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hey guys..

i just wanted to let everyone here know i recently bought and reviewed 2 of the new tranformers animated figures and uploaded the videos to youtube. The first i did was LOCKDOWN and the second is PROWL...hope you guys check em out and enjoy em..thanks

http://www.youtube.com/optibotimus


p.s.---i'm still very new on these boards and i hope this is in the right place. If not, could a mod or something move it to the correct place

Hey, Optibotimus, great reviews man! But you're making my reviews look bad since I don't have any Animated toys to do a video review of yet. It's all good. Lockdown is by far, my personal favorite Animated figure. Earth mode Megatron may tie him though.

Sportimus Prime wrote:Hey, Optibotimus, great reviews man! But you're making my reviews look bad since I don't have any Animated toys to do a video review of yet. It's all good. Lockdown is by far, my personal favorite Animated figure. Earth mode Megatron may tie him though.

is this the same sportimus that's subscribed to me? If so..what's up man haha

nothing is wrong with your reviews lol i'm sure you'll get to the animated ones soon enough. Lockdown is nice, but i gotta tell you, the sheer look of prowl is amazing...but so is lockdown...idk...they are QUICKLY becomin my favorite figures in my entire collection...(and while my collection isn't huge...it's decent, so that's sayin a lot)

as far as earth mode megatron goes...i haven't seen any real good photos of it yet so i don't know

optibotimus wrote:

Sportimus Prime wrote:Hey, Optibotimus, great reviews man! But you're making my reviews look bad since I don't have any Animated toys to do a video review of yet. It's all good. Lockdown is by far, my personal favorite Animated figure. Earth mode Megatron may tie him though.

is this the same sportimus that's subscribed to me? If so..what's up man haha

The very one. I just left off the "Prime" part so I won't have to type as much.

nothing is wrong with your reviews lol i'm sure you'll get to the animated ones soon enough. Lockdown is nice, but i gotta tell you, the sheer look of prowl is amazing...but so is lockdown...idk...they are QUICKLY becomin my favorite figures in my entire collection...(and while my collection isn't huge...it's decent, so that's sayin a lot)

How big is Prowl compared to Movie Deluxe Arcee? Lockdown and Prowl seem pretty tall for Deluxes. Kind of odd compared to Voyager Bulkhead who ends up shorter than both of them.

as far as earth mode megatron goes...i haven't seen any real good photos of it yet so i don't know

He turnis into an Osprey. Kind of like Movie Incinerator, only Megatron has real hands, and the blades become swords. Looking forward to that one.

since all of my transformers i keep at my office on my desk..what i'll do is bring home a deluxe movie figure and a voyager figure and do a quick comparrison video for the sizes. Prowl i would say fits ok with the deluxe series...but yea, lockdown is a pretty tall dude...

lockdown is a definite must have!

woosh wrote:lockdown is a definite must have!

haha to be honest...from the looks of all the figures i've seen...all seem to be must haves...

optimbotimus, great reviews. the only bad thing I can say is that the camera's slow.

Glad to see you're a Seibertronian.

Omega Charge wrote:optimbotimus, great reviews. the only bad thing I can say is that the camera's slow.

Glad to see you're a Seibertronian.

to be honest, i'd never thought of getting a new camera, cause the only thing i'd use it for would be to do reviews. Several people have asked why i dont get a new camera, and that's the MAIN reason. I shelled out plenty of dough for my animatd figures, so i can afford a new camera, i just think it would be pointless to only use it for reviews. The camera i use isn't HORRIBLE...but my computer is, when i have other stuff running in the background, it slows down the camera big time...it's just a simple webcam haha..but i'm glad you enjoyed the reviews...maybe if i get a lot more people subscribing, i'll invest in a new camera though...

and glad to be here

Your camera is just fine. It isn't full of blocky pixels. Your video is pretty good as long as you don't whip the toys around, otherwise, it gets blurry. Let them buy you a camera if it bothers them.

Sportimus Prime wrote:Your camera is just fine. It isn't full of blocky pixels. Your video is pretty good as long as you don't whip the toys around, otherwise, it gets blurry. Let them buy you a camera if it bothers them.

yea..that's why i try to go slow when i'm showing things...sometimes i forget and move a little too fast.

It's funny that you said something like that about making them buy me a new one...cause someone once said to me "when are you gonna get a new camera" and i replied "whenever you buy it for me"

optibotimus wrote:

Sportimus Prime wrote:Your camera is just fine. It isn't full of blocky pixels. Your video is pretty good as long as you don't whip the toys around, otherwise, it gets blurry. Let them buy you a camera if it bothers them.

yea..that's why i try to go slow when i'm showing things...sometimes i forget and move a little too fast.

It's funny that you said something like that about making them buy me a new one...cause someone once said to me "when are you gonna get a new camera" and i replied "whenever you buy it for me"

LOL. Yup. I use a simple Nikon S51 Digital Camera. Works great. It's YouTube after all, not the movie theater. You have to consider the 10 minute limit, and the size limit of your video file which has to be 100MB or less. My Skywarp review was 86 MB because I added sound effects and MP3 clips into it.

As far as video quality, you are actually pretty good compared to some other reviewers I've seen. So, I wouldn't worry about it unless you want to buy a new camera. NBNA100 (Starscream) is a FANTASTIC reviewer, but his camera is just aweful. He's trying though, and his reviews are well worth wathing despite the square mozaic that shows up at times.

Out of the Animated figures you currently have, which is your favorite? Okay, you can pick 2 if you can't settle on just 1. I was worried Hasblo got cheap with the plastic quality, but it seems they haven't. The smooth panels just make them look "cheap". Well, "cheap" isn't the right word, but I hope you get what I'm trying to say.

I still can't help but think about that Lockdown! Man, the black with the green stripes, the spikes, the angles on him-wow! Whoever designed him, deserves a big fat raise because that is one wicked figure. Thanks for reviewing it.

my favorite so far? Well, since i've only gotten prowl and lockdown in the mail so far...with starscream, megatron and bulkhead on the way...i can only comment on the two i have..i honestly love them both, but if i had to pick ONE...i'd say prowl...his robot mode does it for me...but the alt mode of lockdown wins over prowls...ONLY cause as i said in my video, i'm not a fan of motorcycle transformer toys...so..it's a toss up LOL...i love prowls robot mode and i love lockdowns alt mode...

i just wanted to mention that i uploaded a update video for my lockdown and prowl review...

it show's the size comparrison between these guys and other figures to give you a idea of the sizing...hope it helps some of you out

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Uw8U6QG-04w

I didn't read all of a couple of the replies,
but I'm wondering, isn't Lockdown's class on the packaging??
I figured he was a deluxe...
Any insight on this?

Oh, and nice reviews.
I can't WAIT to get these figures!!!!
(I think I'll get all of them except spider lady)

you're right...lockdown is a deluxe class. When i did the lockdown review, i hadn't read the packaging clearly enough to have learned this..but when i looked at prowls, i saw it on his and then looked down on lockdowns package. But by that time, i had already did the lockdown review...sorry for the confusion