Road Rage is probably my favorite of the more obscure characters because of her paradoxical name and bio a la a tamer Jekyll and Hyde of being cultured as a robot and a brute as a car. I can’t recall any other character that has that drastic a change between a Transformer and their vehicle.
@@windsweeper8002 Fall of Cybertron Grimlock had a similar thing, where his transformations were seemingly triggered by rage. Not 100% the same but maybe a bit closer to the original character?
@@OtakuUnitedStudio oh yes. I'd forgotten that. Similar again was Savage/Noble in Beast Machines. Also in Dreamwave More Than Meets The Eye, Skullgrin was a highly intelligent but rigid soldier. His Pretender shell had a program that turned him into a raging berserker once he was inside it.
Cyberverse Grimlock is thoughtful, intelligent, cultured and well-spoken in his robot mode...then becomes ME GRIMLOCK ME SMASH in his t-rex mode. It's a fantastic version of him.
Now I can finally know the backstory of a TFA character who appears in a singular comic panel of a comic exclusively sold at a convention! Thanks, Chris McFeely!
Surprised she wasn't in the animated cast. She would have fit right in in Detroit. (And I can get away with that joke. I am a Detroiter, born and raised.)
Tracks has always been a unique favorite of mine, right down to their alt mode, as he is one of the few double-changers that doesn't turn into a completely different vehicle. Rather his flight mode is an extension of their car mode, and I love it. And now that I learned of Tracks' female counterpart, I wonder if there were more half double-changers living on Cybertron. Maybe they lived as a small colony? who knows?
I really love how Masterpiece Road Rage feels like a "Floro Dery" version of the Diaclone toy - like she's based on the G1 cartoon character model that never was.
Road rage is one of my fav wfc kingdom figures/characters her design is amazing and in my opinion she's made 2021 a special year along with other kingdom bw figures (like scorpnok etc......) espicaly with her flame effects and i hope we can see her in legacy tbh and i hope 2022 will be a great year and rest in peace derrick-jack angel-brian goldner
5:00 It is with great humor that I must inform all who read the comments that this shows an artistic rendition of a cybertronian with a literal boob window. Thank you for your time.
For some reason i want to see tracks ss the naricissistic little brother and road rage as the short tempered big sister i know just because they have the same mold doesnt mean they're related but this concept gives me serotonin
When I first learned of Roadrage, it was off an Ebay listing where they had her MP figure Reprolabled up as a Decepticon. I looked up the character because I didn't know who they were and found out they were a girl, and since I didn't look further I just didn't realize they weren't a Decepticon. Since I wanted more Decepticon girls I decided to pick her up. I searched around for a Good price and found it for 40 bucks on BBTS. It turns out it was the same one from the Ebay Listing, I didn't know BBTS sold used figures. Anyways I got it, and thought it was weird that an MP had Stickers, but didn't realize they weren't stock. So I believed for a Very long time that they were a Con. I like her as a Bot in the Comics, but there is no denying I wish she was a con like my initial impressions of her. The Baddies need more girls.
I honestly just see Road Rage as a Transformer version of DJ Stryker/DJ Atomika from the Burnout series of games. (For obvious reasons, of course, considering there's a mode in those games called Road Rage) Also hello again Perspective!
You know you've done good by a character when I look at a their image on the thumbnail and think "Wait who's that?" Then by the time the video is over, I look forward to seeing more of the character.
Thanks, Chris McFeely, for giving some background info on Road Rage! Looking into her stories and personality instantly made her another favorite female Autobot of mine next to Arcee, Elita-One and a few others. I think she has great potential of being a new main cast member of Optimus Prime’s team in the future, where she could be characterized as being the adrenaline junkie go-getter of the group, who is loyal, driven, tough-as-nails, never leaves her teammates behind, and can play by rules she feels are fair, just and reasonable, not the ones that are the other way around.
@@optiTHOMAS I couldn’t agree more with you on that! Out of most Transformers TV shows ever made, do you think the Autobot main casts should’ve been more inclusive in terms of male and female equality? You know, make each one have a bit of a lady’s touch with more than just one femme like Arcee?
@@spideybrez1299 yeah, I honestly think having several more female characters would be pretty cool and give a little more contrast to a main cast. However, I can see how the old G1 cartoon was clearly trying to target a young male demographic, so that's there's so few of the females back then! 😅 But yeah, I like how we're getting more females in the main cast these days. I also think ts pretty interesting when previous established male characters can be made females like in animated and cyberverse, and they're still interesting and fun Characters regardless. 👍🏻 very cool ideas there!
