Also, yes. I'm gonna rip BOTH your ears off. Toxitron had an awesome back story in Mayhem. Tortured experiment cooked up by the sadistic jagoffs Oil Slick and Loud Pedal. The Wreckers were the first people to treat him with basic decency.
Loser double-comment I know, but I’ve only been collecting since mid-2022, and the LG Arcee mold’s transformation feels SUPER unique and fun to me, making me wonder if maybe its steps were more common before the John Warden era. As it stands, the way her legs kinda fold PAST her torso and then go BACK to make the rear wheels, with the seat formed from a mashup of torso and pelvis that really hides her robot mode well, is all very distinct from anything I’ve done with a WFC/Legacy figure. Not meant as like some kind of objection, just fascinated to know if maybe your apathy toward it is because her kind of contortionist transformation was maybe more common back in the T30/Classics/etc. days
So let’s see here: Nickelodeon prime, Australian Mirage, happy Dead End, 90’s sideswipe, Cheeto’s Jazz, Weak bladder Arcee, the Scooby doo crossover, silver burnout, and banana grimlock
I mean I don't know if this is majorly their fault, it's just kind of not something that could work super well in the modern age. People didn't like G2 back in the 90s either.
The hound weapons that come with Jazz are intended to combine and peg into his back to give him a shoulder-mounted cannon like the G2 concept art he's based off of It's a bit too far back to be "shoulder mounted" but they did try
@@PerspectiveEndYou're welcome. I didn't really get the joke, since my Family doesn't use 409 (In fact, I don't know if It's available here in Poland), but I wanted to be the one to point it out.
If there´s no fiction for it, let´s make up one of it! Mirage´s uglier brother, the toxic avenger of Cybertron, and Grimlock´s dumb sibling, plus Senator Crosscut trying to prevent them from poisoning the Energon of Iacon... Hey, that could be a cool history.
Laser Cycle is a "he" - it's based off of yet another unreleased concept for Jazz. The reason the Legacy Prime Arcee's mold is so androgynous (which is the actual reason why people hated it) was so that it could be used as a female character for Prime Arcee (and Flamewar) and as a male character for Road Rocket - and now Laser Cycle Jazz.
Toxitron has a complicated history. Basically he was a figure intended as a Universe repaint of G2 Prime/RID 2000 Scourge, but got cancelled. Then Botcon did their CW rendition of him and built upon the little bit of lore he had being an experimental clone of Optimus Prime who seeped toxic sludge from every orifice in his body with a whacked-out mind to match. So yeah, ANOTHER Optimus clone, but at least he's a more unique rendition of such. And fun fact, the Toxitron line, sans Toxitron, is all based on unused G2 decos.
@@PerspectiveEndI think in the botcon story for Toxitron, he was created by the decepticons and saved by the wreckers and then he became the torso of their combiner, but I could be wrong
The Transformers Toxitron Collection are pretty cool. -Toxitron himself looks cool. Like the lime green, light/bright purple and grey colors. The orange Matrix of Leadership he comes with, I call the Matoxic. Matrix and toxic blend together. -Watermelon Mirage looks like he took up residence in Florida. -Dead End looks more lively then his G1 personality. I'm surprised that he didn't have a name change like the G2 Dragstrip figure from the Velocitron set renamed Shadowstrip. -Sunset Sideswipe looks very relax. Like he chills by the beach. -Orange Jazz is cool. The first unreleased version of G2 Jazz that was just concept art. He feels like Jazz got a job as a spokesman for SunnyD. Like the added weapons. -Lazer Cycle Jazz. She is base on another unreleased G2 Jazz, but got a toy but was cancelled. Everything about this figure, I like, but the tightly whities should have stayed white. -G2 Grimlock looks cool. In robot and dino modes, I prefer these colors over the old G2 blue colors. But wish the aqua blue tiger stripes went further up his back instead of being on the tail. -Buzzworthy Bumblebee Tow Line... I have mixed feeling about. I wish he wasn't a repaint with a new head from existing mold, and look more like his RID2001 self. But at the same time, like the new look. -Crosscut is cool. Honestly like this mold over Skids.
Toxitron's colors aren't as good in person. These colors on Deadend's robot mode with the altmode of the normal one would be great. Agreed the Tiger Stripes needed to not stop.
I feel the same about Towline, the scraphook mold doesn't fit him. He looks strange and out of place, not a big fan on the Laser prime mold, he looks good but a little skinny at the shoulders, I don't mind the look of it but it looks strange on the RID Scourge repaint
Just picked up the sideswipe last weekend and i love him! As soon as i saw those colors in person on a store peg i grabbed it instantly and a week later im still in love with the deco!
@@PerspectiveEnd yeah that's why I don't do repaints that often, I like the siege seeker mold, but I think I'm fine with just starscream and thundercracker as anymore then 2 just feels excessive unless its a very heavy retool
The whole G2 Deception thing on Toxitron is because it isn't following the Botcon version, it's following the generalised version of Toxitron that Hasbro haven't bothered much to explain. Basically, Bizzaro Optimus. I need explain no more.
Alright so, never at any point were we told that these things would glow. You got your hopes up for soemthing we were never promised. Also I don’t get your point on KD mirage being Inferior. The kingdom gains so much more than one lost shoulder port. It got rid of the heinous transformation, only called that because of a really long strut. He wasn’t one whole process, he was 2 half hazardous shoved together. Also he gained an ab crunch out of it. Plus if you piss him right, there’s a port in the back of the shoulder for the launcher. I agree that this line is mostly a snooze fest, but the three largest go pretty hard.
