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Shelf-Warmers, as many of us know, are the toys that just sit on the shelves or pegs at retail stores. That swarm f Bumblebees is shelf-warming. They stay there because few want to buy them. But I want to know which of these figures did not deserve this lowly status.

For example, Beast Wars Transmetals Scavenger. He is an ant, and I believe was supposed to be Inferno at one point. I have him. He's a pretty decent figure, about as tall as voyager class and, even with ball jointed insect legs, he has the ability to support his own weight in beast mode. I don't think he deserved his lot in life; keeping the shelf warm RTS Lugnut (who was the opposite of a shelf-warmer and was impossible to find).

Not that I'm bitter.

If anyone has a an "Underrated Shelf-Warmer", share your thoughts here!

Lol, when I saw this topic I was going to say Transmetal Inferno/Scavenger, but you beat me to the punch! I too, want that mold BADLY. It looks so good!\

I'd say Cybertron Mudflap didn't deserve the shelf. It looks like a pretty good mold, and one I wouldn't mind having.

RAcast wrote:
I'd say Cybertron Mudflap didn't deserve the shelf. It looks like a pretty good mold, and one I wouldn't mind having.

I own him and he is indeed awesome!

Well at the moment my local TRU has had Masterpiece Thundercrackers for like ever. Will anyone buy them? I feel a clearance coming...

Transformers Hoarder wrote:Well at the moment my local TRU has had Masterpiece Thundercrackers for like ever. Will anyone buy them? I feel a clearance coming...

I just want a Skywarp. One bloody decent Skywarp! /off-topic

Prime Wheeljack pegwarmed for awhile beside PRiD Bee and Cliff (who both totally deserve to pegwarm!), but that was before he was in the show regularly.

I don't think Armada Smokescreen deserved to be a shelfwarmer at all. He looks decent enough for it's time.

RAcast wrote:

Transformers Hoarder wrote:Well at the moment my local TRU has had Masterpiece Thundercrackers for like ever. Will anyone buy them? I feel a clearance coming...

I just want a Skywarp. One bloody decent Skywarp! /off-topic

Prime Wheeljack pegwarmed for awhile beside PRiD Bee and Cliff (who both totally deserve to pegwarm!), but that was before he was in the show regularly.

Really, i actually like cliff. First cliff ive ever bought and im more than happy with him. My mate has a 1st edition bb, i just wont buy one because i know there will be another out in a few months lol

(Puts on flame-retardant suit...) I think DOTM deluxe Bumblebee wasn't half-bad, honestly.

Of all the deluxe movie Bees, he's pretty much the most screen accurate version there is, short of the non-transforming DMK kit and the Revoltech figure. That said, his Mechtech weapons kinda sucks and he needed quite a bit of paint touch ups.

I tend to forget what the shelfwarmers were over here... But here goes:

ROTF Deluxe Mudflap: I never picked it up until TRU marked it down to $6 2 years later. It is actually a good figure!

DOTM deluxe Bee: Not half bad, but they produced too damn many of it. So they were asking for it.

Animated Oil Slick: I like him, I guess people are turned off by his ugly face.

Generations Thunderwing: It's a plane... and a robot. Why didn't it sell well? Probably because it was not realistic enough in plane mode, or robotic in bot mode.

What was that repaint of Poweglide from the generations/classics line ? I can't even remember his name the black one. Anyways, great paint scheme, big solid robot, but he just sat there and watched the world go by