- I look pretty cool, but the real test;
can I turn into a car?
Today The Try Guys are playing with themselves.
Guys, believe it or not, I'm not a truck.
It's me, Zach, from the Try Guys.
- Today we're going to be recreating some
of our favorite childhood toys,
and by recreating I mean becoming them.
(camera clicking)
(Keith roaring)
- How do Transformers procreate? The tailpipe?
(upbeat music)
- [Zach] Today the Try Guys
are recreating iconic action figures from our childhoods.
- It's all in honor of our new toy.
- [Zach] Our very own Try Guys collectaboy.
- We pulled our favorite quotes
from each of our videos, and they talk!
You press a little button and they say phrases like..
- [Zach] Boop! - My wife.
- All your favorite Eugene lines like...
- Marry my mom!
(Try Guys laughing)
- [Ned] Preorder now, but supplies are limited.
So get on it Try Guys fans.
We've always wanted to make a Try Guys toy,
but before we do, let's look at what are some
of the most iconic toys?
Why are they popular?
- I loved toys, and dolls, and action figures growing up.
- There was something so exciting about having a collection
of action figures as a kid.
- I created all these storylines where there are these like,
wars between the stuffed animals and my Power Rangers.
- [Zach] The connection that I had with them,
and how I played with them, still means so much to me.
- All I did as a kid
was create these like wild, imaginative narratives
before they all eventually kissed.
I have the Black Ranger over here,
and I got Bumblebee over here,
and then they're fighting,
and then slowly, I'm just... Now kiss!
- Mom, I want to play with my Optimist Prime!
Oh, thanks mom.
Wow. That's a sha- oh my God, Mom!
When we talk about toys, I feel like the king of toys.
Of course, Optimist mother (beeps) Prime.
There's just something so thrilling about a toy
that could be more than one thing.
Oh, there he is.
I hated these little zip tie things.
Come on. Come on.
Do you remember those Power Rangers
that their heads would go-
Their heads like a flip around,
and it would be like human! Power Ranger.
Human! Power Ranger! This is gonna take me a minute.
If you guys want to cut to some puppies or something.
(happy music)
Here he comes! Oh, oh yeah.
I'm not going to read the instructions.
Let's see if I can just figure this out.
He can do a split! (Zach laughing)
Optimist is a figure skater now.
- I'm going to recreate a toy
from the iconic Star Wars line, Darth Vader.
The most iconic character in the Star Wars universe.
Oh yeah.
Look at this guy! Oh, he's thick!
I mean, he's a thick boy.
I had pretty much every other Star Wars thing,
except action figures.
He's a thick boy, he's got big hands.
You know what they say about big hands.
I had Star Wars video games, I had Star Wars Lego sets,
but I never really got to play
with Star Wars action figures growing up.
Oh, they made him muscular.
Oh, you got the DC Superman treatment.
This Darth Vader is jacked, bro! Legs are just shredded!
- Stretch Armstrong.
This thing is from 1976,
but the original arms were full of corn syrup.
That's disgusting.
How did they get away with that?
It was the seventies.
So there's one commonality in all action figures,
and that is like, impossible body types, right?
Like GI Joe, even Ken.
And I'm not talking about how he doesn't have a dick.
Look at these boys! Look it, they're having so much fun!
I wonder if this kid got jealous,
because this guy got two spots.
And perhaps the most malproportioned one of all
was Stretch Armstrong.
Honestly, I had no idea what kind of box this thing came in.
I thought you just bought it loose from the Goodwill.
Not only is he strong as heck,
but also his body was made out of something.
What's it.. just rubber?
And I thought 'That's fun. Toys can be funny.'
And I kind of loved it, 'cause you could stretch him.
You can like, spin him around.
(Keith laughing)
It was so like, imaginative,
that like your body can be giant.
Oh, check it out.
Our boy has the inside pamphlet second photo.
So there was equal representation across both white boys.
- Look it! Ken has like, skin colored underwear.
I'm choosing Ken, but I did not have many Kens.
I felt like he was kind of Barbie's beard,
but Ken's definitely way off of the Kinsey scale.
And we're not bullshitting around when we say like,
when you see Barbie and Ken, they are full-blown gay.
So I'm excited to turn into him today.
Malibu Ken is the Ken
that you know from the Toy Story franchise,
and that's the one I'll be dressing up as today.
But this is an example of a contemporary Ken doll.
When a girl plays the Bar-
girl? (laughs) 2021 Barbie.
When a child plays with Barbie,
they imagine everything they can become.
But I'm going to be Asian Daddy Ken today,
because I'm not shaving this beard.
I worked too hard for this.
This is my moment to give you a new Ken to aspire towards.
And it's going to be Asian daddy Ken.
Ken's actually kind of like a gay Ned.
I'm surprised Ned isn't the one dressing as Ken.
- Work it, work it, work it,
work it, work it, yes, yes, yes.
- You can almost make him into SpongeBob.
Yeah! Hell yeah. Aw!
- There's clearly a sentient head hanging out of this truck.
Oh! Oh, there we go. OW! Fu- Ah!
- Like why, why, why can he stretch like this?
- This looks a lot like my boyfriend.
Why isn't he doing this? Matt looks exactly like a Ken doll.
Doesn't this look like Matt? Am I crazy?
Yeah, I have played with Barbies,
and I grew up to be with Ken.
- I said, buy not sell!
You've failed me for the last time, Commander.
- Did I do it?
I think the transformers got it all wrong.
I would drive around like this.
- Really, what I wish we could do,
is make a photo of the other guys pulling me apart.
Just like the boys on the box.
That's what we're gonna do today!
I want to become this guy.
It means you're going to see a lot of skin.
- Now, it's time for me to transform
into Barbie's boyfriend.
