TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS Around the World
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- Опубликовано: 9 сен 2024
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Hasbro in the 90s: we cannot milk the same line anymore
UK hasbro: watch this m8
jockadoobee I was unfortunately born in the mid 90s so the transformers I saw were from the unicron wars and rid...as a child I honestly would’ve been geeked for all those extended lines and figures I was obsessed with the g1 line because I had the transformers guide from 2005 and I always wanted to own the original g1 figures but I’m also glad to be around forthe new modern transformers
I remember my gran picking me up cliff jumper and bumble bee from the pound shop way back in 91, Woolworths was still selling the bigger G1 toys in their OG packages aswell as the reissue golden package I cried when my mum wouldn't buy me sun streaker
I jumped for joy when I saw Rack n Ruin in cyberverse, i was like "NO WAY!" And then Bee called them by name.
This is PROPERLY amazing
I'm a patron, which is basically the same thing
Great to see Thew here.
@@toygrind Patreons get early access, duh.
R u going to do more 10 shots 10 bots?
Cut him some slack, think of his liver.
*names character Black Cat*
*paints it green*
Ravage was already black, haha.
Acid Cat? Venocat? Poison Cat? Leaf Cat? ...Puke Cat?
@@EnderTitan how about GREEN Cat??
@@slave7022 I got it, Jade Cat. :D
I know right!!!!
Illusion 100
Transformers had its 35th anniversary a few days ago on May 8th... so happy birthday, Transformers!
Let's celebrate 🎊🎉
BattleUp Saber the 35th anniversary of the first g1 episode is on September 17th
@@porpleprople The very first piece of Transformers media released was the first issue of the Marvel comic, which was released on May 8th, 1984.
Alex Severinski ok, I didn’t know that but I am talking about the cartoon not the comics
@@porpleprople OK, but in this context, the cartoon was not the first piece of Transformers media released.
I'm always wowed by the cultural melting pot of designers & writers behind Unicron!
*American wrote his initial concept
*UK gave him THE BEST origin
*Japan Animated him
*Hispanic artists designed him, Cyclones, Hotrod, Galvatron, etc.( notice their unique chin and beardlike designs)
Well he IS a singularity of chaos.
The world united just for an hour long toy commercial villain played by orson welles. I think thats nice :)
Didn’t America animate him
@@chaosenforcerdhm969no. Animation for the G1 series was drawn by Toei studios.
It's impossible to think outside of the UK mindset for me. The idea of growing us as a Transformers fan and not knowing who Impactor or Deaths Head are is mind boggling!
I know right!!
Not just in UK. The Transformers Comics in Germany were basically IDW Comics with other Covers. Deaths Head was/is one of my favourite Transfomers Characters too, so finding out at one time that he´s almost unknown in the rest of the world was irretating. I mean...HE KILLED SHOCKWAVE! How can you not know him???
Impactor? Death's Head? Who?
@@ChrisMcFeely Also thanks for reminding me Siege Impactor is happening. Waited 19 years since I first read the Marvel UK comics for a general retail of this boi and i'm not missing out!
Never heard of those characters growing up in the U.S.
That Brazil part caught me off guard. Quite a nice surprise to me.
This is probably the most impressive Basics video Chris has ever done.
True!
China’s influence on Transformers:
Loads of knockoffs
95% of third party figures
Enough movie-goers to keep Bayformers alive for 10 years
One of the potentially wackiest Transformers animated series
(Gee.)
Pretty much.
strangely enough a lot of the third party figure/knockoffs are better then the actual real thing or are pretty much just like the real thing.
@@alien6424 giving some third party respect, some of them are TF fans who make products to other fans.
Michael Bay would've loved the idea of 'BREASTFORCE' in one of his own Transformers movie pipe dreams.
We'll, he did try to cover up RotF with the claim that he was making a movie about lingerie models trying to escape a volcanic island.
I think Breastforce was Michael Bay's secret name for Megan Fox 😂🤣😂
Also Megan Fox was playing Michael Bay's self insert character. Mikaela (Michael) Banes (Bay)
I know it is a joke, but for those who don't know: Those were fallow up to Soundwave and Blaster with chest armor minicons. And well... it is Japanese series, so name was quite odd.
By the way, to any viewers out there from South America who can help: TFWiki needs more info and pictures for the Optimus and Malignus factions. Your input would be greatly appreciated.
My first transformer was a red Bumblebee from Estrella. I still got him. Great video Chris!
I am shocked and amazed that I've never even seen so much as a mutter about "Transformers : Portal" or any pictures from it. Dang I love learning. Great job Chris!
