Hey, LISTEN! I have a transformers podcast now! It's the Back Kibble Podcast, a completely normal Transformers podcast hosted by dumbjake, TFanPage101, and PerspectiveEnd New episodes will be uploaded to the dedicated channel starting on 7/4 BUT we uploaded a special "episode zero" just because we're so excited and wanted to show you what we've been up to! Episode Zero: th-cam.com/video/qc7U3eUjXcI/w-d-xo.html Please consider subscribing now because next month we're going to have two SUPER fun episodes: our review of the 2007 live action Transformers movie & Smash or Pass: Transformers Edition! Thanks so much for supporting my channel - it's taking me longer and longer to make videos and I'm trying to get past that personal hurdle, but this podcast will be a great way to get more consistent dumbjake content if you're wanting it :D THANK YOU!!!!! AND NEW MAIN CHANNEL VIDEOS SOON!!!!
Takara, the other company that created the actual Transformers along with Hasbro, has a line called Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion. This is kind of crazy because it's transforming trains but the trains are based on real ones in Japan. On top of that they even crossed over with Evangelion and Godzilla.
As someone who lurks around many dying fandoms, I gotta appreciate your work of telling people to start posting videos or images, or discussions on these dying products. Lost media is scary because it's something you like enought to seek it out, even if its just a photo of it, that you slowly watches it becoming nothing but a memory that can be easily forgotten.
My Party Wallop is just going to be a very well armed Donnie. Also, damn, I had that wonky shredder transformer. It was pretty cool how you could see his head peeking out the window of his drill alt mode. Sadly, mine didn't survive a series of moves. I hope he's been found by someone. Yes, I'd be down for TMNT vids. Honestly, if that "Monster Trucks" movie was a tie in for those attack pack cars, it would have been memorable. Because yeah, those are pretty awesome. I love the monster truck with the chain chomp wheels 😂
14:50 another Orb robot example would be Neo Shifters by mega bloks. they were essentially mega's try (around 2006) at making a Bionicle/transformers style Figures. they seem to have been semi-popular, since they stuck around for about 2 years speaking of bionicle, there is also the Bohrok (and the Bohrok-kal) wave of Bionicle sets from 2002, that also transform into orbs
Transformers even had some ball formers during the BW2 era which were later repurposed as the surprise villains of Kiss Player. A condor, a lion, and a little robot guy. Armada unicorns minicon is a ball with a big rotating cannon mounted on it... it was meant to look like the projector moon from the prototype g1 figure. Also there was a little known toyline called "Battle Planets" that had plantoids that would open up into little playsets and they even had a gigantic monster planet that could "eat" the smaller ones using a comically large claw that would come out of a opening mouth.
I used to have a bunch of the switch and go dinos, some of the earlier and original ones. I had one which you can see a reuse of the mold of in this video too, black helicopter one, which the one I had was orange. I must say, they were quite cool to me when I was a kid, although I got rid of all of them around 2018-2019 after they sat in my grandma's basement unused for quite a few years. One of my favorites was a brachiosaurus that transformed into a car carrier.
I really wanted the orange helicopter one as a kid. I also had the brachiosaurus. It came with a car that launched this little spring loaded pterodactyl IIRC.
I remember Toy Story had a couple different lines of transforming figures, like Woody transforming into a covered wagon, Buzz becoming a spaceship, or Rex turning into that one guy's car from the second movie.
I remember owning the 2003 transforming TMNT figures, they had a certain feel that I really liked as a kid, I was especially hyped about the Secret Ooze that came with it. My half brothers grandma got that for me, she was a nice lady. Also think you should cover the transforming Pokémon plushies that turned into Pokeballs if you haven’t touched on it in these videos
Thier wer uthers. Human forms of Bebop ans Rocksteddy transformed into thier mutated forms and thier was even one of Aprill as a tiger mutant. I remember the toy fraze. Know they mutate.
0:08 my dad has that from when he was a kid! I always thought it was just one of those transformers that never appeared in the show and only had a toy!
When me and my little brother were smaller, we loved the v-tech Dino’s!!! Our favorites were the red long neck dino and the blue triceratops. I do t remember much about them and kind of forgot they existed but thanks for this cause now I’m remembering how much fun I used to have with my little brother with these!
Here’s something interesting. There’s a small hot wheels line called road beasts. When I was really young, me and my brother had these three of these things. Their monster trucks that open their “mouths” and stick their touches out. They open their eyes every time you press the back, and I think some were remolds of the attack pack back peace’s. The only one I can remember is a scorpion like tail which the sculpt shows it was made of chains. The tongues were made of a soft rubbery material, helped illuminate that it was lifelike. Downside is they catch dust and hair very easily, and the forked tips were separate peace’s so they could get broken or lost. Another line I remember owning a few was the car-nivores line. They were made by fisher price, and you just press on the car mode to change them into an animal. The bottom and wheals serve as “legs” while the body shows off the sculpt. They made a T. Rex, a Snake, a dog, a shark and possibly more. There were two giant ones that serve as automatic toys. They have buttons on the back to make them do any actions, but no remote. There’s a gorilla (of all things) but I don’t remember the other one. Figured I share some trivia of some other transformer toys that aren't transformers from some childhood memories.
