God, I remember as a kid trying to actually watch show, but right after that episode with the monkeys, CN was like off the air for a bit, and then when channel was back the show just was gone
@@bluegem8582 Yeah. I remember there was a post saying that there would be a season 2 in 2015, but it has been almost 10 years so safe to say, season 2 isn't happening.
9:42 I can't believe I'm actually seeing someone talk about Tenkai Knights in 2024, I feel like it's been ages since I've seen anything for this series...
Hi. I'm a south korean who came across this vid. Turning Mecard was a big hit here, and people lined up from 4 am just to get a hold of these. The lineup did end, but got a S2 called Turning mecard W, and a lot of offsprings, as all hits do, like dino mecard and so on, with exclusive gimics in each. But the anime didnt do as well, so I'm not hearing more. Then some of the designs got into Carbot, another transforming anime, and got this magnetic combining-auto transformation thing. Turning Mecard got a reboot, with the toys getting an upgrade in design and rigidity, and also got a High Grade line too, where you transform them to look more like the in anime look. Also, mirine 미리내 means 은하수, the milky way in pure korean.
To bad form what Iv seen for Seson 2 a lot of them are just recolers of the old ones saw like 5 new ones no idea what there called I liem the plant guy tho seem funny
Dude this channel is making so many old memories resurface its insane. I looked up tenkai knights on ebay and i remember literally every single one i had
I'm surprised the Brave Series never made it on here. When Transformers popularity was waning in Japan in the early 90s, Takara approached Sunrise to make a spiritual successor to Transformers called The Brave Series starting with Brave Exkaiser. Things got real funny though when Beast Wars got popular in Japan. Btw fun fact a lot of the toys in the Brave Series were repurporsed Transformers toys alongside original toys.
I'm surprised the Brave series and Gear Fighter Dendoh nor Gunbuster was on Toonami. You think it'd be a grand slam dunk on Toonami if they wanted the kid demographic to get hooked on robots? They already have it!
@@ZZtheDark Is Gunbuster a typo? I don't think that would be allowed on modern Toonami without a few minor modifications, let alone golden-age child-friendly Toonami
@@kj_the_something Not a typo. Look it up. It's one of Anno's greatest works. What if...what if. It could have been but only alternate timelines can show.
The reason we didn't get any of the Braves series in the West, outside of limited DVD releases, is due to the reason we never had any Macross outside of Robotech: licensing. Many of the Braves toys were repainted and released as transformers and vice versa, but after the tangled mass that Harmony Golds rights over all things Macross, the Battletech lawsuits, and the way the Super Robot Taisen/War games were blocked in the West for the dame licensing issues, the producers of the Braves series decided it was just not worth the hassel to distribute themselves and they did not trust any Western distributors, so it never happened.
11:41 holy shit, i remember this series! i dont remember much if anything, but i instantly recognised those designs. i think i got reconnected with a long forgotten part of my childhood
5:48 YES Korean toyline spotlight! It’s an easy misconception but Sonokong was just the distributor of Choirock Contents Factory’s IP. Mecard is still popular in its country to this day where they’re reissuing the originals in "Remastered" solid colors. In its 10 years they had several Mecard iterations with RC cars, tiny Dinos, yokai Ghosts, bursting Bbasha bumpers, and Balls. Not to mention similar offshoots with their own takes on slot cars and Beyblades. Choirock’s other decade-long IP Hello Carbot has had hundreds of unique transformer toys, but when most of them are at Leader size and price point that might be a hard sell in bargain hunting America.
Yes, I myself am one of the very few Americans that know and like Turning Mecard. I even own a reissue of Gryphynx, a mecardimal combiner that was never released by Mattel. Thank you for mentioning and giving a spotlight to Turning Mecard. (P.S. Unitrobo is actually related to Gobots!)
Mecard was the ONE toy I have tried to find out about for years. I had one of the game pieces but never knew what it was for. Thank you for bringing this back up!
11:03 It's a Cultural Thing like Shinkalion, Earth Granner, and Drive Head, where the 2D animation was set in the Humans' Perspective and the 3D animation was set by the Robots' perspective.
I remember I had a transforming toy that consisted of two cars that crashed and connected with a magnet to transform into something that looked kinda like a dragon. Your video made me search more info about them and it seems they're called "Collision deformation toys" or something like that. I think it would be interesting if you covered these in a future video.
Dont know if youve covered this already, but Switch-And-Go Dinos were another line that had vehicles turn into dinosaurs, they were very cool though. i recommend covering them.
