That's what I like about Thew. He never goes "THIS TRANSFORMER IS THE SECOND COMING OF GOD" or "THIS WORTHLESS PLASTIC REMINDS ME OF MY DEAD CAT". He'll sometimes just go "well that's ok innit"
@@JustinWahlne I mean, I think Emgo is also pretty firmly in the "It's either great or it's just okay" territory, and it takes a lot for him to outright say he doesn't like a figure.
For the record, the business Thew is talking about at 3:10 was a time when the Transformers Collectors Club apparently had some seriously outdated software on their website when Over-Run got put on there. So the site got hacked, a number of people ended up having their credit card info and login information leaked, and the Club spent a couple weeks completely failing to contain the problem or come up with a good answer for why. I think it was the point when the fandom opinion of Fun Publications officially moved from "aw, they're alright, ennit?" to "wow, these guys are utterly incompetent."
@@walterlopez5054 Ayup - I mean to say, there was always people who didn't like them and their operation always had some major issues. There's a laundry list of exclusives preceding that period that had some kind of problem; the Seacons had major mold degradation problems, Nightbeat's ears were removed last-minute, Heatwave's combiner head didn't store correctly half the time, Punch's head was tiny. Not to mention the website being hilariously outdated in general. But 2012 was the point when they officially started losing ground, between the Over-Run issue and most of the Botcon releases being mediocre or undesirable.
I love how the two characters that do absolutely nothing and die in the G1 cartoon somehow manage to get fan vote victor status but we're still yet to see Star Saber outside of a Masterpiece here in the west truly a magical brand
And he is going to get Shafted again from a Commader Class Figure in favor of a "Leader" Class Rodimus Prime (worst leader in existence) with a Commander price point. Yay...
I know you're probably over the comments on every new video saying that it's some of your best work yet, but in my opinion the videos you've put out this year and in 2020 have genuinely been the best work you've ever done. Not to mention some of my personal favorite content. Yes that includes what they've got going on at netflix and disney+. Your stuff is really that good. Very few things in life give me that warm feeling inside than settling in from a long day to see a new Thew video in my patreon feed. I keep catching myself backing up a few seconds to appreciate the wordplay you craft, or take in the photos you snap and the graphics you create. The production value you're able to bring as one dude is genuinely insane to me at times. Anyways, not just trying to big you up too much, but I really do love what you're doing. Keep at it man, we appreciate ya.
@@Spartan-Primer And the crazy thing is that the Beavis & Butt-Head characterization is from a comic that predates the actual Beavis & Butt-Head cartoon by almost a decade! Bob Budiansky was remarkably ahead of the curve there.
Am I the only one who thinks earthrise runabout could be used for a future knight rider crossover figure? Because I get some serious knight rider vibes from him
Thew's videos always bring a smile to my face. Alliteration, puns and a very nice guy who seems super passionate about his robots. What's not to smile about. What's better than this
If you're referring to the Marvel comic that they headline in, then Beavis and Butthead are the Runabout and Runamuck of MTV, as the Battlechargers were featured a good 5 years or so before that other duo of idiots. For those reading this who don't know, Runabout and Runamuck in the Marvel book act and talk almost exactly like you would expect Beavis and Butthead to act if they were Transformers -- it's quite funny, and a bit eerie that Transformers "predicted" Beavis and Butthead so early on.
"its like a foot without the toes" as an advid watcher of anime, animation teams sometimes just have the feet be one solid block with no detail when its a panned out shot for whatever weird reason. don't get me started on fallout 4's atrocious foot block
I love Thew trying to do a rare negative-skewing review. It's always "Here's a bunch of perfectly valid criticisms that demonstrate why this is a bad toy, but I still think it's the best thing ever". And honestly, that kind of positivity is what keeps brining me back.
I don't normally bother collecting teams if most of their key members have been made into exclusives, but these guys, I went for. And Thew nailed it, as always. They're . . . all right. They don't want to hold together particularly well, their chest-hood undercarriage has 1.4 nanometers of clearance for rolling (if you're lucky), and they're not particularly stylish in car mode, but they're a laugh. And now I can't help but imagine Ultra Magnus saying "Ain't they them two 'Cons that've been priming their pistons in mah tool shed? Them boys ain't right."
