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All right, Rolly.
What's today's toy that we're going to be talking about?
All right.
Today is the victim of the Transformers.
Unfortunately.
Oh, I remember this.
And here's your here's a little teaser for it.
It does.
What I've already.
the challenge of the go box.
The challenge of the go box.
Yes.
Ah man, I do remember this toyline buddy, I do.
And you were so right.
Right.
When you said this is the thing that killed, um, Transformers, these are the victims of
Transformers, because buddy, I'm going to tell you right now, I was collecting a bunch of
go box and when Transformers came out, it was like go box.
Who?
I'm sorry.
Yeah.
Oh my God.
And I know there's a lot of listeners out there that know exactly what I'm talking about.
Oh yeah.
So I don't have a lot of go box.
I, looking, doing research for, for this episode, I did realize I had more than I originally
thought.
I only remember one.
Really?
And we'll talk about it.
I only remember one in my head.
But then I remember seeing a few other and I thought it was just regular like those cheap
dollar store, you know, knock off Transformers.
Because eventually my, these, my, my go box got absorbed into the Transformer line.
Did it?
Okay.
So they, they were Transformers.
I just didn't know there were not Transformers.
Yeah.
Well, you know what I used to do with my go box?
Cause I still had them.
I, of course, this wasn't a term back then, but pretty much what I did was I used my go
box as mini cons for my Transformers.
Okay.
I did.
Yeah.
I used them as mini box, man, as mini cons.
I'm so sorry.
Yeah.
No, I, I treat them like the, the distant cousin that no one liked.
Oh no.
Cause the ones I had were the, and I'm sharing the screen here.
And again, we're this week we are using the website again for transformers land.com.
Yes.
Go check them out.
Very well done.
As always, I had what's called what?
Super.
Most of my is where the super, what do they call it?
I don't know the terminology.
The super go box.
Because, okay.
It was, there you go.
Super.
Yeah.
Super go box.
So one of them had heads.
Yeah.
There were the bigger ones.
I mean, some had heads because I think a psycho had head or face.
Right.
Yes.
But yeah, we'll talk about some of the other ones.
So yeah, I had him and I had a few others and I'm also seeing a few copies.
Now I want to know, maybe you, Duane or Frank, you guys know, are they, did they steal from
transform the transformers steal from go box or the go box steal from transformers?
Because there are a lot, there are a lot of similar vehicles here.
I would.
I see, I see an iron hide.
Well, not iron hide.
I see a ratchet.
I'll tell you what.
Prime.
I see a bumblebee.
Scorpion eggs.
Yeah.
Trails.
Trail breaker.
There's a hound.
There's a hound right there.
Geper.
Geper creeper.
Yeah.
They're terrible names by the way.
Yeah.
That's probably what did them in.
So, yeah.
I didn't have a lot.
Duane, did you have?
To answer your question, you can say transformers technically robbed from go box because go
box hit the market year before, year before transformers and I had for the, I guess the
mini go box.
I had side kill leader one scooter and for the super go box.
I had leader one.
Okay.
Yeah.
I had, I didn't have.
And we'll talk about the ones that we had.
Oh, look, I just saw a scythe swipe.
Yeah.
And there's what you call it, Suns to drinker.
Yes.
All right.
So let's review some of this.
We usually break it down into series, but I think all of us are like go box that we
don't want to do.
I don't think we want to revisit this, but we can.
We definitely don't want to revisit it, but, but it's, it's not that bad where we can't.
We just chose not to.
It's again, you, you've got to give go box the respect.
The aren't I mean, give it the respect.
Now thing that I want to ask here is, so I see right off the bat, we're looking at the
combiners, the monstrous.
Yes.
Okay.
Now that I'm trying to figure out what year that came out because the debt beat, the
debt beat, uh, transformers to, to the punch.
And I want to say yes.
Ooh.
Interesting.
Okay.
I want to, I want to say yes.
I'm trying to see what year that came out.
Uh, maybe I can, if I click on it in 1986.
So it's about two years.
This one in particular is two years after transformers came out and devastated or came
out in series too.
