I LOVED rock lord when I was a kid. The gold nugget was my favorite. This put an interesting spin on the scene from Big where he questions the antagonist about his building transformer by saying "what kid would want to play with a building?" And I reply "I played with ROCK robots, you know nothing doofus!"
It's a shame that Hasbro forced the Vehicle modes on their new incarnations. I would've loved if we could've had a line of "Weaponisers" who could become terrain pieces for one's battle scene!
In all fairness though, Frank Welker voiced 72% of all animated English language characters between the ‘60s and present day (despite a solid proportion of those characters not actually speaking any human language)
Terra-Roc and Spike Stone are rad as hell because they don't transform from rocks to weird rock men, they transform from rocks to ROCK DINOSAURS with inlaid bones and are the coolest shit you've ever seen (maybe). There's also a combiner called Fossilsaurus where a gaggle of strange stone lads combine into a kaiju with oddly technological accessories, but he was both Japan only and is very, very expense to get nowadays.
i picked up sticks n stones at a toy show semi recently and immediately fell in love with the little idiot. honestly enough to potentially send me down a future rabbit hole
i was lucky to find ol’ welker n’ cullen in a thrift store near my home, i think the store knew to expect a schmuck like me to show up and buy them because they were in the cabinet with the fancy stuff and the videogames with their own price tag. at another store of the same brand i found hound and swindle just laying on the ground, yet someone at this store knew to put some respect on the rock lords.
Isn't it just me, or does Bolder look like "What if Cosmos, was a rock". Also where is Repugnus? This video number of bad puns, would drive this little bigger NUTS 3:24 😉😁
A absolutely loved these boys as a kid and I had Granite while my brother had Boulder. They have a lovely glossy sheen and I always loved them going up against my Decepticons where they simply turned into the rock forms and bashed the cons like bowling pins. I would have loved to get the two dinosaur style Rocklords... The Rockosaurs; Terra-Roc & Spikestone. Seriously good times with these lads and thrilled to see you cover them Gav! :)
Absolutely love Rocklords, the absolute definition of a bad idea executed beautifully. They're just so chunky and satisfying to fiddle with, and I love me a fun bot that just turns into a lump of something or a shape or a rock, there's something so charming about it and the engineering always gets interesting as a result. Great vid as usual.
3:10 I love how the chipped paint makes Brimstone's teeth look bloodstained. Just chipped paint. Right? 4:29 Who came first, Sticks N' Stones or Rack N' Ruin?
I recently stumbled across a fanzine on Rock Lords you'd contributed to some years ago, and had a barrel of laughs with it, especially the fun facts about Rock Lords! I think they're great, I mean, who needs 80s toys that turn in to vehicles when you can have them change into gravel for your garden! Wonderful!!!
So fond of these adorable little chunks of stupidity. I have most of them, and these six are the most basic. So any more you get from here will likely pleasantly exceed your expectations. Nuggit is my favorite. The two rock beasts also have very enjoyable chunky hand-feel. I have no bloody idea what possessed them to make the Narlies.
I had Sticks n' Stones at one time, I believe, as well as maybe a couple of others. I distinctly remember the legs feeling like they were going to either pop off or somehow injure my fingers. I really wish they'd bring them back, and not as weaponizers but actual Rock Lords. Really good to play with, and goes good with other figures. Much like me in the secret TFNation hot tub.
I had Tombstone and Silverstone (second wave figures), and I loved them! Back in the mid eighties, transforming toys were such a novelty that we didn't care what they changed into.
the return of the TF nation hot tub mentions!! cant wait until we get enough lore of the tub that someone makes a video documenting all of them so we can piece together each years 'tubbing events.
The Rock Lords were an interesting part of toy history of the 80's. Kinda makes me wish they actually did come back with reissues of the toys if not modern updates
I owned a Rock Lord as a kid (Boulder) and some of those meteor animals and rock people from Masters, too. I was always a bit embarrassed until I recently discovered Transformers that turn into cubes. Literal cubes. That’s the best we can do in the 2020’s? I’ll take my rocks, thank you.
