 Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another episode of the Sitrep. And I'm proud to announce my guest for today's episode, my 20th episode, is Will from the channel Optimus Wilbur's Review. So Will, welcome to the Sitrep. Thank you Jason, thank you to the Patriot Prime's channel as well. Well, it's kind of, it was funny, I took off work early and as I'm coming home I was like, okay, I've got a message. My overseas subscribers, the ones that want to be on this channel, first wonder reply is the first one that's going to be on. And Will, and you're from Scotland, correct? Yes, Glasgow, Scotland. Excellent, excellent. I love Scotland, awesome. All right, well, how the Sitrep works is I've got 10 questions for you. 10 questions as a Transformers collector and 10 questions as a YouTuber. So if you're ready to go, let my people get to know you a little bit. That's no worries, on we go. All right, sir. Question number one is what is the appeal of Transformers for you? Easy, the 1986 movie. That was what kept it off for me. I was born in 1985, so I missed out on those golden years growing up with Generation 1, I had to wait until the 90s. But when I was about four, I seen a 1984 movie. It may sorry, a 1986 movie. And that just blew my mind. Absolutely blew my mind, that movie. And it still was probably my favorite movie still to this day with the music, the animation, the police act and the credible in that movie. And it just stuck with me throughout my entire adult life as well. And that was what made me become a collector. And that's definitely still one of the best movie soundtracks out there. I still listen to it. It's in the Jeep right now. It's one of my favorites. Same if I go to, I'm now back at the gym. So as soon as I go to the gym, a stand bush there or NRG, nothing's going to stand in my way, something like that. As soon as that's on, that is just amazing for me to work out to. All right, I got a real quick controversial question for you. The touch or dare? Dare. That's my favorite. That's my favorite too. It's because I'm a hot road fan. I'm a hot road guy. I just like the beat of that one better. Sorry to go. No, you go right ahead. It's just amazing. I'm listening to the track with the revenge, the cola and stand bush created that is just an amazing beat. And it's just one of those ones when you hear it in the movie, it's a sticks like the touch. It just sticks. And that song, the middle of it, when they're doing the synthesizer, you know how a lot of people play their air guitar, the middle section comes out, you're playing air synthesizer. Totally, totally. All right, sir. Question number two, aside from G one, which we all know is the number one answer, what is your favorite Transformers fiction? Oh, that is a good question. I know. I don't come up dumb questions. I'm going to say a matter. Excellent. Okay, that's many cons. Yeah, the reason I would say a matter is that was what got me into collecting because I took a period of time where I was just growing up working and still Transformers was in the back of my mind, but it wasn't like the fan arm today still is. And I remember seeing Armada on the TV on one Saturday in Scotland, watched a few episodes. And by that point, I already bought the 1986 movie for I got sorry, I got it as a birthday present of one of my oldest friends. And going back and watching it and just remembering the toys. And those were the toys that came out at the time. So I managed to grab Armada Optimus Prime and Armada Megatron. And the storyline for me, I really enjoyed because they brought some stuff into it, of course, Unicron and various other things. The story, of course, with the minicons, which was the closest we were getting to with like headmasters, target muscles, type of a scenario. And to have that, remember everything about what you loved about Transformers, just setting off my path to watching it all again, collecting it. And it just that was I know it's not the greatest storyline arc that Unicron trilogy, but it was what made the like me collect and that's how I always stand. That is second to G1 for me. Nice. And those toys were built to last. I don't have many, I don't have many Armada. I think the only arm that can talk only Armada figure I still have is my Armada Megatron. And that thing is solid. Yeah, he's going to drop off the shelf. He's going to he's going to break my floor. Yeah, totally. They're mad. They're mad at oiling. Like the big classes, the voyager figures, like a hot show and stuff like those figures were not as strong. Actually, that hot shot looked more like a play school go bot than Axel Fraser. He looks like one of the rescue bots that Tony likes a lot. It's quite funny. That's what they brought back out and it's him. But the toiling I just loved