24:13 Funnily and luckily enough for you Drlockdown, those pieces do serve a purpose in aircraft design. They are called Canards and they help with stability and maneuverability in high performance fighter jets. They're absolutely useful and not just for show so I hope this makes you happy
13:34 COME ON, KRIS?? DON’T YOU WANT A [Micromaster Battle Patrol]?! ONLY TEN [Kromer] TO GET YOUR OWN [[BIG SHOT]] [[BIG SHOT!!]] *[[B I G S H O T ! !]]*
roadhandler was a 1982-89 firebird originally they made the siege version based off of a 1979-81 firebird there wasnt a lot of deviation just different year of the same car
34:16 Still would be fine with a (dark) Blue and White Movie Barricade (which we essentially got with TLK) that has yellow and magenta robot parts revealed after transformation.
24:14 those pieces you refer to as winglets are not winglets. they are a form of control surface known as a canard. they essentially function like the elevators on a traditionally laid out aircraft providing the force to pitch the aircraft up and down. they are present on aircraft that have winds mounted near the aft of the aircraft such as the Beechcraft starship, Rutan long-EZ, and multiple Sukhoi and Saab fighter designs. they do in fact serve a purpose. Source: a 4/5 complete aeronautics degree.
Flak is my favorite Micromaster. That little missle tank is just so adorable. I thought I lost him and couldnt find him for months. Until I pulled my oven away from the wall to clean and found him chilling amongst a hidden cash of cat toys. For some reason my cats love micromasters and constantly bat them off the shelves and under the oven. so if you have cats get them some micromasters. Because it turns out that cats can be transformer fans too! :) nice video mate and merry christmas to you :)
Visor on Laserbeak it to mimic his cybertronian mode in g1 ep1, because yes, he had a visor on cybertron, meaning they weren't as close to animals at first
@@DrLockdown oh I know, I just find it amazing that he was so different on cybertron! Just the idea of teletraan scanning a bird and a jaguar to completely change them gets me. And I never jammed with alien robots looking like animals but here it's quite awesome imo! makes me want to see a cybertronian ravage following the same ideology
43:11 no....by far no Mine just broke not so long ago always had difficulty folding the front legs and in one time, I felt it didn't move at all to form the casset mode, forced to fold and the peg just broke there and then don't know if I should keep him in cassete mode or not unless I want that leg to fall off
6:24 The Siege tetra-jet is a Battlestar Galactica throwback, and no one can convince me otherwise. But I guess you could also compare it to a Feisar anti-grav' ship from the Wipeout series, wich kinda counts as cyber punk'ish, I guess?
I never knew they did a mold revision of the Battle patrol set. I'm glad they did because the leg sockets on my copy didn't give enough surface area to cover the ball joint so the legs would pop off anytime I moved them. the poor hip design on the Micromasters were one of the main reasons I stopped buying them.
An fyi, Whisper is modeling what the stealth fighter was thought to look like at the time (checkout the microprose f-19 stealth fighter game art for an example). So Visper is modeled closer to the actual F117.
19:50 Oh! I am actually interested in buying more copies of these, since my copies of the first two teams all have hip issues. That's actually good to know!
Wait, the cassettes were overstocked in Australia??? I only ever saw them once, and that was almost an hour away from my home. They were scarce for months, and then that turned into years.
Siege Roadhandler's lights are from the original pontiac trans am while the original is the next generation of trans am which could help explain the lights changing
6:20 - I always thought Battlestar Galactica with the Siege Seekers, especially with Aimless under Starscream's prow. 25:30 - ROTF Stratosphere had no under kibble; he just came with shatter-able knees. 38:30 - What song is that? 44:45 - I originally bought them because I didn't know the Netflix version was coming and I did not want the Siege version; and then Zing decided to give us Soundblaster. So I gave Condor and Jaguar (what I'm calling them) to Soundblaster, and Soundwave has his Netflix ones and the Earthrise Spy Patrol; might swap the Ravages though. Also are you serious about Siege Skywarp? Yeesh most people wanted it the other way (myself included). Still have mine because I'm not selling a kidney to get the Earthrise versions. 46:05 - Really hope they decide to retool them, considering the price of Victory Sabre.
