunstreaker i got from Temu from the box to the toy itself is quite good quality
I got a Sunstreaker, Mirage, and Wheeljack from Ali. They are good. Very very slight differences in the box art but the figs are virtually identical to the originals. There are different people doing reproductions in China. Choose wisely. Some vendors are better than others.
I actually have the ravage USB knock off. The one I got was prety dc. Don't use it much anymore. But I know atleast my one worked
Anyone else get Mixels vibes from the robot at the end?
Just your regularly scheduled reminder that Temu uses actual, real slave labor.
The thumb drive probably has a fake capacity at that price. I wouldn't trust it with mt data.
Very enjoyable video
Oh yeah, I'll trust the stated capacity of an already IP-infringing product (including the trademarked faction symbol), when fraudulent USB sticks/SD cards are already well-documented in the fly-by-night online marketplace.
I got the white one, and they Are a bit small, not big enough to fit another autobot in
22:23 does anyone have the link to this optimus prime? I must see this... "interesting" speciman for myself.
Please put temu links in description.
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11:09 no thagomizer, what a shame...
20:00 Kyurenoh 2.0?
The bug thing I think is a time boken 24 ko
Echoing something someone else said, do NOT purchase from Temu whatever you do. They’ll try to harvest your credit card. I’m dead serious
i think that if they made soundwaves cassettes into thumbdrives it could be pretty rad :3
I actually own the earbuds and they are officially licensed, super high quality with metal case, and I only got them for like 20$
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