and the fact that's that's when we finally got a Unicron toy that just blew my mind. Yes, I still have him. He's the other Armada figure I have. You know, I've only transformed him once. I've got the I've got one out of the box, which was the one I bought when Armada was still out. And he's been transformed plenty of times. I just need to buy the stand where he can sit in planet mode. I don't like this sitting on the back. I'd rather have him standing and then I've got the Fertile Faniversary sealed in a box. He's not getting open when it was repainted to be the G1 colors. I've seen that when I missed out on it and unfortunately it's way too out of my league now. That is too expensive now. All right. Question number three. Do you have a favorite figure or grail? This is one toy that you have that you will not let go of. G1 Fortress Maximus. Oh, you have a G1? G1 Fortress Maximus. Nice. I got the Encore. I never thought I was going to get a Fortress Maximus until that Encore released. I managed to get it when my wife got them for my 30th birthday complete and not stickered. So the stickers are in the box. That's really staying. That is awesome. Well, congratulations. That's a great figure to have. Yeah. Yeah, I never thought I'd even hold one until that Encore line came out. I was really same. I'll go ahead. Same. No, I was just going to say same. It's one of those ones as soon as you've got them. It's like, I've got them. Tight deal. It's brilliant as a Transformers fan and a collector. And he really stands out in your collection. So of course some people first walk into this room. It blows their mind anyway and they turn around and I've got a whole shelf of all my Titans. And Fort Max is right there with the other ones. I've managed to keep the Titans, the new release Titans, they're separate and I've kept like Tryptocon and Metroplex are in boxes. Tryptocons are reissue. Metroplex is G1 in the box, but he has got parts missing. But those two Maximus stand on one side and then the new Titans are together with like Unicron in the middle and stuff. Just like this table of the big boats. Nice. I'll have to send you a picture of mine. Where mine's set up, I can't angle the camera to look at it. All you're going to do is see the side profiles. See the Max. And the poster. Love it. Of course. Lord Vader right there. You've got to love Lord Vader. You've got to love Lord Vader. Oh my God. Have you seen that reimagining of the Obi-Wan versus Darth Vader fight on YouTube? Holy shit. I will buy another special edition Star Wars if they put that in the movie. I loved it. I did love it because Darth Vader's is one of those characters like Megatron and Galvatron. You just love. Oh yeah. You've got to listen to the villain. Yeah. I'm not. It's the same wrestling. I love the heels. I'm a heel character. So that's that. The last time I watched wrestling and was serious about it was when the four horsemen were big Lex Luger, Lex Luger, Rick Flair, Arne Anderson, you know that crew. That was my back WCW days. Yeah. Yeah. I've always been. I was WWF, WWE. It's not the same anymore, but back in those days it was good. That was awesome. Wrestling came on right after the cartoons were over. I had to wait to Friday night at 10 p.m. So I didn't post. There was no internet. So we didn't get any spoilers. So it was great. So being Scottish was Roddy Piper, one of your favourites? Yeah. Favourite heel of all time. So saddening he passed away. He's in one of my favourite movies too. They live. I love. Epic movie. I'm going to shoot bubble gum and kick ass and I'm all out of bubble gum. Epic movie. Absolutely. One of my favourites. I love the score from John Carpenter as well. Yeah. Just a very simple, simple, like all of them. Really simple score. All right, sir. Number four. What figure is your white whale, your most wanted toy? The one that's eluding you? Oh, that is so. That is a good question. Like I said, I don't ask dumb questions here on the set. No, that's a really. I was going to go with one just because I've got the reissued Power Master Optimus Prime. I'd love to have the G1 with a lot. Oh, you and me are in the same boat there. I was so hoping that Encore, maybe the Platinum Edition, would bring him back. You know, he's got the popularity now. So please, I don't care if he's Encore or not. I want a copy of a G1 Overlord. Yeah, it's because I'm a massive fan of the Takara series of headmasters, Super God Force, Victory and that one episode of Zone. And just overlord, I just love this character. And finally, I've now gotten coming as the head map, the, sorry, Titan's Return Toy. So he's on his way, but I'd love to have a G1 reissue just to go with that Power Master Prime. The upgrade set for Overlord, the Titan's Return Overlord was my very first video. That's