Plastic Addict 21: Retrax

[autobotjazz1972]

Retrax: come at me bro!  Rattrap: How about no?

[GeorgedIDK]

Thumbs up if you said "Gimmicks are evil" with him. :)

[fineatfourty]

i like it in fact I WANT IT!

[TFnerd]

this is one of your best plastic addict episodes it`s now a favorite of mine along with the review on animorphs tobias and BTR hot shot

[joshua5576]

XD The panda thing @ 3:24 XD XD XD

[BCDsentai]

he looks a demonic Pac-man lol

[BCDsentai]

@BCDsentai you know in ball form. still funny

[theautobotjedi]

he should be called beast wars unicron

[DarkdustDragon]

@theautobotjedi Don't you dare drag down Unicron by comparing him to that. You want a Beast Wars Unicron? Watch Beast Wars Neo Episodes 30 onwards.

[PredwolfZ]

and here I was thinking of picking this guy up because of the Gathering Bio

[wakeangel2001]

"Spiny the Pacifistic Pillbug" That is AWESOME, he could be a character on My Little Pony XD

[TheT8888888]

I'd strip it for parts for customs

[TheT8888888]

More like shoot me

[robbiewazup]

i dont know really, I mean it's actually a really cool looking thing. I'll admit that the pill bug is wierd but that "unicron mode is actually pretty cool

[transformerschandler]

6:16 Obvious dubbing, but it's better than silence I guess.

[transformerschandler]

I'd buy that Banzi-tron.

[lyokomajor]

Retrax=Predacon

Powerhug-Cybertron/Maximal

[ICHIGO12668]

This thing is an epic fail on hasbro's part!

[chiseldondad]

peelbug + radiation = retrax omg

[MrHarryscreations]

i guess the beast mode kinder looks like a over mutated caterpiller

[RagaRBM]

Oh, wow. The beast mode is actually kinda awesome.

[kamenriderkiva25]

@RagaRBM well...for a pill bug i guess haha

[AKShamu28]

hasbro: *writing this down* buzz saw panda... breathing fire... good idea! LETS DO THIS

[Halo23Dude]

the panda preadacon with all those thing looked pretty cool

[LegendarySilverWolf]

pause at 15secs omgwtf

[PlagueIndustry]

Nah, that listing's wrong. Everyone knows that that repaint is actually named Blinky: The Loviest Pillbug in the Universe, not Powerhug.

[wtfd00d08]

i want the buzz-horn-flamey breath panda! MAKE IT HAPPEN HASBRO!

[CHCHuser]

5:31 I was expecting a vore joke.

[tosthage1]

i love that the repaints name is powerhug <3

[mwstudios11]

potus manus???

[GoldKnightProduction]

You're more likely to find a pill bug in your transformer than retrax in your transformers collection. XP

Literally, there was one inside of my g1 blaster. Certainly explained why the cassette deck wouldn't open.

[jetstorm39]

WHAT THE FUCK DID TAKAR DO TO CHANGE HIS NAME POWER HUG ARE U FUCKING KIDING ME JAPAN

[jetstorm39]

THIS IS THE WORST TOY I HAVE EVER SEEN I WELL RATHER BY POWER RANGERS THEN THIS PIECE OF CRAP thumbs up if u agree

[sunshine8888dino]

@jetstorm39 EAT NUCLEAR LASER JERK!!!!!!!!

[jetstorm39]

@sunshine8888dino what ever



[PlagueIndustry]

I actually really want the blue-and-silver recolor of this figure. I know that it's not a really good figure (trust me, I've seen this review enough times that I could point out all the flaws by quoting TJ), but I love Insecticomics and, goddammit, I want Blinky!

[Lakerzfanboy4]

SHELLFORMERS THERES A BOT INSIDE

[snakes3425]

I remember having this guy back in the day, and all I can say is: WHAT IN THE HELL WAS THAT THING????

[TheRampagerocks]

the panda bear was actualy a good idea

[RainyDaysVideos]

Oh wow! I actually used to have one of those...

[Mangoyle]

If you touch me, I'll turn into a ball. And call my dad.

[Undrave]

I guess you could cannibalize his good legs for a kitbash or something?

[chowdermarshmellows]

Tjomega, could you review one of my toys??

[HottestAngel776]

I thought it was adorable.....

