I really like Exhaust's design and concept, even if the design is just mostly Wheeljack. The idea of a neutral information broker during the war is cool, and I can already see him having good interactions with Swindle. Hope he gets used more.
I hope the Buzzworthy four pack this year is the last four Diaclone boys. Red Mirage, Reboost, Riggouras (or however you spell it), and Loudpedal. four deluxes, equal bad guys to good guys. It just makes so much sense.
agreed. that serie has had too many unique figures that doesn't merge with the "it is sold only in america and in 2 more places" paradigm that it went up to the generics-4-pack
Too bad the buzzworthy line is probably discontinued. Hopefully the 4 packs survive the change in how target approaches their exclusives (they’re easily one of the things I look forward to the most each year). (Side note: I 100% agree with your proposed 4 pack, that would be fantastic. Considering the 4 packs obviously have the budget for alternate heads loudpedal and rigorous would both greatly benefit from it).
I am still waiting for my red Mirage, blue Hoist, Rigorous, Reboost, the other red Skids which I think they named Screech, Loudpedal, and Overcharge from the molds we got recently. I hope they do the Diaclone Insecticons as a Gen Selects 3 pack. I love my Diaclone homages!
9:43 I still hope we get a generations loudpedal. Sure the most recent tracks mold isn’t well liked, but maybe it would give hasbro the opportunity to improve it. He’s also an interesting character and adds to the black autobot turned decepticon repaints. (Side note: if he ever featured in a story I imagine he would work well as an underling for soundwave).
I came up with a quick and basic if not cliched story for all of them at once. After the Ark was launched, a second ship also launched full of "Autobots" led by Magna Convoy/Delta Magnus. However they were sabotaged at some point by Loudpedal and Exhaust along with maybe red Mirage, blue/purple Hoist and red Skids (Reboost is red Crosscut and yes there are two red versions of this base mold). They snuck Zaptrap, Shothole and Salvo onboard for help. They managed to catch up to the Ark and the Nemesis only for the Decepticon spies and their allies to sabotage the ship before they were able to do anything to the Nemesis. The ship also ended up crashing on Earth and they were all similarly put into stasis. Sometime after season two and the movie they were found and awakened. Maybe this is also where Roadbuster, Whirl, the Omnibots, the Powerdashers, the deluxe Insecticons, Enemy, Freezon and Natron were as well. This ship was filled with unreleased decos and random G1 toys that weren't used in the cartoon. Road Hauler was meant to be on this ship too but went to the wrong one lol.
Fun fact: Diaclone Corvette Stingray AKA Black Tracks, which MP Loudpedal is based of, was only ever sold in Finland by R-Kioski chain of kiosks. I also own the Masterpiece Loudpedal figure and a friend of mine owns the original Bkack Tracks toy. And yes I have held it and I do have pictures of it. The Black Tracks is a weird entitety because up until the early 2000s, nobody knew such a figure even existed.
at 23:50 - we should add some fiction for the various colors of the mini-vehicles that other countries got (blue Bumblebee, yellow Cliffjumper, red Bumblebee, etc), and red Mirage, black Ironhide, green Ratchet, blue Hoist, and the Earthrise line does need blue and yellow Sideswipe, black Tracks, and Delta Magnus.
My headcanon for Red Mirage is that he is a Decepticon hacker named Speedrunner. He's obsessed with gaming and is just the most obnoxious and petulant gamerbro you have ever met.
Speaking of making original fiction for repaints that didn't have any before... What about that Mutant Tigatron figure? I love the color scheme, I love that the head sculpt is based on the mutant head of the old toy but I think he should have been a unique character. I don't see the orange tiger with the mutant head as still being Tigatron cause the Tigatron we know never looked like that. I have my own idea for him in a cast of other Maximals and Predacons with little to no real fiction around them but I'm interested to know what you would do with Mutant Tigatron.
I don't like name Lift Ticket, so I just call him "G1" Salvage (who is originally from bayformers-related comics and had a toy back in 2007. And he's also red).
