The Most Underrated G1 Transformer Team You Need To Own

This video is sponsored by toy hacks.com. Toy Hacks is your one-stop shop for reproduction decals for vintage G1 Transformers and upgrade decals for your modern bots. Toy Hacks. Making Transformers look amazing since 1999. The most underappreciated combiner team from the original Transformers generation 1 toy line has to be 1988 Savage Secons and their awesome combined form of Piranicon. These bots transformed into terrifying sea monsters and the smaller bots could actually transform into guns that Piranicon could use in battle. So, not only were they a combiner team, but they were also Target masters. Now, the Secons hitting the toy shelves in 1988 meant that they arrived a little too late to appear in the animated series, though they were animated in their television commercial. >> New Transformers are here. Now, from the bottom of the sea come the monsters of the deep, the target master. >> Target master transformers. They got the power to surprise. And when they join with their leader to form Piranicon, anyone can become the god. >> They made their first appearance in Marvel comics in issue number 46 and then they were killed off in issue 50. Secons, we barely knew you. So now without further ado, let's take a look at these awesome, unique, very late8s combiner team. Don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe, and welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. They call me Patriot [music] Crime, showing what's new. Transformers reviews with a heartfelt view. Now, we'll kick things off by taking a look at the Secons in their creature modes. First, starting left to right, we have Overbite, Nautilator, the Secon leader, Snap Trap, [music] Tentacill, Scalor, and Sea-wing. Now, full disclaimer, this Secon set is actually the big bad toy store reissue from 2010. So, it's exactly like the original except for some collar differences and added chrome that I'll get into shortly. So, let's take a look at my favorite Overbite, the shark monster thing. Now, the Decepticons had something for shark monsters. This is actually the third. We had Naw and we had Ripper Snapper. Now, speaking of the collar differences with the reissue, the original Nautilator, his pink sections right here were purple in G1, but I don't mind the pink. So, taking a close look at the shark monster thing. He looks pretty good. I love the sculpted detailing. I love the paint applications. He's got a gun mounted up in under his chin that you can remove. You don't have to have that on. The arms can move and they can actually pop out. They are removable, but I advise against that. You don't want to lose them. He's got a jaw that can open and close barely. Let's see. Legs can move. There's a knee bend. There's kind of a ankle tilt as well. The fin can flop back and forth. And the tail can move. And the tail fin can move. Now, a lot of that is for [music] transformation. Like I said in the intro, all of these smaller bots have a secondary gun mode, or I guess a third mode, the gun. And for his gun mode, you're going to extend the head and bring it up just like so. And then collapse it back in. Take the back section here and kind of angle it however you want. The legs, bring the legs, let's say I like them, forward like so. And then you're going to take his underslung gun from his chin, plug it in right there, [music] bring the arms down so they're kind of facing forward. So then you have this trident looking blaster thing. And oh yeah, you got to extend the handle. So there you go. There is his gun mode. Now all the smaller bots did come with stands. So, if you want to display your figure in gun mode, you just peg it in right there on the top. If I can get it. And there you go. I don't know of anybody who displayed their figures in gun mode. So, anyway, there's that. Hold the stand apart. Now, let's get him transformed into his robot mode. Just remove the gun tip. Extend the head out all the way. Rotate these claws back toward the shark head. Take the fin, fold it back. Take the tail, bring it down. The handle is the head. And then bring the arms forward. Flip the feet down. And there is Overbite in his robot mode. He's a beefy boy. These guys look like the gym bros I knew in the ' 90s. All they ever worked out was their upper body. They left the legs alone. Bring him in for a closer look. Pretty decent face sculpt. I wish there was some [music] more paint applications. was trying to get focused in. You can make out the eyes. You can make out the mouth plate decal right there in the center of the chest. Now, with this big bad toy store version, the decals were already applied. So, you got some messed up ones right there. I did just recently order some