Right.
Yes.
So, uh, I'm not sure.
So that's, so yeah.
So we have this one combiner showing on screen here.
So it's like a monster.
It's pretty good detail.
I think it's, it's pretty nice.
Go ahead.
No, for any, there are 86.
They said that came on 86.
Yeah.
This particular one came on 86.
The transformers already flooded with, um, flooded with, um,
Devastator, Devastator, Computron.
86.
Yeah.
86.
Yeah, I guess so.
But we came on 86.
So, um, so, okay.
So it's made out of, this was made out of what?
Six monsters also.
I still think they probably could have stole it.
I think they still, they sold it, they stole them from here.
I like it.
It's pretty cool.
Details at the best.
What do you guys think on detail?
So for back then, for back then, this came out in 86, right?
Yes.
Okay.
Devastator came out in 85.
So this is the reason why I never remembered the combiners when it comes to GoBats because
by then transformers has already taken the market and I've already seen what a real combiner
is.
You get me?
So that's the reason why I never knew there was a combiner is when it comes to GoBats.
So for this time, for the GoBats, I don't think it's bad.
I think it's okay.
Now the other one that I like, I enjoyed that.
I like puzzler.
Yes.
Because it's just the way the cars transformed and it was all cars and the cars themselves
are pretty cool looking.
Yes.
Because again, one thing I do like about this is very realistic looking vehicles.
So that's one of my favorite.
The names are terrible, but very.
Yeah.
Tic Tac, Pocket, Jigsaw, Crossword, Zigzag, and Rube.
I was going to say, is that Rube?
Is that what I'm saying?
Rube?
Yes.
Rube.
Yeah.
It's a renegade giant robot.
Yes.
Is that a hero?
I don't know what that means.
Because the good guys were guardians and bad guys were renegades.
That's why.
So wait a minute.
So puzzler was a bad guy?
Yes.
I did not know that.
Okay.
Excuse me.
So that's cool.
I mean, robot mode, very simple.
Yes.
You got to love that.
Very simple.
And then into leg mode, because he's a leg, I'm looking at Rube now.
He's just again, pretty straightforward.
Just bend the hood and his head, his head is a connector.
Yes.
So.
And I like this time.
I thought they did a good job.
I think so too.
Yes.
I definitely like the puzzler better than the, than the monster one.
I'm not a fan of it all.
Now the, moving on to the power suit.
So that came out in 85.
It's that that's basically a combiner.
Yes.
Never had it.
Never had it though.
I had it later in life.
Did you?
Nice.
What does that mean?
Like what's like a, as a teen as like six months ago.
As a 90, no 2000, 2010, I bought it off of eBay.
I had the full collection.
Get a full of, of six of them.
No, five of them, five courageous and the four power suits with no go box.
That's exactly how it looks.
That's what I had.
Please tell me you still have it, buddy.
Nope.
So you lost it in the, in the storage.
Oh, damn man.
That's a shame.
Cause that is, that is actually pretty cool.
I've never had any of these power suits.
I remember the power suits from the cartoon, I believe you know what I mean, but I've never
had any.
So help me out here.
The power suits are like robots and then the robots go inside the robots.
No, the power suits are like power suits.
The go box will go inside the power suits.
The only courageous is the only robot in the middle, but he is, what is he?
He is a, a joy, I guess, because he doesn't speak.
He's just the middle.
Okay.
Rich is a spaceship, right?
Yes.
And then you have the, you have the, the, the extremity or the, the limbs, right?
The arms and legs.
And then there's a particular go bot that goes into each piece.
Yeah.
And you, you can, you can fit anyone into any of them.
That was the thing.
You go with any go bot into any, any power suit.
Yeah.
So it wasn't like the right arm had to go with leader one, the left arm had to go with
scooter.
The leg had to go with turbo.
Any go bot will fit in there.
But they're not really in the cartoon, they're not controlling them.
Yeah.
I need it.
I need education here on this.
Are they like power rangers inside of Zoey?
No.
Because they're not in, they're not inside courageous.
For him to walk.
Okay.
Right there.