@@optiTHOMAS Yeah, very cool! One interesting thing I’ve learned about the making of the (controversial) 80’s Transformers animated film is that when Arcee was created to be a leading female Autobot, the filmmakers did it just to not make the picture appear sexist. I was surprised by this just because I’ve watched Michael Bay’s Transformers when I was younger, and I had no idea about its controversies neither then.
I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for all the time and energy you put into all of your videos that you have made this year. As well as making them both informative and fun to watch. I wish you a Happy New Year and I can't wait for the videos you will make this year as well.
I found out about Road Rage through another fan pointing me in her direction after I'd been having some fun playing with making a human adaptation of the Tracks and Needlenose subplot from the 2005 IDW. I fell in love with her quickly afterwards.
I've always seen Road Rage as a potential base for a custom Shattered Glass Turbo Tracks (as Hasbro lost the rights to the name Tracks at the time). All you need to do is replace the red Autobot logo with a purple one and you're pretty much done.
@@mistylover7398 Here's a quick lesson on Transformers Shattered Glass: In that universe, the Autobots are the bad guys and the Decepticons are the good guys. That's why the Autobot badge is purple, and the Decepticon badge is red in that universe.
My first encounter with road rage came when I was commissioned to build a collection of 200 Lego Transformers. After hitting 170 I desperately began searching for viable retools and repaints of existing designs. I haven't reviewed it on my channel yet but she's coming! This channel has been and still is a HUGE contribution to my builds' inspirations. Long time fan!
Thank you very much for this video. After watching this I realised that my Masterpiece Road Rage and XTB "Crosscut" had been tragically separated in my display. They are now together again.
Just got her figure and I am thrilled. I like this character so much better than Tracks. It's actually a toss up between her and Flame-War for my favorate obscure female TF characters. ....Now to hopefully get my hands on the new Flame War figure.... Gotta love Hasbro's new business model to make 40% of every line some sort of store/online exclusive 🙄
Great video. I have always wanted to know more about her since I got the recent kingdom toy. Excited to see what other obscure characters will get videos this month!
I've always thought of tracks and road rage as 2.5 changers since they have one vehicle mode when robot mode a sort of in-between mode or special vehicle mode which is basically their standard vehicle mode with upgrades like a flight mode. making it sort of another vehicle mode but not completely more like a half over vehicle mode since the vehicle myself is mostly intact it just changed 1 aspect.
I didn't even know who Road Rage was when I found and bought her Masterpiece figure at a convention. I just already bought MP Tracks because I love the corvette and I love flame decos on vehicles. When I saw Road Rage sat on a dealer's shelf for not a lot of money I grabbed her immediately, and now she's one of my favorite things in my collection. I almost want to track down Loudpedal. That and tough female characters are my favorite. That being said, I wonder if Takara will release a version of her that's closer to her Takara Legends appearance.... for research of course.
Back in the 1980ies i bought tracks and it was the red variant so red tracks is part of my childhood, i also had blue and yellow cliff jumper plus red and blue bumblebee, so i had couple of very odd paintjob transformers also think the rarest is my blue hoist.
Road Rage is one of my most favorite Obscure Transformers characters who is also one of my favorite Autobots who transforms from robot to car and back and a very successful bodyguard also thanks for sharing Chris and have a Happy New Year🎊🎉🎁🎆🎊🎉👊💪☺☺☺
I only found out about her in 2021 and due to my fondness for obscure characters such as like Soundblaster, Twincast, and the Pirate Seacons, I ended up buying both her MP and Kingdom figures and I love both dearly although I’ll admit that the kingdom figure is very much flawed. I even preordered MP Crosscut as soon as I found out it was being revealed because I’m a sucker for pairings. So now I’ll shall patiently wait for a legacy Crosscut and hope he’ll either be main line release or a gen select. In the meantime I also plan on tracking down those 2002 releases as well. First because I think they look great and second because I have a very strong need to collect things that came out in 2002 as that’s when I was born. Wait so that makes me as old as Road rage and crosscut. Damn that realization just hit me. Anyways Happy New Year’s!
If only Hasbro take more risks with the obscures characters of Transformers, if only they take the risk to produce new series with this characters could give a boost to the franchise
01:14 Red Tracks and Blue Tracks are BOTH on the Japanese 1985 Box Art. Some have suggsted that the Diaclone Stringray was desgined specically for the US Market, either for the Diakron line, or due to Takara's partnership with Hasbro.
Tracks is a top 3 G1 autobot for me, that corvette pops in either red or blue paint. I laugh when showing the originals to the young'unsc but I ate up his character in my own youth. Market research nailed it when they launched him. I only discovered road rage through the masterpiece line, thoroughly confused by the appearance of different colored corvettes and Datsuns'. I must say given the indifference to gender I picture within the ranks of autobots, I support expanding the diversity of storytelling with the addition of solid female talent.
