 Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another episode of the sit rep and once again The mighty transformers are help bringing this world together because my guest is from across the pond in England So let me introduce all of you to toys are Russ Russ. How are you doing this evening? I'm great. Thanks. How's everybody else? They are it I was gonna say it's 2 a.m. For me, but it doesn't feel like it so thanks everybody who's who's turned up to listen to me Anyway, he got up awful early to talk to me. I mean honored absolutely honored. No, it's gonna be the way around definitely Excellent well How the sit rep works for those of you who've never seen my show before is I have ten questions for my guest I have five questions for him regarding him being a transformer collector and then five questions for him regarding Him as a youtuber and then when I'm done I'll open up the floor for you guys and the first thing I want you guys to notice about Russ is look at the g1 goodness behind him He has got so much glorious g1 Of course, we're looking at Devastator right now but if you watch his videos it just makes me drool and Thanks to his video is how I learned to transform Overlord when I did my overlord review the other day because what you saw in that video Was that was me messing with overlord for the first time since it wasn't my figure I didn't spend a lot of time messing with him I was like, okay if I'm gonna Transforming I'm gonna do it in camera and my viewers are going to experience overlord just like I am for the first time So that's enough of me rambling on so I Tend to talk all these derail a lot and we'll warn you right now Well, we will start off with first tell everybody a little bit about yourself Okay, so yes, my my real name is Russell Humphries. So you don't have to be a genius to work out Why I call my name toys are us and quite luckily there isn't any toys are us in the UK and haven't been brave Yeah, so that's all right As I say it's 2 a.m. Monday now in the UK and literally the very next day Tuesday. I will be 42 years old I've been collecting transformers for decades Shall we say and the collection that you've seen on the videos behind me and in the toy room? I've amassed literally as I say over decades. It's not something that it's just fallen into my lap It's just been a passion ever since I was a child started collecting properly as an adult Because I think we all go through that phase if there was figures funny enough like Devastator who Did you just really wanted as a kid and you never got it? And then of course you can buy one when you're an adult So it's escalated from that But the weird thing about it is that although I've had it for so long I bought my own admission and I've omitted this I mean, I've kept it all under a rock. I've kept myself under a rock this whole last year It's been a year already. He's just been a total whirlwind I put my first collection video up on March the second and then I just did a couple of weekly videos And but the main reason as well as the lockdown so exactly like You've just said just you know to spread across the world just just to connect with people and it's just been just again Just a total whirlwind Got some nice subscribers got some nice friends met so many different people through all and I'm a little bit annoyed at Myself for keeping it hidden for so long on the same hand now that I'm really Overjoyed that the fact that this has brought us two together. It's brought me my subscribers It's brought my Instagram followers and I get genuinely nice messages on a daily basis like I've just again explained but I don't know people who don't live in the UK We're currently just about to start our 10th week of our third lockdowns and this is proper lockdown. So we're Shops are closed apart from food. We can't go out unless we're working. I'm sorry. I haven't said who I am I'm a self-employed personal trainer. So for much of the last year I've been sat at home So another reason why we're doing so many videos So I've had genuinely nice messages from people saying your little video in the day Just just you know, just bright enough brightens up a day makes it makes the day So I've continued doing it and I love doing it and I don't want to talk for too long about myself because that's about it To be fair. That's it. I wouldn't buy one of the gyms reopen on April the 12th. I've got another five weeks of lockdown Then I can go back to work. But because I'm enjoying this so much. I'm gonna keep this going as well So yeah, there you go. Yeah, this has become such a fun Addition to my hobby and I think I told you before when we were messaging another reason we clicked is years ago I was a personal trainer too when I got back from the army I actually was featured in a couple fitness mags for a children's program that I put together Well, I was I love doing things with the kids And of course, it was all military themed and I brought dodgeball back to the world and all this And of course when I found out the wife was pregnant now I I'm from Poe Duncan, West Virginia and personal trainers just aren't a huge Demand in demand here. So when I found out my wife was pregnant. I was like, okay It's time to move on and find something else and a cool job I had when I first started doing this was I worked at a casino tossing rich people out. That was fun And then now I've got a desk job where I work Monday through Friday with the weekends off soon And I never closed down. I was an essential worker I was out every day All right, so we are five minutes in and I think it's time to get going on with our collection or I Collect try us again. My transformer collecting videos. Yeah, I told you you'd think I was a professional There you go. All right. Well, number one, I think you kind of hit on this But what is the appeal of transformers for you? This is a really good question and I've had a really good think about it because I was one of the lucky in one of the lucky Enough kids way back in 1984 To get both Optimus and Megatron for Christmas and I didn't get much else at all. I didn't you got exactly so I am I got Megatron Optimus Prime Soundwave Sunstreaker and ratchet what I know I only got them to and I don't know what it is I mean, I think I think they just managed to nail everything because Most kids they like cars. They're like robots They're like dinosaurs and then you've got these things which are all that they're all the same So, you know that they're their playability factor of them is amazing Obviously we had a truck and a gun when we were kids and yeah I just I just think the fact that they've managed to to nail two completely different markets as in cars and robots So that they're appealing for that way and of course the dinosaurs I was a massive on dinosaurs when I was a kid Of course when you could get Grimlock who was actually a robot as well. It's just like wow It's just like how have they done this? I think that was the appeal as a child It's just and then I like puzzles sort of solving as well So let's be honest they are mini puzzles aren't they when you first get them because you've got to work it out You enjoy doing it and I think they're good I think as I say I've I didn't mention in the intro then but I've got a five-year-old son And it's great seeing him Not just playing with him but working out and working things out in his head and how to do it And I think because they're like mini puzzles when you're younger and some of them They don't have your arms some of them now when you're a bit older like they you know the 30 plus steps They're they're good puzzles as well. So they they they occupy my mind. They're good. They're challenging for me So I think that's one of the main draws for me There's a lot of times with the new modern figures why I don't review a figure immediately because he's so damn confusing Transforming this guy an absolute amazing figure, but I get screwed up on his transformation so many times So that's why I haven't reviewed him yet people. I've got the intro film. I've done it. You can watch mine But now I do know here. He's in the chat and I think he refused him