I got the Grimlock, tbh, I get the criticism, but as the only chance I could get this mold, I have went to bed transforming this thing. I enjoy it more than it has any right to be.
Oh my God I am such a fanboy of you I am so glad that got your problems fixed on the technical side and you are back stronger than ever. PSI about pissed my panties when you started talking about hers. As always your servant Warren
Was just binging your content yesterday, so this is a joy to see! Hope your speaker problem has been fixed, and don’t forget to buy Grimlock a birthday cake!
It would be weird if this was The Grimlock in the collection. (Though with the various Optimus body-types, Toxitron wouldn't stand out so much, we could call that Mirage "Barrage", every other G2 Autobot in the subline would make good genericons, and I have seen Crosscut be used as a type of Autotrooper before.)
Yeah! I actually thought about buying a Crosscut and using him as an Autotrooper. I thought he would go well with my two Legacy Red Cogs as part of a small team of troopers. But when I saw him on shelves, I just didn't feel interested enough to buy him, especially since I already have Skids
I think I remember hearing this Toxitron was meant to be RID2001 scourge who was killed and had his corpse turned into Toxitron. So he’s basically a acid zombie
Agreed about Tow-Line; I had to sand down the peg holding the front bumper/feet together, and I tend to put the exhaust pipes up from the side doors as smokestacks [and disappointingly I haven’t seen the Toxitron line on Walmart shelves/pegs yet]
With this new line I was excited for it mainly because I wanted to get the grimlock since I missed out on it, to me this line is for those that missed out on some of the molds like grimlock, jazz, mirage which is great, the line to me is good but I understand the criticisms on it
The only thing I know about toxitron is that he was apparently a cancelled universe toy, I just think of him as this strange experiment that neither side of the war can knows who made him, he just showed up. I also like to call his stuff the might of sour candy
I got Dorito Jaz and Watermelon Mirage, and am still hoping to find Lemonwipe close to MSRP rather than 2-3x aftermarket markup. Jazz I used a little metallic lime green paint to pick out his visor (and WOW does that ever make it pop more) and he's easily entered into my favorites. Mirage, well, mostly makes me long for one in his normal colors, and think about busting out the 5mm drill bit to put a hole for his missile launcher to mount to in the tire that ends up behind his right shoulder. Lemonwipe... it's that sunset paint app. That's it, the whole thing that draws me to this figure. Why do I have to have such bad taste, and why do I not care? Ah well. At least it's the version of the mold I don't have yet, unlike the other four copies of Siegeswipe (original red, Diaclone yellow, G2 black, and "G2 Diaclone" blue editions) and I guess you can count Gigawatt too.
only one I actually bothered to pick up was Mirage, and that's mostly because I've never had a mirage toy. honestly super happy with him I'm glad you dug him
I have obtained gamer edition Beakertron and Cliffjumper. Both are not good, though Beakertron is somewhat less... unless you count the pointless knee joints.
Have you seen the Toyhax sheets for Lemonwipe? It takes that sunset paint app and turns it up to eleven. Dorito Jazz importing some racing stripe flavor ends up looking really rad too, and the added color breakup on Pis-Cee takes it from bleh up to meh, if you didn't get rid of her already. Watermelon Mirage gets his gator stuff covered up with a lot of blobby lava lamp themes details, making him into an interesting OC instead of a random repaint where they threw darts at the neon color wheel, so that's kind of cool. The leadwers are the big disappointment of the lot, in that Grimlock doesn't include any more teal stripes to deck out his dino legs/bot arms or flanks/wings. I've been seriously considering picking him up now that he's started going on sale, but if I do I'll have to get some pearlized teal paint and handle that myself I guess. Toxitron meanwhile does add his name in big jagged 90s appropriate crazy letters down the side of the trailer and a bunch of cables and displays inside for its base mode, but just the usual scattering of G1-toy-like random greeble stickers and coverups for the transparent plastic to the cab/robot. I guess he's consistent in his disappointment? At least he's a different character to justify keeping a copy of the mold when I have the original versions of Laser OP and Nemesis Convoy and the WFCS/E toys are both better versions of Optimus Prime, though. Oh, and apparently according to convention comics lore he's working with the Wreckers because the Decepticons used him as an experimental subject and he wants to krump themwith the hate of a whole WAAAGH of 40k orks, and also latched onto them as the first bots to interact with him after a long damn while stuck conscious but frozen in place or something typically TF comics grimderpy. My 40k reference was intentional.
I saw them, they were pretty cool, but I can't say that I love the figure enough to want to put more money into it. I agree, Grimlock needed more stripes. That's a strange story they gave him as thats not super like the Toxic avenger at all, since he wasn't a bad dude before getting mutated.
Grimlock looks like a boss in bot mode but the trex mode kinda feel a lil bit cheap. I guess it needs more blue stripes or just blue, cuz the yellow color falls off in trex mode imo. It's just unappealing, or they can just give him a slightly darker tone of yellow in order to make his t-rex mode worth the price.
