 Hey, what's going on guys, Patriot Prime here once again with another episode of The Zip Wrap. And tonight my special guest is David from Smith's Super Awesome Reviews. David, how are you doing tonight, my friend? Hey, I'm really good, man. So it was a pleasure talking to you, friend. Excellent, well, I enjoy having you on. David was one of the very first YouTubers I ever met when I started doing this, and I actually did a live show with you and your group from the sanctuary. That was my first live show, granted. I really didn't know what was going on. I just mainly sat in the background and nodded my head the whole time, but times have changed. I'm gonna flip the script on you now. Hey, man, I was waiting for you to start doing a live show, man. You gotta get up with us, man. You know, it's fun to do, you know. You meet new people, you get to kinda get out of your comfort zone and talk about, you know, see where other people are at as figure-wise, especially like transformers, so it's always a good thing to do every now and then. It's gotta switch it up. It's fun because I've been amazed from the people that I've met just doing YouTube. You wouldn't think you'd meet people like the way we do. And fortunately, with technology and able to talk like this, it's pretty cool, because there's nobody around where I live that I could sit down and talk toys with. Likewise, that's probably why I do about three or four different live shows on different channels, because it's like, I talk about this stuff on my job and it goes like right over the heads, but I can talk to someone on here and they're like, I say something they know I'm talking about. When you did this, when you did that, I just noticed your headgear. Look down, show them. That is sweet, this. Oh, it gets better, it gets better. Oh, so you can change your mood. Yes, sir. That's awesome, I love it. All right, well, before we get going on, let's tell my people a little bit about you. Well, like you said, my name is Smith. I have a channel called Smith Super Awesome Reviews. I mostly do transformers, but I do other things like gameplay, review, Marvel Legends, I do Marvel Kids. Right now it's Turtle Week, so I'm reviewing Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. But for the main part, Transformers is my bread and butter, because I lived that life. You've got Prime tattooed on you. I'm an official member of the oil box. Yeah, back up, you're, there you go, nice. Yeah, I've been branded, I'm one of the human operatives. We're looking at the concept of cons. But yeah, basically just, I do YouTube, I enjoy doing reviews, Transformers is something that, like you, I grew up on, I'm a product of the 80s. So it's all I know. Outside of wrestling, Transformers is probably the second thing I know the most about. And we'll get into that in a minute, because I know you're starting a new wrestling channel too, but that'll go into my YouTube questions. Now, for those of you familiar with the sit-rep, and David, I know I kind of gave you a heads up of what I'm gonna ask. I asked my guests 10 questions. The first five is regarding Transformers, and the last five is regarding YouTube. So starting with question number one, what is the appeal of Transformers for you? I would have to say, basically, it was always just the thing of robots transforming into human machinery, you know, the science fiction of it all, the mythology, especially when I started reading the comics, it kind of took a step further than what the cartoons did. And you read the comics and you see that they have so much character to them, there was so much nuance to everybody that it just spoke to me. It was just like, you know, come on, who doesn't want their car to turn into a robot? Like, come on, that, that's, I'm still waiting for that day. Like, every car I've ever owned, I've given it a name. And I said, you see my car right now, I got Transformers stuff all over it, but the wheels got an Autobus, I got a Transformer floor mat, my license plate, I'm looking for stickers to smack on the back of the window. Do you have a cigarette lighter with an Autobot logo on it? Do not, because I don't smoke. I don't either, but I had to get that. Excellent, all right, sir. Number two, aside from G1, which is always the number one answer, what is your favorite TF fiction? Aside from G1. A few of them are comic books, especially Old Marvel. I like the stuff that IDW is doing. And outside of G1, would say, Transformer Prime. Pretty good. We can think out of all of the cartoons, like I've watched them all, he had summer hit or miss. I think Transformers Prime did the best job of retelling the story for a modern era without, you know, dumbening it down for a lot of people. Like it definitely gave a deep story, you know, kind of taken off from the Bane verse, which I don't really want to talk about, but it put it in the right direction. So yeah, I would say that was probably my favorite outside of G1, of course. What's funny about Prime, I have the entire series on Blu-ray, is when that series starts, you can tell it's geared toward the adults, because remember how dark it was? I mean, it starts right off with him killing Cliff Jumper, and then he had the zombies, which I didn't really dig that. I thought zombies is way overused, but then as the story progressed, it kind of made sense. Yeah, it definitely started at a dark tone, and I'm like the same thing. I thought like, this can't be for kids, because it's like, we're already like five, it's already taken the dark turn, so I was like, okay, but I like to do it. Like I said, characters and the computer animation looked good, it wasn't, like I said, it was a modern look, but not sloppy. You knew who each character was when you see it, like especially when they started bringing in other characters, like Ultra Magnus and Will Jack, you looked at him like, oh yeah, that's Will Jack. Not the man, he got the Michael Ironside voicing Ultra Magnus. Now I'm an old school Michael Ironside fan, do you remember V with the Lizard people? Of course I remember V with the Lizard people. Chris Graham Tyler, man, love that. That was a classic made for TV movie, come on now. God, that freaked me out so much when I was a kid and she ate that guinea pig. Looks fake as hell now. All right, number three, do you have a favorite figure or grail one that you will never let go of? Say you have to sell your