Really digging the "review across the eras" you've done with several videos now. Would like to see more or even for this to become your standard format, assuming you can get your hands on the original toys.
Did anyone else notice that the last 2 had faces on their crotches? Seriously rewatch it, they do have crotch faces! What was the thinking behind that design choice?
So Runamuck wins a fan-poll completely on his own, Hasbro decides to make Runabout I ASSUME because these two are as synonymous as peanut butter and jelly and having one without the other is completely unthinkable... and then they make Runamuck a Target-exclusive and cast Runabout to the four winds? That doesn't strike me as the best way of giving the fans what they want.
I think they get their love from us old heads having them as youngins. I remember getting them both at K-mart on our family Sunday afternoon excursions to one of the three big ( well bigger lol) towns with in thirty minutes, they weren't much more than a Gi-Joe so I could ask for them and know it was sure bet lol. Got A-Muck in Whiteville and A-bout in north Myrtle Beach two separate weeks apart lol. I didn't get the club versions I did have the univere one I think it was A-bout in A-mucks colors, but I jumped on the earthrise versions. I like them but I've lived the characters or my interpretation of the characters since forever
I've always loved these two knuckleheads. Ever since I saw them in that old G1 comic where they're latching onto some random family and pick up the son in the family's bad grafitti habit… Absolutely bonkers and yet absolutely funny as hell. Now I'm just sad I'll have to shell out around £80-100 for Runabout. Another casualty of the US only store exclusivity bullshit… And no, getting only Runamuck is absolutely not an option. These dum-dums belong together.
Regarding the faux-wheel heel-spurs (wheelspurs?) - Recreating the general look of the often rather silly-looking late-G1 toys when making figures of the charcters those toys depicted is the aesthetic of WFC. An extreme form of CHUG's "G1 with knees" shtick. E.G. Siege Springer, in all the angular glory of the OG toy.
I would love to get this duo but the exclusives strike again. It’s like the seekers you can get some of the team but you have to pay way more for sky warp and Thundercracker.
Yeah, I miss the days of a Seeker coming out every other wave or so at standard retail, so you actually have a decent chance of getting them all. As soon as they start making key team members exclusives, I don't even bother trying to collect them. Except for these guys. These guys, I went for.
I got Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker. I also saw Thrust one time at target but i didnt get him because they had new Studio Series stuff, which i prefer.
Worse, the Exclusive comes with both character's iconic weapons that can combine together, while the Retail has the WRONG one... So 'bout gets his Not-Stolen-from-Gundam Particle Beam Rifle in both Black AND Red, while 'muck has to trade to get his more unique Friction Rifle in his partner's color scheme!
Was a fun vid, funny enough I had my two Run's nearby while watching it I'll admit I do kinda prefer Earthrise keeping it modest with its screen(comic?) accuracy to the robots - but I gotta agree the paintjobs on the Collector's Club figures really do stand out!
I tried to make paints of these guys on forza, and just got bored with em. someone needs to re-imagine these guys with some slick fastnfurious paint jobs.
Oh, man, this guys... I really love them. Sad to know that usually they are used as simple cannon fodder or generic decepti-goons, but... Their bios and the way they act in Decepticon Graffiti make me want to see this two making more crazy and funny things. Definitely two of my favorite decepticons
I love them. For some reason Runamuck and Runabout are two of my favorite Decepticons. I just always imagined them as two dumb goons. Kind of....what if Beavis and Butthead were Transformers. And I think the altmodes are sweet. Then again the Pontiac Firebird that Runamuck changes into is pretty much my dream car, and the Lotus Turbo Esprit is beautiful in its own right. I'm glad I got these. Especially now that the X-Transbots ones have turned out to be so disappointing.
Thew, I've just recently gotten back into customizing my figures, and this video has now got me hyperfixated on turning two Studio Series 07 movie Jazz... es into these two heehaws, and I blame you ❤
BEYOND AMAZINGLY FANTASTIC REVIEW THEW ADAMS!!!!!!!!!! :D I loved all your puns throughout the video, they are mucking about so much they gave me the runs. :D Keep on being amazing, Double Thumbs Up. ;D
Mucky Pup reference at 3:36! I caught that, and it might be the first reference of good ol' MP in ANY Transformers review EVER! Thew, you ABSOLUTE UNIT.
