deathy wrote:I judge a TF toys weirdness solely by it's design/sculpt.
My 10 top list "for today" is as follows:
I apologise but I have to disagree with you on almost all counts.
1987 Squeezeplay. a over all weird looking toy in both modes. a super weird upside/down type transfotmation. doesn't look like any animal I've ever seen on the earth. awful colors.
What's wrong with Squeezeplay's colours? Dark blue, purple, grey, classic 'Con colours. And he's from a period where nothing being produced looked like earth stuff so that really doesn't hold weight.
Beastwars Transmetal 1 optimus primal. I remember the on-line jokes fans made when they said which is mode is the robot mode. not a bad scupt compared to others. it's just weird the robot mode looked more beastly while the beast mode looked more robotic.
Okay I'll give you this one. Between the awesome Leader Optimus Primal and the Optimal Optimus this figure was a bit of a sad milestone along the way. He's not that weird though.
beastwars deluxe fuzor injector. what a ugly toy in both modes. this toy takes the whole mis-proportioned body parts to new levels.
Yeah, Injector's weird and Ratorta's even weirder. Unlike some of the other figure's I've ragged on Injector was very much meant to be bizarre.
Beastmchines mega sized Megatron. what a awful toy. the robot face sculpt was just horrible. had this toy been a bit bigger in size,the stuff they were trying to accomplish like extra design sculpt & gimmicks would have worked a lot better. not a fan of the skinny tubalor type design in both modes.
A bad mold but not an especially weird one.
1987 trottlebot goldbug,3 years later & the bumblebee character type toy loses more poseability than the 1984 toy had. not a fan of the simplified tranformation gimmick.
It's true, the trottlebots had issues. Not least being called trottlebots. Having to find a toilet at a moment's notice is always tough. Really though, these guys were the cheap price point figures and if you're looking for poseability 1987 is not the place to be looking for it.
ROTF Twins,i'm counting them as one,since they work together & probably can't function seperatly. i'm not a fan of the extremly ugly & distorted looking faces. what's up with one arm/hand being bigger than the other. horrible colors & every day booring alt modes chosen.
Actually I quite like their alt modes. Sure, Mudflap is an alarming fibre-intensive-diet brown but Skids is quite a pleasant colour. I always felt that if these guys had different headsculpts they would be really good figures.
beastwars transmetal 2 basic sized optimus minor. what a ugly tiny toy. it's got not good going for it in design sculpt in either mode.
Yeah, I'll give you this one.
Cybertron basic sized clocker,the worst designed basic for the entire AEC toy line. too simply,wimpy & weird looking. colors don't help.
What's wrong with Clocker? The worst you can say about him is that he's a little generic. He has a neat little alt mode and a competent robot mode. Why pick on him, really?
beastwars iguanus,just a horrible mess as far as engineering goes. design sculpt isn't that great either. ugly robot face sculpt.
Again, he's more generic that terrible. Just your typical early Beast Wars basic-class dude.
Rotf deluxe sized breakaway. the ugly tiny robot head ruins the whole toy. the brown colors bring the mold down ever more. this toy shines in the thrust dark red colors with the new head sculpt.
Aw, but he's so cute! There are way weirder figures in the movieverse (ie Dreadwing)
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