 Hey, what's going on guys? Patriot Prime here once again with another episode of The Sit Wrap. And with me tonight is Matthew Baldwin, aka Deluxe Baldwin from YouTube, Hail Hasbro Reviews. Matt, how are you doing tonight? I'm good. How are you doing, man? I'm doing very well. Very well. It's great to have you. You're the reason that I started doing this. I had so much fun talking with you during our little interview at one night. Well, thank you very much for having me. It's an honor to be on here and just to pay back what you did for me. So, you know, I was happy to come on here. I love doing this stuff. It's fun. Excellent. Yeah, it definitely gives you a way to meet some people. Well, here's how the Sit Wrap, I'm sorry, didn't mean to interrupt you. Exactly. That's what I do. You get to see people in the fandom and the collecting world that they would not usually have a platform to have. You give them that platform to talk, you know, I interview anybody and everybody. And some people just don't have that, you know, and I really like to find out what they're thinking about the fandom and their transformers and their love of transformers or whatever they love. Excellent. Well, how the Sit Wrap works is I have 10 questions for you. The first five are regarding Transformers and the last five are regarding you as a YouTuber. So, if you're ready to go, question number one, sir. What is the appeal of Transformers for you? Well, as a kid, you know, it was just a big robot. You know, as a kid, you saw a big robot and they transformed it into vehicles and everything. For now, I like, you know, I love the engineering, you know, just so they can take a car, a jet, a beast force, you know, whatever they can take and they make it to a robot and they can do triple changers, you know, they got so many options and everything. So I just think the lore of that, you know, along just the engineering part where you can make something that looks awesome as a robot and a car or whatever you want to be. I love that. I think it's really cool. But as a kid, you know, it's just big robots fighting each other. I mean, come on now. You have to love that stuff. You can't go wrong with that, especially the engineering. When you compare a G1 character from 84 to a new mold of his figure today, for example, let's take a generation one Megatron compared to his masterpiece. I mean, it's amazing that you hit it right there. You know, it just how far we've come along for 30 years, you know, 30 plus years now the trend has been along. I mean, you know, masterpieces are good example, third party, you know, it's just so what they can do is so awesome. I just love it. It's just neat. It's just neat what they do now. It makes me more excited. What's down the road? Yeah, exactly. All right, sir. Number two, aside from G1, which is always the number one answer, what's your favorite transformer fiction? Yeah, I thought about this one. That's good. That's why I like to give everybody the questions ahead of time. Yeah, I thought about, you know, I love Transformers Prime. Beast Wars is a really good storyline. I mean, it's probably one of the better storylines of there. Siege, I'm loving the new sea stuff. I'm loving what we're getting from Siege. So, but I would have to probably go, man, it's a top between Siege and Prime, I have to get that. I mean, but as far as story wise, Beast Wars has one of the best storylines, I think, out of all this stuff and everything. But Prime is up there also, too, in the toys also. And but the new sea stuff, I'm really impressed. I mean, some of that jet fire and Omega, come on now. Oh, I finally watched the video review on jet fire where they showed off how he transformed. Oh, yeah. You see that he looks like skyfire. That's all you think about. Yeah, well, the hands, you know, how it's got that where you close them. Oh, yeah, the hole pops out. Oh, yeah. Come on now. That's like a masterpiece thing, man. I was like, oh, it was so awesome. And then I'll make it look really good. You got, you know, because you got Springer comes out coming out. That's really nice. Starscream, so, man, I'm really excited. I mean, it's awesome. And it's really it's great to be a Transformer fan right now. And there's so many options and, you know, third party, you know, knockouts. If you do knockouts, I don't do knockouts. But, you know, people who like that stuff, that's fine. You know, if you're happy, I'm happy. Thanks. All right, sir. Number three. Do you have a favorite figure or a grail? One toy you'll never let go of. Say you had to sell your whole collection, but you're keeping one figure. What would that be? So many because I've given, you know, stuff that people have given me stuff before. I love, you know, I've gotten some stuff from other people. And I wouldn't, you know, I couldn't sell that. But if I had to keep one, it would probably be the Make Toys Starscream, which he is right. Where is this? Right there. Trying to find your figure while you're on camera. Yeah, exactly. It's make, if Make Toys had come out, it would be probably the masterpiece. But the Make Toys one just, man, looks like it just came off the screen, especially in an alt mode. Looks so beautiful. I love it. It's a great transform. So if I, and I'm actually up to my life, if I, you know, when I passed, I would like to be buried with that. That's the one transform I would be buried with as a Make Toys. So I would probably grab that one because, you know, he has my favorite character and he's just really, really well done. But if I had to throw in another one, which I don't know, I'll talk about it later. Anyways, sorry. But yeah, the Make Toys Starscream would be mine. Thanks. All right. Number four. What figure