Every time I hear Robert Stack as Ultra Magnus, I can't help thinking about him hosting Unsolved Mysteries. "If you have any information about the disappearance of Optimus Prime, or any of the other G1 Autobots..." 😀
Every time I hear him, I keep expecting him to order the Autobots to grab a Decepticon and give him a body cavity search. "And don't stop until you feel his teeth!"
I hope they find Red Alert. They dismissed his ramblings as a product of his chronic paranoia but it looks like he may have been right about some of them.
Having just watched your video today, I just read that Jack Angel has passed away. The voice of Ultra Magnus, Omega Supreme, Astrotrain and others. RIP good sir. You brought a lot of joy to children with your work.
Ultra Magnus served double duty as his white Prime form was used as the dead Optimus Prime (and then later as the return of Optimus Prime saw him utilising a white protective shield against the infected Transformers) which I'm sure many, many 80s kids did.
Admit it, we all would have been fine if Ultra Magnus had become the next prime. Also the fact that he didn’t accept it at first speaks a lot about his character and makes him one of my favorite autobots.
The mystery of Silverbolt's ramp was that it was part of his base mode. Silverbolt could then attach to Metroplex in his base mode, which ended with the ramp. Hot Spot had a repair bay mode that would also attach, making Metroplex into Scramble City. (The aerialbots or any combiner could also attach to Metroplex's arms and legs if you remove his kneecaps in robot mode to make Super Metroplex.) Thanks for making these videos! Always a treat to watch!
Onslaught and Motormaster did the same for Trypticon, and Silverbolt and Hotshot could link up to Metroplex as you mention. A friend of mine owned Meetroplex, and I had Silverbolt and Hotshot, we played the hell out of those toys, but we never did figure out that they could be linked together. Looking back, It kind of irks me as a kid I could never figure that one out. Oh well.
I've always loved when Robert Stack did an "Unsolved Mysteries" parody for the movie "BASEket Ball" when there's a nation wide man hunt for Joe Cooper (Trey Parker) after abandoning his team the Milwaukee Beers. It's hilarious. 😅
My Aunt came to our grandmother’s house with a brand new Ultra Magnus one day. 6 year old me didn’t realize it was for my cousin, not myself. No problem. An hour of uncontrollable sobbing later, and I had a Magnus of my very own. Thing is, once I got to the store, it was Blur that I really wanted but at that point I kinda already made my bed.
Ultra Magnus was a great consolation prize for those of us not lucky enough to have been gifted an Optimus Prime. Thanks for another trip down memory lane.
It honestly blew my mind when I found out that the helmet could combine with the chestpiece to make a mini vehicle. He'd been sitting on my shelf for years and I never knew.
I have watched the 1986 movie so many times. However it has never been as great as when I saw it in the theater 2 weeks ago. Seeing Magnus on the big screen made me and everyone else in the theater cheer.
I'm so glad there's a figure that does Magnus justice nowadays. Not another white Optimus redeco, not the weird, kinda wrong Combiner Wars version with that little car guy... but the awesome Cybertronian power truck in Siege (or the Earth form in Kingdom). How legendary!
I seem to remember seeing some old photos of the Powered Convoy materials where the chest piece is a little car. If you look at the 'wing' ends and the front, you'll see holes on the sides that old the axles for a set of small double wheels. I always thought that when Hot Rod caught the Matrix as it dropped from Optimus's hands, the glow that floods the screen, it was the Matrix acknowledging Hot Rod as the next leader. If only Magnus wasn't so clumsy. Back when Reprolabels were making their original upgrade sets, one of them included some while panels that covered much of the lower legs to help break up the big red areas so he looked less like a brick. Sadly it doesn't seem like they have it anymore, but you probably could do the same with some white electrical tape. Just cut out the centre rectangles for the raised details. I never did get Magnus in his original release, but picked up the Takara reissues of the early 2000's. I wished I saved it, but at some point I saw someone make a photo comic where G1 Optimus 'steals' Magnus's 'pants'. It was pretty funny.
Probably because they had 2 reasons to get away from the Megatron persona. First, to get rid of the Transformer that turned into a realistic gun, and second, to get rid of the name with the atomic bomb connotation. My guess is they wanted to keep Prime's memory around for the others to look up to and be inspired by rather than have him simply reformatted like Megatron was.