as reviews Reviews them as soon as he walks home or gets at home. I mean he has him up immediately He does he's dead good. He gets his and he puts his own boxes open or the boxes before he opens on his Instagram first Just, you know test That's me and it's so bad because when I first started I wouldn't do the box Like who cares about the box and then I started doing it now It's like part of the thing and I'll go and buy a figure and he just sits there It's like I've got to get that intro film so I can take him out and mess with him Yes, right All right. Well, let's go to number two and I always like how this one goes aside from g1 Which is always the number one answer. It's got to be what is your favorite transformers fiction? comics cartoons You see it. It's again. This is a it's just two answers because one it is g1, but I Have to say it. I have to say victory. I have to say and I know it's g1 So I'm gonna tell you a new one as well But I just think again, I mean you just brief go to chat about this before we went on air Just the fact that the toys that they had in Japan in 1989 for the victory cartoon are just mind-blowing I know that some of them are managed to made that make their way over I know unfortunately that the dub and the English dub doesn't make you know, do doesn't make too much pleasant watching But if you can just appreciate the animation that's in them Just just think it's fantastic and then the other thing is and this maybe it's a get bit of a get out of jail but I've just watched them again because I Really appreciate the new cartoons the siege and the Earth Royce I watched them But when they first come out and I suppose because of the kids in the background or whatever I didn't really appreciate them, but I've managed to sit down watch them all start to finish again I think they're actually really really good and I need to just Finally bite the bullet and buy them. I've had them sitting in my Amazon cart forever Now I've attempted to watch the headmasters quite a few times. Yep, and that gets old quick I don't know what is about that show I think what it is is because obviously with the headmasters were so associated with it all the characters that are in it apart from Raiden And of course when they remake a sound blaster and twin cast, but because the characters were so Affiliated with that it doesn't sound like them and you can't you can't recognize you can't you know You can't affiliate with them. But whereas when you're watching victory, they're all new characters So the voices doesn't matter really. They're all new storylines. You can't because it's so new. It's not like It's not as bad as trying to to watch the headmasters because I do know what you mean I know exactly what you mean It's like I remember watching the one where they they all hold hands and do this circle thing I'm like, what am I watching? And of course my first experience was that horrible dub where they called blaster billy and Yeah, and then we've got a head on yelling I was like, okay, I need to drink a lot more All right, do you have a favorite figure or grail I Can see all of them behind you. This is a figure so you have to sell your whole collection This one is not going anywhere Okay, well to be fair. Yeah, and I think a lot of the people who are from my channel will know about this And I suppose straight away. I've got to thank Chuck Lee for this because it was a figure that in nowadays market is it's Well, it's three figures. It's the big powered gift set, which is die Atlas road fire and sonic bomber and Funny enough you're talking about as I say having kids and stuff I nearly pulled the trigger a couple of times with him way back when it was a bit cheaper And then the last one I saw was just before My son was born in 2015 and I hadn't seen it again and in total honestly There's there's no way on this planet would have been able to get that figure at all if Chuck Lee Great guy off by 2000. I'm sorry. I've just plugged in but he did me. He did me a huge favor He allowed me to do a payment plan. Of course, he didn't send me the figure until I paid for it all but With some of the figures now and I think this is a lot of people's veins You know with the new with collecting nowadays is that some of the figures are just Yeah, they're astronomical. They're out of reach and this figure would have been and especially again during this current time This current climate I wouldn't know even dream to be I wouldn't even thought about it But he allowed me to just pay in installments to pay in installments until I got it cleared And then of course when the moment I knew that I paid enough and then of course saved to pay the ship in as Well because it's quite a big box. It says the box of it Say again He's in Hawaii He's in Hawaii It had to cross two ponds to get to me as he said as well. So by the time. Yeah, it's die Atlas. It's it's Big powered. I'll just say it just for if you guys don't really know the So it's There's oh, give me camera. There's that I reuse There's sonic bomber and road fire underneath and if I just show you why and again, there's a video on my channel They combine into this ridiculous jet. Oh My god that thing looks amazing So just that just when I saw it and I just had to have it and again I've got to thank chocolate so much. Let me pay. Yeah, no one's taking that Took me months and months and months and months over a calendar year to get saved for and get paid for but it was totally worth it Well, it's like I'm trying to reel in my big spending because basically TF con like okay, we're going plain and simple Yeah, hold on somebody's asking me something real quick. No problem What Omega Supreme be worth picking up? I can barely keep myself on my feet and I've set aside money for him But I've never had an Omega Supreme. Would you recommend him Patriot Prime? Well, if we just been talking about well, I think you may be talking about the G1 Omega Supreme and Yes, that's a great figure, but you got to be really careful with him because you won't make sure he works Yes, the the gears in the tank can strip very easily along with the little rubber tires I think I went through three different tanks before I finally got one that worked and still he won't walk He'll roll around the track, but he won't walk I'm thinking I'm maybe one of these days get the encore version I've got no problem with encore because they're the same companies made them again, but sometimes they're made better I Jump on the bandwagon with that say a hundred percent hundred percent One of the figures that wasn't released to the UK Didn't even see one in person funny enough. I was in the States I was in I was in Vegas and they were there used to be a toy shop I don't know if it's still there, but the website isn't alive anymore at the bottom of Freeman Street I called the toy shack and they had one in there and My wife she was my fiance at the time and I this I've said this story on my videos Bless her art. She let me just know questions asked. I just went in and brought it in Yeah, it was it was one of them But this is quite funny because it was such an impulse by that I hadn't thought of of course I wasn't planning on buying anything but long story short. We had to purchase another suitcase so we could get him home Literally, we had to he's talking about Siege Omega Supreme. See I can't tell you yet But I will be telling you really soon. I'll just put it that way. Yeah, he's he's definitely worth it He's a hundred percent worth it if obviously if you don't break the bank don't break the bank But yeah, he's well I'll just let it know right now. I'm I've got one incoming. I had the but bot tropical is set pre-ordered from Amazon They canceled it or not cancel it. They delayed it or whatever and I'm sitting there thinking Okay, it's delayed. I'm annoyed. It's delayed. I've paid it off So it's all you know there's $70 just sitting there and I'm like, you know, I have all those figures already I mean cause he's just there. It's just a repaint set and Lo and behold Amazon had Omega again at regular retail price. So I canceled butropolis put the money on Omega He's incoming