My backstory for blue Silverstreak: he is Bluestreak's lazy, good-for-nothing brother (hence why we never see him), the kind who blows into town for a few days, mooches off your sympathies, then blows out again, leaving you the mess.
You missed Overcharge, the Blitzwing repaint. And you didn't touch upon the Shattered Glass uses of the Diaclone color schemes. They should also count too.
As a fan of the diaclone figures as the toys they're referencing it's fascinating to hear new things about them, I don't often care for the fiction side of transformers but this was cool and brings new potential to the modern figures of them
Reboost is genuinely my favorite Skids repaint, and I swear I will be so upset if they don't at least use the Skids mold one last time to give us a proper figure of him. I don't care if it's a Generations Selects figure, just give me Reboost so I can complete the whole Skids squad.
Something that would be very cool would be Hasbro or Tekara introducing non car-robo Diaclone robots into transformers, like Robot base or Dia-battles. I think it would be a cool opportunity to introduce more cybertronians, or even human piloted robots into the setting.
You know, I actually do have the red Mirage toy in its original Diaclone form (not KO). Comes with a repro box with all the missiles and diaclone pilot as well. I consider it the prize gem in my collection. I'd love to have some kind of official fiction that follows up on the piloted mecha origins of some of the others suchas lift ticket.
Originally Powered Convoy was going to be introduced in Transformers The Movie as Ultra Magnus, or at least his color scheme was supposed to be used for Magnus... it depends on who you ask.
Diaclone hopefuls: Magna Convoy - Legacy United G1 Optimus Prime redeco Delta Magnus - Studio Series 86 Ultra Magnus redeco Tigertrack - Kingdom Sideswipe redeco Deep Cover - Kingdom Sideswipe redeco w/Red Alert's head sculpt Silverstreak - ER Bluestreak redeco Reboost - Legacy Skids redeco w/Crosscut's head sculpt red Legacy Skids redeco red Kingdom Mirage redeco w/Crasher's head sculpt blue ER Hoist redeco w/new head sculpt Top Spin - TR Top Spin redeco Riggorus - ER Trailbreaker redeco w/new head sculpt Loud Pedal - Kingdom Tracks redeco w/new head sculpt Shothole - Legacy Kickback redeco Salvo - Legacy Evo Bombshell redeco Zaptrap - Legacy Evo Shrapnel redeco
It might just be me but part of me wants to see burn out and car robots side burn get together. Have the relationship originally start out with him flirting with her in car mode, not knowing she is another cybertronian until she talks back to him and transforms, challenging him to a race and she beats him and he keeps challenging her hoping to win her love by beating her in a race not realizing she is slowly falling for him. I want that kinda of relationship for the two of them xD
@@jeffreytempleton3213 side burn had a thing for red sport cars at least that what he said in the dub and last I checked the tracks car mode is a sport car and since burn out is female. I would love to see the two get together
I wish there was a more clear full list or more info of the original Diaclone toys but what do you expect from a toy line from over 40 years ago and a completely different country.
I think Hasbro/Takara missed an opportunity here. This was a chance to reintroduce Diaclone or at least the E-Hobby clones in a more coherent package. I may be mistaken, but most of these guys were given bios and background piecemeal. This guy here, that guy is now a girl there. But this could have been a chance to tell a story. Like a group of 5 as neutrals or Autobots up against 5 Decepticons or criminals. Crosscut is an ambassador? How about a tale where he's negotiating with a world to accept some Autobots as refugees. That these refugees have to adjust to a new world (not Earth). Or how these Decepticons maintain a foothold on some space station until some Autobots arrive. Something that can draw the charcters and their backgrounds together. As it is, the bios feels artificial. Because they aren't useful in any way. Repaints and redecos are fine, but without a story it's mostly fake and dry.