I like to rotate the rescue patrol gun mode so that Red Heat is at the front and Stakeout is at the back, and I fold out Red Heat’s ladder to form an actual gun barrel and put an effect part at the end, which makes it slightly better, but that’s just me
Great energy and passion on display here in your in-depth review. I think many of these micromasters fail at being fun. Which, for such simple transformations, should be easy to flip back and forth and many of them don't. Many have issues with clearances and tolerances. What good is an arm that can move, if you can barely move it past plastic bits that rub against it? What good are ball jointed legs if they loose and/or pop off all the time? What good is a Robot mode if it can't stand up? And the worst bit is Hasbro trying to force all of these designs into combined gun/weapon modes that are too big, too awkward, and look awful. These designs should be as simple and as pleasurable to transform as GoBots. Instead, they mostly suck the fun out of the experience of handling them or playing with them. Out of the bots you showed here; Flak, Topshot, Visper, and the other plane guy are the better choices. The planes weapon mode is far too big and clunky. I feel like if Hasbro just designed these without the need for the weapon mode functionality, then they could have been more successful in terms of simplicity and individual play. As it stands now and as per your theory that legends figures should be first and foremost: "fun," I think we can categorize the WFC micromaster experiment as mostly a failure. I wonder if young kids actually used these as weapons for bigger bots? Sidenote: Can you find a way to make your references to the legends SIGN more clear. They are always short, and that's not a problem. The problem is legibility at phone size. It's near impossible to read, especially since the graphic is an inset. Maybe take a new picture of the sign being held. Otherwise, it's a GREAT recurring joke! You are making really fun videos. You put a lot of work and production into you reviews and it shows. Excellent.
the one thing that makes me not care about micromasters or minicons is the miniature vehicle modes, like come on what's the point of transforming into a mini Dolorean or helicopter? But if they were cybertronian vehicle modes I would have so many of them as tiny robots
An one armed RoadHandler was my first Transformer. That two pack is the only one i bought for nostalgia sake. Third party takes on micro masters would be interesting. Legends scale figures have been a decent percentage of the third party offerings, micro masters is line ajacent and plentiful in oppurtunity.
@@DrLockdown I was not expecting a reply from you, but I'm happy to receive one! I do understand they're meant to be tiny, what I meant was I would love to see a deluxe version of some of these. The designs could be really cool in a bigger size class in general (you may have understood what I meant originally but it never hurts to clarify)
@coroditeigero3534 I kinda get where you're coming from, and classics did do a few back in 2006, but the main draw of these is than they're tiny. I feel doing them massively would defeat the purpose
@@DrLockdown I understand. The whole appeal is small, simple, and fun. Shame they didn't all live up to that. I have the first two and even kid me was underwhelmed at best
I like the rescue patrol, probably because I got them around when they came out while on a trip to visit friends in Colorado My Red Heat can’t stand up, other than that he’s fine imo, and Stakeout is great I love the little guy
Not really a fan of shorts. The vertical video makes them really difficult to render, and I could be using that time to work on other videos. Already got five reviews in the pipeline while I'm on holiday
@@DrLockdown ngl I feel like a dumbass now cus as soon and I mean as soon as I saw you replied, I got halfway through the video and saw the advertisement for them lmao
A few weeks ago I came across an in package battle patrol set and picked it up on a whim due to your initial review after years of giving 0 shits about micromasters. And I have to agree they’re brilliant, I even go a good copy of the Topshot head. Though I will disagree that I believe that Flak is the superior of the two. His transformation is just so simple I find myself constantly going back and forth between them (other than the head which is a bit of a pain). I find Topshot’s spurs unwieldy though I totally understand their necessity. Also I can’t think about him without immediately hearing a certain tune from deltarune. I think it’s cute how much taller topshot is than Flak, especially if you keep the cannon on his head(which I do)
Race car patrol - the distance by cake Battle patrol - girls und Panzer theme Air strike patrol - fly away from PASWG Rescue patrol - fireflash theme from the Thunderbirds Spy patrol - funky fresh beats from some video game, I forget which one. Hideki Nakamura did it
Ah yeah, that's the one. I'm more interested in the next project he's working on: bomb rush cyberfunk. Never played jet set, but it looks fucking brilliant
How TF you say the race car patrol red boi is solid? Those knees feel like bloated, soggy bread. They’re hard to keep on in transformation! It’s embarrassing! Oh, and I DARE you to insult flak in my face. He’s cute and awesome, and that’s a hill I WILL DIE ON!
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13:36 NOW'S YOUR CHANCE TO BE A- wait, what? You serious? We lost the rights? Alright, then. Now's your chance to be a top shot, I guess...
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24:13
Funnily and luckily enough for you Drlockdown, those pieces do serve a purpose in aircraft design. They are called Canards and they help with stability and maneuverability in high performance fighter jets. They're absolutely useful and not just for show so I hope this makes you happy
Cool
The Scottish wizard being a v tuber is brilliant
13:34 COME ON, KRIS?? DON’T YOU WANT A [Micromaster Battle Patrol]?! ONLY TEN [Kromer] TO GET YOUR OWN [[BIG SHOT]]
[[BIG SHOT!!]]
