And that ending. Still not fond of it and the author was like "Life sucks and doesn't always have a happy ending" and while she stands by it, she did apologize. Animorphs did not hold back on the war analogy.
To answer Tj’s question The way it worked in the books is that the Animorphs had to wear skintight clothes when they morph because anything else would fall off Eventually they learned to morph regular t shirts and jeans
And in the TV show they knew how immediately. And they turned Marco's mom into a 1960s bond villain chick. And they turned Visser Three into a Saturday morning cartoon villain
Yea, it's kind of a weird critique when weirder stuff has been in the series like the sixth member who threw a comatose patient down an elevator shaft and later got permanently rat-moded while his psychic screams are audible to anyone near the island they stranded him on.
It's another awkward little hurdle in hers and Tobias' relationship, that when they go flying, Rachel is in the form of a _male_ eagle or whatever her flier form was.
Well in the books, the clothing needs to be like a leotard or wetsuit and be practically part of your skin if you want it to be part of the mass shifting involved in Zero Space.
The mega(!?) class Inferno Creature is awesome. It's like a copyright free deathclaw. Fun fact, the Inferno Creature was an original creation by hasbro for the toyline which means they own the rights for it.
16:26 I would actually love to see a potential Transformers cartoon introduce a new faction of organic aliens that can transform, especially if their toys were designed like this!
Goosebumps and Animorphs were my bread and butter in school. Always loved to read them. I actually remember having the Tobias figure. It was chunky and the animal parts weren't hidden at all but I liked it all the same. Also the Tri-Rex is actually from the Megamorphs books where they got sent back to prehistoric times and to morph into a T-Rex it needed three of them to do so.
I always figured the best way to make a gorilla transformer interesting is to have its other mode be distinctly non humanoid, like maybe its beast mode arms splits into four legs, beast mode legs become the robot mode arms, abdominal region collapses into the torso, get real weird and alien with the robot mode. Which now that I think of it is something I feel we need more of in general with transformers.
9:05 When they morph they turn into the last animal they touched. Not the same species a direct copy of the animal. It's brought up at least once that I can remember that only one of them can be a male wolf when they morph as a pack, otherwise the territorial instincts of the males wolves will distract them and they may attack each other.
I have a handful of these, but they aren't Animorphs in my toy world lore. They're members of The Alliance, a group of anti-robotic lifeform extremists who turned themselves into cybernetic beast people who hunt Transformers by attempting to match them at their own game. I keep the mid-morph heads as their real heads, which is good considering a couple of the molds have a tough time keeping the human head showing.
If memory serves correctly, the Beast Wars Mutants explanation was that Megatron was trying to create new Fuzors and experimented on Protoforms which then got stuck in the Mutant forms. The Mutants then escaped and joined Primal to seek revenge. Would have been a great story for the show.
5:33 Well the Clothes in the Books had to be a Tight Fit. Anything else gets shredded to pieces. In the series IIRC clothes weren’t a problem due it’s an adaptation of the source material and they didn’t want to deal with the clothes issue I’d imagine. 8:24 Rachel in the books didn’t get a Lion. She got an Elephant as one of her Battle Forms 10:41 Ax Huh? 11:05 Poor Jake 12:06 Jake and Grizzly Bear? That’s Rachel’s Primary Battle Form. 13:56 Taxon? I don’t recall 16:37 Finally 19:03 They did an entire adventure in the Books that involved them in a Time Traveling to just before the Meteor hit This is just insane
Those alien toys look awesome! It's amazing how they morph seamlessly between forms all while possessing such cool designs. Beyond that, I remember owning the first Tobias figure as a kid and thought it was a fair toy.
Also the Mega class toys were awesome. The mega class Tobias is actually good, the bird mode is the focus which fits Tobias' character better, and even the humanoid mode works as some sort of harpy. The best one was the inferno beast/andalite
I remember going to Toysrus when these were out and helping an older lady pick out the tri-rex for her sick grandchild who was in the hospital and she wanted to give him a toy. I recommended the TriRex because kid me thought three figures in one would make any kid happy. Hopefully the kid survived the toy and whatever sickness.
Maybe a better direction to have gone with these would have been something like a cross between pretenders and the bigger action masters. Have the human as its own figure that can hide in the animal and have the beast mode transform into a battle platform or something that the human can use. Sure they didn't have anything like that in the show or books (as far as I know) but when has that ever stopped a toyline?
