Legacy Point Blank: Is ANYONE Surprised?
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ธ.ค. 2022
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“Drown in a diarrhea-filled toilet with no one holding it down” great line it's hilarious.
Yeah
Thank you very much.
I have to agree it is hilarious
Ah yes. Legacy Point blank, The Earthrise Cliffjumper and Kingdom Rhinox combined into one Bad figure
That's an excellent way to look at this thing.
you know whats sad i was hoping this would walk so that a "potential armada blurr" could zoom but now this feels like it trips so that a "potential armada blurr" could dig it self into a grave
Hopefully they just hold off and don't make it out of this.
HasTak: "So let's make these small and fun little Targetmasters with ball jointed arms and legs with fun blast effects!"
Also HasTak: "Legacy Pointblank's coming out? Give him a unused G1 Targetmaster design for the Targetmaster!"
Honestly the only reason I get the Targetmasters are for the blast effects, and I dont think I’m alone.
They didn’t sell anyway
That's for sure what this thing feels like.
I mean it would have cost them nothing to include one of those Siege targetmasters in the right colors, or even reuse the ones from the Generations Scoop figure for Needlenose. That would have been better than the no-effort they put into this TM figure!
One thing I'd say about that targetmaster that I'm surprised you didn't say yourself is this:
It feels like a baby could transform it completely by accident and not even realize they did something.
That’s genius!
That would have been a solid thing to say, except I don't know if a baby is STRONG enough to fold that thing in half, DAMN it's tight.
I'm imagining him having to turn sideways and crabwalk in order to get through doors.
Lol. Yeah that would be a problem for him.
when he turns around even Unicron crouches down 🤣
Wildrider: “I’m the worst legacy figure”
Point blank: “hold my shoulder nipples”
That's a great joke.
A relative just got it, and I saw how much they cut due to "being too costly", the 2nd engine weapon (hence the "tailbone" he's got), the swiveling hand for the Headmasters style of Targetmasters (that's what the handle on the back WAS for), hollowing out the Targetmaster's whole body, etc. (all these were on the prototype). I hope more people wake up to Hasbro's insane corner cutting and excuses.
But muh cost/complexity algorithms
@@DiggitySlice lol, yeah, a billion dollar company **totally** can't spend a few bucks more to make the molds and produce it.
@@KodyCrimson not if those billions of dollars are going back into other shit
Some people actually have the Gall to claim that this needed to be a Voyager to not suck.
@@PerspectiveEnd no surprise there
Never thought I’d see Transformer circumcision in a video, but hey, at least Point Blank is doing something with his life now.
Man why did you have to put that image in my mind?
I was thinking of getting this figure, I looked at it for a while and thought "yeah this looks good," and then I saw that he doesn't have bicep swivels. I don't think a single deluxe class figure over the last 5 years has not had bicep swivels.
The reason why that one bit hangs down from his crotch and the reason why they didn't give him wrist articulation was cause of budgeting done to make sure he got his target master, he had the little crotch part come off and turn into an exhaust blaster but when they were told they couldn't do that so they decided to just make it part of the crotch mold and not change it.
Legacy's recently weird qc is likely a result of factory changes or them putting more money into developing the figures for rise of the beasts (judging by the fact two seperate deluxe airrazors were leaked recently).
Man that doesn't make any sense, this thing isn't using a Deluxe budget already.
It's a very simple transformation, with barely any posing.
he looks like a retool of POTP punch/counterpunch. so that might explain some of the weirdness of the figure, since the original mold was a deluxe that was technically a quadruple changer with 2 robot modes.
Earthrise cliffjumper + Kingdom tracks = Legacy point-blank and whatever was left over was compressed into Peacemaker
What do you mean by Peacemaker? Who is Peacemaker?
@@PerspectiveEnd he's the little guy that comes with Point-blank
"Im sure theres something I would enjoy in [Japanese Transformers]"
Perspective, I think I found my new mission statement.
Also. Wrist swivels. They were originally in rhe design but got cut for budget. Same thing happened with the targetmaster. They didnt want to release it seprately because of the failure of micromasters.
We got a Crosshairs and a Pointblank, now all we need is a Sureshot to complete the Targetmaster team.
Also, did you know that Misfire appeared in the animei along with Pointblank?
I had seen clips of him appearing there yes.
And what Budget. They didn't use half of what they normally do.
"Fuck this thing!" -PerspectiveEnd, usually.
Put that on my Toombstone.
I had someone tell me that if you could only get 1 deluxe from wave 3, this one was a must have
Welp... They're crazy. Call the men in white coats.
