Legacy Point Blank: Is ANYONE Surprised?
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- Опубликовано: 10 дек 2022
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“Drown in a diarrhea-filled toilet with no one holding it down” great line it's hilarious.
Yeah
Thank you very much.
I have to agree it is hilarious
Ah yes. Legacy Point blank, The Earthrise Cliffjumper and Kingdom Rhinox combined into one Bad figure
That's an excellent way to look at this thing.
HasTak: "So let's make these small and fun little Targetmasters with ball jointed arms and legs with fun blast effects!"
Also HasTak: "Legacy Pointblank's coming out? Give him a unused G1 Targetmaster design for the Targetmaster!"
Honestly the only reason I get the Targetmasters are for the blast effects, and I dont think I’m alone.
They didn’t sell anyway
That's for sure what this thing feels like.
I mean it would have cost them nothing to include one of those Siege targetmasters in the right colors, or even reuse the ones from the Generations Scoop figure for Needlenose. That would have been better than the no-effort they put into this TM figure!
you know whats sad i was hoping this would walk so that a "potential armada blurr" could zoom but now this feels like it trips so that a "potential armada blurr" could dig it self into a grave
Hopefully they just hold off and don't make it out of this.
Wildrider: “I’m the worst legacy figure”
Point blank: “hold my shoulder nipples”
That's a great joke.
One thing I'd say about that targetmaster that I'm surprised you didn't say yourself is this:
It feels like a baby could transform it completely by accident and not even realize they did something.
That’s genius!
That would have been a solid thing to say, except I don't know if a baby is STRONG enough to fold that thing in half, DAMN it's tight.
I'm imagining him having to turn sideways and crabwalk in order to get through doors.
Lol. Yeah that would be a problem for him.
when he turns around even Unicron crouches down 🤣
A relative just got it, and I saw how much they cut due to "being too costly", the 2nd engine weapon (hence the "tailbone" he's got), the swiveling hand for the Headmasters style of Targetmasters (that's what the handle on the back WAS for), hollowing out the Targetmaster's whole body, etc. (all these were on the prototype). I hope more people wake up to Hasbro's insane corner cutting and excuses.
But muh cost/complexity algorithms
@@DiggitySlice lol, yeah, a billion dollar company **totally** can't spend a few bucks more to make the molds and produce it.
@@KodyCrimson not if those billions of dollars are going back into other shit
Some people actually have the Gall to claim that this needed to be a Voyager to not suck.
@@PerspectiveEnd no surprise there
I was thinking of getting this figure, I looked at it for a while and thought "yeah this looks good," and then I saw that he doesn't have bicep swivels. I don't think a single deluxe class figure over the last 5 years has not had bicep swivels.
The reason why that one bit hangs down from his crotch and the reason why they didn't give him wrist articulation was cause of budgeting done to make sure he got his target master, he had the little crotch part come off and turn into an exhaust blaster but when they were told they couldn't do that so they decided to just make it part of the crotch mold and not change it.
Legacy's recently weird qc is likely a result of factory changes or them putting more money into developing the figures for rise of the beasts (judging by the fact two seperate deluxe airrazors were leaked recently).
Man that doesn't make any sense, this thing isn't using a Deluxe budget already.
It's a very simple transformation, with barely any posing.
Never thought I’d see Transformer circumcision in a video, but hey, at least Point Blank is doing something with his life now.
Man why did you have to put that image in my mind?
"Im sure theres something I would enjoy in [Japanese Transformers]"
Perspective, I think I found my new mission statement.
Also. Wrist swivels. They were originally in rhe design but got cut for budget. Same thing happened with the targetmaster. They didnt want to release it seprately because of the failure of micromasters.
We got a Crosshairs and a Pointblank, now all we need is a Sureshot to complete the Targetmaster team.
Also, did you know that Misfire appeared in the animei along with Pointblank?
I had seen clips of him appearing there yes.
And what Budget. They didn't use half of what they normally do.
he looks like a retool of POTP punch/counterpunch. so that might explain some of the weirdness of the figure, since the original mold was a deluxe that was technically a quadruple changer with 2 robot modes.
I had someone tell me that if you could only get 1 deluxe from wave 3, this one was a must have
Welp... They're crazy. Call the men in white coats.
Earthrise cliffjumper + Kingdom tracks = Legacy point-blank and whatever was left over was compressed into Peacemaker
What do you mean by Peacemaker? Who is Peacemaker?
@@PerspectiveEnd he's the little guy that comes with Point-blank
I actually considered getting this figure to disassemble it and melt those teal parts and make Bionicle pieces from them.