3:05 '....caused her to turn into a short-tempered aggressive driver' Ok, it may not be even close....But why do I feel that such characteristic of Road Rage is just similar to Cruella's 'Crazy Lady' driving skills??🤔
Would love to see a video about the Omnibots; Camshaft, Downshift, and Overdrive, if you haven't done one yet, those were obscure figures since they were only available as mail away's I think.
And the Powerdashers! There's hardly a group more obscure than them, they didn't even get any characterization until the Dreamwave comics... which they only had one panel of screentime in. To this day, they haven't had any proper fleshing out, despite new toys in the WFC Trilogy toyline. The original Powerdashers hold the distinction of being the first Transformers toys to feature Cybertronian vehicle modes. They also originally had pull-back motors.
I always love to see Obscure Characters Month! Think one day we could take a peek at some characters like Overhaul that haven't gotten any spotlights past UT (to my recollection)?
I honestly just thought she was a simple recolor of Tracks when I learned of her via the MP line till I read into it and saw she was a completely independent character from him. I am really happy Road Rage has been brought back up from Hasbro in Kingdom along with IDW.
Outstanding Basic video once more, Chris! :D Glad to see another continuation of "Obscure Characters Month"! ^^ Not sure when I first encountered Road Rage, but, I think it was probably from a review of the recent "Kingdom: War For Cybertron Trilogy" figure, though I don't remember which one it was. :P Look forward to more obscure Transformers characters throughout the month! :) Happy New Year!
Animated Road Rage Update: in 2022 Bot Con held another comedic script reading featuring road rage and this time tracks. this time depicting the later as being an unfortunate victim of goo engineered by the Mad scientist: Meltdown. In which road rage became as the name implies: a quick to temper eager to go road freak. eager to get into a fight and not afraid to cause some property damage if need be. whereas tracks Is the calm collected one. the pair where eventually separated via the efforts of blackarachnia and Metalhawk (who was depicted this time as having masterforce tech just like his Japanese counterpart and had a human disguise named Mr. hawk) but at the cost of the Laters life. the newly separated pair not knowing it Was blackarachnia herself that killed metalhawk by darning all of his spark energy to separate the two, after he had offered to donate a small portion to the process.
I literally picked up her master pice from a convention because she’s all I could afford and she started my collection of characters, literally knew nothing about them and thought they looked better in red and white than tracks in blue with his red face
Question is it jus me or does anyone else notice ds "why does rodimus revert back to hot wen he loses the matrix but optimus stays the same and doesnt revert to orion pax" would love a basics for that explanation
Because Optimus Prime was in that form before he ever became Autobot leader. The Matrix didn't change him, just like it didn't change Ultra Magnus. It changed Hot Rod because that was a matter of destiny. Hot Rod was supposed to be a boy.....the Matrix matured him instantly.
This is explained quite quickly: in the War Dawn episode, the Aerialbots are sent to Cybertron's distant past, still during the Golden Age. There they meet Orion Pax, who works as a dockworker with his girlfriend Ariel and his best friend Dion. They have already heard about the Decepticons, but Orion dismisses these as rumors and is more impressed by the unusual ability of this group, that they can fly. As luck would have it, Megatron comes to the docks and asks Orion what is being stored. The answer Energon pleases Megatron and he wounds the dock workers Orion, Dion and Ariel. The Aerialbots are looking for someone who can repair Orion and meet Alpha Trion. He repairs the badly wounded Orion, who reappears a little later as Optimus Prime and puts Megatron to flight. Long story short: Optimus Prime is Orion Pax after an extensive repair and physical upgrade. Rodimus Prime, on the other hand, is just Hot Rod who got a temporary power up through the Matrix.
i first came across Roadrage at TFcon toronto in 2019, someone was selling her masterpiece figure for a really good price, i then learned of her name and backstory when asking a very knowledgeable friend mine who was also volunteering at the convention. road rage is my first and currently only masterpiece figure.
One of my favorite Transformers, ever. Shame that not even third-party will give him the Masterpiece treatment, though to be fair I don't know how they'd even begin.
I made a Road Rage design based on her Kingdom toy and characterised her like the original, serving as a body guard for any non combatant bot. I later made a second design based on some armored Chevy after being told I need to make her more unique, so in universe it would be a Unicron Trilogy style destruction to upgrade (except very slowly becuz I decided that TFs scanning an alt mode would be in stasis and unable to act until the kibble has finished configuring),and also sacked her flight mode and vehicle mode issues becuz I found it dumb to have such a trait, and another comment implied it's sexist
Interesting. I'm probably going to cut the vehicle modes issues too, but not her flight mode. I'm gonna make her Tracks' sister, close with him at first until the war physically separated them. While Tracks becomes part of the Autobot army and later fights it out on Earth, Road Rage travels the galaxy before winding up in an all-female Transformers squad led by Elita One.