I actually considered getting this figure to disassemble it and melt those teal parts and make Bionicle pieces from them.
Then, I got a large bag of lego technic teal parts which weight even more than the figure and cost 1/5th of it's price.
How were you going to turn these into Bionacles? That seems impossible to me.
@@PerspectiveEnd metal molds, pour it into them
Probably.
Dude his head looks like a conglomeration of Jazz's face, Megatron's helmet and Springer's dumb head fin.
Like all that but also if you just kind of ran them though an ugly filter.
This is such a weird toy. I genuinely don’t know what they were thinking. If this wasn’t dropping right before Christmas I know this thing would be a shelf warmer. Even ERcee sold out before Christmas.
That's a good point, hopefully I save a few kids with this video.
It does look so much like a toy design held back from an earlier TF Era. I might've thought around 2004/2005 myself, but it may not be heavy/sturdy enough for that.
Exactly, that's exactly what it looks like.
That looks like a pretty obvious Armada Blur pretool. I know the original looked kinda like this too, but this is straight up just armada Blurr in red
Hopefully not because that will just mean he sucks too.
Blank is the right term, because I've never been so bored looking at a figure with such a unique vehicle design.
You could say he's firing blanks.
he's called that because he got shot point blank with a shotgun and ratchet didn't have good replacement parts
Good, let him die.
This figure looks like armada’s sideswipe with the arm kibble
Sideswipe? Do you mean Blurr?
A deluxe without bicep swivels is unacceptable. This has dashed my hopes for an Armada Blurr out of this mold.
Indeed, hopefully they just don't do it, and if they ever bring back the character they use a new mold.
I got point-blank anonymously gifted to me today from amazon. I don't know if it is a bonus from one of the other legacy figures I ordered but I won't say no to getting him for free despite his problems!
Free is a great price. Congratulations on your out of no where gift.
Why does Pointblank look like a guy who shouldn't be allowed within 500 yards of a school
He does look like a pervert yeah.
Wow.. It's like he was - an afterthought.
It sure feels that way.
Ngl I hope the company that made the chug scale IDW prime makes their own version of this guy
I think the odds are very low. Like if Hasbro doesn't sue them into the ground for just the Prime it will be a miracle.
Parts of this figures looks really give me armada blurr vibes so I get the feeling hasbro might try retool this into an armada blurr
Hopefully not, and they start over with a new mold cause this one sucks.
@@PerspectiveEnd yeah completely agree this mold isn’t even good enough to be the character it’s supposed to be so trying to retool it would likely make it worse than it already is
I was actually excited for this guy, we had gotten Crosshairs in Siege and when I heard Pointblank was coming from the listings I was like “oh sweet they’re gonna do the full Autobot targetmaster team! I’ll go ahead and go back and grab Crosshairs when I can” and then when Pointblank was revealed I was so disappointed I haven’t even gone back and grabbed Crosshairs even knowing he’s not that bad.
Yeah, it's really unfortunate. Like it didn't have to be this bad, they just got ULTRA lazy with it. Some people are saying how this would have been better as a Voyager, but it's not even as complex as a normal deluxe. It's just phoned in.
Looks like Legacy is suffering from Kingdom syndrome with having a great start, and then having a terrible 3rd wave
Well Kingdom kind of started petering out at wave 2, Legacy's first two waves are about equally strong.
How bad could Pointblank be? Looks at the hips “oh”.
Yeah they are some weird child bearing ones.
This looks like Hasbro was like “Let’s make trash to make money and make kids sad!”
That's exactly what this is like.
@@PerspectiveEnd They probably intended for it to be mistaken for a crossover Spider-Man.
Wheel jacks head from ROTB looks like a younger and much better designed version from DOTM
But maybe the glasses is his ears glowing
I mean that's a low bar to cross.
What's your favorite design from Rise Of The Beasts so far
I was hoping this could be a decent Armada Blurt, but that back would need some serious work to be a passable chest
Yeah I can see why you'd think that, but this needs extreme work.
Great review PerspectiveEnd!! I have to admit I enjoy Pointblank, especially how tall he is and standing him besides Siege Crosshairs. Please forgive me, but in my review I said that Pointblank was my favorite deluxe figure from wave 3 of Legacy. LOL :D I think its fun that we have opposite opinions about Pointblank. lol :D Keep on being amazing.
I'm glad you enjoy it, you have nothing to apologize for.
@@PerspectiveEnd Thank you.
Is it just me or is this figure like a reverse of Skullgrin? Whereas Skullgrin had a good-looking robot mode and a crappy vehicle mode, Pointblank has a bad-looking robot mode but a fairly cool looking vehicle mode.