What if I told you that Hot Wheels tried the Transforming cars thing a second time and went absolutely hard on the second try? Hot Wheels Modifighters where these voyager-ish scale cars that had super simple transformations and came with water squirters that revealed battle damage when you shot them with water. They even had this addictive flash game for them!
Two TMNT transforming toys I have are a Donatello that turned into a helicopter and a Rapheal that turns into a jet. Can't remember the toyline name but I remember one set I got a few of. They start as a car (or other land vehicle). You place the disc they come with on the floor and push the car to the disc. The disc goes into a slot at the front of the car and activate a button that causes the vehicle to perform a backflip as they auto-transform into an animal/insect.
took a bit of searching, since i remembered having a firetruck leo; looks like it was two lines, "Road Ready Mutations" ('93) and "Mighty Mutations" ('94). In the Road Ready line: Leo became a fire truck, Donnie became a stock/ car, Splinter became the Party Wagon, and Shredder became a Mutant Module (a drill tank). In the Mighty Mutations line: Leo became a dump truck, Mikey became a cement mixer truck, Raph became a fighter jet, and two different versions of Donnie became either a bulldozer or an attack helicopter. ~~~ as for the transforming cars, i think that's the Mecard series? they even had 'launcher' ramp toys that also transformed. felt like they tried to combine bakugan and transformers...
God, I've been lookin for these toys for ages. Attack Pack. Finally. Saw that Stego ONCE on a flea market and never again. Finally, time to get it and that bat-one I had as a kid. Thank you!
I swear i had a bunch of these toys you mention in these videos and memories flood back to me everytime. Eventually id lose bits or the whole toy but you are bringing back things id completely forgot about. I'm pretty sure i had a Donatello that transformed into a firetruck but im not sure what line it was from.
Robo wheels is actually one of the lines I'm nostalgic for Because I had the Basuka Blaster figure, Plus some of the vehicles actually could blend in with regular hot wheels.
About the Vtech toys, I had one and did some research and found out that the one I had was called “Lex The T Rex” and it’s actually still for sale on Amazon
I still have my Switch & Go Spinosaurus. He doesn't light up or make noise anymore, but he still turns into a huge stealth-bomber-looking jet that fires springloaded discs! Dude rules! Also, if you're thinking of doing a 3rd video on this, maybe look into Car-nivores. I had a few of those as a kid, they were really cool. They don't get very much attention these days...
There’s 2 LEGO Ninjago transforming sets in the new dragons rising series. One is a Diaclone esque motorcycle to mech and the the other in a dragon you can flip upside down I guess?? I have the motorcycle one and it’s very fun.
17:47 my 5 year old cousin has some of these things, and i'm man enought to admit, that as an adult, i still think these things are really cool lol. They're genuinely really neat, and he clearly likes them
I remember playing with switch n go dinos, I had a few, but there was one I remember most. It was a giant green crane/tow truck thing, that turned into a big Trex, I remember it having a microphone, so you could use voice commands, it was pretty cool
Nice list of Transformers like transforming thingies :D though I thought I would also see 52Toys Beast Box. For me it's the next best thing to Transformers.
Found this vid in my recommendations, and subbed. Watched the first one as well. I think Zybots were mentioned in the first one's comments. They are funky. Rock Lords are worth a look too,they are a part of Bandai's Machine Robo line from which the GoBots toys were taken from. There was a cartoon during the early 90s called The Bots Master. Some of the bots would pilot vehicles that transformed into mecha,and they could also combine into a bigger bot called Jungle Fiver. I forget who produced the toys,maybe LJN or ToyBiz?
I had a few of the Dinozaurs toys as a kid. Even brand new the joints were awful, the clear plastic did not hold up and had stress fractures, and the chrome lasted all of 5 minutes of little kid play. Still a badass toy line
As someone who saw Dinozaurs when it was on... Fox Kids? Kids WB? Whatever. It was insane even for the time. I miss Attack Pack so much. I really hope it gets rebooted at some point. The Gen 2 Bakugan toys were basically ALL Bakumorph but at normal Bakugan scale. Gen 3 kinda almost is like that but doesn't do it nearly as well.
Shortly after this video came out, I found _bootleg Dinozaurs figures_ at my local Roses. So, yeah, keep that in mind maybe. Party Wallop is big for a modern Voyager but not quite a full Leader size. It's a little taller than most Voyagers but he's very broad in comparison.
Thank you! I've had memories of seeing the Parasites line of toys growing up, but no idea where they actually fit in amongst all of the various aspects of my youth growing up other than "Well, they had something to do with dinky cars."
This is absolutely trippy. I definitely had that green monster hot wheel as a kid. I did NOT walk in expecting a legit nostalgia trip but I guess I loved crappy transformers back then 😂😂
I think early switch and go led me down the path to being a transformers fan. i remember having an orange tow truck that turned into an ankylosaurus and a small green racecar that turned into a raptor or t rex or something
I had quite a lot of these Attack Pack vehicles. But I played so much with them that most of them broke over the years. I'm sure there's still one or two in a box somewhere, but probably with missing parts. I loved these. And I have the Digivolving WarGreymon on my shelf behind me.