Road Rage has driven her way into popularity, and hopefully she will not suffer from...err...well...road rage on her pathway to fame with Transformers fans.
Very interesting. I had misremembered this character from when I first discovered the European Transformers. Its fascinating to see how these oddities in the toyline blossom into such interesting characters.
Though while Road Rage has get new toy and featured in new TF IDW, how long it's gonna take for her to make jump in TV. Never the less, neat way to kick start 2022 with this female Autobot.
Love the designs for Road Rage, and I'd really love to see her more! It'd be awesome to have her added to future continuity and cartoons. I like a bunch of the female transformers, but they're rare at times. I hope to see her more along with Moonracer! An old favorite of mine! Great stuff as always! Love your content, lad! ❤😁👍🏻
It's sad to hear about the passing of Wyatt. It seems that the Animated-verse nearly has every character from previous material, no matter how obsurced
I actually first discovered Road Rage via Fanart, at first I thought she was just some generic Autobot OC. And THEN I looked at her Tfwiki page and immediately became a fan.
something that kinda bugged me for a while was her mouthplate, she had it during dream sequences in the legends manga and i thought it was really cool, it gave her a unique look, then the masterpiece (and subsequently the kingdom toy) remove it, Im not too mad, i love road rage as a character, but imma mod the toy to get the faceplate back
Seeing the old Transformers Animated designs hits a little different after DJW's passing.
On god tho😞
Just what I needed for the New Year. Sadness
Exactly 💯
Oh god tho
God screw 2021
Road Rage is probably my favorite of the more obscure characters because of her paradoxical name and bio a la a tamer Jekyll and Hyde of being cultured as a robot and a brute as a car. I can’t recall any other character that has that drastic a change between a Transformer and their vehicle.
Closest in the Jekyll and Hyde portrayal is probably Cyberverse Grimlock.
Vehicles, rarely. It's only ever the case if it's something like a beast mode or an alternate humanoid mode.
@@windsweeper8002 Fall of Cybertron Grimlock had a similar thing, where his transformations were seemingly triggered by rage. Not 100% the same but maybe a bit closer to the original character?
@@OtakuUnitedStudio oh yes. I'd forgotten that. Similar again was Savage/Noble in Beast Machines.
Also in Dreamwave More Than Meets The Eye, Skullgrin was a highly intelligent but rigid soldier. His Pretender shell had a program that turned him into a raging berserker once he was inside it.
Cyberverse Grimlock is thoughtful, intelligent, cultured and well-spoken in his robot mode...then becomes ME GRIMLOCK ME SMASH in his t-rex mode. It's a fantastic version of him.
Now I can finally know the backstory of a TFA character who appears in a singular comic panel of a comic exclusively sold at a convention! Thanks, Chris McFeely!
Surprised she wasn't in the animated cast. She would have fit right in in Detroit.
(And I can get away with that joke. I am a Detroiter, born and raised.)
(Sad, since that city was so full of potential, and then... it just turned into shit.)
It would also be interesting in Prime imagine her running around with all her savagery and accidentally scratching the Knockout paint job
Tracks has always been a unique favorite of mine, right down to their alt mode, as he is one of the few double-changers that doesn't turn into a completely different vehicle. Rather his flight mode is an extension of their car mode, and I love it. And now that I learned of Tracks' female counterpart, I wonder if there were more half double-changers living on Cybertron. Maybe they lived as a small colony? who knows?
If you want more transformers with mini alt-modes then the only other ones I can think of would be the transmetals from beast wars.
I really love how Masterpiece Road Rage feels like a "Floro Dery" version of the Diaclone toy - like she's based on the G1 cartoon character model that never was.
Road rage is one of my fav wfc kingdom figures/characters her design is amazing and in my opinion she's made 2021 a special year along with other kingdom bw figures (like scorpnok etc......) espicaly with her flame effects and i hope we can see her in legacy tbh and i hope 2022 will be a great year and rest in peace derrick-jack angel-brian goldner
Yeah road rage so 100% awesome ♡☆♡☆♡☆♡☆
5:00
It is with great humor that I must inform all who read the comments that this shows an artistic rendition of a cybertronian with a literal boob window.
Thank you for your time.
4:57 Of course the manga gave her subtle roboobs.
Hahahaha I noticed that too and was like, are those....???
Japan gonna Japan
Kind of reminds me of what Studio Gonzo did with Chromia in Transformers Galaxy Force (Cybertron in the west)
@@BushidoBrownSama You talk about her, but not Thunderblast...