That's just a suit.
That's an ectosuit.
For him to walk.
Okay.
A person, a person in power suit one would move forward for him to shoot the person in
the arm would shoot the limbs were independent and they work together at the same time.
So courageous.
So courageous was just the body.
Just the body.
Yeah.
Was just a vessel.
Was just a vessel to hold the arms and the legs together to create this big robot.
And courageous is a good guy, I'm assuming.
Yes.
That's the white one in blue.
Yes.
And the darker color one, which I think is called pretty or something like that.
Grungy.
That's what I'm talking about.
Yeah.
That's the bad guy.
So, okay.
And they're basically the same thing though.
Yes.
Different color.
That's all.
Different color.
Change them up a little bit.
But he's also a spaceship.
And just a little different.
I think the heads a little different on the courageous one.
No, no, they're exactly the same.
Well, that's kind of boring.
As a fan, that's kind of boring.
Not very creative for its times.
You know what I mean?
Just why reinvent the wheel if I don't have to?
You know what I mean?
Let me just give it a different page out.
Call it a bad guy and people will buy it.
Okay.
I'm trying to see if there's any other combiners and trying to prove that this came out.
Combiners came out first for Golbats.
No.
I'm going to tell you right now.
I bet you I promise you it's Transformers and it was Devastator.
Because Devastator was the first combiner.
Well, I think there was somebody before.
Well, Devastator was something else before Devastator.
For Transformers?
Not for Transformers, but it was a toy.
There were combiners before.
Maybe for another series, but we're talking about Transformers.
Yeah.
No, Transformers.
Devastator was the first combiner and he came out in 85.
And they were sold in individual carded, like Gigi Ejo's.
And it wasn't in a box.
Okay.
Now, all right.
So, and again, I'm just going to go, you guys educating me.
So who's a good guy?
Who's a leader here?
Leader one, the jet, that one right there.
That was a very creative name.
Not a very creative name.
Yeah.
But you know what though?
When my prime did not have his trailer, my leader one would sit on his back and he would
be like the bird from, what's more, from Speed Racer, you know, that came out of the front.
They're ready to score everything.
That's what leader one would do for Optimus Prime.
Wow.
Yeah.
All right.
So it's an F-14 Tomcat.
Amen.
He got the cool name.
Yeah, leader one.
And you can transform them in two steps.
Oh, sorry.
Yeah.
Five steps.
There's five steps.
To transform them.
Not bad.
Goombas were the easiest thing in the world to transform it.
They really were.
And how big, how big would you say he is?
I would say about a Joe side of three and three fourths.
Yeah.
I was just going to say three inches.
Okay.
Came on 83.
Not bad.
Did he talk weird in the cartoons?
No, that was, that was scooter.
That was scooter that was freaking annoying.
What kind of, what vehicle was scooter?
They had the auto tune before auto tune kind of voice for.
That's what it is.
Yes.
So I'm trying to find scooter here.
Scooter is literally a scooter.
There is one thing.
Just 27.
27.
Checking, looking, processing, processing, processing.
Okay.
There it is.
He was super, he was super lame in the cartoon and the toy.
But I had it.
Is this bumblebee?
What's he bumblebee?
No, that's more like Toby from freaking, what's my color from mask?
I'm not going to say that.
Okay.
I am not going to say nothing because he's trying to push my button.
Me?
Never.
Snarl?
Is it like snarl from Thundercats?
Snarf.
No, he was snarf.
Snarf, sorry.
Yeah.
Snarl.
I got confused with animals and transformers.
So much pop culture in my head.
There is buddy, there is.
But no, he was super lame.
He was super lame.
In the cartoon and the toy.
Yeah.
For some reason I want to punch him in the face.
I guess so.
Thank you.
Looking at his toy.
Thank you.
I want to punch him in the face.
How did you do that?
I want to punch him in the face.
How are you going to be a freaking good guy and be a freaking scooter, bro?
A scooter of all things.
Well, it could be worse.
You know how pissed I would be if I ended up with a fucking robot body like that.
I'll be super pissed.
It could be worse.
You could be binoculars.
