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So Peaugh is purposely miss-transforming the Boosticus set in this comparison to get you to spend more money on the Mircoblaze set. In his comparison video, Peaugh miss-transformed Hasbro Onslaught with the wheels showing on the thighs making him look short and stumpy. He also failed to extend the arms to their full length making them look excessively short like you cant bend them at the elbows.

Here is a proper picture of FOC Bruticus with the Boosticus set transformed properly. As you can see he is not short and stumpy and is the same height as Fansproject Bruticus. His arms also extend more making them longer and allowing you to bend at the elbows without Microblaze's magical parts-forming.



Don't believe this online salesman. He is not showing the truth about the Boosticus set and wants you to spend twice the price with his sponsor for the Microblaze set. You've been warned.

Rated X wrote:So Peaugh is purposely miss-transforming the Boosticus set in this comparison to get you to spend more money on the Mircoblaze set.

Curious to see if he transformed FOC Bruticus correctly in his initial review of it, I went back and watched it. (Or, at least, watched it from about where he started putting together the gestalt.)

Sure enough, he did put it together correctly! But then I kept watching a bit, and he started talking about, to paraphrase, "I don't care so much for the proportions on this guy, so here's a bit of an alternate transformation I do to make things look better to me." And sure enough, he proceeds to mis-transforrm it into the configuration shown in the comparison video Rated X is complaining about.

I suppose one could give Peaugh the benefit of the doubt, and think that maybe he just became so used to transforming it that way that he forgot that wasn't how it was supposed to be done. Mind you, if this is the truth of things, it still makes it a supremely poopy comparison video. If you are comparing how two different third party upgrades look on a figure, you should make sure you are presenting them both in the configuration they are intended to be in! But, at least, it saves Peaugh from being accused of being a sell-out.

... ... ...

Unless he did sell out, and it was an intentional mistake. In which case, boo! But... who knows?

Yotsuyasan wrote:

Rated X wrote:So Peaugh is purposely miss-transforming the Boosticus set in this comparison to get you to spend more money on the Mircoblaze set.

Curious to see if he transformed FOC Bruticus correctly in his initial review of it, I went back and watched it. (Or, at least, watched it from about where he started putting together the gestalt.)

Sure enough, he did put it together correctly! But then I kept watching a bit, and he started talking about, to paraphrase, "I don't care so much for the proportions on this guy, so here's a bit of an alternate transformation I do to make things look better to me." And sure enough, he proceeds to mis-transforrm it into the configuration shown in the comparison video Rated X is complaining about.

I suppose one could give Peaugh the benefit of the doubt, and think that maybe he just became so used to transforming it that way that he forgot that wasn't how it was supposed to be done. Mind you, if this is the truth of things, it still makes it a supremely poopy comparison video. If you are comparing how two different third party upgrades look on a figure, you should make sure you are presenting them both in the configuration they are intended to be in! But, at least, it saves Peaugh from being accused of being a sell-out.

... ... ...

Unless he did sell out, and it was an intentional mistake. In which case, boo! But... who knows?

Only Peaugh knows himself if this mistake was deliberate or accidental. None of us will ever know. But it was a smart idea to see if he did the correct transformation in his initial review. I did not even think of that. It is very amusing that he did transform him correctly for the initial review.

Here's the original review:

Peaugh has done nothing to no one. think this obsession with him is creepy and scary.

Don't know why the obsession is so strong with peaugh that he needs to be talked about in all the threads in the 3rd party section here.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:

Yotsuyasan wrote:
I suppose one could give Peaugh the benefit of the doubt, and think that maybe he just became so used to transforming it that way that he forgot that wasn't how it was supposed to be done. Mind you, if this is the truth of things, it still makes it a supremely poopy comparison video. If you are comparing how two different third party upgrades look on a figure, you should make sure you are presenting them both in the configuration they are intended to be in! But, at least, it saves Peaugh from being accused of being a sell-out.

... ... ...

Unless he did sell out, and it was an intentional mistake. In which case, boo! But... who knows?

I think this is closer to the truth. He probably just grabbed the Boosticus set off a shelf or something. He probably forgot he mistransformed it.

Hey, X? Why not do some actual good and inform him that he mistransformed the set in the vid description? Instead of, you know, just hurling accusations. I mean ... trying to sell more? There isn't even a link to BBTS in the description. You're just focused on shitting on him. You know, as a person.

