I am shook that that swindle is there. Perfect proportions , amazing articulation, seamless, cartoon to screen without goofy proportions. Honestly he fits right in with fanstoys newer bots and takara
Completely agree with your crowning of #1 best. I was nervous going with XTB knowing how painful some of their transformations have been in the past. This guy was fun to transform. 👍🏻
MMC's figures are making me want to get another combiner, but I want to wait until all 5 figures are out since I've had to many combiners I've started that almost never got finished. Its hard to be excited when you don't know if it will get done. I must say FT Menasor has really left me jaded about combiners. MoonStudio Raiden I said was the last combiner I'd get, but I'm very interested in Magic Square Bruticus and MMCs Defensor as I don't have any representation of those in my collection outside of Generation Toys versions.
My figure of the year is the missing link Optimus prime the toy version. It was so good and I find myself looking at it and messing with it so much that it made me buy the MP44S to have as a companion piece to show the differences on how far the figure has come but with the same aesthetic. I keep looking at all the new stuff I bought this year and I think the missing link was probably the best one so far for me
5:54 ...but their MP scale Optimus Prime 2.0 (Light of Peace) exists, and that's an upscale of their Legends scale Optimus Prime 2.0 (Light of Victory). 15:23 Idk about the intimidating part, but they absosmurfinlutely made Long Haul look cool. Maybe moreso than what NewAge & Magic Square did.
What happened to the Transformers comic reviews man that was some good stuff I know you said you wouldn’t do it if you didn’t get enough backing, but that was great when you did those transformer reviews on those transformer IDW’s
Been a while Uncle Skullface, been out of the loop because of life and work. So 3rd party is still a thing I see, since your still chugging along. Has the 3rd party pool gotten better? I think I tapped out in 21 or 22. Gonna have to find one of your sitdown videos and see if the collection around the table has changed.
Fanstoys Scourge is your #2 best? I got him after hokding a preorder for about 3 years and it is a good figure nut nothing really outstanding compared to other Fanstoys releases. Maybe if they'd gotten the wings to be the right shape it could have belonged on a top 5 list. Or if the backpack wasnt such a mess. As it is, I'm happy to have it over XTB's Scourge but overall I found the figure to be "fine" and not "great."
Glad to see the Mech Invasion duo and SS86 OP on here, they're both making my top 10 and top 5 respectively. I'm still flip-flopping between the ss86 figure being number one or Newage's DotM Megs. If you do end up reviewing it later down the line, pleasepleaseplease use something like Emgo's JTI... it's a surprisingly well-designed transformation but the included instructions do NOT do it any favors.
my top 3 of the year are FT scourge, all of the IF liokaiser so far, and FT magnus. FT magnus has quickly become my favorite figure (besides FT cyclonus), I LOVE the white inner prime, the proportions and presence are perfect
I’m going to throw this out there not sure if you took a look at it but the Newage Duel (Another DoTM Megatron) is amazing! I grew up with the bayverse and that figure is the most expensive figure I own and it is absolutely amazing. If you have the chance to review it you should!
Remarkable! Xtransbot's Long Haul is the figure of the year!! Despite other reviewers not recommending. Thank you for not letting others sway your opinion.
Oh, man. I had completely forgotten about the Wonderful Trans figure. That's how disappointing it was to me. I was so impressed that a figure that stylized could transform that I had to buy it... Turns out, there's a reason it seemed impossible. It was. I tried to transform it ONE time, and that was ENOUGH.
I couldn't disagree more with some of your choices this year, I actually like the Wonderful-Trans WT02 Sky Atlas, I know they took the bot mode design from Flame Toys (it seems that was what got to you the most and I get it I normally don't go for KOs too but in this case they made it transform so... when you think about it almost all the Transforming action figure companies are getting the designs from somewhere be it a cartoon a comic or a game) and the transformation is not an easy one but the build quality, the materials, the articulation and the fact it can transform from a great looking very well articulated bot mode to a very good alt mode did it for me. I also like the MS Swindle, I get why you don´t like it since you don't like cartoon accurate transformers, as you yourself said so many times, but apart from the side skirts I think it's a very good TF action figure. I also can't understand what you like so much about that Mechanical Skull Studio Sirius, there are so many other Legends scaled figures released by NA and MS that in my opinion are so much better. Please don't take this the wrong way we're all entitled to our choices and I know this is your personal choices.
I didnt score too badly this year. Most years the 'most disappointing' and 'worst' are a list of my purchases for the year, but this year I have only two in 'disappointing' and none in the other categories. I would have scored better if I wasnt waiting for the toy versions of the MMC Protectobots. My worst TF of 2024 is very easy; Transform and Roll Out Cybertron Prime, first release. Just posing it resulted in it shedding limbs and fingers across the floor. Terrible, terrible release, and I am not sure if the second release being better makes it worse or better.....