Right here.
Binoc.
So easy.
Yeah, but that doesn't transform though, man.
He does.
He does transform.
Does it?
Yeah.
Where is he?
There he is right here.
Yes, I would rather be scooter than freaking binoculars.
Oh my God.
I definitely don't remember this.
I think they were working binoculars, by the way.
Yeah, they were.
For toy versions, but yeah.
Oh my God, that is so lame.
But it's kind of cool because it looks like a regular, like an accessory.
It's not cool.
Thank you.
I'm with D on this.
So that is not cool at all, man.
There's no way we can make that cool.
Eight year old you?
Nope.
I know better.
Me too.
I ain't got a life.
I'm sorry.
I would have done one of these.
Yeah.
All right.
No.
So the squirt gun.
Yeah, I never even knew these things were around, man.
Yeah, I knew it was around.
I can't, they don't even have a robot mode to show the picture.
So squirt gun.
I wonder if it hold water for real.
I think it hold water.
And this was called cap pistol.
Guess what it was?
A pistol.
It was a pistol.
I can see the arms and I know the legs.
And his head.
I'm just, I'm going to go to the limb here and right here, the tip.
It's just a robot.
I think it's just a robot bent over.
That's all it is, bro.
Yeah.
Holding his ass.
It's a robot was getting a prostate exam.
Exactly.
Open wide.
Just relax.
Breathe in.
And breathe out.
And then there's the cap rifle with the RoboScope.
Look at him.
This is his arms.
He's just, he's doing the YMCA for his YMCA.
And his legs are locked into each other.
They're upside down.
This is one foot and here's the other foot.
It's pretty creative.
I know you're not a fan.
No, not at all.
Not at all.
His, this is his arm.
That's gotta be the head, bro.
Arms and his legs.
One's inverted backwards to the other.
Why am I getting.
Robot from last and space wise.
Right.
The head.
Yes.
The head around the head.
Like a flash Gordon gun.
Yeah.
There's the scope.
And there's the scope.
That's a bucket head.
And then they had another.
What is this?
A destroyer.
What is that?
Doesn't make any sense.
It's a ship, but.
Well, I see the army said I see the feet.
It doesn't make any sense though.
What do you.
Like everything else is realistic.
Everything is like a real stick.
They could hold like a binoculars and gun.
And then you come with this stupid ship.
Yeah.
They ran out of ideas.
They did.
They did completely.
Like a real.
They did completely.
Like what else can we make?
We need at least one more.
Yeah.
We need at least like, hey, what, what, what, what.
What's all you got back there?
The transforms.
Man, I got this stupid boat.
Let's bring them in.
Now I know, I know Dwayne likes, I know Dwayne likes this sucker.
I've never had that.
It walked.
Did.
So it actually walked on a zombie.
He had batteries.
I know that much.
Oh, nice.
And.
It had lights flashing lights.
A long worn secret strategy chamber.
Can hold up to 12 go but.
And it's a computer center.
Yes.
And it was a carrying case.
It's a holder.
Yeah.
So it turns into a base and then it turns into a walker.
Oh, that face.
And that's that.
That's just stupid.
And at the same time, it's a carrying case.
And it's a carrying case.
I think it's pretty cool.
See, but yeah, but look at, look at that face like that.
With the nose and.
Oh God, no.
Did they have a bad guy?
One of this.
D.
Right.
Everybody just waits for Dwayne.
I wonder if they had a bad guy.
One.
I don't think they did.
Let's take a look here.
Super gold box guardian headquarters.
I don't know what that is and thruster.
Yeah.
And D, if you're speaking, we can't hear you, buddy.
Just to let you know.
Yeah.
This is thruster.
This is the renegade.
Here you go.
This is the, the, the command one.
Oh, that's the bad guys version.
Yeah.
And see if they have it in.
I'm not sure if you can see it here.
So this one's a jet.
The other ones are Walker.
Yeah.
It's up.
There you go.
They both.
Yeah, they both sit up, right?
Secret.
Secret trap door.
It comes with a motion detector.
Oh, look, motion detector wave sounds.