collection, do you have that one figure? You don't care, what happens? That one is never leaving your possession. Oh my God, that's, I saw your questions earlier when I read them, I'm like, this one is tough, because one, the answer will change, and two, there's something to be that if God would have been knocking on wood if my house was to catch on fire, I'd be that guy with a handful of things up like me. Say that, take the title boss, take the title boss. I got so many, right off the top of my head, I would say it's gotta be Prime, that'd be 10, and Megatron, and if I can find a box big enough, I'd probably take the title boss, and this guy right here, Galvatron, because he's just the best Galvatron ever. Oh, that's nice, which one's that? This is fans toys. Now, I'll take this to my grave, that if the car was to make one, I wouldn't even bother thinking about it, because he right now is the definitive, he has, if you talk about car too accurate, this guy checks all the boxes. I mean, from back to front, he is legit, yeah, he's a legit Galvatron. Wow. Yeah. Like I'm trying to make it, I'm just like pass, like keep your money, I'm not, I got my definitive Galvatron like this, so yeah, those would probably be, yeah, him, Grimlock, Epi-10, and Masterpiece Megatron would probably be the Grails that would have to come with me. So you know on a lot of people's houses, they'll have that little sticker for the fire department that says, I have X amount of dogs in the house, I have X amount of cats. You need to have one made to say, I have a transformer collection, hit that room first, it's the room to the left. I've got one more as insurance just for, Oh, me too, me too. I've literally got home's insurance, like every other month, I'm updating the photo just so it's like, in case, we caught it, so, and then I'm like, let's keep your money just, I need the replacements. Keep the money, just replace it please. All right, my friend. So kind of going with that, number four is what figure is your white whale? What is the one figure you would love to have? This is your most wanted toy. Now this is from any era, this is from 84 to right now. Which one would you just, that is the one. If you would get this toy, you could be done with collectible. Ooh, right now it will be insecticons and it's the fans toys insecticons because right now my goal is to complete G1 completely. So all master piece third party, you know, they all have that similar sized scale look and I'm almost complete with the auto box. I'm halfway there with the insecticons. I'm just making my reflect. Now are you talking master piece figures or are you talking the original G1 toys? Well I got the original G1s. I mean the master piece wanted to go, you know, with my insecticon army. Now I'm missing reflector, which I'm getting soon, but there was one made by fans toys which was probably in a lot of people's opinion, the best design of the insecticons, especially with the G1 look. But they're sold out, like you can't get them anywhere. Like you could try eBay, but they're charging, you know, off the roof prices. So it's like, and it is one of those things, like when I have the opportunity, I didn't jump on it because it's like I chose to buy another figure instead. So now it's kind of haunting me, like why didn't I buy them? And I can't find them, or are these the bombshell shrapnel and kickback insecticons? Okay. I know, didn't they make a version of the deluxe insecticons too? The third part is that have, yeah, they have, but I'm trying to get the, and those are still available, but I'm trying to get the first three just to kind of fill that G1 cast line up, you know, season one, season two, like I just got them, got some pen masters here. All right. Got a Chrome Dome, so like I'm trying to complete the entire from season one to season four. And luckily there's a lot of third parties that make masterpiece scale figures, since the car was like, you know, sleeping on the job. That's amazing, they have the same figure over and over again. What you're waiting to get is, oh, we won't make these people because they're not popular, how are they now popular? Cause when the third party makes them, they sell. So what are you saying? Anyway, you're talking crazy. If the car wasn't to make a jazz right now, you're not telling, you really telling me no one's gonna buy it? Yeah. Come on, don't miss me with that nonsense. I'd love to see a masterpiece Cyclones. That was always one of my favorite figures. I can't, and so far two companies have made a pretty spot on G1 Cyclones that sold very well. And it's like, like I just said, where's Galatron? You telling me that if the car wasn't to make a Galatron, they gonna tell me nobody would buy it. I don't buy that. They just don't want to take the risk. Somebody somewhere is pulling the purse strings. No, they just, they find it, it's easier to just give repaints of the same molds they already have and come up with new IP. Yeah. That's all it is. Money, money. All right, number five, this is my last Transformers question for you. Who is your favorite Transformer character from any fiction or any media? Grimlock. Which verse? Like cartoon, comment? Grimlock is, I say Grimlock is the prototype of a lot of cartoon characters of the, started off just kind of a group but then slowly progressed into a dumbass. Well, especially in the cartoon too. I call it the Eric Matthew syndrome. You remember Boy Meets World? It's where a character starts off just basic and then slowly but surely just becomes a dumbass. You know, you got it with Homer Simpson. You got it with Peter Griffin. Then they started out just simple dudes and then slowly just became some of his dumbasses. Brandy Marsh. And that's Grimlock, yeah. And that's Grimlock, because Grimlock started off just a badass and then slowly became a dumbass. Now, I'm gonna make this a little harder for you. You said G1 Grimlock, but there was a big difference between G1 cartoon Grimlock and G1 comic book Grimlock. If you remember the comic book Grimlock was a badass and stayed a badass to the point of becoming leader of the Autobots. Yeah, those are two different worlds here. The comic Grimlock is night and day compared to the cartoon. He, Grimlock did take no mess from nobody. That's why nowadays every Grimlock you get comes with a crown. Because of the comic book Grimlock. And a lot of people don't realize that. Even