right. Yeah, because it's pins right there on your channel. As soon as you click your channel, it's right there. And it's one of those figures. As soon as I've seen him on that long with six shot, I had to have one. He's awesome. I love it. Of course, he's got so much stuff on him right now. He's in that shelf where he's not, he's not coming out and let's pull a bunch of other stuff out too. I know the feeling. I know the feeling. All right. Last Transformers question. Question number five. What is your favorite Transformer character? Not your favorite toy, your favorite character, any fiction, any media? Hot Road. Hot Road. 1986, 1986 movie Hot Road. So the pink hot rod? Yeah. Unfortunately, yeah. The first time I saw that color corrected movie, I was like, what the hell? He's pink. I know. And then in the Blurry edition, it's like, wow, he is pink. He's really pink. I wonder you and RC are close. That's that. I just love the character. And I know a lot of people don't like season three story arc. It's I hadn't missed, very missed, but the cause he questions himself constantly, why should he be a leader? When prime was, of course, it's Optimus Prime. You never beat Optimus Prime. And I just liked that story arc completely. And because that was my first memory of Transformers was Hot Road, not Optimus Prime. It just stuck that way. But I still love Prime. Nothing can be Optimus Prime. But Hot Road's that character. It's just, he's me. Excellent. That's awesome. Were you able to snag the reissue that came out? Yes. I've managed to get one. We got one in Scotland. The bad side boys, I think you's got the G1 reissued boxes. We didn't get those types. We missed the bat where, see if it's sitting on the hooks in the store. We don't have that bat. So it's just a box we got. Oh, got you. Got you. Kind of like maybe it was the encore reissue that didn't come with the box flap. I was going to show it off, but I think my boxed reissue is at the house. I've got him open here on one shelf and then my original G1 over there back. I'll send you pictures. I'll send you pictures of them, Jason, just to make sure but when it is, but I've got the white, I don't know if you remember the white Takara boxes. I've got Hot Road in that suit as well. The book style boxes. I've got one of those left for the Insecticox. Yeah, I've got Hot Road in that and Prime in that. So they were like my first two G1 buys when I became an adult and I had to have Hot Road. I had to have a G1 Hot Road. Nice. All right. Well, that wraps up our Transformers questions. Now we're going to get into know you as a YouTuber and be warned every small YouTuber I put on the sit rep. They start getting people. You're going to get some fans. And my accent does it for me. Dude, I love it. Your accent does it for me and I like your setup. The way you have your images, you have the Optimus Prime on one side and the Megatron on the other. I think that's very unique. But you, the viewers, will have to click on his channel to find out what I'm talking about. Yeah, I might actually bring that back eventually because I tried doing the box review and try to make it more professional. And when I'd done the original way back at the start, I had no idea how hard it was going to be to review something you love with gaming. It was totally different. But when it came to reviewing a Transformers figure, that was hard. It's a lot harder than you think. That's for sure. A 10 minute video can take you all day. Yeah, I found that. My first video took me about four hours to get where I liked it. All right. Well, question number six, what possessed you a grown ass man to do toy reviews on YouTube? There is a, it's not a long story, so I'm going to keep it quite short. Basically, I've done YouTube as a hobby. I've done the gaming side as a hobby along with streaming. And what happened was, I fell out and was in a wheelchair for six months, three years ago. And I decided to take up YouTube more hobby like daily with the gaming. Cut to a year ago, I was feeling a lot better. The gaming side, it was hard to get into. And it was, I think my last set of videos I was going to go out with was the Transformers for a Cybertron game. But back at the start of my YouTube career, I did do reviews on Transformers trilogy games, War for Cybertron and Transformers on Madder. And I had so much fun doing it. If you go back and listen to those videos, I'm using like a Rockstar microphone, a Rockband microphone to talk. My accent is so hard. If you're listening to me now, and you go back to that, you can clearly hear I've had more time practicing with my accent and getting it easier for people to listen to, because my Scottish accent can be really hard to make out sometimes. That's like my Hick accent. But I think that's