I don't know what I'm gonna do with my hair though.
(Eugene laughing)
No!
Well, this is supposed to be Ken's hair.
It looks like a liver, doesn't it?
- Now it's time for me to transform
into Optimus Prime. You get it?
I'm a car.
Whoa, oh, it's got eyes. Oh, that's freaky.
So this was a $300 Transformers costume. For all-
(costume clattering) (people laughing)
- Okay, classic Ken shorts.
Brought some boat shoes to be, like, white person shoes.
Are they called boat shoes because you wear them on a boat,
or because you own a boat?
These are Matt's.
As I told you, Matt is already Ken.
- Slowly, really becoming this character.
(drum roll sounding)
Ohhhh! Oh! Oh! Yeah! Just like the real thing!
Now let go. Oh.
- This is my chest plate.
I'm having more trouble with this than I was with the-
oh my God, I feel like I look grotesque right now.
Like a truck on a cigarette break.
You think I look like Billie Eilish right now?
- Strong codpiece.
You don't think about it when you watch it,
but he's got, you know, he's got the Henry the Eighth-
(sighs) No one's gonna like that joke.
- Look, everyone knows Optimist Prime's iconic dick piece.
Without it, how would you even know who I am?
- Okay, should I try one of these atrocious wigs on?
(crew laughing)
Do I look like Ken now?
It looks like a liver. It looks like a human organ.
- I mean, this hair looks pretty right.
Did we do it?
- Tassels! Oh, my- I forgot my tassels!
Darth Vader meets Cher.
(singing) And I will always crush you!
I guess I don't know any Cher songs.
- Try this wig. What do you think?
Hey Barbie, you ready to go on 'our date'
with 'our friends'?
You bring Stacy, and I bring John.
John's my date. I mean, friend.
Barbie and I are married. Happily.
We live together, sleep in different beds- same bed.
We sleep in the same bed.
- Who's editing this video?
Can you, real quick,
have me blow up a building?
- Nick, you pull this arm, come over here.
Sam, you're gonna pull this arm.
I know, you gotta do it. You gotta do it.
Yeah me too.
(Keith screaming and laughing)
This is hilarious! This is exactly what you want!
Now let go!
(laughs) Immediately becomes like
a gross, used condom sort of feeling.
Condom hands!
All right, let's take some photos.
- I don't know why I was wearing a mask for the pandemic.
Should have just worn a helmet!
Going to Trader Joe's in this mother-?
- I'll never join you!
- Stretch Armstrong.
Coming to theaters May 2022.
Starring John Cena, and Owen Wilson,
playing the same character.
- Right now I'm a man, but then I transform into-
(making hydraulic sounds)
I'm a truck!
Now, believe it or not, this is not a truck you see.
Zach is inside this body.
Oh my God, I'm a truck! Vroom!
Beep! Beep! Beep!
- Hi Barbie!
Will you be my Barbie Kailyn?
- Sure. Hi Ken!
- Hi Barbie. Do you want to go out for dinner tonight?
- Yes Ken, let's go! Where are we going?
- We're going to go somewhere so people think we're married.
I mean, we are married.
I mean, yes you are my wife, who I have sex with.
Not my friend who I have an arranged marriage with.
- Now, it's time to react to our final photo.
- We are going to react to our before and after photos,
and also the wonderful pictures
that our photographer JD has photoshopped for us.
- Let's see this photo in three, two, one.
(Zach laughing)
Oh, holy sh-. Oh my God. I look cool.
I look way better in photograph than I did in person.
I kind of wish that I had a Zach to play with
when I was a kid, instead of aspiring to be a robot warrior,
could have aspired to be myself.
- All right, let's see how I look as Stretch Armstrong.
(Keith laughing)
Well, the hair isn't the most convincing, but I look hot.
Look at those rippling muscles.
Also, much like my actual butt,
it looks muscular, but it's pillowy soft,
so now are my front muscles.
This really speaks to me.
I feel like we're s- we're so busy right now.
I feel very stretched.
Now I finally get to see myself that way.
This truly does, in some ways,
encapsulate how I maybe have felt sometimes
over the last few years.
Is that what Stretch Armstrong's all about?
He's just trying to please everybody.
I really didn't think I'd learn so much today.
- Okay, here we go. And three, two, one!
(Ned laughing)
I look awesome! Wow. Oh man.
You know the costume, I felt kind of silly,
but this looks awesome. Noooo!
- Let's see how my before and after looks.
That looks like my real hair.
Yeah, I kind of feel
like I look like European drug smuggler in the eighties.
Like a gay Ibiza cruise director.
I look a lot like a real Ken doll.
I could make myself kiss other Ken dolls, as it should be.
Then I'd kiss Power Rangers,
then I make myself kiss transformers,
and then I make myself kiss GI Joes.
- You know, not everybody gets to have
their own Stretch Keith Strong,
but you can have your very own collectible Keith
and the Try Guys Collectaboys, talking figurines.
- We had so much fun designing them,
we have actually been designing them for over a year.
Should we do an unboxing?
- I think that- yeah!
- Let's do an unboxing.
- This is so cool!
- The colors are amazing.
- I'm like a fried chicken God.
- Oh my goodness, that is incredible.
- Oh my god, I'm the clitoris!
- Wow.
- Mom? What's a clitoris?
- Asian of Chaos!
- Ooh, they're kissing!
- Does that make you feel better?
- Daddy!
(Try Guys laughing)
- You can preorder them right now,
go to tryguys.com/toys.
- Or so the legend goes.
- Wait, you, one of your lines is about my dick?
- Yeah. It's one of my catchphrases!
(upbeat music)
- They talk with such iconic phrases, like.. boop!
- My wife!
- And-
- (beeps) a duck.
- No!
- No, that's not one.