Then, I got a large bag of lego technic teal parts which weight even more than the figure and cost 1/5th of it's price.
How were you going to turn these into Bionacles? That seems impossible to me.
@@PerspectiveEnd metal molds, pour it into them
Probably.
This is such a weird toy. I genuinely don’t know what they were thinking. If this wasn’t dropping right before Christmas I know this thing would be a shelf warmer. Even ERcee sold out before Christmas.
That's a good point, hopefully I save a few kids with this video.
"Fuck this thing!" -PerspectiveEnd, usually.
Put that on my Toombstone.
That looks like a pretty obvious Armada Blur pretool. I know the original looked kinda like this too, but this is straight up just armada Blurr in red
Hopefully not because that will just mean he sucks too.
It does look so much like a toy design held back from an earlier TF Era. I might've thought around 2004/2005 myself, but it may not be heavy/sturdy enough for that.
Exactly, that's exactly what it looks like.
Dude his head looks like a conglomeration of Jazz's face, Megatron's helmet and Springer's dumb head fin.
Like all that but also if you just kind of ran them though an ugly filter.
I got point-blank anonymously gifted to me today from amazon. I don't know if it is a bonus from one of the other legacy figures I ordered but I won't say no to getting him for free despite his problems!
Free is a great price. Congratulations on your out of no where gift.
Great review PerspectiveEnd!! I have to admit I enjoy Pointblank, especially how tall he is and standing him besides Siege Crosshairs. Please forgive me, but in my review I said that Pointblank was my favorite deluxe figure from wave 3 of Legacy. LOL :D I think its fun that we have opposite opinions about Pointblank. lol :D Keep on being amazing.
I'm glad you enjoy it, you have nothing to apologize for.
@@PerspectiveEnd Thank you.
Blank is the right term, because I've never been so bored looking at a figure with such a unique vehicle design.
You could say he's firing blanks.
he's called that because he got shot point blank with a shotgun and ratchet didn't have good replacement parts
Good, let him die.
A deluxe without bicep swivels is unacceptable. This has dashed my hopes for an Armada Blurr out of this mold.
Indeed, hopefully they just don't do it, and if they ever bring back the character they use a new mold.
I was actually excited for this guy, we had gotten Crosshairs in Siege and when I heard Pointblank was coming from the listings I was like “oh sweet they’re gonna do the full Autobot targetmaster team! I’ll go ahead and go back and grab Crosshairs when I can” and then when Pointblank was revealed I was so disappointed I haven’t even gone back and grabbed Crosshairs even knowing he’s not that bad.
Yeah, it's really unfortunate. Like it didn't have to be this bad, they just got ULTRA lazy with it. Some people are saying how this would have been better as a Voyager, but it's not even as complex as a normal deluxe. It's just phoned in.
So glad I passed on this, while skullgrin isn't amazing, he at least looks good with his smaller brothers, and had arms that worked right, oh well, I don't think anyone was really surprised with this turnout lol yet another great review!
Thank you very much, and yeah it seems like for once people had about the correct expectations going in.
Yeah, about the articulation, apparently they were forced to remove both wrist and bicep swivels for the sake of including the target master. And at this point, they should probably just make them core class target masters, because I’d rather pay 12$ for something that requires extra effort instead of a sucky robot mode and an even suckier target master. And the crotch was supposed to be covered by a shield accessory in vehicle mode, but again TORGEHT MASTUR!!!
The Target master is 3 parts though? And it sucks. How?
@@PerspectiveEnd don’t look at me, I’m merely recounting! Nor am I disputing that these were sensible compromises, because it seems as though they’d actually have the budget for all of that.
Late 10k surprise. 10k celebration when
Thank you very much, and at this rate 10K looks like it will be coming Christmas day.
You know I kinda wanted this and might of picked it up when I saw it in shelves but thank you for saving my money haha
I know the call of the hunt is intense, but just save your money.
How bad could Pointblank be? Looks at the hips “oh”.
Yeah they are some weird child bearing ones.
Looks like Legacy is suffering from Kingdom syndrome with having a great start, and then having a terrible 3rd wave
Well Kingdom kind of started petering out at wave 2, Legacy's first two waves are about equally strong.
Wow.. It's like he was - an afterthought.
It sure feels that way.
This looks like Hasbro was like “Let’s make trash to make money and make kids sad!”
That's exactly what this is like.
@@PerspectiveEnd They probably intended for it to be mistaken for a crossover Spider-Man.
Cool review. I hope my boy Dead end will be better.
Deadend is for sure better.