Oh, that's what the waves are in the, on the picture.
Powerful gripper hand crush crushes go bots in a deadly grip.
All the hands grab.
I think I have that here.
Let me see if I have it.
I think I saw it.
I see.
No, this one doesn't show it.
I was trying to find another one, but you see zoom in a little bit.
The more I zoom in, the smaller it gets.
But it was pretty cool.
And then working elevator moves go bots to all battle stations.
That's not bad.
Not bad.
I find this very, this one I find interesting.
Yes.
Do you want to see the commercial for it?
You have it.
All right, show it.
Let's make it happen.
Captain.
Stop talking.
You just stop talking, sir.
The anticipation.
I know, right?
This is thruster.
Cycles renegade go bot headquarters.
Your parents put it together for the blade batteries.
Nothing.
Cycle go but so separately thruster can even catch moving go box.
I was stuck until everybody.
Hey, that's a grip right there.
Neither will you scooter.
Truster.
Cycler scooter each sold separately new from Tonka.
Shit, we would call toys in the eighties.
That wasn't bad though.
Thank you.
I think that's great.
I thought that was pretty good.
Yes, compared to what would be comparison for that?
Metroplex.
Yeah, Metroplex.
What's the dinosaur one?
Chypticon.
So compared to that, like, no.
No.
I mean, that does well, Chypticon walked.
That's what I'm saying.
It's basically.
Yeah.
And Omega Supreme had the little tank that went around.
Yeah.
I'm saying compared to that is like out of the league.
Is that I got blew out of the league.
Now, so I thought it was good.
I thought it was kind of cool.
I thought so too.
I was actually impressed by that.
Right.
And you know how it is impressive.
Nope.
I'm not sure.
That's very true.
It's very hard.
Especially these things on that in HD.
Oh, yeah.
I forgot.
All right.
I kill.
I had him.
That was that was that was the Megatron.
For the bad guys.
Really.
Who will be in a who will win in a battle.
Oh, Megatron 100%.
There's there's there's there's like hands down, man.
I mean, bumblebee can kick his ass.
You know what I mean?
Really?
Yeah.
He looks so small.
Oh, Roli, they were tiny, dude.
They were tiny.
No, but relatively speaking, this is a bad guy going up against a jet.
As you remember, he was.
That wasn't super.
That wasn't super cycle.
That was regular cycle.
So he's like three, three inches long, three to four inches long.
And then you have to stand about three and three quarters tall.
So then you had super cycle who was almost seven to eight inches tall.
Yep.
And I remember the engine is what held the body and the legs together.
By looking at this picture, I remember that now.
Yeah, because I broke, I broke the holding part for the debt.
I pulled that.
I broke that great, great part of the top.
Couldn't use the top.
Yep.
And every time I play with it, his, his, his legs would just go backwards.
Yeah.
Yeah, but go back really.
Okay.
To the engine.
The engine.
Yes.
Coming now.
There you go.
So you see that top part goes into the chest and then on the back, those two,
those two slots right there, that was at the, no, behind it.
Oh, okay.
And then the wheels and then to put on there yourself.
Right.
But I don't remember if the wheels were rubber or not.
Yes, they were.
Yeah, they were rubber.
They were, they looked rubber.
Yeah.
So to get them into robot mode, I mean, vehicle mode, you gotta get,
he's gotta get in his knees.
He does.
Get on your knees bitch and pray.
That's it.
But he was a cool trans, but he was a cool go about though.
The way it looked, the way it transformed, he, he was actually prepared and pretty cool
with it.
I don't, I don't, you know what I mean?
I don't hate him.
I think he's pretty cool here.
Like this is right here.
condition looks pretty damn good.
So, so I don't hate him.
I just think as a, as the villain, the main villain, it should be,
it's a motorcycle going up against a 14.
Yeah.
So kind of the opposite of the Autobots and the Decepticons because the Decepticons
fly, you know what I mean?
This one, there was just a mixture of everything rolling.
This was just a mixture of everything.
The Autobots flew for one episode.
So, yep, the first one, that's it.