Blaster used to be at it all the time. That's the same way a lot of people don't realize, you know, Shockwave's been to Decepticons budget. There was a lot of people outside of Megatron running to Decepticons for a good period of time. The comic book G1, the G1 comic book was ridiculous with Decepticons. If you think about Megatron was the leader for like six issues, then Shockwave took over, then Megatron committed suicide, then you get Ratbat takes over the Decepticons. Yeah, Ratbat. Then it was Scorponaut, Thunderwing, and Bludgeon finally at the end. And you know, Starscream got the ultimate power and just killed everybody. Yeah, issue 50. Yeah, so it's definitely, like I said, that was the part of it, like back to the first question, that really appealed to me that it wasn't just clear cut. This is the hero, this is the villain, this is the leader, it was like, no, like the cartoons just giving you the, the criminals. You read the comic and it's like, it's a deeper story than what you've seen on TV, to like file like, yeah, there's a lot of nuance there. So. I try to push the generation one comic book as most, look at that, trust me. I try to push that generation comic book as much as I can, because it was originally kind of passed off as kiddie fair. But then it grew with us. I remember I picked it up. Issue number three, and I read it all the way through high school. I think they quit issue 80 and 91, if I'm correct. And it was amazing how it grew with you. I mean, the story's got so much deeper. You gotta thank Bob Booty for that, man. He gave it, he gave it life and thankfully for us, the man had a bit of an imagination. Cause you know, remember we're getting products that were just Japanese toys with no personality. Yeah, they were just recycling. Yeah, from the micro masses and the diet clone. He took that and like I said, we wouldn't have a megatron. We would have a prime, we would have none of that. So, you know, I'm about to, to the great Bootyansky, because like I said, we would have none of that without him and Stanley, just, yeah, legends. I mean, that's how I was introduced to Transformers. I didn't find them via a toy. I found them via the comic book. I was getting down to local drug store with my dad one day. He said, get you a comic book, it was like 75 cents. There's this issue with Spider-Man's, webbing up this giant robot, remember cover issue three? That's what brought me into the world of Transformers. So, loved it. All right, here we go with YouTube questions. Here's where you're gonna kind of promote yourself and why you do what you do. Number six, what possessed you, a grown ass man to do toy reviews? Honestly, truthfully, I think it was when I realized that I wasn't the other one. Because you think about it like, you know, when before I really kind of viewed YouTube, like I always collected, but kind of at a small degree because like I said, we talked to people on the outside, it just kind of goes over their head. And then I got on YouTube and it was one of those moments where I had a figure and I had a problem with transforming it. So, you know, you know, hit the internet and it points you to a YouTube video and it's like, I started watching, I figured it was actually M-Go. And then it was just one of those things like, oh, I like the video. And you just kind of, I just kind of went down that rabbit hole and you get the recommended. And then I'm like, hmm, so I'm not alone. You know, I'm thinking I'm an army of one here and lo and behold, there's a whole community. So I'm like, okay. And then once I kind of got the idea of what to do and I was like, okay, I wanna show my love of transforming this to someone like your son to express, you know, here's something that to keep this franchise going, there has to be another generation. So I wanna show people like, hey, you know, this might be something you're into, you know, especially that's also how I got other figures like Marvel Legends, I watched the video and I was like, hmm, this is something I like. I didn't know they had this. Let me take a look at it. And now I got Marvel Legends on the side of the Transformers and you know, I just wanted to say, hey, this is out here for us. You know, this is a franchise that has literally stood the test of time. It is 35 years this year. 35 years. In the top 10 of top selling franchises and it's still going to this day and it's basically telling the same story. You know, two worn factions on a planet called Cybertron looking for new resources of energy and somehow they find their way here to Earth. It's literally Shakespeare at this point. And considering a story like that is still revelant this day and age when there's so much tension, it just amazes me. Of course, we're not going to go into that. That's a whole another video. That's a whole another channel. We ain't got that kind of time. No, we do not. I don't want to lose any subscribers. We want to do that. All right, number seven. So you kind of hinted why you do the YouTube. What keeps putting you in front of that camera? Two things. Like I said, I enjoy doing it, but I think I've said this to you and I've said this to anybody within the list. With or without YouTube is always going to be transformers in this house. So that's not even an issue. Like some people get into it just to try to get fame or get money. And that's fine, you know, to each his own. Like I said, with or without it, if YouTube was to shut down today, I'd still have transformers coming in and bail regardless. But it was just one of the other things that is kind of two years ago, my mother was sick and she had passed away. And one of the things I had told her, because she knew how much I love transformers. You know, she sent me to go see the first, you know, Transformers movie back in age six. I was six years old, I remember it. When the Michael Bay movies came out, she was the first person who called me to ask me if I knew they were making a Transformers live action. I'm like, yes, mom, I'm aware because she knew how much I love transformers. So, you know, you know, before she passed, you know, I had told her that, you know, I'm making this channel and I'm gonna do it about Transformers. She said, you know, have fun, be truthful, you know, just do what you love and you should be fine. You know, my only regret is she never got to see my channel. So, but other than that, I know she's my number one