I can see this figure being retooled into Armada Blurr.
Lot of people can.
Not to mention Star saves new brain master has more articulation than his target master and that thing is smaller than titan masters
Yeah that things like the size of a Tic-tac.
I was hoping this could be a decent Armada Blurt, but that back would need some serious work to be a passable chest
Yeah I can see why you'd think that, but this needs extreme work.
I just want to leave this extremely important comment pointing out a simply vital aspect of this figure that you missed, without of course, watching the rest of the video to see if you noticed and correct yourself. Thanks for the content.
You monster!
Haha this is such a hilarious review
Glad you enjoyed.
Ngl I hope the company that made the chug scale IDW prime makes their own version of this guy
I think the odds are very low. Like if Hasbro doesn't sue them into the ground for just the Prime it will be a miracle.
This figure looks like armada’s sideswipe with the arm kibble
Sideswipe? Do you mean Blurr?
Why does Pointblank look like a guy who shouldn't be allowed within 500 yards of a school
He does look like a pervert yeah.
I don't believe there is a single deluxe or voyager class figure since 2010 that lacked a bicep swivel it is genuinely mind boggling hopefully someone makes a upgrade kit that replaces the arms entirely and with the headmasters anime / toy head
See I don't think they should, this mold is a Failure. It should be allowed to just die it's undignified death.
Finally another review. Also I have a feeling that ss Soundwave is not going to be able to end up on the worst of year list now thanks to legacy wave 3. Also what are your thoughts on Bombburst?
What do you mean finally? I did a review on Wednesday.
I think he's still in the running for that.
@@PerspectiveEnd I think my brain is broken, I thought you did 2 roast a man's compilations in a row, sry
Parts of this figures looks really give me armada blurr vibes so I get the feeling hasbro might try retool this into an armada blurr
Hopefully not, and they start over with a new mold cause this one sucks.
@@PerspectiveEnd yeah completely agree this mold isn’t even good enough to be the character it’s supposed to be so trying to retool it would likely make it worse than it already is
He’s wearing a bib made out of a blue sep lock bad
sep lock bad?
OH Zip Lock Bag.
Your autocorrect really betrayed you there.
Apparently this toy got shafted hard because of the Targetmaster. Like in the grey model, it had much better arms with actual wrists and such. Personally, I would've rathered him not have it if it meant the base figure would be better.
But the Target Master sucks too so that's not a Justification when the Head Masters were better.
@@PerspectiveEnd Oh I'm not saying I agree with it, the Targetmaster does suck. Just that that's the BTS reason why the figure was shafted as hard as it was. It's apparently even why Needlenose looks kind of odd since he's got two of them.
Why does this thing feel like it was made In a day then mass produced
I don't know because they announced it for ever ago, and yet it still looks like this.
If Hasbro uses this mold for an Armada Blurr in the future... It would be the only Armada figure I would 100% not want, that is if they dont mess up another one. Granted they might be able to retool some problems away but it's just better off with a new mold.
Yeah, let's hope it doesn't come to that.
So your Armada Starscream has dogshit QC? Mine has somewhat loose hips and discoloured red parts after having it for a month. Did you try and get another one?
I don't normally try to get a second copy because of QC but somehow I did wind up with two thought I didn't open the second yet. The QC on the first is awful.
This guy's pretty slick actually
Im going to facepalm myself if this is the base mold for armada blurr. If that would be the case, hopefully it would be a heavy remold.
Yeah, hopefully they do something very different than this for that thing.
3:54 well we do want to forget kiss players existed, thanks for the reminder.
We block that from our memories.
Is it just me or is this figure like a reverse of Skullgrin? Whereas Skullgrin had a good-looking robot mode and a crappy vehicle mode, Pointblank has a bad-looking robot mode but a fairly cool looking vehicle mode.
Like… it’s just kinda weird because not only do they both have this issue of one mode being bad and the other good, but they’re also both deluxe figures, they’re both G1 characters and they’re also from the same era of G1 too, that being the 1987-89 post Movie era where we just got lots of different concepts and ideas like the Headmasters, Targtmasters, Powermasters, Pretenders etc. Just something I’ve noticed about this pair.
You aren't wrong no, the altmode is definitely what makes this interesting, and manages to be an 80s Post Apocalypse thing worth messing with.
The only thing this guy has going for him is the colors
Indeed, it's the only thing making him interesting looking.
The QC and problems are making me very worried for future figures. (Oh please let inferno, tiger hawk and silverbolt be good figures. If you have inferno, is he at least a tolerable figure?)