I always tend to forget that, even with the internet, not all forms of media are as wide spread as I think them to be. This was cool to learn about, and made me glad that IDW's run has lead to some of the characters being brought to the forefront of the fandom.
Another reason IDW is better than Dreamwave. Hope Pat Lee never touches Transformers ever again. Or IDW (unless he climbs over Furman's bloody corpse).
@@twistedgaming9185 Pat Lee coming back would get a big *NOPE* from the collective Transformers fandom.
Good old memories. Euroformers were my first toys that I received from my parents and grandparents after events in 1989 (the fall of Berlin wall and downfall of Soviet Union) . I found even some pictures when I was 4-5 years old holding my G1 Rotorstorm and many more. Time when gimmicks were cool and creative and the time when Europe was actually 1:0 to US. The funny thing is that my grandmother calls me childish because I'm a collector but she was actually responsible for making me a TF fan.
Death's Head was an instant hit with me when he first appeared, and is probably my favourite Marvel character to this day.
I recall having a pair of bootleg Beast Wars transformers my mother bought me on a Spain trip. They had falcon and parrot alternate modes and had really static and garish colour schemes
Wow this rabbit hole certainly went deeper than expected. Great stuff hearing about how TF worked in other countries.
I heard about that upcoming Chinese series and it certainly sounds interesting. Unsurprisingly there are some fans especially on tfw that are crapping on this even before its made. Because no one hates Transformers like Transformers fans.
Because its from the chinese government, OF COURSE the robots wont have much of an impact, other than that particular robot that just happened to follow the government to a T and everybody knows of. Except those that dont live in China. Its gonna be unrelatable if you dont know or care for that perticular 3 headed "human" too. And with all chinese copyright infringement, do they really need to do this?
People on Tfw? Like Tfw2005? Thank Primus I left that website. If I got banned, then I still thank Primus. I hate that site ( have some nice people). Matter of fact I don't even remember joining that website. No seriously.
They’re not as bad as the Sonic the Hedgehog fan base so...
@@geeboysgamesandmore49 I dunno, I've seen some TF fanart that rivals the Sonic stuff.
TFW2005 is such a circle jerk. Especially when it comes to fanboys of James Roberts.
Wow! I am from Chile and i remember that drees shoes commercial, so long ago. Greetings
It is actually cool to know where these random characters come from! And since it is such an open sandbox universe there is so many potential stories.
As a Brazilian myself, it's very cool to see the Estrela toyline being included here! I saw you mention on Twitter that you were afraid of pronouncing their names wrong, but don't worry, it was alright! Just Esporte was a little funny, sounded like "Esportchê" :p
And as always, great video!
I'am Brazilian. I lived the complete phase of Transformers of the Estrela in the 80s and 90s. Two other national companies (MIMO and Glasslite) competed against Estrela with the toys of the Bandai franchise '' Go Bots \ Machine Robot '' , here in Brazil, were called "Mutantes" and "Converts". They have come to have original concepts and ''unauthorized\unique versions'': The super machine automobile K.I.T.T. ("Knight Riders' TV show") and the super urban combat helicopter Blue Thunder became Mutantes\Go-Bots. Glasslite was entitled to the ''Blue Thunder'' and ''Knight Rider'' (''Trovão Azul'' and ''Super Machine'' in Brazil) trademarks and made a repaint on two Go-Bots to make it a " the transformable versions'' of both super vehicles of the TV.
;P Very rare and expensive for collectors, today.
Nowadays, in Brazil, Estrela has lost the partnership and rights to use the ''Transformers'' franchise from Hasbro. But it went on to distribute the '' Mutantes '' brand after the collapse of rival company Glasslite.
A pity ... because Estrela Brinquedos was already the biggest maker and distributor of toys in Brazil for many years. And he had the right to use almost all Hasbro and Mattel toys.
Important information: Optimus and Malignus were a joint creation of distributor of toys Star and the translators of the Brazilian version of comic books of the '' Transformers '': Editora Globo \ RGE. In this way logos were created for the two factions (Optimus and Malignus), as well as a totally national logo for '' Transformers '' from Estrela. Not to mention the national names that were the first version that Brazilian children had access to: Optimus Prime was called "Supreme Absolutus"; Bumblebee was ''Furão''' (portuguese of ''Ferret ''); Brawl was '' Brigão '' (Brawler); etc.
Many of these names were not even literal translations of English names.