brilliant. Yeah, I personally don't have a problem with it. A accent, some of them are absolutely brilliant. And I decided, you know what, I've got all these Transformers, this is my major passion. Gaming I've been doing since I was, I could walk nearly. And you know what, let's do this. And that's when I decided I'm going to move forward and do the Transformer reviews. And I've had an absolute blast doing it. It definitely gives you a new way to appreciate your collection. And of course, I'm probably going to lead into my next question here. Well, I'll save it for this question. Question number seven, what keeps inspiring you to get in front of the camera? Oh, that's a really good question. I think it's more to show what I have to thank the best subscriber. And I think my neon just fell off the back of my TV. Because YouTube is not trying to think your long term, like essentially say, but we know the stuff's going on for a long time. And sharing what we love Transformers, sharing with yourself, if you've got a massive Generation One collection, and showing like people can click these videos say 20 years time and go that is what Transformers was when it first came out. And to continue to show the toys like that, reviewing them, how to transform and why they were so popular keep going forward. I think it's just something, there's something strange that like, and more of a meaning to it going like making the videos, plus I get a kick out of it, just making the videos, but doing that and thinking, what would something in 20 years look at this video and see looking at this toy? Like we look at a toy car from say 1920s. True. Well, I love the comments and the interaction with the viewers. I mean, because the figures I really started reviewing first was the old ones from the latter years that everybody quit collecting. And so sharing these online, a lot of folks like, I didn't even know that guy existed. And of course, you know, my stick is I like going over the history of the characters. And all my history is Marvel G1. I know they were popular in Japan and UK, but Marvel G1 is how I know them. So I just love going over it's like you sitting in front of me. Let me tell you all about this guy. So it's fine. It's fine. All right, sir, question number eight. There are thousands of toy reviewers on YouTube. What makes you different than the rest? Your accent? My accent? That's the easiest question because it is my accent. Without a doubt. I know there is Scottish reviews that do toy reviews, but they do a mix of masks, Thundercats and Transformers. But I've never came across anybody with a really rough Scottish accent like myself here. So it's my accent. I love it. I'm part Scotch Irish, but I can't really do the Scottish accent that well. It's a tough accent to do. I mean, my American friend, he always, he understands me, but if there's people in voice chat or anything like that, well, do a Southern accent. And it's the worst American accent I can do. But everybody else understands me when I do it. I got you good. Did you see the video I did where I was dared to do a complete video in an Australian accent? Yes. Yes. You had the hat and everything. That's right. Here we go, Roddy. We'll take a look at this phone, like it's found. It's one of the best ones I got. It's what I do YouTube videos with. My God, that was hard to just keep rolling. What the hell are you doing? Let me do my thing. This is my hobby. I don't bother you. That's that. All right. This is going to be a fun one. Question number nine is what's your thoughts on the Transformers social community, i.e. YouTube, Facebook, and do you have any special shout outs? I've got to say looking, like finding yourself, finding various other Transformers reviews, especially in the communities and the way people have been interacting. Thanks for being brilliant. I have never seen this before. I've been doing YouTube nine years, a year with the Transformers channel, and seeing how these communities work, especially in YouTube where I know is cut through a lot of the people I'm friends with, and seeing how we all come together. It's not much about, let's do this, let's do that. You have that. I've got to see that. You've got that in your collection. That is amazing. It's brilliant to see something so nice going forward. It's just incredible. I've never seen anything like it, especially in social media and YouTube. It's been a long time since I've seen it. What amazes me, I've said this before, I have never talked to you face to face, but I feel like I have known you for years. It's the same. It's scary how it's connected through Transformers. It's the same with Kato. Kato, we've been chatting back and forward back on the YouTube since you've done it. It feels like I know him, and it's all through