An added bonus to the colorful rock-forms, is that they'll look very decorative all gathered up in fancy bowl or basket for display. I'm looking at pictures of the toyline right now. Those chromed metallic ones would be a lovely addition to your collection.
I had these as a kid and my mom sent over some of my old toys for my youngest son. I now display the 2 that my kids have, I need them all now LOL. I am a big 42 year old kid LOL
I think I have a couple of those rolling around the bottom of my box of childhood Transformers. I had the gold one and a green one with a snake head. I remember as a kid being at an absolute loss as to how to play with them.
I have two of them and am SO HAPPY to see you review them. I mean yeh they are as fun as rocks would be lol they have some clear versions I was looking at the expensive! Love it and that the hot tub joke 😂 got me
Really do need to pick some Rock Lords up. Had 3 or 4 of them as a kid but I think they ended up being given away when I moved house. Had that crystal lady one and a chromed silver lad.
The barber shop i grew up going to had toys for kids to play with while they waited for their haircuts, and Granite was one of them. Always thought he kinda looked like Rhinox.
Still have Granite and Slimestone out and about!!!! Lost my Tombstone but always, I don't know why, used to pull out just the head to pretend it was an asthma inhaler. Kids. I don't get them. Or me.
What about Nugget? He was a wee lump of gold that turned into a robot (face had shades of Johnny 5 from Short Circuit), and was surprisingly wel articulated. He even had a wee jet pack come out his back. I think there was a silver bad guy equivalent, but I could just be misremembering that part.
Everyone in the hot tub is now dead thanks to Gavin. Every year the fatalities increase. My Uncle who works at TFNation told me it's ture and he would never lie to me.
Imagine these things in the walls or terrain of GI Joe/Transformers/MASK playsets. Waiting to jump the enemy like the Viet Cong! "They're coming out of the walls! Literally!"
I don't much care for the rock lords, my main concern is if we'll ever hear about the secret TF Nation hot tub again after what I can only assume is the joke's logical conclusion.
There are fun and better than the two meteorite dudes from the world of He-Man and She-Ra. But hey I read something wild recently on TF Wiki... "In a very early draft of The Transformers The Movie, Lithone was a planet of living rock creatures (explaining its name, from the Ancient Greek for stone, lithos)." How crazy is that? That linguistic connection never occurred to me. In a parallel universe we TF fans could have had our own transforming rocks and been all "Lithons are _so_ much better than Rock Lords so there!"
Do you think they thought kids were going to incorporate rock lords with tonka construction vehicles? Cause that's the only reason i would think they thought these would succeed.
You can laugh at me if you want to. But as a kid, I genuinely wanted Brimstone. I can agree that the rock mode was by far the worse of the Rock Lords. However, Brimstone had the right kind of 1980s menace and goofy in robot mode only found in him and Saw Boss of the Wheeled Warriors. Even decades later, I still think that little red rock goblin is cool.
I ask you, what is Optimus without Megatron? What is Karl Marx without Jeff Bezos? What is Gavin Spence without his comments section going "Blub blub blub BUT GAVIN!"?
I think I had Marbles, though I had forgotten his dweeby face. Honestly I kind of like these. Something satisfying about just transforming into a big lump. Oh, and Solitaire. Nice joints there, even if her diamond rock form is basically sitting very still and hoping you don't see her. Allegedly there were shows to go with these??
Wait, what happened to my all Voltron all the time channel? Why, if I were even mildly motivated I would write a stern letter to TRDQ management. Fortunately for you, I'm actually not even sure what I was upset about at this point and also sleepy sleepy time.
"I could watch new toys, stolen from Vietnamese factories"? Iiiii... have no idea what hes talking about guys, Gavin has lost his mind. There's absolutely no such thing happening in the tf community for years now.
I LOVED rock lord when I was a kid. The gold nugget was my favorite. This put an interesting spin on the scene from Big where he questions the antagonist about his building transformer by saying "what kid would want to play with a building?" And I reply "I played with ROCK robots, you know nothing doofus!"