You should look into the long forgotten ReKonstructors. A strange mix between Transformers and Bionicle. There was a video made around 4 years ago on the topic, but I think you could do the subject matter much more "justice".
I remember watching the tenkai knight show when i was younger. I use to really want a toy of one of the characters, but the problem for 8 year old me was that all stores close to me stopped selling them :(
The Bakugan reboot actually had a gimmick with some of them where they revealed the core they landed on, much like the Mecards did. Can't help but think that perhaps they were inspired by them too.
If you love that than you’ll definitely love the show Kamen Rider Build. He’s power system is very similar to these toys combining 2 random objects into powerful armour.
There was an incredibly similar line to Mecard that was out at the same time (at least in Canada) called Screechers Wild. It was a rebranding of a Chinese toyline which had its own cartoon there. However for its release here they intended to make a completely different promotional cartoon. I worked on this cartoon for a bit, and short episodes were put up on TH-cam, before they decided to just redub the Chinese cartoon, and host that on TH-cam instead (removing the ones we did). it is amazing just how different these cartoons were; the Chinese one had kids battling their transforming toys against each other, while the North American show was about anthropomorphic animal characters that drove transforming mech vehicles! I did snag a couple of these toys while they were on shelves, but I think they are largely forgotten otherwise!
Oh man, I'd loooovveee to see how Unit Roborn's lore goes cuz they definitely cooking with this one. I've never seen a toy that looks like the company both ran out of ideas and being absurdly creative at the same time.
I remember getting some Tenkai Knights figures as a Christmas present a few years ago. i had no idea what they were and thought it was one those bootleg lego brands I've seen in dollar stores. But after seeing this, I've appreciated this a little more now.
The subtitle of Unitroborn isn't just there randomly, it's literally a subline of Machine Robo. In other words, those are the modern version of GoBots.
I was gonna comment on how the dicelings gave me Bakugan vibes but then the setup for the Mecard segment happened This actually reminded me to get back into watching the series now
2:12 for me, MASK has a bit more like Tokusatsu vibe. Like, Kamen Rider especially, while the masks or helmets themselves aren't usually the thing that causes the shifts and change with whatever gimmick is used. Also the cubes turning into animals gives Zyuohger
It would be so cool if M.A.S.K. joined The Autobots to help them on Earth instead of G.I.Joe. Hasbro does own M.A.S.K. at this point so it is within the realm of possibilities and I think it would be fantastic.
There was a toy line I remember years back that was a Transformers knock off, but I can't remember the name. They were fairly different though, they were robots that basically wore the vehicle parts as armor. I actually still own one of them which is this little robot that wore parts that made a dirt bike, although how he was incorporated into the bike looked weird. All I can remember was there were two factions and one was called (from how the commercial described them) the Evil Eye Syndicate. Can't remember the other side's name though, they might've been known as mavericks or something, or I'm just getting confused. Just another old toy line I'm still trying to remember. Edit: just managed to find them after making this comment, they were called R.E.Vs (Radically Engineered Vehicles) and came from playmates. So that's one more down, just two more to figure out.
1:30 Yeah, THOSE were the days! Back in the 80s, there were no sympathetic villains. There was none of this 'the villain is the hero in his own story.' The bad guys were bad, they knew it, and they REVELED in it!
As some South Korean dude living somewhere in the US, I absolutely remembered turning mecard (I just realized the name was a pun please kill me), me and my old friends used to collect them like Pokémon cards. Also there is a spin-off where it is less satisfying but it releases dinosaurs, because why the fuck not
If you are going/planning to make a part 4, please look to Tobot toyline. This toyline was created by Hyundai/Kia to promote their car brands to kids (and indirectly their parents) in South Korea. The toyline come with a TV animated series that mix a little bit of Power Rangers/Super Sentai and Transformers. In this show, kids (not teenagers or young adults, children itself) uses watches (like morphers) to control giant robots made out Hyundai and Kia cars (and sometime special vehicle ones, like bus, planes, ambulances, etc.). For a Korean Toylines, they made pretty transformable toys too. - - - We have another toylines/animated shows transformers knock-off from Korea: - - 1 - Robocar Poli: A toddlers show about police vehicles with eyes and mouth (like Pixar's Cars franchise) who are able to transform into robots. - - 2 - From the same creators of Robocar Poli, we have Super Wings: A toddlers show about planes with eyes and mouth (like Diney's Plane franchise) who are able to transform into flying robots. - - 3 - Byclons or Biklons or Biclons or Byklons (I never remember exactly the correct writing for this toyline's/show's name). In this show, bikers (yeah, bikers, like mountain bikers or speed bikers), pedal special bikes wich are capable to enter in animal robots and the bikes turns into the robots controls/cockpit(???). I don't know much more, but they are from the same creators of Tobot. - - 4 - I don't know if it counts, but South Korea has his on version of Power Rangers/Super Sentai called Miniforce. Instead of live action, this show is a 3D cartoon where a Kid take care of cute little animal-talking monsters wich are capable to morph into the rangers. I'm putting these here, because they have many "zords" (I don't know how they are named on the show) and almost all the "zords" are capable to transform itself from animal/dino/vehicle mode to robot mode, before combining to a bigger robot/"megazord" (I never watched the show, I just saw some promo and toys reviews, so I don't know the names and terms used, sorry). Sorry for my not-perfect english. It isn't my native language.