It's not. It's done by Hasbro there is an interview w/ Hasbro about it on Shartimus Prime's channel & they speak about the engineers by name. Shocking I know
Watching Bobby Skullface videos and then complaining about his dislike of toon accuracy, is like walking into McDonalds and complaining they mainly serve hamburgers. Come on, you know what you are getting into and if you like toon accuracy, find a reviewer who agrees with your sensibilities.
@ I don’t need him to agree with me but the constant complaining about the toon design when that is specific what the toy is trying to do is tiresome. It is like complaint about horses not having wings
Swindle and runabout? Love both of mine Hot spot is a bit weird The legs are great The head is great The body in combined mode is rubbish its all over the place Too wide not cartoon at all on the chest And those arms are far to big in bot mode Xtb hotspot looks the best even though i really hate groove and streetwise They suck bad
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@6:25 Footage for MMC Groove at No# 2 is missing (black screen)
Your welcome for the Long Haul. Keith and I REALLY worked hard on this.
I see what you did there.
Can't wait for SS86 Devastator
Thank you Bobby Merry Christmas to you and your girls. You are the best
Where groove at?
He’s just out grooving
@@shadowbird yeah he just groovin along
"How Bobby got his groove back."
Fade to Black was a great song but I wouldn't call it Groovy.
He came out too late in the year to add to this list, so he got moved to next year
I am shook that that swindle is there. Perfect proportions , amazing articulation, seamless, cartoon to screen without goofy proportions. Honestly he fits right in with fanstoys newer bots and takara
Poorly built and designed hips. Disappointing after brawl but not a bad figure.
Definitely glad these are still on the channel!
Completely agree with your crowning of #1 best. I was nervous going with XTB knowing how painful some of their transformations have been in the past. This guy was fun to transform. 👍🏻
Nice too see Long Haul win it all for once.
Been looking forward to this one, Bobby never dissapoints.
MMC's figures are making me want to get another combiner, but I want to wait until all 5 figures are out since I've had to many combiners I've started that almost never got finished. Its hard to be excited when you don't know if it will get done. I must say FT Menasor has really left me jaded about combiners. MoonStudio Raiden I said was the last combiner I'd get, but I'm very interested in Magic Square Bruticus and MMCs Defensor as I don't have any representation of those in my collection outside of Generation Toys versions.
What happened at the 6:28 mark?
My figure of the year is the missing link Optimus prime the toy version. It was so good and I find myself looking at it and messing with it so much that it made me buy the MP44S to have as a companion piece to show the differences on how far the figure has come but with the same aesthetic. I keep looking at all the new stuff I bought this year and I think the missing link was probably the best one so far for me
5:54 ...but their MP scale Optimus Prime 2.0 (Light of Peace) exists, and that's an upscale of their Legends scale Optimus Prime 2.0 (Light of Victory).
15:23 Idk about the intimidating part, but they absosmurfinlutely made Long Haul look cool. Maybe moreso than what NewAge & Magic Square did.
What happened to the Transformers comic reviews man that was some good stuff I know you said you wouldn’t do it if you didn’t get enough backing, but that was great when you did those transformer reviews on those transformer IDW’s
Each time i see Mudflap or Skids from the Bayverse i try to imagine what the heck they were smoking when they designed those heads.
Been a while Uncle Skullface, been out of the loop because of life and work. So 3rd party is still a thing I see, since your still chugging along. Has the 3rd party pool gotten better? I think I tapped out in 21 or 22. Gonna have to find one of your sitdown videos and see if the collection around the table has changed.
i can't believe i didn't see the Sunstreaker (video game, hasbro)...was that 2023? i love that vehicle
The fact that Runnabouts foot broke on the majority of people’s copy including mine make it the most disappointing for my.
6:41 I’m just not seeing it… amirite!?! 😂
Fanstoys Scourge is your #2 best? I got him after hokding a preorder for about 3 years and it is a good figure nut nothing really outstanding compared to other Fanstoys releases. Maybe if they'd gotten the wings to be the right shape it could have belonged on a top 5 list. Or if the backpack wasnt such a mess. As it is, I'm happy to have it over XTB's Scourge but overall I found the figure to be "fine" and not "great."
Totally agree. Kind of a let down considering how awesome FT's Cyclonus is.
Glad to see the Mech Invasion duo and SS86 OP on here, they're both making my top 10 and top 5 respectively. I'm still flip-flopping between the ss86 figure being number one or Newage's DotM Megs. If you do end up reviewing it later down the line, pleasepleaseplease use something like Emgo's JTI... it's a surprisingly well-designed transformation but the included instructions do NOT do it any favors.
Came for the groove, stayed for the black screen.
my top 3 of the year are FT scourge, all of the IF liokaiser so far, and FT magnus. FT magnus has quickly become my favorite figure (besides FT cyclonus), I LOVE the white inner prime, the proportions and presence are perfect
I’m going to throw this out there not sure if you took a look at it but the Newage Duel (Another DoTM Megatron) is amazing! I grew up with the bayverse and that figure is the most expensive figure I own and it is absolutely amazing. If you have the chance to review it you should!