I remember once coming up with an idea for a Botcon set based on Diaclone and Micro Change. Basically, it was characters from Diaclone and Microman universes crossing over into the main Transformers universe. The story didn't go anywhere beyond that, but I wrote up some bios to go with my toy ideas.
they gopot gobots in why not The orginator :P theyshould made anoteh runiverse the diaclones where the first creations of the quintessans and Primus was a dia clone
@@OptimusPhillip Shattered Glass Collection Ultra Magnus even comes with an alternate head to turn him into Delta Magnus (his inner robot can also double as Magna Convoy).
When ever, the next campaign happens, I may or may not join with a surprise name that you’re just going to have to wait until the video after the day that I join the campaign.
I love your comparison, as I dream casted Anthony Daniels as his VA. Crosscut(to his drone): "Don't call me a mindless philosopher you over weight blob of grease!"
This just hits harder on yesterday's topic on how Generation Selects is faltering as there's still many Diaclone bots unrealized as it seems Hasbro is hesitant to release more due to poor sales. In fact there were no Diaclone releases in the Legacy Evolution wave except for Magnificus, but that's Micro Change inspired, and THAT's an untapped well to make Transformers fiction for.
I always make stupid head canon stories. For Clampdown I see him as the opposite Prowl. He's by the book, and follows rules to a fault. However, he's generally friendly and well liked, and strives to be the example of what a "Heroic Autobot" should be by first hand knowing some of his contemporaries are not as noble as they pretend to be.
So, you’re telling me that there is a transformers legacy manga out there? Well, if it’s not TV shows, it might as well be Japanese exclusive comics because for whatever reason, Skybound doesn’t seem to be doing any transformers legacy comics.
14:07 is it me, or does anyone else think that all Hasbro/Takara needs to do to make a Legacy RID 2001 Prowl is to give this guy said prowl’s head and call it a day?
The post-G1 Diaclone guys have gone downhill in recent years in my opinion. Like, I get that most of the Diaclone-exclusive decos were given Transformer identities in the early 2000s, but the new ones we get now are so boring. DK-2 Guard and DK-3 Breaker need actual names, dang it (personal canon: their names are Vanguard and Blueshift)! Reboost (vermillion Skids with Crosscut’s head) and Riggorus (yellow Trailbreaker) would be great characters to expand upon- make the former an ombudsmech responsible for sorting out human/Cybertronian relationships and make the latter a bland medic content with his blandness (think MTMTE Hoist) who fled to Paradron with Sandstorm’s group. Make red Mirage “Dyno”, an homage to ROTB Mirage, allowing for that character to coexist with more traditional Mirages. Make the jet/helicopter triple changer no one can decide the identity of his/her/their own character (perhaps a Mercenary faction member).
I hope Riggorous gets a Generations Selects Deluxe toy.
Amen
That red Mirage would be a use of the ’Dino’ name 👍🏽
I really like Exhaust's design and concept, even if the design is just mostly Wheeljack. The idea of a neutral information broker during the war is cool, and I can already see him having good interactions with Swindle. Hope he gets used more.
I hope the Buzzworthy four pack this year is the last four Diaclone boys. Red Mirage, Reboost, Riggouras (or however you spell it), and Loudpedal. four deluxes, equal bad guys to good guys. It just makes so much sense.
agreed. that serie has had too many unique figures that doesn't merge with the "it is sold only in america and in 2 more places" paradigm that it went up to the generics-4-pack
Too bad the buzzworthy line is probably discontinued. Hopefully the 4 packs survive the change in how target approaches their exclusives (they’re easily one of the things I look forward to the most each year).
(Side note: I 100% agree with your proposed 4 pack, that would be fantastic. Considering the 4 packs obviously have the budget for alternate heads loudpedal and rigorous would both greatly benefit from it).
I am still waiting for my red Mirage, blue Hoist, Rigorous, Reboost, the other red Skids which I think they named Screech, Loudpedal, and Overcharge from the molds we got recently. I hope they do the Diaclone Insecticons as a Gen Selects 3 pack. I love my Diaclone homages!
9:43
I still hope we get a generations loudpedal. Sure the most recent tracks mold isn’t well liked, but maybe it would give hasbro the opportunity to improve it. He’s also an interesting character and adds to the black autobot turned decepticon repaints.
