TRANSFORMERS: THE BASICS on TRANSFORMING

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  • This week we're looking at the thing that gives Transformers their name! How do they change shape? What for? How has it changed over the years? These are The Basics on TRANSFORMING!
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  • @jonathonholifield5900
    @jonathonholifield5900 Před 3 lety +632

    Who else simply CAN NOT SEE this thumbnail without hearing "if you're gonna RIDE, Danno, Ride in STYLE!"

  • @ariadnefrolich7243
    @ariadnefrolich7243 Před 3 lety +577

    "Stuck between forms" That sounds horrifying, and is probably terrifying for the Transformer experiencing it.

  • @DegeneragentX
    @DegeneragentX Před 3 lety +401

    "Convert and Roll Out!" doesn't roll off the tongue....
    but "convert and conquor!" Eh?

  • @szymonlewandowski9690
    @szymonlewandowski9690 Před 3 lety +289

    My favourite part is how everytime he mentions Beast Machines, he has to say "Beast flesh and Transformer metal, fused at the celular level".

    • @tigerbread78
      @tigerbread78 Před 3 lety +30

      I hear that's illegal in the UK 😏

    • @ProfDragonite
      @ProfDragonite Před 3 lety +27

      Beast Machines Catchphrase Achieved.

    • @neptuneplaneptune3367
      @neptuneplaneptune3367 Před 3 lety +43

      Its one of his Iconice Phrases. Together with "Wher originly part of the Toyline Diaclone" and "Being killed by a comsic powerfull Starscreme"

    • @szymonlewandowski9690
      @szymonlewandowski9690 Před 3 lety +18

      @@neptuneplaneptune3367 God, im hoping he will celebrate in someway, once he covers every single character that died that way

    • @neptuneplaneptune3367
      @neptuneplaneptune3367 Před 3 lety +11

      @@szymonlewandowski9690 He most likley will. Ore he will continue to search for ways to bring it up.

  • @Szoki86
    @Szoki86 Před 3 lety +70

    In one of the very first episodes of the original G1 cartoon, Jazz is asked by a human why do Autobots transform into cars. His answer? 'Disguise. And it sure beats walking!' I always loved that explanation and it makes me happy that you mention utility and disguise at the very start of this video.

    • @Swivelbot
      @Swivelbot Před 6 měsíci +5

      It was actually Trailbreaker who said that

    • @DemoNinja79
      @DemoNinja79 Před měsícem

      ​@@Swivelbot i see you are a man of culture.

  • @yutoob2968
    @yutoob2968 Před 3 lety +146

    Transformers: "Robots in Disguise"
    Also Transformers: Neon colors and distinct patterns

  • @pistonx3544
    @pistonx3544 Před 3 lety +452

    prime: okay take your disguises
    Bumblebee: vw bug
    Prime: okay good bee
    Ratchet: ambulance
    Prime: okay... that might work
    Grapple: crane
    Prime: that could be useful
    Mirage: F1 car
    Optimus: what?
    War path: tank!
    Prime: wait! what the hell?! Don't you know the meaning of disguise? Honestly who else can stand out bigger than you warpath?
    Cosmos: Im... just...gonna...go

    • @lsiassociate3348
      @lsiassociate3348 Před 3 lety +43

      Is it bad that I know who cosmos is? I’m a die hard antique transformers fan, and know who ALL of these robots are? Is is? Am I that bad?

    • @pistonx3544
      @pistonx3544 Před 3 lety +36

      @@lsiassociate3348 dude no it is not that bad and cosmos ain't that obscure either now snap dragon that guy holds the tidle of most obscure

    • @barrybend7189
      @barrybend7189 Před 3 lety +25

      That happened in Transformers Cybertron with Scattershot.

    • @goawayihavecommentstomake1488
      @goawayihavecommentstomake1488 Před 2 lety +41

      Cosmos: “But if humans see a UFO, they automatically assume its a weather balloon or a secret government aircraft. It’s the perfect disguise!”

    • @tiagoperezvenero9348
      @tiagoperezvenero9348 Před 2 lety +7

      Double clutch: so I guess you don't know me.

  • @ShadowACE1998
    @ShadowACE1998 Před 3 lety +340

    It's just not a Saturday morning without a new episode of Transformers: The Basics.

    • @wolfgang6442
      @wolfgang6442 Před 3 lety +4

      Fax almost as a Saturday morning cartoon series as an explainer

    • @matthewreynoso6904
      @matthewreynoso6904 Před 3 lety +2

      Ikr?

    • @SiliconBong
      @SiliconBong Před 3 lety +1

      @I am Petitgguy what's a complete breakfast?

    • @SiliconBong
      @SiliconBong Před 3 lety +2

      @I am Petitgguy oh, thanks, was expecting a story about american bacon and canadian maple juice/stuff poured all over strange pancakes...
      ... in NZ it's usually cereal/porridge and toast with a hot drink; if you've got the time.

  • @LiterallyEveryone217
    @LiterallyEveryone217 Před 3 lety +142

    Transformers after one season of a cartoon or a movie:
    Oh boy here I go scanning again!

    • @LiterallyEveryone217
      @LiterallyEveryone217 Před 3 lety +21

      @I am Petitgguy And then this human jumped into my alt mode
      So what did you do
      I killed it because it was annoying

    • @andrewmalinowski6673
      @andrewmalinowski6673 Před 3 lety +9

      Unfortunately I read that last part in Optimus Prime/Eeyore voice. After watching the TFCon video about how Neil Kaplan became the voice of Optimus and his comment that; "we all know Eeyore is just a depressed Optimus Prime, right?"