subscriber. So, so like I do part of that kind of in her memories. So I'm sorry. Hey man, that's perfectly fine. That's your mom you're talking about. That's why I do it. And again, like I said, it was something I loved. It was something we shared, like she knew, like not a lot of people knew that about me, but she knew, I guess that's how much like we were close. Like she, as soon as it, as soon as like the word came out, they were making that live action. She called me and she was like, you know, Davey, do you know, they're making a live action movie in Transformers. And I said, yeah. And we went to go see it together, the whole family. We all went, we all went to go see it and she like, what'd you think? And I'm just like, it was okay. It could have been better, but it was okay, but it was just one of the memories I don't forget. You know, she took me to see my first one when we got to go see the first live action together. So it's like one of those things like I'll never forget. That is awesome. That is awesome. I do you too. So, thanks for sharing that. That's all. I had no idea. That's awesome, buddy. It's not, I talk about that much, but it is, like I said, when I do a video, I think about it because like, yeah, I wish I wish she could see this right now. She would, she would be amazed to see my collection right now because she, she would have my side of Transformers. Well, you've got an amazing collection. You've got an amazing personality. Like I said, in the beginning, you're one of the first people I met and you and I just kind of click like that. You know, completely different worlds. I'm always a little bit big for you, man. You like, I was like, man, this guy's cool, man. He's one of us, you know, especially not just in the collecting community, but just as a Transformer head, I'm like, you know, Patriot Prime is one of us, man. And that's why I'm happy, like you're channeling us a bit violent, but then like, if one of us does good, we all do good because our community doesn't seem to get that much respect because there aren't those people. We're man-childs. But that would be just, you say man-child, but it's like, if you look at the YouTube in a whole, and I don't want to get off of too long of a tangent, but they always talk about it. They want things that are marketable. That's what we do is market other people's products. So how do we make something that you would gravitate towards? Like with many companies out there that make toys that you would think like, hey, there's a whole subsection of our platform that that's all they do. You know, if you look at some of the bigger YouTubers, they get pre-samples. They get stuff from toy companies to review before they come out. So how are you not embracing that? So like I said, my goal this year was like, I want to see a toy YouTuber in the rewind, because that to me represents YouTube. And I'm like, I don't care who it is. Because like I feel, like I said, if one person wins, we all win. We all win. Now that you mentioned that, remember back in the day, we would always see all these Transformer toy commercials. You don't see that anymore, because we are their advertisements now. We're selling their products. Like we might see a handful, like I'm subbed to a Hasbro YouTube channel and they'll show their commercials that they'll promote for like a month or whatever they got, you know, Siege. But it's not like, you see them back in Saturday morning cartoons or television. Now it's feeling far between, but like I say, you go to any YouTuber and we're out here just free promotion. Oh. Spending our money to do it too. Yeah. Like I said, I get nothing from this and no one sends me any product. Like I said, I spent money for this. But one gave this to me and I'm gonna put it together and I'm gonna review it. And if it's good, I'm gonna give it the praise. If it's not, I'm gonna tell you it's not. That's how I do it. Do what I do, just toss it over your shoulder. That was it. Grant, I will do that one of these days. I'm gonna break some of these. All right. I've done no skin in the game. So, you know, I try to be honest with my audience. Not if something's wrong with it, I'm gonna say. That's it. And I think that's very important to do it. I mean, if we're gonna spend that money, especially the way that prices are going up on the figures, you know, I don't like to know if my goal drop retail price on it or we'll all wait till it goes unclear. Yeah. Unfortunately right now, we're collecting. It seems like it's not how it used to be where something doesn't sell. It'll go on clearance. Because nowadays everything just gets, you know, with scalpers and online. There's barely anything out there anymore. Like I go to Target, Walmart. It's a desert right now. I have, the only option I have is a Walmart. I was there two days ago. Their transformer section consisted of one Siege figure, which was Skytread. One premiere edition Deluxe, which was the locked down soldier. I keep for Shadow Raider. Probably 10 of the $50 Optimus primes. Yeah, I got a bunch of them at mine too. A bunch of touch. A bunch of those vinyl trans. That was it. 50 bucks and no trailer, like come on. I don't know if I'm gonna stop it. That's ridiculous. No trailer. It surprises me as the people that are rushing out and buying it. I mean, hey, to each their own, what keeps Hasbro and businesses? They make the money that we're making to make this. Now and get a G1 prime with a trailer for 50 bucks. Like for real, like no, it's passed. All right, buddy. Well, let's keep rolling here. We will go to question number eight. There are thousands of YouTube toy reviews. What makes you different from the rest? Well, I think, I mean, I definitely feel like I have my own personality. I have my own way of reviewing things, just like everybody. Everybody's got their own style, depending on. I mean, most of us are just disembodied voices with hands touching figures. That's what I'm a dozen, but how you present yourself, how you address it, how you edit your videos, how you put it together, your intro. And me, like I said, I have no, you know, no one's sponsoring me. No one's paying me to review me. Like I said, I've reviewed figures and I've given it ultimate praise. I've reviewed figures and it's garbage. I'm gonna say it's garbage. Like even if I spent X amount of dollars, I'm gonna tell someone, don't. Like my main thing is, if you eat