The thing people need to remember, Rock Lords sounds like a joke, but by accounts was the best selling year of GoBots. Go figure.
Gawin, you control their appearance but no force in the universe can control the power and the fury of their rockin' THEME SONG!
It's a shame that Hasbro forced the Vehicle modes on their new incarnations.
I would've loved if we could've had a line of "Weaponisers" who could become terrain pieces for one's battle scene!
TBH with how some of these rock lords turned out, you could probably make a halfway decent rock mode out of Magneous.
Sticks & Stones were voiced by Megatron & Optimus.
In all fairness though, Frank Welker voiced 72% of all animated English language characters between the ‘60s and present day (despite a solid proportion of those characters not actually speaking any human language)
Terra-Roc and Spike Stone are rad as hell because they don't transform from rocks to weird rock men, they transform from rocks to ROCK DINOSAURS with inlaid bones and are the coolest shit you've ever seen (maybe). There's also a combiner called Fossilsaurus where a gaggle of strange stone lads combine into a kaiju with oddly technological accessories, but he was both Japan only and is very, very expense to get nowadays.
i picked up sticks n stones at a toy show semi recently and immediately fell in love with the little idiot. honestly enough to potentially send me down a future rabbit hole
i was lucky to find ol’ welker n’ cullen in a thrift store near my home, i think the store knew to expect a schmuck like me to show up and buy them because they were in the cabinet with the fancy stuff and the videogames with their own price tag. at another store of the same brand i found hound and swindle just laying on the ground, yet someone at this store knew to put some respect on the rock lords.
Poor Swindle and Hound! :(
Isn't it just me, or does Bolder look like "What if Cosmos, was a rock".
Also where is Repugnus?
This video number of bad puns, would drive this little bigger NUTS 3:24 😉😁
Every collector has at least one Rock Lord. They're almost a requirement to join the community :)
I quite like 'em. Always fancied owning a Nuggit as I watched the movie (taped off the TV) quite a lot a child and I have not matured one bit since.
Love the little pearly whites on brimstone.
Granite is a little cutie, but his alt mode is a such a slab I'm worried King Ramses is going to haunt you.
Never thought I'd see rocksticles, but here we are
You missed out by not getting Nugget. He's a rock; he's a robot; and he has a jet pack!
A absolutely loved these boys as a kid and I had Granite while my brother had Boulder. They have a lovely glossy sheen and I always loved them going up against my Decepticons where they simply turned into the rock forms and bashed the cons like bowling pins. I would have loved to get the two dinosaur style Rocklords... The Rockosaurs; Terra-Roc & Spikestone. Seriously good times with these lads and thrilled to see you cover them Gav! :)
Everyone goes into the TF nation hot tub, rock hard and tense... but everyone leaves stress-free and oh so relaxed.
These rock!
Absolutely love Rocklords, the absolute definition of a bad idea executed beautifully. They're just so chunky and satisfying to fiddle with, and I love me a fun bot that just turns into a lump of something or a shape or a rock, there's something so charming about it and the engineering always gets interesting as a result. Great vid as usual.
3:10 I love how the chipped paint makes Brimstone's teeth look bloodstained. Just chipped paint. Right?
4:29 Who came first, Sticks N' Stones or Rack N' Ruin?
I recently stumbled across a fanzine on Rock Lords you'd contributed to some years ago, and had a barrel of laughs with it, especially the fun facts about Rock Lords!
I think they're great, I mean, who needs 80s toys that turn in to vehicles when you can have them change into gravel for your garden! Wonderful!!!
So fond of these adorable little chunks of stupidity. I have most of them, and these six are the most basic. So any more you get from here will likely pleasantly exceed your expectations. Nuggit is my favorite. The two rock beasts also have very enjoyable chunky hand-feel.
I have no bloody idea what possessed them to make the Narlies.
