Honestly, I think Offroad might be my favourite Stunticon. The joke of "unlike all the Stunticons, he's polite and friendly, so all of them are convinced that he's Up To Something" is really, really good.

Honestly I loved that all the stunticons branched out in different directions makes them stand out more. That's why menasor is my favorite combiner because the individuals are just as memorable as the combiner maybe even more so

The original Stunticons should get a new iteration with them all. I’d love to see them Animated, as a team.

Personal canon: The Stunticons were created from Autobot protoforms as dark mirrors to the Autobots Optimus Prime (Motormaster, formerly Nemesis Prime), Hot Rod (Wildrider), Arcee (Drag Strip), Skids (Breakdown) and Jazz (Dead End). They originally bore more of a resemblance to their genetic bases, but after exposure to the Enigma of Combination, they developed more individualized robot modes and their combined form of Menasor.

At times the Decepticons only consisted of Jets, construction vehicles, cassette players and guns so it kinda of rare that Megatron would create a team of Four cars and Truck to do the mission that the Decepticons can't do

The Decepticons really do have some of the best and iconic combiners. Their rivalry with Superion was always fun to watch.

It shouldn’t be too surprising how the Stunticons became the combiner team to break out as individuals more than the others. After all cars are the most common alt-modes and these are the Con car guys so it’s only inevitable that when a Generation needs a car Con why not make it a Deadend or a Breakdown. Plus as Masquerade shows us they can literally redeco Autobot into one of this lot. New Mirage figure? It’s a no-brainer to turn it into Drag Strip!

Can't decide between Wildrider and Dead End as my favorite. I guess I'll go with Dead End, I was a depressed kid in the 80's and while I didn't find any kinship with him, I did like the fact not all Transformers were upbeat or aggressive

Called it! Imagine if there was like a Masquerade edition of Prime and the Autobots that could’ve totally been a thing for CW.

Off road and Prime breakdown were the GOATS.🐐🐐🐐

Fun fact: Blackjack was originally a G1 Micromaster who was a member of the Sports Car Patrol, so he's not an entirely new character, just new to the Stunticon line-up.

My favorite rendition of the theme song: 🎵 Aerialbots wage their battle to destroy the evil forces of the Stunticons!🎶

Even though I'm not particularly fond of the Stunticons, one of their best moments will always be Menasor one-shotting Bruticus, effectively taking away Starscream's victory. 😆

Congratulations on two hundred! Meanwhile, I think it was a good thing that the limbs on most combiners are interchangeable. Always having to be the foot isn't good for morale, which is probably even worse for these guys.

I remember a piece of fanfiction I read somewhere that the Stunticons wild natures meant Megatron would assign them a minder to keep them in line, so that's how I interpreted Blackjack when the Combiner Wars versions came out. And that their forming the chestplate was taking it a step further in that they served as a sort of "key" to allowing them to form Menasor. Sort of like how Ohno was Mighty Orbots' ignition key.

Congratulations, Chris. You deserve those 2,000 subs. The Stunticons are the most memorable of the combiners because each member has their own distinct personality. I wish the TF animated got a 4th season, because I would have loved to see the series incarnation of the Stunticons appear on screen.

The first time I was introduced to the Stunticons, was in the Transformers Devastation video game. So I knew very little about them until watching this video. Though there is one cutscene I remember that cracks me up: "No one defeats Menasor! RAAAAH! Must! Complete! Mission!"(tosses the farotaxis in the air) Bumblebee: I did not see that coming.

Absolutely love the Stunticons, specifically both Breakdown and Dragstrip. Great to get an updated figure of him last year, definitely puts the CW version to shame.

Great video once again. I always loved how Motormaster thought he was a match for Optimus Prime and tried to prove it over and over. Also didn't know until years later that the team could be any limb on Menasor or that they could be limbs for Superior!! What a wild concept Autobots and Deceptions able to merge on each other's combiner team.