Had a handful of these, the best of which was definitely Mega Ax. I did kind of like Tobias’s first toy though, if nothing else because you could pretty easily make him a kind of “birdman”
If you read the books, the body horror shown in this video lines up perfectly. Like imagine a kid being so "fuck this shit I'm out!" that he permanently turns into a bird just to regret it later and have jump through SO MANY hoops to turn back into human and only temporarily.
Funny you should mention it, but the tobias (hawk) toy actually WAS my favorite toy as a child! XD Thing is, I never played with it as intended. I gave him a hawk head, kept him in the human stance, and would give him talons and wings. Then he became HAWK-MAN!!!...(I didn't know about the D.C. character at the time, lol!) But yeah, I spent untold hours creating fights and adventures for my O.C. do not steal. AND brought him on almost every long car ride. Shoot, sometimes I'd prefer him to my gameboy!
No you're completely on point at how unhinged this line was produced. Especially with Beast Wars still fresh in everyone's memory. I had the tiger and the red bad guy, and I played with them until they fell apart. They were tough and unique but never once in my 8yr old brain did I ever feel they were "Transformers". The aesthetic and execution was miles away from anything Transformers. Not bad, at least the two I had, just different. Afterthought: I remember wanting Tri-Rex just because of how good the paint and size was for the Rex mode in comparison to the mainline Jurassic Park toys at the time. I didn't mind that it shifted into three body horror nightmares just to have a big well-painted Rex.
This was my favorite book series as a kid. I still remember picking up The Encounter at the Scholastic Book Fair. I had the Jake as a tiger figure. My wife is currently in the process of rereading the entire series and I’d really like to read them again myself. An absolutely fantastic series. I highly recommend.
I had a lot of these, considering I collected the books and Transformers at the same time. The T-Rex was such a weird figure. For some reason I still remember getting it from Big Lots. Even as a kid I thought some of the figures should have been retooled into robots and released for Beast Wars.
I wonder if the Taxxon's "Alien" and Visser Three's "Inferno Creature" modes are clear for future Transformers characters to take, since they're unique to the toyline. Also, fun fact, TFRaw has an early concept of how they planned to handle the transformation and avoid kibble: the limbs were the only solid parts, and the body & head were soft rubber you had to fold inside out to transform. Anyone who has looked up the Infaceables/Bestioids line can guess why that didn't go through; apparently, the only prototype no longer has a head due to degradation.
Close. It's five teens who stumble across a dying Aldalite named Elfangor who gives them the ability to morph into any animal they touch for 2 hours because after that they become locked in that form permanently and the Yeerks are slug-like creatures who crawl into people's ears to take control and are secretly invading Earth.
As an owner of the Ax/scorpion figure, who still has him sitting on her desk, it’s easily the most accurate/aesthetically pleasing figure as an Animorphs fan over all those weremorphs and people regularly ask about it… beyond that, I’m still hunting for that taxxon figure
I started laughing so hard when you showed that concept art - something straight from Junji Ito. Sometimes I forget I have the deluxe Tobias because you reviewed him and I have an unfortunate nostalgia for some of your more classic Plastic Addict videos. Honestly, looking at all of the human toys at the same time, I think he's one of the better looking humans. Ironic, that they put the priority on the human mode for a character stuck as a hawk.
5:24, so in the beginning, they actually did lose clothes in the beginning, it wasn't till like maybe 5 or more books they learned to morph with clothes, but I think the first that figured it out was Rachel with her gymnastics leotard 9:24 surprisingly since they copy the DNA of the animal basically completely exact, which includes the gender of the animal
I actually had a few of the Animorph figures. I had the bear, wolf, gorilla and hawk. The one that I wanted to have was the Inferno Beast and debatably the Tri-Rex figure.
I had the Mega Class Andalites, but I got them second hand with no manuals (and this was pre-internet, couldn't look them up) so I had no idea what the blue hell I was supposed to do with them. I remember being surprised discovering one of their Andalite heads. Like "oh crap, this is an Andalite??"
I am oddly fond of the Tri-Rex toy, since I had that as a wee little toddler and thougt it was just a super cool T-Rex and my dad getting it because I kept staring at it while my older brother was off playing Pokemon TCG. I recognize its a godawful toy, but man... that T-Rex mode is the shit.