@@TornaitSuperBird WE DO NOT SPEAK OF THAT ANNOYANCE
For some reason i want to see tracks ss the naricissistic little brother and road rage as the short tempered big sister i know just because they have the same mold doesnt mean they're related but this concept gives me serotonin
Always hyped for obscure characters month
Road Rage!
Love your videos! 💕
When I first learned of Roadrage, it was off an Ebay listing where they had her MP figure Reprolabled up as a Decepticon. I looked up the character because I didn't know who they were and found out they were a girl, and since I didn't look further I just didn't realize they weren't a Decepticon.
Since I wanted more Decepticon girls I decided to pick her up.
I searched around for a Good price and found it for 40 bucks on BBTS. It turns out it was the same one from the Ebay Listing, I didn't know BBTS sold used figures. Anyways I got it, and thought it was weird that an MP had Stickers, but didn't realize they weren't stock.
So I believed for a Very long time that they were a Con. I like her as a Bot in the Comics, but there is no denying I wish she was a con like my initial impressions of her. The Baddies need more girls.
I honestly just see Road Rage as a Transformer version of DJ Stryker/DJ Atomika from the Burnout series of games. (For obvious reasons, of course, considering there's a mode in those games called Road Rage)
Also hello again Perspective!
@Jesse Mathis Shatter
You know you've done good by a character when I look at a their image on the thumbnail and think "Wait who's that?" Then by the time the video is over, I look forward to seeing more of the character.
Thanks, Chris McFeely, for giving some background info on Road Rage! Looking into her stories and personality instantly made her another favorite female Autobot of mine next to Arcee, Elita-One and a few others. I think she has great potential of being a new main cast member of Optimus Prime’s team in the future, where she could be characterized as being the adrenaline junkie go-getter of the group, who is loyal, driven, tough-as-nails, never leaves her teammates behind, and can play by rules she feels are fair, just and reasonable, not the ones that are the other way around.
Yeah, I'd like to see her in stuff in the future too! That'd be rad! I'd like more Moonracer too! She's an old favorite female bot of mine!
@@optiTHOMAS I couldn’t agree more with you on that! Out of most Transformers TV shows ever made, do you think the Autobot main casts should’ve been more inclusive in terms of male and female equality? You know, make each one have a bit of a lady’s touch with more than just one femme like Arcee?
@@spideybrez1299 yeah, I honestly think having several more female characters would be pretty cool and give a little more contrast to a main cast. However, I can see how the old G1 cartoon was clearly trying to target a young male demographic, so that's there's so few of the females back then! 😅 But yeah, I like how we're getting more females in the main cast these days. I also think ts pretty interesting when previous established male characters can be made females like in animated and cyberverse, and they're still interesting and fun Characters regardless. 👍🏻 very cool ideas there!
@@optiTHOMAS Yeah, very cool! One interesting thing I’ve learned about the making of the (controversial) 80’s Transformers animated film is that when Arcee was created to be a leading female Autobot, the filmmakers did it just to not make the picture appear sexist. I was surprised by this just because I’ve watched Michael Bay’s Transformers when I was younger, and I had no idea about its controversies neither then.
I just wanted to say thank you. Thank you for all the time and energy you put into all of your videos that you have made this year. As well as making them both informative and fun to watch. I wish you a Happy New Year and I can't wait for the videos you will make this year as well.
So I saw the notification for this video and it looked like you were doing a history on actual road rage lol
I found out about Road Rage through another fan pointing me in her direction after I'd been having some fun playing with making a human adaptation of the Tracks and Needlenose subplot from the 2005 IDW. I fell in love with her quickly afterwards.
I've always seen Road Rage as a potential base for a custom Shattered Glass Turbo Tracks (as Hasbro lost the rights to the name Tracks at the time). All you need to do is replace the red Autobot logo with a purple one and you're pretty much done.
What's with the purple autobot logo. Shouldn't purple go on decepticons?
@@mistylover7398 Here's a quick lesson on Transformers Shattered Glass:
In that universe, the Autobots are the bad guys and the Decepticons are the good guys. That's why the Autobot badge is purple, and the Decepticon badge is red in that universe.
@@TornaitSuperBird 🤔 they switched places and jobs in each other's 👟
She seems like a cool bot hope she's used in a animated project with her in it if not a main character
My first encounter with road rage came when I was commissioned to build a collection of 200 Lego Transformers. After hitting 170 I desperately began searching for viable retools and repaints of existing designs. I haven't reviewed it on my channel yet but she's coming! This channel has been and still is a HUGE contribution to my builds' inspirations. Long time fan!
Thank you very much for this video. After watching this I realised that my Masterpiece Road Rage and XTB "Crosscut" had been tragically separated in my display. They are now together again.
Another amazing video and happy new year
A look into Nautica or Riptide would be awesome
Just got her figure and I am thrilled. I like this character so much better than Tracks. It's actually a toss up between her and Flame-War for my favorate obscure female TF characters.