Completely forgot about the attack pack. I had that bat like one at my Nagymama’s. Never even knew what it was from but definitely a memorable toy growing up
I had a small green V-tech T-Rex that I loved and I wanted more. But as I got older, my parents decided to sell it and at that time they weren’t in stock anymore so I couldn’t buy them unless I wanted to spend my limited amount of money…
If we're talking transforming toys, you've GOT to mention the ones that released for power rangers ninja storm. They had like, all of the rangers who could transform into power sphere weapons from the show. Red became the serpent sword, navy red was the Spin blade, and the one i LOVED growing up was the navy blue which became the turtle mace. I loved that toy so much that the paint actually wore away on certain parts of it.
I have a few switch-and-go Dino’s from when I was a kid. The giant brachiosaurus carrier truck was always my favorite, followed by the spinosaurus plane
Here in Brazil we had a children's magazine called "Recreio" where there was a collectible gift in each edition. One of the collections was "Missão Mitologia", which was a series of creatures from Greek mythology that transformed into columns and could join together to form a giant robot that represented some Greek god.
I actually remember having one of the switch and go toys when I was younger while I can’t find the age of the toys a was probably too old for the them assuming they weren’t my brothers (I’m 21 now for context). One other transformers like toy I remember is Hotweels Battle Force 5, which is basically a bunch of cars that had a “battle mode”, which also had a Cartoon Network show. I checked it out a few months ago out of curiosity, and it’s exactly what you’d expect.
Another great video, I love the emphasis on lesser known stuff Speaking of, some more information on what I commented about last time lol. Most of the ionix brick lines are forgotten, the only one with anyone left that cares is the original series of tenkai knights. Unfortunately, it’s a bit hard to find information on it due to it being such a small community, but there are 2 discord servers with some very dedicated fans for any information you need. The fandom wiki is borderline useless as always but it has enough for a vague understanding and it also has a discord that would be a good place to start for more in depth stuff
Here’s an _incredibly_ specific one. Back from 2014-2016 Lego had a line called Mixels. The main “gimmick” of them was that you could buy multiple, take them apart, and combine the pieces to make a Mix. And if you had 3 of the same type of mixels(ie 3 fire guys) you could make a max. In the last year, they made a set of fire fighters called the MCFD and their max form had a very lite transformation gimmick. You could make him fold into a fire truck
Brazil had this one kid's magazine called "Recreio" (Playtime/Recess), and they had a bunch of toys with, sometimes, accompanying storylines. One of them was called "Megaferas" (Megabeasts) where a trio of characters go back in time to photograph pre-historic animals, but one of the characters wants to take them away to the present with a gadget that turns the beasts into... rocks. The toys pretty much just fold the legs and heads into themselves, but it was a major part of my childhood.
I still have tons of the Vtech dinosaur toys. If it werent for my parents getting me some as a kid i likely wouldnt be into transformers at all or atleast much later
My cousin had the Bones Attack Pack and my brother and I had the Stego and TRex when we were kids. The three of us almost got our moms to get the Sliminator until they found out it had actual slime lol
do you remember that transformers toy line shot bots that when the front of the car gets pushed they transforms in well there's a game its called bot shot battle
9:01 the ninja turtles did in fact collaborate with a fighting game. That game being Injustice 2, where they were a singular bonus character which could be any of the four turtles by changing their weapons in the customization settings.
Oh man. I had one or two of the TMNT "pet" transforming toys. The cardbacks and instruction sheets were pretty hilarious because they had the Turtles' IQ _reducing_ the more and more they matured from their native forms into their mutant forms.
6:40 Nickelodeon did some transforming turtle figures a while back as well under the mutations line. They essentially transform into their own respective weapons. There was also a line that had them transform into regular turtles
9:00 There’s also a TMNT and Power Rangers crossover; it was first in a comic, then later Hasbro made toys of the turtles when they temporarily became Rangers. Also in the comic Shredder stole the green Ranger morpher and there’s also a toy of that design.
A toyline i remember liking the concept of as a teenager was D.I.C.E. A team of power rangers-esque humans who could pilot their own dinosaur robots that could transform into different vehicles, but they were engineered so the rider didn't need to be removed. The one I had was a red raptor that turned into a motorcycle, and it was piloted by the kid protagonist who had to use a stilt mechanism to fit the proportions of his suit. It had a show that aired on Toonami, even, but I forgot what the major plot was.
No way, i actually had one of those larger green trex Vtech toys. I never knew what it was but now I know. Sadly the toy has been lost to the sands of time but i remember loving it.
I do remember some large transformable toys from either Matchbox or Hotwheels that transformed from standard monster cars, to aeroplanes. But I cannot remember the names of them, but I did have one of them. The Turtles had a cool theme song, but I do like some others better. The Legend of Prince Valiant, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Gummi Bears. Galaxy Rangers, Pole Position, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Mighty Orbots, Pirates of Dark Water, Thundercats, MASK, Transformers, GoBots,Knight Rider, Airwolf, Street Hawk... all of these, plus many others had some truly epic theme songs.
Holy crap, you just resurfaced a memory of mine, I had one of those V-Tec dinosaurs (the green helicopter-T-Rex one) and I completely forgot about it until now
Omg i was JUST talking about the ninja turtles one in the thumbnail with my boyfriend yesterday! I had the 2003 version that came with the slime! I forgot how tottaly bizzare the way the limbs came out the back leg hole!