But that turned out to be quite favorable for the lore of Transformers: From Transformers Animated, it was made official that Optimus and Malignus were two factions of Autobots and Decepticons that fell in Portugal many centuries ago. And the Portuguese language was influenced by these two factions and vice versa, because the history of the Portuguese Empire had secret participation of these cybertronianos at that time.
And to explain the existence of so many 'repaints' of transformers who look like various heroes and villains of the franchise, it is said that cybertronians (who in the version of toys their molds are Takara-Tomy's mini-cars) like Bumblebee they use a 'popular' transtector body model ... that is, Bumblebee (and the mini-cars) are '' ordinary people '' in Cybertron's society. There are thousands of autobots or decepticons that look like Bumblebee. Among them are the ''brazilians of Estrela'' Furão, Volks and the ''portuguese'' Moscardo. Two transformers that turn into Volkswagen beetles. ;)
Two re-concepted transformers from Brazil and Portugal.
Where did you get the Transformers animated part?
I was born 2001 so i grew up with the transformers characters from the 2000s. Particulary the characters from R.I.D 2001 it introduced me to the franshiche. Thanks for introducing me to new characters Chris. Doom wings looked awesome in the idw comics. I will be sure to use him in one of my headcannon transformers stories. Your videos are so educational
Your channel is a gem. Thanks so much for all your insight into the Transformers.
The bot names from the mmo sound like jaegers in pacific rim
Or the Japanese G1 sequel characters.
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer At least they still sounded like names from transformers unlike this mmo. I only liked doomwings.
Yeah, I definitely see what you mean. I'm attached to a few, like Overlord, but ones like Victory's Leo or Big Black Convoy I cannot forgive.
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer yeah, I also see what you mean.
BiG cOnVoY!!!!
@@TheSmart-CasualGamer Right?
"Galaxy Shuttle", "Sky Garry", "Dai Atlas", "Magna Stampede"...
Now that's what I call an interesting video. I've always found foreign versions of toys interesting, like with GI Joe.
Action Man!
@@orinanime Yup, Action Man really branched out compared to its American counterpart.
You mean...Action Force? ;-)
I did love Action Man growing up.
Even in the states, I had GI Joe and Action Man toys as a kid.
Just like GI Joe, the 90s weren't all that kind to him in terms of screen presence. But I loved his cheesy 90s cartoon nonetheless.
I also loved his 2000s CGI cartoon as well.
Speaking of Transformers around the world. Will you do a basics on Diaclone and Microchange?
Yeah, especially since Diaclone's revival and new toys of Dia Battles V2 and Battle Buffalo. It definitely deserves the attention.
Ive long had a kind of "Episode Zero" in mind where I'd go back and look at these. This week's episode made me reflect on the international releases of those lines and how they affected TF in orher countries - Joustra in France, GiG's "Trasformer" in Italy - and I think they've convinced me it'll happen sooner rather than later...
@@ChrisMcFeely Oh, okay. We'll be patient. The new Diaclone toys are great, if expensive. On the plus side, the new Dianauts are compatible with most older toys like the Diatrain, Optimus Prime, Starscream and Raiden
@@ChrisMcFeely You can call it, Episode Zero: Proto-Transformers. :D
This is hands down one of my favorite episodes you have down. Some of the characters I knew off through other The Basics episodes. Love the exposure you give to the entire TF Universe
I can see theses exclusive characters operating on the content their on as the own supgroup helping the protect earth with their own bases. With the transformers who were on the ark being stationed in North America, Europe characters stationed in Europe and so on
And nobody in Africa :(
MrSafior that’s we’re the decepticons are
I actually have played around with the idea for a Transformers stop-motion I'm thinking of doing. It's just an idea, and I don't have nearly enough toys or resources needed to actually do it, but if I can I will.
Another Home Run Chris, it's amazing and nice to see franchises like Transformers manage to survive and grow outside of it's home countries to parts unknown and find it's way back again.
I must say I am a fan of your entire line of 'The Basics' videos. I find all your videos enjoyable, but that particular series I find every episode to be excellent...
It's truly incredible to see how big the transformers fandom is, seeing as it has reached all around the world!!😁😁
Do you think a crossover between Transformers and Nezha is first seen in recent years? Sadly I have to tell you in fact it is not true. In the 90s, after Transformers was imported to mainland of China, it immediately became an inspiration to bootleg comic book authors (it was like the whole country was making such illegal and stupid things lol), who tended to feature "crossovers" in their bootleg stories. For example, I still remember there was a "crossover" comic book between Contra and Transformers, and more often the case, a "crossover" between foreign cartoons (Transformers, Heman, Doraemon, Astro Boy, etc) and Chinese native cartoons (Calabash Brothers, Black Cat Detective, Monkey King, etc), so Nezha could no way escape from their hands. Actually I once read one exactly being a "crossover" between Transformers and Nezha when I was in elementary school. If I recall correctly, it was saying all Transformers were evil and they were to invade earth for energy. Then there was a scene Nezha fighting a Quintesson-like monster and an Optimus Prime-like robot was saying "Hang in there Thousand-faced Monster!"