it, and you can't wait for someone else to make it, then you're gonna roll the dice and get it. But if you can wait, save your money. Because I, a lot of figures I bought because I was impatient, I couldn't wait. So, you know, I had to get it. I've been there too. And after sitting there for a couple of days, transformed it, playing with it, and then come to find out, like, you know what, I'm not happy with this. And yeah, I'm gonna express my opinion, especially with transformers. I do the type where I review it, I transform it. If there's a problem in the transformation, I'm gonna speak to them. Because I don't want someone else to come along and be like, damn, Dave, I ain't say nothing. No, I'm gonna tell you why. If there's a problem, if there's something that has a potential to break, or did it break, or did I have to break it just to transform it, I'm gonna say it. Because it's like, no, these things cost too much money for me to sit there and pander to you and be like, oh, this thing's fantastic. No, it's not. It's good. If it's good, it's good. If it's good, but this problem here, I'm gonna say it, you know? So I know there are reviews that tend to try to be honest and then there are those who just shill, you know, I don't wanna say names, but there are those who literally shill and they know they're pushing an inferior product. But yeah, just like, okay, the Dinobots, the Volcanicates, with that, when I do the Upgrade Kit video, I said it, like I said, if there wasn't an Upgrade Kit, I would have never bought that. Because that is the ugliest looking combiner I've ever seen. That's true. Mine are all individual bots over there. I transformed it once, but- And individual bots aren't that good either. They're passable if you can't find better Dinobots or G1 Dinobots, but they're average at best. And like I said, that combined mode, whether it was in the, you know, design factory, you must have been hitting something really hard to say that was passable. But I bought it because I knew, we live in a day and age, especially with transformers, no one's gonna make an Upgrade Kit. I was like, okay, I'll buy this because I know someone's gonna fix this. And sure enough, they did. And I now look at it, I'm standing here looking at it right now, it's night and day. I don't know if you ever saw this video, but it's night and day, like wow, that's a good looking figure now. But like just like I said, just with the Abominus. Now I've seen the Abominus combined, it's okay. But it could be better, that's why I got the Upgrade Kit because this is gonna make it worth the purchase. And you're gonna do a full review on that, right? I'm gonna do a whole put it together, yeah. Oh, I'm okay with that. So there you go, guys. If you subscribe to David's channel, you'll be able to see that upgrade set review. I know I'm gonna be watching that. The Predacon, I literally have not taken them out of package yet. They're still, all of them are still in package because I have not touched them until this upgrade kit got here. So when I do that, they're gonna get unboxed. I'm gonna kind of give a quick review on the figures. I'm gonna combine it without the kit and then I'm gonna combine it with the kit. So it's gonna get the full treatment. No, I look forward to that. Cause I've got mine. They're watching me up there. Oh, you got that combined award, Demonstator. Did you have to get the upgrade kit for that? I did not. I've got the Toyhack sets for them. The only real upgrades I bought recently is I upgraded my, what was Metroplex? What line was he? The Giant Titan Metroplex. Thrilling 30, Thrilling 30. Yeah, Thrilling 30. He's got a new head and weapons. And I've got third-party upgrade sets on my Revenge of the Fallen bludgeon. So he looks more like a skeleton. Most of my upgrade kits are just weapons. I haven't really bought into any of the big ones yet. We'll see. I don't really do the upgrade kits that much. I only do it for the combiners because like I said there, Hasbro's combiners lack a lot. Like I applaud them for doing a lot more than what we had when she won. We were kids, but it's still like, like never saw a combined war in Minnesota. Minnesota blue. Yeah, that was god-awful. He was nothing but legs and a chest. Yeah, that was horrible. Now unfortunately, I never got the upgrade kit for that one. The only thing I was able to get was new hands and new feet. It helps keep them stable, but I was still like if I could find the other, they had a new chest piece, a new head and everything. If I could find that, I'ma get it. But yeah, I only do upgrade kits mostly for the combiners because they're the ones to me need the most attention. Because the combiners- Well, the ones that stand out the most on the shelf. I mean, you can go over here and you can tell. I mean, they're the ones that just pop because one, they're so big and they're so colorful because all the mismatched robots. Because I mean, I got, I did an upgrade kit for Defensor again. That combiner world was okay, but when you give it the upgrade kit, it's like wow, it's like, it's an all new figure. It really is, it's a new figure. When you give it a little more attention and a little more love, that's like wow, like it's amazing, like you, why couldn't you do this right in the first place? That's gonna be with the toy heads. If you see how I was with the toy heads. That volcanic is with God awful. I would never, I wouldn't say if they didn't make it, I wouldn't never go on it, never. Cause I got dino box already. I got perfectly good dino box to scratch that edge, check that box. But I was always curious about, huh, a combiner dino box. That's interesting. But when I saw that original, I'm like, what is this? Why to shoulder, like what is this? It looks like these dudes I used to go to the gym with. They said ILS syndrome, inflated lats. Yeah, the body was like his, his frame and his body mass was unproportioned. So your shoulders go up the head, but you're, you're thin in the waist. It was just like, stop, get up and get it. Like I said, that's why I never reviewed it as a whole because I could not in full conscious sit here and go, oh, this is okay. No, it's not. It's not, absolutely. Like, I'm sorry, don't buy this. Unless you were just gonna have dino box separately, cool. But if you was thinking about it and that, don't do it to yourself because you don't look at it every day and be