I’ve always loved this guy when I was a kid. I’m Native American and I always loved the tribal Warrior aesthetic, and combination of two of our most sacred animals
Man, Silverbolt just gets weirder the more you think about him. He's a robot with a bear-shaped face that uses shortspears that explode and he transforms into a mishmash of Native American sacred animals and he has a Knight's theming.
The original Silverbolt was a masterpiece; show accurate, highly articulated, and still packed in an action feature. I'm glad to see this one living up to that legacy
They designed the toys first. The show was toy accurate-I guess at that point they were designing them better so the show didn't have to change it much.
This one does NOT live up to that l legacy. Missing teeth, legs and butt stick out further than his tail. Front legs should be positioned on the sides of the body NOT the under the head. HIS WINGS CAN'T EVEN GO BEHIND HIS HEAD LIKE THE ORIGINAL TOY!👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽💯
@@great159 Right! I thought about getting this when I saw it in the store, but still have the original and don't' really want to pay nearly $30 for it. They did a great job on the original and the CGI render of the show was very close to it, so it already matches the show (unlike, say, Rhinox, Blackarachnia, etc.).
I was hoping we'd get a new Silverbolt figure and can't wait to my copy when I order him today.. Shame they don't really do many figures with firing missiles any more (meaning no wing missile firing from the original toy) but still a very cool update
I just got mine delivered today. I had the original and he was my favorite back in the day. He was LONG overdue for an update. I'm very pleased with this one.
I'm surprised at how much simpler the transformation scheme is compared to the original toy. That whole back assembly doing a 180° for transformation was something I also wasn't expecting either.
yes another Beast War in the Legacy line and it’s Silverbolt so now theirs Rhinox, Cheetor, Rat Trap, Optimus Primal, Air Razor, Tigatron and many more ones i like to see from Beast Wars is another version of Arcee her Beast Wars self is based on a brown house spider for the Legacy line
I still have my original Silverbolt toy and can't wait to get a hold of the new Legacy version. I love the attention to detail such as the fake hinges by the shoulders. My only nitpick is that the tail is too short in beast mode. I get why because i can see robot mode is spot on, but i still hope a 3rd party upgrade kit will spruce it up a bit.
It looks and transforms very much like the original toy, which is one of my favorites from the BW line. Another of my favorites was used in the skit! Great stuff.
8:14 - The return of the dreaded Potus Manus! :O In all seriousness though, this is a great figure. I just get the feeling it's gonna be stupidly expensive.
I'm glad that Hasbro gave Silverbolt his own mode instead of being a repaint of the Tigerhawk mold with new head sculpts for the beast & robot modes. Also glad that Tigerhawk has own mold instead of being a repaint of the Silverbolt mold.
Hope he gets a BWVS paint job too, especially if they do decide to release a Quickstrike. Quickstrike would be very easy for them to do, hell even the original figure holds up pretty well with modern figures.
Ah, what a glorious figure! I'll get one eventually. Sadly to many pre orders from last year making me have to wait on getting him. Now all we need is to get his transmetal2 spider lady to go with him Then Emgo can make a parody scene of him going ballistic when he thinks she's dead. ...No wait we'll need a transmetal tarantulus for Silverbolt to obliterate for that scene. LOL
looks cool. has an interesting transformation. i guess he gives new meaning to having your head up your butt lolol not to keen on the buttfists. i feel they could have done something different. great review!!
Hey emgo, no idea if u have already addressed this but just wondering if a dream star silver bolt and can toys snarl review is on the way. Im desperately holding out for a ds Silverbolt JTI and am also interested on your thoughts with CT snarl.
Don’t have snarl yet and I’m in no rush to go through nightmare Silverbolt, but it’ll happen eventually. So what do you think of Silverbolt here? Any opinions you’d like to share on him? I’d like to hear them.
Yea I haven't even attempted the dream star silver bolt transformation so I totally get the hesitation, as far as legacy silver bolt goes he is actually going to be the last mainline figure I ever buy (im sticking to third party and masterpiece) as I want to complete my beast wars display. figure looks good and im excited to get him, although im all the way in Australia and have no idea if we are even getting him. The last few mainline waves have been really hard to come by down under. @@emgo316
Ah,, one of my favorites from Beast Wars. I admit to being a *little* disappointed with the new transformation, turning him around like that, but the new toy looks pretty good in both modes and it *is* a neat transformation. Might get him, not certain yet.