So, I noticed a thing. In the fan pole the Impacter was decided on, everyone of the characters eventually got a new toy in the WFC trilogy. Except Needlenose. Then in the fan pole that Runamuck came from, Gnaw got a SS86 toy. Shrapnel is probably going to be in Legacy since Kickback is. Poor Needlenose
I would have loved to get the TFCC versions, though hearing about the hack, kind of glad I didn't go that route. There was also the Takara Tomy Transformers Adventures versions made from the CW/UW Blackjack mold. Not the best compensation, but still fun.
You missed a pair of figures. They both technically landed in Combiner Wars via Adventure from the Blackjack mold. To be fair though, most people missed them too as Runabout was barely advertised or talked about anywhere and Runamuck was a fucking mail away exclusive packed with Dogfight from CW Powerglide. The only way to pick up Runamuck and Dogfight at the moment is to try and buy it from one of those Japanese sellers who list things at double to triple what they actually sell for and hope they actually send them to you. Runabout is more reasonable being under $40. I got lucky and picked one up in a lot for cheap. I then sold the other figures I already had and actually made money picking mine up. I'll get Runamuck and Dogfight someday though. I finally got UW Grand Scourge for a decent price two months ago and I'll eventually find the two little guys also. I don't understand those Japanese sellers though. What do they accomplish by listing things for so far above the actual going rates? It's all their Transformers too and not just rare figures. Not only do they also get the names wrong in the title but they all use the same stolen pictures from someone who sold that same thing a while back. One of them has an Earthrise Scorponok listed at $628.20 with $25.00 shipping. It's available for preorder at regular price almost everywhere right now. Speaking of; someone should tell the people on Ebay currently bidding on a Scorponok that's bid to $10 over retail with $35 shipping. There's 32 people watching it too. How do they not know to try literally anywhere else to get it at retail price?
Have you ever thought of putting something like a trip hop beat under your alliterative musings? I know your musical tastes probably don't point in that direction, (I don't know much hip hop myself) but dude, your flow! I mean, you really are rapping, basically. And doing it well.
The G1 versions are indeed bad. Same with the Throttlebots and Topspin/Twintwist these aren't proper transformers. More like gimmick cars that flip out and over to look like bots. Still love them thanks due to nostalgia goggles. The CC versions are meh. I like the Earthrise ones, but I'm more happy with my Iron Factory variants. Smol, but interesting.
I'm also a fan of some Decepticon cars. Menasor, Rodimus Unicronus, Exhaust. It's a shame Runabout has been really hard to get a hold of, especially here in Australia
That's what I like about Thew. He never goes "THIS TRANSFORMER IS THE SECOND COMING OF GOD" or "THIS WORTHLESS PLASTIC REMINDS ME OF MY DEAD CAT". He'll sometimes just go "well that's ok innit"
Another thing I appreciate from him
"This is daft but I like it."
I think you just summed up Emgo vs Bobbyskullface
@@JustinWahlne I mean, I think Emgo is also pretty firmly in the "It's either great or it's just okay" territory, and it takes a lot for him to outright say he doesn't like a figure.
@@Spartan-Primer R.I.P. Devil Saviour
That's why his motto is keeping it real😝😜
Thew Adam's special ability is combining words
Futhermucker gotta use that one love your energy dude great vid
My only issue with Rnamuck is the REALLY lacking clearance in car mode...and on the head transformation. Otherwise, he's decent.
The original G1 Runabout and Runamuck look like something the Autobots would set up and shoot at for target pratice.
For the record, the business Thew is talking about at 3:10 was a time when the Transformers Collectors Club apparently had some seriously outdated software on their website when Over-Run got put on there. So the site got hacked, a number of people ended up having their credit card info and login information leaked, and the Club spent a couple weeks completely failing to contain the problem or come up with a good answer for why. I think it was the point when the fandom opinion of Fun Publications officially moved from "aw, they're alright, ennit?" to "wow, these guys are utterly incompetent."
im pretty sure opinions of funpub started to sour when they required fax machines for botcon registration. as late as 2010.
