I think it'd have been really cool had they given this guy a removable mask, just to preserve _some_ aspect of their original gimmick in the modern design.

When I was a kid my neighbor had skullgrin and we played with him with the other Masters of the Universe characters, so I always thought he was a part of the He-man collection.

I would have liked this to be a full pretender. Skull is a helmet with body armor that makes him a full size voyager.

The ports under the wrists make it possible tos have him hold his swords like they're bayonets. The amount of configurations for his weapons is awesome!

Only a Quintesson could love that face.

Honestly the decpticons have coolest looking stuff though, would love to see an autobot with a skull head being badass. Skullinator great name skullgrins arch nemesis would be so cool

The blooshes are starting to fade lol. Still love these moments!

Yet another amazing video from you Emgo! Also I’m loving the new intro you’ve been using for you last few vids!

I love that his vehicle mode also kinda resembles the Outlaw faction's vehicles in Starlink, right down to the color scheme and skull motif.

I wish Hasbro or the third parties would revisit the Pretenders idea.Big, chunky action figure with a robot inside? Should be a lot easier to do than those crazy movie bots.

been going back and forth on whether or not this guy is good or not, but ultimately im definitely gonna get him, gotta be out here in full force for the pretenders 👍💜

I think the 'tail' in Alt-Mode would be meant as a seat for a Human gunman to operate the cannons. (Remember that these scale to the appropriate size as Vehicles)

Man I wish they would have chose one size to do the pretenders in.

Blooshcompleetablah!!! love man!!!

This is one of my top wants of the wave

Switching to alt mode is a thing you can do if you want to do it.

Another great vid!

Your skit at the end of the video sells it for me 🤣

The swords look similar to CW Breakdown's weapon

I think it's strange how controversial this figure is. There are some hideous looking figures and characters in the last year of Generations, but this one with the skull face looks absolutely epic and menacing. Its alt mode is nothingness, but so was WFC Soundwave, shockwave, and half the WFC line, and people mostly loved those. It baffles me that people can hate how this looks but think the Junkions mustache, Devastator's neon colors, and 80% of the beast wars characters look cool. But hey, you do you I guess.

Legacy Skullgrin looks really nice with the G1 figure (figures? Can never decide what it is), almost like a missing link. Might have to put them together on the Pretender shelf.

Crazy that its been over a year since this was released and yet i still see him in my local Target just wasting away on the shelf

Pick them up at London Comic Con Saturday beautiful robot mode not a fan of the vehicle mode and it's just a shame that all of the monsters pretenders aren't going to be the same size

You're doing good with your transformers review videos, Keep it up man.

This is a cool version of the figure but I wish they had made it a pretender still. I've always liked the idea of that line and wanted Bludgeon. The swords on the side gives it a vicious look.

I feel like the core class pretenders could be army builders, while skullgrin is a unique bot.

Solid looking robot mode, mess of an alt mode. Granted they didn't have much to work with, so it is what it is. That end skit though..... I can now imagine the other Decepticons being frightened of the way Skullgrin looks, while somewhere in the shadows of things yet to come Bludgeon is saying "Wait'll they get a load of me."

Great figure I'm definitely going to pick him up despite the underside of the arms suffering from hollow arm syndrome.

with those 5mm ports under the arms it should be incredibly easy for a company to make arm void covers, and that head design is just begging to be replaced with a core robot head that has a removable mask based on the default monster head. maybe they can even work cheater wheels into the arm covers, and something with wheels that fold under the feet.

Due to a clerical error (on my part) I ended up with two gap fillers for this guy, I ended up buying a second figure because they remind me of Jhiaxus' units in the G2 comic (wonder if we'll get Skullgrin in green) so they stand as Jhiaxus' honor guard.

I still got unpacked Bruticus from Combiner Wars in top of smallest wardrobe I have. And I forgot how Deluxe class is hollow. Thinking about it... Transformers Prime handeled Deluxe Class well.

The weapon reminds me of that combiner wars sword/gun thing that came with breakdown I think

Honestly, I like his tank mode

And after seeing the end skit. I wonder if we see the kit that changed the head into a mask and g1 style head.

Skullgrin IS pretty cool!