toy hacks decals for him. Articulation's pretty good. The arms can do a complete 360. And he actually has an elbow bend, so you don't see that very often in these smaller Transformers. You can put his weapon in his hand. And there we have Overbite all armed and ready for battle and looking awesome. You can bring that way back as well. Lots of backpack on these guys. So there is Overbite. [music] Let's bring in Nautilator the lobster monster. Now in reissues with the secons, I think it was Beast Wars 2, they always omit Nautilator here for some reason. He gets no love whatsoever. But he's this really cool lobster monster thing. Love the paint application. Love the decals. Got some claws here on the front. He has an undermounted gun as well that you can remove and it actually pegs into his mouth. So you can close his mouth back up. So he does have mouth articulation, but it is tight. You see the peg right there? The claws can move. Even just like overbite, you can pop these [music] out if you want, but mine are in there a little bit tighter than over bites, but as I said, I recommend you do not do that. Lots of great sculpted detailing on this guy. I dig him. I think he looks really cool. Now, let's get into his weapon mode. You're going to extend the tail. Flip this section around. Leave it out and extended. You've got the handle right here. And let's see. You're going to take his blaster they had under his mouth or in his mouth. Plug that in. And there is the nautilator gun. Now, this one's not too bad, but I wish the handle was farther back. Um, but that's just me. And of course, you can mount it like I showed with overbite. All right, robot mode. Leave the legs down. Go ahead and bring this head section down and it'll snap in place. and bring the claws straight out because you're going to take these legs and you'll bend them back around the back section and you want the claws to go between the legs to kind of clean up the [music] look. Bring these little arms forward and there we have Nautilator in his robot mode. Once again, big old chest, skinny legs. Bring him in for a closer look. Pretty much the same type of head sculpt that Overbite had. He's got the mouth plate. You can make out the eyes. Not too bad. Wish there was some more paint applications. [music] Let's see. Articulation for him. The arms can move up and down. And they are on a soft ratchet, which is nice. And then we've got his blaster. We'll go ahead and put that in his hand. So now we have Nautilator all armed and ready for battle and looking pretty cool. All right, next up, let's save the leader for last. Let's take a look at Tentacill next. some kind of weird looking octopus monster. Now, he does have eight arms, even though you only see six. You got the three here on each side. And then the tail, I believe, is arms as well because you can see the little suction cups. And then he has legs. Uh articulation for him, the little arms can move back and forth. And that's it. And I guess the tail can wag or just separate the whole section. [music] Now, this tail, for normal transformation, you want to bring the tail all the way up to cover the robot head, but then he's so topheavy, he doesn't want to stand. So, you kind of have to bring the tail down one notch in order to get him to stand. [music] He does have weapons that attach to his the side of his head right there. And we'll go ahead and remove those so you can take a look at him. Gunfree [music] decals look pretty good. I do like the paint applications. I like the black for the face, the yellow eyes. I wish there was black painted in the mouth to really make those teeth pop. But still, all in all, he he's weird and wonderful. Let's get into his weapon mode. You're going to extend the head section here. Flip this around like so. Then, let's see. Where's the handle? Flip it down. And from here, you're going to take the two guns he had mounted on his head, and these [music] actually peg together. If I could get the section here. Here we go. There we go. So, you got these two. The port goes in a hole. Peg that together like so. Having one peg right there on the front, which is going to peg in right here. So, there is Tentacill [music] in his blaster mode. Of course, you can bring the arms up if you'd like to kind of make it look more streamlined. And I guess you can bring that in, too. So, yeah. There you go. It's a gun. All right, let's get him into robot mode. Remove that. Fully extend this section, which is going to be the robot legs. Take this section here with the tail and the legs. Bring that all the way down. I guess I could have showed articulation. Does legs move? Oh, yeah. Legs do move. Man, they're tight. So, anyway, bring the handle down. Bring the arms forward. You