Finally!Another Silverbolt figure, It been week and year, I also Hope he Reappears in Both movies and séries, even Netflix Foc series, This figure looks awesome
the budget seems to have gone mostly into robot mode. That tail feather section being that short looks kind of odd but besides that this looks like a really good figure. I will defiantly pick this up
This is the only Transformer that I Preordered, $35.99 Yikes !!! . I hope they revisit Beast Machines toys, motorcycle and the jet ( I forgot their names )
I just pulled my original silverbolt off my shelf to compare, and while the robot mode is great the beast mode feels worse than the original. Maybe it will be better in hand. But the tail feathers feel way too short like they should stretch out another inch or two.
One nitpick I have right off the bat here is during the transformation, it looks like the back section doesn't peg in at all in robot mode and that's kind of annoying me already. Hopefully im wrong and it does, but if it doesnt, thats just dumb.
Silverbolt for the Beast Wars series is one of my favorite characters. I put it like that because there have been other Silverbolts like one is just becomes a eagle in beast mode. But it combines with others. But this Silverbolt is one of my favorite characters of all time because of his original beast mode. Part wolf an Part eagle an his personality an seans of honor. Then he had or has one of the most unique for lack of a better word. Weapon system. They can be lonched like missiles an explode. He can use them like swords them throw them then they will explode. So its the perfect weapon system because its good for close range melee combat and long range combat. Don't as me how that works its a cartoon. But if I have to take a guess I would have to say. They become explosive after flying straight for a short time. Because when he used them like swords he just kinda popped them out an grabs them. No real forward force in that action. Im just saying its a interesting weapon system if you will. That makes you go how does it work. Because they don't explode when he uses them like swords. But as soon as he throws them they become explosive like when he. Just shots them out of his wings. Side note this makes you think that when they came up with the hole Tigerhawk idea. They where kinda just copying Silverbolt who came first. Think about it part wolf an Part eagle Silverbolt. Part tiger character an part hawk character you have a character that's part tiger and part hawk. Name Tigerhawk yea the story is different of how it happened but. Its still just something to think about.
the original silverbolt had better proportions in beast mode , i mean the front legs and head look 35 types of wrong in this one ... its like they forgot to switch the body shape from front to back in the beast mode and all the upper torso volume stays in the hind legs...
I love silverbolt so much. Loved him even more with its romantic relationship with blackrachnia. My favorite couple ever.... but dammit, i am scared "shirtless".... i dont get it though. the original the hands were on front in animal mode, so they were actually hidden, and you would not see the hands. On the one, its in the back, and it looks awful! How is this an upgrade of the original?
He gets his figures from webstores that get/ship early. Hasbro is always slower keeping to their strict schedules. Or in this case Hasbro has been fumbling the ball so hard this year that they're dropping the pre orders when they are supposed to start shipping product Their tactict to force sales for the haslab Omega Prime still coming back to byte them in the butt again.
@@truemanlyusopp1099 Believe it or not no. He mentions which online stores he orders from in each video. I'm sure if you watch those sites you can catch pre orders like he does. Their news letters help him keep ahead of the rat race with new pre order updates. That's how some people get there's so early. That and he lives on the west coast. His area always get things days if not weeks sooner than the rest of the country. Lucky bastard. LOL
So yeah... I had the original one... I must say the robot mode is a bit better as it does look more stable like the original but a bit heavy looking like a cube... however beastmode is a solid downgrade unfortunately. I think I liked the old one much more
Y'know if I had a nickel Everytime there was a transformers that had an alt mode that was part bird part 4 legged mammal I would have 2 nickels which isn't a lot but weird that it happened twice
OG Silverbolt toy is better than this... sadly. These are supposed to be improvements in the old but in this case the OG is a better toy. Looks great, has really good articulation (especially considering it's age) and I don't remember it being super expensive either... I mean, most of the beast wars toys were pretty good.