like, why? And then people are gonna come in your room and look at that and like, why? What is that? What is this abomination? That's a nice little go-bot you have there. Really? Like it's a go-bot. Oh no, that's doing disrespect to go-bots. It's a good go-bot nowadays. Yeah, there was, there was. All right, moving on. Number nine, what is your thoughts on the Transformers social community? I.e. YouTube, Facebook, et cetera, how we all get together now and do you have any special shout outs? Well, of course my boy, Patriot Prime, right here. You know, like I said, we, you and I, I remember when you used just a little wee one. And you know, you know, one of my guys in the sanctuary, like I interact with a lot of people, not just the Transformers community, but just to stick to your question. Positive, did my home girl Angie, aka Elita One from the Autobot family on Facebook. She's one of those people that like, is one of the reasons I do this. She's new to Transformers. So she's out there, she's wanting to learn about new figures and Transformers. And it's like, yeah, this is what I'm talking about. You know, there's someone out there that wants to get involved. So why not help her out? Why not show her the way? You know, and I tell her, here, start with G1 and then work your way down. Don't start here and then go backwards. Start from the beginning, that way you get a good sense of where you're going. And if you're ready, if you can handle, like I said, I watched G1 now as an adult and yes, some of it is ridiculous, but I get it because I remember watching as a kid and even then I kind of, like this is kind of weird, but I still got it. But it's like, if you can handle G1, then you're ready for everything else that comes after it, even the Bay stuff. But it will give you a better sense of why Bay is so polarized because he took something that was so easy and trying to make me difficult. Like Transformers is not hard. It's not hard to do. It's pasted repeat and somehow he messed that up. Like seriously, like that's why I didn't go see Bung B. I know everybody goes, but Bay didn't make it. It still stinks of Bay. Okay, there's still a little bit of Bay in here. I had not seen it. I mean, I've worked these things. I've heard, you know, from some people it's good, it's bad, I think I've seen the best part was the opening sequence because they plastered that all over social media. So that opening sequence, which a lot of people who told me that that's probably the best part of the movie. And I saw that and I'm like, oh, yeah, that. Why didn't we get that? Why did it take this long to get that? Because that's all I ever wanted was that. I remember when it first looked like the characters they're supposed to be. Like I see him and I go, oh, that is shockwave. That is soundwave. That is prime. RC, I'm like, will that cliff jump? You all look like we're just like as a child that when I thought about it in live action, like that's what I saw. In my imagination, my little eight-year-old brain, when I thought, what would a transformer look like in real life, it looked like that. Not the stuff that came before it. Not the mesh, mesh of metal and whatever. That, like that soundwave looked like a sound wave. Not the thing sucking on a satellite in space or some kind of fancy car. No, something that looked like it would transform into a take-down machine. That's the sound wave. This shockwave with one eye and not something riding a goddamn sand worm. That, you know, seekers look like seekers. Even Glitzweig, who looks like Starscream, still look like something that I recognized. So I saw the best part of it, you know? You'll enjoy it. I saw it three times. I saw it three times. Granted, Dylan wanted to go, so. Who am I to argue with a four-year-old? Hey, listen, Ken likes what he likes. That he does. I mean, I'll potentially catch it when it's like, you know, on demand or TVD, but I just, I'm at this point now, I have to speak with my wallet. Like, I know you can do better. So, I know it made some money, and you know, job-seeing and all that. But, again, you know, like I said, I'm not hating on it. Feel like I would say, you know, as much as I have an opinion about the Bay Formas, there are people out there that like it. And again, if you're about transformers, then you're still okay with me. Sure, I have my judgment, but I'm not gonna knock you for liking to do transformers and we're friends, okay? We can agree or disagree, but at the end of the day, we like transformers, so. Because you always gotta keep in mind that Bay Formers is somebody's G1. It is. Is it just the same maybe East Wars was, and the Trilla, Unicron trilogies is only gonna be someone's G1. So, that's why I said, even though some of it's not the best, I still recognize for what it does, it keeps the franchise alive. Yeah, like we said, 35 years. You're not. All right, let's go ahead. All that, it's, like I said, it has its place in history, yeah. I show my age, I'm a G1er, you know, to the day I die, that's because I was there when it first happened, but I've lived long enough to see the progression and hopefully, again, knock on wood, I get to see it for another 35 years. Amen. All right, last question. Do you have any channel goals for yourself, and I already know the answer to this, and where can my viewers find you? Plug yourself, this is your moment to show. Again, just wanna thank you again for having me here, man. Like I said, I think what you're doing is cool. We're quick, what made you call it the SIP rep? Situational report, military. See, something told me that, but I wasn't sure what I had to ask. And, it's how you learn. I had to be unique. I mean, like you talked about, you wanna do something that separates you from the rest, and everybody does their live shows. I did the one with the Lux, like you did, he calls his around 30 minutes, it never is. I think each one goes an hour plus. So, I love the interaction, and I was trying to think, what can I do, but I had to keep within my patriot prime and military theme. And I was like, SIP rep, situational report, two Transformer fans giving a situational report on the franchise. That works, man. Stay in your wheelhouse, you can't go wrong with that. But what I'd like to see for myself, like again, right now I'm sitting on like 340 subs, and every day I look at that and I'm amazed like that I even got that many. You know, cause like