*[[B I G S H O T ! !]]*
roadhandler was a 1982-89 firebird originally they made the siege version based off of a 1979-81 firebird there wasnt a lot of deviation just different year of the same car
Honestly, I hope the micro masters and those like them return one day, because:
Their going the distance! Their going the speed..
I am so, SO happy someone else sees the resemblance between a Spartan Laser and Huffer’s gun
I see it too, AND I WANT IT!!!!
Man, this channel is amazing, I found it recently and I've been binge watching it, keep up the good work, Dr!
Thanks for the kind words :D
34:16 Still would be fine with a (dark) Blue and White Movie Barricade (which we essentially got with TLK) that has yellow and magenta robot parts revealed after transformation.
24:14 those pieces you refer to as winglets are not winglets. they are a form of control surface known as a canard. they essentially function like the elevators on a traditionally laid out aircraft providing the force to pitch the aircraft up and down. they are present on aircraft that have winds mounted near the aft of the aircraft such as the Beechcraft starship, Rutan long-EZ, and multiple Sukhoi and Saab fighter designs. they do in fact serve a purpose.
Source: a 4/5 complete aeronautics degree.
Deltarune chapter 2 must’ve ruined me. I did a double take when I first heard “Big Shot.” Then again I didn’t know that was Top Shot’s original name.
Flak is my favorite Micromaster. That little missle tank is just so adorable. I thought I lost him and couldnt find him for months. Until I pulled my oven away from the wall to clean and found him chilling amongst a hidden cash of cat toys. For some reason my cats love micromasters and constantly bat them off the shelves and under the oven.
so if you have cats get them some micromasters. Because it turns out that cats can be transformer fans too! :)
nice video mate and merry christmas to you :)
The fact that we didn’t get a new detour in this line will always disappoint me. Granted I’m incredibly biased in my love of detour but bias is fun.
A Micromaster review was not the first place I'd expect to find a "Hi Honey" reference.
New drinking game: take a shot every time he says “read the sign”
You'd be dead before the halfway point
Visor on Laserbeak it to mimic his cybertronian mode in g1 ep1, because yes, he had a visor on cybertron, meaning they weren't as close to animals at first
I know...I mention such in the video...
@@DrLockdown oh I know, I just find it amazing that he was so different on cybertron! Just the idea of teletraan scanning a bird and a jaguar to completely change them gets me. And I never jammed with alien robots looking like animals but here it's quite awesome imo! makes me want to see a cybertronian ravage following the same ideology
43:11
no....by far no
Mine just broke not so long ago
always had difficulty folding the front legs
and in one time, I felt it didn't move at all to form the casset mode, forced to fold and the peg just broke there and then
don't know if I should keep him in cassete mode or not unless I want that leg to fall off
6:24 The Siege tetra-jet is a Battlestar Galactica throwback, and no one can convince me otherwise.
But I guess you could also compare it to a Feisar anti-grav' ship from the Wipeout series, wich kinda counts as cyber punk'ish, I guess?
I don't know why, but the chonk cat gag always cracks me up. Every time.
I never knew they did a mold revision of the Battle patrol set. I'm glad they did because the leg sockets on my copy didn't give enough surface area to cover the ball joint so the legs would pop off anytime I moved them. the poor hip design on the Micromasters were one of the main reasons I stopped buying them.
41:17 IM DYING!!! 😂😂😂🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Now's your chance to be a 14:44
GIMME ONE THEM FUNKY BEATS BOY
An fyi, Whisper is modeling what the stealth fighter was thought to look like at the time (checkout the microprose f-19 stealth fighter game art for an example). So Visper is modeled closer to the actual F117.
19:50 Oh! I am actually interested in buying more copies of these, since my copies of the first two teams all have hip issues. That's actually good to know!
Wait, the cassettes were overstocked in Australia??? I only ever saw them once, and that was almost an hour away from my home. They were scarce for months, and then that turned into years.
10:42 I get that joke!!!
And I’m not Australian!
I wonder what happened to that guy.. he probably just drowned but idk
Siege Roadhandler's lights are from the original pontiac trans am while the original is the next generation of trans am which could help explain the lights changing
6:20 - I always thought Battlestar Galactica with the Siege Seekers, especially with Aimless under Starscream's prow.
25:30 - ROTF Stratosphere had no under kibble; he just came with shatter-able knees.
