I've always known him as Build King, since I originally imported the Car Robot toys back in '00. Fiddly to be sure, but he has such interesting combined modes and a great design.
Haven't touched this toy in like 15yrs and I can still remember it's transformation like it was yesterday. I remember how hard it was to track down all 4 back in the day.
I just look at Heavy Load's face and all I can image is him just saying something mischievous or stupid like "I just took a shit..." but in duke nukems voice for some reason
eh, this is the least of this thing's problems. characters changing designs and alt modes, names being used on characters that have nothing to do with the original, those are nothing unusual
With the omega Prime being a thing hopefully we could see a legacy landfill. Wedge/Grimlock could be deluxes while heavyload/hightower could be deluxes but if the combiner needs bulk voyager class. Or a commander box set cause magnaboss opens up that possibility of smaller combiners being a commander box set This a very unique combiner team we usually don’t get 4 bot combiners and they have a cool gimmick to rotate the combiners design to your liking. There is some repaints of this team mainly an all yellow construction team and maybe a G1 devestator colour so there’s repaint possibilities for a legacy version
Love RID 2001 because it had memorable characters and insane combiners like this. Really happy Onega Prime is getting a HasLab. I would absolutely fall over if we get good redos of the build team and Rail Racer.
If I had a nickel for every time Grimlock appeared in a Transformers series called Robots In Disguise and was green, I’d have two nickels! Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
I still have these, but I call them by their true Japanese names not the weak Americanized names, so Buildboy, Build Typhoon, Build Hurricane, and Build Cyclone, finally Build King, same for the train trio J4, J5, and J7 who form JRX
This saddens me, because while I bought basically the entire first wave of RID and a lot of later figures, I was 14 when it was running and Ruination was the only combiner I completed. I only got Grimlock and Wedge from Landfill, and I didn't get any of the Trains.
I just really loved how completely different all of the combiners were in RID. We got a straight reissue of Bruticus as "Ruination", a straight recolor of Dreadwind and Smokejumper, a mashup Scramble City and Sentai Super Robot in the Build Team, a Japanese Train Combiner™, and a classic Super Robot in Omega Prime.
When I was like 4 or 5, my best friend had this set, and I still remember Wedge so vividly, but I never had a name to put to it. So glad to see someone revive that memory for me and give a name to the toy. I should go buy a copy. I'd love to see more RID2001 videos, because the more I look into it, the more I suspect it might have been my first exposure to the franchise Now Ive just got to find out what a giant-ass heavily chromed purple and turquoise transformer owned by one of my brother's childhood friends was
Build King always felt to me like a design intended for a Brave series that got reimagined for Transformers, even moreso than JRX does. The excavator being named 'Grimlock' is definitely symptomatic of Early 2000s Hasbro Trademark Maintenance
I can't help, but scream, "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!" Landfill looks so wired the way you transform Grimlock. The gray parts of Grimlock legs are hidden behind the Wedge's tread's. You don't rotate 180 degrees. When you do that, you're basically keeping them in the same position as before. You rotate 90° so that you can bend the joints upward, hiding the gray behind Wedge. Bringing the arms up higher, giving the figure a cleaner look. Not making it look so awkward.
This set actually fit to G1 aesthetics. I have a -Cybertron Landmine -Car Robots Combiner Landfill redeco both to yellow orange -G1 Grapple , -G1 Micromaster Erector with Flatbed-battlestation. Sure played with it 10 years ago as an autobot Buildbot subgroup as counterpart to Constructions though Landmine, Grapple and Erector is not part of combiner mode. I renamed him Baseframe (I know it's weird I was a kid) as he is the Shockwave-esque leader and the buildbots were his team. Also had a Grapple which is his right-handman renamed Flexbeam. They left Cybertron on a mission to a Cybertron colony as a construction team that somehow got sucked into a wormhole and ended up in G1 where they work behind the scenes to help rebuild on damage control cause by the Earth Autobot Deception war but not interfering in a war they were not a part of. Hey I was a kid with a hyper imagination so don't judge. I remember putting them in a box somewhere. Maybe I would display em it was a part of me growing up. I would like to get a Cybertron Quickmix if it's not too expensive online and add that. Its a big figure. Maybe a Rescue Bot Wedge the one with a trailer base, saw that and it wasnt that bad, its quite cool actually. Since I have a Landfill and I really want a Cybertron Gigantion Quickmix, I'll finish it up with a Generations Double Targetmaster Scoop. Just because they were a G1 Double targetmaster team of Scoop, Landfill and Quickmix, and I know there is no way I can get my hands on G1s, or maybe too much of a hastle since they are really old. I don't know my dad just buys me construction bots as a kid. Never bothered me. I mean my friends had Optmus and starscreams and Bumblebee the popular ones. Im happy with mine. And used to work well with my lego base and city builds.
