 Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with a surprise unboxing or surprise unpackaging if you will. This is a gift that was sent to me by my good Fred Tony, who I happened to have on the Sitrep the other night. And if you have not seen my Sitrep with toast and toys, please check it out because that was the funniest episode I've done yet. We went completely off the rails. It was hilarious. So Tony messaged me a couple days after it airs and said, buddy, I found you something. I want to send it to you. You are going to be so excited with this. So I cannot wait to see what's in this package. The bad thing about this is I got this package two days ago. But you know how life happens and you just can't get the things. I had a birthday dinner to go to. I just enrolled Dylan in Jiu Jitsu class. So I've been pretty busy. So without further ado, let's crack this open together and see what Tony found me. Get my handy-dandy package opener here. I want to make sure I don't catch the package we'll do right up here at the top. Like kid at Christmas. Look at the bubble wrap. Oh my God. I see it. I see it. Oh my God. Open. I'm being gentle. At least trying to be gentle. Tony, this is awesome. Tony found the gears I've been searching for for months. I am so happy to get this. Tony, this is great. Dude, I am so stoked. Now, for those of you that have been following me, I have been hunting gears for a long time. Gears was my very first transformer. Now, I have one of them. I have a G1 over there on the shelf. But when I found out he was being released, I had to get one. I want one in the package just because, like I said, he was my first transformer. He is damn near mint. No creases. Dude, I am so happy. Thank you so much, Tony. Thank you so much. Now, I wonder if I can, I'm going to try something. I'm going to see if I can jump right in to review of gears. If I can quit looking at this guy. I love him. I absolutely love him. So let's try this. Gears was one of the original transformer toys that came out in 1984 as part of the first wave of minibots. He appeared throughout the animated series in many, many different episodes. He's most famously noted for his very grumpy personality. And that came through in one episode where Megatron rewired gears and made him joyful. So I forget how the episode actually went because I'm not researching this history. I'm just shooting it off the hip. But Megatron transformed, transformed. Megatron rewiring made gears a very happy jovial character which led into some sort of adventure. But other than that, Gears was in many different episodes until he disappeared after the 86 movie Never To Be Seen Again in season three. We assume he was a casualty of the great 1986 film Purge. Now in the comics, gears appeared in issue number one. But I remember him most fondly from issue number three. Issue number three of the Marvel comic series was my first experience with the Transformers. That was the first time I even heard of them. I picked up issue three at my local comic shop back in the day because it had an image of Spider-Man webbing up a giant robot. And that was a book I had to get. Gears was featured prominently throughout that episode, even befriending Spider-Man. So Gears and Spider-Man actually rescued Buster's dad, Sparkplug, from the Decepticons. So it was a very cool episode. My first introduction to the Transformers had my very first transformer in it. I remember getting gears either it was either a school gift to get it. I can't talk. It's early this morning. It's six o'clock. I either got gears at a school gift exchange or a Sunday school gift exchange. I remember getting him a few weeks before Christmas. Christmas 84. I got quite a few bots. So, but enough of the history of gears. Let's take a look at the toy itself. Man. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. First things first. Let's take a look at this fantastic packaging. This is such a great throwback to 1984. You've got the fantastic G1 art there on the front. Gears in his vehicle mode. Of course, gears in robot mode right there. Such nice package. I can't get over the packaging on these reissues. This is just fantastic. On the back, you have the Generation 1 art. That famous scene of battle with Optimus Prime with the weird Autobot symbol on his hand, Starscream, all the others. Here's your step-by-step instructions for gears. He's pretty easy. Gears is file card. See if I can focus in on that. That way, if you guys want to read it, you can hit that pause button. And there's the classic stat card. It's done up where you look. It looks like you need the decoder, but you don't. I have a spare decoder. I'm going to see if that actually works. But there's the package. Looks beautiful. It's going to look great on the shelf. Now let's take a look at the figure. Gears transforms into a small little four by four truck. He's very nice looking, very nice molded details on him. Has a chrome grille here on the front. Some molded details. I like the vents there along the windshield on the hood. A little Autobot sticker on top. Not sure what the back is supposed to represent. Of course, that ends up being the robot's feet. Maybe like a little camper top. So never really thought of it, but maybe that's what he is. He's a little pick up with a camper top. Nice big wheels and he can roll really, really good. Of course, he's kind of self-transforming right there. But very simple vehicle, like all the 84 mini-bots. Now let's transforming. And you might want to sit down and grab some popcorn for this transformation. You want to take the back, flip around, forming the feet and legs, turning them up, extend the sides. There's the arms. And there is Gears in robot mode. Gears definitely looks a lot different than he did in the cartoon or the comic. And that's because Gears was carried over from the Diaclone line from Japan. Robot mode, robot mode's okay. The head sculpt, very robotic, very 1980s. Mine's a little scuffed up due to the paint or due to the age. This is an original G1. He's lacking an Autobot symbol right there for his belt. He's got molded fists right there at the end of the arms and nice chrome legs. Articulation for this G1. His arms can do, cannot talk. His arms can do a complete 360. So, poseability for this guy? It's not happening. But there he is, guys. There is 1984's Gears. So, do I recommend a Generation 1 Gears for your collection? Hell yeah, dude. Gears is one of the originals. He's one of the first transformers released out now. If you were lucky enough to find him in this beautiful, beautiful reissue. Yeah, I can't recommend him enough. Very colorful figure. Nice Optimus Prime colors. I'm still speechless that I got this. I love this. He is going in a place of honor, Tony. I can guarantee you that. And guys, I want to thank you for watching. If you like what you see, don't forget to like and don't forget to subscribe. I try to put out one to two videos a week. Just depends on my schedule, what time I can get up, and I'm free in the office. Like I said, it's really early this morning. Also, don't forget to check out my series, The Sit Rep. Right, sit down and just shoot the bull with a fellow Transformers collector slash YouTuber. I'm actually getting ready to post Episode 12. So, it's become a pretty good hit. So, please check that out and get to know some other YouTubers who like to review Transformers as well. Guys, this is Patriot Prime signing out. Hooah! I am so happy. Hey, I really appreciate you guys stopping by my channel. Don't forget to like and don't forget to subscribe. Also, check out some of my other videos that I've done on Generation 1 Transformers, Modern Era Transformers, and Toy Hacks Reprolabel Sets. Once again, this is Patriot Prime. Hooah!