You won't be disappointed Somebody said he's like three hundred dollars now on Amazon. He wasn't this morning when I bought him Releasing him. They are re issuing him. So yes, I tell you viewers and everybody who's listening don't pay the crazy prices They are Hasbro already to car a robbery issue in him and I'm really surprised with that I think Hasbro is going the NECA route I don't know if you're familiar with NECA figures, but they've been re-releasing a lot of theirs because I'm a huge Terminator fan and I always wanted this NECA T-800 Terminator, this is him during the police station assault This figure goes about a hundred hundred and fifty dollars and then NECA Announced last fall like hey, we're releasing this figure. I'm like hell Yeah, cuz I almost I lost one on eBay for a hundred bucks and then I picked this one up for 35 brand new Yay, NECA. So it's nice to see Hasbro doing something like that because I know I'm nervous now. I gotta make sure he doesn't fall off the shelf. I'll put him up They reissued Devastator. I know they reissued Omega Supreme They're reissuing Jetfire. Yeah, so it's nice to see they're doing that and they really Need to start getting away from all these exclusives because I know a lot of people missed out on those seekers From Earthrise and I've bitched about this on my channel all the time. Why make mainline characters? Exclusives yeah, cuz everybody wants the seekers and not everybody can get them or they cancel matters I don't have a target fortunately one my subscribers hooked me up with the seekers But hopefully, you know, okay There's an exclusive for like a six months six month window and then it'll open to everything else And I think that the Hasbro pulse is doing some kind of exclusive section on their site Where you can start getting the exclusive figures from them and I believe they're opening up a UK website as well That's the important thing. That's that's massive again. The amount of things that we don't get is It's crazy really it's it's it's that's nice to hear So this is actually I mean I knock on wood not bragging but this botropolis set is the first one from Amazon that I've had get Delayed or canceled on me and I was just thinking I was like I didn't really want him It's just one of those when you're in there. Okay, I'll just pre-order it And I always pay for it with gift cards as it goes because great thing about Amazon you can pre-order stuff You don't have to pay for it You just put money on it up until the day you get it and I'd already paid him off with Christmas gift cards and everything I thought well, what the hell? Let's let's get Omega Supreme instead Where were we? Number four that's it what figure is your white whale your most wanted toy Is there one you still don't have your collection yet? Yeah, definitely. There's and funnily enough It's it's it's the repaint of Scorponok the Jenna. It's a Japanese exclusive Blacks Eric, correct. That's the one again. Just it's just I'm a reach at the moment. It's just it's too much money And he's so plagued with GPS. I'd be worried about touching him. That's the thing. It's the thing It's just it. Yeah, it's just out at the moment and when I'm back in work I'm sure chocolate me do another payment plan with him and then I can just start to um Yeah, yes. Yes. We are now definitely getting He's he's just what does he want to see him? I'll just quickly show you getting make people drool There's a tiny he's just he's just tiny Definitely getting definitely getting of course. I was upset after I ordered him I was like I got to get the toy hex decals set for him and they're out of stock. Oh I got to contact my contacts over there. It's a hey, come on man. Omega Supreme Yeah, all right, definitely black as Eric I Wonder if we'll get a Generation selects black Zarek Titan. Well, they've done right Rorichi. Haven't they which is obviously just the repainted fast track I'm thoroughly expecting it and then I don't know if I've got space or if I can even justify it But as I love the character so much, I just think I'll find that's where I'm lucky I haven't seen those episodes because I have no connection to a lot of these I keep buying over and over again because That was one of my favorites on the show. That was one of my favorites in the comic book Yeah, I know you mean All right number five This is our last Transformers collector question is what is your favorite transformer character? not toy character any fiction any media and again This is just really ironic because this isn't set up. He is right behind me. It's it's devastating. It's just That I know we were just talking before we went on and you were saying obviously your connections more to the comics I do like the comics, but I'll just I'll never forget I remember is it the first house that we lived in before we moved watching Saturday morning when they first merged Devastator and I was just It's imprinted. I'm as I say I'm 42 years old in 18 hours. It's 26 hours and like literally I can remember as I say 1984 that Saturday morning just like Just stunned just couldn't believe it and then I just think he's always been a good character I don't think I really liked what they did with him in the Bay movies But we'll talk about that boy the cartoons and Just yeah, just everything about him and it's gonna be it's gonna. Yeah, he's just just amazing You see Devastator in the content of cartoons. He's towering over all these guys and then you get him in hand He's like no bigger than Optimus Prime. Yeah, absolutely time He really that was the biggest shock for me and that's that was the biggest one of the biggest shocks when I got into adult collecting because We even amongst all my friends who connected and collected transformers when we were a kid We still didn't have enough to get Devastator we so I'd never seen a completely built one Until until I got one myself and that was about 2008 and I when he came in the pack He came in a box in the box was like It was really small. I was like this can't be it this can't be it and bless the guy You've done it He'd even left him in the Devastator mode for me because I'd said to him like I'd left him a message I've never seen him As obviously please don't put him all in the pieces We've got no idea how to build him up and he sent him in a box and when I opened it up It was it was that combination of joy and then that bit of like why is he so small? Because I think you're right. I think like shock waves about four inches tall of that. He must something. It's crazy The first Devon my experience with a Devastator was I bought a KO one for like 20 bucks I think Devastator is one of the most KO'd figures Anywhere and he was my filler Devastator until I finally got it actually I had a lot of the chaos I had the KO know my Bruticus was the robots in disguise Bruticus. It was ruination Yes, I think that was his name and then I had a KO defense or where the hotspot was red instead of blue Had the KO aerial bots had the KO Menisaur with the Technobot pieces and it as the years have come along every there's there's no KO Combineders anymore. No, that's good Well boy, did they say I run a clean office just because we were talking about in one of the Facebook groups And I'm gonna call it I'm gonna call it take that childhood because I never had a full Devastator But I've got a Hasbro one in robot a Takara boxed one a gig boxed one and OGA Mexican boxed one individual gig boxes Individual Takara boxes and then another couple of loose ones, but the ironic Owen. I've got a Canadian Carded one as well. So I've just gotten gone Devastator crazy. So yeah, I'm gonna move to Europe because it seems like you have great Access to bots over there. Was that a question by Kato then they just popped up was it? No He just pops up says he didn't like what he did with any character in the Bay movies True I will give Bay one credit and that was the creation of barricade I love that evil police officer and I like how Siege G Want to fight him because the G1 barricade was a hot pink race car. Yes. Yes, it's kind of cool seem like that. Oh So that's it. That's all our transformer questions here