[fukish]

wow thats probably from the move planet horror oh yeah its a horrorformer

[gundam0010001]

wat do u use to make the beginins cause its amazin

[Bioniclemaster1998]

Retrax is a MAXICON! RUN!!!!!!

[TFSuperSentaiFan95]

I think the one and only good pillbugs are Tuck and Roll from "A Bug's Life." This one is not good. It's like the designers took the design of Unicron, sneezed boogers on it, pissed green while eating asparagus (true fact), took shitty diarrheas from eating too much food and slapped Hasbro's name on it. This makes Titanium Optimal Optimus look like a masterpiece. It is that bad.

[purplewolfranger22]

i want that panda lol

[drnick2311]

TJOmega, the defender of the innocent....from crappy toys!

[jlogano20]

the name powerhug is just great

[ironhide241]

EVIL PACMAN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[FPrimusUnicron]

i think thats why the beast wars II, repaint was called POWERHUG(maximal)

c'mon if you thought i couldnt be worst, think again

XD

[TheXXIV]

when i first saw this in a store when i was like 6 or 7 i thought i was a caterpillar and the roled up form is the cocoon and the robot mode was like what came outa the cocoon

[0ACapedCrusader0]

Ok so i figuerd out how he could be an effective predicon. His beast mode is giant, and he only transformers into robot form long enough to surprise attack an enemy by latching on to them and sucking their energon form them by using his sucker mouth. There, now he is awesome.

[GeorgedIDK]

Buy about 20 of these, put them side by side, move their legs.... THE ROQUETTES!

[MEIDOco]

Feel free to call me a noob but I actually believed that white background was indeed a white room..

[legofan002]

the head on robotmode loks like deku ling from legend of zelda majora`s mask with horns

[spiraldude20]

3:34 ... Id buy it

[TheMinime76]

LOL lightsaber fail, your end fell out! but still a great review TJ

[MoonIMover]

Soooo.....you don't consider turning into a car a gimmick?

[thunderstudent]

Alien 1: WHAT THE HELL WAS THAT UGLY THING?!

Alien 2: It looked like some rejected Madball....

Great stuff Omega, keep it up.

[tubekew]

First off, I got to just say that what you call "Pill bugs" isn't at all related to insects. But it's in fact a land-based crustacean (crabs, lobsters, shrimp, ect.). So the eyes are completely off and shouldn't have insect eyes, at all. Actually it isn't like it's real life animal counter part at all, as you stated in your video.

Next thing I got to say is that I still own this toy. I was going through a bunch of old toys from my childhood a few weeks ago and found him in a very old box, haha.

[DarkSilverHedgehog]

Green and Black you say? Well my friend i thing that just might be an Ultra ball from Pokemon.

[vultwaz]

i think takara took the hugging thing a bit too literal...

[bilaleocrash9]

@vultwaz Seriously,Powerhug!That went from nonsense to completely embarrassing! If I had to choose between falling off a chair (Which I did yesturday) and playing with this contraption of gimmicks I'd fall off a chair!

[vultwaz]

@bilaleocrash9 actually i like this toy 8D (i think its cause i have a habit of finding good in both toys good and horrible =P)

[Newgrounderful]

7:16

COME AT ME BRO!

[fuckjustinbiber]

in the uk we call them wood lice

[AJSantiesteban]

i am disturbed... save my eyes!!!!!

[starscream372]

powerhug...XD

[dgb751]

in the cenozoec period there actually were pill type bugs that were 300lbs and 12 feet long. it was the age of enormous insects, dragonflies had 3ft wingspans.

[gyrrakavian]

It actually looks closer to the deep sea cousins of the common pillbug. Though, the legs aren't long enough for it to be one of those either.

[apex2000]

they could reissue it in orange and call it beast wars unicron, would probbaly sell well

[Unicron09]

@apex2000 You know, I'm surprised they didn't do that.

[dreadwing2020]

@apex2000 lol



[apex2000]

they should have made it an trilobyte... would have been easily done

[Ironhide228]

yes



[cartoonfreack328]

i think powerhug is better

[hotshotimusprime]

you souda done him as the halloween one hes way worse than quintesson i honestly woud like it better if he couldnt transform

[legomaniak54]

XD the repaint is called powerhug just like TJOmega said

[thunderstudent]

On every level this toy fails

[brianbot123]

@thunderstudent at least he can stand,so he doesnt toatally fail.