This series had the most awesome combiners. Optimus was a single robot combiner, Optimus and Magnus were a 2 robot combiner, Raiden was a 3 combiner, these guys used 4 members, and Ruinitron had the traditional 5. So much variety.
Oh, Hightower. Still appreciate him for being one of the first Transformers I ever owned, but really hate how he (and the Universe Bonecrusher and Scavenger 2 pack) has forever taunted me with the first of many incomplete combiners.
I picked up Landfill at Toronto's TF con. Very happy to get it, as RID Grimlock was the very first transformer I ever own. So nice to get him again along with the full team.
Man, I manageed to get all of these when I was much younger........EXCEPT Grimlock. I always wondered what the mythical final bot was, and it surely is......something.
Oh boy I remember this set of toys, well, not SPECIFICALLY this set, when I was younger, except they were all done up in Heavyload's color scheme and all came in 1 packaging so you didn't have to buy them separately, still have them to this day, Ah fun memories....
You did transform Grimlocks arms mode a bit wrong. Instead of turning them 180 degress around, you should instead just turn them 90 degrees up and then use all those hinges to position the arms to where the shoulders really should be. And yes, that is how it's supposed to be, as you can see that with the two others being arms, that the shoulders there are aligned with Wedge's tracks. Also, Hightower's toes doesn't fold the same way as Heavyload's does. You should instead fold them down on the outer hinge and then up on the inner one, since the other way has them push against the cabin part. And you also missed Wedge's waist swiwel that is unlocked by moving his combine post down
If they ever do a Legacy version of Landfill, the team members' molds might be viable for doing the BWII Autorollers and making a combiner out of them as well! Although I do wonder how they could possibly retool a bulldozer, excavator, dump truck or crane into an APC or a fighter jet...
well in the Japanese Car Robots source material he is not Grimlock but a completely new character, his American name is just a trademark preserver slapped on to him by Hasbro, strangely enough RID2015 Grimlock is a homage to him while also being closer to G1 Dinobot Grimlock.
Grimlock: “Me Grimlock no like being excavator, me Grimlock be Dino king, me Grimlock acquire Cesium Salami”. Grimlock is the coolest Dinobot from G1 and Fall of Cybertron.
You forgot to say “Ohhh Yeah!” when you transformed Grimlock. Just kidding, he seems not fun, falling over so much, and being difficult to pose. His anime character was great, as was Wedge. Yes, let’s give the Legacy line a shot to fix issues and create a great update. 👍
Fun fact: The Japanese and American versions of Grimlock are ever so slightly tooled differently(I used to own both, kept the Japanese version, but also later got the all yellow WalMart version) with the cab windows being retooled. The difference was prolly too insignificant to mention in the Wiki...
Considering they're from 2001 $100 for the whole set doesn't sound terrible. It's a cool, fun, novelty set that unfortunately didn't find its way into the collection. Wouldn't be opposed to adding the Build Team someday. Side note. I think this was released in Devastator colors at one point.
I always thought it was supposed to be GrimROCK when it came to the RiD 2001 name but someone didn't get the memo and wanted to keep the original name. I mean, it makes sense. He's a construction vehicle.
"That, actually doesn't look that bad". Gonna have to disagree with you there (in a cheerful way, not in a mean condescending way). I'm not saying this is the worst combiner I have ever seen, just that I'm having a hard time thinking of a worse one right now. In all seriousness though, it's still a fun looking figure, and I probably would never have known about it if not for this review, so thanks :)
Now realizing that some knockoff I've had for a year is a very simplified green and black version of the Hightower/Heavyload mold 💀 It DID advertise a construction vehicle combined mode on the back..
I love this combiner team. Such great, fun colourful designs and entertainingly challenging transformations. I liked them so much I bought them three times over; the Wal Mart all-yellow version is nice and the predictable Constructicon repaints Universe gave us are also nice! This era of Transformers from around the turn of the century is my absolute favourite period and these four chunky builders are a good example of why; so much experimentation and innovation going on around this time. Brilliant.