That first promo image is so clean and elegant! Reminds me of EJ Su's painted style in the early IDW comics. Congrats on 200k!

If I'm not mistaken, all that's left for the Scramble-City Combiner teams is a basics episode on the Technobots.

Rumble was the one who inspired Megatron to name the Stunticons after they made a demonstration of their powers. Now, the only 80's Combiner team left to cover are the Technobots.

Some of the Stunticon names have also been used for completely unrelated to the group. Dead End was the name of the Minicon partner of Unicron from Transformers: Armada. Even Menasor was used for an individual character instead of a combiner, as the name of a Gigantion drill tank from Transformers: Cybertron.

9:52/9:53 I had this personal headcanon that this is also meant to be Prime: Wildrider after an unspecified incident refliped his persona from crazy & erratic to skittish & paranoid.

9:01 Seeing Menasor in Devastation, especially when Marius Urucu swapped his boss music out with Sonic Frontiers' 'Find Your Flame', is all kinds of rad.

My favorite combiner team! This video made my day. Thanks, Chris!

Breakdown was my favourite stunticons among all because of its coolest alt mode and colors Whereas for Earthspark Breakdown, he's totally a friend of Bumblebee in races, just like Velocitronian times. What makes him epic and emotional is that rather than just friends, races, and fun with him, he even sacrificed himself to save Bee from being captured by GHOST.

Fun Fact: Off-road was based on a preexisting Decepticon, Ruckus, whom Hasbro was originally was gonna have on the team for Combiner war but scrapped it in favor of an original character (I.e. Off-Road) partly dud to trademark issues, and partly due to executives feeling that Ruckus didn’t fit in with the Stunticons anyways.

The Stunticons are my 3rd favorite combiner team after the Combaticons and the Aerialbots. They're status as Decepticon road vehicles and the sword-wielding of Menasor are pretty darn awesome and I plan to feature them in my fanfiction as part of a unit led by Scorponok. Those Animated toys are Drag Strip being a recolor of Arcee, Dead End recolored from Jazz, Breakdown from Rodimus Prime, Wildrider from Lockdown, and Motormaster a retool and recolor of Optimus Prime surprisingly. My favorite member is Drag Strip I also love that episode of G1 when Optimus Prime, Mirage, Jazz, Sideswipe and Windcharger tried to impersonate the Stunticons only to be ratted out when Megatron asked them to combine into Menasor. That was pretty funny!

I once made up a story about the Stunticons, but they were actually classic Decepticons in new bodies. Megatron = Motormaster, Starscream was Drag Strip, Soundwave was Breakdown, Frenzy was Wildrider, and Thundercracker was Dead End. In response, the Autobots made the Airialbots. Optimus Prime was supposed to be Silverbolt, but I didn't finish the story, so I can't say how it would have ended.

Their appearance in Devastation was awesome, fighting Motormaster one-on-one and then Menasor, and then Menasor's surprise return in the final battle against Devastator where you had to face both at once. Breakdown was also great in War for Cybertron, with some of the best lines and reactions from Megatron.

It's about time we got to see the Stunticons appear on your channel, after the previous teams were on here! Very noice.

I love the G1 idea that the Stunticons' insane durability was because they were fitted with forcefield generators that enhanced the Earth materials that they were made with. I don't know why that always stuck with me, but it does explain why they're always able to smash up Autobots without sustaining damage to themselves. Thanks for posting!

And let's not all forget High Moon's Breakdown, Dragstrip, and Deadend; one of which was featured as a story character while the other two were available via custom creation in multiplayer mode. And, of course, Wildrider and Motormaster remained concepts only.

I do love those wild G2 colors. I also include RotF Oil Pan since he is a redeco of Breakdown, as well as Speed Stars Wreckloose and Hunt for the Decepticons Override to my headcanon.