Awesome, Tenkai Knights was totally one of my favorite shows and Spin Master toylines when I was young, I use to have some of the sets too :D Plus I think Ionix's also one of my favorite Non-LEGO brands too besides Mega Bloks/Construx and Transformers' KRE-O and Construct-Bots too lol.
I always saw DICE as what if MASK used dinosaurs instead of other vehicles. 😊 Really need to finish off my Tenkai Knights and Mecard collections. Also loved the reference to SD Gundam Force.
I still have the how to tran your dragon tenkai knights set amost complete. It was the coolest thing to me as a kid, and i have a soft spot for this toy line, so good
There is a similar set of toys that worked like Mecard but they used a disc instead of a card. You push the car forward to the disc and the disc goes into a magnetic spot inside of the cars bumper (or front if it's a tank or other vehicle), the car does a frontflip and unlocks itself so the flip helps it to transform as it springs into action. The toys were known as Screechers
Appreciate this video series, threw me back lol. BUT I DO NEED HELP FINDING THIS ONE LINE OF TRANSFORMING TOYS. It was distinctly a clone of TF, often saw it at TJMaxx/Marshall's as a child in the 2000s. I can't exactly remember the title of the line but I'm almost confident it started with an R and had red text, came in horizontal boxes, and were very much shellformers. I can't remember if the vehicle forms were licensed cars or not, does this ring a bell for anyone else? Also, if another vid is on the way, I suggest you cover Tobots from Korea! EDIT: Thanks to another comment, found them! R.E.Vs (Radically engineered vehicles) by Playmate!
holy shit i completely forgot about tenkai knights. i got the red guy and the blue guy as a gift a while back and loved playing with them. the perfect pocket toy for waiting in doctors rooms or restaurants
Cool to see you talk about M.A.S.K. Yeah, it's gotta be a combination of Transformers and G.I. Joe, since Kenner faced stiff competition from Hasbro, who owned both of them, and needed something to compete as their own Star Wars line was winding down. The masks don't unlock the transformations, but the character do put them on when they go into battle. It's also occurred to that the vehicles are masking their true nature, blending in as normal vehicles, just like the drivers.
It's still surprising that Streetwise is a name for one of the Hot Wheels Modifighters at one point. It was originally a name for one of the Protectobots from the Transformers before the trademark was lost.
Again using this as a forum to bring to light another transformers clone that I vaguely remember, where’s it’s an inner frame robot that had modular armor parts that shell form around its contorted body to form the vehicle or add onto another to simply pump out the robot mode
That sounds like about half of the characters in the 2001 Transformers: Robots in Disguise. But also a line of "premium" figures that came out during the 2007 movie, which didn't actually transform their vehicle mode parts; you'd take off the armor pieces, wad up the robot, and attach separate vehicle parts onto them. I forget that they were called but they sucked.
The most recent MASK toy was a Matt Trakker action figure that was released as part of the GI Joe toyline some time ago. Unfortunately without his vehicle.
As a kid I really enjoyed the Hot Wheels Modifighter flash game, but the toyline had already ended by the time I was playing it. I'm upset now that the only ones I can find on Ebay are absurdly expensive.
tenkai knights was amazing the show as well cause it had top tier voice acting legends in it johnny young bosch yuri lowenthal bryce papenbrook benjamin diskin steve blum mat mercer to name a few. rewatched it recently and it still holds up, except for the jungle arc honestly
Yeah I like the DND dice lings. I actually searched them up and they turned out to be pretty cheap and cool. But this video will probably get me back into those toys. Good eye Jake! 👍👍
Omg, I've been wondering for years what this transformer i had as little kid was that had a water gun on it, but it turns out it was one of these modifighters!