0:47 I hate to be huffy about this, but this is something that really annoys me about TF fans: it's not that one of them *is* Grimlock, one of them is *named* Grimlock. That doesn't mean he's the RID version of the G1 dinosaur, they simply share a name. I'd argue that Cyberverse Clobber *is* Lugnut of Animated fame more than this guy *is* Grimlock of G1 fame.
You mistransformed grimlocks legs for combined mode. I went and looked at the instructions and my original copy from my childhood and yet your messed up lol. You made him look more like a knock off the way you did the arms for the combine mode lmao but I love landfill and his brave series feel this team has. I would really love to see an updated combine team, same for railracer no matter what hasbro said I'm gonna keep asking for it. IDK why hasbro doesn't try and make an American form of Raiden or railracer like takara has done different some hasbro transformers why not hasbro do some different transformers from takara side. I would love to see CSX,North fork southern, Canadian Pacific,kansas city southern,unicorn Pacific, Baltimore Northern Santa fe combine to form Raiden xD
I have ton constructicon repaint of those figures. While the instructions did help, what really help me was actually remembering how the combining was done in the 2001 anime. While they are the same molds as the Build Team (that's what they were called), the coloring of the constructicon repaints were definitely more uniform. Still it does have all the same issues you would have. Me personally I was just happy to have something that reused the same molds.
So he has rubber tires for feet...huh? Rubber can not support tons of weight. The fake grimlock makes me mad just looking at what he does. That combined form is not that great. I think I will stay with the 6 Constructicons.
You missed that hightower has little black pegs that flip out near his front wheels (the ones that become his shoulders), they exist bc crane trucks IRL have anchors that fold out to lock them in place so they don’t fall over while lifting things. While the IRL ones don’t exactly look or work like that, it is neat they put something in to add “realism”.
god, i REALLY want these guys and the three train bots in modern day technology. legacy of late has been boring for me cause a transformer has to give me something more than a well made figure. i love titans returns, power of the primes, and siege the most, with some earthrise and kingdom (just the weaponizers and fossilizers though) because they gave me a reason other than just "it good" though i'm not that big of a fan of the junkions. they scream scramble city instead of every part actually getting a use in some way shape or form. i hate that the main torso is literally a brick, but ah well
I had this as a kid in an all yellow color scheme, and it was a bit of a disappointment even as a kid. I remember spending maybe an hour deciphering the instructions to put him together, only to be disappointed with the floppy and fragile mess of parts that the bots combine into.
I got these guys and I love them, thou I wish they would do legacy versions same with Railracer, Railracer could really benefit from a bit of a stylised approach, thou all three would need to be leader class as they are big bots while the build team aside from Wedge would need to be voyager class, Wedge should be a deluxe as he forms the centre of Landfill, besides kids like trains and construction vehicles
This was such a weird combiner. I always used grimlock as the arms because it looked weird otherwise. It was an interesting gimmick, but it was weird. Rail racer though was good. I would love to have a masterpiece rail racer or haslab.
So I heard the reason why the green one is named Grimlock is because Hasbro needed to keep their license for the name active otherwise it would have went public domain
"This is probably where they-ow" - ThatToyGuy 2/2/24
I have the yellow Walmart exclusive version, and he’s still so goofy and funky looking, I still love it
With luck and patience one could find this for about 50 USD least that’s what I noticed scouring for the guy
Say what you want, but I'm hoping that they do something for Landfill and Rail Racer.
This is one of my favourite combiners from the Transformers series!
Same here. I liked how the limbs could be in any combination, without taking it fully apart..
I've always known him as Build King, since I originally imported the Car Robot toys back in '00. Fiddly to be sure, but he has such interesting combined modes and a great design.
And how can you not love the name, "Build Boy" for Wedge?
I completed watching the anime, but never owned a single figure, although I like how unique this guy forms in comparison to at least JRX.
Haven't touched this toy in like 15yrs and I can still remember it's transformation like it was yesterday. I remember how hard it was to track down all 4 back in the day.
I just look at Heavy Load's face and all I can image is him just saying something mischievous or stupid like "I just took a shit..." but in duke nukems voice for some reason
Grimlock not being a Dinosaur has to be some sort of War Crime.
