Old comment is old but lemme tell you a short tale, Phelous; I worked at Big Lots for my second job and HOO-BOY, even back then the amount of bootleg crap and overstock crap they would get was hilarious. From Harry Potter, to Transformers, to anything that was popular at the time, if they could bootleg it they would and they would sell it. Another funny bit; we used to get shipped foods from CANADA but apparently there was an issue at the time about letting people know the food was from Canada so our boss would legit have people SHARPIE OUT the country of origin. The problem? Well, they used BLUE Sharpie so it seeped through and actually didn't cover up the black printed text on the box so you could still clearly see 'Product of Canada' right there.
I actually found the Revenge of the fallen breakaway. It was pretty cheap, so I bought it. It's A surprisingly good figure, despite the strange robot mode. It has a ton of posebility. There's even foot and torso articulation. Also, breakaway wasn't in the movie. He was from the game.
Wal-Mart occasionally has gotten outright knockoffs of transformers. One time I got a super huge version of Armada Megatron when the Energon line was beginning. The same knockoff line seems like it had some possibly Macross toys knockoffs but I am not sure. They also have had easter baskets with Superion knockoffs several times. Haven't seen them in many a year, though.
If I remember right, Transformers bootlegs used to be even more frequent at Big Lots but then Hasbro apparently got mad at them for it so they cut down a lot. Like, I remember quick change from mid-2000s, now i mostly see varients of this set
I remember I had 3 transformers growing up, one is a happy meal toy that turned into a manta ray (I still have it,lol), one was Beast Wars Megatron and the other was a bootleg. The bootleg was my first "transformer" and probably something we got at Odd Job. I remember it was neon green/yellow and turned into a butterfly,lol. Looking around, pretty sure it's "Butterfly" from the Robo-Bugs series. Although it was a bit odd, he was welcome among my friends' autobots,lol.
Very whacky transformer bootlegs for sure. Giving Prowl-swipe Old Man’s voice was totally genius! Your toy reviews are so much fun. Watching you get frustrated with the way these Bootleg toys transform was completely hilarious!
I think the Prowlie-owl is actually a MARS Converter they KO'ed, but even more hilarious that it's a knock off of knock off. Also... Billy loves you. He's the one spinning tunes for Motorcycle the Pooh
The orange guy was actually break away from the movie 2007 toy line, well he was partially based on the breakaway figure he had pieces of other figures on that made up his body as well.......
Since the orange guy is a hunchback, I soooo wished another figure would have yelled out "Seeker (that's the guy's name, right ?), you is the pope of fools !!". :p
Another great video, Phelan. We actually have a Big Lots in my city and they sell official merchandise like the He-Man Classics Princess Adora figure I have, I'm wearing that exact same Ninja Turtles shirt right now, so now we're like twins and what a coincidence.
Especially with the grey paint apps, thats Jhiaxus! Surprising to me that the bootleggers have even seen such a character, but there was a popular transformers generations figure of that character in 2014.
A lot of the orange screams body mold actually came from movie Dreadwing. While his transformation works totally differently, you can see it in his jet mode a lot.
To be honest, most of these bootlegs that Big Lots sells are overpriced. Though occasionally decent things do hit the toy Isle. I picked up Ghostrider and Dr Doom Marvel Mashers for $8 each last year at least lol.
As someone who worked at Big Lots, the bootlegs they sold were hilarious but they're legit a place to hit for overstock official figures being sold at a cheap price.
i did pick up a bootleg of the beast war transfomers dragon megatron figure for like $10 about 10 years ago or so... whoever made it obviously got a hold of the official hasbro toy mold because i had the real toy as a kid and aside from them covering up the missile launchers, having cheaper plastic, and being unable to completely transfomer it into it's "vehicle mode" it original had because they didn't give it actual moving wheels for the bootleg.. it's otherwise 100% the same figure
To be fair, that thundercracker is a complete remold/retool. The original had the feet collapse and rotate to swap with Thrusters while one of the arms did this weird spinning thing to have his cyberplanet key gimmick attach to the top of the jet in vehicle mode.
I wonder who came up with the Star Scream archetype, I remeember other examples in the first half of the 80's but I'm not sure which one is the oldest.
my local big lots used to have lots of great real name brand action figures when I was a kid.. x-men, spider-man, batman, transformers, robocop, the mask(movie and animated series), ninja turtles, ghost rider and so forth.. i used to get lots of figures there
I get the reference. Yippee. I'm so happy that I know of crap dubs. [Oh and if Sunstorm is a separate character, does it still count as an animation error? Nah.]