Ultra Magnus was one of my favorites. I felt that the lesson of Ultra Magnus is that even though the matrix didn’t choose him, he still did his best as one of the leaders of the Autobots as a warrior, commander, giving advice , and standing in by battle giving all you have even when he knows he will lose as in the last episode of the Headmaster’s series. Not everyone can be Optimus Prime or Rodimus Prime but he did his best.
I never understood why people have an issue with Magnus saying "I can't deal with that now". I mean, what was he supposed to do right then? Put a stop to things and mourn the (supposed) loss? Basically he was saying, "Fight now, cry later".
I believe the idea was in the original script he was Drawn And Quartered instead of shot to pieces. So then it would make sense for the junkeons to be able to fix him up from that as it’s shown they can put themselves back together
That is EXACTLY how I was introduced to Ultra Magnus as well! After that commercial, I saved up the 40 bucks he cost and lamented that I would never have the money to own his nemesis Galvatron (at least that's what the commercial had me believe.) Magnus was the leader of my team of Autobots anyway, as he fought the evil Cyclonus, and beat the hell out of Menasor (since he was bigger than him anyway)
I used to have Ultra Magnus as a kid. My aunt got it for me for Christmas. But my dad didn't like my aunt, so he took it and threw it to the floor and broke it. But now that I'm older and starting a trans formers collection, and restoring old transformers, I'm going to find another Ultra Magnus.
I bought this online when I was in college in the late 1990s because we couldn’t afford it when it first came out. It seemed so much more magical in 1986 than 1998, thanks goodness for the modern remakes of my favorite Transformers.
Cool stuff. That weird ramp for Silverbolt is for a base mode he could take. Yeah, it's official. Ultra Magnus has gotten a relative ton of new toys recently, though while watching this video, I was puzzling out the new Kup figure (complete with Energon Goodie!)
I remember seeing some old photos of the original Japanese G1 Silverbolt release. Apparently he had a spring mechanism that could launch Aerialbots in his launcher mode. Like a slingshot I guess. I don't know what the missing parts are, but there must have been a spring, and a catch of some sort. Onslaught had a similar feature that was also deleted from the US/International release as well which wasn't restored in the re-issue. Which was surprising because the re-issue Megatron had his firing mechanism parts intact. And in the early 2000's, I requested Ken from Ken's Collectibles who was making resin cast replacement parts for G1 bots to replicate the firing parts of Megatron and I put them into a vintage US release and it worked.
I got the kingdom Ultra Magnus for Christmas and yes it has its problems But despite that it’s still a good figure. Probably the highlight of Christmas for me that day.
You've outdone yourself in this one MM! Those snippets of Mr Stack worked perfectly. Also, what a great observation of Magnus's turn-arounds. Loved every minute of this. You spoil us!
Ultra Magnus was my favorite Transformer for a long time. Optimus Prime is the best of them all no doubt, but I related more to the soft spoken Ultra Magnus. I will confess that Optimus Prime used the trailer himself to give him a powered mode in play from time to time. Magnus never minded much. He's that great a guy!
This brings back a childhood memory of examining G1 Ultra Magnus in a Meijer store, not being too impressed, and putting it back. Also did the same thing to G.I. Joe Battlefore 2000 in a K-Mart. Funny what random things you remember.
@@MichaelMercy my brother got Ultra Magnus for Christmas in 1986 while I got Metroplex, earlier that year in February I was at Toys R Us with my dad and he said I could get a transformer, I begged to get me Trypticon but he said it was too expensive, I ended up geting Jetfire which was cheaper but a good toy none the less
Awesome video of Transformers Ultrs Magnus. I really liked the character in the animated movie and TV series and I actually got excited when I thought that he was in the fourth Bayformers movie but it was just Prime coverd in white dust (LOL). Great video Michael, you so totally rock.
Honestly I'm glad we never got Magnus in the live action movies, as his role was originally intended to be what Sentinel Prime's was in Dark of the Moon. I don't think many fans could handle the idea of a turncoat Magnus who betrays Prime let alone the Autobots.
Not to mention how badly Magnus got screwed over in the '86 animated movie, can you imagine how badly Michael Bay who doesn't give a flying flip about Transformers in the first place, would've screwed poor, poor Magnus?