@@PerspectiveEnd You're welcome. You and Jobby will always be my favorite reviewers. I actually own the 86 Grimlock and it's one of my favorite figures, so I will probably look into buying this version
Ngl i like toxitron And i love how they handled him in the animated comics and made him like bizarro and made him say sentences backwards like him too I mean he basically is a pseudo optimus so it would make sense why
So, I may be wrong about this, but I believe Toxitron was one of Shockwaves experiments (hence the Decepti-Badge) who had corrosive properties. I think it was one of the comics that had him defect to the Wreckers and form the combiner.
@@PerspectiveEndThat's why they gave Siege jetfire the ability to switch his logos, also this is supposed to be his Universe release that was cancelled
@@PerspectiveEnd My pleasure, as always. BTW: Thanks to this vid, and a little luck, I picked up the G2 Mirage at Walmart earlier. I haven’t gotten around to grabbing the Kingdom version yet, so I figured, why not get a cool looking place holder. Seeing the colors in person didn’t hurt the decision, either.
I in no way think g2 has the most pleasing color scheme, but this is so retroactively 90s that I just couldn't but pick up one, which was my boy "Orange Jazz". Now if could only get g2 dreadwing. His gatling gun is ILLIN after all
I saw how newage interpreted the paint job for Bananalock. There was a silver stripe where the ride stripe should be in the dino torso, here's way more of the pattern on the tail and shouldeers/dinolegs and there's just generally way more blue spread around than he Legacy one. It's really just a sea of yellow on this one @_@
Great video PerspectiveEnd!!! Will you also get Cloudcover? My favorite figures from this subline are Toxitron. Laser Cycle. and Cloudcover. due to them not being G2 versions of G1 characters. lol Keep on being amazing.
At this point no. I did my Repaints Palooza, and I forgot he exists. I'm not going to pick him up now that I'm looking to offload most of the wave again.
@@PerspectiveEnd I understand. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and for shining a black light on these, as I call them, "Crayola" Transformers! lol :D
I bought Toxitron because I didn't have a version of that figure yet and for the most part I really liked him. He is flawed, but I can look past it for how fun he is, though yeah that transformation can suck a little. Grimlock I found on shelves once so far, but I already have the 86 version and I didn't think there was enough tiger striping on the G2 version so I skipped that one. I'm happy some other collector will probably be getting that version though. It's one of my all time favorite figures too
Out of all of these I would probably want the Toxitron, and Towline the most. Mirage I'm going to wait for the Crasher repack going into next year which now gives me a reason to order that Gobots pack if still available. I did come across most of the deluxe figures December last year and almost decided on Jazz, Sideswipe, and Deadend but I instead got SS Nightbird, and Mirage as I wanted something a bit more involved, and devisive. i do not regret my decision. .
I cant believe they gave sideswipe red alerts head. I was gonna get this guy and watermelon mirage to go with dorito jazz but im not sure due to the wrong head
I picked up the Toxitron Grimlock because of your review of the Studio Series. Genuinely fantastic but I can understand why the repaint doesn't do it for you. I do agree that it should have had more tiger stripes.
I went to Walmart while on a West Virginia vacation just this past weekend and stumbled across Toxitron and Grimlock. Unfortunately, it was only a pit stop, and I didn't have enough for a leader. One day I'll own a Grimlock. One day. (i also got paid the very next day. just salt in the wound)
@@PerspectiveEnd I've just noticed that the G1 Sideswipe had a spoiler, as did the original black G2 Sideswipe figure. Wonder why they left it off of this repaint one?
O don't see how you can argue that. Their feet work the exact same way, their legs work the exact same way, their separation gimmick works the exact same way, their Shoulders work the exact same way, their forearms work the exact same way. They are clearly the same skeleton.
@@PerspectiveEnd I agree with that, but Dragstrip and Dead End have slight differences in their transformations. Dragstrip needs his waist rotated, the fronts of his car on his shoulders rotated, and his head unit rotated. Meanwhile Dead End doesn’t, but needed what is the front of his car mode hinges back for his head, the hood hinged forward, and doesn’t need his waist to be rotated 180.
The only one of these figures I have is Tow-Line. It is the only version of any of Junkion molds from Legacy I have. I mainly picked him up to have some RID 2001 representation in my collection, and also I like the bright and gaudy colors that both him and the G2 line had. Ironically, I already have all the molds in this line in one form or another, so I'm not interested in any of them aside from Cloudcover (because I'm one of those people that likes the Earthrise Seeker mold, yeah it ain't the greatest, but I enjoy it) and Toxitron (because purple and green is a classic villain color scheme and I missed out on the Scourge version of the mold) Molds in this video I already have a version of: - Mirage: Crasher - Crosscut: Skids, Burn Out, and Crankcase - Dead End: Legacy Dead End - Sideswipe: Clampdown - Laser Cycle: Prime Arcee and Road Rocket - Jazz: 86 Jazz, Knock Out, and Jackpot - Grimlock: 86 Grimlock
While the mold is indeed not perfect having the RID 2001 Scourge version of that mold is currently one of my favorite figures. He has such an evil presence on my shelf. His light piping actually works pretty good?! Also I adore his truck mode. It looks so damn cool, especially with the trailer hooked on. Gonna pose him clashing with my Armada Optimus which is another legendary figure.
I couldn't get deadend on hasbro pulse US and haven't been able to find him in stores, but hasbro pulse EU still had him in stock and my German friend is coming to visit next month, so I got it shipped to her.