The Tenkai Knights anime (starring Johnny Yong Bosch) was broadcast on Cartoon Network’s death slot… 6:00 in the freaking morning. (Oh yeah, and also, SD Gundam Force sucked, I will never get over the fact they approved a Gundam with a mouth)
The DICE line actually had more released for the on again off again supporting cast than just those 5; though not sure if they were released in the states or not. They were just retools but they were cool. Have MotoTyranno sitting on my shelf to this day.
3:40 - Hell it got two movies! We don't like talking about the other one..... 9:30 - Oh yeah I got a few of these, saw these in the store out of the blue and my neurons just went off. Got all of the smaller Tenkai Knights, wish I could have gotten all the bigger ones.
If there's one toyline that surprises me that hasn't been mentioned yet, it's monsuno. They were these animal hybrids that folded up then got placed into cylinders which you would launch and have another cylinder hit it to spring out said hybrids.
I think there was a mecard sequel with discs instead of cards, I have the yellow tank/t rex and the purple black van/pegasus, i cant find them anywhere but they are so unique.
Just watched all of the "Not Transformers" videos and I'm baffled how the transforming TMNT toys got mentioned, but the ones for Power Rangers got skipped over. There are SO MANY of these out there they could probably make up their own video, and with Power Rangers being direct competition to TMNT it feels like a missed opportunity. I hope they show up in a later video because I loved them as a kid
We are so back
We've never been more back
@@dumbjakeworld I’m not
@@jimmyrobot3170 I’m so behind
I grew up with Tenkai Knights and it feels like it's been largely forgotten. I still have a lot of them to this day.
same here i havenmt seen it in a while
Dude I forgot what they were called, I love them
I haven't seen the finale at all nor can I find it
Yeah me too
Knights of Tir Na Nog for me
I'm so glad someone is actually going over Tenkai Knights. I remembered this when I was younger.
God, I remember as a kid trying to actually watch show, but right after that episode with the monkeys, CN was like off the air for a bit, and then when channel was back the show just was gone
@@bluegem8582 Yeah. I remember there was a post saying that there would be a season 2 in 2015, but it has been almost 10 years so safe to say, season 2 isn't happening.
Fun fact, MASK exists in Transformers Prime! It's a divison of Unit:E and made the prototype that Optimus scanned as his Season 3 alt-mode!
thats a cool reference
That's so cool!!! I had no idea
9:42 I can't believe I'm actually seeing someone talk about Tenkai Knights in 2024, I feel like it's been ages since I've seen anything for this series...
“I can’t believe It’s not transformers “
What, not Transformers!
Could it be transformers?
Unbelievable! It's not transformers
Huh? Not transformers!?
@@Spark-mecharena "Shapeshifting Robots"
Hi. I'm a south korean who came across this vid.
Turning Mecard was a big hit here, and people lined up from 4 am just to get a hold of these.
The lineup did end, but got a S2 called Turning mecard W, and a lot of offsprings, as all hits do, like dino mecard and so on, with exclusive gimics in each.
But the anime didnt do as well, so I'm not hearing more.
Then some of the designs got into Carbot, another transforming anime, and got this magnetic combining-auto transformation thing.
Turning Mecard got a reboot, with the toys getting an upgrade in design and rigidity, and also got a High Grade line too, where you transform them to look more like the in anime look.
Also, mirine 미리내 means 은하수, the milky way in pure korean.
Awesome thanks for this info!
@@dumbjakeworld you should do a vid or two on tobot and carbot
To bad form what Iv seen for Seson 2 a lot of them are just recolers of the old ones saw like 5 new ones no idea what there called I liem the plant guy tho seem funny
I LOVED IONIX. I LOVED TENKAI KNIGHTS.
To this day, I still question why…
ME TOO
Dude I have unimaginable nostalgia for the tenkai knights!
@@-FileNotFound- I watched the show! Not very far in, but I remember it like it was yesterday.
@ same man!
Dude this channel is making so many old memories resurface its insane. I looked up tenkai knights on ebay and i remember literally every single one i had
I'm surprised the Brave Series never made it on here. When Transformers popularity was waning in Japan in the early 90s, Takara approached Sunrise to make a spiritual successor to Transformers called The Brave Series starting with Brave Exkaiser. Things got real funny though when Beast Wars got popular in Japan.