I just had a realization. Here we had transforming alien centaurs. Years later we got Onyx Prime in the aligned continuity. Connection, or am I overreaching? Although, one of the Andalite toys could possibly be retooled into an Onyx Prime. Thoughts?
Imagine if they did a transforming human figure into animals again, except they have it that in “human mode”, they are wearing costumes (of the animals they transform into), allowing for the animal mode kibble to hide and blend in with the human mode.
The lion actually looks like it would have been cool if it was just an anthropomorphic catgirl who turned into a lion...maybe like Aisha Clan-Clan from Outlaw Star...hmmmmm
@@Amerac133 Nope, some of them did have T. Rex forms, I think two did and the others had some form of raptor they picked up. Unfortunately, like the other points in the series when that for of time travel or other shenanigans happened, they lost the forms at the end of it...such as Jake with his Jaguar that he picked up in the first time travel one, though with the dinosaur one, they all survived it and kept their memories (That was trippy in the Jake book that introduced time travel, and he references it later on in the dinosaur one where due to there being 2 of him at the time before they break the time loop, he got his memories though the time clone team all ended up dead and disintigrated). The space/time stuff doesn't happen when the Ellemist and/or Cryak were involved. But size isn't an issue when morphing...Cassie's Blue Whale from the first Megamorphs book being a major example there
Animorphs should have been an animated series instead of a live action one. I remember reading the books. There was supposed to be a sixth member that ended up turning on the group. I remember how the book series ended and it was anticlimactic. By the way, the Beast Wars Mutants toyline should have been expanded. A piranha Transformer would have been awesome.
I would be willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on the research, development, and production of one of these based on that meme of Eminem turning into the Red M&M.
For Cassie transforming into a male lion, based on what little I remember from the books, swapping sex as the morphed into animals wasn't all that weird. It was all determined on the the animal they copied the DNA from. I remember Tobias, the guy who got stuck as a Hawk, copied the DNA of a human woman who was possessed by one of the aliens and was able to transform into that woman after words.
I didn't even regress the memory, I did forget it, and honestly, despite how bad the toys look, I really would like to have a number of them for the niche of the toys
I actually had Ax! I honestly got no clue why I got him. I think it was just the fact I collected beast wars. I will say that I recall him being very brittle. Like the plastic on him basically warped and snapped after a few transformations
I had the alien looking ones. Those were the best toys in my opinion because the alien asthetic made it so they really didn't need to look like anything. They could just be these cool looking creatures. The "human" ones I would always just look at and wish they were retooled to have robot parts so they'd fit in with the actual Transformers toy line. I also never understood why there was partsforming with a lot of them when Beast Wars never relied on partsforming. Like they could have literally just reused the engineering Primal on that gorilla instead they made what felt like a cheap knock off of Optimus Primal.
Good thing the characters don't feel pain during the transformation. However, they do feel their bones and muscles and organs changing inside them, so it's not like they're completely numb. That also makes me wonder if Cybertronians feel anything during the change. Obviously not pain but do they feel the various parts moving around? I know in the "Animated" continuity they hear the actual transformation noise so maybe they do feel something.
I actually have the visor 3 mega infernal creature,I had the axe scorpion thing he showed before, but it didn't survive niece and nephews getting their hands on it
I had two of the teens, the aliens not counting the Europe exclusive and the t rex. They were ugly as shit but i loved them. The tri rex humans were not fun but the rex itself was great
Maybe what they should’ve done instead of trying to copy the store was take some inspiration from the transformers pretenders like just have a human action figure that just folds up in a weird way, and incase it in some kind of animal body.
Hey TJ, with how far toy engineering has come, do you think it is possible to make a proper Animorphs Transformer? Would something like the Saint Seiya Cloths Shellforming be a better alternative? My take: Shell-forming could allow each kid to "transform" into the different animals, and having a skeleton/stand to place the shells on could add extra playability. Essentially having a "two figures for the price of one" marketing mentality. Especially since lore-wise, they need to touch the animal before they can transform into it. We could have a fully articulated Human figure that can "shape" into the animal's stance and have the alt parts be slotted/clipped/etc. onto the character. As for the Aliens, they can stay as regular transformers as they already look bestial.