I said, I do something that everybody, like a lot of people do, and yeah, I do my own style. I'm just happy to have 300. Like, would I like to have more show, but it definitely kind of validates what you do and makes you feel good. But you know, I also like making sure that I give out quality content like I want. Every day when I sit here and make a video, the best part for me is the editing and putting together my learning skills every time. Like, I mean, if you watch from my first video to my latest video, I'm always trying something new. The progression of what I've done is night and day compared to my first video. My first video, I was just holding the camera that it's shaky, and the worst thing you ever see, no intro, no outro, no nothing. You look at the way I just put out now, it's like, oh my God, the editing is smooth, the intro, the music, everything, I'm just, I'm still learning. You know, I'm still learning, and that's the best part of doing it, and just kind of fun with it. Like I said, I enjoy these figures, I enjoy sharing my collection, you know. I don't see myself as the type like, oh I gotta get the newest one and be the first one to be out there. No, I'm gonna review the figure that I feel that if you can still get this figure, and if it's worth your hard-earned money, pick it up. And if it's not, pass. You know, that's how I look at it, especially. Like, you know, you review classic figures that would probably be almost impossible for somebody to find, but you know, there are people out there that go out there looking for those figures that search for those holy grails. And it's like, it's something for everybody. Like, I always look at it just because a figure is one year old or 10 years old. It's new to somebody. It's new to somebody who just now is finding out about this. But believe it or not, there are some people who don't know half of this exists. Like my girlfriend, when we started dating, she knew none of this. And now she'll come into the room and she'll be like, she's still bewildered. Like, she can't believe that this is all a real thing. Like, yes, it is. Yes, there is a Santa Claus. You know, and it's just, that's the enjoyment I get from doing the review. Like, you know what, this is, you know, I got nieces and nephews and I like to try to put them on. Like, I want them to become, like, I buy gifts, like here's some transformers here. And then it's like, Uncle Dave, you always give us this take. Take the transformers. I'm bringing people into my room, man. I'm coming here and they're just amazed. I'm like, yeah, a lot of years into this, but keep your hands in your pockets. You look with your eyes and not your hands. People come in like, some of her friends, she'll bring her friends over and they'll come into the room and they'll all take pictures. They're like, hey, you take little pictures, you want to just keep your damn hands to yourself. My wife had one of her friends come here one day. I forget what happened. I wasn't work, Lisa was off. So her friend comes here and she had to do some web seminar things. So she's sitting up in here using my cam. And when her meeting started, the first thing she had to do was explain the background that all of her people were like, where the hell are you? Like, are you a twister, right? All right, now I want you to plug yourself. You tell my people where to find you and what you do. I know you do the transformer reviews. You're doing a wrestling channel now, right? Is that a separate channel from what you've done or just like a different place? Okay, well, let me start. Smith's super awesome reviews. That's the main. Now, real quick. Transformers, you'll find the Marvel Legends. I do some video game play. I know you've seen my Shotgun Smith series, which is more common, trust me, more is common because I got plenty of recording footage, but that was, I just wanted to see if anybody would like some of that stuff. That was fun. That's coming and plenty more. So Smith's super awesome review. Now, my wrestling channel I do with another YouTuber who does Toy Channel is Matatoo22. We him and I are a kindred spirit. We both love wrestling. We'll talk offline about wrestling all day. So we decided to start a wrestling channel. It's called Clickbait Wrestling. Yeah, it's kind of a play on words. It's a good thing that we do a live show every Friday right before, and I'll get into that next. We do a live show every Friday around 8 p.m. Eastern time. So definitely check that out. Especially if you're about wrestling, we're gonna have more content. Like right now we're just doing the live show, but right now we're currently working on doing some just recorded videos for the content for the channel. So that's in the works. And then right after Clickbait Wrestling is Spaghetti and Friends, which you can find on The Sanctuary, which is another channel that I kind of co-run with Matatoo22, Jimmy Lee, Super Mario Zilla. It's just a bunch of YouTubes that we got together. We do a Facebook group, and it's basically the whole concept of my channel and a whole of we just try to build a community. So like if you like figures, like I think pop culture, if you're in the Transformers, Marvel, Dragon Ball Z, whatever, DC, if you're in the figures and collecting, the Sanctuary's one of those type of places where you can come and show your love, share your figures, your collection. If you have a YouTube channel, you can promote yourself. Like I said, when you first got on, I was like, hey, come on here. Put your stuff out there, bro. Put your name out there if you need it to just promote. This is the place and we have a YouTube channel called The Sanctuary and every Friday, right after clickbait, so go to the clickbait channel first and come to the Sanctuary channel for Spaghetti Friends toy shows. We talk new figures. We have our top 10 polls that we've been doing. We have discussion and basically we just, again, we just talk pop culture. We talk toys, we talk movies and just have a good time. A nice escape through the real world. Yeah. That doesn't involve anything illegal. Like since I've been doing YouTube, I've met some of the greatest people that they say like you asked before about the community. There is, and like any community, there's always gonna be that one or two few people that are kind of toxic, like they're in it for the wrong reasons. But from my perspective, like everybody