Explains why the club collapsed
@@walterlopez5054 Ayup - I mean to say, there was always people who didn't like them and their operation always had some major issues. There's a laundry list of exclusives preceding that period that had some kind of problem; the Seacons had major mold degradation problems, Nightbeat's ears were removed last-minute, Heatwave's combiner head didn't store correctly half the time, Punch's head was tiny. Not to mention the website being hilariously outdated in general. But 2012 was the point when they officially started losing ground, between the Over-Run issue and most of the Botcon releases being mediocre or undesirable.
seems like Fun Publications wasn't so fun
Runbelievably Runremarkable? Oh no, he's gone all Scooby Thew!
This comment kicks ass
Ruh roh
@@nightlypiano4116 Your comment apparently translates to “spirit of spirit.”
@@mechanwhal6590 pfft
I love how the two characters that do absolutely nothing and die in the G1 cartoon somehow manage to get fan vote victor status but we're still yet to see Star Saber outside of a Masterpiece here in the west
truly a magical brand
Shows the transformer fanbases idiocy
Well, they did get an absolutely magnificently stupid G1 comic story pretty much all to themselves =)
Star Staber's an asshole in IDW, maybe that's why?
They didn't DIE.
And he is going to get Shafted again from a Commader Class Figure in favor of a "Leader" Class Rodimus Prime (worst leader in existence) with a Commander price point.
Yay...
I know you're probably over the comments on every new video saying that it's some of your best work yet, but in my opinion the videos you've put out this year and in 2020 have genuinely been the best work you've ever done. Not to mention some of my personal favorite content. Yes that includes what they've got going on at netflix and disney+. Your stuff is really that good. Very few things in life give me that warm feeling inside than settling in from a long day to see a new Thew video in my patreon feed. I keep catching myself backing up a few seconds to appreciate the wordplay you craft, or take in the photos you snap and the graphics you create. The production value you're able to bring as one dude is genuinely insane to me at times. Anyways, not just trying to big you up too much, but I really do love what you're doing. Keep at it man, we appreciate ya.
omg thank you
I always budget double the runtime when I sit down to watch a new Thew review, accounting for all the rewinds and pauses for laughter.
Couldn't agree more with the sentiment towards Thew. He's one of a kind.
@@toygrind sanpai
I always got time for a Thew video
Watches Jobby for the swivels. Watches Thew for the alliterations (and badass beard)
Rundabout: Heh heh heh
Runamuck: Huh huh huh
"Uh, what's your name"?
"Tailpipe".
"Uhuhuhuhuhuhu"!
"Hmhhehehehe"!
Oh God these two basically are just Beavis and Butthead aren't they.
@@Spartan-Primer and now you know why the fandom loves them.
@@Spartan-Primer Now I need some Metallica and AC/DC stickers for them.
@@Spartan-Primer And the crazy thing is that the Beavis & Butt-Head characterization is from a comic that predates the actual Beavis & Butt-Head cartoon by almost a decade! Bob Budiansky was remarkably ahead of the curve there.
"Nobody jumps into action, faster than the battle chargers!!!"
"More than meets the eye."
"Nobody charges into battle faster than Battlechargers!"
@Cmndr Roy Fokker Yeah, but the battlechargers had alt modes that looked like something. Take your pick, all of them were kinda meh.
Am I the only one who thinks earthrise runabout could be used for a future knight rider crossover figure? Because I get some serious knight rider vibes from him
Slight retool & it'll be Spot-on K.I.T.T. (AND K.A.R.R. of course..)
They COULD even re-deco a Goliath cab from CW Motormaster - Prime..
Thew's videos always bring a smile to my face. Alliteration, puns and a very nice guy who seems super passionate about his robots. What's not to smile about. What's better than this
The Bevis and Butthead of Transformers.
If they're Beavis and Butthead, then Rumble and Frenzy are Barnaby & Barnaby
If you're referring to the Marvel comic that they headline in, then Beavis and Butthead are the Runabout and Runamuck of MTV, as the Battlechargers were featured a good 5 years or so before that other duo of idiots.
For those reading this who don't know, Runabout and Runamuck in the Marvel book act and talk almost exactly like you would expect Beavis and Butthead to act if they were Transformers -- it's quite funny, and a bit eerie that Transformers "predicted" Beavis and Butthead so early on.
@@ARCWuLF Mike Judge a Transformers Comics fan?
"HERE LIES RUNAMUCK. HE NEVER SCORED."
“So daft but also very stable” will be the name of my autobiography
Yeah mine would be from another of Thew's reviews "look out, he's surprisingly heavy set!"