I'm going to be a dick, and say Prowl Swipe's lights look exactly like all LED police lights today. They're nondescript until they are turned on. I guess you could paint the bar silver if you wanted to get technical.
It's a reference to the awful english dub of the Transformers Headmasters anime, where a number of characters were given the wrong name or had names completely made up.
Orange Scream: As Prime, shall we say "departed". I nominate myself as the new leader of this band! Sound Billy: Wait, Sound Billy superior, Orange Scream...-(falls apart) Thunder Crapper: Fuck this, I'm out of here! Prowl/Swipe: & I have better things to do! Orange Scream: Oh great! Now what will I do about the band! Robert Cop: I will join the band! Orange Scream: SON OF A-
From an English dub of Transformers: The Headmasters, a Transformers series that only aired in Japan. Said English dub was made in Hong Kong and it called Blaster 'Billy'.
Who knew watching a grown man play with toys and be so entertaining
*deep breath*
~~gay porn~~
Well it’s so endearing 😊
Old comment is old but lemme tell you a short tale, Phelous; I worked at Big Lots for my second job and HOO-BOY, even back then the amount of bootleg crap and overstock crap they would get was hilarious. From Harry Potter, to Transformers, to anything that was popular at the time, if they could bootleg it they would and they would sell it.
Another funny bit; we used to get shipped foods from CANADA but apparently there was an issue at the time about letting people know the food was from Canada so our boss would legit have people SHARPIE OUT the country of origin. The problem? Well, they used BLUE Sharpie so it seeped through and actually didn't cover up the black printed text on the box so you could still clearly see 'Product of Canada' right there.
My god! They turned Beauty's father into a Robotic Fighter!
GuruSUPERmaster MUH GERD
"Looks like I was expected! HIEEEEEEE!-ooh a delicious Casseticon!"
Super Fireblast Optimus Prime can die in his place.
He's completely useless now!
I was surprised by the voice he used🤣 Old man has evolved!
Did Old Man get reincarnated as a Transformer ?
God help us all.
TheApachacha MY GOD!
DEEEEEEEEEE
+TheApachacha But he was expected!
+TheApachacha He's completely surrounded now. (You think I was going to say useless?)
+TheApachacha
I gotta admit, I was kinda expecting him to go "HEEEEEEE" in some extreme 90's style zoom in during that awkward silence.
Ah the Omni dubs ware so great.
"Billy! are you okay!?"
"Not really."
Sunstorm’s rise to fame came due to his appearance in the Dreamwave comics as Starscream’s insane clone.
I actually found the Revenge of the fallen breakaway. It was pretty cheap, so I bought it. It's A surprisingly good figure, despite the strange robot mode. It has a ton of posebility. There's even foot and torso articulation. Also, breakaway wasn't in the movie. He was from the game.
Most of my transformers are in pieces and I've been rebuilding my collection, so it's good to know that
Now the orange Starscream fits into the Bay universe of figures.
Painful. So, so painful.
it is a knock off of a bay movie only toy lol
Orangescream looks more like a Dortio than Bayscream already did.
Wal-Mart occasionally has gotten outright knockoffs of transformers. One time I got a super huge version of Armada Megatron when the Energon line was beginning. The same knockoff line seems like it had some possibly Macross toys knockoffs but I am not sure.
They also have had easter baskets with Superion knockoffs several times. Haven't seen them in many a year, though.
I had that bootleg Superion Easter basket! It was of poor quality (as to be expected of bootlegs) and the components easily fell apart and/or broke.
So Sunstorm is the Derpy of Transformers. An animation error that got popular and canonized because no one would shut up about them.
I just imagined all the official transforms pulling college level pranks on the bootlegs
If I remember right, Transformers bootlegs used to be even more frequent at Big Lots but then Hasbro apparently got mad at them for it so they cut down a lot. Like, I remember quick change from mid-2000s, now i mostly see varients of this set
6:21 that's how I'm like when I'm putting together actual transformers
PROWLSWIPE HAS THE FUCKING OLD MAN VOICE FROM BEAUTY AND THE BEAST CARTOON I AM CRYING!!! xDDDDDDDD
Metal Wolf Gemstone HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE
"Looks like I was expected! HIEEEEEEE!-ooh a delicious Casseticon!"
The Transmutation Formers are surrounded! They're completely useless now...
Robotic Fighter. Oh boy, I can hardly wait...
We still never figured out the owner of Fakeaway's legs...
ITS A THEW FAN!!!!!