And then they told him, why, why, they're Autobots, their cars.
Why are you gonna make them fly?
Exactly.
And they fixed it.
Yeah.
Oh, and they have them and they have, they came in multiple colors.
Yes.
It's got a cool paint job.
So, the motorcycle.
Yeah.
All right.
Now the ones that I had are all lame.
Number one, I had, where is it?
I had any time spoons.
Oh, lame for sure.
That's super lame.
Just a bottle.
You had a bottle?
It's a forklift.
No, it's a forklift.
Forklift.
Then I also had, it's another construction one.
Does it, does it, does it?
No, you did not.
Okay.
That was that bad.
Without, without any accessories though.
See, they have the little roof right there.
Oh my God.
So I had him, I thought, I swear, I thought he was a transformer though.
I got a lie.
You probably thought it was how to call a bone pressure.
He's a transformer.
What do you mean?
He transforms.
Technically is a transformer.
Then the other one that I had were all super from there on.
So I had the super.
So the, the one I remember the most is psycho.
I had him.
Yeah.
With the little people in the car.
Yep.
So I had him.
I thought it was super cool looking.
Until you turn them into a robot.
Yeah.
That's, that was the main part,
especially when the little,
I had the little,
the little,
the little big size.
Especially when the little ass legs,
but the big thighs reminds me of.
You know what I mean?
That's messed up.
He had no hands either.
They were like little,
little freaking clamps.
Yeah.
So I had him.
So I had Baron von Joy.
And again,
very racist name.
The column because the Baron von Joy,
because he's German.
Was he a Nazi?
Yeah.
I don't have him doing the hands to Lou,
but I think he might be.
So,
And his gun was so freaking lame, dude.
Yeah.
Double barrel guns.
I was so.
That that could fit on the roof.
Where can't feel on the roof.
Yeah.
They clip on the clip on it.
Okay.
I get it now.
They clip on each side.
Yeah.
That's the clip on each side.
And I think that's all I had.
Really?
Oh, wow.
I definitely had more than you guys then.
Yes, you did.
For once I was ahead of the curve here.
For once I was ahead of the curve.
So which any, which, which other figures you guys.
I do like, I do like bug bite.
No, really good detail of a bug.
Obviously no, no face or anything, but.
But is it me when he's a robot in his hands?
It looks like, come on.
I'm not sure.
But it's not me.
I don't know what that means.
The robot in his hands.
It looks like, come on.
Come on.
Come to me.
Oh, he's Italian.
What's going on.
What's going on?
I like how his legs are, are shocks.
Shocker sorbers.
Oh, I just noticed that.
Okay.
So my question.
My question is, why is his gun.
Over his face.
It's his glasses.
It's his glasses and his gun.
It's like, it's like a scope, you know, like a laser scope.
And the gun.
Yes.
Where he looks, he shoots.
You know, you can't, you can't miss.
You can't miss if you're shooting, where you're looking.
That's true.
So, but I did enjoy that one.
But other than that, I'm not really fond of any really,
nothing else is jumping out to me other than the fact that
these look like the actual vehicles they're supposed to be
representing.
Yeah.
Your professional opinions as, as, as guardians of the toy
world, why transformers so for, what?
Sorry.
I know it's you, Frank.
It's always you.
Actually, it was.
That was me.
See that?
And at the top of that, you even had a shock face.
So, in your opinion, why, why transformers?
Overgobots.
Number one, why for you personally, because I know we all
like transformers overgobots.
I don't know why I got into transformers overgobots, but I
think you guys do.
I can tell you size.
The way they looked, they were for me, they were more
detailed.
There were more.
For me.
Yes.
They were more again, this is for me, right?
Um,
it was just for freaking awesome, dude.
I don't know.
I mean, they really were.
They were bigger.
They were better looking.
They transformed better.
You're a mean.
They had more weapons.
The weapons looked better than from what I remember from
go box.
You're on a main.
And I think it was just better made, dude.
You know what I mean?
That's what I loved about transformers.
That's what, that's what took me.
See, megatron is a gun that actually transform even though
back then I thought it was the coolest thing in the world.