Finally found this guy in my area and got him for myself and I have to admit; I’m incredibly middle ground on my feelings on it. Maybe it’s my nostalgia and still ownership of the original 1998 Deluxe figure, but this figure just doesn’t fully do it for me. There are parts I love about it; the voyager size, the wings being on the back instead of over his shoulders, the rear beast legs tucking into the biceps and out of the way and the wing missiles/blades having color. That being said, I do have my gripes; the transformation being very different, the beast mode head being too “realistic” so to speak, the robot legs/beast fore legs being too close together, the feet not being webbed like the original toy/animation mode, and the tail feathers sit too low on the robot mode. Again, may be my nostalgic bias and ownership of the original, but I REALLY wish they’d done for Silverbolt here what they did the DotM MechTech Starscream into the Studio Series one; up the scale of the original, improve the articulation, and make the wings be able to be over or behind his shoulders like he used them in the show. Do I think this figure a good representation of Beast Wars Silverbolt? Yes to extent. Is it what k was hoping for? Kinda? I love the character, I enjoy messing with this figure, but again, I wish he’d gotten the same treatment MechTech Starscream did into SS. Oh well 🤷🏻♂️ can’t always get what we want.
I’ve always loved this guy when I was a kid. I’m Native American and I always loved the tribal Warrior aesthetic, and combination of two of our most sacred animals
Man, Silverbolt just gets weirder the more you think about him. He's a robot with a bear-shaped face that uses shortspears that explode and he transforms into a mishmash of Native American sacred animals and he has a Knight's theming.
@@BugBoss1205 does that mean that technically he is one heck of a mutt?
@@michaelwilson4010 does possess a canine level of loyalty
Cool man. So I guess that means you'll be picking this guy up?
Cool man. So I guess that means you'll be picking this guy up?
My only nitpick with this figure is that they couldn't add an extra half inch to the tail feathers to cover the rear of the beast mode better.
Bird dog is back! * heroic music in the background*
11:11 As a person with a soft spot for attention to details I rejoiced a lot from the use of transmetal Optimus!
It's crazy how well some of those transmetal figures hold up from all those years ago
The original Silverbolt was a masterpiece; show accurate, highly articulated, and still packed in an action feature. I'm glad to see this one living up to that legacy
They designed the toys first. The show was toy accurate-I guess at that point they were designing them better so the show didn't have to change it much.
Hah, "legacy". I get it!
This one does NOT live up to that l legacy. Missing teeth, legs and butt stick out further than his tail. Front legs should be positioned on the sides of the body NOT the under the head. HIS WINGS CAN'T EVEN GO BEHIND HIS HEAD LIKE THE ORIGINAL TOY!👎🏽👎🏽👎🏽💯
@@great159 Right! I thought about getting this when I saw it in the store, but still have the original and don't' really want to pay nearly $30 for it.
They did a great job on the original and the CGI render of the show was very close to it, so it already matches the show (unlike, say, Rhinox, Blackarachnia, etc.).
One the rare few Beast Wars transformers that are more famous than their G1 counterparts they're named after.
So glad my second favorite maximal has such an amazing update
"Tell me I'm wrong I'll apologize right now" 😂😂😂
Lol 😂😂😂
Suprised, he can't do the wings over the shoulders thing in robot mode
Awesome figure & review!!!! I will receive my copy tomorrow. CAN'T WAIT!!!!!
Black Arachnia Oh dark poison of my heart
11:49 I didn't expect that LOL
The coloring on the wings is pretty nice. I'm going to assume that isn't gold plastic all over him, but paint.
Correct. Gold plastic has a tendency to degrade and become brittle over time, or high temp climates. Paint tends to last longer when properly coated.
I was hoping we'd get a new Silverbolt figure and can't wait to my copy when I order him today.. Shame they don't really do many figures with firing missiles any more (meaning no wing missile firing from the original toy) but still a very cool update
I just got mine delivered today. I had the original and he was my favorite back in the day. He was LONG overdue for an update. I'm very pleased with this one.
Just like their love, Silverbolt took 3 seasons to finally get with Black Arachnia. But I'm glad he's finally here.
I'm surprised at how much simpler the transformation scheme is compared to the original toy.
That whole back assembly doing a 180° for transformation was something I also wasn't expecting either.