Btw fun fact a lot of the toys in the Brave Series were repurporsed Transformers toys alongside original toys.
I'm surprised the Brave series and Gear Fighter Dendoh nor Gunbuster was on Toonami. You think it'd be a grand slam dunk on Toonami if they wanted the kid demographic to get hooked on robots? They already have it!
@@ZZtheDark Is Gunbuster a typo? I don't think that would be allowed on modern Toonami without a few minor modifications, let alone golden-age child-friendly Toonami
@@kj_the_something Not a typo. Look it up. It's one of Anno's greatest works.
What if...what if. It could have been but only alternate timelines can show.
The reason we didn't get any of the Braves series in the West, outside of limited DVD releases, is due to the reason we never had any Macross outside of Robotech: licensing. Many of the Braves toys were repainted and released as transformers and vice versa, but after the tangled mass that Harmony Golds rights over all things Macross, the Battletech lawsuits, and the way the Super Robot Taisen/War games were blocked in the West for the dame licensing issues, the producers of the Braves series decided it was just not worth the hassel to distribute themselves and they did not trust any Western distributors, so it never happened.
@@Scudboy17 The Brave series would have kicked well on Toonami. That stuff coulda been CRAZY!
11:41 holy shit, i remember this series! i dont remember much if anything, but i instantly recognised those designs. i think i got reconnected with a long forgotten part of my childhood
5:48 YES Korean toyline spotlight! It’s an easy misconception but Sonokong was just the distributor of Choirock Contents Factory’s IP. Mecard is still popular in its country to this day where they’re reissuing the originals in "Remastered" solid colors. In its 10 years they had several Mecard iterations with RC cars, tiny Dinos, yokai Ghosts, bursting Bbasha bumpers, and Balls. Not to mention similar offshoots with their own takes on slot cars and Beyblades.
Choirock’s other decade-long IP Hello Carbot has had hundreds of unique transformer toys, but when most of them are at Leader size and price point that might be a hard sell in bargain hunting America.
This is very informative, thank you!
Yes, I myself am one of the very few Americans that know and like Turning Mecard. I even own a reissue of Gryphynx, a mecardimal combiner that was never released by Mattel. Thank you for mentioning and giving a spotlight to Turning Mecard. (P.S. Unitrobo is actually related to Gobots!)
I need this guy to cover Tobot one of these days
@@WaksWorld05 with all the variations.
no tobot?
What's crazy about Unitorobo, is that they're part of Machine Robo lines, which is the Japanese origin for Gobots.
Mecard was the ONE toy I have tried to find out about for years.
I had one of the game pieces but never knew what it was for.
Thank you for bringing this back up!
Man, Dicelings really broke my heart with them being discontinuted, I was really hoping we'd get a blue dragon to finish off the chromatic dragons.
11:03 It's a Cultural Thing like Shinkalion, Earth Granner, and Drive Head, where the 2D animation was set in the Humans' Perspective and the 3D animation was set by the Robots' perspective.
I remember I had a transforming toy that consisted of two cars that crashed and connected with a magnet to transform into something that looked kinda like a dragon.
Your video made me search more info about them and it seems they're called "Collision deformation toys" or something like that.
I think it would be interesting if you covered these in a future video.
Could it be 'hello carbot'
Huh, that's weird, last time I combined a truck and a large tree I woke up in a white room with my family gathered around me.
Dont know if youve covered this already, but Switch-And-Go Dinos were another line that had vehicles turn into dinosaurs, they were very cool though. i recommend covering them.
Yep check part 2
Tenkai knights!?, jesus...its been a while since ive heard that, god i miss those days...they were the best
OH MY GOD. Subscribed. this channel just helped me rediscover two old toylines i used to absolutely love. Tenkai Knights was my SHIT
You should look into the long forgotten ReKonstructors. A strange mix between Transformers and Bionicle. There was a video made around 4 years ago on the topic, but I think you could do the subject matter much more "justice".
lts go
I remember watching the tenkai knight show when i was younger. I use to really want a toy of one of the characters, but the problem for 8 year old me was that all stores close to me stopped selling them :(
It's like the world is trying to make us forget all the good things that happened.
Sup dumbjake and everybody!
I was so happy to help him make this video possible by using some of my videos.
Thanks for the support! 😉
Thank you! Really appreciate your work showing off these somewhat obscure toys
The Bakugan reboot actually had a gimmick with some of them where they revealed the core they landed on, much like the Mecards did. Can't help but think that perhaps they were inspired by them too.