I kinda like the one that is a wolf and transforms into a werewolf looking mode. the others with this aesthetic just look bad but for a wolf transforming into a human it works because of lycanthropy. if you weren't into animorphs that toy on its own would be a cool werewolf toy.
the ones that are awful are the ones that have the "gloves" that partform when you transform. those were very hard to keep track of. i had the tiger one because i liked tigers, but i lost the forearms shortly after i got it. i only kept it in tiger mode but those stupid arm gloves are easy to lose
Kingdom Beast wars Megatron looks the most like a T-Rex in comparison even if it pisses people off with the head of the T-Rex it's biologically accurate and actually looks more like a tank head
23:38 In the picture of the taco bell toys, the character on the right looks a little bit like spike from the first two seasons of the cartoon. When the picture first popped onscreen I thought that was who the toy was and for confused before I had the half a second to process it wasn't spike but.... Whomever the characters name is (sorry, don't mean to sound dismissive,I was never into animorphs and just have a super ultra basic surface level knowledge of the property). And I could be wrong but I think Kenner was the one's that made the animorphs line. It was the same time that Hasbro had Kenner do beast wars and I think I remember Hasbro gave Kenner the 'fun' of doing animorphs as well, tho again I could be wrong about that.
54 books in the main series, 10 companion books.
And yeah, it goes COMPLETELY OFF THE WALL IMMEDIATELY.
And that ending. Still not fond of it and the author was like "Life sucks and doesn't always have a happy ending" and while she stands by it, she did apologize.
Animorphs did not hold back on the war analogy.
Goals
@@muigokublack6487 It also seemed to heavily focus on setting up a sequel series...
@@muigokublack6487 Yeah the ending was not the best
To answer Tj’s question
The way it worked in the books is that the Animorphs had to wear skintight clothes when they morph because anything else would fall off
Eventually they learned to morph regular t shirts and jeans
And in the TV show they knew how immediately. And they turned Marco's mom into a 1960s bond villain chick. And they turned Visser Three into a Saturday morning cartoon villain
@@vincentmarcellino7183 honestly I prefer how the show does morphing
It’s just a lot more simple
Animorphs, Digimon, and Beast Wars was my religion back in the 90's!
Yo same beast wars 1996 season 1 was my all time favorite
Oh and remember sharpshifters the marvel toys that transformed
9:05 This is canon in the books. The sex of animals is based on the DNA they acquired, not their own.
Yea, it's kind of a weird critique when weirder stuff has been in the series like the sixth member who threw a comatose patient down an elevator shaft and later got permanently rat-moded while his psychic screams are audible to anyone near the island they stranded him on.
@@Galacticbreaker Gotta love kid's books.
It's another awkward little hurdle in hers and Tobias' relationship, that when they go flying, Rachel is in the form of a _male_ eagle or whatever her flier form was.
Nah, animorphs wasnt over 20 books, theyre not that crazy.
It was over 60! Including sidebooks, the total comes out to 64 books.
Tonight, TJ has a rematch with Tobias!
So tj vs himself?
13 years for this legendary rematch
@@ALIEN-DUDE tj is beast machines rat trap incarnate.
Well in the books, the clothing needs to be like a leotard or wetsuit and be practically part of your skin if you want it to be part of the mass shifting involved in Zero Space.
Looking at Marco's part of the Tri-Rex just makes me think, "WhY mY ShOuLdErS hUrT?"
Oh no, someone's found the JaAm again...
The mega(!?) class Inferno Creature is awesome. It's like a copyright free deathclaw. Fun fact, the Inferno Creature was an original creation by hasbro for the toyline which means they own the rights for it.
Main line Inferno Creature when Hasbro
Imagine if hasbro took that tri rex and updated it and made it into a beast wars reflector I could see it with heavy retooling
It's a shame the repaint of BW Mutants Soundwave didn't come out. That figure didn't suffer from GPS
16:26 I would actually love to see a potential Transformers cartoon introduce a new faction of organic aliens that can transform, especially if their toys were designed like this!
I don't know how it was on the show, but in the books, one of the rules for morphing was that skintight clothes would morph with you.
I think the alien toy molds (or at least a few of them) were actually good
I have fond memories of these and the translucent yeerks they came with.