I actually really like the colors on the grimmy boi. I think they work way better in hand than they do on video. I also have a “shiny thing good” caveman brain, and I LIVE for the chest and head shinies. Also really like the banana mode.
If you as me, TowLine needed slightly more retooling other then the head. You know like get rid of the metal patches, wheel spikes, engine, grill spikes, and mad max window covers, because if they did that then he would look less like a junkion. Which he basically isn't.
If that new TFA Optimus figure isn't repainted into Toxitron then the planet will cease turning. Long live Botcon and FunPub.
Theyre doing the motormaster from animated so surely they can do this too
I heard someone say Animated so I am immediately on board. LONG LIVE THE LONG CHIN CLUB!!
@@m0stlyGh0styAnimated Sentinel fans:
Oh look, it's the Alex Lemonds from the video.
Can't wait for the Repaint Palorza Fourza Horizon for the Legacy United Star Raiders.
Oh man I wasn't planning that, and now you've kind of made me.
A moment of silence for ‘86 Hound. He's not dead; a redeco of his weapons were just release before he was.
A very strange circumstance indeed.
Also, yes. I'm gonna rip BOTH your ears off. Toxitron had an awesome back story in Mayhem. Tortured experiment cooked up by the sadistic jagoffs Oil Slick and Loud Pedal. The Wreckers were the first people to treat him with basic decency.
no
I predicted this.
@@PerspectiveEnd ikr
Dead End’s giant car-hood back REALLY makes him feel like a G2 figure. He’s one of the few that really hits a nostalgia chord for me.
I can see why.
Loser double-comment I know, but I’ve only been collecting since mid-2022, and the LG Arcee mold’s transformation feels SUPER unique and fun to me, making me wonder if maybe its steps were more common before the John Warden era. As it stands, the way her legs kinda fold PAST her torso and then go BACK to make the rear wheels, with the seat formed from a mashup of torso and pelvis that really hides her robot mode well, is all very distinct from anything I’ve done with a WFC/Legacy figure. Not meant as like some kind of objection, just fascinated to know if maybe your apathy toward it is because her kind of contortionist transformation was maybe more common back in the T30/Classics/etc. days
So let’s see here: Nickelodeon prime, Australian Mirage, happy Dead End, 90’s sideswipe, Cheeto’s Jazz, Weak bladder Arcee, the Scooby doo crossover, silver burnout, and banana grimlock
I don't know that I feel 90s Sideswipe but the rest of those are pretty good.
9:26 - 9:31 missed opportunity to call her “SUPER LAZER PISS!” (if you didn’t get the reference, it’s from a fandub of sonic adventure 2.)
I can not say that I have seen that fandub no.
@@PerspectiveEnd let me play another snippet of it. Ahem. “I’ve come to make an announcement!”
Yet again Hasbro has no idea what they are doing.
This line had potential too.
I mean I don't know if this is majorly their fault, it's just kind of not something that could work super well in the modern age.
People didn't like G2 back in the 90s either.
The hound weapons that come with Jazz are intended to combine and peg into his back to give him a shoulder-mounted cannon like the G2 concept art he's based off of
It's a bit too far back to be "shoulder mounted" but they did try
2:05 he was a cancelled G2 figure whose name Botcon later used for an exclusive Optimus Lime
Optimus Lime you say?
These look like that bag of jolly ranchers you left outside too long
You have a point.
Its here they told tale of the 3rd day and its come
Now we all have to wonder what the fourth will be.
"The Number of The Detergant!"
😂😂😂 Funni
Thank you. I'm glad someone appreciated that joke.
@@PerspectiveEndYou're welcome. I didn't really get the joke, since my Family doesn't use 409 (In fact, I don't know if It's available here in Poland), but I wanted to be the one to point it out.
G2 Grimlock … I see that and immediately hear that song “relax”
BOM-BOM-BOM
RELAX-go to it-when you wanna..
Hey-yey eeeyayeeeyeahAh
Why do you hear that specific song?
If there´s no fiction for it, let´s make up one of it! Mirage´s uglier brother, the toxic avenger of Cybertron, and Grimlock´s dumb sibling, plus Senator Crosscut trying to prevent them from poisoning the Energon of Iacon...
Hey, that could be a cool history.
You are a brave one for shining a blacklight anywhere
Laser Cycle is a "he" - it's based off of yet another unreleased concept for Jazz. The reason the Legacy Prime Arcee's mold is so androgynous (which is the actual reason why people hated it) was so that it could be used as a female character for Prime Arcee (and Flamewar) and as a male character for Road Rocket - and now Laser Cycle Jazz.
Not on this body it aint no more.
Fun fact: Laser Cycle is actually meant to be an unreleased Jazz figure, but they changed his name in order to not confuse people with Dorito Jazz.
That's bizarre?
@@PerspectiveEnd There was also a Laser Cycle Soundwave figure planned, but it got cancelled along with Laser Cycle Jazz.
@@BertoBoihopefully we'll see that soundwave when they release roadpig
Can’t wait to see a repaints palooza starring all the SS86 dead guy repaints titled: The Sick, The Dying… And The Dead
What now?
@PerspectiveEnd It is a Megadeth reference.
THE NUMBER OF THE DETERGENT
These guys don't look like they use any.
