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You can check your balance anytime in your cart. Toyhacks is a company run by collectors for collectors. So check out toyhacks.com and make your collection stand out from the rest. And tell them Patriot Prime sent you. Now, on to the review. The featured box for this video is Transformers War for Cybertron Earthrise Commander Class Skylinks. Now Skylinks here was a figure I really didn't have any interest in picking up. I am not the biggest Skylinks fan.  I've just never seen the appeal of Skylinks, so I was going to pass this guy up. Then, as luck would have it, I scored a Generation 1 Skylinks for a really decent price. And this renewed my interest in the Earthrise version. Then on my birthday, or no, it wasn't my birthday. It was when Bert the Stormtrooper, Engineer Hoist, and Ghost Prime and I all got together to discuss the Netflix series. These guys were just raving and raving about their Earthrise Skylinks. So after they shared pictures with me and showed me all the gimmicks and features he had, I had to get one. And getting him was a challenge. I bought one from Amazon Prime. It showed up in a perfect box. The box was immaculate. But when I opened the box up, the figure inside one half of the box was crushed. So I'm like, okay, little concerned here. Open the figure up, and there was damage to the toy itself. So I immediately put it back in the box, sealed it back up, complained to Amazon. They sent me one, or were sending me a replacement. They told me I wouldn't get it until the 16th. But then I got an email that one was being shipped on the way. So it was replaced with a brand new one in a perfect box, as you can see. But still, whoever packed that took a crushed figure, a crushed box, put it in Amazon box and shipped it to me. So that sucked.  But enough of me complaining about them. Let's take a look at the box. I love the artwork here on the front. You got Skylinks' bird mode, Skylinks' lynx mode. They're attacking the seekers. You got Durge here, Ramjet here, and flying in, sneaking in from the side is thrust. Man, I can't wait till we get thrust. On the back of the box, we have Skylinks in shuttle mode, bird mode, beast mode, lynx mode, base mode, all the different modes, and there's a lot of them. On the side here, you've got Earthrise artwork. So now without further ado, let's get this long-awaited figure out of the packaging and see if he's as cool as my fellow YouTubers say he is. And welcome to Patriot Prime Reviews. Now, once you get Skylinks all open and out of the packaging, you'll find he does come with a sheet of instructions. And just like all the other Earthrise instructions, these are very well illustrated and very easy to follow. But Skylinks is actually fairly easy to transform. Chances are you won't even use these. He also comes with these two tower slash cannon pieces that look really good. I like the details on this. These are pretty unique. I've never seen anything like these before. They also have a little five millimeter hole right here. So if you had a battle master, you can attach that in and actually up the weaponry for Skylinks. And I'll go over that a little bit more later on. He also comes with seven blast effects. You get three blast effects that look just like this. And then the other four are just blast effects of different sizes. And you can actually combine them all together like so. Of course, here you can only use one of these three pieces to create a mega blast. So that that is pretty cool. That's some impressive firepower right there. And of course, you also get the two Skylinks components. You get the ground component here and the shuttle component. So let's go over the ground component of Skylinks first. Skylinks is ground component or crawler, if you will, isn't really that impressive in vehicle mode. The vehicle mode is just a big red, white, blue and gray rectangle. And that is about it. Though it does have lots of nice molded details and great paint applications throughout. Got the tank treads right here on the bottom along with the wheels on the inside, which look really, really good. You've got many treads up here on top. That'll come into play later on. I mean, great molded details. This thing looks great. It's much more impressive than his generation one counterpart from back in the 80s, which once again was just a red, white and blue rectangle. Of course, the main function of this crawler is to transport Skylinks. And to attach the Skylinks shuttle, it's a little tricky. You've got this section right here.  So we'll go ahead and fold the landing gear down. And this, as I said, is tricky. You've got to get it lined up just right. You've got the tab right there that matches up with the slot. Get that in and then you'll connect it here at the front. And if it snaps in place, it is on there good. It is not going anywhere. So that is really cool. That is how the transport, the crawler, interacts with Skylinks himself. So we'll go ahead and take off the shuttle. And to do that, there's a little button right here. You push this down, pops the shuttle off and away he goes. Little gimmick, a little better look at it right here. Spring-loaded latch, really cool. Now, you can attach the cannons to this mode. They can go right here on either one of these ports. The artwork shows the cannons here on the back where the instructions showed