    • @plantainsame2049
      @plantainsame2049 Před rokem +1

      I feel like they do it often like if I was making a Transformer show Bumblebee with start off as a beetle then become a classic Camaro and then a modern Camaro cuz they would change as they age it's iffy on what they should change I kind of like how they do it at this movies where bumblebee just go scans do Camaro when he feels like he needs to do look cuz obviously they can't do that everyday probably takes a lot of energy to convert all your outer pieces into something else

  • @TyrannFuhrer
    @TyrannFuhrer Před 3 lety +435

    "Autobots™! Transform™ and roll out!"™

  • @peterdanior4538
    @peterdanior4538 Před 3 lety +582

    In a future episode can you take a look at “Cybertronian Alt-Modes” and how often it was shown in media or completely ignored. The seeker pyramids probably being the most well known of these.

    • @KilosFoxo
      @KilosFoxo Před 3 lety +35

      and aligned having zero consistency with them

    • @Ryoku1
      @Ryoku1 Před 3 lety +26

      Yes please.

    • @crabcrab3048
      @crabcrab3048 Před 3 lety +21

      Tetrajets.

    • @jaffarebellion292
      @jaffarebellion292 Před 3 lety +3

      I always thought they bore a resemblance to the Colonial Vipers from the original Battlestar Galactica series.
      (Edit: Specifically the pyramid seekers)

    • @thomasrdiehl
      @thomasrdiehl Před 3 lety +14

      Yes, please! I will never forgive Netflix for almost completely ignoring those for any bot who isn't a seeker.
      I need compensation!
      I demand compensation!

  • @LowellLucasJr.
    @LowellLucasJr. Před 3 lety +82

    One thing I've always wanted to ask a cybertronian is this, "Is it uncomfortable to transform?" Imagine if you had an itch but you couldn't move!

    • @plantainsame2049
      @plantainsame2049 Před rokem +10

      It's like walking or breathing to them it's just something that they do

    • @clownplayer7265
      @clownplayer7265 Před rokem +6

      @@plantainsame2049
      Usually, if your biology allows it with no ill effects (outside of Tarn burning out his own cog out of sheer excess), I can assume they feel no pain whatsoever.

  • @TFfangeek
    @TFfangeek Před 3 lety +270

    This was such a transforming experience.

    • @Mojavekight17
      @Mojavekight17 Před 3 lety +2

      Laaaaame!

    • @TFfangeek
      @TFfangeek Před 3 lety +17

      ​@@Mojavekight17 Sorry I was not able to transform my thoughts into a more entertaining comment.

    • @thechannelthathasfithteens6792
      @thechannelthathasfithteens6792 Před 3 lety

      @@TFfangeek BOOOOOOOOO YOU STINK!!!

    • @TFfangeek
      @TFfangeek Před 3 lety +2

      @@thechannelthathasfithteens6792 In my defense I was upwind of that stench. :D

    • @TFfangeek
      @TFfangeek Před 3 lety +2

      @Drakon590 Realigning experience. :)

  • @stephencastro4723
    @stephencastro4723 Před 3 lety +454

    "Knowing we could never defeat the Decepticons with firepower, we turned to stealth and invented the art of Transforming."
    - Sentinel Prime

  • @cyberprime9355
    @cyberprime9355 Před 3 lety +91

    Never thought such a simple concept like transforming could influence overall society. It is most fascinating, Especially with "Functionism"
    If I had to choose an alt mode...probably a Lamborghini Murcielago and a fighter jet

    • @RexMK-
      @RexMK- Před 3 lety +3

      Well when you think about it makes sense and is something that it could happend in real life.
      And example of this would be a more traditional cast system where the position of your bilogical parents define what kind of job you will take when you reach adulthood and your place in society.
      Functionism is basically that, the only diference is that your most dominat phisycal atribute decide both your life long job and your place in society and basically you worth as a citizen and a person diregarding any other natural atributes or abilities you may poses

    • @CoryTheRaven
      @CoryTheRaven Před rokem +3

      I'm going to transform into a Phantom Corsair... Might as well be one of the coolest and rarest cars ever made!

    • @plantainsame2049
      @plantainsame2049 Před rokem +3

      @@RexMK- exactly Starscream turns into the cybertronian equivalent of a military jet he has to join the military the constructions turn into construction vehicles they have to go build buildings it's like space racism are stereotypes or something

    • @chheinrich8486
      @chheinrich8486 Před rokem +1

      Dragon would be my choice, my alt Mode can fly and breath fire, best package

  • @DeamonChocobo
    @DeamonChocobo Před 3 lety +94

    My headcanon is that Transformation Cogs, specifically the G1/IDW sphere design, had a Gyroscope inside that helped them stay upright when they transform. Also my Headcanon for Bludgeon's name was that it was taken from Metallikato's deadliest technique was to hit your opponent with multiple quick blunt strikes that throws off or dislocates the Transformation Cog and rips them apart when they try and Transform.