Toxitron has a complicated history. Basically he was a figure intended as a Universe repaint of G2 Prime/RID 2000 Scourge, but got cancelled. Then Botcon did their CW rendition of him and built upon the little bit of lore he had being an experimental clone of Optimus Prime who seeped toxic sludge from every orifice in his body with a whacked-out mind to match.
So yeah, ANOTHER Optimus clone, but at least he's a more unique rendition of such.
And fun fact, the Toxitron line, sans Toxitron, is all based on unused G2 decos.
Is he a con?
@@PerspectiveEndI think in the botcon story for Toxitron, he was created by the decepticons and saved by the wreckers and then he became the torso of their combiner, but I could be wrong
@@PerspectiveEndhis universe counterpart was supposed to be a Decepticon I believe, that is the version he is based off of
The Transformers Toxitron Collection are pretty cool.
-Toxitron himself looks cool. Like the lime green, light/bright purple and grey colors. The orange Matrix of Leadership he comes with, I call the Matoxic. Matrix and toxic blend together.
-Watermelon Mirage looks like he took up residence in Florida.
-Dead End looks more lively then his G1 personality. I'm surprised that he didn't have a name change like the G2 Dragstrip figure from the Velocitron set renamed Shadowstrip.
-Sunset Sideswipe looks very relax. Like he chills by the beach.
-Orange Jazz is cool. The first unreleased version of G2 Jazz that was just concept art. He feels like Jazz got a job as a spokesman for SunnyD. Like the added weapons.
-Lazer Cycle Jazz. She is base on another unreleased G2 Jazz, but got a toy but was cancelled. Everything about this figure, I like, but the tightly whities should have stayed white.
-G2 Grimlock looks cool. In robot and dino modes, I prefer these colors over the old G2 blue colors. But wish the aqua blue tiger stripes went further up his back instead of being on the tail.
-Buzzworthy Bumblebee Tow Line... I have mixed feeling about. I wish he wasn't a repaint with a new head from existing mold, and look more like his RID2001 self. But at the same time, like the new look.
-Crosscut is cool. Honestly like this mold over Skids.
Toxitron's colors aren't as good in person.
These colors on Deadend's robot mode with the altmode of the normal one would be great.
Agreed the Tiger Stripes needed to not stop.
I feel the same about Towline, the scraphook mold doesn't fit him. He looks strange and out of place, not a big fan on the Laser prime mold, he looks good but a little skinny at the shoulders, I don't mind the look of it but it looks strange on the RID Scourge repaint
@@PerspectiveEnd At least with pissy lazer cycle you went the watersports route and not the diaper route
Just picked up the sideswipe last weekend and i love him! As soon as i saw those colors in person on a store peg i grabbed it instantly and a week later im still in love with the deco!
Yoo I literally don’t know why but I had a dream last night where todays video was the toxictron grimlock
You sensed my work from afar.
I love these repaints palooza videos
I'm glad so many people really enjoy these.
well I guess I'm glad toxitron was the first version of the mold so I got to skip the burnout that getting all 3 would bring
Yeah, most of these will be great as your only version of the mold, but they quickly loose luster if you've already got one.
@@PerspectiveEnd yeah that's why I don't do repaints that often, I like the siege seeker mold, but I think I'm fine with just starscream and thundercracker as anymore then 2 just feels excessive unless its a very heavy retool
11:08 CROSSCUT MY BABY
I take it you are a crosscut fan?
@@PerspectiveEnd why yes I am-
I just swooned over his visage in his first panel in mtmte~ ( im trying to talk like tarn lol 😭)
The whole G2 Deception thing on Toxitron is because it isn't following the Botcon version, it's following the generalised version of Toxitron that Hasbro haven't bothered much to explain. Basically, Bizzaro Optimus. I need explain no more.
I see. A weird Choice.
Alright so, never at any point were we told that these things would glow. You got your hopes up for soemthing we were never promised. Also I don’t get your point on KD mirage being Inferior. The kingdom gains so much more than one lost shoulder port. It got rid of the heinous transformation, only called that because of a really long strut. He wasn’t one whole process, he was 2 half hazardous shoved together. Also he gained an ab crunch out of it. Plus if you piss him right, there’s a port in the back of the shoulder for the launcher. I agree that this line is mostly a snooze fest, but the three largest go pretty hard.
Grimlock. For you, a perfect example of "too much of a good thing is a bad thing" except it's average instead of bad
Hasbro, on Tow-Line looking like the Mystery Machine: "We'd have gotten away with it, if it weren't for you meddling kids!"
... PerspectiveEctvie End?
I got the Grimlock, tbh, I get the criticism, but as the only chance I could get this mold, I have went to bed transforming this thing. I enjoy it more than it has any right to be.
Like I said, if it's your only chance at this thing, I fully support you picking it up, lot of people missed out on the normal one.
Oh my God I am such a fanboy of you I am so glad that got your problems fixed on the technical side and you are back stronger than ever. PSI about pissed my panties when you started talking about hers. As always your servant Warren
Was just binging your content yesterday, so this is a joy to see! Hope your speaker problem has been fixed, and don’t forget to buy Grimlock a birthday cake!
Fixed isn't the word. Replaced more is, but yes it's not a problem any more.
Im not going to looking for any of them, but if i find one of a figure i dont have, ill most likely get it
I think that's probably the most logical reaction.