Appreciate you featuring the Garfield bike reflectors Gavin. Thank you x
2:43 I will now refer to Vilgax as “Jerry”
I had Sticks n' Stones at one time, I believe, as well as maybe a couple of others. I distinctly remember the legs feeling like they were going to either pop off or somehow injure my fingers. I really wish they'd bring them back, and not as weaponizers but actual Rock Lords. Really good to play with, and goes good with other figures. Much like me in the secret TFNation hot tub.
I had Tombstone and Silverstone (second wave figures), and I loved them!
Back in the mid eighties, transforming toys were such a novelty that we didn't care what they changed into.
And now I'm eagerly awaiting the day when Gavin reviews Rocks, Bugs and Things...
the return of the TF nation hot tub mentions!!
cant wait until we get enough lore of the tub that someone makes a video documenting all of them so we can piece together each years 'tubbing events.
Rock solid review.
Ay, these guys are charming. I just ordered Stick n Stones yesterday on ebay
The Rock Lords were an interesting part of toy history of the 80's. Kinda makes me wish they actually did come back with reissues of the toys if not modern updates
Can you imagine "Masterpiece Rock Lords" with super poseability and ultra realistic alt modes, $150 each!
This made me laugh a lot, I love this content definitely watching more of this
Gavin is gonna Rock & Roll All night ! YEAH !!!🪨
I owned a Rock Lord as a kid (Boulder) and some of those meteor animals and rock people from Masters, too. I was always a bit embarrassed until I recently discovered Transformers that turn into cubes. Literal cubes. That’s the best we can do in the 2020’s? I’ll take my rocks, thank you.
An added bonus to the colorful rock-forms, is that they'll look very decorative all gathered up in fancy bowl or basket for display.
I'm looking at pictures of the toyline right now. Those chromed metallic ones would be a lovely addition to your collection.
I had these as a kid and my mom sent over some of my old toys for my youngest son. I now display the 2 that my kids have, I need them all now LOL. I am a big 42 year old kid LOL
I think I have a couple of those rolling around the bottom of my box of childhood Transformers. I had the gold one and a green one with a snake head. I remember as a kid being at an absolute loss as to how to play with them.
I have two of them and am SO HAPPY to see you review them. I mean yeh they are as fun as rocks would be lol they have some clear versions I was looking at the expensive! Love it and that the hot tub joke 😂 got me
Really do need to pick some Rock Lords up. Had 3 or 4 of them as a kid but I think they ended up being given away when I moved house. Had that crystal lady one and a chromed silver lad.
I’ve always wondered what the deal was with team Geology, thanks for giving us the insight!
2:16 Hello Darkseid!
If this is the bottom of the barrel, that’s a damn good barrel
1:48. Considering his Anerican voice actor was Telly Savalas, tempermental fits.
If i remember correctly, Sticks and Stones were voiced by Peter Cullen and Frank Welker in the movie
yooooo i just purchased my first rocklord a week or so ago. little golden nugget dude named, if you can believe it, Nuggit. I love him dearly.
The barber shop i grew up going to had toys for kids to play with while they waited for their haircuts, and Granite was one of them. Always thought he kinda looked like Rhinox.
4:11 the tf nation secret hot tub jokes make me loose it every time
Still have Granite and Slimestone out and about!!!! Lost my Tombstone but always, I don't know why, used to pull out just the head to pretend it was an asthma inhaler.
Kids. I don't get them. Or me.
They're neat little guys just like Gavin
0:49. Tbh...never saw them with weapons in the ads. Other than the later motorized ones.
The ballsack was awesome 🤣🤣🤣🤣
What about Nugget? He was a wee lump of gold that turned into a robot (face had shades of Johnny 5 from Short Circuit), and was surprisingly wel articulated. He even had a wee jet pack come out his back. I think there was a silver bad guy equivalent, but I could just be misremembering that part.
Ooh these remind me of Meteorbs! Could you be persuaded to do a vid on those?
Sure thing just send them all to me
@@TRDQ I wish I knew what happened to them :'(
Transforming Rocks Done Quality.