We get here we get digging into you as a youtuber and like you said you haven't been doing this long at all Right since March. Yeah, right So I did I did a couple of little like couple of second test things in January last year But like nothing nothing at all, but then I put a five minute and we joked about this Portrait video up of my collection on March the second just as a little bit. Yeah, I've just just to see what I've gotten to Just to get used to it and then Yeah, that's it. Yes. I'm March the second. I did was when I started it really properly Yes, so just over a year literally just over a year. Nice. He asked what Dylan the Autobot asked What's your favorite Constructicon? What's my favorite Constructicon it's got to be That's tough, you know that I'm looking at him right now Maybe Maybe long haul and and the reason we're being and it's weird Do you mind if I show you know because because of this mode they never showed in anything where they could combine all the kibble parts So I think he just looks like he looks good as a dump truck Where is it? He looks good as a dump truck and he looks good as a normal one. He looks good as a robot scrappers the one that Cracks me up because he's a flying Yes, yes Yeah, definitely So no, so what was I think was the question? What was the end on what made me start doing it? I didn't even start in the question yet. Yeah, that's all get question number six You as a youtuber what possessed you a grown-ass man to do toy reviews on YouTube? Well, again exactly that so the thing is when I started doing this It mainly was out of lockdown I'm not just gonna say was out of boredom because I'd actually wanted to do it although we were locked down pretty much in March And I've got two kids as I say so I was looking after them a lot Yeah, just again. I've had this collection. So a couple of me friends knew about it I'm a couple of my clients knew about it and they're like, well, she needs to get it Hey, they need to show it and I was like I haven't really got the time I haven't really got the time and then of course when you lock down and you can't do anything There's your time. There's your perfect excuse and then this is a bit jokey But it's also very true because exactly like the example behind me. Of course, it's insured But like let's just say heaven forbid that there was like a fire in this house And I sent a letter off to my insurance company and I'm like, yeah, I want to claim for seven scrappers, please I'm like, what seven? I'm like, yeah, I've got a Mexican one I've got it, you know, and I've got this like so many of my figures They would have just probably just thought don't be silly But like I've got I suppose I suppose I've got actual what you call it an actual video catalogue of Yeah, that's it. What's it called? And what's it called an inventory? That's it I've got an actual video inventory of everything. So when they so it was it was a good reason for that because I was writing everything down And then yeah, I just I just thought let's share it Let's get this out in exactly for the reasons that I'm doing this right now It's it's brought me closer to other people It's it's of course helped me enhance my collection as well because of course that's what you do You start chatting to people and you can you can just again, it's the community. It's just brilliant I just thought let's have a go with it. I'm lucky enough That this has been here like I was just discussing with yourself off like before we went live The big thing with this is that I've had it for so long. It's not as if I've had to go and spend Ridiculous amounts of money to start anything. It was just there and I just thought and yeah, let's let's start a YouTube channel and It's fun. It's fun in it. Oh, yeah And like said the people you meet we talk for a half hour prior to this you to think we've been friends forever I mean it just it clicked Exactly like that exactly like that Alright question. Let's see. I got scroll down here. I should have these memorized by now. You'd think so Question number seven. What keeps inspiring you to get in front of your camera? Again same just doing the videos at first when I was doing it My son was was watching a lot of them But I didn't realize just how much he was copying me and that was really nice and fun enough I put a couple of little I say his reviews at the end of him So it was just a way for me and him because he was getting into transformers himself So it was good for him to start to learn But then like very quick into it and I'll give him a shout out I don't know if he's up or awake but there was a guy called them and he's got an Instagram called Transformers UK collector and he's just starting a YouTube as well But he was like my third subscriber So he was my first real because obviously as soon as you set up your YouTube account your two best friends are helping you set it up They subscribe don't they so he was my first real subscriber and like very soon on very quick on he'd He'd send me a message and of course we're all locked in in the UK Send me a message saying have you got this figure? Can you show it me? So then I just so by the time I got to mid-April I started doing like every day Sticking a video per day. So it started off like that I get people saying have you got this figure? Have you got that figure? And I just literally because I had the time I Do it that way and there was a you know people all around the world had this little indian Like love blessing that called the tool and he he was messing to me every day Can I show him this figure can I show him that figure? So it's mainly I'm not gonna lie and say that I don't enjoy it because I do I do really enjoy it. It's fun And sometimes I'll you'll hear my voice that it's great to get a figure down That I haven't even had a play with in that adult or you know or in years like I didn't have Duster and hitting with that before we put in front of the camera So yeah, just get a figure down and just you know transform it between modes is fun but then Again, what you say you get connections you get friends and you get things like that and then you know I get loads of messages again, Michael W. He was probably watching now fingers crossed. He is I did at Grand Slam I did a video for him literally tonight on my channel just because he asked and then You know, that's that's the other good thing in it It's just doing something which takes five ten minutes out of my day Makes someone so happy. I get genuine messages special on the Instagram like what you're doing is amazing. Thank you for us It's your little video in the day brightens up my day, etc I do the comics on my channel and they're not very popular at all But that's fine because there's like there's a core group of like 15 20 people Who will watch it and they'll leave a lovely comment at the end of it And you know that's it's ten minutes out my day if I can't make somebody happy 15 people happy for 10 minutes of my time and they there he is then there's there's no point is there? I might I've got I love doing it. All right. Well, it's funny. It's kind of like how I'm doing too I have so much fun doing this. I remember when I used to have spare time. I would play a video game I would watch a movie now. It's like I run upstairs and film something. Yeah, that's me That's definitely me. We don't watch films anymore. Now real quick Pamela. I see your question popping up I'll get you I'll get to you at the end because I want to kind of go through mine But I've seen you we'll get you promise All right question number eight There are thousands of toy reviewers on YouTube. What makes you any different from the rest other than your background my god Okay, I suppose again the good thing is that for me The fact that I did keep everything under a rock and by my own admission. I wasn't really watching many YouTubers before lockdown and looking into things and With my collection for people who don't know me exactly like what's behind me I went to either daft crazy, whatever you want to look at it and I didn't do reviews to start off with I didn't do reviews I did showcases and I still say that