Laser cycle is based off of an unreleased g2 jazz toy
It would be weird if this was The Grimlock in the collection. (Though with the various Optimus body-types, Toxitron wouldn't stand out so much, we could call that Mirage "Barrage", every other G2 Autobot in the subline would make good genericons, and I have seen Crosscut be used as a type of Autotrooper before.)
Yeah! I actually thought about buying a Crosscut and using him as an Autotrooper. I thought he would go well with my two Legacy Red Cogs as part of a small team of troopers. But when I saw him on shelves, I just didn't feel interested enough to buy him, especially since I already have Skids
I freaking love the sideswipe mold. I found the Red Alert repaint at a Walgreens for 2 bucks and it was worth every penny.
11:40 Pan Grimlock. Also the blue color for Grimlock looks really good
Pan?
@@PerspectiveEnd i saw that from dr Lockdown
Congratulations on 14k subs dude
Is it telling you that I hit that? On my end it doesn't say that yet. But thank you.
The "mystery machine" is apparently a new toy of a RID 2001 character and the ultimate goal of the designer when he made the mold...
That man has a diseased mind then.
I think I remember hearing this Toxitron was meant to be RID2001 scourge who was killed and had his corpse turned into Toxitron. So he’s basically a acid zombie
Agreed about Tow-Line; I had to sand down the peg holding the front bumper/feet together, and I tend to put the exhaust pipes up from the side doors as smokestacks [and disappointingly I haven’t seen the Toxitron line on Walmart shelves/pegs yet]
It's insane just how tightly those fuse.
That's odd, my copy doesn't have that issue. The peg is just tight enough to hold the feet together, perhaps the QC gremlin has struck once again?
YAY!!! I was gonna ask for another repraints video.
Beat you to it.
I picked up Tequila Sunset Sideswipe specifically because of this video. He's probably my favorite version of the mold now.
He does have something going for him that the others don't.
With this new line I was excited for it mainly because I wanted to get the grimlock since I missed out on it, to me this line is for those that missed out on some of the molds like grimlock, jazz, mirage which is great, the line to me is good but I understand the criticisms on it
Were you able to find a Grimlock.
Yes I was able to get one from hasbro pulse when they re stocked, I'm so happy to finally own grimlock
Like that tmnt ooze color plastic toxitrons weapons are using
Indeed, that's more what these all should have been like.
Finally a toy line that is asking for some taco bell donkey mudslide.
The only thing I know about toxitron is that he was apparently a cancelled universe toy, I just think of him as this strange experiment that neither side of the war can knows who made him, he just showed up. I also like to call his stuff the might of sour candy
The Jazz figure should have came with a bag of Doritos
Would have made more sense than Hound's guns.
I got Dorito Jaz and Watermelon Mirage, and am still hoping to find Lemonwipe close to MSRP rather than 2-3x aftermarket markup. Jazz I used a little metallic lime green paint to pick out his visor (and WOW does that ever make it pop more) and he's easily entered into my favorites. Mirage, well, mostly makes me long for one in his normal colors, and think about busting out the 5mm drill bit to put a hole for his missile launcher to mount to in the tire that ends up behind his right shoulder. Lemonwipe... it's that sunset paint app. That's it, the whole thing that draws me to this figure. Why do I have to have such bad taste, and why do I not care? Ah well. At least it's the version of the mold I don't have yet, unlike the other four copies of Siegeswipe (original red, Diaclone yellow, G2 black, and "G2 Diaclone" blue editions) and I guess you can count Gigawatt too.
Honestly I hadn't considered putting the hole in the tire. That's a solid idea.
only one I actually bothered to pick up was Mirage, and that's mostly because I've never had a mirage toy. honestly super happy with him I'm glad you dug him
That's kind of what I was on about the whole video isn't it. That it's good if you don't have those guys already.
Honestly the Repaints Poleeza Threeza isn’t that bad of a video title
It's a terrible title. Come on.
I have obtained gamer edition Beakertron and Cliffjumper. Both are not good, though Beakertron is somewhat less... unless you count the pointless knee joints.
Beakertron has some really good qualities to it for a figure. But those knees. What where they thinking?
Thank you for doing this video
This was something i wished you would do thank you for this
Did you know the laser cycle figure is also a G2 Jazz since the original version was Jazz
I did not until this video no.
with the arcee repaint, the pose you put it in only makes it better. its like its doing a pelvic thrust
I got Jazz and Cloudcover because I love the colours, and Cloudcover kinda redeems the ER Conehead mould. I fucking love that guy.
Have you seen the Toyhax sheets for Lemonwipe? It takes that sunset paint app and turns it up to eleven. Dorito Jazz importing some racing stripe flavor ends up looking really rad too, and the added color breakup on Pis-Cee takes it from bleh up to meh, if you didn't get rid of her already. Watermelon Mirage gets his gator stuff covered up with a lot of blobby lava lamp themes details, making him into an interesting OC instead of a random repaint where they threw darts at the neon color wheel, so that's kind of cool.
The leadwers are the big disappointment of the lot, in that Grimlock doesn't include any more teal stripes to deck out his dino legs/bot arms or flanks/wings. I've been seriously considering picking him up now that he's started going on sale, but if I do I'll have to get some pearlized teal paint and handle that myself I guess.