38:30 - What song is that?
44:45 - I originally bought them because I didn't know the Netflix version was coming and I did not want the Siege version; and then Zing decided to give us Soundblaster. So I gave Condor and Jaguar (what I'm calling them) to Soundblaster, and Soundwave has his Netflix ones and the Earthrise Spy Patrol; might swap the Ravages though.
Also are you serious about Siege Skywarp? Yeesh most people wanted it the other way (myself included). Still have mine because I'm not selling a kidney to get the Earthrise versions.
46:05 - Really hope they decide to retool them, considering the price of Victory Sabre.
11:17 why does it look like the red guy is blowing the grey guy?
I like to rotate the rescue patrol gun mode so that Red Heat is at the front and Stakeout is at the back, and I fold out Red Heat’s ladder to form an actual gun barrel and put an effect part at the end, which makes it slightly better, but that’s just me
Ayyyyyy I also fold over the cannon on bigshot
19:32 what beachcomber mold is that?
Dr Wu. It's kinda eh TBH
Great energy and passion on display here in your in-depth review. I think many of these micromasters fail at being fun. Which, for such simple transformations, should be easy to flip back and forth and many of them don't. Many have issues with clearances and tolerances. What good is an arm that can move, if you can barely move it past plastic bits that rub against it? What good are ball jointed legs if they loose and/or pop off all the time? What good is a Robot mode if it can't stand up? And the worst bit is Hasbro trying to force all of these designs into combined gun/weapon modes that are too big, too awkward, and look awful.
These designs should be as simple and as pleasurable to transform as GoBots. Instead, they mostly suck the fun out of the experience of handling them or playing with them.
Out of the bots you showed here; Flak, Topshot, Visper, and the other plane guy are the better choices. The planes weapon mode is far too big and clunky. I feel like if Hasbro just designed these without the need for the weapon mode functionality, then they could have been more successful in terms of simplicity and individual play. As it stands now and as per your theory that legends figures should be first and foremost: "fun," I think we can categorize the WFC micromaster experiment as mostly a failure.
I wonder if young kids actually used these as weapons for bigger bots?
Sidenote: Can you find a way to make your references to the legends SIGN more clear. They are always short, and that's not a problem. The problem is legibility at phone size. It's near impossible to read, especially since the graphic is an inset. Maybe take a new picture of the sign being held. Otherwise, it's a GREAT recurring joke!
You are making really fun videos. You put a lot of work and production into you reviews and it shows. Excellent.
6:31 Ah yes, huffer with a spartan laser
Had no idea you were a theatre nerd. Loved the waiting for Godot reference.
Nah. I've read it but I've never participated in theatre, nor do I often go to it
29:48 Add Top Shot at the base to create a much longer handle and a knuckle guard. Works great with Masterpiece figures actually.
I'll have to give it a shot...a big shot...
the one thing that makes me not care about micromasters or minicons is the miniature vehicle modes, like come on what's the point of transforming into a mini Dolorean or helicopter? But if they were cybertronian vehicle modes I would have so many of them as tiny robots
11:31: TWO TRUCKS
The only reason I used the instrumental version is because it's two cars, not two trucks
My local toy store still has the rescue patrol in stock they have like 6 of them and yeah it is 2024
I've still seen some around Sydney. Nothing local, but they're there
Is that wingpack combination @46:36 legit? I can’t seem to get my Wingthing and Rumble to cooperate
It's a fanmode
@@DrLockdown Please share your secrets!
95% sure I covered it in the video I did on them: ruclips.net/video/08X9Ml9Ed_Y/видео.html
@@DrLockdown that you did! Thank you! 😊
Does this count as legiondary marathon
Yep
An one armed RoadHandler was my first Transformer. That two pack is the only one i bought for nostalgia sake.
Third party takes on micro masters would be interesting. Legends scale figures have been a decent percentage of the third party offerings, micro masters is line ajacent and plentiful in oppurtunity.
4:54 brudda osas 😳
34:25 where dat from?
My friend
Top Shot might be lucky tbh
Considering the jokes his old name allows.
3:03 to wait for Godot ?