I actually bought one of these V-Tech toys for my Nephew. I'm definitely hoping he's enjoying it. Growing up I've only had like one Transformer toy and I don't even remember what it looks like
Hotwheels also had a line called modifighters which were more traditional transformer type characters with a late 90s early 2000s hip hop rap asthetic and a water gun gimmick
I actually did grow up with the V-Tech Dinos and man, they were cool. I remember having the T-Rex and the a Jet Pterodactyl one. Very nostalgic hearing someone talk about them
Great variety of nostalgic robos. I love Attack Pack. Got back into collecting them a few years ago. Since the local vintage toy store had them priced cheap. Just so wildly 90s I got all five of the spaceship ones. Maggot Mouth, CoZmo Clam, Venus Flycraft, Space Sucker, and Galactibite! I think part of the reason their not more popular is you can't pose and display them in their monster form they always change back when you let go of the toy.
Here because I saw Attack Packs. Absolutely loved them and I have most of them that you showed. You did not mention that a few of them had sound effects! When they opened up they would roar!
Here in Brasil we got a bunch back in the day. Recreio Magazine packed them with each issue. There was Letronix (letters to robots), Mega Letronix (home appliances to robots), Rock Animals (animal/monster to precious mineral) and at least one more I forgot the name of.
I just had a hyperventilating laughing fit at 1:34 because it's taking such fast and wide steps but it's not going anywhere 😂. It's like the roadrunner in looney tunes but without the speed to match and is instead replaced with the same speed as a brisk jog. My sides! 🤣
7:24 I had one of those as a kid. Iirc, it didn't really come with instructions for how to transform it. I never thought I was doing it right. Apparently from watching this video, thats because even when done right, it doesn't look right.
I actually had one of those 2012 TMNT turtle transformers. It was specifically Mikey, but, when I was younger, I was stupid and sharpied him. Safe to say that he's sadly gone now. I miss that toy.
Before Bakugan there was another transforming ball toy, the Bionicle Bhorok, the transformation for those was very simple but they also had other stuff to go with them like some mechanism to make them attack other Bionicles and inside each Bhorok there where collectible rubber masks, and obviously the fact that they were made of Lego.
Hey, LISTEN! I have a transformers podcast now!
It's the Back Kibble Podcast, a completely normal Transformers podcast hosted by dumbjake, TFanPage101, and PerspectiveEnd
New episodes will be uploaded to the dedicated channel starting on 7/4 BUT we uploaded a special "episode zero" just because we're so excited and wanted to show you what we've been up to!
Episode Zero: th-cam.com/video/qc7U3eUjXcI/w-d-xo.html
Please consider subscribing now because next month we're going to have two SUPER fun episodes: our review of the 2007 live action Transformers movie & Smash or Pass: Transformers Edition!
Thanks so much for supporting my channel - it's taking me longer and longer to make videos and I'm trying to get past that personal hurdle, but this podcast will be a great way to get more consistent dumbjake content if you're wanting it :D THANK YOU!!!!! AND NEW MAIN CHANNEL VIDEOS SOON!!!!
Takara, the other company that created the actual Transformers along with Hasbro, has a line called Shinkansen Henkei Robo Shinkalion. This is kind of crazy because it's transforming trains but the trains are based on real ones in Japan. On top of that they even crossed over with Evangelion and Godzilla.
Don’t forget job braver, those goobers go hard
Shinkalion is absolutely fantastic, definitely worth a watch.
And Hatsune Miku too
And Galaxy Express 999
Evangelion and godzilla that's crazy
"so if you want me to talk about bakugan in the future--" *sinister smile* :)
As someone who lurks around many dying fandoms, I gotta appreciate your work of telling people to start posting videos or images, or discussions on these dying products. Lost media is scary because it's something you like enought to seek it out, even if its just a photo of it, that you slowly watches it becoming nothing but a memory that can be easily forgotten.
My Party Wallop is just going to be a very well armed Donnie.
Also, damn, I had that wonky shredder transformer. It was pretty cool how you could see his head peeking out the window of his drill alt mode. Sadly, mine didn't survive a series of moves. I hope he's been found by someone.
Yes, I'd be down for TMNT vids.
Honestly, if that "Monster Trucks" movie was a tie in for those attack pack cars, it would have been memorable. Because yeah, those are pretty awesome. I love the monster truck with the chain chomp wheels 😂
14:50 another Orb robot example would be Neo Shifters by mega bloks. they were essentially mega's try (around 2006) at making a Bionicle/transformers style Figures. they seem to have been semi-popular, since they stuck around for about 2 years
speaking of bionicle, there is also the Bohrok (and the Bohrok-kal) wave of Bionicle sets from 2002, that also transform into orbs
I still have the green neo shifter.
also! hot wheels ballistiks!
Transformers even had some ball formers during the BW2 era which were later repurposed as the surprise villains of Kiss Player. A condor, a lion, and a little robot guy.
Armada unicorns minicon is a ball with a big rotating cannon mounted on it... it was meant to look like the projector moon from the prototype g1 figure.
