Is this guy one of the most underrated figures EVER?!

The guns mounted on the wings would have been timed to fire between the blades as you would see in the old bi-wing planes during ww1. The impractical part of the guns on this plane would be the weight of the guns.

02:05 - Interesting fact: On planes like this one, with rotors, were special mechanism, so machine-gun shoots in time not to shoot into rotor.

Don't underestimate the engineering of the time... WW-1 era aircraft were designed with synchronization of the propeller and machine-gun fire so they would automatically fire between the propeller blades.

The Hunt for the Decepticons line was such a great and creative time. We got things like Movie Seaspray, Stratospher, Bludgeon, a bunch of other cool weird one off charecteurs, all of the legends scale toys were fire. Really interesting time.

I love that design. While I’m not usually a fan of the more human designs, the idea of an aviation pilot inspired design is really cool.

Hunt For The Decepticons really has some of the best designs across bayverse. Love these, such nostalgia. Lugnut is also very well designed.

Absolutely love this guy. The 2nd transformer I got as an adult which got me back into collecting them. Love how the twin tails become the legs. Also, legendary spinning blades on the arms as weapons LOL. HFTD was a good line. Re gunning himself down, no I don't think so. At least some types of WW2 planes had specially calibrated guns if I recall such that they shot between the prop blades.

Such a cool design with a unique alt mode, it's also neat that the miniguns have proper weapon storage on the hip skirts

1:56 The spinning propeller was mechanically linked to the timing of the machine gun. The bullets will never hit the prop.

Man it's amazing how the hunt for the reception line has maintained such quality nearly on par with some studio series figures

It’s really nice seeing you go threw the old stock man. Gotta be fun as heck for you too getting to hands on some stuff you haven’t messed with in awhile. Keep ‘em coming.

I actually have the repainted decepticon version of this figure. Decepticon powerdive, he's really cool and and although he is a repaint they gave him a new headsculpt which was really cool, since the headsculpt gives him one of those oxygen masks pilots wear. Even though he's a repaint it would be really cool to see you review him as well!

the side Gatling guns are used as a last resort to gun himself down if the decepticons are after him

The machine guns on World War one and World War II propeller Fighters we're specifically designed to stagger their firing to shoot between the spinning blades

Got to say that is a beautiful p-38 lighting. Also rivets not screws as they hold tighter and accommodate more variance in loading.

Another amazing mold from HFTD that has really stood the test of time. There are so many excellent uses as repaints as well; this mold is another great vintage plane throwback that is just not emulated enough in today's releases. And the goggles, can't forget those, what a great extra feature.

I think these figures may show up in studio series if we’re all able to convince hasbro to do so…

I have the Powerdive version of this mold! I absolutely adore it and the figure

I really love this old military design. Only knit pick I have is the lower arms they look a little too small over all this thing is really cool wish hasbro could do more like this

I always transformer him so the hands are in line with the upper arm, which angles the propellers at 45°, pointing slightly forward. I feel it makes the arms look more cohesive and hides the tabs sticking out the back of the engine blocks better. Love this guy and so happy I got him at the time.

I have had this figure as long as I can remember. Awesome to see a new reaction to highbrow's greatness!

Didn't even know this was released. So cool!

…WOW! This is the first time I’ve seen this guy (never released in my country/I was overseas 2010-1011), but it’s one of the best and most interesting figures I have seen! I love WW2 planes and this also has a wicked alternative history vibe, reminiscent of Crimson Skies, which had tons of cool looking made-up aircraft in this style. (This is not quite a P-38, but obviously based on them). The transformation is clever, with a very good looking humanoid bot mode. Colour scheme is nice too - I would have fun touching it up. I’d live to see it re-released or more figures in a similar style produced. Is this a 9/10?? With waist swivel and a redesign of the hand position to where the props are, I think it would be a 10. Yep, I’d display it as you do, with the propellers presented as weapons (or bullet/shrapnel deflectors). Very nice, thanks for sharing!

I love this mold as Obsidian. Perfect fit for the character.