Ah yes, my favorite Unit Robo: PenPineappleApplePen.
Gonna hit that “libbertize” every time I gotta get in my car to go to work
Those Unitroborn might be my new favorite thing...
HOLY SHIT IM IN LOVE WITH THAT LAST ONE
If you love that than you’ll definitely love the show Kamen Rider Build. He’s power system is very similar to these toys combining 2 random objects into powerful armour.
There was an incredibly similar line to Mecard that was out at the same time (at least in Canada) called Screechers Wild. It was a rebranding of a Chinese toyline which had its own cartoon there. However for its release here they intended to make a completely different promotional cartoon. I worked on this cartoon for a bit, and short episodes were put up on TH-cam, before they decided to just redub the Chinese cartoon, and host that on TH-cam instead (removing the ones we did). it is amazing just how different these cartoons were; the Chinese one had kids battling their transforming toys against each other, while the North American show was about anthropomorphic animal characters that drove transforming mech vehicles! I did snag a couple of these toys while they were on shelves, but I think they are largely forgotten otherwise!
Oh man, I'd loooovveee to see how Unit Roborn's lore goes cuz they definitely cooking with this one.
I've never seen a toy that looks like the company both ran out of ideas and being absurdly creative at the same time.
6:47 thanks for the mention of Bakugan. I LOVE Bakugan! It is my childhood!
I remember getting some Tenkai Knights figures as a Christmas present a few years ago. i had no idea what they were and thought it was one those bootleg lego brands I've seen in dollar stores. But after seeing this, I've appreciated this a little more now.
"We love an ozempic King"
Certified banger
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Oh boy I actually miss Tenkai Knights, like I remember seeing it when I was younger and seeing it here brings back memorys
The subtitle of Unitroborn isn't just there randomly, it's literally a subline of Machine Robo. In other words, those are the modern version of GoBots.
Says he's clowe to 28K, right now already almost at 30k :D. Keep growing king, love your content!
I was gonna comment on how the dicelings gave me Bakugan vibes but then the setup for the Mecard segment happened
This actually reminded me to get back into watching the series now
Dicelings have far more in common with Beast Box than Bakugan, really.
Love your videos!!! I actually wqtch the other two a lot
2:12 for me, MASK has a bit more like Tokusatsu vibe. Like, Kamen Rider especially, while the masks or helmets themselves aren't usually the thing that causes the shifts and change with whatever gimmick is used. Also the cubes turning into animals gives Zyuohger
It would be so cool if M.A.S.K. joined The Autobots to help them on Earth instead of G.I.Joe. Hasbro does own M.A.S.K. at this point so it is within the realm of possibilities and I think it would be fantastic.
There was a toy line I remember years back that was a Transformers knock off, but I can't remember the name. They were fairly different though, they were robots that basically wore the vehicle parts as armor. I actually still own one of them which is this little robot that wore parts that made a dirt bike, although how he was incorporated into the bike looked weird. All I can remember was there were two factions and one was called (from how the commercial described them) the Evil Eye Syndicate. Can't remember the other side's name though, they might've been known as mavericks or something, or I'm just getting confused.
Just another old toy line I'm still trying to remember.
Edit: just managed to find them after making this comment, they were called R.E.Vs (Radically Engineered Vehicles) and came from playmates.
So that's one more down, just two more to figure out.
Holy crap, I had REVs as well! I just commented trying to see if anyone else knew, so glad to have found this comment!
finally new upload yeah
OMG, I REMEMBER THAT TRUCK DRAGON FROM TURNING MECARD. I also watched like one singular episode of Tenkei knights as a kid.
I very vaguely remember watching D.I.C.E. as a kid
1:30 Yeah, THOSE were the days! Back in the 80s, there were no sympathetic villains. There was none of this 'the villain is the hero in his own story.' The bad guys were bad, they knew it, and they REVELED in it!
It feels like the Tenkai Knights show is a combination of the Lego Nexo Knights and Ninjago show and Transformers
As some South Korean dude living somewhere in the US, I absolutely remembered turning mecard (I just realized the name was a pun please kill me), me and my old friends used to collect them like Pokémon cards. Also there is a spin-off where it is less satisfying but it releases dinosaurs, because why the fuck not
Bro I use to love the knights I miss them so much 😭
Turning Mecard & Tenkai Knights were my childood!!!! :3
If you are going/planning to make a part 4, please look to Tobot toyline. This toyline was created by Hyundai/Kia to promote their car brands to kids (and indirectly their parents) in South Korea. The toyline come with a TV animated series that mix a little bit of Power Rangers/Super Sentai and Transformers. In this show, kids (not teenagers or young adults, children itself) uses watches (like morphers) to control giant robots made out Hyundai and Kia cars (and sometime special vehicle ones, like bus, planes, ambulances, etc.). For a Korean Toylines, they made pretty transformable toys too.