    • @Sora_Likes_Memes
      @Sora_Likes_Memes Před rokem +8

      Oh god that sounds horrifying

    • @sparkyandredd4061
      @sparkyandredd4061 Před 9 měsíci +1

      @@Sora_Likes_Memesoh, it is.
      That exact thing happened to some cybertronians plenty of times. 😰

    • @Sora_Likes_Memes
      @Sora_Likes_Memes Před 9 měsíci +3

      @@sparkyandredd4061Bro imagine running from an assassination attempt from bludgeon, Then you try to get groceries transform and you just randomly fall apart

    • @NerdeeBoi
      @NerdeeBoi Před 9 měsíci +2

      @@Sora_Likes_Memes "Alright, got some Energon, and that cerebro-scanner I needed. Time to head home." tsche-tsche-*lego falling apart sound*

  • @battleupsaber462
    @battleupsaber462 Před 3 lety +123

    Hasbro be like: *um ACTUALLY it's CONVERTING not Transforming*

    • @OtakuUnitedStudio
      @OtakuUnitedStudio Před 3 lety +10

      Also Hasbro be like: wink wink nudge nudge please help us keep our Trademark.

    • @That_Guy-
      @That_Guy- Před 3 lety +2

      I feel like I missed something

    • @The_Wosh
      @The_Wosh Před 3 lety +4

      @@That_Guy- the official term is convertion now, for the toys at least

    • @kasothronos4434
      @kasothronos4434 Před 3 lety +1

      I know exactly what you are referencing and I both hate and love you for that.
      *Double kiss*
      Ah~

    • @DFloyd84
      @DFloyd84 Před 3 lety +2

      @@That_Guy- If Hasbro uses "transform" as a verb in their product material, competitors can challenge the validity of the Transformers trademark.

  • @mannofdober873
    @mannofdober873 Před 3 lety +549

    It's really not that difficult, you just have to make the noise and OH GOD HE'S CONVULSING SOMEBODY GET A DOCTOR QUICK!

  • @masonjones7777
    @masonjones7777 Před 3 lety +36

    fun fact: there is a variety of transformers known as "shifters" that can change form to anything they scan without limit, these include the protagonists of the Bayformers 1 Ds games (known as the Create-a-bots), Makeshift from TF prime, Mutacons from the aligned continuity, Pseudo from robots in disguise 2015, And Amalgus prime himself.
    essentially they are frequently known to have no limits in both shape and size (at least, they don't seem to extend past twice the initial size they started) and can change into the robot modes of other cybertronians and mimic their voice.
    Was kinda hoping they would be brought up, but eh, it's fine.

    • @chheinrich8486
      @chheinrich8486 Před rokem +2

      Always wondered what Was so special about the mutacons, now i know, thanks

  • @alanguages
    @alanguages Před 3 lety +136

    Convert?
    That is what the Go-Bots said, when they could no longer use the word Transform in the cartoons.

    • @zerocooler7
      @zerocooler7 Před 3 lety +16

      Yes, and now look at who owns the Go-Bots.

    • @peppermintspacecapsule9898
      @peppermintspacecapsule9898 Před 3 lety +3

      That's cool, my fave Transformers are GoBots; the Spatiotemporal Challengers! 👍

    • @alanguages
      @alanguages Před 3 lety +8

      @@zerocooler7 The name, but not the molds/ character designs.
      Which still makes it incomplete. I have no doubt Hasbro would have tested the waters and likely created actual cross over stories, if they owned everything Go-Bots.
      If you ever watched the Go-Bots cartoons, there was an early episode, where Cy-Kill actually talked about transforming. Obviously the episodes afterwards they talked about converting from robot to vehicle mode or vice versa.

    • @ratbat1072
      @ratbat1072 Před 3 lety +3

      @@alanguages
      Didnt gobots characters have cameos in idw comics?

    • @KasumiKenshirou
      @KasumiKenshirou Před 3 lety +4

      @@ratbat1072 Not sure if it was IDW or Dreamwave (or maybe both), but there were a few comics where Cy-Kill would appear and immediately be killed off.

  • @fenrirsrage4609
    @fenrirsrage4609 Před 3 lety +35

    Oh yeah I remember in Beast Wars Dinobot saying something about changing his activation phase to Maximize when he encounters the Maximals

    • @RexMK-
      @RexMK- Před 3 lety +5

      He did, he stated that he do and I quote: "Anticipating my new role as your leader" he change his transformation code from Terrorize to Maximaze

  • @Its_Charlie_Young
    @Its_Charlie_Young Před 3 lety +18

    Transforming is what got me into Transformers in the first place. I just thought the transformations would be fun to watch, and boy, I was not wrong. Look at me now.

  • @RockinRhinox
    @RockinRhinox Před 3 lety +10

    I feel like there should be “The Basics” drinking game. Take a shot every time he says:
    "Beast flesh and Transformer metal, fused at the cellular level".
    "Originally part of the Diaclone toy line"
    "...was killed by a cosmically powered Starscream"

  • @josteinhenrique2779
    @josteinhenrique2779 Před 2 lety +15

    A headcannon of mine about transformation: the transformation is composed by two main phases.
    Phase 1: the T-Cog send instructions to the whole body, of how to move and fit, in order to go vehicle to robot and vice-versa
    Phase 2: the body itself follow the instructions and transformation happens.
    The iconic sound we know and love is caused by the T-Cog on Phase 1. The phase 2, actually, features metallic-like sounds, like we heard on Bayverse. Thing is, since Transformers are so used on doing this quickly, sometimes they do that so fast that the sounds end mixing up
    On the first move: you can hear the iconic sound coming from Blackout (T-Cog loading transformation) and only then the transformation happens. On G1, they transform so quickly the iconic sound covers all the transformation sound. On TFP, you can her the two sounds (the iconic and the metallic) mixing up together.