My grandpa took to pick out any toys i wanted because i had been really sick. I got 3 rock lords and a Scooby doo vhs tape.
The TFNation Hot Tub joke in this one fucking killed me
Ah, you got the new Rock Transformers toys early!
Gavin took "Kick rocks, mate" way too seriously.
Hope you're having a good day
Evil rock lord sounds like a metal band 😂
Distinct lack of Nugget
Nugget was always my fave. A shame you didn’t show him
Everyone in the hot tub is now dead thanks to Gavin. Every year the fatalities increase. My Uncle who works at TFNation told me it's ture and he would never lie to me.
Ah man, you don't have the best one, Nuggit! And by "best one" I mean "the only one I had as a kid and in fact still have in a box somewhere."
No Nugget?
Genuine crack-up moment🤣
"We Got Sex Rock Lords!" 👀
Imagine these things in the walls or terrain of GI Joe/Transformers/MASK playsets. Waiting to jump the enemy like the Viet Cong! "They're coming out of the walls! Literally!"
Gav corpsing? Send for the man!
I don't much care for the rock lords, my main concern is if we'll ever hear about the secret TF Nation hot tub again after what I can only assume is the joke's logical conclusion.
for my hole life, I want to know what that thing is on the back of sticks and stowns.
There are fun and better than the two meteorite dudes from the world of He-Man and She-Ra. But hey I read something wild recently on TF Wiki...
"In a very early draft of The Transformers The Movie, Lithone was a planet of living rock creatures (explaining its name, from the Ancient Greek for stone, lithos)."
How crazy is that? That linguistic connection never occurred to me. In a parallel universe we TF fans could have had our own transforming rocks and been all "Lithons are _so_ much better than Rock Lords so there!"
Do you think they thought kids were going to incorporate rock lords with tonka construction vehicles? Cause that's the only reason i would think they thought these would succeed.
When are gonna get a tonsil stone rock lord?
You can laugh at me if you want to. But as a kid, I genuinely wanted Brimstone. I can agree that the rock mode was by far the worse of the Rock Lords. However, Brimstone had the right kind of 1980s menace and goofy in robot mode only found in him and Saw Boss of the Wheeled Warriors.
Even decades later, I still think that little red rock goblin is cool.
I ask you, what is Optimus without Megatron? What is Karl Marx without Jeff Bezos? What is Gavin Spence without his comments section going "Blub blub blub BUT GAVIN!"?
You did what in the TFNation hot tub?? Gavin??
The PVP callout lmao
No idea what you're talking about
@@TRDQ I've forgotten too, probably not important then
Hello Gavin
Hello Lex
I think I had Marbles, though I had forgotten his dweeby face. Honestly I kind of like these. Something satisfying about just transforming into a big lump.
Oh, and Solitaire. Nice joints there, even if her diamond rock form is basically sitting very still and hoping you don't see her. Allegedly there were shows to go with these??
I think there's the film that introduced them and that might be it? A star studded voice cast though!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 awwww man shame you don’t have any stolen figures 🤣🤣🤣
I'd buy some if I could!
@@TRDQ not at the prices I’ve heard they go for🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 bout the same as my deathsaurs
Wait, what happened to my all Voltron all the time channel? Why, if I were even mildly motivated I would write a stern letter to TRDQ management. Fortunately for you, I'm actually not even sure what I was upset about at this point and also sleepy sleepy time.
I zoned out, did you say you stole some rocks from a Vietnamese garden?
Um yeah?!
Gav, this video was a bit rocky.
I can’t believe that Pokémon stole a name from a Rock Lord
Shame on them
Whoa, that first comment
Next up brand new rocks stolen from a Vietnamese factory, please.
"I could watch new toys, stolen from Vietnamese factories"? Iiiii... have no idea what hes talking about guys, Gavin has lost his mind. There's absolutely no such thing happening in the tf community for years now.
🤣 who came up with this bs? Rock 🪨 lords