I love how they made it so you can shoulder-mount the guns on the Earthrise versions
"its like a foot without the toes"
as an advid watcher of anime, animation teams sometimes just have the feet be one solid block with no detail when its a panned out shot for whatever weird reason.
don't get me started on fallout 4's atrocious foot block
Because drawing toes can be tricky at the best of times, and wehn panned out it's harder. Plus deadlines prevent people from adding too much detail.
Anime tends to sacrifice character detail (or just copy-paste every face) and put more emphasis on the backgrounds and movements. For some reason...
I prefer foot blocks.
I love Thew trying to do a rare negative-skewing review. It's always "Here's a bunch of perfectly valid criticisms that demonstrate why this is a bad toy, but I still think it's the best thing ever". And honestly, that kind of positivity is what keeps brining me back.
6:52 the crotch looks like a face doing an evil laugh
Thew: "'Cuz you're gonna get him, 'cuz you're weak..."
Me: (Looks around at overloaded shelves) "Does he have a camera in here?" 😅
awww no love for the Combiner Wars/TAV versions of these guys?
I don't normally bother collecting teams if most of their key members have been made into exclusives, but these guys, I went for. And Thew nailed it, as always. They're . . . all right. They don't want to hold together particularly well, their chest-hood undercarriage has 1.4 nanometers of clearance for rolling (if you're lucky), and they're not particularly stylish in car mode, but they're a laugh.
And now I can't help but imagine Ultra Magnus saying "Ain't they them two 'Cons that've been priming their pistons in mah tool shed? Them boys ain't right."
I came for the Transformers, I stayed for the alliteration ❤️
These 2 are literally my favorite side character deceptions just because I have a comic that there the focal point of
Ah, yes, Decepticon Graffiti. What a wonderful and crazy story
"Runabout, and the ghost of Runabout..."
Fricken hilarious!
Really digging the "review across the eras" you've done with several videos now. Would like to see more or even for this to become your standard format, assuming you can get your hands on the original toys.
The dummy roof gets in way of the doo de doo. Enjoyed the review!
Enjoyed the review dee doo.
Did anyone else notice that the last 2 had faces on their crotches?
Seriously rewatch it, they do have crotch faces! What was the thinking behind that design choice?
Yes - I did - they're like creepy macho codpieces.
@@originaluddite Probably EXACTLY why these two have them!
So Runamuck wins a fan-poll completely on his own, Hasbro decides to make Runabout I ASSUME because these two are as synonymous as peanut butter and jelly and having one without the other is completely unthinkable... and then they make Runamuck a Target-exclusive and cast Runabout to the four winds? That doesn't strike me as the best way of giving the fans what they want.
The Beavis and Butthead of the transformers
I know others have said this Thew, but your ways with words is fucking masterful!
He puts the English language in a tutu and makes it dance for him.
6:52 there's definitely a face on his crotch
I was kind of expecting you to reference the fact that their crotch plates look like faces
The WFC figures have faces on their crotches and now you can't unsee it either.
I think they get their love from us old heads having them as youngins. I remember getting them both at K-mart on our family Sunday afternoon excursions to one of the three big ( well bigger lol) towns with in thirty minutes, they weren't much more than a Gi-Joe so I could ask for them and know it was sure bet lol. Got A-Muck in Whiteville and A-bout in north Myrtle Beach two separate weeks apart lol. I didn't get the club versions I did have the univere one I think it was A-bout in A-mucks colors, but I jumped on the earthrise versions. I like them but I've lived the characters or my interpretation of the characters since forever
I've always loved these two knuckleheads. Ever since I saw them in that old G1 comic where they're latching onto some random family and pick up the son in the family's bad grafitti habit… Absolutely bonkers and yet absolutely funny as hell.
Now I'm just sad I'll have to shell out around £80-100 for Runabout. Another casualty of the US only store exclusivity bullshit… And no, getting only Runamuck is absolutely not an option. These dum-dums belong together.
Regarding the faux-wheel heel-spurs (wheelspurs?) - Recreating the general look of the often rather silly-looking late-G1 toys when making figures of the charcters those toys depicted is the aesthetic of WFC. An extreme form of CHUG's "G1 with knees" shtick. E.G. Siege Springer, in all the angular glory of the OG toy.
I see deepcover in the back.