[RangerJackWalker]

I also used it has a mini unicron.

[RangerJackWalker]

My Retrax doesn't have the piece that covers his head. Now it looks even more horrible.

[TheStephenShow]

I think he'll be a great figure........ FOR PLAYING BASEBALL WITH!!!

[Kuruttra]

Dude, I just love watchiung you talk about Transformer Toys, especialle the Ones like this. Your so right. That Thing was Horrible.

You have my deepest Respekt

[blade10000]

Wow...Something worse than Armada Hotshot? WOW.

[pikapoo25]

Time to buy powerhug.

[boogerman908]

mutant pac-man

[jghetrick]

oh god its evil punk sick packman

[lancetheslayer]

hey don't mess with spiny the pacifistic pill bug he's the best friend to a little kid along with guns and drugs lol

[GundamLegacyExtreme]

I don't get it, why'd you freak out when you looked up the japanese version?

[vunix1234567890]

@GundamLegacyExtreme The name - Powerhug.

[firearm99]

he has pac man mode 6:00

[reefshark46]

03:25-03:35 is a thretening predacon

[SaxoRocks]

That Predacon Panda idea is nice XD

[AZZA280]

ive allways wonted retrax

[anumunraman117]

@AZZA280 I HAVE ONE

[TheStephenShow]

I once made a lego transformer with a similar auto-morph feature to him.

[kenziebo]

.......................... UNICRON

[cheezman22production]

the weird thing about a pill bug is that its not a bug its a crustacean ... meaning it has gills... oddly enough they live on land....

[stealthgao]

sorry for the double post but you say unicron i say pac man

[stealthgao]

you say why dont they just make up animal. well i have 1 word for you, FUZORS

[guninmyface]

I'd love to get this for beast mode :D It would be better if they made the light green translucent, maybe even if they made the dark green translucent to... :D

[hthvjd]

Dude....how old are you, and you've already passed stones? Is this show slowly killing you?

[durge12]

okay sideswipe sucks, but hotshot's axelzooka is awesome. i dont like people who hate on armada just generally. this guy however- just why hasbro?

i must say this vid looks really professional dude, good job

[jcmagic1027]

do you have a untcron

[TheAden101]

one good thing about it is you can throw it at the designer

[NecroZombieT38]

It's an evil, green Pac-Man!!!

[1Synner]

I actuallly have this particular BW in my small collection, though, due to his poor articulation in his waistline, his hips and everything attatched snapped off...

I have yet to repair him.

Anyway, yeah, it was a crappy transformer, but, i guess it provided a little bit of entertainment when i was 10...

[HeadmasterAutobot]

The whole 'cute' aspect of this guy (and the endearing hug ability) makes it seem like this toy was MADE to be Powerhug. Funny, that.

[Rolltron]

look at g1 ironhide and ratchet

[vultwaz]

was this powerhug in BW II?

[TimmyG120991]

that panda was pretty bad ass.

[jongmagee]

your intro song is sick

who is it?

[primeoetgrunn]

powerhug?!

[WarriorPrime9000]

..wow.

Seen these on ebay, won't be getting one thanks to you.

End blooper = lulz.

[inferno1234561]

nice t shirt where did you get it or how did you make it

[illiniguy34]

maybe he is the decendent of Unicron.

[sonofthedoctor]

6:23 - its pac-man

[TheStephenShow]

I guess a porcupine would've been a better alt mode for Retrax.

[illiniguy34]

gimmicks are evil.

[NitroNate6]

LMAO! whoever came up w/this design needs to have their fingers whacked

w/a rusty, jagged 5lb hammer!!!

1 whack per finger, but leave the thumbs alone.

seeing that he wont be able, at least he'll

be able to hitchhike.

[illiniguy34]

seems that none of the pillbug formed a robot part.

[illiniguy34]

he looks like a mutant pillbug.

[anguirusfan26]

now i want to get one to make unicron. also am i the only that thinks that unicrons name looks like unicorn?