at the beginning of every one of my video But this is a showcase so you can decide how you want to display him So I literally would have if it's just a normal, you know, what about car there? He is in robot There he is in car. Let's look at him and then you can decide how you want to display him and That's basically what it was. So I thought that's going to be my little niche my little niche might be the fact That I can do that and I'm sure of course there's loads of other people who've got multiples of one bottle, whatever But then it was probably again transforms UK collector and collector 75 Graham another guy from the UK Who were then were telling me stuff and they're making me realize that okay? Perhaps this isn't a normal thing. This is a bit bigger than most people sort of things So so yeah, just the fact that I could I was able to and again, especially the Japanese figures in the UK They're pretty much unheard of collector 75 Graham's got loads and he's got some videos on he was my go-to G1 or for years Fantastic, and he's such against You still crack me up today how he gets so aggravated and cussing. He's like that's figure. He's gone of a piece of shit But he's all right The thing when I first started watching him like the ages ago the odd time I would watch I didn't really watch proper you say proper YouTube still March I'd watch the odd ones before then and it was him because I was gonna but I was buying the actual figure So I wanted to see what it was and there was no language at all and like I could watch it and like now you just can't at all and I did a joy ride video of the day literally kids you know I was trained changing the power master and his leg fell off in my hand and then I just managed I didn't swear at all. I was like, oh my days and everybody commented on it How did you keep it cool? Because I want to keep it safe for kids as well. But yeah, I suppose that disclaimer in front of mine I suppose the thing is that I wanted to That's it. I think it was just the reason I thought I was different was because the fact that I Had them all in their different modes. I was able to show you rather than again I would discuss this with you were just a bit off air. It was just a crude mobile phone No tripod. No nothing so transformation was at the question. I'm not that dexterous not at all So it was even easier I could just say there they are in both modes pick which one you like and then it just It just went from that. So that's the main worst experience I've had on camera was during my G1 Scorponok review. I had him in Base mode and I had fast track up on his ramp and I was just talking about it And I bumped the table and fast track went rolling off that ramp and hit the floor and broke And I didn't contain myself I Went if it'd been fast track, I probably would have. Yeah, probably whatever they say. He's my favorite That's my favorite figure favorite toy to Scorponok. Definitely. Oh, he's awesome I still need to find the two little orange guns for fast track. I have repro's right now Yeah, but every time you find one, they're like $35 as much as I love Transforms it's hard to choke up $35 for something smaller than that. Yeah, and that's 30 that 35 times, too He has two of them, but since then I've got a new fast track. I just don't have the new guns All right, where are we at now number nine? What's your thoughts on the transformer social community? You've kind of hit out on this YouTube Facebook and you yourself have any special shout outs I've got quite a few actually and again This is this is a brilliant because we just discussed this now again that the fact that it is Amazing and it's the one thing that I do now genuinely have a genuine regret for not doing any of this any sooner because Purely for experiences like this purely for the people I've spoke to People I've met and again like you've just said most of these people I've never actually met in person Funnily enough transforms UK collector came down to my house In between lockdown one lockdown two and he brought his little lads and like just seeing his little lads face You know, it was just it was just priceless. It was just perfect Owens face was just perfect So but yeah, I've got again the generosity is amazing We've obviously discussed and obviously your viewers know that you got sent a road buster Obviously very recently got lent an overlord to just to review input who does his own tales from tele-tran. I Only went on his channel on January again only spoke to me a few times He's gonna of course. I'm paying him back as well by the way He's not giving me things but he went just he asked me about the there's a book on big bad toy store Bit like, you know, you guide books but I'm but configures and he knew that I've got a lot of but configures And he said are you getting this book and I was dead on this. I was like no moment because I'm not in work again I'm not in work till April Two days later. He sends me a message. I've got it. Yeah, and that's just like Unbelievable and of course I am paying him back and if he's there again, thank you very much So I want to say thank you to him. He didn't have to do that. He didn't have to do that at all I this is a bad it is I can't even remember his actual first name But I know him as input and I know that we chat and I know that I like He's actually in the chat. There he is. There he is. I mean, how nice is that? He's such a just blew my mind and I had to tell everybody how nice that was Youself for allowing me to come on to your show Kato for doing the same thing And then there's there's a guy again, you know as well Rudy's is a UK and he we did this I've done two of them with him now because we've been on lockdown for so long. He does this online I suppose like a TF con he calls it an online Yeah, transformer thing where we literally a couple of months ago. We did from 1 p.m Right through obviously to Kato show one in the morning That's it. So he asked me if I could do it and I was like, I'm still working. It's hard for me I get a lot of people, you know, they kind of ask about how sporadic my videos are Yeah, it's because I work 40 hours a week I've got the wife and kid in trying to get away to do this, especially I Can't work all day come home ignore the wife and kid and come up here for three hours They do a box at home things there's all of them. There's Rudy's is oh, there's transforms the show ultra Marcus Loads more so probably missed a few eight and I want to say Say again our boy M. That's it. Oh, that's it. He's at the top. He's seeing a misty man He's at the top and he gave him our first shout out He's amazing and then just one more before I take too much There's actually now a company in the UK and I know there's probably a couple of them There's one called robot recruits and he's been again. His name's Felt this off. He's been nothing but nice to me since I started this He puts my videos on his channel and he actually the target exclusive and things that you mentioned Sometimes he's able to get all of them which for UK buyers is just amazing. So robot recruits is just amazing So thank you to them as well Excellent. Yep. Input says this community was absolutely amazing All right. This is our last question and I'll open up the floor Number 10 Do you have any channel goals for yourself and where can our viewers find you plug yourself? I'll tell you where my things are first. I tell you my goals So my instagram is toys underscore russ as in a r e russ And then my channel name is literally as well toys are russ but spelt out no abbreviation. So to y s separate word a re separate word r u double s and my goal I suppose And this has been something that I've been wanting to do for ages But it's even more fun now sharing it with the community And I'm lucky enough that I've already managed to collect every single g1 hasbro figure I'm only a few off every single g1 figure ever as in the tokara ones. I've got the european ones I just need one action master elite, but then because i'm a bit crazy as well I'd love to be able to have video document Of and again free service for all my youtube free, of course it is I want to