Goosebumps and Animorphs were my bread and butter in school. Always loved to read them. I actually remember having the Tobias figure. It was chunky and the animal parts weren't hidden at all but I liked it all the same.
Also the Tri-Rex is actually from the Megamorphs books where they got sent back to prehistoric times and to morph into a T-Rex it needed three of them to do so.
I mean…Tobias ends up in bird mode forever anyways, so I’m shocked he even transforms.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 Well I remember later on in the series he regained the ability to return to his human form but again only for 2 hours.
I always figured the best way to make a gorilla transformer interesting is to have its other mode be distinctly non humanoid, like maybe its beast mode arms splits into four legs, beast mode legs become the robot mode arms, abdominal region collapses into the torso, get real weird and alien with the robot mode. Which now that I think of it is something I feel we need more of in general with transformers.
Imagine if hasbro took that beetle molde and updated it and used it for a new beast wars insenticon
Visser 3's raptor like form was a hork bjar i think
9:05 When they morph they turn into the last animal they touched. Not the same species a direct copy of the animal. It's brought up at least once that I can remember that only one of them can be a male wolf when they morph as a pack, otherwise the territorial instincts of the males wolves will distract them and they may attack each other.
They also learn from Ax about the genetic mix morphing where they can acquire several of the same species and create a new version
I have a handful of these, but they aren't Animorphs in my toy world lore. They're members of The Alliance, a group of anti-robotic lifeform extremists who turned themselves into cybernetic beast people who hunt Transformers by attempting to match them at their own game. I keep the mid-morph heads as their real heads, which is good considering a couple of the molds have a tough time keeping the human head showing.
Ok no joke, no exaggeration. That is the coolest flipping thing I've heard all day hahaha
Kudos to your imagination, my dude.
@@misterdewott8766 Thank you. You should hear how I'd do Star Wars Transformers.
Jake, Marco, and Cassie in there ''human forms'' could pass as tmnt mutants.
If memory serves correctly, the Beast Wars Mutants explanation was that Megatron was trying to create new Fuzors and experimented on Protoforms which then got stuck in the Mutant forms. The Mutants then escaped and joined Primal to seek revenge. Would have been a great story for the show.
5:33 Well the Clothes in the Books had to be a Tight Fit. Anything else gets shredded to pieces.
In the series IIRC clothes weren’t a problem due it’s an adaptation of the source material and they didn’t want to deal with the clothes issue I’d imagine.
8:24 Rachel in the books didn’t get a Lion. She got an Elephant as one of her Battle Forms
10:41 Ax Huh?
11:05 Poor Jake
12:06 Jake and Grizzly Bear? That’s Rachel’s Primary Battle Form.
13:56 Taxon? I don’t recall
16:37 Finally
19:03 They did an entire adventure in the Books that involved them in a Time Traveling to just before the Meteor hit
This is just insane
Those alien toys look awesome! It's amazing how they morph seamlessly between forms all while possessing such cool designs.
Beyond that, I remember owning the first Tobias figure as a kid and thought it was a fair toy.
Oh man, I just remembered having the Taco Bell toy of the brain with the Yeerk that crawls around it.
I've still got the cube from those toys on my shelf
it is wild that i was into both beast wars and animorphs, and had no idea about any of these lines until a year ago.
The tri rex is like something out of Dead Space
LOL Marco turns into Harambe.
Also the Mega class toys were awesome. The mega class Tobias is actually good, the bird mode is the focus which fits Tobias' character better, and even the humanoid mode works as some sort of harpy.
The best one was the inferno beast/andalite
I remember going to Toysrus when these were out and helping an older lady pick out the tri-rex for her sick grandchild who was in the hospital and she wanted to give him a toy. I recommended the TriRex because kid me thought three figures in one would make any kid happy.
Hopefully the kid survived the toy and whatever sickness.
Maybe a better direction to have gone with these would have been something like a cross between pretenders and the bigger action masters. Have the human as its own figure that can hide in the animal and have the beast mode transform into a battle platform or something that the human can use. Sure they didn't have anything like that in the show or books (as far as I know) but when has that ever stopped a toyline?
Had a handful of these, the best of which was definitely Mega Ax.
I did kind of like Tobias’s first toy though, if nothing else because you could pretty easily make him a kind of “birdman”
If you read the books, the body horror shown in this video lines up perfectly. Like imagine a kid being so "fuck this shit I'm out!" that he permanently turns into a bird just to regret it later and have jump through SO MANY hoops to turn back into human and only temporarily.