Also there was a little known toyline called "Battle Planets" that had plantoids that would open up into little playsets and they even had a gigantic monster planet that could "eat" the smaller ones using a comically large claw that would come out of a opening mouth.
@@reluttr2 *shudders* we dont talk about kiss players...
I used to have a bunch of the switch and go dinos, some of the earlier and original ones. I had one which you can see a reuse of the mold of in this video too, black helicopter one, which the one I had was orange. I must say, they were quite cool to me when I was a kid, although I got rid of all of them around 2018-2019 after they sat in my grandma's basement unused for quite a few years. One of my favorites was a brachiosaurus that transformed into a car carrier.
nah I had em too i still have a few!
I really wanted the orange helicopter one as a kid. I also had the brachiosaurus. It came with a car that launched this little spring loaded pterodactyl IIRC.
i had and still have some, though I lost my helicopter one and the pterodactyl one ,the ones i still have Are fun to mess around with though
I had a beige helicopter one
Yessss I think the brachiosaurus was named Brock and the big crane trex I had was named jagger he even had voice commands!
I love how laid back and chill Jake is
I remember Toy Story had a couple different lines of transforming figures, like Woody transforming into a covered wagon, Buzz becoming a spaceship, or Rex turning into that one guy's car from the second movie.
There's also the actual transforming Buzz Lightyear by Takara in the Disney Label Transformers line, where Buzz even has a Headmaster
How is party wallop not the stupidest name a transformer has ever had
party wally
I raise you one Sky Garry
@@ProfessionalJake I raise you Spaceship Bruce
@@lilywednesday I raise you one Ratorata
Lord Imperious Delirious would like a word. So would Killmaster. Also Dickbot the Blender Guy.
I remember owning the 2003 transforming TMNT figures, they had a certain feel that I really liked as a kid, I was especially hyped about the Secret Ooze that came with it. My half brothers grandma got that for me, she was a nice lady.
Also think you should cover the transforming Pokémon plushies that turned into Pokeballs if you haven’t touched on it in these videos
That's a good suggestion I haven't seen before! Cheers and thanks for watching!
I got the Oshawott plushie
Thier wer uthers. Human forms of Bebop ans Rocksteddy transformed into thier mutated forms and thier was even one of Aprill as a tiger mutant. I remember the toy fraze. Know they mutate.
Should the Korean Transformers like stuff like Tobot, Hello Carbot, Miniforce, Metal Cardbot, etc be its own seperate video?
One of tobot's figure are literally an actual transformers figure
@@sounddash7316 Tobot Adventure Y
I actually owned one of the v-tech car transformer Dino thingys, and I can tell you, it was an amazing toy
bro is turning INTO a parasite 10:36
14:47 We also have Samus from Metroid who can transform into a ball. Sure she's not a robot, but neither are most of the Bakugan to my recollection.
I would like to see a 3rd party company make a figure of her that transforms into her ship. That would take some insane engineering.
0:08 my dad has that from when he was a kid! I always thought it was just one of those transformers that never appeared in the show and only had a toy!
When me and my little brother were smaller, we loved the v-tech Dino’s!!! Our favorites were the red long neck dino and the blue triceratops. I do t remember much about them and kind of forgot they existed but thanks for this cause now I’m remembering how much fun I used to have with my little brother with these!
Do you still love your little brother is he still alive
Here’s something interesting. There’s a small hot wheels line called road beasts. When I was really young, me and my brother had these three of these things. Their monster trucks that open their “mouths” and stick their touches out. They open their eyes every time you press the back, and I think some were remolds of the attack pack back peace’s. The only one I can remember is a scorpion like tail which the sculpt shows it was made of chains. The tongues were made of a soft rubbery material, helped illuminate that it was lifelike. Downside is they catch dust and hair very easily, and the forked tips were separate peace’s so they could get broken or lost.
Another line I remember owning a few was the car-nivores line. They were made by fisher price, and you just press on the car mode to change them into an animal. The bottom and wheals serve as “legs” while the body shows off the sculpt. They made a T. Rex, a Snake, a dog, a shark and possibly more. There were two giant ones that serve as automatic toys. They have buttons on the back to make them do any actions, but no remote. There’s a gorilla (of all things) but I don’t remember the other one.
Figured I share some trivia of some other transformer toys that aren't transformers from some childhood memories.
10:35 bro became a robot himself💀
You are somehow the first person to comment about that. No idea why it happened some issue with my editing software
@@dumbjakeworldyou became armada Optimus prime 😂😂
Party Wallop is in fact worth the price, can confirm. Thank you for introducing me to this majestic figure.
What if I told you that Hot Wheels tried the Transforming cars thing a second time and went absolutely hard on the second try?
Hot Wheels Modifighters where these voyager-ish scale cars that had super simple transformations and came with water squirters that revealed battle damage when you shot them with water.
They even had this addictive flash game for them!
Literally flooded with nostalgia. Thank you.
I had the mini tmnt turtle folding hidden hideout and adored it!
Always happy to help you deal with Al G. Rhythm! 😊
Two TMNT transforming toys I have are a Donatello that turned into a helicopter and a Rapheal that turns into a jet.