....Now to hopefully get my hands on the new Flame War figure.... Gotta love Hasbro's new business model to make 40% of every line some sort of store/online exclusive 🙄
Great video. I have always wanted to know more about her since I got the recent kingdom toy. Excited to see what other obscure characters will get videos this month!
More like this year
I feel like it’s worth noting Road Rage is the first female transformer to receive the Masterpiece treatment.
First MP that I got. Just wish her neck would tab in to her torso rather than just being there.
I've always thought of tracks and road rage as 2.5 changers since they have one vehicle mode when robot mode a sort of in-between mode or special vehicle mode which is basically their standard vehicle mode with upgrades like a flight mode. making it sort of another vehicle mode but not completely more like a half over vehicle mode since the vehicle myself is mostly intact it just changed 1 aspect.
6:45 ah so there is hope for a master piece dispensor
I didn't even know who Road Rage was when I found and bought her Masterpiece figure at a convention. I just already bought MP Tracks because I love the corvette and I love flame decos on vehicles. When I saw Road Rage sat on a dealer's shelf for not a lot of money I grabbed her immediately, and now she's one of my favorite things in my collection. I almost want to track down Loudpedal. That and tough female characters are my favorite.
That being said, I wonder if Takara will release a version of her that's closer to her Takara Legends appearance.... for research of course.
Back in the 1980ies i bought tracks and it was the red variant so red tracks is part of my childhood, i also had blue and yellow cliff jumper plus red and blue bumblebee, so i had couple of very odd paintjob transformers also think the rarest is my blue hoist.
Road Rage is one of my most favorite Obscure Transformers characters who is also one of my favorite Autobots who transforms from robot to car and back and a very successful bodyguard also thanks for sharing Chris and have a Happy New Year🎊🎉🎁🎆🎊🎉👊💪☺☺☺
I only found out about her in 2021 and due to my fondness for obscure characters such as like Soundblaster, Twincast, and the Pirate Seacons, I ended up buying both her MP and Kingdom figures and I love both dearly although I’ll admit that the kingdom figure is very much flawed. I even preordered MP Crosscut as soon as I found out it was being revealed because I’m a sucker for pairings. So now I’ll shall patiently wait for a legacy Crosscut and hope he’ll either be main line release or a gen select. In the meantime I also plan on tracking down those 2002 releases as well. First because I think they look great and second because I have a very strong need to collect things that came out in 2002 as that’s when I was born. Wait so that makes me as old as Road rage and crosscut. Damn that realization just hit me.
Anyways
Happy New Year’s!
I first found out about Soundblaster in Angry Birds Transformers.
There is a generations thrilling 30s deluxe class crosscut figure.
@@Blakewyattdunfee oh yeah that I’m also keeping an eye for
If only Hasbro take more risks with the obscures characters of Transformers, if only they take the risk to produce new series with this characters could give a boost to the franchise
01:14 Red Tracks and Blue Tracks are BOTH on the Japanese 1985 Box Art. Some have suggsted that the Diaclone Stringray was desgined specically for the US Market, either for the Diakron line, or due to Takara's partnership with Hasbro.
Nautica = sunshine
Road rage = sunshine protector
im vibrating i love Road Rage so much
Now I want her. Damn you McFeely! You've done it again!
I’m fixing up a red 1976 corvette stingray and named it road rage. I’m just now seeing that there’s actually a tf named road rage. That’s awesome
Great stuff as always Chris. I wonder if this means we'll see a Basics on Crosscut coming up later in the month? 😏
As a kid, I always wondered why Tracks was red on the box art.
Never heard of her, so it’s great being able to learn something new
Do THE BASICS on MASTERPIECE FIGURES
Tracks is a top 3 G1 autobot for me, that corvette pops in either red or blue paint. I laugh when showing the originals to the young'unsc but I ate up his character in my own youth. Market research nailed it when they launched him. I only discovered road rage through the masterpiece line, thoroughly confused by the appearance of different colored corvettes and Datsuns'. I must say given the indifference to gender I picture within the ranks of autobots, I support expanding the diversity of storytelling with the addition of solid female talent.
Milton Bradley? The MB. So that stands for Milton Bradley? Wait. Wait I think I remember now.
I wait all week for these vids. Thanks for your hard work.
3:05 '....caused her to turn into a short-tempered aggressive driver'
Ok, it may not be even close....But why do I feel that such characteristic of Road Rage is just similar to Cruella's 'Crazy Lady' driving skills??🤔
Imagine seeing Road Rage coming straight at you with her head popped up from her hood with those crazy red-ringed eyes and teeth-clenched snarl.
@@GoGojiraGo she looks like she should be a sith or a red lantern.