Transformers. It's so scary, but that's what I love about the community and the YouTube side with Transformers. We can teach the world a thing or two. Let's embrace these plastic robots, and we can bring together world peace through warring robots. Exactly. You probably heard the stories with Machia. I mean, I get so much grief just because of my channel's name, but once everybody gets to know everybody, I don't care what your religion, what's your background, what's your anything. You want to talk Transformers, you want to talk to me like a person, boom, and it works. Our community is fantastic. There's very, very few bad apples in our produce department, if that makes any sense. Oh, totally. It's very, very few and far between. Very few and far between. If I was going to say one person to check out would actually be a group, and that is on Facebook. I don't know if you're a member. I know you're going to become a member probably after this is Autobots Family, and that group run by a girl called Angie. I can't remember where she's from in America, but she's done such amazing things with this group of people. Just letting everybody share everything, and you're going to see people's collections coming in, and everybody just commenting, like, how do you do that? And people's doing like videos like ours, except doing it on Facebook, showing you how to transform with you and a girl. And it's been great. It's been really entertaining, and the community's been fantastic. And you're a member of Transformers and such too, right? Yes. Big shout out to them. And I'm going to apologize right now to Natalie and Chris, and also Dennis Moulton, because I messaged you guys and along with Will here, I needed somebody on here real fast. Why at the time, Will's the only one that answered. That's why he's on the set rep right now. But I am going to get you guys, I promise. I can't wait to see those episodes. The Transformers and such group, I love that group. That's where I've met most of my peoples through that one. I consider that one my main Transformer group. So good bunch of people, and it's moderated so well. I mean, they keep out the scumbags. That's the thing. I mean, like I said, there's very few Facebook communities I found that have been bad with Transformers. Of course, you always get, this is not a selling page. That's okay. Very rare. Have I seen anybody being kicked out? Very real. That's good for our community. Except that bastard that spoiled the in-game. I've still not seen it. I'm trying my best. Dude, you're not just going to get off the damn computer now. It's just been one of those ones. It's like, I'll go and see it. I'll wait. I'll go and actually had to wait to Blurry to see Infinity Wars. I mean, anybody can speak about it. I don't tell me about it. I don't want to know. Bring your damn tissues. I'm going to tell you that right now. I've been told that is very emotional. It's an emotional rollercoaster. At the end of that movie, tears are just streaming down my face. Now, I'm not sitting there going like this or anything, but behind me, all I'm hearing is It was bad. I couldn't take my wife then. She would do that. All right. Well, we are getting ready to wrap this up with question number 10. This is all about you. Do you have any channel goals for yourself? And where can our viewers find you plug yourself away? Thank you, Jason. You can find me on YouTube at Oughton's Wellbore Reviews and Channel Goals. It's just, apart from obviously meeting great people across, like, in this Transformers community, it's just bringing the best what I can do for you. That is basically it. I've never really looked at Goals. I think I've never looked at that way. And it's always just whatever I can do in a kind of an entertaining way. If somebody gets a laugh out of it, or a kick out of it, enjoy seeing this, this Transformer not seeing some sort of kid, I've done my job. That's your hand. That's what got me. That's what attracted me to your channel. I forget which one it was, but something you did, I was laughing so hard. I was like, yeah, I'm subscribing to this guy. Well, that is it. Once again, I really thank you for hopping on the show with me. I know it was very last minute. I interrupted your dinner, so thank you so much for being on. Oh, Jason, I had fun. Thank you. Oh, you're welcome. You're welcome. I know we've talked about this for a while. And for everyone watching, I will put Will's channel links in the description of this video. And at the very end where you see Optimus Prime waving that American flag, I'll have a link to one of his latest videos and a link to his channel as well. Once again, I want to thank Will for being on the show, and I want to thank you guys for stopping by and checking me out. This is Patriot Pride, signing out. Ho-wah!