It would have been funny in the skit if when Megatron says take off the mask, skullgrin removes his head and hands it to Megs. 🤣

I was messing with his back horns and found that when turning his head around and detaching the back horns from the head m, his prime master (Titan master/headmaster) fits right in as a fully functioning head. Maybe its for that?

I think if I see this guy at wallmart I might get him. I def need a new shelf to display my figures though

Wow, I'm starting to hate the windowless packages My Skullgrin came without the headcrest piece, and the swords were warped straight out-of-package

Toyseasy is releasing a warship combiner it might end up being bigger than metroplex. 2 of them are already out

Still doesn’t make sense why the other 2 are core class.

13:57 what is with megs when he sees people that look ugly

nice.

Looks like a Chaos marine or im the only on with this thought?.🤔😵🤩🤩🤩🤩

blooooooooosh ❤

Cool Robot-mode, but they really didn't know what to do with the legs.

SkullGrin looks good needs to be in Rise of the beasts Movie.

I have no idea what Im looking at but it... sure does have... an aesthetic. An aggressively late-80s aesthetic. I kinda like the G1 version's alt mode better. Not that either really look like anything, but something about the G1 alt mode just works for me, IDK what.

Pretty sad that the original inner robot, a pretender of all things, looks better in its G1 incarnation than this modern toy, which doesn't have a single good-looking mode. Genuinely one of most dire CHUG figures I've bought since I started collecting again in 2019.

It’s face well dang

The head reminds me of Brock Lesnar’s back tattoo

"Hey Skullgrin, why are you wearing that monster suit?" "Why are _you_ wearing that _human_ suit...?" ... ... ... (Waits to see if anyone gets the Frank the Bunny reference from "Donnie Darko"...)

I thought in the end, Megs was gonna say "GIVE ME YOUR FACE"

How long till someone goes in on this figure with some metallic paints and washes to really bring up those details?

The tabs that go into the kneecaps don't really function on my copy. All four deluxes of this wave have had QC issues.

I think I prefer the Decepticon pretenders to be core class guys.

Thank you for this video.

cool

I do like him quite a lot, but his weapons being bendy does worry me as far as their longevity goes, especially as I live in a pretty hot country that is usually quite toxic to that sort of material

He's a zombie minotaur

Gun swords and skulls? This guy is awesome. You just know he's a berserker on the battlefield!

The end skit 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣💀!!!!

I just can’t get over the head size. I know it’s not technically wrong but. I dunno.

Hi mister emgo ahmmm can you describe the voice of mascot like when he talks to you and also if the horns of skullgrin doesn't have a hinge is it gonna hindered the head or not if he doesn't have a hinge on the horns

I'm kinda "meh" on these new Pretenders. Was looking forward to the refreshing of the pretender features, & instead we get this 😒 We can get Unicron, but we can't get decent Pretenders. Oh well.

Great review 👏🏻 He should be a core class....

Never mascot we are never done with Halloween

Pleeeeeeeeaase make the other 2 and PROPER headmasters from MF so I can collect the set Dx

Why is Megs a jerk to Skullgrin? He can’t help it if he look so…scary.

I have a feeling there going to retool skullgrin into bludgeon

Hey emgo. You getting the new ms Optimus prime 2.0?

Not going to lie, would love a Core Class figure of this guy. Until then, I'm going to save my $22.99.

Pure genius 👍

I like the idea of Skullgrin being larger. Igannus is a slender biker, Bomb-burst a small drone and Skullgrin a massive brutish tank

His shirt must be delicious.

Je n'aime pas. It reminds me of Six Shot where you have to 'pretend' he's in an alt mode instead of just folded up into a mess.

Is it me or did the Bloosh sound... _off,_ today?

Why do they have to make Skullgrin so much taller than the other pretenders that they released this year? Why can't all of the pretenders be at a similar height?

I´m very disappointed how the Pretenders are handled. As a Pretenders Fan ( Bomb-Burst and Submarauder where one of my first Transformers) I hoped they where all in the same scale (Deluxe preferred). But having different scales now and some of them being realy tiny (where all Pretenders have to be big in my Opinion), all new Pretenders are totally redundant for me. And that´s frustrating because I was very excited for them at the beginning.

I watch for the blllooooooossssh

the whole modular guns aspect feels like a precursor to the "evo-fusion" stuff we're getting in 2023