    • @antonberkbigler5759
      @antonberkbigler5759 Před rokem +3

      I like and second this headcanon

    • @plantainsame2049
      @plantainsame2049 Před rokem +2

      I mean also in the bay verse the classic transformation style plays when Optimus adds an Autobot logo when he converts to his Western Star truck in Age of Extinction

  • @myriadmediamusings
    @myriadmediamusings Před 3 lety +98

    While the character overviews may be ones requested the most, I love it when the show digs into the nitty gritty for some of the aspects we take for granted, especially this here which is, y’know, the whole gimmick for this franchise.
    Actually, given how involved TF has become, I’m surprised no one ever attempted to give like some fantasical name or terminology to Transformation itself. Compare that to something like Star Wars giving form names and menucia to Lightsaber combat, or how it wasn’t until later in Doctor Who’s production life that the term “Regneration” became official. So they would eventually use terms like Sparks and Cyber Nucleic Acid, but nothing for transforming?

    • @elijahfoltz3755
      @elijahfoltz3755 Před 3 lety +12

      @I am Petitgguy I still haven't read most of the More Than Meets the Eye comic, but one thing I do like is a principle it introduced called Rossum's Trinity. It states that the brain module, the spark, and the transformation cog are the three most vital organs in a Transformer's body, and that significant damage to one will cause the other two to shut down and kill the owner.
      However, the T-cog doesn't seem to be as essential to a Transformer as it may seem at first. The Militant Monoform Movement are a group of radical activist Monoformers that symbolically reject the god Adaptus by removing their T-cogs entirely, rejecting alternate modes in the process. Also, Tarn of the Decepticon Justice Division, being addicted to transforming, regularly burns out his own T-cog, requiring him to make a deal with Pharma from the Autobot medical facility Delphi to harvest the T-cogs of patients as replacements in exchange for the safety of the facility. Transformers are just fascinating, man.

  • @TheYoungDoctor
    @TheYoungDoctor Před 3 lety +41

    TSCHE-CHU-CHU-CHE-TSCHE is up there with a TARDIS' VWORP VWORP sound.

  • @frozarburst6350
    @frozarburst6350 Před 3 lety +8

    That transformation sound was so iconic, even a My Little Pony special included the sound

  • @TheRealDustinNunn
    @TheRealDustinNunn Před 3 lety +21

    I'm in my 30's and I still enjoy Transformers.

  • @Loremastrful
    @Loremastrful Před 3 lety +108

    What is the transforming sound? Did some styrofoam get caught in a garbage disposal? Or Rubix cube tossed in a clothes dryer? What flash of Foley artist brilliance/madness brought that sound into our lexicon?

    • @vegetafan9922
      @vegetafan9922 Před 3 lety +40

      They just got some random guy off the street and asked him to say "CHEO-CHEO-CHEO-CHEO!"

    • @WiSMs
      @WiSMs Před 3 lety +11

      The transforming sound is when Transformers transform.

    • @syazwanmustapah2826
      @syazwanmustapah2826 Před 3 lety +24

      You gotta give the sound designers credit for that. Probably just randomly pressing his keyboard.

    • @GerryGaimz
      @GerryGaimz Před 3 lety +36

      Nah, man, it's just Frank Welker clearing his throat.

    • @benz0rx86
      @benz0rx86 Před 3 lety +6

      Banging pots and pans together, played in reverse. That might be the Bayformers version though...

  • @ShanaReviews
    @ShanaReviews Před 3 lety +35

    Not gonna lie Chris, when you announced this episode I didn't look at the thumbnail long enough to see the title and my mind just thought this was going to be a Basics on Hot Rod lol
    good episode though!

    • @Ryoku1
      @Ryoku1 Před 3 lety

      And thus I was momentarily disappointed... :p

    • @TJ52359
      @TJ52359 Před 3 lety +2

      to that end... I think he was Proper 'thumbnail' as I seem to recall that he transformed Multiple times in the Movie (pre- upgrade) and no two sequences were animated the same way

  • @JJPrimeReviews2020
    @JJPrimeReviews2020 Před 3 lety +18

    The Quintesson became a Transformer in the Earthrise Toyline

  • @cadman2300
    @cadman2300 Před 3 lety +5

    "Convert and roll out."
    Reminds me of 2015 Robots in Disguise where the first season had a running gag of Bumblebee trying to come up with a rallying cry for his team.
    It might not have had the staying power of "Transform and roll out" but his finalized cry "Rev up and roll out" still has some good punch to it.

  • @QuintonReviews
    @QuintonReviews Před 3 lety +450

    next do the basics on CHEEE-CHHHEWW-CHEEWW-CHEWWWCH

    • @frenzyfilms300
      @frenzyfilms300 Před 3 lety +17

      The best idea ever.

    • @Gouhhan
      @Gouhhan Před 3 lety +7

      YASSS PLZ

    • @Rodimus75
      @Rodimus75 Před 3 lety +30

      I'm guessing that is your onomatopoeia take on the transformation sound effect!?!

    • @Gouhhan
      @Gouhhan Před 3 lety +20

      CHI CHU CHUNG CHIK

    • @OverseerXIII
      @OverseerXIII Před 3 lety +3

      I'd known you'd be here sooner or later

  • @michaelpytel3280
    @michaelpytel3280 Před 3 lety +23

    I would transform into a aircraft or spaceship. Silverbolt or Scattershot, Cosmos , Blast-off, Jet Vehicons, etc.