be able to visually document as many different known variants Of figures as I can so I've got mexican variants. I've got tokara variants. I've got even got greek ones el greco I've got Yeah, I've got I've got a greek carded Huffer have you seen a greek carded one before I don't think I've ever seen a greek anything Or transport wise I can grab it. I'll take two seconds two seconds go two seconds go counted to talking go One two liar Oh, what you just what you'll see an avalanche officer didn't happen I picked the canadian one of my accident That's my excuse. So yeah, so Here we go. So there is a greek mington seal card huffer Wow And they've got a completely different battle scene on the back That is so cool. Yeah, I've never seen that And then we've got an argentinian green cliff jumper Lime jumper So, yeah, so that's basically if I can I'm never going to do it. I'm never going to do it. Let's be honest But if I can attempt to collect as many and video document as many Different variants of all the figures that we can I mean, how good is that? I think that's really good You know, it's funny. I don't have any doubles As I was Getting my collection, you know, I get one, you know one or two every now and then and I'll always sell them for something else I've never it's never dawned on me to hey, I need to get a couple to display You know both modes. Yeah Of course now my g my of course now I'm gonna probably because of you guys I'm gonna look into other country bots That's my fault. Yeah All right. Well, that's it. That's all of my questions, but I do have one more Do you collect anything else other than transformers? No, I used to collect star wars years and years before because They're cool as well. But no not really again I'd love to maybe collect marvel or something like that But I just got no space no space whatsoever And I think that'd be the final tipping point for my wife if I started collecting anything else Well, my wife collects lego's and pops and of course my son When you're kid when your dad's a toy collector your kid benefits He's getting he gets I'll go to the store. I'm like, well, here's a new figure and all of a sudden he's got the whole line Why he has that whole line? All right. Well, that is all of my questions for toys are us now I'll open the floor up Pamela hit me with your question I think it was I think I remember What is your favorite beast wars character? Oh, you see now I get asked a lot about beast wars And we'll probably get that a lot especially with kingdom now It's you know what and and it's written and and I'm gonna get shot down straight away for saying this Beast wars didn't blow me away. Maybe I need to give it another go because I've heard lots of people again About our age going back revisiting it and giving it one um But I suppose I really did like if I'm going to pick anyone out of it black arachnia. I like that one I don't know why just because just just different isn't it just a different figure just a different character Oh, yeah, see I was like you I didn't like beast wars when it first came out because it was very Kiddy-fied Yeah, and you probably heard me mention this in my reviews before that's what I hate about when anytime a new Transformers show comes on tv It's so Kiddy-fied in the beginning in the like five episodes in they're like wait a minute the kids aren't watching these mom and dad are And then it gets better now beast wars you have to like suffer through maybe the first six or seven episodes But once it finds its feet and you start getting those g1 tie-ins and then season two is amazing beast wars as much Of a g1 or as I am that is my favorite fiction I did hear you saying that I know obviously I've heard you say that before definitely. I think you and em were chatting about it to be honest Let's see here's dylan the autopod again. He says do we have Where'd it go? That's the wrong one Yeah, I used to have all kinds of star wars star wars is just it's too much anymore Yeah, where did dylan's question go? There it is These things get ahead of me. Do you guys have any of the transformers collaborative figures? I've got uh The back to the future one gigawatt I don't have any don't have any Again, just just space and the problem with me is That if I get gigawatt, I'll have to get the top gun one and then I'll have to get the x-men one and then I'll have to Get the ghostbusters one. So no I'm managing to avoid them at the moment See, I'm not that bad. I got the back to the future one because I love back to the future Yeah x-man giveaway and the top gun would look like garbage to me. So I didn't get that one All right, let's see Here we go Is there any mistakes people make with transformers that pisses you off? Oh, that's a good question, isn't it? That is a good question Huh, I'm having to think I know on my videos. It's so funny. You can always count it. It's guaranteed You make one little mistake During your video at all you get called out how do you Act and I'm like if you think it's so easy you hop on here It's always the ones that have no subscribers Or no content are the ones to blast you for some little thing that you do Maybe maybe pisses me off. It's a bit strong. But there's one thing and the annoying thing I suppose it's when I'll say like for instance, again, I'm sorry to keep making up Japanese figures but we already know about Gold plastic syndrome on liocase a kill bison is gold. He's a gold tank And he's one of the legs of liocase And I I even say at the beginning of the video. I've not folded his foot out because I'm not touching you I'm not going to transform it at all And you can guarantee like say at the end of the video So one there'll be a comment. You didn't put liocase's feet out and it's like I said at the beginning of the video and I wouldn't do it. Anyway, it's it's like it's worse than sky quakes Sight it's it's a fold out foot that comes out of the side of the tank There's no way on this planet that I'm going to pull that foot out for no video and for anybody But so that's probably the only thing really otherwise I'm I'm quite easy because I know I make mistakes and I do a little video now on a wednesday call what's happening wednesday where sometimes I can just go I forgot this Um, I forgot this so I could just recap a more easy if I catch myself fast enough I'll add it in at my end where I do my final thoughts Like with uh, who'd I recently do a grimlock? I didn't realize wheelies waist could turn So then I corrected myself when I showed him On there, so Because sometimes I used to get ticked off and reshoot the whole damn thing Not anymore All right, let's see who else got one for us. I know I saw some more They're all overpriced. I agree with that If I I want to cross over I've said this before I want Transformers in mad max vehicles And I've already got the title the tour lot toy line. It's transformers apocalypse by the way instant instant They could be pretenders Mad Max could be a pretender. There you go Do I recommend the upgrade set non-f upgrade set for prime? I don't have the non-f upgrade set for prime. I've got the toy haxes I've got some other 3d printed things. I know I think kato's got him Bert the stormtrooper raves about them. So They recommend them And they're reputable so we'll listen to them very Bert is the one that got me started He he and I bonded somehow and especially we both found out we were veterans And he plugged my channel big time and he got me over my thousand mark And we just been best friends ever since that's good Scorpion and I cannot wait for the new movie That looks good actually to be fair. Yes scorpion was mine. He's the one with the with the thing and he pulls them towards it Get over here. That's him let's Do you have any star wars crossovers? I've got a Darth Vader a Darth Maul and This piece of junk I keep it in star destroyer mode because it looks cool. I don't even know what that is No, I've got no I've seen them again. Just it's it's unfortunately. It's just another Ali that I can't go down I've just got no space This is a hell of a parts former you pull everything off of him and in what he turns into Darth Vader