on the front. So it's actually your preference. You just attach these. And now you have the cannon transport, excuse me, the shuttle transport, all armed and ready for battle. Of course, you can flip it around this way to maybe having some jet propulsion, if you will. So, yeah, options are great. Now, let's go ahead and get this guy transformed. Super simple transformation. The first thing you're going to do is take this red section here and separate those from the body. And yes, glorious ratchets. Do it here on the other side. Make sure that doesn't pop off. Separate those away. You're going to bend, rotate the legs down, fold the feet down, same here on the back. Do that on the other side, trying to keep this all in camera for you. And now here on the front where you've got these two thrusters or weapons, simply pull that down. Flip out the beast head. Snap that back into place. On the back, you've got the beast tails that I showed earlier. Flip these out. And now we have sky links in links mode. I've heard many reviewers call this mode links and the shuttle mode sky. So I may do that too just to save on the confusion. Links mode looks amazing. I love the looks of this beast. It is just awesome. The color schemes work fantastic with this figure. And I love the fact just like in generation one, they give him a gold head and the head sculpt is great. You got the blue eyes right here, Autobot logo right there on the forehead. The jaw can move up and down. You've got the molded in teeth. And what I really like, you've got a molded in cannon on the tongue. So that is really cool. And you can add the blast effects to the tongue cannon.  Now, unfortunately, you can't really use the mega blast because it's just too heavy. It looks like he's puking up a hair ball, if you will. But yeah, really, really cool looking figure. Lots of great articulation. We've already seen the jaw. The head can look up and down. There is a little bit of a rotation with it due to transformation. The neck, well, no it can't. I thought the neck could go down, but you actually have to unpeg this for that to work. This whole section here is locked in place, but the head can look up and down, move slightly. It's got that high pitch head turn right there. Really, really cool. The legs, legs are fantastic. Lots of ratchets. They can go in, they can go out, they can spin all the way around. There is knee bends or elbow bends, rotations, ankle tilts, ankle rotation, lots of lots of great posibility. The tails, tails really can't do anything. They can go up and down and that's about it. Now, you can attach the cannons just like on crawler mode. You can attach these to the shoulders. So there's an option right there. And these also can be utilized with the blast effects. They just peg in right there on those tips. So there you go. But this guy looks really good and loads better than his Generation 1 counterpart right here, which was really, really plain. I mean, as far as the links mode went with this, you used your imagination with this figure right here. I just wish this one was electronic. So that is pretty much it for Skylinks' links mode. Now let's check out shuttle mode. Now before I really go into the details on shuttle mode, I want to show you something real quick. When you open Skylinks out of the packaging, his wings are folded up like so. There is a tab right here that connects to this slot right there. But it really doesn't connect if you put it in straight. It's a hard connection. The easiest way to do this is you want to go in at an upward angle and then fold down and it locks in place really good. So just a little pointer for you right there. Now onto the shuttle mode. Shuttle mode looks amazing. This is a fantastic looking shuttle. Astrotrain needs to take notes. I love the fact that Hasbro got NASA to approve using their logo on Skylinks, which really adds to the shuttle in my opinion. And he is called the Magnificence, which is very fitting for Skylinks. Lots of great molded detail all over this shuttle. He looks great. Got Tampa-Graft Autobot logos there on the wings. The gold detailing along the side up here on the tail fin, just like G1. And the gold windows. This thing looks awesome. Now up here on top, he's got this cargo area that can open up. Just grab the tab, flip open, and you've got gold detailing right there. There's really nothing else that does. It just opens up and reveals that. You've got the five millimeter peg right there where you can attach a battle master or something else you so choose. But I think he looks good just like that. I can't get over the molded detailing on this guy. That looks great. Got a little bit of paint smudge or something right there, but that's no biggie. So now let's go ahead and put Skylinks right here and compare him to his Generation 1 counterpart. The G1 Skylinks was also a really good looking shuttle, but nothing compared to the Earthrise version. And man, my Skylinks really needs some toy hacks help. Now another feature that Skylinks has that I'm very thankful for is the fact he has landing gear. You've got landing gear underneath, folds up into the nose cone, folds up into the belly of the shuttle. So I'm very happy that they've included landing gear. Very disappointed that the Seekers didn't have any, but oh well. Now on the back of the vehicle you've got the thrusters, and these can be utilized with the