The head on clash between Optimus Prime and Motormaster. Epic

So a funny thing about the botcon 2011 set... It was the middle of the night 3:00 a.m. Eastern midnight Pacific... And Derrick j. Wyatt had posted on Twitter that he needed to see the back of motor masters head... I tweeted back to him. Give me about 5 minutes, 5 minutes later. I sent him a picture of the back of G1 motormaster's head. The next thing I knew we got a preview of the stunticon job animated figure's from botcon 2011! Great episode of the basics as always. Chris! I miss Derrick so much. Still we all do.

One of my favorite combiners.

Wildbreak is breakdown and knockout's sparkling, and you can't convince me otherwise❤

Congrats on 200k Chris! 🎉 Been waiting for these guys. Keep up the good work, sir. Meanwhile, I'll keep hoping for episodes on Trailbreaker and Sunstreaker.

Cyberverse Dead End: I love being Stunticon.

Can’t wait for whichever is next! This was great, as always. :)

It’s honestly pretty on brand for each of their members to strike out individually across different stories given how unstable Menasor is.

Personally, I'd think it hilarious if Legacy just kept adding more stunticons to menasor. Bring in Offroad, Blackjack, Overrun and the rid15 boys and have them form replacement limbs

Here’s some Transformers name drama similar to the Slug/Slag situation Overrun was originally called Spastic which in the UK is a curse word used as an offence to mentally ill people so when Hasbro figured that out they changed it Quick warning may if gotten some stuff wrong though

I feel like the Stunticons, mainly Breakdown, Dead End, and Offroad, are the most likely group of Decepticons to become Autobots

Felicitation for the 200k ! Completely deserve it for the quality of yours video

woah congratulations on 200k subs! I can't believe were over 200 episodes now...

The Stunticons(and all the other combiners) deserve spots in future Transformers live action movies. The Constructicons have had their day.

Congratulations with the 200k subscribers. They are a crazy bunch where I hope we see future character stories about them in the near future. Thank you for the presentation!

Congratulations on 200k. Transformers has always been a franchise near and dear to my heart, although my attention waxes and wanes. Fortunately, The Basics is here to fill in the gaps of what I know, as well as introduce me to parts of the franchise I had no idea existed. Thanks Chris, for all you do.

Love these, hope to see all the combiners have their own videos and eventually break those down to individual spot lights on each character... Thanks for another great one Chris

Congratulations on 200K! Well deserved!

I remember the toy line for Transformers Prime had a solo Dead End figure that was a repaint of Wheeljack’s that made him into a spark-hungry vampire, and the first bayverse movie comic made him into a zombie that ripped the parts of other transformers off in order to repair his body, broken from experimentation. Yeesh.

WELL DONE Chris! This was an excellent video very much worthbthe wait! Looking forward to seeing those individual "The Basics" you mentioned towards the end, as well as whatever you have next on your todo list!~

My two favorite quotes from Menasor: Devastation: "You beat Motormaster, now see if you can beat me!" RID: "Welcome to the end of road, courtesy of Menasor!"

5:50 That could work as a trash-talk name during a fight.

CONGRATS on reaching 200K… well earned/deserved!! 🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉🎊🎉

8:12 I know that "Ask Vector Prime" explained what happened to him after he left the group.

I've been waiting for so long for you to make a basic episode on the stunticons it's so good and also congrats on 200k subscriber's

Congrats on 200K!

Thanks for uploading this and it was so worth the wait especially after getting all the TF legacy figures and my favourite incarnation is the G1 Stunticons and my favourite member has always been Dead End I like him cuz of his design and Car mode and I prefer his mouth plate instead of his box art design but still love the box art anyway and I so hope you’ll do a video on Dead End in the future. Dead End: A flying car? How droll!!!

I can't hear Dead End's name anymore without thinking of the Pink Panther theme. Thanks, Thew.

I’ve been asking for this for so long can’t wait to watch

Always amazing. You make my Saturday mornings so nostalgic. Thank you!

Yaay Finally! Been waiting literal years for this!