I never knew this guy existed. Definitely would have picked one up if I had. I've always had a severe lack of aircraft characters that look decent in my collection

I believe the symbol on the back fins may be the seeker insignia. I know that Jetfire doesn't have one in the movie, but the old-timey alt-mode (or alt-timey old-mode) would definitely fit the pictures from the meat locker scene.

Guns were actually mounted behind propellers in the first half of the 1900s. They were timed with the propellers to allow bullets through without shooting their own propellers. Crazy engineering.

Wow was not expecting such a cool robot mode design, I’d love to see more of these concept characters figures cause I’ve never seen this before, when we run out of studio series movies bots I think we know where hasbro can go

Your the best channel so far you are the first most of time with something

Your collection of RotF era figures is incredibly envy-inducing. You've got so many cool figures.

I like this figure, the fact that you can interact with its rotor. Pretty cool.

I still have this guy boxed. Got him as a present. Did not know how cool he is.

I remember looking for this figure back then but was sold out everywhere. I recently bought it for a decent price and i have zero regrets

Awesome retro-review. A wonderfully detailed figure from the heydays of the movie toylines. The way the forearms are designed could have been better, though the gimmick is pretty neat. I fully support your wish to see more creativity in the movie toylines again.

Interesting fact. Where the guns are mounted wouldn't be a issue because if a system commonly used in WW1 planes called a sync-gear, wich basically makes it so that a round only fires after a blade has passed. Its a verry cool and innovative idea, the slowmo guys did a video on it for those that are interested

I never noticed this figure so far, looks great His head just looks like how AOE Crosshairs would look in TFP! so damn cool

He's great Him, Dropkick (2007), Skyhammer, Comettor, Bludgeon, Incinerator, Lugnut (HFTD)... The best "movie" figures are, amusingly, those that didn't appear in the films

very cool! I have this figure but i totally forgot how to transform him so now i have a tutorial! SWEET!!

Wow, a P-38 Transformer is quite an amazing concept! Why I never thought about this idea for an OC?

The HFTD line was absolutely phenomenal! I hope one day we can get a similar line one day. Fantastic review as always PvP!

I like the placement of the propellers, as I see them as a defensive choice for the bot.

He was my first transformers toy, I miss him honestly--

This was one of my grail figures, along with the RTS Lugnut! I got Lugnut about a year ago and I just found out that this guy is in stock at Big Bad Toy Store (granted for $85 USD, but that is cheaper than Ebay). I picked it up form there, should be here next week!

Epic review PrimeVsPrime!!!!! Highbrow remains one of my favorite Transformers figures from the entire Hunt for the Decepticons line. :D I have always had a fascination with WWII aircraft, and having a Transformers figure have one, a P-38 Lighting, as an alt mode, makes it one of the greats of the franchise. :D Do you have the Generations Powerdive repaint? Keep on being amazing.

He looks amazing, I hope this version of Highbrow would somehow make a comeback for the Studio Series line tbh

when a pod racer had a baby with a P-38 lightning in the diesel punk-verse

Highbrow looks cool 😎

I like the idea of the propellers being displayed at the side of the arms on the robot mode because it reminds me of the defense rods used by some mobile suits in Gundam 00.

This is one of the most underrated figures for sure! You should do another retro review on RTS Lugnut, PvP!

It has grown on me. Both plane and robot looks really good. Though I could be nitpicking when I say the gatling guns look a little out of place compared to a pair of dual Browning 1919.

Wow I love this Decepticon hunter ❣️🤩❣️💕💛💕💘🤩💘💝😍💜💜💗💙💗💙🤎

He looks so cool, could be one of the seekers with his WW2 Fighter mode

I didn't see it mentioned here but according to lead designer Bill Rawley, the insignia on his stabilisers is a pretzel with spider legs. Apparently this is a tribute to the father-in-law of then-Director of Global Product Design for the Transformers brand, Jared Wade. Wade's father-in-law flew the P-38 Lightning (a fast piston-engined fighter with a similar twin-boom design to this fictional plane) during WWII, and his callsign was apparently something to do with pretzels and/or tarantulas.