I know they were not canon but it was stupidly funny ok?
God this series is just incredible sometimes
Really cool episode man. I'm Brazilian, I used to have the recolor topspin as a child. Awesome job man!
This episode was INCREDIBLE! I never knew there was stuff beyond Europe, America and Japan! Thank you for making this!
Yet another Basics Video on Transformers Characters I know next to nothing about. Thanks Chris!
So much insight and thoroughness put into this episode, I can't even wonder where you get all this info. Simply amazing.
wow, i had no idea there were so many transformers around the world! thank you for this epic vid!
Wish Hasbro would reissue the European transformers.
Yeah, so their missiles will be ridiculously long.
If universe King Atlas (the Skyquake repaint) is any precedent they just won't include the launchers at all.
There's a certain appeal to a global release of a lot of the euroformers. Their gimmicks would fit in really well in Cyberverse, and their ostentatious colour schemes and names could make for a great new line in general.
@@HashbrownMashup Well, some of them (like Boss and Hurricane) won't look complete in vehicle mode without them. With the recent reissue of G1 Starscream, it's likely they'll come with longer missiles. On the other hand, like the recent reissue of G1 Optimus Prime, they might live off the launchers as a cost-cutting measure (which would suck).
That would be awesome. A lot of them just needs more joints.
It’s nice that we’re getting a close basics of characters like the Turbomasters and Predators packed into this episode.
Man I forgot that I owned the Bat-Robo. Damn this took me back
Hey, Chris, thanks for letting me know about the International Versions of The Transformers!
oh Primus please yes more of these transformers around the world
Once again your videos are amazing and have given me so much new information on the Transformers truly appreciate your work man keep up the amazing work
Amazing. Take my mam's money hasbro, seeing any of these G2 versions years ago. There were baskets of G2 Optimus and Megatron. Friends had Trakkons, and the dark green jet, I had Sparkobots, Machine wars, even found a Beast Fighter I buried on the beach. Still have Fearswoop I still call Trakkon, Aquaspeeders and the Storm Troopers. Wasn't too dark a time, they were the dark times though.
Love Deaths Head he even went after Dr Who, I'm really hoping The Siege line will give us a Rack N' Ruin figure.Another great episode Chris keep them coming 'Till All Are One.
I do like Dr Who but I gave up on the new show when Peter Capaldi took over.
@@SwordInTheStorm I stuck out till Jodie hit.
Whoop! New episode!!!
Also, as a suggestion for a future episode, The Basics On: Gold Plastic Syndrome
OMG THE EPISODE I DIDNT KNOW I NEEDED!
Oh yeah. That's some good Basics.
Well, thats me taken to school today! Wouldn't mind seeing a few new toys of those lesser known characters doing the rounds. We need new toys of Thunderclash and Snare :)
Quick note about the Rescue Force: Only _four_ of the SIX Breastforce members were released, and none of them came with accessories designed to help them combine.
(The Constructicons, re-released in yellow the same year, also were retooled to include none of the Devastator parts/weapons or spring-loaded weapon features (Mixmaster). Kind of obvious, the Generation 2 Constructicons -- yellow and orange -- are based on the early 1990s U.K. Constructicons, with Devastator parts hastily re-added.)
awesome chris!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
So cool see the Transformers around the world,there are a lot of things that I didn't know like the releases in Brazil, even though I'm Brazilian. Excelent video, and sorry for any english errors
Great episode! I learned about so many characters I'd never heard of before!
Thank you Chris McFeely, you did an amazing job!
Thanks for your support, Safior, glad you enjoyed it! :D
@@ChrisMcFeely You welcome.
To bad that , once again, Africa is the left over of pop culture.
This is probably my favorite video of yours. A lot of the toys that you see from areas of the world I remember seeing as a kid at flea markets here in the U.S. and thinking they were knock offs. Wish I would have bought a lot of them and kept them in good shape, they seem like they be worth a pretty penny today. Especially when I saw the original Car Robots from the 80's that actually did the the tiny pilot figure with them.
1:31 Flame looks like Hot Rod. Nice. 😁
Completely introduced new characters to me all except the wreckers.