Funny you should mention it, but the tobias (hawk) toy actually WAS my favorite toy as a child! XD
Thing is, I never played with it as intended. I gave him a hawk head, kept him in the human stance, and would give him talons and wings. Then he became HAWK-MAN!!!...(I didn't know about the D.C. character at the time, lol!) But yeah, I spent untold hours creating fights and adventures for my O.C. do not steal. AND brought him on almost every long car ride. Shoot, sometimes I'd prefer him to my gameboy!
No you're completely on point at how unhinged this line was produced. Especially with Beast Wars still fresh in everyone's memory. I had the tiger and the red bad guy, and I played with them until they fell apart. They were tough and unique but never once in my 8yr old brain did I ever feel they were "Transformers". The aesthetic and execution was miles away from anything Transformers. Not bad, at least the two I had, just different.
Afterthought: I remember wanting Tri-Rex just because of how good the paint and size was for the Rex mode in comparison to the mainline Jurassic Park toys at the time. I didn't mind that it shifted into three body horror nightmares just to have a big well-painted Rex.
I’d have liked remolds as Transformers toys with the humanoid and alien parts being replaced by robotic forms.
This was my favorite book series as a kid. I still remember picking up The Encounter at the Scholastic Book Fair. I had the Jake as a tiger figure. My wife is currently in the process of rereading the entire series and I’d really like to read them again myself. An absolutely fantastic series. I highly recommend.
I had a lot of these, considering I collected the books and Transformers at the same time.
The T-Rex was such a weird figure. For some reason I still remember getting it from Big Lots.
Even as a kid I thought some of the figures should have been retooled into robots and released for Beast Wars.
Don't think I didn't see that Dr. Cube t-shirt. Fitting choice of apparel to go through these monstrous toys.
I wonder if the Taxxon's "Alien" and Visser Three's "Inferno Creature" modes are clear for future Transformers characters to take, since they're unique to the toyline.
Also, fun fact, TFRaw has an early concept of how they planned to handle the transformation and avoid kibble: the limbs were the only solid parts, and the body & head were soft rubber you had to fold inside out to transform. Anyone who has looked up the Infaceables/Bestioids line can guess why that didn't go through; apparently, the only prototype no longer has a head due to degradation.
I haven't read much, but there's mutating aliens and brainjack aliens and I forget what else.
Close. It's five teens who stumble across a dying Aldalite named Elfangor who gives them the ability to morph into any animal they touch for 2 hours because after that they become locked in that form permanently and the Yeerks are slug-like creatures who crawl into people's ears to take control and are secretly invading Earth.
Wearing the beasts as shells was the right approach for these. Animorphs "Pretenders" would have been ideal.
As an owner of the Ax/scorpion figure, who still has him sitting on her desk, it’s easily the most accurate/aesthetically pleasing figure as an Animorphs fan over all those weremorphs and people regularly ask about it… beyond that, I’m still hunting for that taxxon figure
I started laughing so hard when you showed that concept art - something straight from Junji Ito. Sometimes I forget I have the deluxe Tobias because you reviewed him and I have an unfortunate nostalgia for some of your more classic Plastic Addict videos. Honestly, looking at all of the human toys at the same time, I think he's one of the better looking humans. Ironic, that they put the priority on the human mode for a character stuck as a hawk.
5:24, so in the beginning, they actually did lose clothes in the beginning, it wasn't till like maybe 5 or more books they learned to morph with clothes, but I think the first that figured it out was Rachel with her gymnastics leotard
9:24 surprisingly since they copy the DNA of the animal basically completely exact, which includes the gender of the animal
I actually had a few of the Animorph figures. I had the bear, wolf, gorilla and hawk. The one that I wanted to have was the Inferno Beast and debatably the Tri-Rex figure.
That Tri-Rex concept art will.now forever live on my nightmares. T.T
I had the triple t-rex one and the Ax one. I loved them as a kid
We had one more Mutant in Beast Machines... Savage Noble.
And that one was the result of Beast Wars Megatron manipulating the organic body.
I had the Mega Class Andalites, but I got them second hand with no manuals (and this was pre-internet, couldn't look them up) so I had no idea what the blue hell I was supposed to do with them. I remember being surprised discovering one of their Andalite heads. Like "oh crap, this is an Andalite??"