Road Rage is probably one of my favorite c-list characters. I just love beefy ladies who take no shit
Happy new year, Chris! Here's to 2022!
I don't know if anyone's commented on this yet, but Crosscut is a recolor of the Nissan City Turbo figure that would become the Autobot, Skids.
4:05 am? Gotta catch up on my basics 🤘😁
Would love to see a video about the Omnibots; Camshaft, Downshift, and Overdrive, if you haven't done one yet, those were obscure figures since they were only available as mail away's I think.
Yes, I had Overdrive and he was like Tracks and Road Rage with a flying car mode with flip out wings and guns.
And the Powerdashers!
There's hardly a group more obscure than them, they didn't even get any characterization until the Dreamwave comics... which they only had one panel of screentime in. To this day, they haven't had any proper fleshing out, despite new toys in the WFC Trilogy toyline.
The original Powerdashers hold the distinction of being the first Transformers toys to feature Cybertronian vehicle modes. They also originally had pull-back motors.
And i hope omnibots get a brand new toys
I always love to see Obscure Characters Month! Think one day we could take a peek at some characters like Overhaul that haven't gotten any spotlights past UT (to my recollection)?
I was introduced to her as part of the Masterpiece toy line. I love the little sculpt changes they made to the MP Tracks.
6:28 My nephew has the Tracks version of that figure, but missing his feet.
Awesome job as always
G1 Road Rage probably makes up for why the female G1 cartoon Autobots are not officially canon in the original G1 toyline.
Love obscure characters month! It's crazy how many times I studied that box art and never realised that was a red Tracks.
I honestly just thought she was a simple recolor of Tracks when I learned of her via the MP line till I read into it and saw she was a completely independent character from him.
I am really happy Road Rage has been brought back up from Hasbro in Kingdom along with IDW.
I am fortunate enough to actually own the original Diaclone of this figure and it remains one of my most treasured collection pieces.
Now I want to know more about Crosscut.
Happy 2022
Outstanding Basic video once more, Chris! :D Glad to see another continuation of "Obscure Characters Month"! ^^ Not sure when I first encountered Road Rage, but, I think it was probably from a review of the recent "Kingdom: War For Cybertron Trilogy" figure, though I don't remember which one it was. :P Look forward to more obscure Transformers characters throughout the month! :) Happy New Year!
Animated Road Rage Update: in 2022 Bot Con held another comedic script reading featuring road rage and this time tracks. this time depicting the later as being an unfortunate victim of goo engineered by the Mad scientist: Meltdown. In which road rage became as the name implies: a quick to temper eager to go road freak. eager to get into a fight and not afraid to cause some property damage if need be. whereas tracks Is the calm collected one. the pair where eventually separated via the efforts of blackarachnia and Metalhawk (who was depicted this time as having masterforce tech just like his Japanese counterpart and had a human disguise named Mr. hawk) but at the cost of the Laters life. the newly separated pair not knowing it Was blackarachnia herself that killed metalhawk by darning all of his spark energy to separate the two, after he had offered to donate a small portion to the process.
Yeah, that's not canon
@@gabrielchee8470 I figured it wasn't, just though I'd let him know about it, that's all.
Recently got Legacy Crosscut for my birthday, and now I’m probably gonna save up for Kingdom Road Rage to complete the duo!
HAPPY NEW YEAR
Nice work! Happy new year! ❤❤💙💙🤖👍👍
I literally picked up her master pice from a convention because she’s all I could afford and she started my collection of characters, literally knew nothing about them and thought they looked better in red and white than tracks in blue with his red face
I wondered why - while watching all of those WFC:K videos - I never heard of Road Rage in the 1980's, and now I know.
And knowing is half of the battle.
Sorry, I couldn't refuse.
Yo Joe!
I like it when we get into offshoot obscure characters like this
Fantastic video! I hope these characters become a staple! Happy New Year 🎈🎆🎊
Thanks 🙏
Be sure to mention the lady when you do Tracks for the Basics.
Another great great videos. Thank you so much. 🎉🎉🎉
Question is it jus me or does anyone else notice ds "why does rodimus revert back to hot wen he loses the matrix but optimus stays the same and doesnt revert to orion pax" would love a basics for that explanation
Because Optimus Prime was in that form before he ever became Autobot leader. The Matrix didn't change him, just like it didn't change Ultra Magnus. It changed Hot Rod because that was a matter of destiny. Hot Rod was supposed to be a boy.....the Matrix matured him instantly.