I wouldn't mind it if he was a triple changer
eh, this is the least of this thing's problems. characters changing designs and alt modes, names being used on characters that have nothing to do with the original, those are nothing unusual
Don't look at the Alternators line
Or megatron not having a arm cannon
He was an armored assault thingie in Dreamwave's War Within. :p
I love the idea of this guy having different forms, and only having 4 members.
One of them forms the chest, head and is the leader, and is also the smallest of the four
@@wilsonweiseng6485Not always in all cases the greatest is the leader.
With the omega Prime being a thing hopefully we could see a legacy landfill. Wedge/Grimlock could be deluxes while heavyload/hightower could be deluxes but if the combiner needs bulk voyager class. Or a commander box set cause magnaboss opens up that possibility of smaller combiners being a commander box set
This a very unique combiner team we usually don’t get 4 bot combiners and they have a cool gimmick to rotate the combiners design to your liking. There is some repaints of this team mainly an all yellow construction team and maybe a G1 devestator colour so there’s repaint possibilities for a legacy version
I would be down for an all four deluxe setup though.
RID2001 is severely underrated. It had some of my favourite designs (Prowl my beloved)
I have my eyes on this figure for awhile and its still worth the wait for me.
I have all of them except high tower. Got them at a vintage store. Really cool to see how different toys were two decades ago
what i like about this combinder, is you can rotate it round so you can chuse which are going to be the arms and which are going to be the legs
Googiest combiner? Pfft! Animated says 'Hold my beer while I show you something...'
Safeguard was pretty cool imo
@@autobotyscorner6404 Really fantastic engineering. I have 3 of him in fact. But honestly? Still a little goofy.
They look way Better in the cartoon.
Love RID 2001 because it had memorable characters and insane combiners like this. Really happy Onega Prime is getting a HasLab. I would absolutely fall over if we get good redos of the build team and Rail Racer.
At least in RiD 2015 Grimlock was still a dinosaur and only wore a digger as a disguise
If I had a nickel for every time Grimlock appeared in a Transformers series called Robots In Disguise and was green, I’d have two nickels!
Which isn’t a lot, but it’s weird that it happened twice.
It was a crane.
I still have these, but I call them by their true Japanese names not the weak Americanized names, so Buildboy, Build Typhoon, Build Hurricane, and Build Cyclone, finally Build King, same for the train trio J4, J5, and J7 who form JRX
This saddens me, because while I bought basically the entire first wave of RID and a lot of later figures, I was 14 when it was running and Ruination was the only combiner I completed. I only got Grimlock and Wedge from Landfill, and I didn't get any of the Trains.
YAYYYYYY LANDFILLL
i am still waiting fpr legacy of him and absolutely love it
Also I don't give a coin that grimlock isn't a dino, he looks great ok?
The RID dub and name changes were garbo. Car Robots was much better. Even the American toys were of noticeably lower quality.
I started re watching RID 2001
And it Nuffin how I remember it 😂
I would actually find it cool to see these be the next Legacy Combiner Team
Did they pay you to take that because if you paid more than 25 cent's for the whole thing than you got taken 😢.
I really want an update on Ruination, and by extension Bruticus
There is a Ruination redeco of CW Bruticus as a Japanese exclusive as a option.
The RID Wedge is by far one of my favorite Transformers. His transformation, colors, look.. everything is just perfect for the type of figure he is.
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I just really loved how completely different all of the combiners were in RID. We got a straight reissue of Bruticus as "Ruination", a straight recolor of Dreadwind and Smokejumper, a mashup Scramble City and Sentai Super Robot in the Build Team, a Japanese Train Combiner™, and a classic Super Robot in Omega Prime.
When I was like 4 or 5, my best friend had this set, and I still remember Wedge so vividly, but I never had a name to put to it. So glad to see someone revive that memory for me and give a name to the toy. I should go buy a copy. I'd love to see more RID2001 videos, because the more I look into it, the more I suspect it might have been my first exposure to the franchise
Now Ive just got to find out what a giant-ass heavily chromed purple and turquoise transformer owned by one of my brother's childhood friends was
Why be constructiBOTS when you can be constructiCONS?
Hopefully we get new versions of the Transformers Car Robots Build Team In Transformers Legacy .
I just hope the new molds for the Build have better engineering and better heals.