    • @matthew_natividad
      @matthew_natividad Před 3 lety +4

      I’d rather be a car like rotf sideswipe

    • @BennyLlama39
      @BennyLlama39 Před 3 lety +4

      Personally... I'd go for the Galvatron-style nuclear powered antimatter plasma cannon. (Or whatever the hell sci-fi tech that thing uses.)

    • @TheRisingStorm316
      @TheRisingStorm316 Před 3 lety

      I'll take on the form of a B-2 Spirit stealth bomber. Since Lord Megatron usually sends me out during the night, I have to be sneaky and I don't want to be spotted by humans or the Autobots.

  • @lrac6301
    @lrac6301 Před 3 lety +70

    I'd transform into a Tardis and have the ability to time travel.

    • @evandavid2816
      @evandavid2816 Před 3 lety +5

      I present to you Optimus Time...aka the real reason the Daleks lost the Time War, yes?! (See www.flickfilosopher.com/2013/07/doctor-who-thing-tardis-transformer-toy-you-can-make-yourself.html for more details...)

    • @ShadowWingTronix
      @ShadowWingTronix Před 3 lety +6

      @@evandavid2816 We got a Lego TARDIS and a Transformer DeLorean, so why not? Now I wish I had access to a 3D printer!

    • @rolmodel12.
      @rolmodel12. Před 3 lety +2

      Nicely done!
      Really good idea, someone should make this happen - lookin' at you 3rd Parties

    • @evandavid2816
      @evandavid2816 Před 3 lety +2

      @@rolmodel12. I'm hoping for a proper Doctor Who/Transformers crossover comic some day at least...I want this scene at www.deviantart.com/mattmoylan/art/Commission-Grimlecks-118366084 to be canonical, yes?!

    • @pokefan_3841
      @pokefan_3841 Před 3 lety +2

      There is an Enterprise transformers in a spin-off comic so why not a TARDIS as well

  • @EmeralBookwise
    @EmeralBookwise Před 3 lety +10

    I don't know what I would personally transform into, but I used to have roleplaying OC on the old AOL forums who was a Predacon that transformed into a Night Stalker from the speculative evolution book _After Man: A Zoology of the Future._

  • @jaydeflayme2890
    @jaydeflayme2890 Před 3 lety +23

    At the risk of sounding like a furry, if I were a transformer I'd definitely pick a Wolf alt mode.
    Ooh, or maybe a Wolf/Off-road Car triple changer, like a dune buggy or Rally Fighter

    • @kociarzultimate384
      @kociarzultimate384 Před 3 lety +3

      I also don't want to see like a furry, but wolf alt mode would be cool

    • @tyrxian6452
      @tyrxian6452 Před 3 lety +6

      Getting some RID Steeljaw vibes there, I like it
      Personally, mine would be either a Grasshopper or some kind of Jet

    • @elijahfoltz3755
      @elijahfoltz3755 Před 3 lety +4

      Implying there's something inherently wrong with being a furry, which I can tell you--as a proud furry myself--is total bullshit.

    • @MOMOFCJ6
      @MOMOFCJ6 Před 2 lety +1

      @@tyrxian6452 I would have been a triple changer that transforms into a jet and a muscle car

    • @SolidBedunga
      @SolidBedunga Před 2 lety +1

      Like six shot!

  • @tarn4633
    @tarn4633 Před 3 lety +21

    I would certainly be a triple changer who could transformer into a anti aircraft tank and a submarine. I would definitely be a Decepticon Special Task Force operative.

    • @wolfgang6442
      @wolfgang6442 Před 3 lety +2

      I hearted for triple changers it requires alot of focus and the right joints to configure from robot mode to the 2 alt modes you have

  • @michaelmcclelland2208
    @michaelmcclelland2208 Před 3 lety +6

    I'm running a transformers D&D game with my friends. My character is a triple changer whose alt-modes are a HALO helicopter and a Russian submarine.

  • @Halbared
    @Halbared Před 2 lety +5

    Primus was the best origin story, but the idea that TFs could not adapt their alternate forms innately, the Ark was required was still good. The Autobots also had mannikins for their alternate modes built into their transformations. I thought you would have mentioned when some TFs lost their ability to transform, like Grimlock.

  • @j453
    @j453 Před 3 lety +9

    As a kid, I had the goofy tank gobot "destroyer". Never new his name.
    I don't think I caught it when I ripped him free from his packaging lol.

    • @KasumiKenshirou
      @KasumiKenshirou Před 3 lety +2

      Amusingly, "Destroyer" was described as an "enemy robot tank". There was another Gobot called "Tank", which was an "enemy robot destroyer" (some sort of future sci-fi tank).

    • @j453
      @j453 Před 3 lety +2

      @@KasumiKenshirou the one I had just looked like a regular military tank, no sci-fi'ness to it, other than transforming

  • @raresr9698
    @raresr9698 Před 3 lety +7

    When i see hot rod i was thinking that you were making the basics of Rodimus prime

  • @orangelinedevil2
    @orangelinedevil2 Před 3 lety +3

    I love how you don't waste time at the start of your videos. No ads, no asking for subscribers, no nothing. You just get straight to the good stuff.