Love this figure it design is amazing and the figure it’s self

Random fact: propellor planes that have machine guns mounted behind the propellor blades would not shoot themselves down. The guns and propellor blades were designed so that the fire rate would enable bullets to pass through the spinning blades without damaging them.

that's really cool! nice find!

I am so happy to have him !!!🤩🥰

there were many planes that had machine guns shoot through the propellers, they were timed to allow the bullets to go in between the blades.

Wow that's awesome

such an amazing transformer ive been looking for standard size plane transformers that werent the standard f-15 jet

i have that figure, it was given to me by a friend in 6th grade (it was 6 years ago) because he couldnt transform it and wanted me to try it, and if i could, he'd gift it to me, and i did... i now keep him on my collection shelf but his middle board like thing that formed his feet broke, 2 fins and his gatling guns were missing and one of the motors recently stopped working, the figure is still really damn good

the Obsidian repaint is pretty sweet

Studio Series should go back and give the good figures from the ROTF and HFTD lines and give them updated looks. I really like how Highbrow could go with a potential Studio Series ROTB Stratosphere.

I agree! It’s not a bad design! Plus Hasbro was experimenting with different transformers 👍🙏

I remember, that I used to have the Hunt for the Decepticons autobot Hubcap as a kid back then. But it went missing and I tried to find it, but i couldn't find it.

I remember having this one when i was younger and it used to confuse me cause he wasn’t in the movie

Woah! I never ever seen that one! Wicked!

A cool StopMotion idea would for highbrow fighting jetfire it would be kind of funny since they’re both old

I feel the goggles and face had definitely inspired aoe/tlk crosshairs

Anybody wonder what was under those gold parts on the engines since you could hunge them up it looked like

I did a quick scan on highbrow's heigh, even though his alt mode is a Lockhead p-38 lightning from WW2, is slightly taller than Optimus. Optimus' height is around highbrow's mouth shoulders.

I love this figure, I just wish they where less expensive.

love this guy, same with ransack from rotf

Got mine off eBay today!

Hopefully The Studio Series Would Do This Figure And It Would Be So Cooler Like The Original Figure Was

I got mine a bit back from my local jays, it's where I've been doing a lot of my older tf figure searching.

I like to keep the fists folder in it looks more natural

Great video God bless!

I'm not really a "plane guy" but the P-38 from Lockheed has got to be one of my favorites! What they did with his design makes me hope, although they more than likely won't, for like a larger version of him. I really dig him! In either mode! So much so that it's hard for me to decide whaich one to display him in👍👍 I've also wanted to know what the insignia on his back wings meant but I've had no luck with that so far.

Fantastic video review 👍🙏🙏

Really cool. I wish Hasbro would perhaps bring in sub-lines of concept and video game characters to the studio series.

This cool video mister primevsprime

THAT IS SO KOOL!

NGL he's got a pretty clean robot mode

He looks so cool

Man I love this mould something serious! I have the remould of this, Powerdive, who imo is even cooler than Highbrow. I love it so much i have two, one for each mode.

Actually, the miniguns being where they are in plane mode isn't too bad: on the old WW1 biplanes, the machine gun was almost always positioned like that, right behind the main rotors. The reason that worked was that the fire rate of the machine gun was synchronized with the speed of the rotor, i.e. the gun only fires in intervals where it wouldn't hit the blades

I wonder how a transformation look like from a twin-fuselage plane. Basically two planes connected with side-by-side with a ‘middle wing’; use during WW2.

Those logos on the tail fins mean he's a wicked pretzel.

I agree. A third-party company should give us an updated version of this great figure.

This is one of 3 bay movie bots I still have hes amazing

I just came to read the comments about the prop/gun timing.

I always thought this should get a Recolor as Waspinator

This, ACTUALY looks like a goods desing for a Transformer, not even a movie one Just, a good desing in general

This was one of those figures I always wanted, but never got my hands on.

Nice one 👍

Love this mold, especially as Powerdive, only nitpicks about the mold are the proportions of the arms and the engine gimmick is busted on the left arm of my copy

actually guns behind propellers were fired with a built in timing that was perfect with 100% throttle or WEP it would shoot inbetween the blades of the prop thus never hitting the prop

You can rewiew hunts for decepticons autobot knock out too?