Let the Thew Adams fandom unite
I remember I had 3 transformers growing up, one is a happy meal toy that turned into a manta ray (I still have it,lol), one was Beast Wars Megatron and the other was a bootleg.
The bootleg was my first "transformer" and probably something we got at Odd Job. I remember it was neon green/yellow and turned into a butterfly,lol. Looking around, pretty sure it's "Butterfly" from the Robo-Bugs series. Although it was a bit odd, he was welcome among my friends' autobots,lol.
I like to think hump scream is a failed clone of starscream
Didn't know Old Man could transform.
Soundbilly? I prefer Thew's Sounddave and Sounddwayne.
Phelan should destroy the bootlegs on camera just like Matthew always does.
Glad I’m not the only Thew Adams viewer
@@smb-c3po who’s Matthew?
@@gracekim1998 That's They'd real name and he's a total daddy.
Very whacky transformer bootlegs for sure. Giving Prowl-swipe Old Man’s voice was totally genius! Your toy reviews are so much fun. Watching you get frustrated with the way these Bootleg toys transform was completely hilarious!
1:43 Well I do now thanks for you talking about silliest Headmaster moments. ; )
Can't wait to see a bootleg review of a Phillip/Metroplex figure.
And don't forget Spaceship Bruce/Fortress Maximus.
@@PlanetZoidstar
The people behind "Freihterpan" made a Fort Max KO at the same scale.
Prowlswipe was totally Old Man the entire time. Suddenly everything makes sense.
8:10 Corncob headlights
I think the Prowlie-owl is actually a MARS Converter they KO'ed, but even more hilarious that it's a knock off of knock off. Also... Billy loves you. He's the one spinning tunes for Motorcycle the Pooh
The orange guy was actually break away from the movie 2007 toy line, well he was partially based on the breakaway figure he had pieces of other figures on that made up his body as well.......
Phelan clearly said this is a _Revenge Of The Fallen_ toy.
I get the New-Soundblaster and Billy reference
Since the orange guy is a hunchback, I soooo wished another figure would have yelled out "Seeker (that's the guy's name, right ?), you is the pope of fools !!". :p
There you go. Look. Perfect. ABSOLUTELY PERFECT _YOU PIECE--!!!_
Another great video, Phelan.
We actually have a Big Lots in my city and they sell official merchandise like the He-Man Classics Princess Adora figure I have,
I'm wearing that exact same Ninja Turtles shirt right now, so now we're like twins and what a coincidence.
Prowl really is the loose cannon who doesn't play by the rules of the Town of Police.
*THUNDERCRAPPER*
The location of Thew's Fakeaway has been located.
You have to admit though, Sunstorm has a nice color palette
Especially with the grey paint apps, thats Jhiaxus! Surprising to me that the bootleggers have even seen such a character, but there was a popular transformers generations figure of that character in 2014.
A lot of the orange screams body mold actually came from movie Dreadwing. While his transformation works totally differently, you can see it in his jet mode a lot.
For reference: www.cliffbee.com/reviews/images/moviedreadwing.gif
Oh no, Prowl became a Robotic Fighter, he's completely useless now....
I guess Old Man is part of Beast Machines now...
"or billy! cheers if you get that reference!" I hate that I do... and I hate headmasters...
To be honest, most of these bootlegs that Big Lots sells are overpriced. Though occasionally decent things do hit the toy Isle. I picked up Ghostrider and Dr Doom Marvel Mashers for $8 each last year at least lol.
As someone who worked at Big Lots, the bootlegs they sold were hilarious but they're legit a place to hit for overstock official figures being sold at a cheap price.
Soundbilly pleases me as a name. Needs more Sparkle though.
I found larger versions of Prowlswipe and Humpscream at a Family Dollar
Okay, that ending where not-Soundwave transforms and falls to pieces... made my day.
FOUR MULTIPLE PLAYING MODES!!
12:04 That Police Car sounds like Mr. Chuckles from FernGully 2: The Magical Rescue.
i did pick up a bootleg of the beast war transfomers dragon megatron figure for like $10 about 10 years ago or so... whoever made it obviously got a hold of the official hasbro toy mold because i had the real toy as a kid and aside from them covering up the missile launchers, having cheaper plastic, and being unable to completely transfomer it into it's "vehicle mode" it original had because they didn't give it actual moving wheels for the bootleg.. it's otherwise 100% the same figure
To be fair, that thundercracker is a complete remold/retool. The original had the feet collapse and rotate to swap with Thrusters while one of the arms did this weird spinning thing to have his cyberplanet key gimmick attach to the top of the jet in vehicle mode.