Can't remember the toyline name but I remember one set I got a few of. They start as a car (or other land vehicle). You place the disc they come with on the floor and push the car to the disc. The disc goes into a slot at the front of the car and activate a button that causes the vehicle to perform a backflip as they auto-transform into an animal/insect.
took a bit of searching, since i remembered having a firetruck leo; looks like it was two lines, "Road Ready Mutations" ('93) and "Mighty Mutations" ('94).
In the Road Ready line:
Leo became a fire truck, Donnie became a stock/ car, Splinter became the Party Wagon, and Shredder became a Mutant Module (a drill tank).
In the Mighty Mutations line:
Leo became a dump truck, Mikey became a cement mixer truck, Raph became a fighter jet, and two different versions of Donnie became either a bulldozer or an attack helicopter.
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as for the transforming cars, i think that's the Mecard series? they even had 'launcher' ramp toys that also transformed. felt like they tried to combine bakugan and transformers...
@@the_solomon_sage8431 Mecard is close but not the line I was thinking of as I think I've found the line, Screechers.
@@riicky83 glad you found it, and sorry for the mix-up
@@the_solomon_sage8431 no problems, they are kinda similar.
I had so many of the Switch-and-go dinos as a kid! My favorite was the Terrazinosaurus/Jeep named Torr or something like that.
BRO I LOVED TORR still have him in my transformers shelf
God, I've been lookin for these toys for ages. Attack Pack. Finally. Saw that Stego ONCE on a flea market and never again. Finally, time to get it and that bat-one I had as a kid. Thank you!
I swear i had a bunch of these toys you mention in these videos and memories flood back to me everytime. Eventually id lose bits or the whole toy but you are bringing back things id completely forgot about. I'm pretty sure i had a Donatello that transformed into a firetruck but im not sure what line it was from.
Robo wheels is actually one of the lines I'm nostalgic for Because I had the Basuka Blaster figure, Plus some of the vehicles actually could blend in with regular hot wheels.
About the Vtech toys, I had one and did some research and found out that the one I had was called “Lex The T Rex” and it’s actually still for sale on Amazon
Slimeator sounds like the dollar store knock off of waspantor
true
I still have my Switch & Go Spinosaurus. He doesn't light up or make noise anymore, but he still turns into a huge stealth-bomber-looking jet that fires springloaded discs! Dude rules!
Also, if you're thinking of doing a 3rd video on this, maybe look into Car-nivores. I had a few of those as a kid, they were really cool. They don't get very much attention these days...
There’s 2 LEGO Ninjago transforming sets in the new dragons rising series. One is a Diaclone esque motorcycle to mech and the the other in a dragon you can flip upside down I guess?? I have the motorcycle one and it’s very fun.
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my 5 year old cousin has some of these things, and i'm man enought to admit, that as an adult, i still think these things are really cool lol. They're genuinely really neat, and he clearly likes them
I remember playing with switch n go dinos, I had a few, but there was one I remember most. It was a giant green crane/tow truck thing, that turned into a big Trex, I remember it having a microphone, so you could use voice commands, it was pretty cool
Nice list of Transformers like transforming thingies :D though I thought I would also see 52Toys Beast Box. For me it's the next best thing to Transformers.
Found this vid in my recommendations, and subbed. Watched the first one as well.
I think Zybots were mentioned in the first one's comments. They are funky. Rock Lords are worth a look too,they are a part of Bandai's Machine Robo line from which the GoBots toys were taken from.
There was a cartoon during the early 90s called The Bots Master. Some of the bots would pilot vehicles that transformed into mecha,and they could also combine into a bigger bot called Jungle Fiver. I forget who produced the toys,maybe LJN or ToyBiz?
I had a few of the Dinozaurs toys as a kid. Even brand new the joints were awful, the clear plastic did not hold up and had stress fractures, and the chrome lasted all of 5 minutes of little kid play. Still a badass toy line
I dont like transformers outside of the movies or toys really that much but for some reason I really like your videos. Keep up the amazing work!
As someone who saw Dinozaurs when it was on... Fox Kids? Kids WB? Whatever. It was insane even for the time.
I miss Attack Pack so much. I really hope it gets rebooted at some point.
The Gen 2 Bakugan toys were basically ALL Bakumorph but at normal Bakugan scale. Gen 3 kinda almost is like that but doesn't do it nearly as well.
Shortly after this video came out, I found _bootleg Dinozaurs figures_ at my local Roses. So, yeah, keep that in mind maybe.
Party Wallop is big for a modern Voyager but not quite a full Leader size. It's a little taller than most Voyagers but he's very broad in comparison.
Thank you! I've had memories of seeing the Parasites line of toys growing up, but no idea where they actually fit in amongst all of the various aspects of my youth growing up other than "Well, they had something to do with dinky cars."
This is absolutely trippy. I definitely had that green monster hot wheel as a kid. I did NOT walk in expecting a legit nostalgia trip but I guess I loved crappy transformers back then 😂😂
7:58 Thank you for bringing these up.
I got the Donatello at a thrift store and was having trouble identifying it.
I think early switch and go led me down the path to being a transformers fan. i remember having an orange tow truck that turned into an ankylosaurus and a small green racecar that turned into a raptor or t rex or something
I had quite a lot of these Attack Pack vehicles. But I played so much with them that most of them broke over the years. I'm sure there's still one or two in a box somewhere, but probably with missing parts. I loved these.
