*Voice Credits* Optimus Prime/Orion Pax - Bottlecap Megatron and Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime - Lazy Eyebrow Go Fish! cults3d.com/en/3d-model/various/fishing-rod-for-ss86-hot-rod www.shapeways.com/product/A9WA7J7NJ/fishing-rod-for-studio-series-86-hot-rod

The Matrix as Mario power-up is best thing on the internet today. Nice figure. Hasbro is on a hot streak.

6:20 there's nothing funnier to me than just seeing Wreck-Gar being so massive compared to everyone else

Oh my God the opening skit was brilliant

Brilliant opening. Loved the Prime retirement. I agree about having more time with Hot Rod. I wish I could have seen more Hot Rod and Prime. It would have been interesting to see how he related to Prime as opposed to Bumblebee or Jazz. I have less good feelings about the leader Rodimus. He always seemed woefully unprepared. Good thing his nemesis was a scrambled mess. Hot Rod is the only boy I own two of the exact same figure. Now I can leave one in alt mode and display with robot. Of course I paid a bunch for it but it makes me happy. Top five figure from my only Hasbro collection.

Everyone's going nuts about the intro (with good reason, it's hilarious), but why are we not mentioning the toothpaste crawl at 5:01? (I know I laughed at that.)

First off: Your animation has gotten even better, amazing work. Second: The skits are hilarious, I actually laughed out loud to each of them. Third: These reviews are great. I got recommended your Blue streak and Smoke screen review around seven months ago and since then I've been an active viewer. I also credit that review to my new found love of transformers and have started a little collection of my own, with some custom work to boot. Easily one of my favourite channels on KZfaq right now. Thanks for the content!

0:50 ha! The mushroom effect was a fantastic idea my dude, good job

No worries I'm not irrated at all, the bumpers are awesome. And I understand stuff like this takes time. Don't stress it. Stoked to see your thoughts on Siege Magnus, even though I do personally like it.

The introduction just feels like a alternative ending of the movie, nice review

I'm happy with a review that mentioned the back of the car and shoulders while others pretend there is no faults.

6:00 now that’s a call out if I’ve ever seen one lol. Sucks how people can be so ignorant sometimes

Sincerely, your animation is stunning. I found myself going back to the pizza cutting clip just to gawk at how frigging well you did that. I can’t imagine how much practice and work it took to get this damn good.

i love the small details you put into your wonderful animations like the subtle detail of you adding smoke to the smoke exhausts to the rodimus figure right at the start. props to you and your amazing animations sir!

Alright that opening was one of the funniest thing I ever seen, thanks for that

ok, that Hotrod skit was your best one yet. I made sure to get him and Rodimus. I only have minor gripes about both, but definitely nothing to make me regret buying them.

We need an animated GIF of Hot Rod smacking Kup with his own arm!🤣

It took 30 years but someone did it someone finally answered what would happen if hot rod just shot megatron instead of tackle him. I love this video already

Thanks for the great review and for talking a bout the shoulders! I love this figure except for those shoulders so its nice to hear someone else feels that way about him too.

Love the opening skit😅 86 Hot Rod is such a good figure, one of the best of the year, and definitely the best Hot Rod.

BRUH! the Sharkitcon bumper was terrific! that nostalgia'd me in the AWE feels! great job always enjoy your reviews!

LOVED that intro LOL!! Way better than the movie. Plus, now I dont hate HOT ROD.

Now I regret not buying this even if I have an extensive Hot Rod collection. I had the choice between this and Rodimus and since I have more Hot Rods than Rodimus, I went with that. But I'm adding this to cart very soon. Thanks for the patron shoutout! 👍

Ooh, I like the "what scale is it?" segment and also hope it continues into future reviews! I don't necessarily care for vehicle modes to be 1:1 exactly proportioned (though the more expensive the figures, the more accurate I'd like them to be, _Movie Masterpiece)._ It's just something I find really, really interesting and cool. Also, this video was extra funny and brilliantly animated, as always.

I loooove that scale segment you added. Thank you for satisfying that very niche corner of the fandom, we love you

I had a blast watching this and I love the opening animation! The review was also honest and very enjoyable. Great job!

Dude, you totally need to do a skit where the Autobots lose track of whose weapon is whose before a battle! (;

I may comment AFTER I finish watching the video, but I had to pause at 6:56 to admire your customized Kingdom Sideswipe. Holy hell that alt mode looks good. If you haven’t already, please review that just so we can have more time to admire the vehicle. Now back to the review…

WORTH THE WAIT!!!!! The skits where HILARIOUS ( Especially the opener but that sunglasses!!??? Holy poop was that great). Love your work so much!!!

Not only by far the best mainline hot rod we have ever recieved, but possibly one of the flatout best hot rod's we have ever seen.