is your white whale? Your most wanted toy. You could stop collecting if you get this figure. Wow. That's a great question. I would love a Mint and sealed box G1 Starcream. That's what I would love to have. Well, Mint and sealed box or Mint and box would be fun. I have, you know, a couple of G1s and there's, there's actually a clear, I have an E-Hobby one. It's a clear version of it. Or, you know, when he died or whatever, and he has a clear version, there was one, I think there was one like maybe only five made, I think throughout the whole world. I would love to have one of those too. I mean, I think it's impossible to find. But yeah, a Mint and sealed box G1 Starcream is one of my career roles that I would love to have. Nice choice. All right. Number five. This is the last Transformers question. What is your favorite Transformer character? Anti-fiction, anti-media. Starscream, an auto-media Starcream. I, as a kid, I loved it because he transformed in jet. Not, not so much of his personality because he is kind of a backstabbing, you know, a little swiveling swan, whatever. But I think him and Megatron, the, the... Dynamic. Yes, just, you know, them, you know, together, you know, I always wanted Starscream to be, you know, the leader, you know, and everything. But come on, nobody would follow him. He's an asshole. Everybody knows. But, and he couldn't defeat Megatron. I understand that. But I always liked him as a kid, you know, when he transformed into a jet. I always wanted, I always flew out my arms and flew around the room and everything, make Transformer sounds. And he would just, he just stuck with me. And he actually got me back, kind of back into Transformer and back in 2001-ish, or rather, R.I.D. came out and I started collecting that. And then I stopped a little bit. Then I saw Starcream from Armada in the stores. And I picked that up and that's where it just started from. That's right. Starcream was my favorite. Cool, cool Starcream. That was the one that could pull his wing out for a sword, right? Yeah, yeah, with the, yeah, he has a little mini con and his little, the rocket launcher was a flip over and he makes some noise like sound or whatever. Yeah, that's what got me back into it. So yeah, Starcream has always been my favorite character. I have tons of shirts and I have like, oh God, how many figures? Over at least a hundred figures of Starcream. Wow. All right, well, the funny story about Starcream, I remember when I was in elementary school, my parents were both school teachers at the same school I was in and I traded somebody for a Starcream. And I remember going to the parking lot because I would ride home with mom and dad. And I remember getting home and realizing I was missing his little black landing gear. So I had dad drive me back to the school, park where he parked and I looked all around because I remember setting my book back down, getting into the car. We looked all around that parking lot for probably 30 minutes to an hour and I finally found that damn landing gear. Oh, nice, yeah. I love that little piece and then the short missile were easy to lose. I mean, do you want everybody lost stuff back and then a little, you know, that was easy because I understand the landing gear. Yeah, I've seen a lot of people lose that. That's why that stuff is plastic gold right now. At least fortunately, all the landing gear is interchangeable with every seeker. So you, there's no difference. My mom was a teacher too. She was an English teacher, so that's cool. Oh, nice. Mine were both elementary school teachers. They kind of did everything. Mom was fourth grade, dad was sixth. My mom was a high school. She taught English. She did drama also for a little while and oral communications and everything, so. Next, well, that wraps up the Transformers question. Now comes the hard stuff, YouTube questions. Number six, what possessed you, a grown-ass man to do toy reviews on YouTube? That's a good question. Well, I am a part of another podcast called Sharecast Uncut. I've been doing that for like five years now. Nice. And I'm part of that. And my friends, you know, Bobby Skull Face, I'm sure everybody knows that guy. He's on the podcast. He's a good friend of mine. And Justin T2RX6, he's on the podcast also. And they do reviews. Justin doesn't do so much anymore, but Bobby does. And I was just, you know, I played with the thought of doing it for a while and, you know, I asked him and everything. And I think that's when he started. He was doing a little more before I was. And I just said, man, I can do that. So I just went to Best Buy. I got a camera and I was like, I could do this. So I just started doing it. And yeah, I've been doing it for about three years or three years now. And yeah, that's why I did it. And yeah, that's about it. And your channel's really picking up. You're doing all kinds of different things. So you never know what to expect from your channel. Yeah, I got a lot of free time, man. I'm in class right now. I don't have a job. I'm in school. I worked for a company and I got laid off. And I got workforce released. So I got my job, got sent overseas. So they pay for my school. So I'm going to school for HBAC right now. I'm going to be a heat and air guy. So I'm just trying to get through that. So I have a lot of free time. So I put out, yeah, I've done, I think that when people just do reviews, I think it gets, especially for me, I get kind of bored of it. So I'm trying to do stuff like with the run in the 30 minutes. I'm doing evolutions of characters. I'm doing what's doing transformers. So I'm trying to spice up my channel just to give them a variety of stuff. And it's fun. I like doing that stuff. I love doing reviews too, but I love