And I have the Digivolving WarGreymon on my shelf behind me.
Man, I dig your energy! Subbed 💪🏼
Completely forgot about the attack pack. I had that bat like one at my Nagymama’s. Never even knew what it was from but definitely a memorable toy growing up
oh my god. I had an attack pack stegasaurus. Completely forgot, you just unlocked a hidden memory for me.
I had a small green V-tech T-Rex that I loved and I wanted more. But as I got older, my parents decided to sell it and at that time they weren’t in stock anymore so I couldn’t buy them unless I wanted to spend my limited amount of money…
Hey, I had that same one! Something broke inside, though, so it always had the Dino eyes lol
Yeah, I had the trex, an orange helicopter, a brachiosaur, and a small raptor that came with one of them. I forgot which it came.
If we're talking transforming toys, you've GOT to mention the ones that released for power rangers ninja storm.
They had like, all of the rangers who could transform into power sphere weapons from the show. Red became the serpent sword, navy red was the Spin blade, and the one i LOVED growing up was the navy blue which became the turtle mace.
I loved that toy so much that the paint actually wore away on certain parts of it.
I have a few switch-and-go Dino’s from when I was a kid. The giant brachiosaurus carrier truck was always my favorite, followed by the spinosaurus plane
Here in Brazil we had a children's magazine called "Recreio" where there was a collectible gift in each edition. One of the collections was "Missão Mitologia", which was a series of creatures from Greek mythology that transformed into columns and could join together to form a giant robot that represented some Greek god.
Ok absolutely would love more Bakugan commentary because that toy line always evaded my understanding despite playing it many times
the video quality is amazing but my fav part are the off script chuckles and laughs idky but it’s so much funnier 😭😭
God, I had a bunch of Switch and Go Dinos! Like the entire original set from the first year and some from the second year. Awesome toys!
Those Attack Pack toys are SO cool! :0 I've never seen those before, but I love them!
I actually remember having one of the switch and go toys when I was younger while I can’t find the age of the toys a was probably too old for the them assuming they weren’t my brothers (I’m 21 now for context). One other transformers like toy I remember is Hotweels Battle Force 5, which is basically a bunch of cars that had a “battle mode”, which also had a Cartoon Network show. I checked it out a few months ago out of curiosity, and it’s exactly what you’d expect.
Thank you for showing the Dinozuars.
I used to have the Mammoth and Stegosaurus ones but lost them 20 years ago.
Another great video, I love the emphasis on lesser known stuff
Speaking of, some more information on what I commented about last time lol. Most of the ionix brick lines are forgotten, the only one with anyone left that cares is the original series of tenkai knights. Unfortunately, it’s a bit hard to find information on it due to it being such a small community, but there are 2 discord servers with some very dedicated fans for any information you need. The fandom wiki is borderline useless as always but it has enough for a vague understanding and it also has a discord that would be a good place to start for more in depth stuff
the vtech brachiosaur with the terodactyl and the pterodatyl helicopter were my childhood
13:38 Woah, I still having 2 of them!!
The red one and the green with black
But they were smaller than those you showed
Here’s an _incredibly_ specific one. Back from 2014-2016 Lego had a line called Mixels. The main “gimmick” of them was that you could buy multiple, take them apart, and combine the pieces to make a Mix. And if you had 3 of the same type of mixels(ie 3 fire guys) you could make a max. In the last year, they made a set of fire fighters called the MCFD and their max form had a very lite transformation gimmick. You could make him fold into a fire truck
Surprised to not see Modifighters when you went over Hot Wheels. Great video!
Brazil had this one kid's magazine called "Recreio" (Playtime/Recess), and they had a bunch of toys with, sometimes, accompanying storylines. One of them was called "Megaferas" (Megabeasts) where a trio of characters go back in time to photograph pre-historic animals, but one of the characters wants to take them away to the present with a gadget that turns the beasts into... rocks. The toys pretty much just fold the legs and heads into themselves, but it was a major part of my childhood.
I had the red switch and go velociraptor toy! I thought it was so fun to play with back then, but i don’t think i ever put batteries in it.
I still have tons of the Vtech dinosaur toys. If it werent for my parents getting me some as a kid i likely wouldnt be into transformers at all or atleast much later
2:00 and that exact "power Rangers but only the zords" concept is used for ultraman and voltron
Dude those Hot Wheels Attack Pack ones reignited a memory of something from Fisher Price called Car-nivores. I had the shark one.
My cousin had the Bones Attack Pack and my brother and I had the Stego and TRex when we were kids. The three of us almost got our moms to get the Sliminator until they found out it had actual slime lol
do you remember that transformers toy line shot bots that when the front of the car gets pushed they transforms in well there's a game its called bot shot battle
OMG!!! I used to have a transforming Raph when I was younger. It was the nick version.
9:01 the ninja turtles did in fact collaborate with a fighting game. That game being Injustice 2, where they were a singular bonus character which could be any of the four turtles by changing their weapons in the customization settings.