So now I gotta reach out to people that I blatantly don't trust to prove my own integrity ?

I think you are asking a bit too much. Isn't peaugh supposed to be the expert ? They (TF Source) are supposed to be the professionals. I'm just a guy with a hunch. Since when is it the consumers job to correct the corporation on their own merchandise ?

You wanted more examples and I found you one. I don't have the time to watch outdated videos. Ill point out any anomalies on new videos as they appear.

I know that particular video doesn't have a sponsor link, but his original Microblaze review did. We know he is repping TF Source, there's no hiding that.

Tsutsukakushi wrote:Peaugh has done nothing to no one. think this obsession with him is creepy and scary.

Don't know why the obsession is so strong with peaugh that he needs to be talked about in all the threads in the 3rd party section here.

What's creepy and scary is when Peaugh says jump, you say how high ?

Ive never sold a single figure Ive bought since 2007. You have said many times that you have sold figures you bought. How many of those figures you sold did Peaugh's reviews convince you to buy in the first place ?

You've made it very clear you ride the Peaugh bandwagon. You've also made it very clear that you are very particular on which figures you buy. I'm fairly confident you have watched Peaugh's review for every figure you own before purchasing it. So what's with the selling ? Was Peaugh wrong ? Isn't he supposed to be the god of Transformers in your eyes ?


Edit: I noticed your "edit and erase" habit finally caught up with you. You're the first guy on here to erase a comment and then re-post it once you realized it was quoted before you could remove it....

Gauntlet101010 wrote:

Rated X wrote:

Gauntlet101010 wrote:

Yotsuyasan wrote:
I suppose one could give Peaugh the benefit of the doubt, and think that maybe he just became so used to transforming it that way that he forgot that wasn't how it was supposed to be done. Mind you, if this is the truth of things, it still makes it a supremely poopy comparison video. If you are comparing how two different third party upgrades look on a figure, you should make sure you are presenting them both in the configuration they are intended to be in! But, at least, it saves Peaugh from being accused of being a sell-out.

... ... ...

Unless he did sell out, and it was an intentional mistake. In which case, boo! But... who knows?

I think this is closer to the truth. He probably just grabbed the Boosticus set off a shelf or something. He probably forgot he mistransformed it.

Hey, X? Why not do some actual good and inform him that he mistransformed the set in the vid description? Instead of, you know, just hurling accusations. I mean ... trying to sell more? There isn't even a link to BBTS in the description. You're just focused on shitting on him. You know, as a person.

So now I gotta reach out to people that I blatantly don't trust to prove my own integrity ?

I think you are asking a bit too much. Isn't peaugh supposed to be the expert ? They (TF Source) are supposed to be the professionals. I'm just a guy with a hunch. Since when is it the consumers job to correct the corporation on their own merchandise ?

You wanted more examples and I found you one. I don't have the time to watch outdated videos. Ill point out any anomalies on new videos as they appear.

I know that particular video doesn't have a sponsor link, but his original Microblaze review did. We know he is repping TF Source, there's no hiding that.

I wrote this whole reply that was lost. Meh.

I wanted you to find me examples where he purposefully makes a toy look bad. But you've gone a fair bit beyond that now. You've gone from attacking the review to attacking the person. Had you stopped at the mistransformation you may have had a point. But your assumption about his motives have crossed a line. Because, I guess you didn't notice that he didn't add a link to buy at TF Source or a blurb in front of his videos.

Because that didn't factor into your assumptions it's now your credibility and your integrity that takes a hit. With me. On this. Just calling them corporate makes me convinced this is more about you and your total distrust regarding any and all corporations big and small. As if the people who work for anything are suddenly not people at all.

So, while you may very well prove Preaugh isn't infallible, you've convinced me your own personal bias clouds your judgement on the matter to the extent that you just can't see past your nose.

In agreeance.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:

Rated X wrote:

Gauntlet101010 wrote:

Yotsuyasan wrote:
I suppose one could give Peaugh the benefit of the doubt, and think that maybe he just became so used to transforming it that way that he forgot that wasn't how it was supposed to be done. Mind you, if this is the truth of things, it still makes it a supremely poopy comparison video. If you are comparing how two different third party upgrades look on a figure, you should make sure you are presenting them both in the configuration they are intended to be in! But, at least, it saves Peaugh from being accused of being a sell-out.