Tm2 Megatron too
Yeah, I'm worried, but I've at least heard good things about the inferno.
You need to see the glory of beast wars neo gigastorm!
That's just Trypticon.
@@PerspectiveEnd yeah! With leopard print and a big ass predacon badge! Does trypticon have that? no.
I am not done watching but I know this is gonna be great:
Hope it lived up to your expectation.
@@PerspectiveEnd as usual, it exceeded it.
I love this guys reviews because I bought shattered glass soundwave. KEEP IT IN THE DARK 24/7 thankfully after 2 weeks NO YELLOWING
Well thank you, though why does that make you like my videos?
i actually like the way it looks
Well I hope you like the figure then.
The fucking ERCEE mold is BETTER THAN THIS? HASBRO YOU HAD ONE JOB! AND YET YOU KNOW SOME PEOPLE ARE PICKING IT UP BECAUSE "It'S G1". God damnit
I struggle to say it, but yeah it's not an unreasonable statement to make. What the Arcee does well it does better than what this does well at.
The upgrade kit is needed
Indeed it is, but then you are paying too much.
Wheel jacks head from ROTB looks like a younger and much better designed version from DOTM
But maybe the glasses is his ears glowing
I mean that's a low bar to cross.
What's your favorite design from Rise Of The Beasts so far
I'm still getting it (and as we speak, it should STILL be on its way) for my own reasons.
And I thought you were one of the few who wanted the most accurate physical manifestations of characters, CONSIDERING that the head is accurate to his American/Rebirth [head] design.
Well, there's the manga and the Japanese G1 collection, if you're looking to find what to enjoy from Japanese Transformers.
And I guess the only reason the crotch has the odd backside is to mold in an engine detail easter egg (at least I think it looks like an engine), due to the lack of a winged engine piece (though to be fair, I think that the car mode would be better without it with those wings sticking out). I think that homage is more noticeable in vehicle mode.
But the gun mode CAN plug on to the car via the two tabs that go into the two slots on the knees in vehicle mode.
Well I just hope you like it when you get it in hand.
I mean this is only semi accurate to that head, it was an ugly head in the first place and the body isn't very accurate.
That's a lot of material to get through to hopefully find something I like.
I tried shoving the gun all over that section and couldn't find a way for it to go in.
Hasbro: “but he have target master”
Me "But Him Target Master Sukk".
No wonder percepter never mentioned his little brother
What is this about him being Perceptors Brother.
Well. I bought it for 5 bucks at a thrift store. Worth about that much...
That makes sense you found it there that quickly.
And yeah that's a reasonable price for it.
Can’t believe I bought this yesterday. Haven’t even opened it yet but after seeing this video I’m not sure if I want to
If you do I hope you like it, but you would still be able to return it at this point.
I have a soft spot for him. I guess I have a thing for hard luck cases.
I've never heard the phrase "Hard Luck Case" before.
Just got him on sale. This is one that will look best in car mode.
How much was the sale?
@@PerspectiveEnd not that much, I think about 17 bucks. One thing I'll say that I do like about his robot mode is that he can bend he knees so far unlike a lot of TFs. His arms are incredibly frustrating and I agree with all your criticisms. I quite like his color scheme - very similar to Perceptor. I was unimpressed with Crosshairs and didn't buy him, but hope they do a decent job on Sureshot.
3:55 fun fact, the Producer of Kiss Players stated that the series was intended to 'shock' TF Fans. Because what can be more shocking than borderline illegal material?
Shocking people isn't even hard. So not only is that guy a creep but he's a lame edgelord.
I agree about how bad this figure is. As soon as I found out how limited the arms were I relegated this one straight to the shelf. I get shudders sometimes thinking about it. I hope a better one comes along. Not one that has minor remolding to look like what we want, actual reworking from the ground up.
Yeah, I can't believe they thought this was ready for prime time. It's so bad.
That quail helmet is actually based on the G1 cartoon because for some inexplicable reason the it's head wasn't based on the toy
That's actually a weird little tidbit I didn't know.
when this was leaked I was considering buying him. then they put the American head on him and were reminded why I'm not completing my season 3 + 4 collection.
Even if he had the right head, he'd still suck.
Snapdragon levels of bad elbows
Honestly worse.
Anyone remember how Hasbro named him Blanker when photos of his robot mode was reveal. I think it was during SDCC 2022. But a few months later they revealed his name as Pointblank on a fanstream. Anyone else remember that? Anyways. I like Pointblank as a character. His Legacy figure, is 50/50. Hasbro should have used the battle master gun mold from Siege for Pacemaker.