I was hoping you'd skit Silverbolt and the other Aerialbots trying and failing to combine into Superion lol
"Look, Silverbolt. Just.. just try again. And this time? Reeeeaally MEAN IT!" 😅
yes another Beast War in the Legacy line and it’s Silverbolt so now theirs Rhinox, Cheetor, Rat Trap, Optimus Primal, Air Razor, Tigatron and many more ones i like to see from Beast Wars is another version of Arcee her Beast Wars self is based on a brown house spider for the Legacy line
There was already an Optimal Optimus; you can recreate so many scenes now
Awesome glad u made a vid on him
So want this guy, I'll have to get Black Aracnia too.
I'm surprised by how simple the transformation is.
It's very close to the OG toy
I still have my original Silverbolt toy and can't wait to get a hold of the new Legacy version. I love the attention to detail such as the fake hinges by the shoulders. My only nitpick is that the tail is too short in beast mode. I get why because i can see robot mode is spot on, but i still hope a 3rd party upgrade kit will spruce it up a bit.
Welp time to watch beast wars again
Sliver Bolt looks good.
It looks and transforms very much like the original toy, which is one of my favorites from the BW line. Another of my favorites was used in the skit! Great stuff.
I’m so hope to see the Legacy United Version of quickstrike which is another Fuzor figure.
That fusor is a long boy. Hot dog body reminds me of aoe grimlock. I still want it tho. Looks sick
8:14 - The return of the dreaded Potus Manus! :O
In all seriousness though, this is a great figure. I just get the feeling it's gonna be stupidly expensive.
Omg hes soo accurate to the show
Legacy Windrazor for the Generations Selects/Buzzworthy Bumblebee Exclusive.
I'm glad that Hasbro gave Silverbolt his own mode instead of being a repaint of the Tigerhawk mold with new head sculpts for the beast & robot modes.
Also glad that Tigerhawk has own mold instead of being a repaint of the Silverbolt mold.
Is that something that's happened before or something?
I like the ending Emgo and nice to meet ya btw
Can't wait to get him now I want to watch beast wars coming of the fuzors
I got my legacy silverbolt and legacy Cybertron starscream a week ago and there AWESOME 😎💯
Great review, so happy we're getting more BW characters. Can't wait for Quickstrike!
DOGGIE BOT!
I bet there will be an awesome upgrade kit for him in the future
Hope he gets a BWVS paint job too, especially if they do decide to release a Quickstrike.
Quickstrike would be very easy for them to do, hell even the original figure holds up pretty well with modern figures.
The tail so far up on his back just looks weird.
About time my boy got a new figure!
It’s TIME
Ah, what a glorious figure! I'll get one eventually. Sadly to many pre orders from last year making me have to wait on getting him. Now all we need is to get his transmetal2 spider lady to go with him Then Emgo can make a parody scene of him going ballistic when he thinks she's dead.
...No wait we'll need a transmetal tarantulus for Silverbolt to obliterate for that scene. LOL
looks cool. has an interesting transformation. i guess he gives new meaning to having your head up your butt lolol not to keen on the buttfists. i feel they could have done something different. great review!!
I really hope that with more modern Beast Wars figures comes more Takara Premium Finish figures.
Emgo I know for a fact that if you asked Scott Mcneil to voice Silverbolt for the end of review gag he would've done it.
My god they couldn't fix his beast mode tail, looks so dinky here let alone compared to his old toy
I can see a 3rd party fixing that later.
This is first Fuzor figure that are getting in the new Legacy United treatment.
incorrect. Tigerhawk was wave 1.
@@bt1234567892010I think tigerhawk isn't advertised as a fuzor and was kinda retroactively declared one
@@gabrielchee8470ah, fair.
Soulstice/Windrazor repaint When?
One of the best characters from Beast Wars and that’s saying something ❤
Hey emgo, no idea if u have already addressed this but just wondering if a dream star silver bolt and can toys snarl review is on the way. Im desperately holding out for a ds Silverbolt JTI and am also interested on your thoughts with CT snarl.
Don’t have snarl yet and I’m in no rush to go through nightmare Silverbolt, but it’ll happen eventually. So what do you think of Silverbolt here? Any opinions you’d like to share on him? I’d like to hear them.