(Side note: if he ever featured in a story I imagine he would work well as an underling for soundwave).
Black and purple repaints can save any mold
A Loudpedal is one of the highest on my list of Diaclone recolors I'd like to see.
I came up with a quick and basic if not cliched story for all of them at once.
After the Ark was launched, a second ship also launched full of "Autobots" led by Magna Convoy/Delta Magnus. However they were sabotaged at some point by Loudpedal and Exhaust along with maybe red Mirage, blue/purple Hoist and red Skids (Reboost is red Crosscut and yes there are two red versions of this base mold). They snuck Zaptrap, Shothole and Salvo onboard for help.
They managed to catch up to the Ark and the Nemesis only for the Decepticon spies and their allies to sabotage the ship before they were able to do anything to the Nemesis. The ship also ended up crashing on Earth and they were all similarly put into stasis. Sometime after season two and the movie they were found and awakened.
Maybe this is also where Roadbuster, Whirl, the Omnibots, the Powerdashers, the deluxe Insecticons, Enemy, Freezon and Natron were as well. This ship was filled with unreleased decos and random G1 toys that weren't used in the cartoon. Road Hauler was meant to be on this ship too but went to the wrong one lol.
I think he should do a follow up about micro change. After all it feels weird to do one without the other.
Fun fact: Diaclone Corvette Stingray AKA Black Tracks, which MP Loudpedal is based of, was only ever sold in Finland by R-Kioski chain of kiosks.
I also own the Masterpiece Loudpedal figure and a friend of mine owns the original Bkack Tracks toy. And yes I have held it and I do have pictures of it.
The Black Tracks is a weird entitety because up until the early 2000s, nobody knew such a figure even existed.
at 23:50 - we should add some fiction for the various colors of the mini-vehicles that other countries got (blue Bumblebee, yellow Cliffjumper, red Bumblebee, etc), and red Mirage, black Ironhide, green Ratchet, blue Hoist, and the Earthrise line does need blue and yellow Sideswipe, black Tracks, and Delta Magnus.
Sing it with me….. “DIA…. CROOOOOOOOOONE!!!!”
My headcanon for Red Mirage is that he is a Decepticon hacker named Speedrunner. He's obsessed with gaming and is just the most obnoxious and petulant gamerbro you have ever met.
Loved the video mate, just realised how many of these i actually own. Good to see the histories on the more obscure characters
Speaking of making original fiction for repaints that didn't have any before...
What about that Mutant Tigatron figure? I love the color scheme, I love that the head sculpt is based on the mutant head of the old toy but I think he should have been a unique character. I don't see the orange tiger with the mutant head as still being Tigatron cause the Tigatron we know never looked like that.
I have my own idea for him in a cast of other Maximals and Predacons with little to no real fiction around them but I'm interested to know what you would do with Mutant Tigatron.
I don't like name Lift Ticket, so I just call him "G1" Salvage (who is originally from bayformers-related comics and had a toy back in 2007. And he's also red).
now i think it would be cool to have a show/a story about the Diaclone guys
iirc IDW had plans to have Road Rage fall for Nautica, whom she worked for as bodyguard
My backstory for blue Silverstreak: he is Bluestreak's lazy, good-for-nothing brother (hence why we never see him), the kind who blows into town for a few days, mooches off your sympathies, then blows out again, leaving you the mess.
I see Red Mirage as a G1 version of Dino from DOTM
You missed Overcharge, the Blitzwing repaint.
And you didn't touch upon the Shattered Glass uses of the Diaclone color schemes. They should also count too.
I happen to have the Magna convoy figure, I also have the fansproject dia commander armor, So it was able to create my own version of Delta Magnus.