Wow amazing episode ! Excellent investigation job !!
Anyone else notice Transformers Armada Cylconus in several of the backgrounds? If you don’t recognize him at first in Armada that look was when he powered with a minicon to change the cockpit.
In the late 1980s, I went with my mom to visit family in Mexico. Before heading back home to the states, my mom wanted to buy me a toy at a local toy store. I distinctly remember having to decide between a Devastator 6 transformer set or Ironhide. Because my older brothers already had two Constructicons, I went with Ironhide. Even though I kick myself now for not getting the Devastator set, I had a lot of fun back then playing with Ironhide. He still sits on my shelf to this day.
This is why I love your channel. Without it I probably wouldn’t have learned about Transformers Portal and now I will try to watch it
This is one really awesome episode of The Basics, I knew about some of these (mostly thanks to TFwiki), but not all, and I love learning more about this brand that I have loved since 1985.
This episode just blew my mind
I've heard about some of these but there were a lot that were new to me. This is one large franchise.
I did not see that coming...but it’s just as awesome
This is one of the most interesting videos you have given, there were various Transformers here I didn´t knew about, like the Chinese and the South American versions of Transformers!
This was really interesting! Never knew about a lot of these releases.
I think the Nezha story is a fantastic idea.
Always very impressed with your research you must do. 👍
Great video...some of it I knew about and some I did not!! Keep these videos coming bro look forward to what you have next.
Wow, great episode. Whole bunch of stuff I didn't know about. Thanks.
Oh man. I had so many of those early 90s transformers that were sold here in Australia. I'd actually complète forgotten about them since they're not in any cartoons.
The amount of nostalgia right now is through the roof!
Man, I know the Transformers were a global phenomenon, but didn't know at how big of a scale, thats amazing
Those 2 Australian ones were badass
As a kid, I'd spend summers in England with relatives. I remember owning a couple British Transformers. One was Rapido, a red race car. The second was Zap, an orange car with an engine that was also his gun.
I love this show
Change it up sometime and do an episode on what will be the nostalgia of 20 years from now: Rescue Bots (AKA Bobots as my toddler calls them)
Ahhh... I just remembered that something weird happened to Skywarp in my country... Somehow when dubbed into my native language they misheard Skywarp into Skywolf. Yes Skywolf the black wolf that fly in the sky!!!!!
I love how rotorstorm is getting a new figure
Star Saber wasn't brought to Europe, so the European fans writing IDW decided he was EVIIIIIIIIL
They made him Chaotic Good. Which was an interesting take.
@@pious83 Yeah... If you know nothing about Star Saber.
Always a pleasure learning more about the Transformers we never got to see in the states.
Wow, just wow!
Wow this is something that really needs to be done by country!!!!!!! GREAT JOB!!!!!!!!
great video !! I am from Argentina and I remember when I was a child they gave me many Transformers figures including the stereos cassette AM ... Regards Chris!
Fantastic episode.
I could listen to Chris say "esporte" all day.
Amazing and informative. I'm sure you get this a lot, but I didn't read the older comics much. So due to his seemingly increasing kill list I'd like to see one on the Killmonger which is cosmically powered Starscream.
very cool video. interesting seeing Transformers from other countries beside just US and Japan.
9:40 Hasbro had extra G2 and BM toys to dump into Robots in Disguise, Sonokong had nothing but extra Beast Wars II toys to dump into Korean Robots in disguise, Jeonguiui Yongsa: Car Bot (정의의 용사 카봇, "Brave Heroes of Justice: Car-Bots").
God there are so many characters and thanks to this I know almost now know TF characters
several of the gimmicks were ahead of their time, we will never see them again in today's figures.
These videos are so good
So, good old Ursa went from a piloted robot in a completely different cartoon, to a full Transformers character.
I remember years ago that there was a full 1986 Transformers movie that was on RUclips and they spoke in Greek and would love to somehow see it again
The nostalgia! I recognize so many of these, I even own a few!
Don't get why Rotorstorm's knees are welded together, but it's still cool to see one of my childhood toys again!
Memory serves, they're actually screwed together, though I've never tried unscrewing them to see if it frees them up...
@@Brickerbrack Yeah, I'm not about to manhandle the old boy either! Too old and frail, and too much a part of my childhood!
Even though I did lose his missiles, his launchers, his paint is coming off and his rotors are gone, his Autobot insignia is still there!
The Basics on Death's Head would be pretty sweet.
Really interesting! Question though - why would High Moon/Ford not just call the pick-up Wildtrack? That actually sounds alright!