blast effects. So you can plug those in to the bigger thrusters and make it look like Skylinks is rocketing through space. I couldn't think where he was rocketing to for a second. So yeah, shuttle mode looks amazing. Now let's get this guy transformed into his bird mode. First thing we'll do, let's flip that landing gear back up and separate the wings from the body. Now what you're going to do is take the wings up, rotate on these gray sections here, bring that up, and then fold back. Do that on the other side. Still lots of nice ratchets. So now you've got that going on. Now here on the back you're going to take the thruster section, open this up. It's on a hinge that will swing out. Then you take the tail fin and just unfold Skylinks' tail. Now you're going to take this thruster section and bring it back tab in place. Now for the head, you're just going to grab the nose cone and pull, and the neck pops right out. Then you can open up the mouth for the legs underneath here. Just swing these down. Still great ratchets. Flip the feet around. Unfold the toes or claws. On the wings you're going to bring these blue sections out, which were underneath. Just fold those out like so. If I can get that in camera, this is a big boy. So now we've got one wing and the next. So now let me get the camera adjusted so we can check out Skylinks in all of his glory. And there we have Skylinks in his majestic bird mode. I barely got him to fit in frame. This is a pretty big figure and he looks awesome. I love the molded details there on the wings with the feathers. You got the tail that extends out, the neck, which has a lot of articulation, and it's on ratchets. So check it out.  The head can rotate, look around. The mouth opens and closes. He's got the teeth. And just like the links mode, there is a laser tongue. And let me see here if Skylinks, if this mode can hold the mega blast. Not really. I'm not sure what the purpose is of the mega blast. Now down here on the legs, articulation, they can go back and forth in and out. There is a knee joint, lots of ratchets. They're on the feet, ankle tilts, and they can go back and forth.  And it's really hard to get him to stand up. How I did it is I've got this background here and I can pretty much prop him up against the back. But he's all jacked up as far as his legs are concerned. And the wings on mine are a little floppy. This right here, it's just attached with a mushroom peg, so there's really not much resistance. I wish the wings were ratcheted just like the legs and the neck is. But I'm thinking maybe a little fore polish will fix that right up. Down here on the tail, lots of articulation. You can see all the little joints here. He can go out, up, down, all around. The tail fin can wag back and forth. This guy, this is something else. I really like Skylinks. Now let me see if we can get our Earthrise Skylinks stood up so I can compare him to his Generation 1 counterpart.  But yeah, looks really, really good. I do like the fact that the new Skylinks eliminates all the shuttle kibble that the G1 had. Now another cool feature that Skylinks has is the bird and links mode can combine together into one bot. And to do that, all we're going to do here is with the bird mode, we're going to fold the feet back up inside the shuttle. Just get those locked in, flip around, do the other way, or the other side. I like how the toes just go right up in that slot and they lock in place. So that's all you have to do for bird mode. Now we'll bring in links. With links, you're going to unpeg this section here, fold his head down, and that's all you're going to do with him. Now you're going to attach Skylinks or Sky, the bird mode, to the same peg right there, the same notch that we did when we combined him with the in shuttle mode. So get that lined up, locked in place. Like I said, it's very tricky to get it in there just right. But once it's in, he's good to go. And let me see if I can pan out for you a little bit.  This guy is huge. He retains all the same articulation in bird and links mode, but he's a little bit more stable now because he's on all fours. So that is really cool. Lots of posibility with the guy. I just really need to tighten up some of those loose joints. So now let's check out Skylinks' base mode. To transform Skylinks into his base mode, you're going to have to start with the crawler mode first. Now, there is something I want to show you guys that I failed to mention when I went over the crawler earlier is on the back of the crawler is a ramp. You open this, and there is a little access area where if you have a micro master, he can drive up in there. He fits really good. And now Skylinks can take that micro master on a mission. So get him out of there and let's begin base mode. What you want to do is flip the crawler over. Remember the treads I talked about earlier? This is where they come into play. So they are now treads for the base mode. Now what you're going to do is grab right here where the tails are and split this in half. Actually got to move the legs out of the way first. Sorry about that. Get the legs out of the way. Now split this section right here so it looks like that. Now you're going to take these legs, bring these down like so. So those are our stabilizers. Now you got this gray section. You're going to bring this up. And the ramp I just showed you guys, this time it's going to unfold from the bottom. And there's a little ramp underneath that extends out. So you've got that going on. Now these sections here, these legs, you're going to bring these up. Bring the feet up and around right here. You turn at the leg. I'm sorry. Up, rotate.  