  • @thescottishlad1049
    @thescottishlad1049 Před 3 lety +16

    When I saw the community post, I thought you meant how names were assigned to the robots, like from Olktar into Starscream. I think that would make for an interesting video but regardless well done, I always love your videos. I would transform into a weaponized hover car, a cross between Jazz blurr and the weapons in bay verse prime’s trailer

  • @isuruspaucus
    @isuruspaucus Před 3 lety +3

    3:16 This will be in my nightmares for years to come.
    Thank you for your work ^^

  • @ethanontheinternet9415
    @ethanontheinternet9415 Před 3 lety +3

    I saw hot rod in the thumbnail and I was like “Omg! He finally did a hot rod basics!!” But I was wrong

  • @gutz1981
    @gutz1981 Před 3 lety +8

    I am still of the belief that Unicron was NOT a Transformer until he reconfigured Megatron and took the secret of transforming from him.

    • @plantainsame2049
      @plantainsame2049 Před rokem

      Unicorn is a giant f****** murder machine and also the god of entropy and death and destruction and chaos he's whatever the f*** he wants to be

  • @Kusanagikaiser999
    @Kusanagikaiser999 Před 3 lety +3

    When you think you have learn everything about the Transformers already, Chris post a video and show you who is the master of knowledge

  • @grumpybean98
    @grumpybean98 Před 3 lety +3

    Damn, I had hoped this would also give us clarity on how they're able to see in vehicle mode.
    Like, do they see with the head lights, or are the optics somehow in the cockpit?? Has this ever been explained?!

    • @robotlorekeeper9880
      @robotlorekeeper9880 Před 3 lety +2

      I think a couple of shows have delved into it- G1 Optimus apparently needs a clean windscreen to see.

  • @LiterallyEveryone217
    @LiterallyEveryone217 Před 3 lety +12

    Thank you for making quality and good content. Everything you say is accurate and just so detailed but also so basic.
    Thank you

  • @Depth217
    @Depth217 Před 3 lety +8

    I remember ROFL’ing in Fall of Cybertron when Ratchet really told Bumblebee “change form and roll out”. It had gotten that bad

  • @Starcat5
    @Starcat5 Před 3 lety +15

    The Transformers has had crossover toys with multiple other franchises, from Star Wars to Ghostbusters to Back to the Future. But aside from the recent comic line, there has never been a proper crossover with My Little Pony. ...heck, I don't even think Beast Wars even HAD a horse in their line. So, be it realistic or pastel marshmallow, that is what I choose as my alt mode.

    • @foldabotZ
      @foldabotZ Před 3 lety +4

      I see you are unaware of the MLP / Transformers crossover comic being published right now.

    • @Starcat5
      @Starcat5 Před 3 lety +4

      @@foldabotZ Sentence 2: "But aside from the recent comic line..."
      I already covered that. The point I was making was a lack of Pony in the *Toy Line* specifically, be it a realistic horse for the Beast Wars line, or one of the Mane Six who transforms into their Equestria Girls counterpart.

    • @cyberdraco001
      @cyberdraco001 Před 3 lety +4

      There was a Beast Wars Neo Maximal with a Horse Beast Mode named Mach Kick.

    • @Starcat5
      @Starcat5 Před 3 lety +3

      @@cyberdraco001 **Google search** Huh. I thought those two horse-bots were made for the comic. Didn't realize that they were remolds of an existing character/figure. Too bad the actual toy never left Japan.

    • @Tamashikiri
      @Tamashikiri Před 3 lety +3

      Funnily, enough one of Fun Publications' scrapped idea for a convention exclusive toy was a recolor of Beast Machines' Battle Unicorn figure as "Twilight Sparkle Prime."

  • @terrorofdeath3280
    @terrorofdeath3280 Před 3 lety +3

    "Deceptions! Convert and crush!" Could work as the Deception version though.

  • @HiperPivociarz
    @HiperPivociarz Před 3 lety +23

    Ah yes, known function of cogs, scanning things. That's what cogs are for, right? You know all that archaic early technology that constantly scanned things.

    • @plantainsame2049
      @plantainsame2049 Před rokem +1

      My head Cannon is that they contain the information and also stop the robots from killing themselves see you could build a Transformer without a teacog cuz it won't be alive it'll just be a robot but to having a live one you need it because unlike a robot you can't fix a cybertronian when they accidentally shish kabob themselves with themselves

  • @vegetafan9922
    @vegetafan9922 Před 3 lety +2

    I really like the concept of Functionism in Transformers canon because it gives Megatron a reason to be the villain besides being a power-hungry criminal, that being if he was born to be a weapon of destruction than the greatest damn weapon of destruction he shall be.

  • @diegos7337
    @diegos7337 Před 3 lety +4

    Really awesome video!!! Keep it up! And remember to always Convert and Roll Out!!

  • @sovietmaori
    @sovietmaori Před 3 lety +10

    Chris: tell me what your alt mode would be in the comment section below
    Me: where do I even begin

    • @sovietmaori
      @sovietmaori Před 3 lety +2

      Nvm I got one. A train with two cars that transforms/combines like Overlord

  • @paradox_saber54
    @paradox_saber54 Před 3 lety +25

    If I was to transform, I would take on a technorganic falcon or tiger form. I would also have a Super-God Masterforce style Pretender body to blend in with humans.

  • @Chord_
    @Chord_ Před 3 lety +4

    Oof, if this was the topic you mentioned on Twitter as having a hard time with writing, I can see why! I can't even begin to imagine where to start with a topic as abstract and nebulous as this, yet you did a stellar job with it. Well done!