doing the editing on, you know, some of the evolution of stuff and everything. So it's fun. It keeps you on your toes kind of things. Editing is my favorite part. I love just, it feels like that's where you show your creativity, especially as much as I screw up. I love those. And you know, you're doing some new stuff, you know, with the toy house, you know, the sticker thing and you got to expand your, you know, your horizon or whatever, all that kind of stuff. All right. Well, you kind of touched on this a little bit, but question number seven, what keeps inspiring you to get in front of that camera? I mean, I just, I love doing it. It's fun. You know, I think once I get to the point where I'm not having fun, I'm going to call it quits because there's no point in doing it. You can, there's a lot of reviews out there. And I mean, you can tell if someone's not having fun. It's just, if it's just a job, you know, they're doing it like that and everything. So I don't want to go through that motion. I don't want to, you know, I can, people will tell that, you know, you're just doing this for this and that and everything. I'm having fun. I mean, I think I bring some relief to it sometimes, you know, and everything. I just, you know, it's fun to do. I mean, I like doing it in my spare time and I love taking pictures. I've been doing a lot of photography and everything. Yeah, your pictures are great. I love them. Thank you very much. I'm trying hard. I mean, I would love to get a camera. I'm trying to, you know, try to save up for a camera. I just use it on my phone now. And I just, you know, it's just fun to do. Yeah, exactly. I use it on a phone and I just, you know, got some good, you know, decent lighting and that's everything. And it's just fun to do, man. I love doing it and it, you know, kind of relaxes me and calls me down. I love getting new transformers and just talking about it. You know, and that's what I do. For me, of course, you know, I have a hard time. There's nowhere for me to buy new figures. It's either online or something happens to follow my Walmart. So doing this gives me a way to appreciate again what I have. Yeah, exactly. Yeah. And, you know, I'm going back and doing some older stuff. You know, if I don't get anything new and it gives you a chance to grab something off the shelf that you don't normally would grab off the shelf. You know, and you just wanna, I look at, you know, some of the stuff on top of my shelf. So I'm like, huh, I've been playing with that for a while. So I'll grab it. Now, you know, maybe I need a review on a new thing. So, you know, it also gives you a chance to, you know, to, you know, go back to older stuff and mess around with that stuff. It's always fun to do that. And when you pull it off that top shelf, it gives you a chance to dust it off. Man, if you saw my, man, my room is, it would take me literally a month. You know, you don't want to do that. I know, you've got the Star Wars stuff. Yeah, exactly. It would literally take, you know, just like, you know, it would literally take over a month to get my stuff just to clean it and everything. So it's rough. All right, sir. Number eight. There are thousands of toy reviewers on YouTube. What makes you different? Well, I don't know. I don't see many 40 plus individuals getting on the floor and playing with their toys at the end of the reviews. Yeah, that's floor time. I am known for floor time and the Hell Has, bro, that started on Shattercast and the floor time actually started on Shattercast also. We was at our first TF Con, which was in Chicago. And I had bought a Pretender. I forgot which one was offhand, but I was, and I walked in and Bobby Skullface, who I was talking about earlier, he had a, he was selling some of his merchandise. He had a table and everything. We had a table too. But when I went back there, there were no chairs. So I don't care to sit on the floor. It's fine with me. So I got on the floor and started playing with my toys that I got and everything. And Bobby and I think Greg and Justin over there started laughing and everything, all that stuff. So it just kind of stuck with me for a little while. And then when I started doing, when I asked for some help, when I want to start doing reviews, Bobby and them suggested I do floor time. Like, you'd like to do that on the floor. So why don't you do that? So I started doing that because, and also brought it in because it kind of brings you back to when you were a kid, when you were good times, when you were on the floor on Saturday morning, watching cartoons, eating cereal, doing whatever, eating cheese and crackers, whatever you got to do. You would sit on the floor and you play with your toys. And I try to bring that back. I know I'm a 40-year-old man doing it, but I like to, it's just something, it's a fun thing to do. And I like to bring the child back into the people's heart and say, this is how a toy would be played with on the floor nowadays when you're 40-something or so. So that's what I'm known for, mainly as floor time. So that's how that floor time came up about was that back then. Number nine, what is your thoughts on the Transformers social community, i.e. YouTube, Facebook, and do you have any special shout-outs? The community, I think overall is really good. I would say 95% is good. There's that 5% that, you know, where it's toxic, toxic. And there's just, you know, people just bitching just a bitch. I try not to respond. I try not to get in the middle of that stuff. Cause I've, there's several times I've been on Facebook and I've wrote about grass, people complaining about stuff. And I'll just sit there and I'll talk for a paragraph and I'm just like, do I really want to get into this? Is it