Now you got these little gray sections here. You're going to bring those down. Those are extra ramps. And they've got the little connector ports so you can attach any other Earthrise base or some of those little ramp guys to extend this out. Same as the little section right here. So now we have these all out and ready. I'm going to bring the tail sections down. And there you have base mode almost. I forgot the dual barrel cannons. These will peg in right on top of the feet like so. So you can use those as cannons or you can peg them like that for extra tower pieces. I don't like the looks of that. I like the double barrel cannon. So there we have Skylinks' base mode. Now you're going to bring in the shuttle and the shuttle attaches right here on the back. See these pegs right there? Those line up with the thrusters on the shuttle. Now unfortunately they don't connect very well. I wish there was another peg right here. You've got these three circles that match up to the three main thrusters. But it just does not want to connect. You just got to get it in just right and pray. Then you're going to rotate this around, open the bay doors.  And it just kind of lays against the shuttle like so. Now let me see if I can zoom out for you again. And there we have Skylinks' base mode. And that actually looks really good. A lot better than some of the base modes that come with these Earthrise figures. A lot of interactivity too. You can use the MicroMasters to go up the ramp. Unfortunately they can't ride in the shuttle. But still there is some playability to be had. And now for some quick size comparisons. Here is Transformers War for Cybertron Earthrise Skylinks with Generation 1 Optimus Prime, Earthrise Optimus Prime, and Generation 1 Skylinks. Transformers War for Cybertron Earthrise Skylinks is an amazing figure, or figures. There is so much playability and fun to be had with this set. All of the modes are great. Granted the crawler mode isn't the best, but his interactivity with the shuttle makes it worthwhile. The beast modes are fantastic. The base mode is fun. Articulation for the guys is out of this world. Though the bird mode does have a few loose joints that need to be fixed. Other than that I really don't have any complaints at all with these figures. So there you go guys Transformers War for Cybertron Earthrise Skylinks. Now here's something that I wanted to show off in my review, but I just didn't have the space to do it. If you happen to have Skylinks in his combined alt modes with the shuttle attached to the crawler, you can transform him into the dyno bird mode with the bird attached to the links without having to separate the two. And it's really easy. You're just going to simply unpeg the legs from the crawler and get those in position. I love the ratchets on this guy. So we got the legs all down. Take the thrusters and move those out of the way so you can extend the tail. Put the thrusters back. Unpeg the wings. Bring those up and unfold the feather section. There we go. And extend the head. Make sure you get that all the way out. There we go. And there we go. We've got dyno bird mode all transformed without having to separate the two. So I thought that was really cool and something worth showing off. So does an Earthrise Skylinks belong in your collection? Absolutely. This is a fantastic figure. I absolutely love him and I'm shocked that I was going to skip out on this guy. I mean, big thank you to Bertha Stormtrooper, Ghost Prime and Engineer Hoist for talking me into this guy. I love him. Thank you so much. Guys, if you see this guy on the shelf, don't hesitate. Pick him up. You're going to really enjoy it. Granted, he's got these loose wings, but that's nothing a little floor polish won't clear right up. He is going to look great on my shelf back there. Now guys, if you enjoyed the video, don't forget to like, don't forget to subscribe, and don't forget to hit that bell icon to get notified when I upload new reviews. Once again, this is Patriot Prime, signing out. Hoah!


Hey everyone, welcome to another exciting episode of A Week in Geekdom here on YouTube. My name is Giovanni Menendez and today we're going to review the Thanos Oversized Hardcover from Donnie Cates and Company. This is pretty spectacular. Welcome back guys and today we're going to be taking a look at this beautiful oversized hardcover collecting issues 13-18 of the Thanos series. The first annual Cosmic Ghostwriter 1-5 and Thanos Legacy No. 1. This is written by a ton of people and I'm just going to name them off the back of the book because there's way too many people involved here. Donnie Cates, Jeff Shaw, Dylan Burnett, Antonio Fabella, list goes on and on and on of the multiple talented people that worked on this book. And if you have no idea what this book is about, do not worry. You do not need to know much beforehand. You just need to know the facts that Thanos is sort of like this cosmic juggernaut of the Marvel history. And this is finally the tale of his long-awaited victory over the universe, if you will. The story first began with 12 issues written by Jeff Lemire and they were pretty fantastic. I