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4 - I don't know if it counts, but South Korea has his on version of Power Rangers/Super Sentai called Miniforce. Instead of live action, this show is a 3D cartoon where a Kid take care of cute little animal-talking monsters wich are capable to morph into the rangers.
I'm putting these here, because they have many "zords" (I don't know how they are named on the show) and almost all the "zords" are capable to transform itself from animal/dino/vehicle mode to robot mode, before combining to a bigger robot/"megazord" (I never watched the show, I just saw some promo and toys reviews, so I don't know the names and terms used, sorry).
Sorry for my not-perfect english. It isn't my native language.
NGL some of the new Tobot toys from 2023 and 2024 are better in quality than some studio series transformers
@ADas-vj3ib yep, I agree with you.
@@CanalAleat ngl transformers would be cooked if Tobot expanded to markets where transformers are sold.
Tenkai knights mentioned in 2024
Holy hell
2:39 “mask combines my love for transformers and gi joe”, wouldn’t be cool if there official gi joe and transformers crossover media?
That tenkai knights animation reminds me of the LBX series... Wow what a throwback
Awesome, Tenkai Knights was totally one of my favorite shows and Spin Master toylines when I was young, I use to have some of the sets too :D
Plus I think Ionix's also one of my favorite Non-LEGO brands too besides Mega Bloks/Construx and Transformers' KRE-O and Construct-Bots too lol.
Bro I was going over the wiki for the Tenkai Knights show the other night! I should totally watch it again...
Finally after 1 decade I’ve finally found the Lego brick that turns into a mini fig🥹
Some Bakugan are large enough to just be Transformers.
Damn 'Robocar Poli' was my childhood. I can't believe I've missed so much incredible Nottransformers.
I'm loving watching your videos, I can tell you for sure that you're not dumb at all!
good channel, transformers my childhood
Thank you. I was searching for the show that has a white robot and a red horn. And that's the show where I saw him from
I always saw DICE as what if MASK used dinosaurs instead of other vehicles. 😊
Really need to finish off my Tenkai Knights and Mecard collections. Also loved the reference to SD Gundam Force.
I still have the how to tran your dragon tenkai knights set amost complete. It was the coolest thing to me as a kid, and i have a soft spot for this toy line, so good
There is a similar set of toys that worked like Mecard but they used a disc instead of a card. You push the car forward to the disc and the disc goes into a magnetic spot inside of the cars bumper (or front if it's a tank or other vehicle), the car does a frontflip and unlocks itself so the flip helps it to transform as it springs into action. The toys were known as Screechers
I feel like I’m like 100 years, if Transformers is still around, Hasbro will have full rights to toys that turn into other things
Tenkai Knights is goated
Tenkai knights was my childhood, I loved them and still have a lot in storage
Appreciate this video series, threw me back lol. BUT I DO NEED HELP FINDING THIS ONE LINE OF TRANSFORMING TOYS. It was distinctly a clone of TF, often saw it at TJMaxx/Marshall's as a child in the 2000s. I can't exactly remember the title of the line but I'm almost confident it started with an R and had red text, came in horizontal boxes, and were very much shellformers. I can't remember if the vehicle forms were licensed cars or not, does this ring a bell for anyone else?
Also, if another vid is on the way, I suggest you cover Tobots from Korea!
EDIT: Thanks to another comment, found them! R.E.Vs (Radically engineered vehicles) by Playmate!
holy shit i completely forgot about tenkai knights. i got the red guy and the blue guy as a gift a while back and loved playing with them. the perfect pocket toy for waiting in doctors rooms or restaurants
Waiting for when you talk about Tobot in one of these videos. It is quite the rabbit hole for “non transforming transformers stuff”
I had the tiny green knight robot that becomes a lego i Lost It wen i was a kid
Cool to see you talk about M.A.S.K. Yeah, it's gotta be a combination of Transformers and G.I. Joe, since Kenner faced stiff competition from Hasbro, who owned both of them, and needed something to compete as their own Star Wars line was winding down.
The masks don't unlock the transformations, but the character do put them on when they go into battle. It's also occurred to that the vehicles are masking their true nature, blending in as normal vehicles, just like the drivers.