First the Broadside part was great. 😁. I had Magnus but I never use him as Magnus . He was Prime with a new trailer/ battle platform and when they brought Prime back and he was coated in that white metal I felt justified.
I still have the toy, I have the rare blue-faced one, with plastic wheels and without the details. White cab is very decoloured now, missing the parts but the main ones are still there like the head and torso parts. Used to play a lot with him and was stoked when I got him.
I received ultramagnus for Christmas in 1986 my hunted and hunted for optimus prime he was sold out that year when I finally got to play with him I forgot all about optimus prime and still to this day ultramagnus is my favorite transformer
Thank you for such an incredible video Michael Mercy!!!! Ultra Magnus is my 2nd favorite Autobot after Optimus Prime. :D Looking forward to your "History of Ultra Magnus Through the Decades" video. :D Keep on being amazing.
“On the night of June 15th 2005, Megatron Thompson was living the high life… but soon after a tragic set of circumstances, he vanished… perhaps you can help solve a mystery.”
G1 Ultra magnus is cooler than G1 optimus prime because he combines with his trailer. This was even before power master optimus prime. Also, I think ultra magnus’ trailer had a turret mode shown in the box.
Magnus had three extra modes for his trailer. A repair bay, a jet "launcher" and a base mode. Takara included those in their instructions, but not Hasbro.
I still have my Magnus. I had to repair him a few times from springs to screws. i always liked him. I'm sure he can eventually figure out the accessory that came with Silverbolt is a ramp ha ha.
Admit it everyone.. you'd be a bold faced liar if you didn't take the white Ultra Magnus cab and pretended he was Optimus Prime coated with that special white metal that made him impervious to the Hate Plague from Return of Optimus Prime!
@@MichaelMercy Me. I LOVE that show. Upon hearing Magnus's anxiety (?) to take a leadership position, yet excels as a right hand man, I gotta say I feel for the guy and notice similarities in myself.
Not to contradict Magnus himself, but I definitely have time for this. Love the Unsolved Mysteries nod 🤣. Adding an anecdotal bit- the first time I saw this toy was a friend that used to go to Japan to visit family. He always had the coolest Japanese toys. One of them was Powered Convoy. I lost my mind when I first saw it.
Love the Powered Convoy colours. Wish I had picked one up when the reissue was cheap some years back. I'm surprised they didn't just release Powered Convoy in those same Takara colours in '86 and have him be Optimus. Hasbro wasn't above reissuing old characters in new outfits like Snake Eyes, Hawk or Roadblock, and it seems Optimus was a good enough seller in '84 for his initial release to warrant an update. I've always wondered why they decided to ditch such a popular character for a brand new character who plays second fiddle to the new leader.
Thanks for this review! Man, I got into Transformers about a year late and never had an Optimus Prime. But I did get an Ultra Magnus a couple of years in, and wow, what a great action figure! So many cool features and playability for a grade school kid. Oddly enough, I never thought about all the times in the movie he dropped, or nearly dropped the Matrix. Ultra Buttah Fingas?
Got him for Christmas after the movie came out. Cool figure indeed. Also, I did the same thing with his head and chest piece. I believe that the original Takara version came with a figure for the head/chest combo .
Throughout Transformers movie, series and comics Ultra Magnus is treated as a martyr, I hated that. Ultra Magnus is a cool character and I know his G1 incarnation still rocks. Never Agreed about his techs specs His stats are rather low for a Second in Command autobot. I'm still hunting for G1 Ultra Magnus, but at least I have the Combiner Wars, Siege & Kingdom versions. Nice Review.
Wow. I didn't have the money for the toys back in the day (Did manage to get the Robotech/Jetfire, and a few of the lower tier characters), and really only view them now on channels like this, so after all these years I just today learned that Ultra Magnus is a white colored Prime under all the armor. I had no idea.
Magnus prime sounds good! only if he was worthy,anyways Awesome review Michael! im loving these g1 reviews,because youre so open minded,calm and true to what you are saying,which is what i love about your reviews
It baffles me how Hasbro and the film’s writers didn’t come up with the idea of resurrecting Optimus Prime as Ultra Magnus since his toy is just an upgraded version of Prime’s. They had no qualms with resurrecting Megatron as Galvatron after all.