that I've associated with has been really good people. Like they're willing to help out whenever they can. I'll throw out my man, Mr. V. Mr. V is probably the biggest fan of everybody's channel out here. Like the dude, he shows up to all my live streams. We do forget friends, he's there. We can clickbait, he's there. The dude is just, he puts the V in MVP. Okay, like he's just like a cool dude and he has his own channel too. Mr. V's gaming toys, he just hit 300. He said he's a boss, but it's that kind of community where like I said, we all look out for each other. We all give each other encouragement. We all support each other. No matter what it is you're collecting, it's a family, we're all under that same umbrella. And what's so wrong with that? Like I said, people from the outside can look at it and go oh, man babies and man childs and whatever. It's like, yeah, you see that because you choose to live this way. But guess what? We're not alone here. We're not, it's not just the two of us in on this. There's a whole group of people from various age ranges, men and women, you know, whatever your sexuality is. Like you like this toy, you like this franchise. There is a community out there for you. So don't think you're alone. Trust me, you're not. I thought that one time, but boy was I wrong. It's amazed me with the groups too. Like everybody with it. I really found that when I went to my first convention. You know, everybody hears about toy collector and you immediately picture the guy from the Simpsons who lives in his mom's basement. But you find out it's everyday people. It's you and me. It's blow my mind how many military veterans are transformer collectors. That like me, you know, I just got into it when I got back from overseas. Grant, I've been a fan for it since 84, but I really got into it when I got back home. And just everyday people that you wouldn't expect do this. And of course now it's cool to announce it. Right, he's the army veteran. He's a big Lego head plus Star Wars. So he's got a whole shrine of just Lego Star Wars things where it's same like me. You can look at it, but don't touch it. You know what I'm saying? He's all about that Lego life. And it's amazing to me, like I said before, like, you know, I've shown people some of my stuff, like some of the photos I've taken, my channel. And they'll kind of scoff for a minute, but then they'll come back to me later and go, yo man, what was the name of that transformer that did this? And you know, I'm sitting there just spitting out names. I remember that's the love that was like, because everyone has it. It's just nowadays you're taught that when you get a certain age, you're supposed to let go of things behind you. And yes, some people do. And some of those like us choose, like, no, I'm an adult and I'm an adult enough that I can afford to live this life. You know, I pay my bills, I pay my taxes and whatever little side pocket money I have, this is what I do with it. I don't do drugs. I'm not spending it on booze or hanging out on the streets. No, my money goes to transformers. You know, it's an expensive thing. The way I look at it, there is no difference in all of this that's on my wall, that what's on your wall, that if it was NFL shit, if it was basketball stuff, race car, no difference whatsoever, you like what you like, collect what you like and enjoy it, be yourself, you know? Hey, listen, that's how I look at it. Like I said, I got transformers, I got Mia, like I said, Marvel, I collect wrestling belts, I do a lot of things. I might have to give you this title because you've been killing it, but. I love that. That is awesome. We might have to relinquish this title to you, man, because you're killing it right now. But yeah, this is that life, man, it's, like you said, do what makes you happy, you know? Don't let someone tell you that what you do is childish, you know, it's not there. Those people who say that to you, they're just mad because they can't do it. That's all that is. Yeah. Because they wish they could have a room full of toys. They, I guarantee you, nine out of 10 people, if they couldn't get whatever they loved as a child back in their possession, they would stop at nothing to get. And luckily for us, we've had that luxury, like when I found this, like I said, I stumbled, I was like, you know, I would collect the Hasbro stuff. And then I found out about like the masterpiece of third party. And then like I said, like the Pandora's box just opened and I'm just like, you mean they make stuff that looks like things in the cartoons? I was like, where do I sign up? And I can afford it? Take please, take my money, take my money. And that was it. I'm just eating this week. Look here, why they make ramen, okay? I'm alive today, thanks to Robin. Ramen and grilled cheeses. As long as they have ramen, like you said, cheese and bread, I think I can make do. Who are? Well, I'll get some meat, we can make do. But yes, I wouldn't trade just nothing in the world. Like I said, I have fun doing it, I have on collecting it. I have fun with the people that I've met. Like I said, you and I, outside of YouTube, we talk, you know, on Facebook and whatever. Like I said, we go, well, we're from all different places, all over the world. You know, I got friends in the UK, Canada, Australia, you know, Thailand, all over the world. And the one thing that's universal is we collect figures, we collect toys, we collect transformers, and we can sit there and talk about it all day. You know, that new bumblebee dropped, everybody's talking. And some of it's good, some of it's bad, some of the memes are funny as hell. It's just, have you seen the one where all the Autobots are laughing at him? Yeah, and he turns around. Uh-oh, I've lost you. Your sound is gone. Yeah, you're nothing now. I don't know what's happened. Well, we were pretty much wrapped up anyway. I know you can still hear me. So what I'm gonna do, I'm gonna promote David now. His channel is Smith's Awesome Reviews. I'm gonna link it in the description of this video. Not sure what happened to us here. Guys, I appreciate you watching. Stop by, check out Smith's channel. He's a great guy, as you've seen. I highly recommend it. This is Patriot Pride, signing out. Hoorah! 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 One Transformers, Modern Era Transformers, and Toy Hacks Repro Label 6. Once again, this is Patriot Pride.