Like… it’s just kinda weird because not only do they both have this issue of one mode being bad and the other good, but they’re also both deluxe figures, they’re both G1 characters and they’re also from the same era of G1 too, that being the 1987-89 post Movie era where we just got lots of different concepts and ideas like the Headmasters, Targtmasters, Powermasters, Pretenders etc. Just something I’ve noticed about this pair.
You aren't wrong no, the altmode is definitely what makes this interesting, and manages to be an 80s Post Apocalypse thing worth messing with.
Not to mention Star saves new brain master has more articulation than his target master and that thing is smaller than titan masters
Yeah that things like the size of a Tic-tac.
He’s wearing a bib made out of a blue sep lock bad
sep lock bad?
OH Zip Lock Bag.
Your autocorrect really betrayed you there.
So glad I passed on this, while skullgrin isn't amazing, he at least looks good with his smaller brothers, and had arms that worked right, oh well, I don't think anyone was really surprised with this turnout lol yet another great review!
Thank you very much, and yeah it seems like for once people had about the correct expectations going in.
Why does this thing feel like it was made In a day then mass produced
I don't know because they announced it for ever ago, and yet it still looks like this.
3:54 well we do want to forget kiss players existed, thanks for the reminder.
We block that from our memories.
Yeah, about the articulation, apparently they were forced to remove both wrist and bicep swivels for the sake of including the target master. And at this point, they should probably just make them core class target masters, because I’d rather pay 12$ for something that requires extra effort instead of a sucky robot mode and an even suckier target master. And the crotch was supposed to be covered by a shield accessory in vehicle mode, but again TORGEHT MASTUR!!!
The Target master is 3 parts though? And it sucks. How?
@@PerspectiveEnd don’t look at me, I’m merely recounting! Nor am I disputing that these were sensible compromises, because it seems as though they’d actually have the budget for all of that.
You know I kinda wanted this and might of picked it up when I saw it in shelves but thank you for saving my money haha
I know the call of the hunt is intense, but just save your money.
I don't believe there is a single deluxe or voyager class figure since 2010 that lacked a bicep swivel it is genuinely mind boggling hopefully someone makes a upgrade kit that replaces the arms entirely and with the headmasters anime / toy head
See I don't think they should, this mold is a Failure. It should be allowed to just die it's undignified death.
I love this guys reviews because I bought shattered glass soundwave. KEEP IT IN THE DARK 24/7 thankfully after 2 weeks NO YELLOWING
Well thank you, though why does that make you like my videos?
So your Armada Starscream has dogshit QC? Mine has somewhat loose hips and discoloured red parts after having it for a month. Did you try and get another one?
I don't normally try to get a second copy because of QC but somehow I did wind up with two thought I didn't open the second yet. The QC on the first is awful.
Haha this is such a hilarious review
Glad you enjoyed.
I can see this figure being retooled into Armada Blurr.
Lot of people can.
That quail helmet is actually based on the G1 cartoon because for some inexplicable reason the it's head wasn't based on the toy
That's actually a weird little tidbit I didn't know.
Finally another review. Also I have a feeling that ss Soundwave is not going to be able to end up on the worst of year list now thanks to legacy wave 3. Also what are your thoughts on Bombburst?
What do you mean finally? I did a review on Wednesday.
I think he's still in the running for that.
@@PerspectiveEnd I think my brain is broken, I thought you did 2 roast a man's compilations in a row, sry
I just want to leave this extremely important comment pointing out a simply vital aspect of this figure that you missed, without of course, watching the rest of the video to see if you noticed and correct yourself. Thanks for the content.
You monster!
If Hasbro uses this mold for an Armada Blurr in the future... It would be the only Armada figure I would 100% not want, that is if they dont mess up another one. Granted they might be able to retool some problems away but it's just better off with a new mold.
Yeah, let's hope it doesn't come to that.
Im going to facepalm myself if this is the base mold for armada blurr. If that would be the case, hopefully it would be a heavy remold.
Yeah, hopefully they do something very different than this for that thing.
I am not done watching but I know this is gonna be great:
Hope it lived up to your expectation.
@@PerspectiveEnd as usual, it exceeded it.
The QC and problems are making me very worried for future figures. (Oh please let inferno, tiger hawk and silverbolt be good figures. If you have inferno, is he at least a tolerable figure?)
Tm2 Megatron too
Yeah, I'm worried, but I've at least heard good things about the inferno.
The only thing this guy has going for him is the colors
Indeed, it's the only thing making him interesting looking.