did an overview review on the first book. I thought that first volume was a little bit too dramatic for its own good or something along those lines, whereas this book finds that sweet balance between an action epic and a moving kick-ass story at the same time. Donnie Cates exploded into the scene with his Thanos material, but beforehand he had done stuff over an image, etc. But Thanos was the book that everybody went, huh, Donnie Cates, he might be onto something. Now I didn't really care too much about Thanos, yes he is one of my favorite cosmic characters, but going into the story, I didn't know I needed this book until I read it. I thought it was just going to be another run of the mill storyline of this character, but what we get is an introspective look at a character that's more of an instrument of destruction, sort of like a powerful hurricane that forms up and just comes to town to wreck stuff and leaves and you don't know what happened. Usually that's the case with Thanos stories. And with this, you don't really need to read anything else, even though it's issue 13, it's sort of like a standalone story called Thanos wins, I guess, where the character gets dragged from his current timeline, the present Marvel timeline, into the far future, like I think it was thousands or millions of years, something like that, into the future where he meets an older King Thanos. And if you're wondering why that happened, well the book lets you know. It's a very quick story. But like I said, it's very analytical of the character and what he has gone through. Along the way, you meet the character of the Cosmic Ghost Rider. Now when that character first showed up, it was sort of like this mystery, who the heck was the Cosmic Ghost Rider? I tried not to spoil myself with the story, but you know how the internet is, and eventually I read it somewhere on mistake, whatever, but it's a pretty cool reveal. If you have no idea who the character is, once it happens, you're like, huh, that is pretty clever, that makes sense that somewhere along the line he would get twisted like that and become this version of the Ghost Rider persona. So without going too much into detail, those six issues that explore sort of what makes Thanos who he is in the future and the present, and all the versions of the character is pretty freaking spectacular. I didn't think I was going to like it like I said at the beginning, but I ended up really sympathizing over the character and what he has gone through and his quest to satisfy death and finally win her approval. But when you find out why the older version of Thanos summons are the current one that we know, it's pretty interesting. There are some shocking twists that this cover image might give you a hint as to what is happening in the book, but overall it's a fun, action-packed, epic storyline about a character that previously you knew him as a brute and yeah, there have been stellar writing from Starlin and many other writers that have tried to dissect what makes sort of this Overlord character so endearing after so many decades in the Marvel Universe.  But he, you know, the things that he's done and he will do and just the fact that for example Minor Spoilers, he has the ghostwriter do the pen and stare so that he can relive all his glorious deeds which are horrible atrocities if you look at him, just tells you something about the character plus his fascination with death and really the essence of the character is reduced to something of a necessity. I made the joke about him being a hurricane, but I don't think that's too far off because aside from cameos and big storyline events, the character isn't used a ton. Like he's usually reserved for like a big heavy storyline or a big crossover. You don't see him on every single issue. Now yeah, that might have changed post the Marvel movies and all that stuff, but it tended to be like that I would like to think. But Kate is able to work the mentality of this character and find a way to show us what it would take for a bad guy to win and at what cost. Plus, the art by Jeff Shaw is immaculate. I loved it so much. It's very expressive, very freaking badass. Literally if I take off the dust jacket, it features one of my favorite images right there. Seriously, that is pretty freaking spectacular. And the art in it is just raw and visceral and the fights are brutal and everything looks pretty freaking epic like seriously. This is one of my favorite panels from the book and you can see both of them as well as a loving statue tribute to death. It is sort of a minor spoiler, but you will find out eventually why these two guys are fighting each other or why he's fighting himself, but just look at how raw and intense everything is in this book. It's just turned up to 11. Shaw pulls no punches, man. It looks pretty freaking stunning in my honest opinion. Plus the colors, even though it's set in the far future and it's very post-apocalyptic, the colors are very indicative of that, but they are very expressive at the same time.  The Cosmic Ghostwriter design is pretty fantastic. I love his art. I love the art style used for it. And here's what I meant by the action being so literally popping. Look at that. That is awesome. Big ol' boom across the splash page. In my honest opinion. Also, I was a little bit disappointed with the gutter loss because you cannot see Thanos' face. Look at that. That looks terrible. Overall, a fantastic story. Now, you're probably wondering, hey, this book is thicker than just six issues. And you're right. It does contain the annual, which I thought was a complete waste of time. I will be completely honest with you guys. I did not care for that annual.  