  • @krazyfan1489
    @krazyfan1489 Před 3 lety +7

    I think the IDW comics introduced a new artificial species of Cybertronians that could also transform into whatever they want, including using it as a way to heal.
    Actually i wonder if that could be a useful video? Cybertronian healing and health?

  • @c.o.n.collectingofnostalgi889

    If I had the same as a Cybertronien Transformering ability, I would be like Blitzwing wing a 1 robot army 😊🤟

  • @Gouhhan
    @Gouhhan Před 3 lety +20

    Bumblebee:make the sound
    Bulkhead: CHI CHU CHUNG CHU CHIK

  • @makotoplush9776
    @makotoplush9776 Před 3 lety +3

    Since Soundwave is one of my favourite transformers of all time, I'd probably want his cassette player alt mode.

  • @bloodbrawler1438
    @bloodbrawler1438 Před 3 lety +12

    If I had the ability to transform, I'd choose a splitter-type. With a tank, a jet, and a submarine as the components.

    • @tfgawinfo1120
      @tfgawinfo1120 Před 3 lety

      Very intresting

    • @erichanastacio9695
      @erichanastacio9695 Před 3 lety

      In other words... You're a Combiner.
      Though you split yourself into components, but still need to combine to become you.

  • @cameronmoriarty3313
    @cameronmoriarty3313 Před 3 lety +5

    If I picked an alt mode it would probably be a tank or other high armor alt mode. Most likely though I would end up with a simple one like Fort Max where I would basically just lay down.

  • @xaivierallen4020
    @xaivierallen4020 Před 3 lety +4

    Core>head>mini-titian that transforms into a starship

  • @kryten6569
    @kryten6569 Před rokem +2

    I'm late to the party but better late then not at all ... I love your channel I'm 43 and it really takes me back to a happy time as a child growing up in Yorkshire England thanks for this

  • @acampbel26
    @acampbel26 Před 3 lety +3

    Just one word to describe how good this episode was: Phenomenal

  • @DavidSilva-mn4dz
    @DavidSilva-mn4dz Před 3 lety +3

    Love the idea of fixed transformations and type of altmode like Is tied to their body mass and color scheme. You can scan an altmode that your body would be able to turn to.

  • @Mad-Trauma
    @Mad-Trauma Před 3 lety +6

    I think the concept of "Functionism" is one of the most interesting concepts to come out of modern Transformers media. It definitely gives the Decepticons a more fleshed out origin other than Megatron just wanting power for power's sake. Great video, as always, Chris!

    • @g0nkdroid
      @g0nkdroid Před 3 lety

      sounds more like communist propaganda trash to me

    • @mikeddh2018
      @mikeddh2018 Před 3 lety

      @@g0nkdroid 😒

    • @OtakuUnitedStudio
      @OtakuUnitedStudio Před 3 lety

      @@g0nkdroid It's supposed to be an allegory for real-world classism.

  • @lyojeanmorbach
    @lyojeanmorbach Před 3 lety +14

    Probably a forklift because I work in a warehouse.

    • @jackmorgan1568
      @jackmorgan1568 Před 2 lety +1

      Bro, why are there so few forklift transformers? I work in a warehouse too and I ended building a Lego transformer forklift

  • @PapaTaurean
    @PapaTaurean Před 3 lety +2

    I love the concept of the transformation cogs. So much so, that I incorporated them into a D&D campaign with Warforged, which are constructs not unlike the Transformers themselves

  • @johngolles342
    @johngolles342 Před 3 lety +6

    I’d like to be a triple changer and become part of a combiner, like Scattershot, but I’d wanna have some space faring vehicle mode & a beast mode like a horrorcon

    • @KilosFoxo
      @KilosFoxo Před 3 lety +1

      woundlt thet be a quad changer

    • @giggukardaguy9077
      @giggukardaguy9077 Před 3 lety +1

      @@KilosFoxo The combiner part form doesn’t count as an actual form.

    • @erichanastacio9695
      @erichanastacio9695 Před 3 lety +1

      How about like Scorpionok?
      Though bigger than a Combiner, it's a triple changer (humanoid, spaceship, and scorpion beast mode)

  • @TheRealGenm
    @TheRealGenm Před 3 lety +6

    If I were Cybertronian, I'd want to transform into a Vespa or something similar. I'd want to stay human sized lol

  • @wetbedsealand6779
    @wetbedsealand6779 Před 3 lety +4

    Transforming being an innate ability of the species makes more sense for me
    The way I headcanon it is that the cybertronian alt mode they’re born with is a kind of “example” of what they can scan
    Like they can scan anything within context of their MASS, like a smaller thinner cybertronian can’t become a tank
    And a bigger heavier cybertronian cant become a motorbike

  • @blitzenthereviewingguy3082

    Personally I think it would be cool if (somehow) Soundwave was a multiformer that could convert into his cassette's beast modes, (maybe he got fused with them, I don't know). And I'd be wolf and dragon triple changer

  • @barrybend7189
    @barrybend7189 Před 3 lety +9

    You missed a big one in the history of transforming toys Macross in 1982 and its two meta series counterparts SDC Orguss and Southern Cross which used the idea in their shows. Also you can thank Macross for popularizing the triple changer idea in the first place with the VF-1 Valkyrie ( which Jetfire was based on).

    • @BPJD2004
      @BPJD2004 Před 3 lety +2

      And just why is no one going to address the rest of the transforming robots Takara made? Such as, oh, I don't, THE YUUSHA SERIES?!