12:24 Correction: He's rebuilt incorrectly by the Juckions (They put his legs on the wrong sides), only to be fine in the next scene. That "wax" is magical! lol
My biggest Ultra Magnus memory would be receiving him as a Christmas gift from my parents in '86. I was 8, almost 9. My niece, who was a few months older than me had gotten a Barbie and my sister/her mom came over for dinner. By the end of the evening, Magnus and Barbie were married lol I'm lucky to afford the chance to rebuild Magnus and am down to the final few pieces. Hoping to have him ready by this Christmas to mark 35 years since I first received him.
I had Ultra Magnus as a kid. Mine wasn't the most well-made, though -- one of the big robot fists was loose, so he always had to keep that arm bent at the elbow so it wouldn't fall off. The missile launchers had to be plugged in a certain way, too, as one peg seemed too big for the hole, and would sort of get pushed out. And no spring-loaded action, either. Despite all this, I loved the character and had a lot of fun with him, and he even let me experience some of the joy of owning my own Optimus, though Rodimus Prime was still the guy in charge -- at least until Optimus returned as a Powermaster. =)
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Every time I hear Robert Stack as Ultra Magnus, I can't help thinking about him hosting Unsolved Mysteries. "If you have any information about the disappearance of Optimus Prime, or any of the other G1 Autobots..." 😀
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Hahahaha….
Every time I hear him, I keep expecting him to order the Autobots to grab a Decepticon and give him a body cavity search. "And don't stop until you feel his teeth!"
@@joshshields5921 Oh, man, I'd forgotten Robert voiced that character! 😆
I hope they find Red Alert. They dismissed his ramblings as a product of his chronic paranoia but it looks like he may have been right about some of them.
Having just watched your video today, I just read that Jack Angel has passed away. The voice of Ultra Magnus, Omega Supreme, Astrotrain and others. RIP good sir. You brought a lot of joy to children with your work.
Ultra Magnus served double duty as his white Prime form was used as the dead Optimus Prime (and then later as the return of Optimus Prime saw him utilising a white protective shield against the infected Transformers) which I'm sure many, many 80s kids did.
R.I.P Jack angel we will miss you
Admit it, we all would have been fine if Ultra Magnus had become the next prime.
Also the fact that he didn’t accept it at first speaks a lot about his character and makes him one of my favorite autobots.
The mystery of Silverbolt's ramp was that it was part of his base mode. Silverbolt could then attach to Metroplex in his base mode, which ended with the ramp. Hot Spot had a repair bay mode that would also attach, making Metroplex into Scramble City. (The aerialbots or any combiner could also attach to Metroplex's arms and legs if you remove his kneecaps in robot mode to make Super Metroplex.)
Thanks for making these videos! Always a treat to watch!
Onslaught and Motormaster did the same for Trypticon, and Silverbolt and Hotshot could link up to Metroplex as you mention. A friend of mine owned Meetroplex, and I had Silverbolt and Hotshot, we played the hell out of those toys, but we never did figure out that they could be linked together. Looking back, It kind of irks me as a kid I could never figure that one out. Oh well.
I’ll always remember him from The High and the Mighty with John Wayne.
I've always loved when Robert Stack did an "Unsolved Mysteries" parody for the movie "BASEket Ball" when there's a nation wide man hunt for Joe Cooper (Trey Parker) after abandoning his team the Milwaukee Beers. It's hilarious. 😅
Seeing this made me want the history of transformers 1987 again.
The ramp you show at the end that goes to the aerial bot Silverbolt is for a transformation where he is used as a plane launcher.
My Aunt came to our grandmother’s house with a brand new Ultra Magnus one day. 6 year old me didn’t realize it was for my cousin, not myself.
No problem. An hour of uncontrollable sobbing later, and I had a Magnus of my very own.
Thing is, once I got to the store, it was Blur that I really wanted but at that point I kinda already made my bed.
Ultra Magnus was a great consolation prize for those of us not lucky enough to have been gifted an Optimus Prime. Thanks for another trip down memory lane.
Thanks! Plus you could use the cab as Hate Plague Prime from the Return of Optimus 2 parter.
If only Mr. Stack lived longer to see the Masterpiece Ultra Magnus and Kingdom Ultra Magnus. Also Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime is my 2nd favorite Autobot
This was the first complete g1 transformer I bought for my sixteenth birthday in 2019 and I will never sell it on!