can bring these back as well. like the little suction cups. And there you go. There is Tentacle in his robot mode. Looking very, very pink. I love these guys. They're just so goddy. All right, bring him in for a closer look. Great looking head sculpt on Tentacill. Once again, I wish he had some painted in eyes, but still, that's not too bad. Decals here on the chest. Uh, he's not as bulky up top. He's a little bit more streamlined than the others. articulation. The arms can go up and down. And let's see. Let's get him all armed up. We're going to take his blaster, separate it. You can see he's got two little pegs on each one. Those are going to go in each hand so he can dual wield. Let's see. Get that in there. And there you go, guys. There is Tentacill. All armed and ready for battle. Next up, let's take a look at Scalor. And he's supposed to be is it a celacanth? I I can't I'm not sure how to pronounce that fish. I'm not an oceanographer, but that's what he's supposed to be. A fish monster with arms and legs. And I like the looks of him. He's got the [music] molded in scales right there. He's got scales here on top. Really fishy looking face. He's got a jaw that can move up and down. It's just actually full of teeth. Great sculpted detailing back here on the back for the tail. I like the fins on the back of the legs. He's got guns mounted on his back. So, all in all, man, that's a really cool weird looking fish. [music] Let's uh get his weapons off. Go into articulation. The arms can move up and down. The legs can move back and forth. There is a knee bend as well. And let's see. Let's get into weapon mode. We're going to extend the head like so and bring it up. Make sure that jaw is all the way up as well cuz that's where the hole is. Not sure if that head I think that's as far as it goes. There's a little peg right there. It keeps go from going all the way up. And just like with uh [music] Tentacill, you going to take this gun and squeeze it together making a double barrel blaster. It's going to peg into his jaw here. Get the arms facing forward. Forward or back? I mean, I like them facing forward because I kind of dig the uh trident look. [music] Bring the head down. Bring the legs forward. Bring that keep that fin up. And there is Scalor's blaster. [music] So, not too bad. It's It's It's a fish gun. All right, let's get him transformed into robot mode. Bring the arms back toward the head. Kind of like over bites transformation. Extend those legs all the way down. Take the fin, fold it back. Fold this back. Pop the head up. Bring the arms forward and flip out the fists that are sometimes hard to get a hold of. And you talk about doing nothing but over body, upper body. This guy, man, he is all torso. And unfortunately, he looks like he has a clown nose. The paint has been scraped off of his nose right there. That that sucks, but [music] is what it is. They also put the Decepticon symbol on crooked. I have those legs out all the way. I do. So, yeah, there is uh Scalor in his robot mode. Articulation. The arms can do a complete 360 and there's an elbow bend as well. And that's it. Let's get him all armed up. Take the blaster, split it apart, put one in one hand. Now, with him, you have to angle the hands down slightly or that blaster will not fit [music] because of the fin right there. And then you kind of straighten them up. Or maybe it's when you go all the way up, they kind of have an angle. So, anyway, get those in. Get that pegged in. And there we go. Scalor all armed and ready for battle. And the last smaller bot we're going to take a look at is Sea Wing. He is a manoray with legs. He doesn't have arms, just legs this time. Looks really good. Um, I dig the looks of this guy. I I think manor rays are cool anyway. And Sewing just [music] pops. He's got a great looking color scheme. I love the black with the head, the yellow eyes, gray here for the wings. He's got the tail on the back that I wish maybe was a little longer, but is what it is. He does have an opening mouth right there, a jaw that can go up and down, and [music] legs that can move. His blasters tuck in under his wings, and we're going to remove those so we can take a look at C-wing in his gun mode. What we're going to do is extend these black sections [music] all the way out. One sticks. There we go. Then you're going to rotate these around just like so. And then push them back. Go underneath. Take the legs. Bring the legs back. Flip [music] out the handle. Right there. And now, just like the last few we've had, you're going to take the guns and these [music] will actually peg together right there. You can see the two different pegs. There we go. Peg those together. Plug it into the front of C-wing. You'll make sure these