  • @arhanr.5204
    @arhanr.5204 Před 3 lety +3

    Thanks for adding subtitles

  • @carloblanch3893
    @carloblanch3893 Před 3 lety +2

    Thank you for another great episode!
    If i could "convert" i would like to be a Valkyrie Veritech fighter, because that was just another reason why i love transformers!
    Speaking of crossovers i believe that Vulture Droids also deserve a mention as the Transformers of the Star Wars Universe!

  • @crows2808
    @crows2808 Před 3 lety +2

    I only had the vague idea that "Autobots, Transform and Roll Out" had been phased out in favour of "Autobots, Roll Out". I was wondering if I had misremembered the original. Glad to know I wasn't going entirely crazy.

  • @johnnymason3265
    @johnnymason3265 Před 3 lety +3

    Thanks for this episode of the Transformers basics! I love the art of transformation! Still waiting for the Transformers basics episode on Megatron!!!

  • @noquieropuerco
    @noquieropuerco Před 3 lety +3

    3:15 "Bots got stuck between modes as they tried to transform"
    That's... that's legit horror there, right? Or is it just me?...

  • @Leon0Gamer7
    @Leon0Gamer7 Před rokem +1

    3:28 I really love that sound when they transformed 💙

  • @nicholasdickens2801
    @nicholasdickens2801 Před 3 lety +1

    Amazing to realise we’ve never had a video on this crucial part of this aspect of Transformers biology/technology.

  • @lizerdspherex
    @lizerdspherex Před 3 lety +14

    While Brave Raideen transforms by himself could we consider Getter Robo's combos a transformation of sorts. I ask because in my head Getter has always been "the great-grandaddy of transforming and combining robot series", and it's manga predates Raideen's show by exactly a year. /nitpick

    • @singletona082
      @singletona082 Před 3 lety +3

      Getter is the ur combiner.

    • @OtakuUnitedStudio
      @OtakuUnitedStudio Před 3 lety +1

      Well, yeah. The individual parts have to transform before combining to form the robot mode.

    • @NovaSaber
      @NovaSaber Před 3 lety +4

      But Raideen was the first to have a toy that transformed.

  • @Xeno1798
    @Xeno1798 Před 3 lety +3

    I have a playlist of these videos so I can explain TF to my future children lol

  • @nikolavonfulton5195
    @nikolavonfulton5195 Před 3 lety +1

    I love this channel so much. I’m so glad it exists

  • @FlinxWeasel
    @FlinxWeasel Před 3 lety

    I seriously respect your video editing abilities to be able to price together something like this each week

  • @WelshGiraffa
    @WelshGiraffa Před 3 lety +4

    If I could transform I’d personally pick an aerial mode

  • @m.s.e.advanced2842
    @m.s.e.advanced2842 Před 3 lety +3

    I was thinking about making a basics pun or joke but he beat me to it immediately

  • @42ndLife
    @42ndLife Před 3 lety +2

    Great job as usual! I'm really looking forward to those triplechangers/multichangers and functionism videos.

  • @inflewence
    @inflewence Před 3 lety +1

    Always enjoy your videos and the work you put in.

  • @AtticusTsaiMcCarthy
    @AtticusTsaiMcCarthy Před 3 lety +5

    Small biplane, 'cause I wanna fly.

  • @titanstudios2683
    @titanstudios2683 Před 3 lety +6

    The basics of Rattrap, Megatron and Seekers

  • @TheSideswipe4983
    @TheSideswipe4983 Před 3 lety +1

    Chris might only pop out a few videos every month..but it's totally worth the wait and sub for the content..amazing attention to detail..

  • @Tamashikiri
    @Tamashikiri Před 3 lety +1

    I'd want multiple alt modes to cover as many potential terrains as possible, so I'd pick being a Six Changer like Sixshot, with the modern interpretation of his gun mode as a submarine so I'd have an underwater mode covered.

  • @SiliconBong
    @SiliconBong Před 3 lety +3

    That moment:when you see the single transformer your parents brought for you.

  • @ninetailednaruto11a
    @ninetailednaruto11a Před 3 lety +3

    I'm surprised you didn't mention how the G1 Dinobots were built by Rachet with the ability to transform, but how the Airialbots needed Vector Sigma to turn their Plane modes into robots

    • @iwantchoccy
      @iwantchoccy Před 2 lety +1

      To be fair, they needed vector sigma to create their personalities, we assume the transformation was built in as was the combination ability… the trick is how the hoot did Wheeljack create sparks, or were the Dinobots carried as loose sparks from cybertron?

    • @plantainsame2049
      @plantainsame2049 Před rokem

      @@iwantchoccy Isn't they're a debate or joke or something about how it will Jack built them that technically technically makes him their father

    • @Sora_Likes_Memes
      @Sora_Likes_Memes Před rokem

      @@iwantchoccy personality components he placed personality components in they're heads to get personalities

    • @iwantchoccy
      @iwantchoccy Před rokem

      @@Sora_Likes_Memes it was a joke about the idea that they hadn’t thought of sparks when they built the dinobots…

  • @vassa1972
    @vassa1972 Před 3 lety +2

    Great video as per usual thanks

  • @x-pra7837
    @x-pra7837 Před 3 lety +2

    I once had a theory that Transformium in transformers age of extinction, and the reasoning why the KSI drones transform the way they do is that once they are born they transform differently until they hit a puberty-like state where they can transform normal and thats why galvatron wasn't able to transform normally but tf5 megatron can