The human pretenders stopped bothering me once I watched the first episode of Masterforce and saw how they just made it a henshin thing

Powermaster Prime was my Optimus Prime when I was a kid and the amount of play I got from him in all his modes outpaces any other bot I had. I really need to find one again.

Bringing up the Beast Pretenders reminds me of the Wolf one the Thew reviewed like a month-ish ago. I could go for Generations style Beast pretenders. We're already getting some non-beast ones, making them Predacons or Maximals would be fun.

Y'know what, I'm okay not being in the list considering it was either me or him

Would love for Hasbro to reissue the later G1 toys. Imagine walking into a Target or Walmart and find Thunderwing and Dai Atlas on the shelf.

That #1 was also my childhood Prime, always hits me in the feels seeing his chonky proportions

dude i love this series. gonna be sad when it ends

Nice work, you can tell how this era is gonna be difficult. Hey! The Quickswitch segment made me think of an idea: Top 10 aquatic Transformers! They're so rare it'd be a cool list I think!

honestly... this would be kinda cool to see for stuff like G2 and the beast era

Powermaster Optimus Prime's and especially Godginrai's execution of a super mode is honestly more interesting than how the old Armada Optimus Prime toy handled that concept.

Oh boy. Next time, we tackle toys from the year I was born.

I got Beastbox and Squawktalk when I was a kid. I really liked them but had only one problem with them, mainly Squawktalk. Since he formed the legs of Squawkbox, they had added some very slight projections on the backside of the legs/wings to make him more stable when standing. While they did help with stability and actually made it look like a more authentic cassette, it made putting him in Soundwave's chest and getting him back out quite difficult.

I'm not much of a fan of Powermaster Prime but I think its the best toy of 1988 on the basis of having aged much better than the others.

I had UK Overlord as a kid, and then I brought it again some years ago.

I think the inner robot of Chain Claw was my first transformer, I remember getting it from a family friend when I was between the ages of 3 - 5.

I had snaptrap as a kid, and I loved him!

power master prime is known for being the only version of optimus to fly directly into unicron with the matrix of leadership in his hands and blowing unicron up in a kamikaze way of doing it

Can’t be that hard to make a list for 1989. Look at all the different variety of Action Masters you get to choose from! Seriously though, Star Saber, Deathsaurus, Galaxy Shuttle, Thunderclash/Black Shadow, Leozack, just stick to the Japanese stuff and you’re on easy street.

Is it weird that 1988 is my favorite year of G1? Strong colors for both sides, very strong Pretender designs (before they got ridiculous; oh my gosh the Mega Pretenders and Ultra Pretenders are so dumb), continuation of gimmicks that had been around for either 3 years or just 1, the return of Optimus Prime with a banger of a toy… Primus, it was so fun. Admittedly, my love for this year comes from modern toys of these characters (namely POTP Dreadwind, Siege Spinister, and Evolution Needlenose; can’t wait for Quake, especially after what IDW2 did with him), but still. It was the last great year G1 had before the Micromaster/Action Master one-two punch that killed the franchise for three years. There’s a lot of 88-era characters I’d love to see redos of, but here’s just a few: *Slapdash* (because hey, you can get a free Energon Prowl retool out of him) *Getaway* (he deserves better than a half-baked Chromedome retool) *Dreadwind and Blackwing* (both. Both would be good, especially as Voyagers) *Waverider* (there’s potential for a Nautica retool in this lad) *Carnivac* (if we’re doing a half-shell, half-robot design, he’d look absolutely METAL with a ripped up organic beast mode with exposed robot flesh underneath the fleshy bits) *Quickswitch* (Titans Return did him very dirty; I want my edgy cowboy, dang it!) *Powermaster Optimus Prime* (greatest leader of his time; Armada OP proves a super mode can be done at Commander budget)

The Overlord base mode is my current display mode with micro masters/core transformers against g1 Metroplex. The jets on overlord is still so cool, great play value. Last year over My parent’s move, I Just found Turtler in box with his 5 buddies, PM Optimus (so yellowed) & overlord knee pads. Of course I have no power master lil guys anymore😅

7:15 We got Studio series Rumble and Frenzy way after other cassettes, and they still compatible with Siege Soundwave. Don't know what you talking about, cassettes still doing strong in our time

PM Prime was ny first Optimus toy and I loved it. Its funny that we had to wait 4 years for a second Op toy and now we get 5 /year.