And then you flip things around and turn him around He's Anakin Skywalker as you can see it's the republic vehicle here Right, okay. Well, it's a star destroyer on the other side I did like the grievous one though. I did remember looking at the grievous one a couple of times thinking I like that one but I didn't get it I had a bunch when they first came out I bought a few of them, but man they were cheaply made I mean they just fell apart so easy All right, hold there's one there's one it is What has been your favorite figure from the whole war for Cybertron line? I guess that was all the newer ones like siege earth rise kingdom Because I was going to say does he mean them all? Does it just mean the netflix ones? But I suppose we can answer both can't we? I think the netflix kind of ties in Yeah with everything I'm going to have to go with earth rise scorpionock. That's an amazing figure I love that figure it's got to be that but if we want to talk like a normal figure again I think I think the one that surprised me the most was And I believe it's exactly the same mold mold has um earth rise optimist But I haven't got him. I've got the netflix optimist and I just think that the transformation is just so slick It's so it's a great figure. I've got Three versions of that. I got shattered glass the dead prime and The earth rise my shattered glasses in the post somewhere. It's it should be here soon That was one of those figures. I wasn't going to buy I don't have any shattered glass figures and in I was watching some of my fellow youtubers I'm like that thing's beautiful and damn you guys now i'm out 50 bucks Yeah, that's right. That's right Oh, here's a good one. What modern non g1 character would you want to see get a g1 redo? Oh non g1 character So that's gonna be like a movie it's gotta be like a movie character. Did you think is it well? No non g1? I guess that would be our our mod of megatron I think that would be awesome Yeah, because that was the tank, wasn't it? No, that was the dual-bladed helicopter Oh, yeah, not our mod of megatron animated megatron. That was good. Yeah Good question. Hmm. I don't know because it because all seed is is g1, isn't it? And they're the only ones that I really watch and picture. I just I don't know He's got me there. He's definitely got me there. You pinched my megatron as I say, but that was that was the other one Wasn't sound wave like electric guitar at one point in one of them or was laser because electric guitar, wasn't it? Was that our id? Which one was that? That was animated. That was the electric car animate. That's it. If you could only pick one reviewer named kata Which one will be your favorite? I like the guy he partnered up with the green hornet I think he may have got into reviewing later on. I mean he's really good martial artist But he's probably really old now go to be go to be really old There I say the twins Oh, yeah, I remember them jet fire and the other guy What's your opinion about blast effects? They're okay. I got a got a bag of blast effects for you brother me too. I don't use them. They're all in bags I use them in my reviews at the end of my uh At the end of my review during my final thoughts always pose them holding the blast effect now There's only one that I really out of all these blast effects Probably can't find it now. There's only one that I really like it only You only got one of them. I've never seen it reuse anything else. I suppose I think it's Calibur's. Yeah, this one I love that blast effect. Yeah, it was that's a brilliant one I've seen these hops for hot rugs. Okay, aren't they though? We got tons of these And I hate these I think they look like Christmas bulbs aimless all right This is for you I said the netflix power prime. I think is more Pain applications to make them look B1. Yeah, definitely and he does he does there it is For both of us Have scout class revenge of the fallen breakdown. I have no revenge of the fallen figures except for megatron No, not the scout class. I don't know Yeah, I mean that one can only be used with the sword guy and that's it I think you're using with megatron sword That's that blue wave this one. Yeah that one I think I got a green one of those too. I think mine came I think this one came with um Lionizer as well, didn't it? Which g1 transformer brings back to your childhood the most? Score for knock score for knock 100% G1 grimlock because that was my first large transformer My very first transformer was gears right I got him at a Gift exchange at sunday school All right score for knock's mind. I just loved it as a kid just absolutely loved it Never had him as a kid. I remember someone brought him to school for show and tell Let's see. What else we got When's the reissue of mega mega supreme coming out? He's coming out now. It just depends on where you look Just look at big bad toy store hat or entertainment earth had him Sold out it says coming restocking soon Amazon's got some but you gotta be quick because they'll sell out fast and all of a sudden you're paying scalper prices And I think big bad toy store had some on pre-orders UK guys can try robot recruits as well Okay Out of all the figures, which one did you freak out the most when you found it? Oh good question. Hmm. That is a good one I suppose it's I suppose again, it's different, isn't it because obviously nowadays With the figures that we we don't really find do you you search for them on ebay or you scour for them? And I know that in the uk hour They think they're called thrift shops or something in your in in america our charity or thrift shops That then they're nothing like yours. I mean, they're literally just all people's clothes. There's no toys There's nothing in it at all but um I think and I again have said this I think one of the ones for me is It's got to be all the ones that we didn't get in the uk So I knew it was coming. I knew I paid for it. No, I brought it But again holding it in hand as apart from devastated which we did have it was swoop just to be able to have swoop It was amazing for me because again, he just was not released in the uk for whatever reason. I still haven't managed to find a Justifiable reason from anybody as to why hasbro didn't release it Somebody said it was the price point because it's so much smaller than the other dino bots that they couldn't justify selling At the same price. That's the best excuse. I've had so far. That's why he wasn't released But even on all the magazines all the comics everything he was we never got him never got him at all So I freaked out when I got in because that was like there's the six seven-year-old back in me like I'm trying to think I Recently I freaked out when I walked into my local poedunk walmart that never gets anything and there was the netflix sound wave I figured I wouldn't go get that at all. Boom. There he was and they had two of them So I bought one for myself and one for burt But as far as g1, I think I went out of town to north carolina and went into a vintage toy store and they had a Submarotter pretender But it was just the shell, but he had the weapons And so I got it real tight. It was like 35 dollars and then I was just digging through a parts thing Like a random box of transformers and found the inner robot. I was like, how much for this? Oh, no five dollars So I got Submarotter for like 40 bucks complete I can't remember that Yeah, a 30 figure gonna end up being the white whale. I'll never have it's true. It's it's really rare in the uk as well I mean, I was lucky enough to get one, but that's only because Do you guys have walmarts over there? We don't have walmarts. We don't um, we have There again, this is what we miss out on so much. I think the netflix exclusives are at a shop known as smiths And of course with everything being on lockdown You've just got to literally keep hitting the refresh that it's in your store for click and collector for delivery every morning But just before this lockdown We were lucky enough that one of my friends was hitting the refresh it every morning literally every morning 9 a.m And he found one he had to drive an hour and a half to get it