I am oddly fond of the Tri-Rex toy, since I had that as a wee little toddler and thougt it was just a super cool T-Rex and my dad getting it because I kept staring at it while my older brother was off playing Pokemon TCG. I recognize its a godawful toy, but man... that T-Rex mode is the shit.
I had the Ax/scorpion and V3/inferno creature and they're fun for what they are
Tri-Rex would make for an amazing custom/kitbash. Just change the heads really
man, I remember checking out books from the local bookmobile whenever it comes around. Never seen those anymore
I just had a realization. Here we had transforming alien centaurs. Years later we got Onyx Prime in the aligned continuity. Connection, or am I overreaching? Although, one of the Andalite toys could possibly be retooled into an Onyx Prime. Thoughts?
Honestly, I kinda want to see how they would do an Animorphs crossover with modern engineering (specifically an Andalite).
"They tried"' is that why it's called the Tri-Rex? :p
15:42 that mutant head reminds me of the rito from zelda wind waker
Imagine if they did a transforming human figure into animals again, except they have it that in “human mode”, they are wearing costumes (of the animals they transform into), allowing for the animal mode kibble to hide and blend in with the human mode.
Oh that Visser Three ones were nice! Too bad animorph toys never really made it to my country. At least I never seen one.
The lion actually looks like it would have been cool if it was just an anthropomorphic catgirl who turned into a lion...maybe like Aisha Clan-Clan from Outlaw Star...hmmmmm
Tri-Rex is best figure in my opinion and point of view.
Its been years since I read it but didnt tri rex actually happen in the one book where they went back to the time of dinosaurs
@@Amerac133 Nope, some of them did have T. Rex forms, I think two did and the others had some form of raptor they picked up.
Unfortunately, like the other points in the series when that for of time travel or other shenanigans happened, they lost the forms at the end of it...such as Jake with his Jaguar that he picked up in the first time travel one, though with the dinosaur one, they all survived it and kept their memories (That was trippy in the Jake book that introduced time travel, and he references it later on in the dinosaur one where due to there being 2 of him at the time before they break the time loop, he got his memories though the time clone team all ended up dead and disintigrated).
The space/time stuff doesn't happen when the Ellemist and/or Cryak were involved.
But size isn't an issue when morphing...Cassie's Blue Whale from the first Megamorphs book being a major example there
Funny enough Rachel's lion mode is male lion which makes her opposite to BW Inferno who is male robot that turns into female ant.
Rachel never even had a lion morph, that was David.
@@MrSailing101 Rachel may not have had a lion morph in the books but they did give her one as a toy. Unusual but interesting, nonetheless.
Same reason for both too. They scan and take form of whatever gender their animal was, usually the dominant gender if there's a choice.
@@MrSailing101 They gave her one in the TV show, as a lion was easier to wrangle on a kids show budget than an elephant or a grizzly
K A Applegate is a queen! Love her so much
Animorphs should have been an animated series instead of a live action one. I remember reading the books. There was supposed to be a sixth member that ended up turning on the group. I remember how the book series ended and it was anticlimactic. By the way, the Beast Wars Mutants toyline should have been expanded. A piranha Transformer would have been awesome.
I do remember thinking the alien figures being pretty cool lookin
I would be willing to spend hundreds of thousands of dollars on the research, development, and production of one of these based on that meme of Eminem turning into the Red M&M.
For Cassie transforming into a male lion, based on what little I remember from the books, swapping sex as the morphed into animals wasn't all that weird. It was all determined on the the animal they copied the DNA from.
I remember Tobias, the guy who got stuck as a Hawk, copied the DNA of a human woman who was possessed by one of the aliens and was able to transform into that woman after words.
I feel like the animorphs toyline still had it's influence from beast wars.
the bottom photo of taxxon reminds me of koh the face stealer from avatar the last airbender
Female Lions can have manes, it is rare but it can happen in a pride that looses the male
I have never heard that before. That is news to me. Are there any pictures of a female lion with a mane out there?
I kinda like the tri-rex.. its weirdly nice.. maybe they couldve retool it into BW Refrector or something like that
He still looks like you!
David Cronenberg should make an Animorphs movie.