Toxitron meanwhile does add his name in big jagged 90s appropriate crazy letters down the side of the trailer and a bunch of cables and displays inside for its base mode, but just the usual scattering of G1-toy-like random greeble stickers and coverups for the transparent plastic to the cab/robot. I guess he's consistent in his disappointment? At least he's a different character to justify keeping a copy of the mold when I have the original versions of Laser OP and Nemesis Convoy and the WFCS/E toys are both better versions of Optimus Prime, though.
Oh, and apparently according to convention comics lore he's working with the Wreckers because the Decepticons used him as an experimental subject and he wants to krump themwith the hate of a whole WAAAGH of 40k orks, and also latched onto them as the first bots to interact with him after a long damn while stuck conscious but frozen in place or something typically TF comics grimderpy. My 40k reference was intentional.
I saw them, they were pretty cool, but I can't say that I love the figure enough to want to put more money into it.
I agree, Grimlock needed more stripes.
That's a strange story they gave him as thats not super like the Toxic avenger at all, since he wasn't a bad dude before getting mutated.
RIP Cloudcover. I’m sure you would’ve loved it
I'm sure I would have hated it, if I remembered it existed.
So you got your equipment fixed
Bought a replacement.
Grimlock looks like a boss in bot mode but the trex mode kinda feel a lil bit cheap. I guess it needs more blue stripes or just blue, cuz the yellow color falls off in trex mode imo. It's just unappealing, or they can just give him a slightly darker tone of yellow in order to make his t-rex mode worth the price.
Agreed. The stripes were vital to go all the way up, otherwise it just doesn't feel finished.
Another awesome video. I think the best figure that you covered was the Grimlock
Thank you, and yeah, but it's Grimlock of course he was going to be the best.
@@PerspectiveEnd You're welcome. You and Jobby will always be my favorite reviewers. I actually own the 86 Grimlock and it's one of my favorite figures, so I will probably look into buying this version
9:48 A fellow Natural Habitat Shorts enjoyer.
Indeed!
Ngl i like toxitron
And i love how they handled him in the animated comics and made him like bizarro and made him say sentences backwards like him too
I mean he basically is a pseudo optimus so it would make sense why
So, I may be wrong about this, but I believe Toxitron was one of Shockwaves experiments (hence the Decepti-Badge) who had corrosive properties. I think it was one of the comics that had him defect to the Wreckers and form the combiner.
I mean Skyfire was originally a Con but he's got an autobadge?
@@PerspectiveEndThat's why they gave Siege jetfire the ability to switch his logos, also this is supposed to be his Universe release that was cancelled
My “LIKE”! Given!
Thank you kind sir!
@@PerspectiveEnd My pleasure, as always.
BTW: Thanks to this vid, and a little luck, I picked up the G2 Mirage at Walmart earlier. I haven’t gotten around to grabbing the Kingdom version yet, so I figured, why not get a cool looking place holder. Seeing the colors in person didn’t hurt the decision, either.
I love this Grimlock so much.
I definitely want that g2 marvel comics red alert it's nice to see what he looks like before he was killed in the comics
I in no way think g2 has the most pleasing color scheme, but this is so retroactively 90s that I just couldn't but pick up one, which was my boy "Orange Jazz".
Now if could only get g2 dreadwing. His gatling gun is ILLIN after all
I tend to not like G2 Colors much my self.
I would definitely pick up that dread wing, as long as there's smoke screan because we all know he's a 2 in 1 villain that's chillin
I saw how newage interpreted the paint job for Bananalock. There was a silver stripe where the ride stripe should be in the dino torso, here's way more of the pattern on the tail and shouldeers/dinolegs and there's just generally way more blue spread around than he Legacy one. It's really just a sea of yellow on this one @_@
Yeah they tried more with it, though I still think they didn't go far enough.
@@PerspectiveEnd I like the metalic paint they used for the blue more. But yeah not as hard as they coulda.
i wouldn't Mind Jazz, cloudcover, toxitron and grimlock but the rest can die
wait where was cloudCover?
“YOUR LIKES please give” 😂
Glad you enjoyed that bit.
I’m calling this the repaints paleeza threeza
Isn't that's what I called it?
@@PerspectiveEnd my bad, meant to say I loved the name
10:36 I skipped the og junkion version of this blokebut these colors rock
It does sell it self well.
Great video PerspectiveEnd!!! Will you also get Cloudcover? My favorite figures from this subline are Toxitron. Laser Cycle. and Cloudcover. due to them not being G2 versions of G1 characters. lol Keep on being amazing.
At this point no. I did my Repaints Palooza, and I forgot he exists. I'm not going to pick him up now that I'm looking to offload most of the wave again.
@@PerspectiveEnd I understand. Thank you for sharing your thoughts and for shining a black light on these, as I call them, "Crayola" Transformers! lol :D
I bought Toxitron because I didn't have a version of that figure yet and for the most part I really liked him. He is flawed, but I can look past it for how fun he is, though yeah that transformation can suck a little. Grimlock I found on shelves once so far, but I already have the 86 version and I didn't think there was enough tiger striping on the G2 version so I skipped that one. I'm happy some other collector will probably be getting that version though. It's one of my all time favorite figures too
Yeah, if he's your first version then he'll be pretty good.
Weeping for the people using the sideswipe as a sunstreaker stand in
Truly they live a cursed life.