... ... ...

Unless he did sell out, and it was an intentional mistake. In which case, boo! But... who knows?

I think this is closer to the truth. He probably just grabbed the Boosticus set off a shelf or something. He probably forgot he mistransformed it.

Hey, X? Why not do some actual good and inform him that he mistransformed the set in the vid description? Instead of, you know, just hurling accusations. I mean ... trying to sell more? There isn't even a link to BBTS in the description. You're just focused on shitting on him. You know, as a person.

So now I gotta reach out to people that I blatantly don't trust to prove my own integrity ?

I think you are asking a bit too much. Isn't peaugh supposed to be the expert ? They (TF Source) are supposed to be the professionals. I'm just a guy with a hunch. Since when is it the consumers job to correct the corporation on their own merchandise ?

You wanted more examples and I found you one. I don't have the time to watch outdated videos. Ill point out any anomalies on new videos as they appear.

I know that particular video doesn't have a sponsor link, but his original Microblaze review did. We know he is repping TF Source, there's no hiding that.

I wrote this whole reply that was lost. Meh.

I wanted you to find me examples where he purposefully makes a toy look bad. But you've gone a fair bit beyond that now. You've gone from attacking the review to attacking the person. Had you stopped at the mistransformation you may have had a point. But your assumption about his motives have crossed a line. Because, I guess you didn't notice that he didn't add a link to buy at TF Source or a blurb in front of his videos.

Because that didn't factor into your assumptions it's now your credibility and your integrity that takes a hit. With me. On this. Just calling them corporate makes me convinced this is more about you and your total distrust regarding any and all corporations big and small. As if the people who work for anything are suddenly not people at all.

So, while you may very well prove Preaugh isn't infallible, you've convinced me your own personal bias clouds your judgement on the matter to the extent that you just can't see past your nose.

Well the way I see it, this video is a "part 2" to Peaugh's Microblaze review already tagged with a TF Source plug. He gave a false impression of the cheaper add on kit in favor of the more expensive one, plain and simple. I'm not sure how you consider this to be a "personal" attack on Peaugh. It could have been Bill Cosby who made the review for all I care. At the end of the day I caught him with his pants down and he has a sponsor named TF Source.

I have nothing "personal" against any one sponsored reviewer. I hate their deceitfulness equally. One by one, I will expose what I believe is conflict of interest and blatant sugarcoating to garner sales.

Optibotimus - Busted

Peaugh - Busted

Who's next ?

I will continue to run the Gauntlet. (no pun intended)

Rated X wrote:

Gauntlet101010 wrote:

Rated X wrote:

Gauntlet101010 wrote:

Yotsuyasan wrote:
I suppose one could give Peaugh the benefit of the doubt, and think that maybe he just became so used to transforming it that way that he forgot that wasn't how it was supposed to be done. Mind you, if this is the truth of things, it still makes it a supremely poopy comparison video. If you are comparing how two different third party upgrades look on a figure, you should make sure you are presenting them both in the configuration they are intended to be in! But, at least, it saves Peaugh from being accused of being a sell-out.

... ... ...

Unless he did sell out, and it was an intentional mistake. In which case, boo! But... who knows?

I think this is closer to the truth. He probably just grabbed the Boosticus set off a shelf or something. He probably forgot he mistransformed it.

Hey, X? Why not do some actual good and inform him that he mistransformed the set in the vid description? Instead of, you know, just hurling accusations. I mean ... trying to sell more? There isn't even a link to BBTS in the description. You're just focused on shitting on him. You know, as a person.

So now I gotta reach out to people that I blatantly don't trust to prove my own integrity ?

I think you are asking a bit too much. Isn't peaugh supposed to be the expert ? They (TF Source) are supposed to be the professionals. I'm just a guy with a hunch. Since when is it the consumers job to correct the corporation on their own merchandise ?

You wanted more examples and I found you one. I don't have the time to watch outdated videos. Ill point out any anomalies on new videos as they appear.

I know that particular video doesn't have a sponsor link, but his original Microblaze review did. We know he is repping TF Source, there's no hiding that.

I wrote this whole reply that was lost. Meh.

I wanted you to find me examples where he purposefully makes a toy look bad. But you've gone a fair bit beyond that now. You've gone from attacking the review to attacking the person. Had you stopped at the mistransformation you may have had a point. But your assumption about his motives have crossed a line. Because, I guess you didn't notice that he didn't add a link to buy at TF Source or a blurb in front of his videos.