Justice for slam dance! A holy grail, you say? Hmmmmm...

My dad still has the Seacons.

I’m calling it now, Star Saber is gonna be in at least the top 5 for the next vid.

I always thought it would be better if the Autobot Pretenders all had animal shells and not just Chainclaw and Catzilla.

3:13 - Motorcycle... Roll with it... 👍

Yes!!!! I waa watching this list waiting for Power Prime

How different would Pretenders be if from the get-go it was armored beasts vs monsters? Seriously, that sounds so cool. Probably could throw in a Green Aesop somewhere in there, too.

My personal favorite Pretender from 1988 is Bugly.

I was not expecting to see Japanese toys being included. Nice choices!

only pretender I had is bumblebee, to some is a nice uprade to the minibot, I guess you favourite in master force is turtlor, seacons in the anime are just drones that combine into king posidon

I've always liked the concept of the Pretenders better than their execution.

I'm a simple man. I see G1 Snap Trap in the thumbnail, I click.

Submarauder/Gilmer and Finback are my favorite pretenders really awesome looking Sea monsters , Spinister is my favorite out of the three decepticon double targetmasters.

I'm not even mad at this list 😅

I'm in the 8 seconds Club

I hope the seasons get a rerelease it was tricky and expensive to get either version so a gen selects or amazon refresh would be nice

Personally I've never been a fan of Overlord. If he was a tripple changer like Blitzwing or a combiner where both of the vehicles had individual robot modes like they did with Titans Return Battletrap then I'd love him but as he is, I just don't care for a single robot splitting off into indipendant vehicles. I'm also not a fan of the Pretender gimmick but there is one who would be on my list. 10. Spinister 9. Quake 8. Needlenose 7. Quickmix I do generally like the Decepticon Target Masters more than the Autobots but Quickmix was an exception. They only barely made the list at all cause I'm not really a fan of the "Master" gimmicks but Target Masters are the better of them since you still have a functional Transformer even if you loose the weapons. 6. Submarauder because I'm a sucker for anything aquatic so even though I really don't care for the Pretenders he makes my list. 5. Metalhawk had to make the list for the same reasons mentioned in the video. Even without the Pretender shell he's the only one where the inner Robot actually looks good. 4. Doubledealer 3. Quickswitch 2. Powermaster Optimus Prime who is only going at number 2 because I cheated for my number 1 1. Piranacon Yep I'm putting a whole freaking combiner as my number 1. Alternatively, I could put them on the list as separate figures but then they're taking up 6 spots. 10. Nautilator 9. Tentakil 8. Seawing 7. Skalor 6. Overbite 5. Doubledealer 4. Snaptrap 3. Quickswitch 2. Apex Bomber I figure if I'm including the other combiners as seperate figures I gotta include him seperatly too. 1. Powermaster Optimus Prime Either way I'm including the Seacons cause they're my favorite thing of the year.

Metalhawk is $15 on Hasbro pulse right now lol I bought 2

With the Galvatron stopped being on shelves in 1988, who was the Decepticon leader for the toyline? Which Decepticon still available now had the highest rank in the tech specs to go against Powermaster Optimus Prime?

Great

Excuse you that’s not Snaptrap. It’s Killtrumpet 😝

My 10. 10. Needlenose 9. Hosehead 8. Quake 7. Quickswitch 6. Powermaster Optimus prime 5. Dreadwing 4. Darkwing 3. Spinster 2. Doubledealer 1. Overlord

Without tv show I think human pretenders were confusing to kids. Are shells other bots? A super mode? And some inner bots were bad designed should been better.

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I thought '88 was the first year of Action Masters. Is that '89?

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I disagree with this list. Nightbeat and Waverider were excellent

There's a reason this is considered the awful phase of Transformers. It was just plain stupid. Pretenders is the stupidest