black sections do go all the way back flush. They are not for some. There we go. Sewing's tricky for some reason. Okay. Got to get the wings up slightly. Get that back. Okay. Now, plug that in. And there is C- Wings gun mode. Of course, I believe you bring that up as well. So, yeah, there you go. a manoray double barrel blaster. All right, let's finish him up and get him in robot mode. Take these black sections, extend all the way down, forming the robot legs. Make sure they go all the way down. Now, we're going to take the tail, bring [music] the tail down around the wings, revealing the robot head. Flip the handle down. Bring the robot [music] arms down as you rotate those feet around, revealing the fists. And there's Seawing in robot mode. He's got my least favorite robot mode. And I think it's all due to this crotch section right here. He looks like he's wearing a very, very long loin cloth. [music] And I I just think he's goofy. Like the rest of these aren't goofy, but he's my least favorite robot mode. Decent enough head sculpt. I love the fact he has a painted in visor. So, the [music] collar is different from the rest of the head, but that's because the rest of the head is unpainted plastic. Articulation, the arms can do a complete 360. And he's got a hell of a backpack. You can get those swings out of the way a little bit. You can bring the tail [music] down slightly, but not much. All right, let's get his guns in hand. We're going to separate these two again. And they are hard to get apart. There we go. So, put these in his hand with the wings facing out. There's one. There is the other. And there is Sewing. All armed and ready for battle. So, that's it for the smaller bots. Let's take a look at the leader of the Secon. Sorry, didn't mean to hit the camera. Here we have Snap Trap. Uh, Snap Trap's kind of odd because the rest of the guys are sea creatures. And Snap Trap here, I guess, is a snapping turtle. He's definitely not a sea turtle. So, he's a I guess his name is Snap Trap. So, I'm going to say he is a snapping turtle. He looks great. I love the collar scheme. He's big. He's bulky. He is armed to the teeth. He's got a gun mounted on top. He's got guns here on the front. And these guns have a really cool feature. Remove this one. You have this lever. Move this back and forth and guns like have a pompom attack. I like it. Like boom boom boom boom boom. I dig it. I love that as a kid. We'll go ahead. Well, let's leave that off. Uh he has these chrome blades on the back that can move back and forth. A lot of people in turtle mode have him face like that way. I like mine facing forward as he's going by you. He could gut you, whatever. Uh, he's got a jaw that could open and close. It can snap shut. After all, he's a snapping turtle. The legs can go forward and back on the front, and they are on ratchets. Hear that? Love that sound. Back legs are on ratchets as well. And they do have a slight reverse knee bend, if you will. And that's pretty much it for Snap Trap. He doesn't have a gun mode because he is the main body of Piranicon. Let's game transformed into robot mode. We're going to remove the back half of the shell. Fits in there tight. It actually got these ridges right here that go in the ridges right there where you see these little pegs. So, put that to the side. From here, we're going to unsnap the rear legs. Bring them all the way around and up. Take these sections here and bring these all the way down. on. These are the robot legs. And once those go all the way down, there are heel spurs on the back. Flip those down. From here, you're going to bring the front legs of the turtle down and extend these out where the fists are going to automatically deploy. I like that. So, bring them down, around, and out pop the fists. Then you're going to rotate the turtle head down and around revealing the robot head. Now with my snap trap, what I did is this big bad toy store version, the robot head was the same color as the turtle head. So what I did is I [music] bought a generation one snap trap and traded off the heads. I just think that black looks a lot better. So great looking head sculpt. I love the yellow eyes. I love the black head. uh Decepticon decal right there. That's not the one that came with the figure when I traded off heads. I had to remove the decals to get the head apart. [music] Decals on the shoulders. Uh he's got a hell of a backpack as well. Articulation. Arms can rotate. And there is an elbow bend. And I guess the legs can go in and out if you will as well. The pompom feature on the back does still work, but he's firing straight up in the air. Uh that's it for articulation. Now, one thing about Snap Trap, he is extremely back heavy. And even those little heel