This is explained quite quickly: in the War Dawn episode, the Aerialbots are sent to Cybertron's distant past, still during the Golden Age. There they meet Orion Pax, who works as a dockworker with his girlfriend Ariel and his best friend Dion. They have already heard about the Decepticons, but Orion dismisses these as rumors and is more impressed by the unusual ability of this group, that they can fly. As luck would have it, Megatron comes to the docks and asks Orion what is being stored. The answer Energon pleases Megatron and he wounds the dock workers Orion, Dion and Ariel. The Aerialbots are looking for someone who can repair Orion and meet Alpha Trion. He repairs the badly wounded Orion, who reappears a little later as Optimus Prime and puts Megatron to flight.
Long story short: Optimus Prime is Orion Pax after an extensive repair and physical upgrade. Rodimus Prime, on the other hand, is just Hot Rod who got a temporary power up through the Matrix.
i first came across Roadrage at TFcon toronto in 2019, someone was selling her masterpiece figure for a really good price, i then learned of her name and backstory when asking a very knowledgeable friend mine who was also volunteering at the convention. road rage is my first and currently only masterpiece figure.
Road Rage sounds like she should be a Stunticon. But okay.
Road rage was my first masterpiece figure so I have a soft spot for her
Happy new year!!!!!
Happy to have 2022 start with a fresh basics episode
Edit: brain isnt working, I'm apparently still in 2021
Amazing video.
Considering I just bought her yesterday, this is exceptionally welcome!
happy new year 2022 to you Chris
Can we get a video about the forgotten Autobot triple changer, Broadside, next?
One of my favorite Transformers, ever.
Shame that not even third-party will give him the Masterpiece treatment, though to be fair I don't know how they'd even begin.
Happy New Year 🎇, Chris!!
She seems really cool! It’s always crazy to me how the most obscure characters can be the most interesting if given the spotlight
YES! THIS MONTH YOU (Might) REVIEW WRECK GAR! Because it's obscure characters month
O.C.M
I think I might strengthen the connection between Road Rage and Tracks in my fanfiction when she comes along in it.
I made a Road Rage design based on her Kingdom toy and characterised her like the original, serving as a body guard for any non combatant bot. I later made a second design based on some armored Chevy after being told I need to make her more unique, so in universe it would be a Unicron Trilogy style destruction to upgrade (except very slowly becuz I decided that TFs scanning an alt mode would be in stasis and unable to act until the kibble has finished configuring),and also sacked her flight mode and vehicle mode issues becuz I found it dumb to have such a trait, and another comment implied it's sexist
Interesting. I'm probably going to cut the vehicle modes issues too, but not her flight mode. I'm gonna make her Tracks' sister, close with him at first until the war physically separated them. While Tracks becomes part of the Autobot army and later fights it out on Earth, Road Rage travels the galaxy before winding up in an all-female Transformers squad led by Elita One.
Road Rage has driven her way into popularity, and hopefully she will not suffer from...err...well...road rage on her pathway to fame with Transformers fans.
Very interesting. I had misremembered this character from when I first discovered the European Transformers. Its fascinating to see how these oddities in the toyline blossom into such interesting characters.
6:34 let me get this right. Insted of using her top as the chest part they dicided to put It on the back and give her a fake chest?
That's the way they did it with Tracks, as well.
YOUR TALKIN’ ABOUT OBSCURE CHARACTERS? WHERES MY MAN SLAPDASH AT?
We should get an episode of the basics on Flipsides.
You made me wanna get road rage from the kingdom line, but those damn knees.
My favorite theme has started again, and what a way to start.
Though while Road Rage has get new toy and featured in new TF IDW, how long it's gonna take for her to make jump in TV. Never the less, neat way to kick start 2022 with this female Autobot.
The name might be an issue given how road rage is a real, problematic thing. A name change may be in order if she were to make the jump.
@@myriadmediamusings but then that just defeats the whole point of her name.
@@myriadmediamusings Okay that's fair point.
Love the designs for Road Rage, and I'd really love to see her more! It'd be awesome to have her added to future continuity and cartoons. I like a bunch of the female transformers, but they're rare at times. I hope to see her more along with Moonracer! An old favorite of mine!
Great stuff as always! Love your content, lad! ❤😁👍🏻
i got the diaclone as I had broken my G1 tracks toy & couldnt get a replacement 'proper' one
It's sad to hear about the passing of Wyatt. It seems that the Animated-verse nearly has every character from previous material, no matter how obsurced
I actually first discovered Road Rage via Fanart, at first I thought she was just some generic Autobot OC.
And THEN I looked at her Tfwiki page and immediately became a fan.
something that kinda bugged me for a while was her mouthplate, she had it during dream sequences in the legends manga and i thought it was really cool, it gave her a unique look, then the masterpiece (and subsequently the kingdom toy) remove it, Im not too mad, i love road rage as a character, but imma mod the toy to get the faceplate back
I really hope he covers one of my favorite obscure characters gold-bug