As a fan of the diaclone figures as the toys they're referencing it's fascinating to hear new things about them, I don't often care for the fiction side of transformers but this was cool and brings new potential to the modern figures of them
Reboost is genuinely my favorite Skids repaint, and I swear I will be so upset if they don't at least use the Skids mold one last time to give us a proper figure of him. I don't care if it's a Generations Selects figure, just give me Reboost so I can complete the whole Skids squad.
Something that would be very cool would be Hasbro or Tekara introducing non car-robo Diaclone robots into transformers, like Robot base or Dia-battles. I think it would be a cool opportunity to introduce more cybertronians, or even human piloted robots into the setting.
You know, I actually do have the red Mirage toy in its original Diaclone form (not KO). Comes with a repro box with all the missiles and diaclone pilot as well. I consider it the prize gem in my collection. I'd love to have some kind of official fiction that follows up on the piloted mecha origins of some of the others suchas lift ticket.
24:25 There’s still Green Camshaft and Yellow Overdrive.
Originally Powered Convoy was going to be introduced in Transformers The Movie as Ultra Magnus, or at least his color scheme was supposed to be used for Magnus... it depends on who you ask.
Diaclone hopefuls:
Magna Convoy - Legacy United G1 Optimus Prime redeco
Delta Magnus - Studio Series 86 Ultra Magnus redeco
Tigertrack - Kingdom Sideswipe redeco
Deep Cover - Kingdom Sideswipe redeco w/Red Alert's head sculpt
Silverstreak - ER Bluestreak redeco
Reboost - Legacy Skids redeco w/Crosscut's head sculpt
red Legacy Skids redeco
red Kingdom Mirage redeco w/Crasher's head sculpt
blue ER Hoist redeco w/new head sculpt
Top Spin - TR Top Spin redeco
Riggorus - ER Trailbreaker redeco w/new head sculpt
Loud Pedal - Kingdom Tracks redeco w/new head sculpt
Shothole - Legacy Kickback redeco
Salvo - Legacy Evo Bombshell redeco
Zaptrap - Legacy Evo Shrapnel redeco
If there ever is a another VA role for hot shot
Just go for it
Always loved the insecticon clone colors. Lol.
Rigorous’ vehicle mode reminds of the Pizza 🍕 Planet Truck from Toy Story.
For my version of Deepcover, I have him as a tf version of Voight from Chicago PD
It might just be me but part of me wants to see burn out and car robots side burn get together. Have the relationship originally start out with him flirting with her in car mode, not knowing she is another cybertronian until she talks back to him and transforms, challenging him to a race and she beats him and he keeps challenging her hoping to win her love by beating her in a race not realizing she is slowly falling for him. I want that kinda of relationship for the two of them xD
Do you mean burn out or road rage? Side burn had a thing for red corvettes.
@@jeffreytempleton3213 side burn had a thing for red sport cars at least that what he said in the dub and last I checked the tracks car mode is a sport car and since burn out is female. I would love to see the two get together
@Heroduothecomedian yes but road rage is the female red tracks...burn out is the female black skids mold
Only one I think you didn't say was red skids with red head
I would be impressed by Hasbro if they did a official Diaclone Transformers crossover
Di-a-clone!!!!!!
24:19 Silverstreak doesn’t have any story because he’s just the alternate name and colors for Bluestreak. Still the same character
Am I the only one that would love to see a 1 on 1 race between Road Rage and Wild Rider and see how much chaos happens
I wish there was a more clear full list or more info of the original Diaclone toys but what do you expect from a toy line from over 40 years ago and a completely different country.
Imagine the giant mechs and aliens becoming canon
I think Hasbro/Takara missed an opportunity here. This was a chance to reintroduce Diaclone or at least the E-Hobby clones in a more coherent package. I may be mistaken, but most of these guys were given bios and background piecemeal. This guy here, that guy is now a girl there. But this could have been a chance to tell a story. Like a group of 5 as neutrals or Autobots up against 5 Decepticons or criminals. Crosscut is an ambassador? How about a tale where he's negotiating with a world to accept some Autobots as refugees. That these refugees have to adjust to a new world (not Earth). Or how these Decepticons maintain a foothold on some space station until some Autobots arrive. Something that can draw the charcters and their backgrounds together. As it is, the bios feels artificial. Because they aren't useful in any way. Repaints and redecos are fine, but without a story it's mostly fake and dry.