I own heavy load and love the figure
hmm I wonder what might have spurred you to make an RiD toy video
so mysterious
jokes aside non-dino Grimlock is honestly kinda cool
It's funny cause I bought this a day before the haslab announcement. Lol
Build King always felt to me like a design intended for a Brave series that got reimagined for Transformers, even moreso than JRX does.
The excavator being named 'Grimlock' is definitely symptomatic of Early 2000s Hasbro Trademark Maintenance
Me grimlock is going to kill mysel-
Hightower I'm pretty sure was my first ever Transformers toy, I still have his crane but the rest of him went somewhere, probably a farm. Maybe...
I can't help, but scream, "YOU'RE DOING IT WRONG!" Landfill looks so wired the way you transform Grimlock. The gray parts of Grimlock legs are hidden behind the Wedge's tread's. You don't rotate 180 degrees. When you do that, you're basically keeping them in the same position as before. You rotate 90° so that you can bend the joints upward, hiding the gray behind Wedge. Bringing the arms up higher, giving the figure a cleaner look. Not making it look so awkward.
Wedge also has a waist swivel.
We NEED this in legacy (I am extremely bias)
This set actually fit to G1 aesthetics.
I have a
-Cybertron Landmine
-Car Robots Combiner Landfill redeco both to yellow orange
-G1 Grapple ,
-G1 Micromaster Erector with Flatbed-battlestation.
Sure played with it 10 years ago as an autobot Buildbot subgroup as counterpart to Constructions though Landmine, Grapple and Erector is not part of combiner mode. I renamed him Baseframe (I know it's weird I was a kid) as he is the Shockwave-esque leader and the buildbots were his team. Also had a Grapple which is his right-handman renamed Flexbeam. They left Cybertron on a mission to a Cybertron colony as a construction team that somehow got sucked into a wormhole and ended up in G1 where they work behind the scenes to help rebuild on damage control cause by the Earth Autobot Deception war but not interfering in a war they were not a part of. Hey I was a kid with a hyper imagination so don't judge. I remember putting them in a box somewhere. Maybe I would display em it was a part of me growing up.
I would like to get a Cybertron Quickmix if it's not too expensive online and add that. Its a big figure. Maybe a Rescue Bot Wedge the one with a trailer base, saw that and it wasnt that bad, its quite cool actually. Since I have a Landfill and I really want a Cybertron Gigantion Quickmix, I'll finish it up with a Generations Double Targetmaster Scoop. Just because they were a G1 Double targetmaster team of Scoop, Landfill and Quickmix, and I know there is no way I can get my hands on G1s, or maybe too much of a hastle since they are really old.
I don't know my dad just buys me construction bots as a kid. Never bothered me. I mean my friends had Optmus and starscreams and Bumblebee the popular ones. Im happy with mine. And used to work well with my lego base and city builds.
Grimlocks a what???
Sorry I had to do it 😂
*Insert Peter Griffin saying the D-word*
This series had the most awesome combiners. Optimus was a single robot combiner, Optimus and Magnus were a 2 robot combiner, Raiden was a 3 combiner, these guys used 4 members, and Ruinitron had the traditional 5. So much variety.
Oh, Hightower. Still appreciate him for being one of the first Transformers I ever owned, but really hate how he (and the Universe Bonecrusher and Scavenger 2 pack) has forever taunted me with the first of many incomplete combiners.
I picked up Landfill at Toronto's TF con. Very happy to get it, as RID Grimlock was the very first transformer I ever own. So nice to get him again along with the full team.
-oh look it has no heels it cant stand!
>literally throws toy on a table
Image a new toy of these guys lol
Man, I manageed to get all of these when I was much younger........EXCEPT Grimlock. I always wondered what the mythical final bot was, and it surely is......something.
Transformers in 2010: Reveal the Shield
Transformers in 2001: [ 5:32 ]
VANGELUS TRANSFORMATION OPENING REFERANCE!!!!!!!!!! WHAT THE HELL IS A CONSISTANT UPLOAD SCHEDUAL!!!!!!!
Buildking/Landfill is cool, but!! We NEED a new JRX/Railracer!! #TeamBulletTrain
Oh boy I remember this set of toys, well, not SPECIFICALLY this set, when I was younger, except they were all done up in Heavyload's color scheme and all came in 1 packaging so you didn't have to buy them separately, still have them to this day, Ah fun memories....