OMFG!! That intro was..... EVERYTHING!! THANK YOU SO MUCH FOR THIS!

Coming back to this mold with the Shattered Glass Rodimus, this figure is still killer especially in that dark deco. Whew.

Wow, that fold out visor is the last thing I'd ever expect to see on a mass retail release at any price point.

PS. I don't mind that they made this a deluxe with a few accessories for a voyager price, but do mind that they did the same for Rodimus. The Rodimus was just too expensive and I still haven't gotten it and don't know when or if I ever will be able to get it.

As always, a pleasure to watch

oh GOD the passing of the Matrix in the skit was just wonderful

Hot Rod's visor: "For better hallway vision." (Judd Nelson reference)

i loooooooove this fig. I added the red paint to his inner collar and really makes him look awesome. fully agree that i would have liked them to do the same price point with jazz and have the accessories.

Love the review, Lazy! Especially the skits in the beginning and during the review! I can't stress enough on how much I enjoy messing around with this figure. Granted, I know the issues this toy has but I can look past that because of how much detail this toy has.

Love the scale talk! Great if there’s a page where you log all scales of each toy you’ve measured!

The scaling thing only now properly seeps in... And must say, never thought I needed it in my life. But my OCD and I thank you.

Sir. SIR. How dare you give us such a hilarious and in-depth review on a TUESDAY. You had Lifeline CRAWL into place and almost had me die laughing, you blasted the douchebag in the comments into actual space dust, and then the Siege Garbage Scow line made me snort-laugh so hard I almost hurt myself. I love that you always point out the flaws in a constructive way, explaining potential “why’s” for the reasons behind them, instead of just spewing vitriol, and then spends just as much, if not MORE, time talking about the points you love. I bought this figure, and have loved it ever since. While the flaws you pointed out are definitely present, I’m willing to overlook them based on how much love and attention was poured into this figure. Holy wow, all those accessories too! I can’t wait to see your Rodimus Prime review too. To summarize: hilarious jokes/commentary/review, amazingly fluid animation, and a great send-off/hook that has me excited for your next upload. Both thumbs up!

I gotta stop watching these during class cause I'm just gonna bust out laughing one day and get a lot of weird looks.

I hope you had as more fun making these videos as I have watching them. I'd feel real bad you slaving away while I'm chuckling away. I was going to buy the rest of Studio Series 86 anyway after Wreck-Gar and Blurr. just have to wait for the next assortment to come in on next month's stage. But Hot Rod as BMOC at Iacon Hills High seems like the new teen drama you didn't know you needed in your life. Hot Rod and Novastar can be twin brother/sister who moved from wholesome midwest to the decadent Neon coast. Anyways thanks for the review.

I love Orion Pax’s business hat.

Not bothered by you taking your time to do these videos. I enjoy them all, even just the little bumper videos. In the end, it's worth the extra wait.

4:59 the fact Lifeline crawl to the line up, was hilarious 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 i'd have to confess my Arcee's backpack car mode is still in the box...

6:14 oooo throwing some shade at the Siegedom Magnus mold (rightfully so of course)

Thumbs up on the video just for that shot of Lifeline crawling across the ground to show off the shell. Laughed so hard I choked

That intro was hilarious. Especially when prime put in his at bounced.

Gotta admit, that's a pretty sweet looking hot rod!

Awesome intro sketch 🤣🤣🤣 and awesome review as always! Can't wait for part 2!

That was one of the best skits I've seen! So funny! Looking forward to your next review!

Animation is as super smooth as always

Yet another stellar review! I almost fell off my couch laughing seeing Lifeline crawling into place. Man that was so good. I always enjoy seeing your perspective and SS Hotrod was no exception. Did you at all get the impression that the car mode was...I don't know...chibi-fied in proportion? Like he seems to have been squished just a tad length wise? I got that impression when comparing him with Masterpiece Hotrod which I know you don't have so you might not have seen this. In any case I hope SS 86 continues and you keep reviewing them. They truly earn the name mini masterpiece and we're close to getting a near-perfect set of dinobots. Thank you for your FANTASTIC content! 👍🏼

The opening skit was just brilliant, you nail the animation, sets and jokes so well.

To be fair, if someone at Takara has read Transformers Mors Then Meets The Eye, it's easy to understand why they love him. *Thank you* for looking at the scale. I'm also a scale junkie.

I forgot to comment on first viewing that the "Whats the scale?" segment is totally appreciated as, personally, I like to try and get my figures in reasonable vehicle scale where possible. I bought Mech fans toy's 'Detective' as my collections Hound, to fit in with my mostly WFC figures. He's defiantly not in scale with the other vehicle modes (most of them are off as is, anyways lol) but it's close enough that I can be happy with it. That does mean he's way small in Robot mode but I'm fine with that. I come up with my own head cannon for how these bots are for my own collection and Hound being just a little taller than Cliff Jumper is good by me.