But they're so uneven compared to the main storyline where I thought, man, do I really need to know about a Chibi Thanos? And let me look this up.  It gets all sci-fi trippy with that wonderful artwork. I'll give you that. That was pretty awesome. There's a Young Gamora storyline, which I thought sort of, you know, it gives you more insight into their relationship. But here, here is Chibi Thanos, which I will be completely honest with you guys. Even though I like the idea and it's pretty fun and funny at the same time, it has no business being in the middle of the book when you have something like this, which is so raw and visceral in the way it's drawn and stuff. Yeah, I didn't really like it that much, but it does further the story along for the Cosmic Ghostwriter, which leads into his mini-series. It was five issues, the Cosmic Ghostwriter stuff, I liked it. I thought it was pretty decent. I like the idea of continuing that character, even though he's supposed to be sort of like this anomaly, now he's in the main Marvel Universe. People really like the character. He's awesome. The book delves into the psychology of that twisted persona and what the character has become. And I thought, for the most part, it was handled pretty freaking well. It does go into some really weird, yet awesome territory with a certain baby that I thought was really cool. I actually really enjoyed that. It was a blast, almost all the way through. The art in it was really wild and crazy. It reminded me of reading something like Invincible, very stylized. I really enjoyed it. And definitely, I mean, you can sort of see the influence right there. It sort of does remind me of that. So that was good. It furthered the story along and the character was further developed because, you know, it was such a crazy introduction to the Cosmic Ghostwriter, a perfect way to get people accustomed to this new character is to, you know, explore his background a little bit and how he came to be. And just the idea that he made three deals with the devil, if you will, to get to where he is at the current moment, I thought that was extremely fascinating. Really loved that. And then to cap things off with this book, you get, what's the name of this? The Thanos Legacy Issue, which to my understanding, it was part of the renumbering when the Marvel Legacy stuff was happening. Basically, it's a short issue that sets up Thanos' involvement in the current Marvel series that are happening with the Cosmic stuff. Plus, it also explains what happened at the end of the Thanos win storyline and how that story ended the way it did. The Legacy one shot explains all of that and sets up the future to the stuff that's ongoing right now, which I have not read. So you can read this book by itself. You're not going to be lost. You're going to enjoy it. Kick-ass action, fantastic character designs and arts and all that stuff. Pretty fricking badass. I'm very happy that I read it before.  But with this book, you learn a little bit more about the character and you learn something new every day and what ticks in his head. And it may not be what everybody wants, but it's still a really fantastic look at a character that has been such an important part of the cosmic scene for so many years for Marvel Comics as a whole, that I thought, you know, what an explosive way, a dynamic, fun, interesting way for Donny Cates to make his debut, if you will, especially with a run like this. So do I recommend it? Hell, fricking yeah, you should read it. You can get the trade. I don't necessarily think you need. Well, the legacy issue is kind of important, but the cosmic ghost writer and the annual their extras, in my opinion, the main bulk. You can you can get it with the trade paper bag. But if you want to go all out and get the deluxe edition, again, the oversized hardcover, I should say, then yeah, go ahead and pick it up. Just fantastic. Antonio Fabella and Dylan Burnett. I forgot to mention these two. Yeah, the art in it is wonderful. Just overall a great examination of the mad Titan and just what makes him who he is. It was awesome. I liked it. Very kickass, epic and sort of like grandiose in scale for a character like this. Have you read the Thanos win storyline? Tell me what you thought down below. If you haven't read it, tell me what is your favorite Thanos centric storyline in the Marvel universe? Guys, as always, thank you so much for liking, commenting, subscribing to We Can Keep Them Here on YouTube. 