I wonder who came up with the Star Scream archetype, I remeember other examples in the first half of the 80's but I'm not sure which one is the oldest.
I think the prowlswipe toy, is based off of a Skids toy.
These things manage to out-go bot the go bots
I realized the bootleg Prowl you showed off in the video is also using some parts from the Energon Hotshot.
my local big lots used to have lots of great real name brand action figures when I was a kid.. x-men, spider-man, batman, transformers, robocop, the mask(movie and animated series), ninja turtles, ghost rider and so forth.. i used to get lots of figures there
I'm pretty sure 90% of transformers bootlegs are sold t Warhammer 40k players for breaking down and conversion purposes.
I get the reference. Yippee. I'm so happy that I know of crap dubs. [Oh and if Sunstorm is a separate character, does it still count as an animation error? Nah.]
More like blundercracker
I dont think sunstorm was a animation error he said was just a repaint to represent a new character
Yeah that might be true. Though it is hard to tell what is suposed to be a genric seeker or an animation error.
6:37 PUBLIC SAFETY TOWN OF POLICE
Great job stupid!
(violently smashes Ra's Al Prool)
Did Prowlswipe become Old Man?
I'm going to be a dick, and say Prowl Swipe's lights look exactly like all LED police lights today. They're nondescript until they are turned on. I guess you could paint the bar silver if you wanted to get technical.
The orange jet guy is from tranformers revenge of the fallen breakaway
I love the Headmasters bad dubbing reference.
Orange scream has got Brakaway and Dreadwing mold
you forgot this is the pilot of robotic fighters so we can fly lol!! only true G1 transformers fans would get that haha
that transformer is all wet, it's completely useless now!
I guess we're going further down the Transformers Hole...
The rear half of Prowlswipe looks to be from Cybertron Red Alert. These poor bastards are such nightmarish hybrids...
What's the original version of Krauser's theme in your video? It's probably a real orchestral piece that was borrowed for Krasuer's theme.
nvm found it.
Sound wave VS Soundbilly.
Who wins? YOU DECIDE
22.10.21
I work at Big lots and there are more bootlegs then these 4.
no. Orange scream is a real mode.
I got that reference :3
It's a reference to the awful english dub of the Transformers Headmasters anime, where a number of characters were given the wrong name or had names completely made up.
Ooohhh nooooooo....*splash*
I remember Thew reviewing the soundwave one year ago
Thew reviewed this whole set
The thundercracker has the peg because the real figure had a big blaster that would attach there.
I have half of a fake starscream from the same line
Omg old man is in this episode!!!!!😄😄😄😄😄😄😄
Hey on the cop car has the back and hubcaps are painted
I remember I once got a Gobot from Big Lots
sound billy looks actually good,im going to find the original figure
Would you say the car "transformer" is the best looking one out of them all?
Hey Phelous, have you ever considred doing some lego bootlegs?
Who's Billy in Transformers, Phelous?
The name blaster was given in the headmaster english dub made in hong kong for malasia.
I often find myself fascinated with these knockoffs. if I find good enough ones, I'll include them in a stop motion alongside actual transformers
It's at least still better than Deformed Car and Deformed Toy.
Orange Scream: As Prime, shall we say "departed". I nominate myself as the new leader of this band!
Sound Billy: Wait, Sound Billy superior, Orange Scream...-(falls apart)
Thunder Crapper: Fuck this, I'm out of here!
Prowl/Swipe: & I have better things to do!
Orange Scream: Oh great! Now what will I do about the band!
Robert Cop: I will join the band!
Orange Scream: SON OF A-
If I want bastardized versions of Transformers characters in toy form, I'll stick with the toy line from the Michael Bay movies. :D
Even if you have the film's, there are some good toys in the movie lines.
"Super fighting Robot: *ROBOTIC FIGHTER!* "
Boy, I can hardly wait.
i liked Sunstreaker much more than Sideswipe.
I like em both
I liked Bay's Transformers movies.
Starscream would be jealous😈
22nd October 2021
what is the billy reference
From an English dub of Transformers: The Headmasters, a Transformers series that only aired in Japan. Said English dub was made in Hong Kong and it called Blaster 'Billy'.
Oh my gosh Old man is a transformer 🤣
I mean a robotic fighter
22.10.21
Background song name pls
Prowl-Swipe was able to transform, then he got wet, making him completely useless.
EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE!
BIG LOTS! of crap
Billy! (Yes I got it)
old man police car
not these days. sadly.
Yeeeeeeee
Town of police?? Are they shooting each other there?
At first glance I thought it said Robono fighters