Late 10k surprise. 10k celebration when
Thank you very much, and at this rate 10K looks like it will be coming Christmas day.
Apparently this toy got shafted hard because of the Targetmaster. Like in the grey model, it had much better arms with actual wrists and such. Personally, I would've rathered him not have it if it meant the base figure would be better.
But the Target Master sucks too so that's not a Justification when the Head Masters were better.
@@PerspectiveEnd Oh I'm not saying I agree with it, the Targetmaster does suck. Just that that's the BTS reason why the figure was shafted as hard as it was. It's apparently even why Needlenose looks kind of odd since he's got two of them.
No wonder percepter never mentioned his little brother
What is this about him being Perceptors Brother.
Can’t believe I bought this yesterday. Haven’t even opened it yet but after seeing this video I’m not sure if I want to
If you do I hope you like it, but you would still be able to return it at this point.
Hasbro: “but he have target master”
Me "But Him Target Master Sukk".
Yo perspective which do you prefer tfp wheeljack or movie wheel jack one has the look down but the other has the character down
I think he prefers Que better than Prime Wheeljack, to be completely honest.
"Fuck the Wreckers" Perspective End-2020
I like Bumblebee Wheeljack... I have found the flaw in your conundrum.
You need to see the glory of beast wars neo gigastorm!
That's just Trypticon.
@@PerspectiveEnd yeah! With leopard print and a big ass predacon badge! Does trypticon have that? no.
The G1 figure had wrist articulation!
That's amazing, Worse than G1. Ouch.
@@PerspectiveEnd It's kind of a no-brainer figure. Make the G1 figure, but with knees, hips, ankle and neck articulation. If you don't want to spend money on the Targetmaster, reuse a Battlemaster tool, or the target master that came with Universe 2.0 Cyclonus (still hasn't been topped). Nope, just make everything low effort and don't include the other accessory that was pretty important to include with him. ARG!
Legacy Pointblank is the succesor of the Kingdom Rhinox (Even though I actually like the latter)
I almost feel like this is worse.
I was wondering if i should look for this thing or for Make toys Contact shot(3rd party masterpiece style pointblank), but now i know.
Yeah not this thing. You will not be happy.
Cool review. I hope my boy Dead end will be better.
Deadend is for sure better.
This guy's pretty slick actually
I agree with him on pointblank he just looks so egregious
Truly a sinful Turd this figure.
4:45 Probably the only Minicon from this line (if you don’t count armada Starscream’s underwhelming star saber)
Yeah I mean, I don't count that.
The fucking ERCEE mold is BETTER THAN THIS? HASBRO YOU HAD ONE JOB! AND YET YOU KNOW SOME PEOPLE ARE PICKING IT UP BECAUSE "It'S G1". God damnit
I struggle to say it, but yeah it's not an unreasonable statement to make. What the Arcee does well it does better than what this does well at.
I'm still getting it (and as we speak, it should STILL be on its way) for my own reasons.
And I thought you were one of the few who wanted the most accurate physical manifestations of characters, CONSIDERING that the head is accurate to his American/Rebirth [head] design.
Well, there's the manga and the Japanese G1 collection, if you're looking to find what to enjoy from Japanese Transformers.
And I guess the only reason the crotch has the odd backside is to mold in an engine detail easter egg (at least I think it looks like an engine), due to the lack of a winged engine piece (though to be fair, I think that the car mode would be better without it with those wings sticking out). I think that homage is more noticeable in vehicle mode.
But the gun mode CAN plug on to the car via the two tabs that go into the two slots on the knees in vehicle mode.
Well I just hope you like it when you get it in hand.
I mean this is only semi accurate to that head, it was an ugly head in the first place and the body isn't very accurate.
That's a lot of material to get through to hopefully find something I like.
I tried shoving the gun all over that section and couldn't find a way for it to go in.
This could've look good if they just retooled the Punch/Counterpunch mold.
Agreed.
how did the target master turn out like this we just had siege not to long ago and they managed to do target masters better then that
Indeed we did, and it's pathetic they couldn't do better than this.
Gotta say wave 3 is off to a shaky start. Now I'm kind of worried about how armada Scream and inferno are going to turn out, I was so hyped for them
Don't have Inferno in hand yet, but I can tell you that Starscream has some of the worst QC in the line.
@@PerspectiveEnd oh shoot, I was planning on getting him for a friend of mine. He is a big Armada nut, and he really wanted this new starscream to compare to both the thrilling 30 and the OG toy :(
@@PerspectiveEnd His limbs are wobbly asf.
