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New for 2020, ToyHacks is introducing the ToyHacks Armory, where they'll be offering a variety of weapons for your favorite bots in multiple colors. Also this year, ToyHacks is introducing Robo Points. For every purchase you make, you'll earn Robo Points that you can redeem towards a voucher for future purchases. ToyHacks is a company run by collectors, for collectors, so check out ToyHacks.com and make your collection stand out from the rest. And tell them Patriot Prime sent you. Now, on to the review. The featured bots for this video is the brand new War for Cybertron Earthrise MicroMaster Hot Rod Patrol, consisting of Autobots TripUp and DaddyO. Yes, DaddyO. That's gotta be one of the worst Transformer names in the history of Transformer names. Now granted, maybe Hasbro's doing a callback to the 1950s when two friends walked up to each other and went, Hey DaddyO, or hear me out, maybe it's a callback to Buster Whitwicky's friend O from the original Transformers 4-Part mini-series. Now O only appeared a couple of times throughout the mini-series, most notoriously for sitting in the back seat of Buster's car at a drive-in while Buster and his girlfriend were making out in the front seat. Here's a picture. So enough of the obscure character history, let's go ahead and take a look at the packaging. You've got DaddyO and TripUp here in Robot Mode. On top of the packaging is some great artwork featuring both characters in their alt modes racing along with their headlights on in front of what I'm assuming is Ironworks. On the back of the packaging, you've got both DaddyO and TripUp in Robot and Vehicle Mode and it also shows them interacting with Ironworks. I cannot wait to get these MicroMaster play sets. So I got chills. They're electrifying. Let's go ahead and open these guys up and get them in front of the camera. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. Now once you get the hot rod patrol all open and out of the packaging, you'll see that they do come with a sheet of instructions and these are the basic Earthrise instructions. Very well illustrated, very easy to follow. But for these two figures right here, you're not going to need them. They both transform the exact same way. Now let's go ahead and take a look at DaddyO first. I'm really not digging this figure. He's got a cool Halloween vibe to him with the orange and black. Nice silver paint there on the feet, which is the windshield or the rear window in Vehicle Mode. He's got some orange flames there on the side with an Autobot symbol. But there's really not much to him. He's got decent molded details on the arms. You can see the molded fist right there. The head sculpt. You lose it with all that purple. They could at least give him a different color eyes. I can't really tell. No, the eyes are not painted. So kind of a bland figure. Now articulation for this figure is terrible. The way his arms are designed since they're the entire side of the vehicle. They're on a ball joint, but by God they're hard to turn around. They just catch on the back. You can see the way they angle. So they catch here on these backpacks. So you can't really turn the arms without just manipulating them all over the place. So really no articulation for the arms. Legs. Legs can go up and down and there is a knee bend. So at least he's got that for him. Now for vehicle mode, super simple transformation. You kind of squeeze the sides together. Make sure they tab in along the roof. And then flip this section over the head which forms the front of the car. Make sure everything gets tabbed in. Take the legs, fold up. Tab those in. Squeeze everything together. It gets it all tabbed in place. And there you have hot rod mode or muscle car mode. This mode does not look too bad at all. I really like the orange flames on the side. The silver engine jutting out from the hood. The silver windows. It looks really, really good in vehicle mode. Lots of molded details, but there could have been some paint applications. The wheels are those pegged in wheels and these seem to be pretty solid. They don't pop out like the Siege MicroMaster wheels did. And he slides more than rolls. These wheels just don't roll well unless you actually apply some force to the vehicle. So there we have Daddy O in vehicle mode. Now let's take a look at trip up. Trip up, once again, very plain looking butt. There's just not much to this guy. He's got a little bit of green paint applications up there on the chest. Head sculpt looks alright, but it just loses it in that silver paint. And I really can't tell if that's the light catching it or he does have painted eyes. This one may actually have painted eyes. Huh. Decent head sculpt though. Not much else for the details. You got yellow down here on the feet. Green legs. There's some blue detailing there on the side with an Autobot logo. He has the exact same problems that Daddy O does. The arms, just the way they form an angle, you can't get really good rotation with them. And it's just, it sucks. He's very static. I mean the G1 figures had better articulation than these guys. Oh yeah, they do have waist swivels. I forgot to show that on Daddy O. You got that. Legs, same way. Up, down, all around. And there is a knee bit. Transformation for this guy, the exact same. Get these sides squeezed together. Make sure they tab in, flip this front part around. I do like how the front flips over that engine. That's really cool. Tab the legs together and rotate them over. And everything pops out. And there we go. We have trip up in vehicle mode. This mode, this one looks bad. No details. This is the first time I actually noticed the muffler along the sides. That's really cool. So I'll give him props there. Got the blue flames, yellow windows. Decent detailing on the front of the car, but he's just very, very plain looking. So now for some comparisons here. Let's take the Earthrise MicroMaster Hot Rod Patrol and compare them with their Generation 1 counterparts. And I am going to have to give Generation 1 the win on these vehicle modes. I like these a lot better. I like how Big Daddy, this is actually Big Daddy. His name is Big Daddy in Generation 1. Big Daddy has that giant wheel on the back. It looks like they attempted to give him a giant wheel. I just now noticed that. But yeah, G1 all the way right there. Trip up, same thing. He just looks a lot better in Generation 1. So there you go guys. There they are in vehicle modes with their Generation 1 counterparts. Just like the rest of our modern MicroMasters we've been getting lately, the Hot Rod Patrol has a combined weapon form. And yes, before I even show it to you, it is crap. So what we're going to do is we're going to take trip up and just unfold the back of the car and underneath flip out this handle which is on the front of the vehicle. So that's that. Same thing with Big Daddy. We're going to flip Big Daddy, excuse me. Daddy O flip him around, flip out this handle. Now the handle on Daddy O is a lot, well not a lot but it's a little bit shorter than trip up here. So what we're going to do is we're going to attach trip up to Daddy O. You connect this handle into that hole in his chest just like so. You're going to take Daddy O's legs, rotate them around, then attach trip up. And there's weapon mode. Let me flip those around too. So that's it. You got two cars doing something questionable but there's your weapon mode. It blows, it totally, it's a poor choice of word for this formation. This sucks, still, poor choice of words. This is a terrible weapon. And since I happen to have Siege Crosshair's handy, here he is wielding the Hot Rotoblaster. Well, at least you can add multiple blast effects to it so it can look pretty while shooting. And now for some quick size comparisons. Here's the Earthrise MicroMaster Hot Rod Patrol with the Generation 1 Hot Rod Patrol. And I think once again I'm going to have to give it to Generation 1 for the better representation of these figures. And the War for Cybertron Siege Race Car Patrol. Now I'm going to be honest with you. In my personal opinion I think the engines have stalled out on the Earthrise Hot Rod Patrol. These guys just did not impress me at all, especially after the impressive showing the military patrol gave me. I mean I love those two figures but these guys I just found lacking. Maybe if I opened and reviewed these two first my feelings would be a little bit different but for right now these hot rods need to be left in the garage. So does the War for Cybertron Earthrise MicroMaster Hot Rod Patrol belong in your collection? Only if you find them clearance or get them as a gift. These guys really disappointed me. Granted it's always cool to get brand new MicroMasters or Battle Masters to fill up the ranks but these two really just aren't any fun. The vehicle modes are cool so I can see utilizing those with some of the play sets coming out but the robot modes, the robot modes suck. But that's just my opinion to each their own. And guys I want to thank you for stopping by and checking out my video. Don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe and don't forget to hit that bell icon to get notified when I have new videos uploaded. Guys this is Patriot Prime, signing out.