Congratulations on your success my friend because you have certainly earned it !!! Thank you for all that you do for this community and I wish you MUCH continuing success in the future. As always GREAT video !!!

This is a team I call very dear. I know it’s not everybody’s cup of tea to win. Combiner wars was an ounce I was a static since I don’t really have the means to afford third-party, especially back in 2015 fresh out of high school. Even though it is by no means a good figure, the combiner wars Menasor was the first combiner that I completed that was not an Energon repaint. Motormaster is also the first custom I made years ago

Thanks for making this video, I watched the original Transformers and phased out in 87 so I really appreciate this collection of information with what happened to some of my favorite characters

The commercial animation of the Stunticons and Aerialbots toy was so well made and so wrong at the same time!

Grats on 200,000 subscribers

I have always liked the original Stunticons from the Sunbow cartoon series.

Awesome video as usual! I love the original Japanese artwork you use in your videos such as this one.

Congrats on the milestone!

Congratulations on 200k subscribers!

Great Stuff, as always!

Congratulations on the subscriber milestone

Awesome, congrats on the big 200k!

Congrats on reaching 200K

This episode of "The Basics" is quite a stunt to watch!

Congratulations on everything. Love you Chris

Aww yeah I been waiting for these boys to show up. Also congrats on 200K; you deserve it I love this series.

Congratulations on 200k man 😀

In terms of the toys, because in the cartoon Optimus Prime and Motormaster were the same size, I won an eBay auction back in 1999 for a G1 Motormaster. I was greatly disappointed when I opened the box to find that motormaster was actually much smaller in scale than Optimus Prime.

Been waiting for this one!!!

What a great way to celebrate this subscriber milestone.

Funny enough, Off-Road was my first Combiner Wars toy, I remember taking it home, transforming it and being stunned by its Combiner mode, since then, the Transformers toys I have been collecting have mostly been Combiners. I just started with the legacy version, though I only have Motormaster and Dragstrip, as for some reason the stores in my region have never left wave 1 of legacy, and everytime I go online to BBTS or TFS there always only up for preorder, maybe I'll get lucky soon, I'll just have to wait and see. EDIT: I just Checked BBTS after posting this to find Wildrider and Breakdown in stock,, so im gonna work up the money to get them.

I love the Stunticons. The special teams for myself in early 1986 was a magical time and Transformers felt really special.

Stunticons are one of my favorite combiner team,I know most people prefer the Combaticons but I really like the individual Stunticons' personality and their dynamic with Motormaster, there's alot of potential for these characters but most media often overlooked them, Dead End in Cyberverse is probably the only time in animation where they actually refer to any Stunticons original G1 bio,RID 2015 was pretty close but both ER and Prime Breakdown had different personality from his original appearance.

Congrats, Chris, on getting to the 200,000 sub milestone. Here's to half a million.

Years ago, I once had a Tamiya R/C globe liner modeled loosely after Motormaster. (He’s my fave Stunticon)

My favourite member is drag strip for not just his alt mode but for his Personality ( Reminds me of my own competitive side which sometimes shows up when I’m playing Multiplayer game) and my favourite version of the team is G1 and they will also become my First Combiner team as I have all the Legacy toys, and I’m for Breakdown to get delivered as I pre order it 2 months ago.

Another amazing video

I got myself the Unite Warriors Stunticons for my 22nd birthday. I love imagining them in road battles with ground-based Autobots, trying to run them off the road while still maintaining their disguises.

I love them ! You could also mention their appearance and design from Transformers FOC !

First time I saw the Stunticons in the cartoon, I was blown away. It changed my life forever. Thanks for this!

I loved the review!!! Omg! I always loved the stunticons! The episode that they premiere and the are the enemies of my other favorite combiner team, the airelbots! And contrats on the high numbers! And continue success! 👍🏾

Congrats on the 200k on the way to a million in no time Let's Go Baby!!!!!!!!!!

IVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS

Review was informative,thanks for all the news