Imagine if the g1 designs combined into this
You did transform Grimlocks arms mode a bit wrong. Instead of turning them 180 degress around, you should instead just turn them 90 degrees up and then use all those hinges to position the arms to where the shoulders really should be. And yes, that is how it's supposed to be, as you can see that with the two others being arms, that the shoulders there are aligned with Wedge's tracks. Also, Hightower's toes doesn't fold the same way as Heavyload's does. You should instead fold them down on the outer hinge and then up on the inner one, since the other way has them push against the cabin part. And you also missed Wedge's waist swiwel that is unlocked by moving his combine post down
If they ever do a Legacy version of Landfill, the team members' molds might be viable for doing the BWII Autorollers and making a combiner out of them as well! Although I do wonder how they could possibly retool a bulldozer, excavator, dump truck or crane into an APC or a fighter jet...
I admittedly have both this set and Universe Bonecrusher/Scavenger and Hightower/Long Haul; awkward but fun sets.
well in the Japanese Car Robots source material he is not Grimlock but a completely new character, his American name is just a trademark preserver slapped on to him by Hasbro, strangely enough RID2015 Grimlock is a homage to him while also being closer to G1 Dinobot Grimlock.
Grimlock: “Me Grimlock no like being excavator, me Grimlock be Dino king, me Grimlock acquire Cesium Salami”.
Grimlock is the coolest Dinobot from G1 and Fall of Cybertron.
You forgot to say “Ohhh Yeah!” when you transformed Grimlock. Just kidding, he seems not fun, falling over so much, and being difficult to pose. His anime character was great, as was Wedge. Yes, let’s give the Legacy line a shot to fix issues and create a great update. 👍
Build Team is a great combo team from RID2001 , way better than Rail Racer (IMO) ....ok Ruination is alright G1 was better lol
Fun fact: The Japanese and American versions of Grimlock are ever so slightly tooled differently(I used to own both, kept the Japanese version, but also later got the all yellow WalMart version) with the cab windows being retooled. The difference was prolly too insignificant to mention in the Wiki...
Considering they're from 2001 $100 for the whole set doesn't sound terrible. It's a cool, fun, novelty set that unfortunately didn't find its way into the collection. Wouldn't be opposed to adding the Build Team someday. Side note. I think this was released in Devastator colors at one point.
I always thought it was supposed to be GrimROCK when it came to the RiD 2001 name but someone didn't get the memo and wanted to keep the original name. I mean, it makes sense. He's a construction vehicle.
"That, actually doesn't look that bad". Gonna have to disagree with you there (in a cheerful way, not in a mean condescending way).
I'm not saying this is the worst combiner I have ever seen, just that I'm having a hard time thinking of a worse one right now.
In all seriousness though, it's still a fun looking figure, and I probably would never have known about it if not for this review, so thanks :)
Now realizing that some knockoff I've had for a year is a very simplified green and black version of the Hightower/Heavyload mold 💀
It DID advertise a construction vehicle combined mode on the back..
I love this combiner team. Such great, fun colourful designs and entertainingly challenging transformations. I liked them so much I bought them three times over; the Wal Mart all-yellow version is nice and the predictable Constructicon repaints Universe gave us are also nice! This era of Transformers from around the turn of the century is my absolute favourite period and these four chunky builders are a good example of why; so much experimentation and innovation going on around this time. Brilliant.
0:47 I hate to be huffy about this, but this is something that really annoys me about TF fans: it's not that one of them *is* Grimlock, one of them is *named* Grimlock. That doesn't mean he's the RID version of the G1 dinosaur, they simply share a name.
I'd argue that Cyberverse Clobber *is* Lugnut of Animated fame more than this guy *is* Grimlock of G1 fame.
You mistransformed grimlocks legs for combined mode. I went and looked at the instructions and my original copy from my childhood and yet your messed up lol. You made him look more like a knock off the way you did the arms for the combine mode lmao but I love landfill and his brave series feel this team has.
I would really love to see an updated combine team, same for railracer no matter what hasbro said I'm gonna keep asking for it. IDK why hasbro doesn't try and make an American form of Raiden or railracer like takara has done different some hasbro transformers why not hasbro do some different transformers from takara side. I would love to see CSX,North fork southern, Canadian Pacific,kansas city southern,unicorn Pacific, Baltimore Northern Santa fe combine to form Raiden xD
I have ton constructicon repaint of those figures. While the instructions did help, what really help me was actually remembering how the combining was done in the 2001 anime. While they are the same molds as the Build Team (that's what they were called), the coloring of the constructicon repaints were definitely more uniform. Still it does have all the same issues you would have. Me personally I was just happy to have something that reused the same molds.