That thumbnail is amazing! Anybody not into Transformers would be convinced it's a real car!

2:44 To be fair, Hot Rod _is_ the kind of bot who would choose an alt mode with a big garish spoiler. Rodimus doesn’t have one (in the show) because the Matrix helped him grow out of that. And you beat me to it. I have got to stop commenting partway through videos!

Best Review ever. And I mean THE best review. No review will ever be this good.

man. all your skits in this video really were perfect.

Another great review! Hot rod is definitely worth the extra money, the amount of detail put into it is amazing

The beginning skit was perfect, I loved the use of IDW orion pax

Always love to see a new review and hot rod is a genuinely fun toy to play with.

That opening skit was awesome! You have a real flair for comedy man. You're wasted on KZfaq. You should be onstage somewhere. Love it😁

Question, seeing you’re a car buff and that this is a future style vehicle, if Hotrod or Rodimus weren’t these sort of space racers, what real life vehicle would you make them?

It absolutely is a great figure. Awesome review dude, loving the stop motion, friggin badass

that intro was incredible. Thank you

That intro made me very happy.

My favorites are Jazz, Blitzwing, and rattrap.

Brilliant! Loved the opening!

Oh hot Rod nice to see some red head

I like the review, but those stop-motion bits were both incredible and hilarious. Great job, dude

"...he does indeed come with an entourage of clutter!" :-)

Loved the skit at the beginning. And the animation looks amazing as always.

Hot Rod has always been one of my favorites ever since I saw the 86 movie on a vhs as a kid, I was so happy when I picked up this hot rod and got a voyager price point masterpiece figure. Well worth the price for me, and after picking up Cup and Arcee I am glad I can remake the 86 team to display on my shelf.

We need to normalize thinking about figures like this not by comparing it to other deluxes, but by the figure's own complexity, accessories, and overall parts count. That should be the viewpoint of its quality. Same goes for Kingdom Optimus Primal.

Great video man, very detailed review!

I *LOVE* that opening skit!!!!

Brilliant, well done. Thank you

First thing i watch after waking up, now my day started out good

7:45 _Breathing Manually Intensifies_

I agree with the hood concealment, but everything else is relativity more cartoon accurate. And the beginning where Hot Rod should have shot Megatron even if the blasts didn't do anything giving Optimus Prime an opportunity to defeat Megatron.

Dude I am to old to play with toys anymore, but this video makes wish I was a kid again.

Man I love this channel and your content!

Loving that stop motion!!!

Finally the review I’ve been waiting for

Lolol at that opening skit with Mario Bros sound effects! Brilliant great review

Agree with your niggles. This may be the first review I've seen address the rear of the vehicle. But wow, that classics? That's a nice rear end!

Always loved his design, just wish cartoon writers would stop doing him dirty with pathological regularity. And I can wholeheartedly agree. His succession would mean more if they'd introduced him in season 2.

That was my favorite skit you did, It didn't last too long, But It was also the funniest!

I don't mind the faux hood because it adds shape for the chest. I do wish that you couldn't see it in car mode, though. It has a hood on top and another hood under the car LOL. Still really like this figure- one of my favorite transformers figures.

Thank you for pointing out his shoulders. I hate them. And the gaps. But I still don't regret getting him. As I can probably never afford Kingdom Rodimus. Edit:Love the intro Lazy, Perfeck.

I don't know if this is a hot take or not, but honestly, SS86 Hot Rod > Kingdom Rodimus Both had a ton of love and care crafted into them, and both use the dxtra budget to do some phenomenal stuff, but even then, I think Hot Rod is a better package all around. The transformation, at least in my experience was more enjoyable, the articulation on both is fantastic, and the overall sculpting on both is incredible. Plus the wide range of accesories. However, Hot Rod is just more bang for your buck, $30 usd gets you essentially the near perfect Hot Rod with a stunning robot mode and a great vehicle, with movie accesories and an overall really fun toy, whereas Rodimus is $80 usd, you get a leader figure, sword, gun, matrix, and a really cool, if not sometimes annoying trailer. If anything, I feel Hot Rod is more worth it, as both Rodimus and Hot Rod provided a similar experience, at least in terms of transformation and articulation. Just me? Idk, I've always found SS86 Hot Rod a much more enjoyable experience

I didn’t lock my front door before leaving for work today, thank you!

Awesome, best one so far,!

THAT...WAS BRILLIANT!!!

This is the first video I've discovered of yours and I gotta say it's by far the most unique and creative Transformers figure review I have EVER seen. You've gained a fan!

Such a great figure. Glad I got him. The Legacy Velocitron Speedia 500 Collection is coming out with a nice-looking repaint that looks kinda like it takes inspiration from the original G1 toy's paint job and sticker details, so I'm gonna see if I can get that one, too!