Yep
@@DrLockdown is it a reference to a book ? I’m studying a book named like that in French class
I kinda wanna see a full sized version of all of these characters
These are full sized. They're meant to be tiny
@@DrLockdown I was not expecting a reply from you, but I'm happy to receive one! I do understand they're meant to be tiny, what I meant was I would love to see a deluxe version of some of these. The designs could be really cool in a bigger size class in general (you may have understood what I meant originally but it never hurts to clarify)
@coroditeigero3534 I kinda get where you're coming from, and classics did do a few back in 2006, but the main draw of these is than they're tiny. I feel doing them massively would defeat the purpose
@@DrLockdown I understand. The whole appeal is small, simple, and fun. Shame they didn't all live up to that. I have the first two and even kid me was underwhelmed at best
Review 127? Thats a familiar number
I like the rescue patrol, probably because I got them around when they came out while on a trip to visit friends in Colorado
My Red Heat can’t stand up, other than that he’s fine imo, and Stakeout is great
I love the little guy
In retrospect they should’ve just reissued the old g1 micromasters and gave us core class from the start.
what's the music you used for the air patrol? diamondbolt used to use it and i couldn't find it anywhere.
Fly away now?
I could only ever find the cassettes in retail
They were overstocked SO bad
Tiny Transformers are so cute
The only complained I have for the Siege Micromasters, is that Hasbro should have been sold them as a complete teams.
Not sure it would've worked with the current financial climate. People would've complained about their price even more so
BRO WAS THAT A 2 TRUCKS REFERENCE?????
Yes
i think flak design is more of a moving artillery platform
I think the Colonial Viper MK 2 from Battlestar Galactica would be a more accurate comparison with the Siege Tetrajet Seekers due to the shape.
They should just call the cassette forms “Compact Transport Mode” and be done with it
Try making a short of just the chonk man on loop
Not really a fan of shorts. The vertical video makes them really difficult to render, and I could be using that time to work on other videos. Already got five reviews in the pipeline while I'm on holiday
I guess it’s up to me.
Are you going to review with the original G1 Bumblebee
Maybe one day, but no plans to at the moment
The resque patrol were my first wfc micromasters…. Paid $5 and yeah it sucks they hsd to be my first
Ah well. Only way to go is up
I hope i can get a Battle Patrol soon
Question, are you going to ever do the battlemasters?
Maybe. Keep an eye on the marathon
@@DrLockdown ngl I feel like a dumbass now cus as soon and I mean as soon as I saw you replied, I got halfway through the video and saw the advertisement for them lmao
A few weeks ago I came across an in package battle patrol set and picked it up on a whim due to your initial review after years of giving 0 shits about micromasters. And I have to agree they’re brilliant, I even go a good copy of the Topshot head. Though I will disagree that I believe that Flak is the superior of the two. His transformation is just so simple I find myself constantly going back and forth between them (other than the head which is a bit of a pain). I find Topshot’s spurs unwieldy though I totally understand their necessity. Also I can’t think about him without immediately hearing a certain tune from deltarune. I think it’s cute how much taller topshot is than Flak, especially if you keep the cannon on his head(which I do)
My shakeout and Red Hot haven't broken or fallen over at all also I use the gun modes because I'm weird
Is galaxy upgrade prime good?
Very
This both double as a legiondary episode and as a S-O episode
Yep
I wonder if vourn would return one day...
Hey what the song used in between the reviews of each micromaster pack
Race car patrol - the distance by cake
Battle patrol - girls und Panzer theme
Air strike patrol - fly away from PASWG
Rescue patrol - fireflash theme from the Thunderbirds
Spy patrol - funky fresh beats from some video game, I forget which one. Hideki Nakamura did it
@@DrLockdown Lethal League Blaze, a highly underrated game
Ah yeah, that's the one. I'm more interested in the next project he's working on: bomb rush cyberfunk. Never played jet set, but it looks fucking brilliant
I actually liked the micro masters
Flak is King!
I always thought ravage was supposed to be a panther of some kind since he's black. I could of swore I saw him labeled as a jaguar somewhere
No paint no chance of paint chipping
Paint and paint chipping don't necessarily go hand in hand. You can cover the thing in paint and still have it durable
I want them
they liked halo enough they straight up stole the spartan laser not joking huffers blaster is an exact 1-1 with a spartan laser
How TF you say the race car patrol red boi is solid? Those knees feel like bloated, soggy bread. They’re hard to keep on in transformation! It’s embarrassing! Oh, and I DARE you to insult flak in my face. He’s cute and awesome, and that’s a hill I WILL DIE ON!
Really? Mine are solid as a rock...
Dear people who haven’t read the sign
Read the sign.
I'm illiterate and cannot read the sign
#nottheworstthingontheplanet
hmmm
So thats what killed your Mac.
Shame. I bet it was a good Computer.
If was not. I've got an uber powerful gaming laptop now, and I couldn't be happier
That comment on lack of Unicron Trilogy updates aged well lol.