Because that didn't factor into your assumptions it's now your credibility and your integrity that takes a hit. With me. On this. Just calling them corporate makes me convinced this is more about you and your total distrust regarding any and all corporations big and small. As if the people who work for anything are suddenly not people at all.

So, while you may very well prove Preaugh isn't infallible, you've convinced me your own personal bias clouds your judgement on the matter to the extent that you just can't see past your nose.

Well the way I see it, this video is a "part 2" to Peaugh's Microblaze review already tagged with a TF Source plug. He gave a false impression of the cheaper add on kit in favor of the more expensive one, plain and simple. I'm not sure how you consider this to be a "personal" attack on Peaugh. It could have been Bill Cosby who made the review for all I care. At the end of the day I caught him with his pants down and he has a sponsor named TF Source.

I have nothing "personal" against any one sponsored reviewer. I hate their deceitfulness equally. One by one, I will expose what I believe is conflict of interest and blatant sugarcoating to garner sales.

Optibotimus - Busted

Peaugh - Busted

Who's next ?

I will continue to run the Gauntlet. (no pun intended)

Whilst I agree with you on Peaugh I think your being harsh on Optibotimus, you use the Kronos review to sell your point however he does openly show the figures faults, optibotimus' reviews often have a lot of editing in them, now if he were a toy store stooge he could have easily edited out the breakage of the head and the foot, he doesn't, he shows the fault in detail, and as I have said earlier he was one of the few (as far as I can see 2) reviewers that highlighted Springers gappy cockpit. Peaugh however, I don't think I'll ever watch his reviews again, I was already bummed about his Springer review but that Bootsicus review seals it.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:X, You can "run the gauntlet" but I'm totally convinced you're deluded and into just bashing people personally. Honestly, I'm disappointed. I thought better of you than that.

When both parties are convinced there's no point in continuing. You can "run the gauntlet" with someone else.

I know you two have had your differences but you have to admit X has a point when it comes to Peaugh.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:X, You can "run the gauntlet" but I'm totally convinced you're deluded and into just bashing people personally. Honestly, I'm disappointed. I thought better of you than that.

When both parties are convinced there's no point in continuing. You can "run the gauntlet" with someone else.

And exactly how am I bashing them “personally” as you claim ?

I don’t even know their real names and most of them hide their faces. I don’t know anything “personal” about them to bash. I even stated in this thread that I didn’t have any personal beef with them as individuals. My beef is with what they are doing in general. I was even reluctant to call them out by their screen names until you said this:

Gauntlet101010 wrote:Just name names. We can't have a proper discussion based on anonymous "reviewers someone has seen".

So anything said on this thread that might be perceived as a “personal” attack is a direct result of your request.

I think you need to do a better job defining to yourself the meaning of “personal”. I’m not talking about anyone’s family or lifestyle here. If I wanted to get “personal” as you put it, I would make fun of their long crusty fingernails, hairy arms, and tacky wristwatches. You don’t see me doing that do you? I do admit to poking fun of the reviewers who wear stupid costumes and bombard us with dry humor. But that comes with territory of wearing stupid costumes and making corny jokes. As I said before, the reviewing game is starting to become a circus. You cant have a circus without clowns.

There’s only one guy in the entire TF fandom that I occasionally get “personal” with because he often gets “personal” with me. Other than that, my posting is strictly business and business is never personal. And for the record I have no issues with you. This is just healthy debate.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:

leakin' lubricant wrote:

Gauntlet101010 wrote:X, You can "run the gauntlet" but I'm totally convinced you're deluded and into just bashing people personally. Honestly, I'm disappointed. I thought better of you than that.

When both parties are convinced there's no point in continuing. You can "run the gauntlet" with someone else.

I know you two have had your differences but you have to admit X has a point when it comes to Peaugh.

Not really, no. Especially with the last vid. That just hit the last nail in the coffin for me, in regards to X's argument.

So, no. All X has done is solidify my opinion that you really, really have to twist videos around to demonstrate a bias. And that his bias is overwhelming. I mean, geez. There wasn't even any advertisement there. Not a link, not a banner before the ad, nothing. And that's supposed to be the smoking gun of conflict-of-interest reviews? This big deal that shows Preaugh is interested in selling things for stores? Seriously?