It honestly blew my mind when I found out that the helmet could combine with the chestpiece to make a mini vehicle. He'd been sitting on my shelf for years and I never knew.
For me ultra Magnus not becoming the leader of the autobots was the true unsolved mystery....queue music 🎶
I have watched the 1986 movie so many times. However it has never been as great as when I saw it in the theater 2 weeks ago. Seeing Magnus on the big screen made me and everyone else in the theater cheer.
Robert Stack had to be one of the best actors of all time and played one of my favorite characters Ultra Magnus ❤️💙🤍🤖🤖🤖🤖
I'm so glad there's a figure that does Magnus justice nowadays. Not another white Optimus redeco, not the weird, kinda wrong Combiner Wars version with that little car guy... but the awesome Cybertronian power truck in Siege (or the Earth form in Kingdom). How legendary!
Me and my Granny👵loved❤️watching Unsolved✨️Mysteries together when I was little...🤘🏼💯✔️
I seem to remember seeing some old photos of the Powered Convoy materials where the chest piece is a little car. If you look at the 'wing' ends and the front, you'll see holes on the sides that old the axles for a set of small double wheels.
I always thought that when Hot Rod caught the Matrix as it dropped from Optimus's hands, the glow that floods the screen, it was the Matrix acknowledging Hot Rod as the next leader. If only Magnus wasn't so clumsy.
Back when Reprolabels were making their original upgrade sets, one of them included some while panels that covered much of the lower legs to help break up the big red areas so he looked less like a brick. Sadly it doesn't seem like they have it anymore, but you probably could do the same with some white electrical tape. Just cut out the centre rectangles for the raised details.
I never did get Magnus in his original release, but picked up the Takara reissues of the early 2000's.
I wished I saved it, but at some point I saw someone make a photo comic where G1 Optimus 'steals' Magnus's 'pants'. It was pretty funny.
Got this as present xmas '86
R.I.P. Jack Angel
I got Ultra Magnusas a Christmas gift along with Cyclonus and wreck gar. That was a sweet Christmas.
Honestly, the biggest mistake in marketing and the movie was not upgrading Optimus into Magnus like they did Megatron/Galvatron.
Probably because they had 2 reasons to get away from the Megatron persona. First, to get rid of the Transformer that turned into a realistic gun, and second, to get rid of the name with the atomic bomb connotation. My guess is they wanted to keep Prime's memory around for the others to look up to and be inspired by rather than have him simply reformatted like Megatron was.
Ultra Magnus was one of my favorites. I felt that the lesson of Ultra Magnus is that even though the matrix didn’t choose him, he still did his best as one of the leaders of the Autobots as a warrior, commander, giving advice , and standing in by battle giving all you have even when he knows he will lose as in the last episode of the Headmaster’s series. Not everyone can be Optimus Prime or Rodimus Prime but he did his best.
I heard that Jack Angel passed away I saw your message 7 hours ago
Sadly Jack Angel died this week
I never understood why people have an issue with Magnus saying "I can't deal with that now". I mean, what was he supposed to do right then? Put a stop to things and mourn the (supposed) loss? Basically he was saying, "Fight now, cry later".
Yeah good point. Meanwhile Springer gets no flak for not staying focused.
12:04 I always saw it as it wouldn’t open because it chose Rodimus and would not open for him
i dont understand how Ultra Magnus can be blown away into pieces the repaired and lives
.... but Optimus Prime gets hit in the side and dies....
He's made of sterner stuff?
I believe the idea was in the original script he was Drawn And Quartered instead of shot to pieces. So then it would make sense for the junkeons to be able to fix him up from that as it’s shown they can put themselves back together
Ultramagnus really had a bad case of butterfingers when it came to holding onto the Matrix. Thanks for this great video.
Lol he did! Hands were too big maybe.
That is EXACTLY how I was introduced to Ultra Magnus as well! After that commercial, I saved up the 40 bucks he cost and lamented that I would never have the money to own his nemesis Galvatron (at least that's what the commercial had me believe.)