Yea I haven't even attempted the dream star silver bolt transformation so I totally get the hesitation, as far as legacy silver bolt goes he is actually going to be the last mainline figure I ever buy (im sticking to third party and masterpiece) as I want to complete my beast wars display. figure looks good and im excited to get him, although im all the way in Australia and have no idea if we are even getting him. The last few mainline waves have been really hard to come by down under. @@emgo316
nice reenactment of the original scene
Ah,, one of my favorites from Beast Wars. I admit to being a *little* disappointed with the new transformation, turning him around like that, but the new toy looks pretty good in both modes and it *is* a neat transformation. Might get him, not certain yet.
Would love to get quickstrike to go with him. Give us more season 2 toys. I Neeeed rampage and depthcharge next
I had the original Beast Wars Fuzors Silverbolt figure. And I miss spring loaded missiles.
I don’t miss losing spring loaded missiles lol
Finally!Another Silverbolt figure, It been week and year, I also Hope he Reappears in Both movies and séries, even Netflix Foc series, This figure looks awesome
just when i thought my set was complete they pull me back in
the budget seems to have gone mostly into robot mode. That tail feather section being that short looks kind of odd but besides that this looks like a really good figure. I will defiantly pick this up
I'm glad it wasn't just me, I was comparing it to the original and the tail is just way too short
I had the original as a kid. It’s in a box somewhere.
Hahahahahah, oh that’s not fair doing that scene and mocking it hahahah but it’s great
This is the only Transformer that I Preordered, $35.99 Yikes !!! . I hope they revisit Beast Machines toys, motorcycle and the jet ( I forgot their names )
The Into: No trumpets , No Fanfare........
Preordered on Hasbro pulse the day it went up
Hmm, will there be a premium paint version that gives him normal eyes in beast mode?
How did you get Silverbolt?! He not in my local Walmart!
I just pulled my original silverbolt off my shelf to compare, and while the robot mode is great the beast mode feels worse than the original. Maybe it will be better in hand. But the tail feathers feel way too short like they should stretch out another inch or two.
My first silverbolt was the one from transformers universe and he was purple
Why did you forgot to make a family beast mode photo
No precious??
don't have it
I still have mine, but sadly lost the feather missle/swords. 😢
I just got mine at target last night weirdly enough he came with two left weapons
One nitpick I have right off the bat here is during the transformation, it looks like the back section doesn't peg in at all in robot mode and that's kind of annoying me already. Hopefully im wrong and it does, but if it doesnt, thats just dumb.
The panel the head is on holds the back section in place
@EmGo Will you be attending Botcon this year??
Anyone know what the 2 notches just above his tail feathers are for?
I wonder if his beast mode ‘butt-fists’ could be improved by rotating his wrists?
Not really
Should have compared him to Tigerhawk. Winged Wolf to Winged Tiger. Though as I type this, I don’t remember if you have him.
What was that red button surrounded by teeth supposed to be?
Silverbolt for the Beast Wars series is one of my favorite characters. I put it like that because there have been other Silverbolts like one is just becomes a eagle in beast mode. But it combines with others. But this Silverbolt is one of my favorite characters of all time because of his original beast mode. Part wolf an Part eagle an his personality an seans of honor. Then he had or has one of the most unique for lack of a better word. Weapon system. They can be lonched like missiles an explode. He can use them like swords them throw them then they will explode. So its the perfect weapon system because its good for close range melee combat and long range combat.
Don't as me how that works its a cartoon. But if I have to take a guess I would have to say. They become explosive after flying straight for a short time. Because when he used them like swords he just kinda popped them out an grabs them. No real forward force in that action. Im just saying its a interesting weapon system if you will. That makes you go how does it work. Because they don't explode when he uses them like swords. But as soon as he throws them they become explosive like when he. Just shots them out of his wings.
Side note this makes you think that when they came up with the hole Tigerhawk idea. They where kinda just copying Silverbolt who came first. Think about it part wolf an Part eagle Silverbolt. Part tiger character an part hawk character you have a character that's part tiger and part hawk. Name Tigerhawk yea the story is different of how it happened but. Its still just something to think about.
the original silverbolt had better proportions in beast mode , i mean the front legs and head look 35 types of wrong in this one ... its like they forgot to switch the body shape from front to back in the beast mode and all the upper torso volume stays in the hind legs...