spurs, well, I spoke too soon. But you do have to watch him. He can fall over pretty easy. All right, let's get him all armed up. First off, the gun he had on his back. That is his main rifle. So, we'll get that pegged in his hand. And another awesome thing. There he goes trying to fall. All right. Make sure those heels are down. Another thing that the Big Bad Toy Store exclusive has is this awesome chrome sword. The original G1 figure, its sword was all this purple collar right here. Big Bad Toy Store gave him a chrome sword. God, that thing is beautiful. We're going to put that in his other hand, just like so. And lastly, we have the back half of the turtle shell, which you can turn into a shield. Kind of bring those forward. And he's got these little pegs underneath here. Just flip out one and it's going to peg in right there in his shoulder. So, you got that look going on. So, there you go. You got Snap Trap all armed and ready for battle along with the rest of the Secons. Who is he hiding back here? There he is. Good old Sea Wing. So there's the uh secons alto together in robot mode. Now let's get them transformed into the mighty piranha. The first thing you need to do before the transformation into piranacon is to remove all the smaller weapons and accessories. So let's start with Snap Trap, who's going to be the main body and torso of Piranicon. First thing we're going to do is take the arms, rotate them up, and collapse those fists in. and then rotate the arm all the way around where this curved section is facing forward. Do that here on the other side. These fist will not collapse in until you get the green section. Rotate it around. Okay. Rotate that arm there. So, we've got that going on. Take the heel spurs. Fold those up. And now you're going to bring the legs out and back in just like so. Now we've got Piranicon's head right here, which is going to slide right over Snap Trap's head. Just like that. Now we're going to take the shield from earlier underneath. You got these two pegs that you're going to pull out. We only used one earlier. And those are going to snap in along this section here of snap trap. Kind of tricky to get it in there just right. You see where they slide in right there. Well, went in easier than I thought. And we're going to bring those down slightly where the chrome parts kind of cover up the arms. And that's pretty much it for the torso of Piranicon. We'll go ahead and show that off real close. Love the head sculpt. Got that nice combination of the black and yellow. Very unique looking mouth plate. Got some decals here on the chest plate. You got the chrome blades right there. compared Decepticon insignia there near the waist section. So, all right. So, next up now, of course, he's a Scramble City combiner, and you can combine these guys any way you want. Sorry, I hit the camera again. This is the way I like to do it. I'm going to use Scalor and Tentacill as my legs. Pretty simple. Go ahead and collapse the robot leg in like so. Bring the arms down and rotate the fists in on Scalore. Grab you a foot plate. And with Piranicon, I don't think Yeah, there's a left and a right. So, he's going to be the right foot. I'll plug that in right there on the bottom. Just like so. Grab Tentacill. Collapse the legs. That's pretty much it for him. Get a foot plate. Peg that in. There we go. So, we got the two legs. All right. Technical difficulties. Got the two legs here. Just like every other Scramble City combiner, the head's going to go up in those little ports for the legs. Just snap those in just like so. And there we go. Let me see if I can adjust that camera a little bit. Okay. Now I have Piranicon all in frame. Let's use C-wing for the right arm. Let's see. You're going to bring the tail up. Bring the arms [music] back. Extend this section here, the handle, which is now going to be the shoulder joint. Like so. Bring the wings all the way up. And take these [music] black sections, and you'll bring those all the way forward. So, you have room to plug in the hand. See, we're on a right hand. So, there we go. Plug that in right there. And now this will plug in right on that port on Snap Trap shoulder. So we got the right arm attached. Now we're going to use tentacle, not tentacle. Not ailator. Let's see. Bring the arms down. Go ahead and bring the head. Let's see. Bring these arms out and bring the head up. Rotate the tail. Fold in the handle. And you're going to take the jaw right here. Open this up all the way. Bringing in the fist just like so. Bring the claws forward. Now, I love using Nautilator as an arm because I like the fact he has those claw attachments. It's like he has extra weapons on his arm. Now, a big issue with Nautilator using him as an arm. Oops, that