Magnus was the leader of my team of Autobots anyway, as he fought the evil Cyclonus, and beat the hell out of Menasor (since he was bigger than him anyway)
I used to have Ultra Magnus as a kid. My aunt got it for me for Christmas. But my dad didn't like my aunt, so he took it and threw it to the floor and broke it. But now that I'm older and starting a trans formers collection, and restoring old transformers, I'm going to find another Ultra Magnus.
I am so excited for my G1 Ultra Magnus to ship! Got it for $11 to! Even though it’s just the trailer it’s awesome!
I bought this online when I was in college in the late 1990s because we couldn’t afford it when it first came out. It seemed so much more magical in 1986 than 1998, thanks goodness for the modern remakes of my favorite Transformers.
Cool stuff. That weird ramp for Silverbolt is for a base mode he could take. Yeah, it's official. Ultra Magnus has gotten a relative ton of new toys recently, though while watching this video, I was puzzling out the new Kup figure (complete with Energon Goodie!)
I remember seeing some old photos of the original Japanese G1 Silverbolt release. Apparently he had a spring mechanism that could launch Aerialbots in his launcher mode. Like a slingshot I guess. I don't know what the missing parts are, but there must have been a spring, and a catch of some sort. Onslaught had a similar feature that was also deleted from the US/International release as well which wasn't restored in the re-issue. Which was surprising because the re-issue Megatron had his firing mechanism parts intact. And in the early 2000's, I requested Ken from Ken's Collectibles who was making resin cast replacement parts for G1 bots to replicate the firing parts of Megatron and I put them into a vintage US release and it worked.
I always thought that Ultra Magnus was Optimus Prime with power armor.
I have this figure and I'm very happy about it
I got it for around 25 quid and I don't regret it
I got the kingdom Ultra Magnus for Christmas and yes it has its problems But despite that it’s still a good figure. Probably the highlight of Christmas for me that day.
You've outdone yourself in this one MM! Those snippets of Mr Stack worked perfectly. Also, what a great observation of Magnus's turn-arounds. Loved every minute of this. You spoil us!
Thanks Audie! Have a great weekend down under!
Ultra Magnus was one of my favorite Transformers growing up too. Thanks for this fun look back on the character.
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It must be Ultra Magnus’ birthday today
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Ultra Magnus was my favorite Transformer for a long time. Optimus Prime is the best of them all no doubt, but I related more to the soft spoken Ultra Magnus. I will confess that Optimus Prime used the trailer himself to give him a powered mode in play from time to time. Magnus never minded much. He's that great a guy!
For sure!
Awesome!- I just got the Japanese G1 Ultra Magnus in Box in the post today - can’t wait to open him up
Enjoy!👍
Great video. Magnus is such an interesting character.
This brings back a childhood memory of examining G1 Ultra Magnus in a Meijer store, not being too impressed, and putting it back. Also did the same thing to G.I. Joe Battlefore 2000 in a K-Mart. Funny what random things you remember.
Great vid, and RIP Jack Angel
That Robert Stack fight scene from Airplane was actually amazing for who he was at the time!
That flying float-over kick... 😲
Wasn't around in the 80s but g1 was and still is a childhood favorite
Great video as always
Thank you.
@@MichaelMercy my brother got Ultra Magnus for Christmas in 1986 while I got Metroplex, earlier that year in February I was at Toys R Us with my dad and he said I could get a transformer, I begged to get me Trypticon but he said it was too expensive, I ended up geting Jetfire which was cheaper but a good toy none the less
Awesome video of Transformers Ultrs Magnus. I really liked the character in the animated movie and TV series and I actually got excited when I thought that he was in the fourth Bayformers movie but it was just Prime coverd in white dust (LOL). Great video Michael, you so totally rock.
Thanks Agnetha! Have a wonderful weekend. ✌️
@@MichaelMercy You're very welcome, have a great weekend
Honestly I'm glad we never got Magnus in the live action movies, as his role was originally intended to be what Sentinel Prime's was in Dark of the Moon. I don't think many fans could handle the idea of a turncoat Magnus who betrays Prime let alone the Autobots.
Not to mention how badly Magnus got screwed over in the '86 animated movie, can you imagine how badly Michael Bay who doesn't give a flying flip about Transformers in the first place, would've screwed poor, poor Magnus?
The Matrix rejected him.
As kids, we thought/pretended that the cab was the ghost of Optimus Prime.