What about the the jump starters repaints?
I remember once coming up with an idea for a Botcon set based on Diaclone and Micro Change. Basically, it was characters from Diaclone and Microman universes crossing over into the main Transformers universe. The story didn't go anywhere beyond that, but I wrote up some bios to go with my toy ideas.
they gopot gobots in why not The orginator :P theyshould made anoteh runiverse the diaclones where the first creations of the quintessans and Primus was a dia clone
I didn’t mind the shout out at all and you said it right this time
The ultra magnus one reminds me of shattered glass magnus cuz of the deco.
Shared inspiration. Both Delta Magnus and SG Magnus are based on Powered Convoy.
@@OptimusPhillip Shattered Glass Collection Ultra Magnus even comes with an alternate head to turn him into Delta Magnus (his inner robot can also double as Magna Convoy).
@@twistedgaming9185 that's a pretty cool easter egg
When ever, the next campaign happens, I may or may not join with a surprise name that you’re just going to have to wait until the video after the day that I join the campaign.
I kind of like delta magnus more than ultra magnus I just like his colors more
3:22 Exhaust who was present in a Netflix cartoon who was just grunt work mercenary muscle and looks exactly like Wheeljack.
Just for the record: Crosscut still falls short of C-3PO and his 6million forms of communication
I love your comparison, as I dream casted Anthony Daniels as his VA.
Crosscut(to his drone): "Don't call me a mindless philosopher you over weight blob of grease!"
This just hits harder on yesterday's topic on how Generation Selects is faltering as there's still many Diaclone bots unrealized as it seems Hasbro is hesitant to release more due to poor sales. In fact there were no Diaclone releases in the Legacy Evolution wave except for Magnificus, but that's Micro Change inspired, and THAT's an untapped well to make Transformers fiction for.
almost all Japanese storylines are weird
Modern super sentai comes to mind 💀
That’s being generous
Even kiss players? Lol
@@Lazrael32
Yes, even Kiss Players, like WTF Japan, why would you make this?
@@MarcosVelasquez-Sanchez right? I kind of love it for how awful and stupid it is. Lol
Very enjoyable video
i eat salt rocks whole
18:34 Unless they're in Shattered Glass.
I always make stupid head canon stories. For Clampdown I see him as the opposite Prowl. He's by the book, and follows rules to a fault. However, he's generally friendly and well liked, and strives to be the example of what a "Heroic Autobot" should be by first hand knowing some of his contemporaries are not as noble as they pretend to be.
where tf is generation selects Reboost and red mirage
So, you’re telling me that there is a transformers legacy manga out there? Well, if it’s not TV shows, it might as well be Japanese exclusive comics because for whatever reason, Skybound doesn’t seem to be doing any transformers legacy comics.
14:07 is it me, or does anyone else think that all Hasbro/Takara needs to do to make a Legacy RID 2001 Prowl is to give this guy said prowl’s head and call it a day?
The post-G1 Diaclone guys have gone downhill in recent years in my opinion. Like, I get that most of the Diaclone-exclusive decos were given Transformer identities in the early 2000s, but the new ones we get now are so boring. DK-2 Guard and DK-3 Breaker need actual names, dang it (personal canon: their names are Vanguard and Blueshift)!
Reboost (vermillion Skids with Crosscut’s head) and Riggorus (yellow Trailbreaker) would be great characters to expand upon- make the former an ombudsmech responsible for sorting out human/Cybertronian relationships and make the latter a bland medic content with his blandness (think MTMTE Hoist) who fled to Paradron with Sandstorm’s group. Make red Mirage “Dyno”, an homage to ROTB Mirage, allowing for that character to coexist with more traditional Mirages. Make the jet/helicopter triple changer no one can decide the identity of his/her/their own character (perhaps a Mercenary faction member).