Oh man. I had one or two of the TMNT "pet" transforming toys. The cardbacks and instruction sheets were pretty hilarious because they had the Turtles' IQ _reducing_ the more and more they matured from their native forms into their mutant forms.
6:40 Nickelodeon did some transforming turtle figures a while back as well under the mutations line. They essentially transform into their own respective weapons. There was also a line that had them transform into regular turtles
I would watch the video a litttttle bit longer lol
4:21 Ah! I had that one! I had long forgotten what it was from, and even longer forgotten it at all, until this surfaced an old memory.
Laughs in Australian for $99 each on the tmnt transformers
9:00 There’s also a TMNT and Power Rangers crossover; it was first in a comic, then later Hasbro made toys of the turtles when they temporarily became Rangers.
Also in the comic Shredder stole the green Ranger morpher and there’s also a toy of that design.
Switch and go Dinos ironically has non dinosaur figures just to bait the title.
I would suggest looking into Computer Warriors as well as M.A.S.K. (and Vortech).
A toyline i remember liking the concept of as a teenager was D.I.C.E.
A team of power rangers-esque humans who could pilot their own dinosaur robots that could transform into different vehicles, but they were engineered so the rider didn't need to be removed. The one I had was a red raptor that turned into a motorcycle, and it was piloted by the kid protagonist who had to use a stilt mechanism to fit the proportions of his suit.
It had a show that aired on Toonami, even, but I forgot what the major plot was.
No way, i actually had one of those larger green trex Vtech toys. I never knew what it was but now I know. Sadly the toy has been lost to the sands of time but i remember loving it.
I messed with that V-Tech Brachio.
Was cool.
Also, I forgot if you did this last time, but Got Bots was a precursor to Transformers.
I do remember some large transformable toys from either Matchbox or Hotwheels that transformed from standard monster cars, to aeroplanes. But I cannot remember the names of them, but I did have one of them.
The Turtles had a cool theme song, but I do like some others better. The Legend of Prince Valiant, Mysterious Cities of Gold, Gummi Bears. Galaxy Rangers, Pole Position, Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors, Mighty Orbots, Pirates of Dark Water, Thundercats, MASK, Transformers, GoBots,Knight Rider, Airwolf, Street Hawk... all of these, plus many others had some truly epic theme songs.
Holy crap, you just resurfaced a memory of mine, I had one of those V-Tec dinosaurs (the green helicopter-T-Rex one) and I completely forgot about it until now
Omg i was JUST talking about the ninja turtles one in the thumbnail with my boyfriend yesterday! I had the 2003 version that came with the slime! I forgot how tottaly bizzare the way the limbs came out the back leg hole!
I actually bought one of these V-Tech toys for my Nephew. I'm definitely hoping he's enjoying it. Growing up I've only had like one Transformer toy and I don't even remember what it looks like
Hotwheels also had a line called modifighters which were more traditional transformer type characters with a late 90s early 2000s hip hop rap asthetic and a water gun gimmick
I actually did grow up with the V-Tech Dinos and man, they were cool. I remember having the T-Rex and the a Jet Pterodactyl one. Very nostalgic hearing someone talk about them
Great variety of nostalgic robos.
I love Attack Pack. Got back into collecting them a few years ago. Since the local vintage toy store had them priced cheap. Just so wildly 90s I got all five of the spaceship ones. Maggot Mouth, CoZmo Clam, Venus Flycraft, Space Sucker, and Galactibite! I think part of the reason their not more popular is you can't pose and display them in their monster form they always change back when you let go of the toy.
Here because I saw Attack Packs. Absolutely loved them and I have most of them that you showed. You did not mention that a few of them had sound effects! When they opened up they would roar!
Here in Brasil we got a bunch back in the day. Recreio Magazine packed them with each issue.
There was Letronix (letters to robots), Mega Letronix (home appliances to robots), Rock Animals (animal/monster to precious mineral) and at least one more I forgot the name of.
I just had a hyperventilating laughing fit at 1:34 because it's taking such fast and wide steps but it's not going anywhere 😂.
It's like the roadrunner in looney tunes but without the speed to match and is instead replaced with the same speed as a brisk jog. My sides! 🤣
Thanks for putting the Dino Jam back in my head!
7:36 I have Leo and Mikey
16:09 I also have that brontosaurus I think I also had that T. rex
I remember having the v tech sauropod, it being able to unload little cars that a raptor and phytradon came out of.
That stream tonight was so fun lol, sorry I couldn’t say bye cuz I needed to do something tho
7:24 I had one of those as a kid. Iirc, it didn't really come with instructions for how to transform it. I never thought I was doing it right. Apparently from watching this video, thats because even when done right, it doesn't look right.
Switch and Go is literally my childhood and I’m glad it finally gets some spotlight
I actually had one of those 2012 TMNT turtle transformers. It was specifically Mikey, but, when I was younger, I was stupid and sharpied him. Safe to say that he's sadly gone now. I miss that toy.
Seeing some of these toys unlocked some long forgotten memories I didn't know I had
Before Bakugan there was another transforming ball toy, the Bionicle Bhorok, the transformation for those was very simple but they also had other stuff to go with them like some mechanism to make them attack other Bionicles and inside each Bhorok there where collectible rubber masks, and obviously the fact that they were made of Lego.