popped back in. Is these multiple legs get in the way. They will not fold back. If you use him as a leg, you can kind of bring the arms in like so, but I still like using him as an arm myself. Just be wary that he is very bulky and kind of cumbersome. So, you got the peg out here. You going to peg this in just like so. And there we have Piranicon all complete, but he's missing his weapon. Now, you could use the gun that Snap Trap came with, or we've got this spare secon here. I like to use Overbite as my weapon. So, get him into gun mode. Take the tail. Bring the tail around. Bring it up. I like the fin up. See? Bring the arms down. Bring that back. Bring the legs back. Kind of like to really extend it to make kind of look like a rifle. There we go. Bring the head down to form the handle. Okay. Get the blaster and peg that in. And now get him pegged in here. See, using C-wing, I've got clearance for the gun. Now, looking at Piranicon's hands, they have the feature in it that kind of looks like the joints for the combiner. That's so the head from the robots or the guns will fit correctly. So, let's get that rifle in his hand, his shark gun. And there we go. We've got him all armed up with Nautil or shoot, I keep forgetting the name, Overbite as the gun. And now, let's get his sword in hand. So, I showed you earlier that he came with this sword right here. But back in the day, we had upgrade sets that were available to us, too. And who all remembers Crazy Devi? They have a much larger piranacon sword that looks absolutely fantastic. I mean, that's just a little dinky thing, but this looks amazing. So, we'll go ahead and get that in his hand. Get that arm rotated around. Get that pegged in. And there we go, guys. We got Piranicon all armed and ready for battle and looking fantastic. He is so bulky and goofy. He is glorious and he does not want to stay together. You got to make sure those joints are in all the way. There we go. So, yeah, he's he's a mess, but he is a glorious mess. And I love that gigantic sword. See, here's the [music] problem with Nautilator. Once again, those legs, you really can't rotate those arms around a lot. He does have decent enough articulation. It's combiner articulation. The arms can rotate around. Mine's a little stiff. Uh there's no articulation for the head, but still this this guy is just awesome. He is so gloriously 80s. He does have another issue where he does like to lean forward. Watch this. He just kind of hunches hunches over a little bit. So I always worry about him on my display. And there he is falling apart. So yeah, part of the problem may be uh I have this one foot on backwards. That's what happens when you try to look through the camera to film. So now that that foot's on straight. Yeah, he stands a lot better. So man, like I said, I absolutely love Piranicon. He is a great looking combiner. He is a little floppy. He's a little bit hard to stand. And that just being because of all the multiple parts and pieces all the individual bots have. But I love this figure. I think he's glorious and he looks absolutely stunning on my shelf. And now for some quick size comparisons. Here is 1988's Transformers Generation 1 Piranicon [music] with Generation 1 Megatron, Generation 1 Menosaur, who also has a crazy Devi sword. And for a modern figure comparison, Transformers Generation Selects Galvatron 2. 1988's Transformers Generation 1 Secon is a great combiner team that is absolutely loaded with gimmicks. You've got triplech changing smaller robots that transform into weird sea monsters, guns, and [music] robots. The leader Snap Trap is pretty cool with his pompom guns. I love the goddy color scheme and Piranicon himself is pretty badass looking. [clears throat] Though he is a little wobbly and wonky and doesn't stay together the greatest, but that may be due to the combination of figures that I'm using. Trying out different combinations with the smaller robots may make him more steady, but [music] this is the one that I like. So, what do you guys think of 1988's Transformers Generation 1 Secon? Let me know in the comments below. Now, guys, if you enjoyed the video, don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe, and don't forget to click that bell icon to get notified when I upload new videos. Also, if you're in any position to help out the channel, I do offer channel memberships, and I have to give a huge shout out and thank you to all my current channel members because it's your support that helps keep this channel going. Once again guys, this is Patriot Prime signing out. >> Haha. Patriot Prime. [music] Transformers reviews with a heartfelt view. Adding stickers [music] bringing life to dreams. 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