[lyokofan543]

it re minds me of a small evil alean slug from animorphs called a yeark that invades a brain and controls the hosts holl body

[lyokofan543]

it re minds me of a small evil alean slug from animorphs called a yeark that invades a brain and controls the hosts holl body

[mcmetolhead]

how does a toy breathe fire?, and banzaitron is what in modern transformers sizes he'd be a voyager, and in beast wars he'd be a _________(i started collecting with the first movie so don't expect me to know much about beast wars, i might buy a few OTHER beast wars toys on ebay)

[norbulousprime]

OMG I'm STILL surprised you did this one! LMAO!  Most AWESOME toy EVAH!!! ^_^

[pokenerd99]

i want the panda bear! now!

[dudeguysproductions]

spiny the pascifistic pillbug XD

[pcf180]

Well it is a decepticon so they have to make it evil-like even though it's ridiculous. After all, if if was real, a giant green bug would already let people know it's a transformer and not a normal bug.

[8bitPikachu]

retrax sounds like a charater from sonic the hedgehog.

and his gimmick conferms that asumption.

[frenzyXprime]

omg! I LOVE HIM SO MUCH! I WANT AND NEED HIM NOW!!!

[cow360]

LOL AT PANDA BAER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[runescape228]

Tarantulas was kind of a cannibal Transformer! : )

[tera783]

call me crazy but i like it but i like al bugs exept for worms!

[rawrtiger90]

HAHA! Total Irony! The repaint is named Powerhug!!!

[energyzero77]

You can take me as an idot but i actually think that pillbug is a neat beast mode and they're could make retrax a realyy nice toy. They're could make a great predacon brawler but instead they're make a one gimmick-hugging-cowardly pred.

[mcmetolhead]

i want some of the stuff the designers were smoking

[Nintendo7676]

yay, got retrax for less than a dollar today. but he has no robot legs... oh well im going to display him as mini-unicron

[Thunderscreamer]

powerhug. lol. review that transformer that transforms into a rock.

[TheCanohlaBeats]

of mice and men lol

[EliteVoidMauler]

looks more like a caterpillar

[fishpop]

my younger brother used to have the pillbug of 'doom'

i pronounce his reh-tracks

also, you uploaded this on my 18th birthday

[maxustech12]

is he wikctim of potus manus !

[maxustech12]

and what about punch gimmick

[maxustech12]

i like it , not bad representaition of beast figure

[alterbr33d]

When I was a kid I got two of these for Chrismas at the same time by two different people who didn't know. So I told them both, and they both took it back thinking I'd have one cause they thought only one was taking it back.

[Griev0us]

I think you're being a little harsh here. Sure, there are better transformers out there that have a better beast and/or robot mode, but you have to give this thing some credit. The roll feature works really well, and you could play that he rolls towards his enemies like a bowling ball.

It's a transformer I'd never buy, but he's not THAT horrible. I'd take him over any Armada toy any day.

[dudeguysproductions]

GOOD LORD! POWERHUG? RLLY HASBRO?

[Arro3]

I loved him as a kid. I found him today and rolled him up. XD

[ucwe111]

its an evil pack man

[mcmetolhead]

wait maybe the arms could have had some swivel to allow for up and down motion. and a little friction for his arms to keep them from swinging out

[chitwitch80023]

It's an evil pillbug....=D

[mcmetolhead]

WHAT WERE THEY SMOKING!!

[AAarcher221]

Wouldn't this count as a subject of Potus Manus, since the Roly-Poly's ass becoming his hand?

[dragoon78902]

@AAarcher221 yes potus manus strikes again

[Rex4441]

it looks really weird, but i still want it

it looks ugly, cool, and creepy at the same time

[megatronacepticon]

It is an Alien. It's called a Retra (Retrax is the plural) and it is from the planet Judd. Retrax are the primary food source of the Ornament, however Ornaments will eat practically anything that moves when Retrax are scarce. An Ornament was featured as the monster in the 1957 film "The Giant Claw".

[Skywarpy]

Arblus, look! It's ....... a pill bug?

[Kevinisprime]

Hey, that's my joke, Warpy! lol jk

[mcmetolhead]

when the video does play, it is so funny!

[TFDude101]

He's not doing these reviews to be mean. He's doing them to be funny. If he's trying to make me crack up he's doing a good job.

[ZeltraxMillenium]

@TFDude101

I agree with you.

[angelwat213]

When he's balled up he looks like an evil Pacman.

[krakendude2]

Yeah, i automatically thought "PACMAN FROM HELL" when i saw that too.

[angelwat213]

Dude i love Beast wars but hate him awsome review Tj.