First the Broadside part was great. 😁. I had Magnus but I never use him as Magnus . He was Prime with a new trailer/ battle platform and when they brought Prime back and he was coated in that white metal I felt justified.
I still have the toy, I have the rare blue-faced one, with plastic wheels and without the details. White cab is very decoloured now, missing the parts but the main ones are still there like the head and torso parts. Used to play a lot with him and was stoked when I got him.
The 87 release.
I received ultramagnus for Christmas in 1986 my hunted and hunted for optimus prime he was sold out that year when I finally got to play with him I forgot all about optimus prime and still to this day ultramagnus is my favorite transformer
I absolutely love Ultra Magnus! Never got a chance to have him as a kid, however I do have him now as an adult!
Thank you for such an incredible video Michael Mercy!!!! Ultra Magnus is my 2nd favorite Autobot after Optimus Prime. :D Looking forward to your "History of Ultra Magnus Through the Decades" video. :D Keep on being amazing.
Thanks! 👍
@@MichaelMercy You're welcome. :D
I absolutely love this toy.great review Michael
Thanks Omar. Have a nice weekend. ✌️
Has anyone tried to put Optimus prime into ultra magnus’s armor?
Yes
James earl jones & robert stack… perfect voices for a tv loving boy growing up
“On the night of June 15th 2005, Megatron Thompson was living the high life… but soon after a tragic set of circumstances, he vanished… perhaps you can help solve a mystery.”
Megatron Thompson. That gave me a good chuckle. Thanks. 😆 I wonder if Galvatron Jones has any leads.
@@MichaelMercy
Galvatron Jones….😂🤣👌🏼
G1 Ultra magnus is cooler than G1 optimus prime because he combines with his trailer. This was even before power master optimus prime. Also, I think ultra magnus’ trailer had a turret mode shown in the box.
JobbyTheHong got David Kaye, Godzilla Mendoza got Garry Chalk and lastly you...
Magnus had three extra modes for his trailer. A repair bay, a jet "launcher" and a base mode. Takara included those in their instructions, but not Hasbro.
As kids, we would pretend the the white remold of the optimus toy was optimus prime's ghost.
I was never able to pick up the G1 version as a kid but I love my Masterpiece Magnus
Was going to mention the head-chestplate combo Diaclone vehicle but then you showed it right at the end!
Awesome 👍
Thanks!
I still have my Magnus. I had to repair him a few times from springs to screws. i always liked him. I'm sure he can eventually figure out the accessory that came with Silverbolt is a ramp ha ha.
Admit it everyone.. you'd be a bold faced liar if you didn't take the white Ultra Magnus cab and pretended he was Optimus Prime coated with that special white metal that made him impervious to the Hate Plague from Return of Optimus Prime!
It wasn't a coincidence that 'Hate Plague coating' was that same colour. 😉
The only movie transformer I liked
I got Ultra Magnus one Christmas. I loved the figure. I used his white robot form as the ghost of Optimus, when not using Ultra Magnus.
Awesome!
Maybe the coolest toy i ever owned and DEFINITELY the coolest one is STILL own!
I'm 40 years old but if I hear that Unsolved Mysteries theme song I start shaking in my boots
Who doesn't? 😱
@@MichaelMercy trainsformers. Very good. Dylan
Trains formers. The movie
@@MichaelMercy trains
@@MichaelMercy Me. I LOVE that show.
Upon hearing Magnus's anxiety (?) to take a leadership position, yet excels as a right hand man, I gotta say I feel for the guy and notice similarities in myself.
Just started watching The Untouchables recently, actually a pretty good show but really hard not to hear Ultra Magnus while watching it lol.
Yeah he’s more Magnus on Untouchables than on Unsolved Mysteries.
Not to contradict Magnus himself, but I definitely have time for this. Love the Unsolved Mysteries nod 🤣. Adding an anecdotal bit- the first time I saw this toy was a friend that used to go to Japan to visit family. He always had the coolest Japanese toys. One of them was Powered Convoy. I lost my mind when I first saw it.
Love the Powered Convoy colours. Wish I had picked one up when the reissue was cheap some years back. I'm surprised they didn't just release Powered Convoy in those same Takara colours in '86 and have him be Optimus. Hasbro wasn't above reissuing old characters in new outfits like Snake Eyes, Hawk or Roadblock, and it seems Optimus was a good enough seller in '84 for his initial release to warrant an update. I've always wondered why they decided to ditch such a popular character for a brand new character who plays second fiddle to the new leader.