Now I mean, I know how lame it looks, but it's still cool.
Sound is actually a freaking concept that open.
It was a tiny, it was a tiny cassette.
It was a tiny.
Come on, man.
So I had a problem.
I did have a problem with that, with the size comparison
because those two, but, um, I don't know about transforming.
They look better.
They have more detail.
I mean, besides Megatron, but look at some of the other,
like the cars, they're very simple, just as simple as this.
True.
But even, even if you look at, even if you compare Bumblebee,
the watch, the mini, compared to even robots, they still look
better, dude.
No, I mean, they still look better.
I disagree.
Let's do it.
I would say that if you compare, unlike any of the more
experienced motorcycles, they do look better, right?
I'd say that regardless of their size, a size by size
comparison.
Okay.
Before you do that, the reason, the reason that they were
technically better is because transformers came on five days
a week go box was only Saturday morning.
Was it?
Yes.
So you are, you are flooded with.
one day a week.
Okay. Along with. So you think you, you, so you think because they were always in the face, the kids face.
Yep. And they were, and they were better detailed. The, I grew at Frank, the size and
the ease of the transformations for the transformers versus the go box that I contributed, but I think it's
transformers on five days a week. Just like how GIG was on five days a week. And go box was only on for one day.
That wasn't because I did not know that buddy.
All right. So let's, let's compare. Let me share my screen here. So this is G1 Bumblebee.
Okay.
See that. Okay.
And you think it looks awesome detail wise.
No, no, he did.
No. Thank you.
Bumblebee looks awesome.
Don't go. Don't, don't talk with your heart. Don't talk with your heart. Now pick. Let's pick one.
Okay. Okay.
I'll pick a, let me pick a random one here.
You're not going to pick a random one. You have one already in mind.
No, not not.
No, not.
Stalin.
What a name.
There's, I can't really freaking zoom in, but you can see him right here.
Come on.
That is lame.
Just as lame as freaking.
No, Bumblebee is better.
Bumblebee is better.
And this guy had, this guy had hands.
Bumblebee does too.
No, he doesn't. He has tires.
He's got hands.
He has tires.
He has hands.
He has fists.
Doesn't have.
Thank you.
Okay. This was a bad one.
That's a lame button.
That's super lame.
But look good in robot and vehicle form.
But shitty in robot mode.
Bumblebee looks good in vehicle mode and robot mode.
He looks shitty in robot mode.
Look at this thing.
Look how cool that looks, man.
No.
Yeah.
That's a bug.
No, again, we're not, I'm not trying to take your, your childhood away from you.
You are. You're trying to.
I'm not just kidding.
You see that, you see that little Bumblebee?
That's a Bumblebee.
That's not a Bumblebee, bro.
That's the one that fricking puts his gun in front of his face.
Yeah, but so you could shoot better.
Look, look, look, look.
He's fat up top with his little ass legs.
Wow.
The slander.
The slander, I tell you the slander.
So, but I, I kind of, I, I kind of like the, the way that, that,
that constantly in your face.
And I think they had a better marketing.
I think that could be the reason why.
And they were better toys because they just dropped off the face of the
earth.
I mean, apparently according to what we saw, they have like three year, three almost,
they go all the way to like what, 87 something like that.
They go all the way to 87.
I don't remember them going that far.
I remember just that one year when they first came out and I swear God, I thought they dropped.
Yeah.
Because we were doing Kmart one day.
They, I'm pretty sure they were.
I don't remember stores.
I'm just, I'm just a baby.
I don't know what stores were at.
I'm just a baby.
All right.
To round up, to finish off, we have a couple of commercials that I want to share that we
want to share with you guys.
Let's see.
Let's see if there, let's see if their commercials are any better than, than the
transformer ones.
When we do the transformers edition one, you'll see.
We'll see.
We shall see.
They appear to be mighty robots, but you have a mighty beast.
Hot rod.
No.
Thank you.
Neither one.
No.
It's not either one.
Well, I had that one.
That's neither one.
Look how easy it is to transform.
Look at the detail in that.