But he went and got he went and got the two off the shelf one for me and one for him Wow I do know who beast wars grimlock is. He is the repaint of dino bot, but in white And I don't know I think Maybe generation selects. I'm hoping now. I'm not I love beast wars the cartoon But I was never a big collector of the toys when they were out. I think I I only collected Predacons But then like right now the only figures I'd be interested in is ones from the actual show So I'm hoping with kingdom they do the exclusives like those type of beast wars characters like oh, here's an exclusive Grimlock. I'm like, okay, great. Those are what needs to be exclusive I don't need to spend money on something like that because it doesn't appeal to me. Yeah, but I have a feeling they're not going to do it. They're going to redo something like Tracks is going to be an exclusive and he knows what else Do we have crotch problems? No, there's spray you can buy for that Keeps you clean keeps you fresh and dry Oh, what are you talking about? Oh panels tapping in Okay, studio series figures Which ones do you think were the biggest waste of money now For me, I don't collect studio series figures The only ones I have are megatrons and I got the villains from the bumblebee movie for the 86 line I skipped blur and cup because I don't think the robot modes Do the cartoon character justice every studio series 86 figure that I have a hotrod scourge Grimlock spot on to the cartoon counterpart, but friggin blur looks like he's an anorexic And cup just I don't get his Face do not like the faces on those characters I'm a bit like yourself with I mean, I've only got hotrod But that's because most of them haven't made the way over here yet But with the actual studio series I've got a couple of them, but I've only picked them up because they've been in this game stores So I think the biggest one everybody's moaning about that you see is the devastator aren't they because They did them all individually and then they did it all in a huge gift set as well Didn't they so that seemed to pee a load of people off Yeah blur's head does look funky Somebody asked do we like the netflix bumblebee? I thought he was amazing I'm not the biggest bumblebee fan because I think bumblebee's been crammed down our throats So much for the last few years, but that netflix bumblebee. Wow He was amazing There we go. That's that's perfect. Where's kato at white walker cup and j leno blur Yeah, of course. Got that chin like hangs down to here. What was that cartoon? Fairly odd parents. Remember the chin superhero They guess what's crimson chin Let's see opinions on the alternator's line I used to have all those Well, I've got all the vinyl tech which obviously with the japanese version with the die cast and then the ones that you couldn't get For the vinyl tech like hot ruddy mess Was it crosshairs or camshaft one of the two any all the ones that you couldn't get I've got them as well And I think they and I'm not I'm sure this has been said a million times before but they definitely were like, of course Pretty masterpiece, weren't they they were definitely they've covered. They were all they took forever to transform. They were not easy to transform They were fantastic. I have I have two roll bars I have one still in the package and I have a maroon jeep that I named roll bar My a vanity plate says roll bar and then I have the optimus prime pickup truck up there I used to have all of them, but that's the only ones I have now My favorite's got to be laser wave the shockwave one. It's amazing. Oh, yeah, that was cool. And the ravage was so weird That's it. Yeah, I've got the ravage on display and rumble actually There was two ravages. There was one that had just the jaguar head and then there's one where he transformed in the actual jaguar Yeah, that's it Let's see Where are you saw it? I think it's the frigging virus I think that's causing problems. It's gotta be No, I mean it the distribution sucks like my walmart even though it's like Of course walmart they base how walmart stocked by your area because I can go We went to a walmart yesterday about 50 miles from here Amazing it was like a walmart. I've never even seen him before I mean they had everything in stock course everything I had so I didn't buy anything my son was going nuts But my walmart is pathetic. I mean they haven't had a leader class figure since power of the primes But as far as their distribution Here lately they get tons and tons of wave one Then wave two is barely touched and I think with wave three of earth rise They had a little in cap wasn't even on the main in the main aisle It was an in cap of narrow one with room for two figures So you had two figures Facing this way and they were back to back and once that in cap was gone. You never saw him again I'd love to answer but we our shops have been shut since january the third so I haven't been able to go to any Here's one for you This is the gentleman who let me his overlord Right. Yeah, there's this I actually didn't because I was lucky enough to um Yeah to get to have most of them in the uk I've recently just got a dutch one though obviously they came from holland in the sage a box with the four languages and He shipped that in gut in in the box as it stands But I do believe that if you want to ship them then you have to take him out of the box and transform into robot mode Otherwise they get they get picked up all the time. There's quite a few collectors who I know who've tried to get like Japanese ones imported and stuff like that and Even though like the early Japanese ones aren't even chrome the plastic Because it's a gun They just don't get in they get picked up quite a lot. So yeah, definitely you have to um Yeah massively that yeah, they agree with that. Yeah, who wants to watch humans. That's what other movies are for But no yet get him transformed into guns before you get him shipped out or this question popped up a couple times You guys have any front panel problems with netflix sound wave? I didn't I don't think so my only problem with that figure was the um The alternate mode is rubbish I'll say it right there the back of it just I couldn't believe how bad the back was I was like, there's gotta be something missing I couldn't get I put the uh His guns on wrong So it kept flopping back and of course everybody was like, oh you did it wrong So I did it right and it still flopped over it still was it's too heavy It's still it's still doesn't it's it's there's too much there Whether you I mean even if they did just put a little bit of extra plastic Which you could then clip on afterwards. I wouldn't have minded but yeah, I didn't like the alternate mode at all Here we are and let's Bring in humans that are pretenders now that is a updated toy line I would love to see yeah Because with the modern technology they could give us pretenders shells with articulation other than just the arms moving up and down Yeah Yeah, definitely All right. Well, we have been at this for an hour a little over an hour And I know it's late over there and I gotta get ready for bed myself And I want to give you a huge shout out. Thank you so much for coming on and Answer my questions and letting my viewers get to know you and maybe some of your viewers and get to know me and realize Us rednecks aren't so bad off Now it's been fun. It's been great. Thanks. And it's been definitely worth staying up for 100% 100% Exactly and of course you and I will stay in contact now. We've been Facebook messaging each other constantly. It's it's awesome So for you guys out in the chat, I appreciate you guys spending your sunday night with us instead of watching Football or fox animation sunday or whatever plays on tv anymore. I have no idea And if you like the video, don't forget to like don't forget to subscribe and don't forget to Click that bell icon to get notified when I upload new reviews big shout out once again to toys are us Don't forget to check out his channel. I'll have the link to his channel in the description of this video Once again, everybody. Have a great night. This is patriot prime signing out That was fun