This looks like an Armada Blurr without the gimmicks. Armada Blurr looked a lot better.
So they should have added gimmicks is what I'm hearing.
i actually like the way it looks
Well I hope you like the figure then.
Anyone remember how Hasbro named him Blanker when photos of his robot mode was reveal. I think it was during SDCC 2022. But a few months later they revealed his name as Pointblank on a fanstream. Anyone else remember that? Anyways. I like Pointblank as a character. His Legacy figure, is 50/50. Hasbro should have used the battle master gun mold from Siege for Pacemaker.
I 'member.
Can you give me a list of all the Bumblebee movie designs from good to amazing too great
Optimus is the best.
Shatter 2
Arcee 3
Blitzwing 3
Dropkick 5
Ratchet 6
Wheeljack 7
Bumblebee 8
Shockwave 9
Soundwave 10
Starscream 11
2:16 my kingdom/legacy blaster has the exact same issue. It's really annoying since he can't hold any pose I want him to hold
You are the second person to say that in probably like 14 comments. Sorry to hear about your's that sucks, it'd be so good otherwise.
Soooooo, you think legacy crankcase was a better figure than this one?
Yes for sure.
@@PerspectiveEnd oh hey real quick, how’s the new head for spinister doing?
I have a soft spot for him. I guess I have a thing for hard luck cases.
I've never heard the phrase "Hard Luck Case" before.
I agree about how bad this figure is. As soon as I found out how limited the arms were I relegated this one straight to the shelf. I get shudders sometimes thinking about it. I hope a better one comes along. Not one that has minor remolding to look like what we want, actual reworking from the ground up.
Yeah, I can't believe they thought this was ready for prime time. It's so bad.
Finally, a worthy opponent for my legacy Blasters qc! Literally my Blasters legs have the same problem.
Sorry to hear that, that sucks. It's such a good figure if it weren't for that.
3:55 fun fact, the Producer of Kiss Players stated that the series was intended to 'shock' TF Fans. Because what can be more shocking than borderline illegal material?
Shocking people isn't even hard. So not only is that guy a creep but he's a lame edgelord.
The moment I saw this shit revealed I always thought in the back of my mind that this was a Prime Wars figure that they were rereleasing.
It does have that vibe yes.
Hopefully evolution will be better, and i can already see the title for the legacy retrospective “ It progressed like cancer”
I don't think of it that way. It progressed like a Car Crash. It was going great till suddenly it exploded.
Perspective what Transformers style do you want Hasbro to do next? (like their “prime universe”)
What do you mean, like what do I want to see get G1ified, or what do I want to see get ANTI geewunnified?
@@PerspectiveEnd I mean Hasbro has the “comic universe” and “prime universe” for legacy, what “universe” do would you want them to do next?
At first I didn't see the flaws cuz I like the bulky design, but then you showed the back and now I understand. The shoulders still don't bother me that much, but then again I grew up watching Cybertron and those designed have similar massive shoulders made of car parts so that's prob why it doesn't bother me
Well it's not the shoulders that bother me, the spikes can be fine, it's just that the arms hang away from the body.
@@PerspectiveEnd I totally get that
Not counting any concept art what is the best Transformers Autobot design from the Transformers 2007 movie
Man... I don't know Optimus... At least he's semi recognizable.
I wonder if the "Budget restrictions" are even real or if it just a way to maximize profits
They are a way to Maximize profits.
I'm starting to think that even Hasbro realized that this thing was bad, because one wave later, we're getting Needlenose, who while not perfect still looks way better than this thing.
Why is Needlenose connected?
when this was leaked I was considering buying him. then they put the American head on him and were reminded why I'm not completing my season 3 + 4 collection.
Even if he had the right head, he'd still suck.
0:00 the sad part is *we live in a society* someone might actually be into that
What do you mean?
I wouldn’t worry about it ha
Why does that particular shade of red look like blisters?
I don't think they do entirely but they do enough.
What are your thoughts on the Sonic movies
Not seen em.
Not surprised one bit, who wants to bet that the forearms were designed like that because they were making Armada Blurr, and the higher ups forced it into Pointblank?
If they do that, it will be exactly as big a pass as this thing already is.
You know they probably have more power of the primes toys unreleased remember the fan vote on the next prime they probably have figures for a lot of characters
Arcee, Megatron, Shockwave, Ultra Magnus, and I can't remember who the others were
You know what I had kind of forgotten that a little.
Cliffjumper- "Could it be? Something that's actually worse than me? Maybe I'll finally stop getting beaten-
7:13
Cliffjumper- "Goddammit..."
I should have probably hit both of them in this one.