All X has proven is that he's overenthusiastic. If that was the point, then I'd be forced to agree. But that wasn't the point. X's point was just dragging his name through the mud in any way possible. Just ... wow. I'll listen to X's opinion on other matters another time, but for now I'm not interested.

What don't you get ? He already did a video promoting Microblaze Bruticus with a TF Source plug. Then he does an update that makes Boosticus look like crap. He didn't have to put the TF Source plug on the update, it's already on his first Microblaze video on his youtube channel. Stop acting like he isn't being Sponnsored by TF Source to promote Microblaze Bruticus. It's the same figure in both videos. Remember the one he said showed up on his doorstep ?

Also, you have avoided my question. Please explain how I'm getting "personal" ?

I know nothing personal about these guys to take it to a personal level.

Just watched Peaughs take on Kronos, now if you think Optibotimus' is bad take a look at that, not one mention of the quality of the plastic or the durability of the figure, and not once does he mention the feet, now I don't mean that he transforms them without and issue I mean he fails to pull them out or explain how they transform, they also appear a little uneven in the video. Now you could argue that he "forgot" to transform them like he "forgot" to display Bruiticus correctly, but every other review I have seen of this guy has a section on the feet, even the guys who don't seem it have a a issues with them. It may be that he didn't have any issues with them and they transform perfectly but because he doesn't show the transformation we will never know.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:Well, I'll argue with you over it, LL.

First off the Boosticus comparison has no ads. So if you think he didn't actually forget to transform that back, then that's balanced about by the lack of ads.

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transform ... e-785.html
So Peaugh got a loose final version before it was released. As in - no instructions. Now we've already established the feet are difficult to transform. It seems likely that it came that way and he didn't try to force it - which would cause a break.

In agreeance.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:Well, I'll argue with you over it, LL.

First off the Boosticus comparison has no ads. So if you think he didn't actually forget to transform that back, then that's balanced about by the lack of ads.

http://www.tfw2005.com/boards/transform ... e-785.html
So Peaugh got a loose final version before it was released. As in - no instructions. Now we've already established the feet are difficult to transform. It seems likely that it came that way and he didn't try to force it - which would cause a break.

OK, it came without instructions so yeah difficult to transform, I get that but you would think as one of the top reviewers out there he would have taken the time to nail down the transformation before posting on youtube ready to be seen by millions, and if he had a hard time transforming the feet and didn't want to break the figure that's fine but at least mention it as part of the review, or say "I'm not quite sure how to transform this part as I have no Instructions" but nothing is said about the feet apart from mentioning the flaps. Truth is Peaugh doesn't like to mention problems with figures, Kronos' feet issue is well documented throughout these boards and on TFW2005 every other reviewer on youtube shows them to be flimsy and prone to breakage, whereas Peaugh fails to even comment on them, same again with Springers gappy cockpit, well documented on forum boards and his version clearly has the fault yet he makes a vague reference about it being "OK". Let me put it this way, would you trust a film reviewer if every film they reviewed recived consistently favourable reviews regardless of whether the film was any good or not?

I'm going to have to agree and side with Gauntlet101010, On this one.

It is not easy to Transform TF toys without instructions. So it is possible he can't figure out how a certain step Transforms.

Can totally understand Peaugh might not want to force the transformationsm if he can't figure them out. because the toys might break. These things are exspensive and perhaps he is afraid of breaking them.

Just because Peaugh, does these Video reviews. Does not mean he is a TF toys Transformations guru.

Peaugh is not perfect, He has his faults like the rest of us.

Peaugh is doing a service to the fandom. As he shows buyers or fans how to transform these toys. Shows off scales, Articulation, gimmicks and so on.

Some need to be thankful for what is given instead of always complaining and be so angry all the time. Nobody is entitled to anything. Making demands when someone is doing reviews for free just seems selfish.

Let me ask the question in this thread.

How much are video watchers paying to see these TF video reviews? The answer is nothing. So making demands on the video reviewers when your not paying to watch is uncalled for

If anyone is unhappy, Then step up to the plate and create your own TF video reviews.

If your not paying to watch, Then you either accept the imperfections or watch other guys you prefer better. It's just that simple.

Nobody is entitled to anything. Some need to appreciate what is given for free. Rather than being so angry and complaining all the time.