What black magic is this!? I just pre-ordered this best boy.
I love silverbolt so much. Loved him even more with its romantic relationship with blackrachnia. My favorite couple ever....
but dammit, i am scared "shirtless"....
i dont get it though.
the original the hands were on front in animal mode, so they were actually hidden, and you would not see the hands. On the one, its in the
back, and it looks awful! How is this an upgrade of the original?
How'd you get the figure already?
He gets his figures from webstores that get/ship early. Hasbro is always slower keeping to their strict schedules. Or in this case Hasbro has been fumbling the ball so hard this year that they're dropping the pre orders when they are supposed to start shipping product Their tactict to force sales for the haslab Omega Prime still coming back to byte them in the butt again.
@@ZedMazaus480 oh ok. I'm guessing he had to pay a lot more then
@@truemanlyusopp1099 Believe it or not no. He mentions which online stores he orders from in each video. I'm sure if you watch those sites you can catch pre orders like he does. Their news letters help him keep ahead of the rat race with new pre order updates. That's how some people get there's so early. That and he lives on the west coast. His area always get things days if not weeks sooner than the rest of the country. Lucky bastard. LOL
@@ZedMazaus480 oh interesting! Thx for explaining
@@truemanlyusopp1099 No prob. Hope it helps your future purchases.
what kind of Mythical creatures is ? it call Cynogriffon.
Wasn’t he supposed to have a moveable robot jaw or did I Berenstein/Berenstain that??😳
Just got mine today in the mail lol
So yeah... I had the original one... I must say the robot mode is a bit better as it does look more stable like the original but a bit heavy looking like a cube... however beastmode is a solid downgrade unfortunately. I think I liked the old one much more
Why does sliverbolt have a batman mask on its not Halloween 😂😂
I'm surprised his Tigertron has a yellow all 3 my yellow bad and parts of dinobot and cyclonus
Ok Hasbro where is my legacy quickstrike, Legacy depth charge and legacy rampage with Legacy dinobot 2
Whats this, voyager Voyager tigerhawk
Like that they did the wings better thsn the original toy.
I finally bought mine earlier 😆
Should have known emgo would have gotten him from cmd lol 😂
It’s the only site that has it right now
Take that wolfie pee! LOL! Also, you didnt compare to the original?
Don’t have it.
Y'know if I had a nickel Everytime there was a transformers that had an alt mode that was part bird part 4 legged mammal I would have 2 nickels which isn't a lot but weird that it happened twice
OG Silverbolt toy is better than this... sadly. These are supposed to be improvements in the old but in this case the OG is a better toy. Looks great, has really good articulation (especially considering it's age) and I don't remember it being super expensive either...
I mean, most of the beast wars toys were pretty good.
no precious comparison? :c
Don’t have it
The noble one
Dog bird.
Finally found this guy in my area and got him for myself and I have to admit; I’m incredibly middle ground on my feelings on it. Maybe it’s my nostalgia and still ownership of the original 1998 Deluxe figure, but this figure just doesn’t fully do it for me.
There are parts I love about it; the voyager size, the wings being on the back instead of over his shoulders, the rear beast legs tucking into the biceps and out of the way and the wing missiles/blades having color.
That being said, I do have my gripes; the transformation being very different, the beast mode head being too “realistic” so to speak, the robot legs/beast fore legs being too close together, the feet not being webbed like the original toy/animation mode, and the tail feathers sit too low on the robot mode.
Again, may be my nostalgic bias and ownership of the original, but I REALLY wish they’d done for Silverbolt here what they did the DotM MechTech Starscream into the Studio Series one; up the scale of the original, improve the articulation, and make the wings be able to be over or behind his shoulders like he used them in the show.
Do I think this figure a good representation of Beast Wars Silverbolt? Yes to extent. Is it what k was hoping for? Kinda? I love the character, I enjoy messing with this figure, but again, I wish he’d gotten the same treatment MechTech Starscream did into SS.
Oh well 🤷🏻♂️ can’t always get what we want.
his mouth can open
The transformation is all wrong...
Both modes look great but they changed everything with the conversion for no reason.