These figures are really cool I like the colors. Out of them i'd probably only want to get toxitron and the bike
A lot of the colors here look better on camera than they do in person.
@@PerspectiveEnd Which ones look the worst to you?
Out of all of these I would probably want the Toxitron, and Towline the most. Mirage I'm going to wait for the Crasher repack going into next year which now gives me a reason to order that Gobots pack if still available. I did come across most of the deluxe figures December last year and almost decided on Jazz, Sideswipe, and Deadend but I instead got SS Nightbird, and Mirage as I wanted something a bit more involved, and devisive. i do not regret my decision. .
For a second there I had to think real hard who Towline was.
Why were you after something Divisive?
I cant believe they gave sideswipe red alerts head. I was gonna get this guy and watermelon mirage to go with dorito jazz but im not sure due to the wrong head
Wait... I didn't even think of that!
I picked up the Toxitron Grimlock because of your review of the Studio Series. Genuinely fantastic but I can understand why the repaint doesn't do it for you. I do agree that it should have had more tiger stripes.
Nice! I'm glad to hear you got it. One thing you can say for it, is that it is a way to get that excellent mold.
Oh my God he’s right about laser cycle
It's quite the choice they made there.
Yknow, i kinda like how the grimlock looks like the shattered glass version in blacklight
Hah, it kind of does.
I went to Walmart while on a West Virginia vacation just this past weekend and stumbled across Toxitron and Grimlock. Unfortunately, it was only a pit stop, and I didn't have enough for a leader. One day I'll own a Grimlock. One day.
(i also got paid the very next day. just salt in the wound)
Man that sucks. Sorry to hear you couldn't grab a Grimsby for your self.
Re: Sideswipe's 'missing' spoiler.
The mould, rightly or wrongly, seems to be based on the Lamborghini Countach LP400, which never had a spoiler.
But the Character had one.
@@PerspectiveEnd I've just noticed that the G1 Sideswipe had a spoiler, as did the original black G2 Sideswipe figure.
Wonder why they left it off of this repaint one?
4:19 I don’t think Dead End is a retool of Dragstrip.
O don't see how you can argue that. Their feet work the exact same way, their legs work the exact same way, their separation gimmick works the exact same way, their Shoulders work the exact same way, their forearms work the exact same way. They are clearly the same skeleton.
@@PerspectiveEnd I agree with that, but Dragstrip and Dead End have slight differences in their transformations. Dragstrip needs his waist rotated, the fronts of his car on his shoulders rotated, and his head unit rotated. Meanwhile Dead End doesn’t, but needed what is the front of his car mode hinges back for his head, the hood hinged forward, and doesn’t need his waist to be rotated 180.
Finally got my hands in Grimlock and I love him probably bc I passed on the one ss86 one I ever saw but man he’s so much fun
Yeah the 86 Mold is Amazing, so having any form of it is a good thing.
The only one of these figures I have is Tow-Line. It is the only version of any of Junkion molds from Legacy I have. I mainly picked him up to have some RID 2001 representation in my collection, and also I like the bright and gaudy colors that both him and the G2 line had.
Ironically, I already have all the molds in this line in one form or another, so I'm not interested in any of them aside from Cloudcover (because I'm one of those people that likes the Earthrise Seeker mold, yeah it ain't the greatest, but I enjoy it) and Toxitron (because purple and green is a classic villain color scheme and I missed out on the Scourge version of the mold)
Molds in this video I already have a version of:
- Mirage: Crasher
- Crosscut: Skids, Burn Out, and Crankcase
- Dead End: Legacy Dead End
- Sideswipe: Clampdown
- Laser Cycle: Prime Arcee and Road Rocket
- Jazz: 86 Jazz, Knock Out, and Jackpot
- Grimlock: 86 Grimlock
These all looks sick! I’m not gonna buy all of them but most of them
Which one's you after?
@@PerspectiveEndwas only able to get Toxi-trim but that’s fine
While the mold is indeed not perfect having the RID 2001 Scourge version of that mold is currently one of my favorite figures. He has such an evil presence on my shelf. His light piping actually works pretty good?! Also I adore his truck mode. It looks so damn cool, especially with the trailer hooked on.
Gonna pose him clashing with my Armada Optimus which is another legendary figure.
Cloud cover?
My Toxic Ron clear plastic cracked
The next video you will be like:
“YOUR LIKES”
*cries uncontrollably*
I couldn't get deadend on hasbro pulse US and haven't been able to find him in stores, but hasbro pulse EU still had him in stock and my German friend is coming to visit next month, so I got it shipped to her.
Man that is some hoops you had to jump through.
I actually really like the colors on the grimmy boi. I think they work way better in hand than they do on video. I also have a “shiny thing good” caveman brain, and I LIVE for the chest and head shinies. Also really like the banana mode.
I wish the colors were working more on me. I thought I'd be mesmerized by it, but I'm really not.
If you as me, TowLine needed slightly more retooling other then the head. You know like get rid of the metal patches, wheel spikes, engine, grill spikes, and mad max window covers, because if they did that then he would look less like a junkion. Which he basically isn't.
Still better than energon :/
The show? These toys are better than a Show?
No way, it’s the Nickelodeon Gang!
They should glow more for Nickelodeon.
I don’t know why I just love these neon figures because they’re just so stupid and I love them, I have the mirage but I sorta want them all
I do understand that. There is something fun about it.