We definitely need legacy remakes of these guys, along with Heavy-load’s murderous smile😂
Digger Grimlock & T-Rex Grimlock = John Jacob Jingleheimer Schmidt
Well if Haslab is willing to reincarnate Omega Prime, I wonder if they'll give the Build-Team and Rail-Racer a turn in the spotlight too.
I like the Japanese version build king. But American version fans call grimlock, “excavon”.
So he has rubber tires for feet...huh? Rubber can not support tons of weight. The fake grimlock makes me mad just looking at what he does. That combined form is not that great. I think I will stay with the 6 Constructicons.
You missed that hightower has little black pegs that flip out near his front wheels (the ones that become his shoulders), they exist bc crane trucks IRL have anchors that fold out to lock them in place so they don’t fall over while lifting things.
While the IRL ones don’t exactly look or work like that, it is neat they put something in to add “realism”.
god, i REALLY want these guys and the three train bots in modern day technology.
legacy of late has been boring for me cause a transformer has to give me something more than a well made figure. i love titans returns, power of the primes, and siege the most, with some earthrise and kingdom (just the weaponizers and fossilizers though) because they gave me a reason other than just "it good"
though i'm not that big of a fan of the junkions. they scream scramble city instead of every part actually getting a use in some way shape or form. i hate that the main torso is literally a brick, but ah well
I had this as a kid in an all yellow color scheme, and it was a bit of a disappointment even as a kid. I remember spending maybe an hour deciphering the instructions to put him together, only to be disappointed with the floppy and fragile mess of parts that the bots combine into.
Prefer many of these Car Wars Japanese names Buildking, Gigatron etc were just better names
I remember I had High Tower. I was a 4 year old, I wanted Optimus Prime, but the only description I gave to my mom was "I want the red one"
You missed transformed the arms on the combine mod
They shouldn’t be under wedge tracks
But behind look at peaugh review of this figure
Just so you know I’m 13 and I love transformers figures putting the description won’t stop me from watching
If RID 2015 had triple changers, gridlock would be an excavator for one of his modes
I got these guys and I love them, thou I wish they would do legacy versions same with Railracer, Railracer could really benefit from a bit of a stylised approach, thou all three would need to be leader class as they are big bots while the build team aside from Wedge would need to be voyager class, Wedge should be a deluxe as he forms the centre of Landfill, besides kids like trains and construction vehicles
Hey, love your videos! Wondering if you have the Combiner Wars Ultra Magnus? Would love a review from you on that figure.
This was such a weird combiner. I always used grimlock as the arms because it looked weird otherwise. It was an interesting gimmick, but it was weird.
Rail racer though was good. I would love to have a masterpiece rail racer or haslab.
Huh. Completely forgot about these guys. I had the all-yellow paint, and could never fet the combined form to stay together.
10:39 and now we gonna do.... This Fu##er
Got me laughing so hard😂
Found a Wedge for 5$ at the flea market today. Shocking solid little dude for a 2001 toy. May need to track the rest now
Ehh, my advice is just to call him Grimstone instead and if Grimlockk just so happens to be his brother, then why not?
These feel like they could be the next weaponizer team with a combination mode. Then, repaint them in classic devastator constructicon colors.
Have a constructicon green version of these guys that was a target exclusive around 2010. Not the best but i like the big guy.
always wanted the devstator version of this guy. I know they’re bizarre but that’s exactly why I want them
I would like to see Hasbro do more RID01 toys. the show itself ain't that bad either, it's just an anime that was dubbed to make time for Armada
Dude this was my favorite toy when I was a kid. You can call it goofy, I call it versatile for the imagination.
Hot take a construction vehicle isn't a bad alt mode for grimlock since it keeps the destructive power of a t rex while being a better disguise
Genuinely love this figure, its such a shame that grimlock feels like a weak link in robot and combined mode.
That grimlock is kinda like a worse CW Bonecrusher... somehow
So I heard the reason why the green one is named Grimlock is because Hasbro needed to keep their license for the name active otherwise it would have went public domain
I have these Transformers.
...The combined version isn't great.