I bought Long Haul based on your recommendation and do not regret it a whit. Gonna be on my top 10 of the year too.
I really X-Transbots nail the other devastation bots. This would be my first Devy combiner. Love tour videos.
Remarkable! Xtransbot's Long Haul is the figure of the year!! Despite other reviewers not recommending. Thank you for not letting others sway your opinion.
Never have. Never will
All the paint on MMC Groove is jet black!!!
Oh, man. I had completely forgotten about the Wonderful Trans figure. That's how disappointing it was to me. I was so impressed that a figure that stylized could transform that I had to buy it... Turns out, there's a reason it seemed impossible. It was. I tried to transform it ONE time, and that was ENOUGH.
It's crazy that Keith can have longhaul and a bot with a litteral hole in it's chest in the same year. Thanks for everything this year Bobby.
I couldn't disagree more with some of your choices this year, I actually like the Wonderful-Trans WT02 Sky Atlas, I know they took the bot mode design from Flame Toys (it seems that was what got to you the most and I get it I normally don't go for KOs too but in this case they made it transform so... when you think about it almost all the Transforming action figure companies are getting the designs from somewhere be it a cartoon a comic or a game) and the transformation is not an easy one but the build quality, the materials, the articulation and the fact it can transform from a great looking very well articulated bot mode to a very good alt mode did it for me. I also like the MS Swindle, I get why you don´t like it since you don't like cartoon accurate transformers, as you yourself said so many times, but apart from the side skirts I think it's a very good TF action figure. I also can't understand what you like so much about that Mechanical Skull Studio Sirius, there are so many other Legends scaled figures released by NA and MS that in my opinion are so much better. Please don't take this the wrong way we're all entitled to our choices and I know this is your personal choices.
Uh, wasn't Mechanical Alliance Soundwave released a few years ago?
I agree with the whole list 💯🙏🏾❤. Be blessed
I love the long haul too, hope the rest they do are just as good but that is unlikely given their track record
Thought I'd see Magnus
No footage on groove 😮. Be blessed
I didnt score too badly this year. Most years the 'most disappointing' and 'worst' are a list of my purchases for the year, but this year I have only two in 'disappointing' and none in the other categories. I would have scored better if I wasnt waiting for the toy versions of the MMC Protectobots.
My worst TF of 2024 is very easy; Transform and Roll Out Cybertron Prime, first release. Just posing it resulted in it shedding limbs and fingers across the floor. Terrible, terrible release, and I am not sure if the second release being better makes it worse or better.....
SS86 Steeljaw was so awful Toyhax wouldnt even support it. And it needed them the most.
Maybe they just didn’t get to him yet? I haven’t even seen him on shelves
I am still wondering why we never got an MP Blaster since they went through the trouble of making an MP Steeljaw mold.
lets be honest here.. That SS86 Optimus is probably mostly done by Takara designers T_T
It's not. It's done by Hasbro there is an interview w/ Hasbro about it on Shartimus Prime's channel & they speak about the engineers by name.
Shocking I know
@BIGLARRY100 yeah and the guy is tip toeing how much he / they at hasbro contributed to designing.
Wow! XTB topping the list! In what world are we now living!? :P It is an awesome figure indeed, nice to see some change in the 3rd party TF world!
Agree with long haul and scourge both great figures .
Dang bobby. I love atlas. The only thing i hate is the waist but damn good figure.
Groove has too much black paint on him. ;)
🤣🤣😭😭😭😭😭😭😭 soon as I seen raiden I bursted into tears lmao
Did you look at FT Gehry?
6:38 😎👨🏽🦯☕️
Top 3 is absolutely Spot on.
I like Swindle but agree with your criticism
Hotspot looks too plain imo
Im shocked by ms mp swindle def one of my favorite figures i got this yr a true mp imho. I guess its a case of one mans chicken is another mans steak.
MMC hot spot is a great figure.
Swindle is the best transformer of the year
The toon accuracy hate is getting tiresome
Yeah, but so is the hyper toon accuracy to be fair
Watching Bobby Skullface videos and then complaining about his dislike of toon accuracy, is like walking into McDonalds and complaining they mainly serve hamburgers. Come on, you know what you are getting into and if you like toon accuracy, find a reviewer who agrees with your sensibilities.
@ I don’t need him to agree with me but the constant complaining about the toon design when that is specific what the toy is trying to do is tiresome. It is like complaint about horses not having wings
He liked both Groove and Hot Spot and they're both super toon accurate, at least to me they are.
@@saysoun752 get the fuck out of here with these reasonable takes. 🤣
Surprising number 1,
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I actually liked the bot modes for the trainbots and think they scaled well if a little small but that combined mode is terrible.
Swindle and runabout?
Love both of mine
Hot spot is a bit weird
The legs are great
The head is great
The body in combined mode is rubbish its all over the place
Too wide not cartoon at all on the chest
And those arms are far to big in bot mode
Xtb hotspot looks the best even though i really hate groove and streetwise
They suck bad
Wow cang toys didn't get mentioned wow