That's what.
Destroyer.
I remember destroyer.
I remember him.
Yeah, but those were the cartoons, man.
Those were the cartoons.
Challenge of the gold box.
Look at the face.
You're gonna find two, man.
Look at your favorite.
Scooter calling leader one.
You see how long the voice is?
Yeah.
You better get down here.
Turbo's been hit.
I read your scooter.
Can someone tell me what's going on here?
I don't think we have time.
One for the chicken.
Allow me.
There's a girl.
There's a little stick and everything, bro.
The purple thing probably.
My force field can only give us temporary protection.
No, it didn't take any temporary.
Save yourself.
See that?
Those three were always together, Broly.
Those three were always together.
You know what I mean?
But the one thing I thought was lame was when Psycho,
because again, you know how I'm about the bad guys.
You gotta represent the bad guys right.
Every time Psycho was in vehicle mode,
the way you can see his face, look up.
You know what I mean?
That part always drove me nuts.
It's very dumb.
His face is always constantly staring at you.
Dude, no, no, man.
You know how I'm about people representing my bad guys
the right way.
You know what I mean?
He has to look up because he couldn't see you, man.
What's wrong with you?
But you know what, though?
None of them can see it because all the faces,
the faces are always down, but they still manage, right?
But not him.
He had to look up.
He always had to look up.
I didn't like that part.
Yeah, right?
Why doesn't everybody else have a face?
Thank you.
But him, he had to have a face.
All right.
Scooter used to look up to.
Did he?
Did he in vehicle mode?
Yes.
Scooter's face was on the front of it, looking that way.
Okay.
The toy wasn't like that, but in the cartoon it was.
I wouldn't be surprised, my friend.
I would not be surprised.
All right.
So we do have a rating system when it comes to our toy additions.
Right?
We have the first one, which is collect, which means that we
owned it when we were younger and we would actually own it again.
We'll have another category that's called flip, which means we
would buy it, but just to sell it.
And then we have a pass, which is, yeah, I would never own this
at all.
All right.
So I'm going to go first.
For me, I'm going to call this one collect.
Even though I'm more of a fan of transformers, because it does
bring back a lot of good memories.
Because for me, this was my first ever transforming type of toy.
It brings back still a lot of good memories.
So if they would come out with this toy again, I would actually
collect it.
So I give it a collect for myself.
Roli, how about you?
I, I mean, I'm going to say ditto on yours because yes, I would, I
would collect them.
I'll collect the original ones because I enjoy them the way they
look.
You know, I like the details.
I still think they're better detailed than transformers.
Disagree, but I get you.
Yeah, especially the first wave.
Come on.
Ironhide has no face either.
Or ratchet.
That's true.
All right.
Sorry.
They did have a face.
Then they have it.
Was it a sticker?
It was a sticker.
I didn't put this picture on.
Sorry.
Behind the windshield.
Yeah.
No, I don't think anybody, you got only nerds put on stickers.
If you put it listeners, if you guys put a sticker on, tell us
no, let us know in the comments so we can call you nerds.
Yes, please.
No, I'm just kidding.
I'm going to call you nerds.
Nerds.
So I enjoy it if they made, if I mean, obviously, you know, for
me, everything has to be price has a particular price point.
Yes.
But if it, if they redid them, I would definitely, there's a
couple I would probably get.
Not too many.
I would probably rather collect the originals than any new,
new series that comes out.
Okay.
Nice.
Love that.
All right.
How about you buddy?
Since I only had a limited amount.
This would be a flip for me.
I will collect leader one.
Cycle.
And the power suits.
I get everything else.
I'll flip them.
I'll buy them.
Yeah.
Okay.
I'm really digging the bases, those command centers.
Me too.
And I would not mind own owning puzzler.
I thought that was a cool combiner.
I think so too.
Yeah.
No freaking watch.
That's the one to be stunt.
But whatever.
You know what I mean?
That's exactly what it is.
All right.
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Boop, boop, boop, insert.
Transformers are the best.
Yeah, they are.
We both agree.
Yes.
That's how it's a way for Duane to finish this.