Holy shit i actually had tenkai knights and ive been searching for the name forever thanks man
I saw one fov your oder video's with the beast boxes and I went to look at some and saw a godzilla beast box
I was baited by the bootleg Astray Red Frame in the thumbnail.
It's still surprising that Streetwise is a name for one of the Hot Wheels Modifighters at one point. It was originally a name for one of the Protectobots from the Transformers before the trademark was lost.
Again using this as a forum to bring to light another transformers clone that I vaguely remember, where’s it’s an inner frame robot that had modular armor parts that shell form around its contorted body to form the vehicle or add onto another to simply pump out the robot mode
That sounds like about half of the characters in the 2001 Transformers: Robots in Disguise. But also a line of "premium" figures that came out during the 2007 movie, which didn't actually transform their vehicle mode parts; you'd take off the armor pieces, wad up the robot, and attach separate vehicle parts onto them. I forget that they were called but they sucked.
@ Yep the latter was what I had in mind.
The most recent MASK toy was a Matt Trakker action figure that was released as part of the GI Joe toyline some time ago. Unfortunately without his vehicle.
3:50 I will have you know that it's gotten ANOTHER* movie. There was AT LEAST ONE before Honor Among Thieves.
Tenkai knight.... finaly all these years i finaly remembered it.
As a kid I really enjoyed the Hot Wheels Modifighter flash game, but the toyline had already ended by the time I was playing it.
I'm upset now that the only ones I can find on Ebay are absurdly expensive.
You should talk about cubebots in the next one, they're like little wooden dudes that turn into cubes. They're pretty neat.
tenkai knights was amazing
the show as well cause it had top tier voice acting legends in it
johnny young bosch
yuri lowenthal
bryce papenbrook
benjamin diskin
steve blum
mat mercer
to name a few. rewatched it recently and it still holds up, except for the jungle arc honestly
Yeah I like the DND dice lings. I actually searched them up and they turned out to be pretty cheap and cool. But this video will probably get me back into those toys. Good eye Jake! 👍👍
Omg, I've been wondering for years what this transformer i had as little kid was that had a water gun on it, but it turns out it was one of these modifighters!
The Tenkai Knights anime (starring Johnny Yong Bosch) was broadcast on Cartoon Network’s death slot… 6:00 in the freaking morning. (Oh yeah, and also, SD Gundam Force sucked, I will never get over the fact they approved a Gundam with a mouth)
SD Gundam Force was an attempt at getting preschoolers to buy Gunpla.
@@OtakuUnitedStudio Imagine if we got Doozy Bots instead.
@@LegitThatDude Might have been an improvement
Yoooooo, Tenkai Knights! I still got my Bravenwolf from all those years ago!
The DICE line actually had more released for the on again off again supporting cast than just those 5; though not sure if they were released in the states or not. They were just retools but they were cool. Have MotoTyranno sitting on my shelf to this day.
Tenkai Knights were so cool!
Tyco Robo-Bloxx was another brick built transforming toy line from the 80's. It was obscure but worth checking out.
Since 2007 MASK is part of the GI Joe lore being GI Joe R&D division and as such depending on the continuity may or may not exist with Transformers
3:40 - Hell it got two movies! We don't like talking about the other one.....
9:30 - Oh yeah I got a few of these, saw these in the store out of the blue and my neurons just went off. Got all of the smaller Tenkai Knights, wish I could have gotten all the bigger ones.
If there's one toyline that surprises me that hasn't been mentioned yet, it's monsuno. They were these animal hybrids that folded up then got placed into cylinders which you would launch and have another cylinder hit it to spring out said hybrids.
Fun fact: there is multiple d and d movies not just honor among thieves
I love these videos only kind i can find
I think there was a mecard sequel with discs instead of cards, I have the yellow tank/t rex and the purple black van/pegasus, i cant find them anywhere but they are so unique.
Just watched all of the "Not Transformers" videos and I'm baffled how the transforming TMNT toys got mentioned, but the ones for Power Rangers got skipped over. There are SO MANY of these out there they could probably make up their own video, and with Power Rangers being direct competition to TMNT it feels like a missed opportunity. I hope they show up in a later video because I loved them as a kid
This just reminded me of those Beyblade’s that transformed into the bit beasts
I remember taking a family picture with the mall Santa and he gave me a tenkai knight. Wish I hadn’t lose it
I still have a beat up mantis middle truck one 6:49