I didn't even regress the memory, I did forget it, and honestly, despite how bad the toys look, I really would like to have a number of them for the niche of the toys
I actually had Ax! I honestly got no clue why I got him. I think it was just the fact I collected beast wars. I will say that I recall him being very brittle. Like the plastic on him basically warped and snapped after a few transformations
I had the alien looking ones. Those were the best toys in my opinion because the alien asthetic made it so they really didn't need to look like anything. They could just be these cool looking creatures.
The "human" ones I would always just look at and wish they were retooled to have robot parts so they'd fit in with the actual Transformers toy line. I also never understood why there was partsforming with a lot of them when Beast Wars never relied on partsforming. Like they could have literally just reused the engineering Primal on that gorilla instead they made what felt like a cheap knock off of Optimus Primal.
To me the inferno creature and the alien scorpion are the only animorph figures I would buy
Good thing the characters don't feel pain during the transformation. However, they do feel their bones and muscles and organs changing inside them, so it's not like they're completely numb.
That also makes me wonder if Cybertronians feel anything during the change. Obviously not pain but do they feel the various parts moving around? I know in the "Animated" continuity they hear the actual transformation noise so maybe they do feel something.
I actually have the visor 3 mega infernal creature,I had the axe scorpion thing he showed before, but it didn't survive niece and nephews getting their hands on it
The Ax panther is completely lore inaccurate as Ax can't morph from human to panther without going through his true form.
I'm surprised that the Marcus beetle didn't get retooled as a proper transformer.
I had two of the teens, the aliens not counting the Europe exclusive and the t rex. They were ugly as shit but i loved them. The tri rex humans were not fun but the rex itself was great
I love Icebird and I get him out every Christmas season
Maybe what they should’ve done instead of trying to copy the store was take some inspiration from the transformers pretenders like just have a human action figure that just folds up in a weird way, and incase it in some kind of animal body.
Closer to 60 books!
the t rex concept art is like something out of john carpenters the thing lol 030
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Hey TJ, with how far toy engineering has come, do you think it is possible to make a proper Animorphs Transformer?
Would something like the Saint Seiya Cloths Shellforming be a better alternative?
My take:
Shell-forming could allow each kid to "transform" into the different animals, and having a skeleton/stand to place the shells on could add extra playability. Essentially having a "two figures for the price of one" marketing mentality. Especially since lore-wise, they need to touch the animal before they can transform into it. We could have a fully articulated Human figure that can "shape" into the animal's stance and have the alt parts be slotted/clipped/etc. onto the character. As for the Aliens, they can stay as regular transformers as they already look bestial.
I actually have some of these toys. I have the tri-rex and the Lion one, not currently sure where the Lion one is though.
I had the deluxe Tobias one as a kid.
I kinda like the one that is a wolf and transforms into a werewolf looking mode. the others with this aesthetic just look bad but for a wolf transforming into a human it works because of lycanthropy. if you weren't into animorphs that toy on its own would be a cool werewolf toy.
the ones that are awful are the ones that have the "gloves" that partform when you transform. those were very hard to keep track of. i had the tiger one because i liked tigers, but i lost the forearms shortly after i got it. i only kept it in tiger mode but those stupid arm gloves are easy to lose
15:05 kind of ironic that the character stuck in animal form has the worst beast mode
Kingdom Beast wars Megatron looks the most like a T-Rex in comparison even if it pisses people off with the head of the T-Rex it's biologically accurate and actually looks more like a tank head
Megaclass tobias still looks like late 2000s/2010s Tj.....if he did steroids. Taco bell Tobias looks like TJ too.
I really like the taco bell ones. Kind of want them
i still have the tiger one, only missing the slug alien.
Looking at these figures make feel pain😂
23:38 In the picture of the taco bell toys, the character on the right looks a little bit like spike from the first two seasons of the cartoon. When the picture first popped onscreen I thought that was who the toy was and for confused before I had the half a second to process it wasn't spike but.... Whomever the characters name is (sorry, don't mean to sound dismissive,I was never into animorphs and just have a super ultra basic surface level knowledge of the property). And I could be wrong but I think Kenner was the one's that made the animorphs line. It was the same time that Hasbro had Kenner do beast wars and I think I remember Hasbro gave Kenner the 'fun' of doing animorphs as well, tho again I could be wrong about that.