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Welcome back to our channel. My name is Andrea. I'm Howard. And we are with Food and Mentory Adventures in Food. And if you hear any noise in the background from the peanut gallery, that is our five-month-old baby. So we are here today with part 2 of the Dollar Tree Taste Test. We did recorded one earlier and I'll make sure to link it in the description box of the frozen foods that we tried out. And today we're trying the sweet and salty stuff. Yes. So we are going to jump right in. And I also wanted to say if you liked this video, please make sure you give us a thumbs up. And if you haven't subscribed already, we certainly hope that you will do so. You ready? Yes. First up is apple cinnamon baked puffs. That's what it supposedly looks like there. Okay. Oh, here's an eye for you. And I actually like apple cinnamon puffs. Trader Joe's has one and then I think Aldi has one as well. Now those do not look like apple cinnamon baked puffs. Exactly what I thought. Cheers. They're puffs. Little apple cinnamon. You know what they taste like? Apple Jack cereal. It's like an Apple Jacks to me. And here's what it looks like. It has a really mild apple flavor. I like puffs like Cheetos cheese puffs. But I'm not a puff person. So if you like puffs and you like the flavor of Apple Jacks, you probably like these puffs. Okay. So next, the sister to those apple puffs are these Munch Right Cheddar and sour cream baked puffs. Okay. Open those up. And so here is what they look like. They have a really good flavor actually. It's so good. It's our Piman onion-y. Ready? Cheers. Remember these, I think, to the apple cinnamon? Actually, I like them both. To me, these remind me of the baked Cheetos puffs. That's the kind of texture and consistency. Yeah, and I like them. It tastes good. I actually like the apple and I like those too. Okay. Okay, your turn. All right. Next up, I'm going to try Tobana plantain chips. These are lightly salty. And you like? I like plantain chips. Never had this brand before. But you eat them. You snack on plantain chips. I do. And I don't really care for them. They're small. Plantain chips. They're bigger ones. They're not bad. Lightly salted. They're good. I'm not a plantain chip person. They're okay. They don't have really much of a flavor, which is kind of nice. And the other variety that we have is the sweet same brand. Chinese potato. Ooh, these have a very strong odor. Yeah. I got burnt ones. And I couldn't smell this lightly salted ones. But these sweet ones I can smell. Oh, the sweet ones usually ripe for probably why. Oh, sweet. They are sweet. Which do you prefer? Light them both, but I may go with the salty ones. I would agree. These definitely taste more plantainy than the other ones. Okay, your turn. All right. Next up, we're going to try chicken crackers.  And how would you say you've never? Never heard of chicken crackers. I love chicken crackers. For those of you that aren't familiar, they are just basically a savory cracker. They have a really good flavor. This is what they look like. This is what the packaging looks like. Pretty decent size crackers. Let me try chicken crackers. Not bad. I don't know what to expect though. I know. So your expectations are low. Mine a little bit higher. I don't care for these. These taste, I know it says artificially flavored, but they really do taste artificial. These do not taste as good as a name brand to me. It's fine to me, but I don't have anything to compare to. Right. I'm gonna say no on these for me. Okay. So the next thing that we have are these cheese crackers. They're supposed to be similar to cheez-its, which we both like. Let me open up the bag. They do look like cheez-its. They do look like cheez-its. Here's what they look like. There you go. But they seem well, they seem like a cheez-it. I was gonna say they seem lighter, but they don't. Cheers. I don't think the taste is there though. Oh man. No. They look just like a cheez-it. They missed it on the taste. I'd agree with you. The taste is not exactly like a cheez-it. There is a mild cheese flavor. I mean, in a pinch these would do. I wouldn't get these again, but I might get these again. I'll eat either one. All right. Your turn? My turn. Okay. Let's try. What's this? Crispy honeycomb. I've never tried that before. It says with sea salt. Yes. It's something I've never heard of. It's not what I expected at all. They feel different. They do look different in the oh. Well, no. But it's real honey. Man, you want to cut it open so we can see if it looks like the package. It says handmade sponge toffee with dark cocoa or chocolate. This is... It looks like the picture. Yeah. We'll see how it tastes. Okay. Cheers. It tastes like a really light peanut brittle with no peanuts. Not for me. Probably not for me. You know what? It's not that bad, really. But that is a texture of like a really, really light peanut brittle, but it has a bit of a chew to it. Yes. Why don't you think that stick to your teeth? Yeah, it does stick to your teeth. But it's really not that bad. I might get this again. I'm still chewing. Okay. So I've always been curious about dollar trees cheese and this is a five ounce package of pepper jack as a point of comparison. You can get an eight ounce package of pepper jack at Aldi for $1.69. When Kroger has a sale on their eight ounces of cheese, it's $1.88. So five ounces for a buck for this Monterey Jack. Maybe we'll go well with the chicken crackers. Yeah, something's got to go with those chicken crackers for me because not tasty. So I'm just trying to open the package real quick and let me cut some off. Okay, looks like cheese. Well, I hope so. Hey, ready? Cheers. Not about it, I guess. I mean, not the best pepper jack you've ever had, but not the best. It tastes more, it definitely has the pepper jack flavor, but it tastes a little crock. It tastes creamy. Yeah, I was gonna say, it tastes a little like processed velvita. It has the texture of velvita cheese, not like a, what you would expect from a pepper jack. But we'll try it with the chicken crackers. Yeah, but it doesn't taste like the texture is not like pepper jack cheese. It's like a velvita cheese. Very soft. Very soft.  