“It’s like a foot without the toes”
Thanks for making me imagine that
Now imagine noses without holes
I see Deep Cover. He's a fun toy
Never thought a Transformers would be referred to as "Flaccid"
Somewhere along the video, I expected to see the Takara repaints of Blackjack that were painted as Runabout and Runamuck.
Great video as always tho
a.k.a. "white guy" and his twin brother "black guy" and yes I am fully aware that does not sound right.........
I would love to get this duo but the exclusives strike again. It’s like the seekers you can get some of the team but you have to pay way more for sky warp and Thundercracker.
Yeah, I miss the days of a Seeker coming out every other wave or so at standard retail, so you actually have a decent chance of getting them all. As soon as they start making key team members exclusives, I don't even bother trying to collect them. Except for these guys. These guys, I went for.
I got Starscream, Skywarp, and Thundercracker. I also saw Thrust one time at target but i didnt get him because they had new Studio Series stuff, which i prefer.
... Really Hasbro? Like I hate to be, "that guy" but come on, making a new mold for a set of two figures, and making one of them an exclusive?!
Worse, the Exclusive comes with both character's iconic weapons that can combine together, while the Retail has the WRONG one...
So 'bout gets his Not-Stolen-from-Gundam Particle Beam Rifle in both Black AND Red, while 'muck has to trade to get his more unique Friction Rifle in his partner's color scheme!
Was a fun vid, funny enough I had my two Run's nearby while watching it
I'll admit I do kinda prefer Earthrise keeping it modest with its screen(comic?) accuracy to the robots - but I gotta agree the paintjobs on the Collector's Club figures really do stand out!
Really bland, but still glad they were remade...Now if we could just find them in The States...
Love this video, just Thew givin his view talkin’ to his crew!
I tried to make paints of these guys on forza, and just got bored with em.
someone needs to re-imagine these guys with some slick fastnfurious paint jobs.
It’s weird how they’re kinda generic but don’t feel like they can be generic army builders
Funny how 3 of the 4 characters in the Earthrise fan poll have a new toy rn with only Shrapnel remaining
I'm not a bit interested in transformers, you however are fascinating.
I for one truly appreciated the very funny comment about Earthrise!
These 2 are Run The Jewels, chance My mind
You did do it Thew, and you did it great! Seriously man keep it up, looking forward to more!
Im all ABOUT this MUCKers vids
am I the only one who saw the Earthrise bot bros have crouch faces? I feel like i'm the only one who saw that.
And the biggest Thewstake of the Year goes to 3:22!
Would just like to point out that they both literally have a crouch goblin.
Battle chargers,jumpstarters and activators.
The og one step changers
8.15 never stop Thew PLEASE
Thew if you get any crazier I will have to watch you even more
lookin thin mate, dont know if you are, but you're lookin it
Hope everyone has a Thewmendous day!
I just consider the new ones are more like the Cybertronian versions, the club ones are earth modes.
Are you going to review earthrise scopinok
So we not gonna talk about the face crotch? No? 🤣
Absolute alliteration avalanche.
Those two are like the seekers you have to get them all
Man, we gotta start asking him for reviews on toys with easy to pun names, he went super saiyan!
Wow... Runabout was quite literally my first ever TF toy and from there on I've loved giant robots my whole life.
Oh, man, this guys... I really love them. Sad to know that usually they are used as simple cannon fodder or generic decepti-goons, but... Their bios and the way they act in Decepticon Graffiti make me want to see this two making more crazy and funny things.
Definitely two of my favorite decepticons
I cant help but always want these weird once-in-a-blue-moon homages. Too bad one of them suffers from the earthrise exclusive BS.
For some reason, I feel like this is your best video yet. All of your words just glided so smoothly to me. Absolutely loved it.
Really love these types of vids. Especially the Skids one. Mowr!
no masterpiece either.
That thumbnail is so Unus Annus.
Boys just needed some cowcatchers and spoilers, maybe abit more gold too
Cowcatcher Croc add-on slippers WHEN 3d-party?!?!
This is just awesome!!!
Nobody:
Absolutely no one:
Me: *Unus Annus Unus Annus*
Your not the only one
you felt the feeling too...