gonna be worth? Well, it was just the other day. Yeah, I'm just like, it's not worth it. Delete. So, you know, I try not to get, I'm a very positive person. I love Transformers. I've always loved Transformers. It's my collection, it's my go-to, what I do. And I try to get everything to benefit of the doubt. There are some crappy Transformers out there. I know that. But I try to give them the benefit of the doubt and try to point out the good stuff. And if I don't, you know, it's very seldom that I really just hate stuff. And I've reviewed some stuff that I've hated. But I try to stay positive and give a, that positive vibe, you know, and everything. And I, you know, hate everybody, all that stuff and everything. I just try to have fun. And, but, you know, I don't let the negativity get to me. Cause it's not worth it. You know, you're not going to change somebody's mind. They're not going to change my mind. And it's just, you're going to go back and forth. It's like fighting with a potato. You know, there's no point in doing it. So, but, you know, for those people that like to troll and do that, you know, more power to you. Like I always say, if you're happy, I'm happy. And that's what the block button is for. With that. And that's what the block button is for. Exactly, yeah. I mean, you don't have to, you know, you can delete all that stuff and everything. And I like this stuff. Shout out to everybody on Characast, the RLC, a room of collectors. Shout out to our new podcast for doing those guys and everything. I'm really excited to do that. We're actually going to do that tonight. Yes, everybody. That's how we're kind of speeding through this interview. As soon as we're done, we're going right over to another, I guess, podcast called Transformers Unite on Nathan Simmons channel. So I'd say, yeah, check it out. He'll have that uploaded by the time this is uploaded too. I think we're actually doing it live. So I think we're going to, it will be live soon. We'll do it live. Then it automatically loads up to YouTube and everything. Shout out to those guys. Just shout out to everybody that, you know, that likes, you know, watches my channel, that future people that hopefully that will sub to my channel and all that good stuff. And I don't know, that's it. And I wanted to touch on something else. You're talking about the socials community because I'm a big geek. I'm a fan of Marvel and Star Wars and DC and all that. And I have to give the Transformer community props because Marvel's Star Wars has gotten absurd with the toxicity and it's unreal. So Transformers so far, so good. I don't know, Transformer fans, I mean, they've also given bad, I mean, with the Michael Bay stuff and just, I mean, there's so much complaining on Facebook and TFW and there's some other, you know, websites that I go to. It is just constantly, I was like, why, I mean, I understand, and everybody has their right to their opinion. I'm not taking anything away from that. But it's just like, why, what's the point of just complaining constantly and constantly about something? It's a toy for grown-ass men. There's no point of arguing about a toy. Whatever, some people get off on that and that's what you've got. That's what you wanna do. If that makes you sleep better, I'm happy for you. Right there, buddy, keyboard warriors. Exactly, exactly. All right, sir, our last question, not really a question, well, yeah, it kinda is. Do you have any new channel goals and where can our viewers find you? This is your moment to plug yourself. Goals, man. Thought about this one too. You're getting up to 2,000, right? You're getting near that? Yeah, I would love to get to 2,000 by the end of this year, which I should hopefully get to do that. I don't, like I said, I'm not really doing this for the subs. I'm doing it because I like doing it. Once I get, if I don't start like doing it, I'm not gonna do it anymore. But I love that people love my stuff. I really appreciate it. Anybody that says anything, I try to respond to everybody as quickly as I can. I don't respond all the time, but I'm trying to respond to everybody. My goal is like that. I would love to hit 2,000. I'd love to hit more, but I would hope to hit 2,000 soon. And you can reach me, or you can reach me anywhere. I'm on Shattercast. We put a podcast out every Thursday, Thursday night, and it's supposed to be Friday morning. I'm on Hell Hasbro Reviews. Just look at what any other system looks to present. Hell Hasbro Reviews. And I'll have that link in the description as well. Okay, cool, cool, thank you. And credit to this video. Cool. I'm also on Instagram. I've been taking a lot of photos lately. I'm at hell underscore Hasbro underscore reviews. So you can give me an Instagram and I have a Facebook page, which I'll link to on my bottom in my description and everything. And you can reach me on Facebook under Matthew Baldwin. That's my name and everything. So, and that's it. And there we go. Nothing's under my wife. Well, that's pretty much it for the sit rep. Once again, I thank you for stopping by and chatting with me for a while. And I'll see you in about 20 minutes on our other podcast. Awesome, thank you. Once again, thank you very much for having me on. I was honored. I know we rushed through the questions. I'm sorry I wasn't very long or anything. So, but I plan on trying to get you back on to around 30 and everything. And anytime you wanna do this again, I'll be more than happy to. Thank you. Well, thank you, buddy. And I appreciate every one of you watching. This is Patriot Pride. Signing out. Hooah! And hell has brought. Good job, folks. 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 Reprolabel Sex. Once again, this is Patriot Pride. Hooah!