All right, next up try this oatmeal cream cookies or something. Cream pie. Cream pie. Yeah. Okay. And so I do like Little Debbie's oatmeal cream pies. I've never tried any of the freshly brand and Howard, you said you've not had oatmeal cream pies.  I look like a pie. So, oh actually they do call them oatmeal cream cookies on the package. I didn't realize that. So they're about the size of a Little Debbie, what you would expect and cut it and see what we got. Oh, it's soft. Yeah, it's soft. Didn't know I'd expect that. And so it has a creamy white filling. It's soft. It feels like a Little Debbie. Cheers. You won't like it. It doesn't taste like a Little Debbie. So the filling is pretty gritty. I don't taste anything. I taste cinnamon and it tastes like some oatmeal. Yeah. It doesn't taste like a Little Debbie, but it's a good substitute if you don't have an option. It's a soft cookie. All right. So the next thing we have are these Mr. Cake, Cinnamon Crumb Cake Bites, and oh, they come in a little tray. Did we do it right? Yes. Can I open that real quick? And there's the peanut gallery. He's getting a little impatient. All right. I had to take a pause and grab this little guy. He needed some attention, so I'm sorry about that. All right. So these are the little Cinnamon Crumb things. Yes. And they're small. They're probably like two inches around. They're tiny. Yeah, they cut it open. It looks like this. It looks probably more in your texture than mine. Yes, I don't think you're gonna like it. So here we go. Let me get you a little piece. Okay. We're almost there. Okay. Oh, it's dry. Good. I don't like that. It's moist. That's a weird taste. And texture. Well, it's fine. I don't mind it. Okay. We had to take a quick baby break. Okay. You ready? All right. Next up is cookie butter, which I don't think I've ever heard of before. I've heard of it. I've just never had cookie butter. And see, I know Trader Joe's has a cookie butter. I don't have anything to compare it to. It's a little harder than... And see, I don't know what the texture is.  I'll take one for the team. Cheers. See, I don't know what this is supposed to taste like. If it's supposed to taste like this, I don't know what the rage is about. What does it taste like to you? I'm not sure. It's not peanut butter. It does not taste like peanut butter. It does taste kind of like cookie, but the texture is a little gritty. I don't know if it's supposed to be like that.  It will not go with the chicken crackers. And I don't think I would repurchase this, would you? No, I stick to peanut butter. Yeah, not good. Okay, so the last thing that we have is this fluffy stuff, bacon, cotton candy. That sounds different. Bacon, cotton candy. Think Harrison thinks it sounds interesting too. I love cotton candy, but do you? So cotton candy when it's fresh, I'm not sure about cotton candy in a bag like this. I love it in a bag. I love it fresh. I love it in a bag. So it is pink. Bacon, cotton candy. It's pink. It has a smoky flavor. I mean, scent to it. Okay, maybe I get a whiff of bacon. Yeah, maybe. I'm gonna take a little piece. Cheers, I don't like the smell. It tastes bacon. Ooh, it does taste like bacon. That's not good. Yeah, it's good. It's sweet bacon. It tastes just like bacon. I don't mind it at all. I don't like that at all. I like bacon. It tastes just like bacon. A little sweet, salty with the bacon in there. I'm gonna, this is all yours, you can have it, you can knock yourself out. So I think that's it, right? Yep, that's it. I think we tried everything. Again, I hope you guys liked this video. If you did, make sure to give us a thumbs up and also subscribe to our channel because that lets us know if you like our content, if we should continue to do these types of videos. So I hope you guys liked it and thanks so much for watching and we'll see you guys next time. Bye.


Ladies and gentlemen, we finally have a teaser for the final season of House of Cards. During the Academy Awards, Netflix dropped this short promo. Let's take a look. We're just getting started. Netflix announced last month that filming was officially underway for the final season, but I must say that I'm surprised that we have a taste of it this soon, even if it is just a short teaser. No surprise that there's no sign of spacey anywhere though. We usually get a new season in May or June, but obviously that's not going to happen this time around, due to recent rewrites and reshoots putting Claire in the main role. They have announced now that it will be coming in fall, which in the US is between September and December. Since my last video, they've actually added another cast member, an up-and-coming fellow Australian actor, Cody Fern, who is best known for his stage production of Warhorse, and more recently for American Crime Story. He will be joining Diane Lane and Greg Kinnear who are playing siblings, but nothing is yet known about Fern's character just yet, apart from him being in every episode of the sixth season. So he might be a key player in the story. Now you're up to date on all things House of Cards, but let me know your thoughts on the final season in the comments. This is Matt Rogers and that is all.