I 'member.
Yo perspective which do you prefer tfp wheeljack or movie wheel jack one has the look down but the other has the character down
I think he prefers Que better than Prime Wheeljack, to be completely honest.
"Fuck the Wreckers" Perspective End-2020
I like Bumblebee Wheeljack... I have found the flaw in your conundrum.
The G1 figure had wrist articulation!
That's amazing, Worse than G1. Ouch.
@@PerspectiveEnd It's kind of a no-brainer figure. Make the G1 figure, but with knees, hips, ankle and neck articulation. If you don't want to spend money on the Targetmaster, reuse a Battlemaster tool, or the target master that came with Universe 2.0 Cyclonus (still hasn't been topped). Nope, just make everything low effort and don't include the other accessory that was pretty important to include with him. ARG!
how did the target master turn out like this we just had siege not to long ago and they managed to do target masters better then that
Indeed we did, and it's pathetic they couldn't do better than this.
Can you give me a list of all the Bumblebee movie designs from good to amazing too great
Optimus is the best.
Shatter 2
Arcee 3
Blitzwing 3
Dropkick 5
Ratchet 6
Wheeljack 7
Bumblebee 8
Shockwave 9
Soundwave 10
Starscream 11
Legacy Pointblank is the succesor of the Kingdom Rhinox (Even though I actually like the latter)
I almost feel like this is worse.
Hopefully evolution will be better, and i can already see the title for the legacy retrospective “ It progressed like cancer”
I don't think of it that way. It progressed like a Car Crash. It was going great till suddenly it exploded.
Gotta say wave 3 is off to a shaky start. Now I'm kind of worried about how armada Scream and inferno are going to turn out, I was so hyped for them
Don't have Inferno in hand yet, but I can tell you that Starscream has some of the worst QC in the line.
@@PerspectiveEnd oh shoot, I was planning on getting him for a friend of mine. He is a big Armada nut, and he really wanted this new starscream to compare to both the thrilling 30 and the OG toy :(
@@PerspectiveEnd His limbs are wobbly asf.
RUclips's being fucky again. I'm behind like...3 Reviews. Why haven't I been notified of your stuff, it's usually pretty on-point for your content.
That's strange, but yeah it's not the best at that kind of stuff.
Finally, a worthy opponent for my legacy Blasters qc! Literally my Blasters legs have the same problem.
Sorry to hear that, that sucks. It's such a good figure if it weren't for that.
This could've look good if they just retooled the Punch/Counterpunch mold.
Agreed.
Why does that particular shade of red look like blisters?
I don't think they do entirely but they do enough.
I was originally going to get this to go with Crosshairs, but after seeing the images for this guy I think I'll just save for something else.
Yeah not worth. Save your money.
Hooh. Well, that was an appropriately scathing review of a terrible figure, it’s almost amazing how much this figure fucks up.
Well done, man!
Thank you, and thank you for giving me the opportunity to thrash this.
I'm worried about your opinion on Inferno and Transmetal II Megatron
Those are the only two I don't have in hand yet, so I'm hoping they are better.
I still want this retooled into armada blurr
I mean if they do you better hope they fix those arms.
@@PerspectiveEnd they'd be reversed so the elbows should be okay but yah the shoulders need to come down off of the pauldrons more
This was more like an Armada toy 🗿
An Armada toy from 2003.
@@PerspectiveEnd Srsly man, the lack of bicep swivels just _oozes_ Armada engineering stain 🗿💀
Those red tumors on his "elbows" must go, man 🗿
Can't believe that such detail exists for no reason and would only hinder the arm articulation 🗿🗿🗿
0:00 the sad part is *we live in a society* someone might actually be into that
What do you mean?
I wouldn’t worry about it ha
I was wondering if i should look for this thing or for Make toys Contact shot(3rd party masterpiece style pointblank), but now i know.
Yeah not this thing. You will not be happy.
I wonder if the "Budget restrictions" are even real or if it just a way to maximize profits
They are a way to Maximize profits.
I can’t understand there people who actually like him, much less Doctor Lockdown(He bought gap fillers for him).
I don't know if Dr Lockdown actually likes this figure, or if he just doesn't share my sentiment of only upgrading good things.
I'm starting to think that even Hasbro realized that this thing was bad, because one wave later, we're getting Needlenose, who while not perfect still looks way better than this thing.
Why is Needlenose connected?
What are your thoughts on the Sonic movies
Not seen em.
The moment I saw this shit revealed I always thought in the back of my mind that this was a Prime Wars figure that they were rereleasing.
It does have that vibe yes.