 Hey what's going on guys, Patriot Prime here once again with another Generation 1 Transformers review and part three of my series Pedal to the Metal with the Power Masters. My look at 1988's Generation 1 Power Master. But before we get to talking about the subject of this video I need you guys to do me a favor. If you're watching this video right here and are not subscribed to Patriot Prime Reviews please hit that subscribe button right now. It won't cost you a thing but will help me and my channel out tremendously. Now on to the figure and the bot we're taking a look at in this video review is 1988's Joyride. Now Joyride hitting the shelves in 1988 made it too late to appear in the animated show though he did appear animated very briefly in his television commercial. Joyride made his major appearance in Marvel Comics beginning in issue number 41 where it shown that he, Getaway, Slapdash and Goldbug were guarding the floppy disk, yes floppy disk it was the 80s, containing the mind, the brain, the personality of Optimus Prime. They were on board the Autobot ship Steelhaven. This was Fortress Maximus ship. Fortress Maximus and the Autobots were all on the moon at the time witnessing a battle for leadership between Grimlock and Blaster. The Decepticons attacked and Fortress Maximus realizing that the Autobots needed a true leader sent his ship Steelhaven with the Joyride and company in to the planet Nebulos in order to rebuild Optimus Prime. In issue number 42 the Autobots arrive on Nebulos only to find that the Nebulons had poisoned the planet's fuel supply to prevent any other giant robot invasion. Unfortunately the Decepticons Dreadwind and Darkwing had already arrived and had become power masters and were wreaking havoc upon the planet. The Autobots tried to stop them but the poison fuel already began to take its effect. Haikyu the main scientist and creator of the power master technology who at first was not willing to help the Autobots noticed how brave and self-sacrificing they were decided to have himself and members of his team become power masters in turn to give the Autobots that extra oomph to defeat Dreadwind and Darkwing. After the duo of diabolical Decepticons was defeated Joyride along with the other power masters abandoned the planet Nebulos because they felt since they were now warring robots they weren't allowed or shouldn't belong on their own planet and they left Nebulon heading to Earth. Joyride then is nothing more than a background character every now and then you'll see him lounging around the arc and up until issue 75 that's all he was. Issue 75 is where he met his end fighting Unicron. He along with Autobot Wave Rider were caught in an optic blast by Unicron and he was vaporized and that right there wraps up the history of Joyride. So without further ado let's take a look at this classic vintage transformer and welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. Joyride's alt mode is that of a Baha buggy and he is a very bright late 80s looking Baha buggy but this thing has some fantastic molded details on it. I mean look at the shocks right there there big old treaded tires got a winch here on the front I love the chrome lights check that out I love chrome on vintage figures great paint applications as well right there on the windows and the stickers look really really good that being that they are brand new toy hacks decals that I recently applied onto the guy but yeah Baha buggy I love it I've always had a spot for Baha Buggies I have no idea why I live in West Virginia there's no Baha Buggies but rolls really really good he has a weapon here up on top that you can either peg in or leave out it's also the robot's handgun I like to have it installed like so he's a warring vehicle he needs some weaponry I don't mind weaponry if it looks good on the vehicle now the whole gimmick with the power masters is that they come with a separate little figure that transforms into the engine which unlocks transformation for the figure the locking mechanism for joyride is right here in the hood you can't move this section down until you have the engine in place and the engine for joyride is hot wire this figure looks great look at the molded detail on this guy and the paint application he's got a red face that you can really make out the details you can see his little goggles I added that auto button signal I had these little teeny tiny toy hacks decals for micro masters I thought looked really good on him articulation for a power master the arms can go up and down and the legs can go in and out but that's mainly due to transformation to transform him you simply bring the legs up around make sure this little peg slots into the hole there on the shoulder get those pegged in and there you have engine mode I love the auto bot power master engines every one of them has beautiful chrome on top and that really makes these things pop now to install it on joyride you're going to make sure and line up the head with this slot right here and just peg it into place this will press down this little button right here that activates a locking mechanism let me show you guys how this works the button gets pressed so you can open this up see how this section right there that's what locks in vehicle mode this is my second joyride the first joyride I got had a big section broke out right here where little timmy that bastard apparently lost his power master and snapped the figure trying to transforming damn you timmy so anyway we'll go ahead and attach hot wire get him in there I think that looks really good I dig it now one problem I have with power masters the whole gimmick is they have to turn into the engine to unlock robot mode I feel it should be reversed I mean if they're going to be the engine they need to be more involved in transforming them to vehicle mode but that that's me so that's popped in but what you want to do first is take the back section let's remove the weapon now after you have the gun removed what you're going to do is take the back section flip this out and now bring the front down joyride's head is on spring it's going to pop up this is the tricky part you're going to take the cockpit section and turn it halfway this way you can spin the legs all the way around and now all the way like that there is a little tab right there that prevents these legs from spinning and now you have joyride in robot mode take the weapon place it in his hand and now he's a little top heavy and now he's all armed and ready for battle joyride he's got some pretty decent articulation for a g1 the arms can go up and down on a nice ratchet and he has an elbow bend so really really cool with that robot details not too bad I do like the head sculpt but take note the head of the toy is so much different than how he's portrayed in the media I don't know if they got a hold of concept art or whatever his head's completely different now I hate the fact that his face is painted the same color as his eyes the Decepticon power masters they had collared in eyes they had collared in visors I hate how the Autobots always lack with eye collar but I guess since we get chrome engines you got to take what you can mold the detail a lot of it carries over from the vehicle mode stickers carry over as well you got two Autobot symbols right there I don't really like how the feet is all one section I guess it's not feet it's a foot a lot of back kibble of course once he's transformed you can pop joyride excuse me pop haywire out transforming so you do have two robots to take on the forces of evil and there you go now for some quick size comparison here is 1988 generation one joyride and hot wire with generation one optimus prime fellow g1 baha buggy bot sandstorm and power of the primes baha buggy bot beachcomber 1988 power master joyride is a really cool figure the baha buggy mode is fantastic it's really fun to mess around with robot mode it's not too bad I mean the only complaint I really have with it is the giant foot minor quibble is the fact they didn't give him any painted eyes other than that I really like the guy now one thing I forgot to show let me remove the weapon here is you do not have to have the power master installed to transform back to vehicle mode make sure the arms are straight we'll go ahead and rotate this section remember you have to rotate it halfway spin around rotate fully and snap that back into place very easy it's a simple yet complex transformation so there you go guys 1988 generation one power master joyride and hot wire so does a generation one joyride belong in your collection absolutely this is a fantastic little toy unfortunately he's one of the ones you can find for a fairly decent price but pay close attention to make sure he doesn't have that little broken section right there on the hood I mean there's not many pieces to go with the guy you've got a gun you've got the power masters and he's a fun little figure so if you see this guy don't hesitate pick him up he's a great example of the power masters and I want to 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