Thanks for this review! Man, I got into Transformers about a year late and never had an Optimus Prime. But I did get an Ultra Magnus a couple of years in, and wow, what a great action figure! So many cool features and playability for a grade school kid.
Oddly enough, I never thought about all the times in the movie he dropped, or nearly dropped the Matrix. Ultra Buttah Fingas?
This retrospect was as cool as I thought it would be. G1 Rules. As does the Real Nostalgia Heroes of the Patreon Tribe.
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I always like ultra magnus
Great work MM, thanks for sharing
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Awesome stuff Mike!👍😁. I really like the colors used on this big guy! 👍😁
Thanks Bill! He really pulls off the baby blue.
@@MichaelMercy Yes he does fiend! One of my favorite colors😁
I watched this while transforming my war for cybertron: kingdom ultra Magnus for the first time, I just love his design
Got him for Christmas after the movie came out. Cool figure indeed. Also, I did the same thing with his head and chest piece. I believe that the original Takara version came with a figure for the head/chest combo .
Throughout Transformers movie, series and comics Ultra Magnus is treated as a martyr, I hated that. Ultra Magnus is a cool character and I know his G1 incarnation still rocks. Never Agreed about his techs specs His stats are rather low for a Second in Command autobot. I'm still hunting for G1 Ultra Magnus, but at least I have the Combiner Wars, Siege & Kingdom versions. Nice Review.
Wow. I didn't have the money for the toys back in the day (Did manage to get the Robotech/Jetfire, and a few of the lower tier characters), and really only view them now on channels like this, so after all these years I just today learned that Ultra Magnus is a white colored Prime under all the armor. I had no idea.
Magnus prime sounds good! only if he was worthy,anyways Awesome review Michael! im loving these g1 reviews,because youre so open minded,calm and true to what you are saying,which is what i love about your reviews
Thanks! Glad you enjoyed it.
@@MichaelMercy i always do my friend!
They should have kept him as the leader of the Autobots
He doesn’t want to be a leader.
In Japan the scramble city version on Silverbolt was spring loaded the idea was to transform him into his platform mode and launch the areal bots off
It baffles me how Hasbro and the film’s writers didn’t come up with the idea of resurrecting Optimus Prime as Ultra Magnus since his toy is just an upgraded version of Prime’s. They had no qualms with resurrecting Megatron as Galvatron after all.
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Correction: He's rebuilt incorrectly by the Juckions (They put his legs on the wrong sides), only to be fine in the next scene. That "wax" is magical! lol
My biggest Ultra Magnus memory would be receiving him as a Christmas gift from my parents in '86. I was 8, almost 9. My niece, who was a few months older than me had gotten a Barbie and my sister/her mom came over for dinner. By the end of the evening, Magnus and Barbie were married lol
I'm lucky to afford the chance to rebuild Magnus and am down to the final few pieces. Hoping to have him ready by this Christmas to mark 35 years since I first received him.
I had Ultra Magnus as a kid. Mine wasn't the most well-made, though -- one of the big robot fists was loose, so he always had to keep that arm bent at the elbow so it wouldn't fall off. The missile launchers had to be plugged in a certain way, too, as one peg seemed too big for the hole, and would sort of get pushed out. And no spring-loaded action, either.
Despite all this, I loved the character and had a lot of fun with him, and he even let me experience some of the joy of owning my own Optimus, though Rodimus Prime was still the guy in charge -- at least until Optimus returned as a Powermaster. =)
I think Ultra Magnus scored not being inclided in the bayverse,
those movies had issues.
Loved Magnus. One of my friends named her cat Magnus. True story!
Could it combine with a scratching post to become Ultra Magnus?
@@MichaelMercy You'd have to my friend. That cat is one with the Matrix now!
I was hurt when as a child I watched Ultra Magnus turn Prime down when given the Matrix of Leadership in the movie.
Sometimes it hurts to be humble.
Ultra Magnus was my first Transformer.
Awesome video! Well done! I hope you have a great weekend! Nerdmaste! 😊
Thanks Stephanie! Have a wonderful weekend! ✌
How do your toys look so clean