@@arjankuipers8924 yep
Ah, the perils of trying to film an all white thing and an all black thing...
god tell me about it
B U M B L E B E A N S
I love them. For some reason Runamuck and Runabout are two of my favorite Decepticons. I just always imagined them as two dumb goons. Kind of....what if Beavis and Butthead were Transformers.
And I think the altmodes are sweet. Then again the Pontiac Firebird that Runamuck changes into is pretty much my dream car, and the Lotus Turbo Esprit is beautiful in its own right.
I'm glad I got these. Especially now that the X-Transbots ones have turned out to be so disappointing.
I really like this vintage/classics/wfc format you’ve got going here. Please keep doing it!
Gotta love how they changed Runabout’s name to “Over-Run,” just to change it back to “Runabout” in like, less than two decades later.
I'm getting powerful Imperial Storm Trooper vibes from the Runamuck.
Thew, I've just recently gotten back into customizing my figures, and this video has now got me hyperfixated on turning two Studio Series 07 movie Jazz... es into these two heehaws, and I blame you ❤
Congrats on evolving into Strange, Pleasant Matt.
...Thew :B
BEYOND AMAZINGLY FANTASTIC REVIEW THEW ADAMS!!!!!!!!!! :D I loved all your puns throughout the video, they are mucking about so much they gave me the runs. :D Keep on being amazing, Double Thumbs Up. ;D
Mucky Pup reference at 3:36! I caught that, and it might be the first reference of good ol' MP in ANY Transformers review EVER! Thew, you ABSOLUTE UNIT.
So, I noticed a thing. In the fan pole the Impacter was decided on, everyone of the characters eventually got a new toy in the WFC trilogy. Except Needlenose. Then in the fan pole that Runamuck came from, Gnaw got a SS86 toy. Shrapnel is probably going to be in Legacy since Kickback is. Poor Needlenose
Its a shame that its basically impossible to get runabout in the uk because the runamuck figure is really good
Dammit Thew, I was trying to sell Runamuck because I couldn't find Runabout. Now I feel like I have to try looking for him again XD
Weirdly ADORE this mould. Love the shape and how hefty they are. Just wish they used it for the Devastation goons as well
I would have loved to get the TFCC versions, though hearing about the hack, kind of glad I didn't go that route. There was also the Takara Tomy Transformers Adventures versions made from the CW/UW Blackjack mold. Not the best compensation, but still fun.
You missed a pair of figures. They both technically landed in Combiner Wars via Adventure from the Blackjack mold. To be fair though, most people missed them too as Runabout was barely advertised or talked about anywhere and Runamuck was a fucking mail away exclusive packed with Dogfight from CW Powerglide.
The only way to pick up Runamuck and Dogfight at the moment is to try and buy it from one of those Japanese sellers who list things at double to triple what they actually sell for and hope they actually send them to you. Runabout is more reasonable being under $40. I got lucky and picked one up in a lot for cheap. I then sold the other figures I already had and actually made money picking mine up. I'll get Runamuck and Dogfight someday though. I finally got UW Grand Scourge for a decent price two months ago and I'll eventually find the two little guys also.
I don't understand those Japanese sellers though. What do they accomplish by listing things for so far above the actual going rates? It's all their Transformers too and not just rare figures. Not only do they also get the names wrong in the title but they all use the same stolen pictures from someone who sold that same thing a while back.
One of them has an Earthrise Scorponok listed at $628.20 with $25.00 shipping. It's available for preorder at regular price almost everywhere right now. Speaking of; someone should tell the people on Ebay currently bidding on a Scorponok that's bid to $10 over retail with $35 shipping. There's 32 people watching it too. How do they not know to try literally anywhere else to get it at retail price?
Have you ever thought of putting something like a trip hop beat under your alliterative musings? I know your musical tastes probably don't point in that direction, (I don't know much hip hop myself) but dude, your flow! I mean, you really are rapping, basically. And doing it well.
The G1 versions are indeed bad. Same with the Throttlebots and Topspin/Twintwist these aren't proper transformers. More like gimmick cars that flip out and over to look like bots. Still love them thanks due to nostalgia goggles. The CC versions are meh. I like the Earthrise ones, but I'm more happy with my Iron Factory variants. Smol, but interesting.
I'm also a fan of some Decepticon cars. Menasor, Rodimus Unicronus, Exhaust. It's a shame Runabout has been really hard to get a hold of, especially here in Australia