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We all know that Transformers have alt modes, but sometimes they are outlandish. With the voting results in, here are the top ten weirdest Transformers alt modes!

As voted on by fans, here are the results for the very tricky topic of best single-use molds, which for the purposes of this list, meant a mold only used once or, if used in recolors, it was still only for the exact same character!

As voted on by fans, this week we have the results for the worst Beast Wars/ Beast machines figures. This covered all eras of the beast boys, including more recent MP or mainline updates and anything for those characters from third party companies. The net was cast wide to catch these terrible beasts!

The eagle eyed may notice this topic harkens to one very similar from Nov 2024. Today's list resulting in me wanting to answer a bet about possible recency bias, specifically after this year of Studio Series and Age of the Primes releases.

Not all bots are a hit, in fact, some seem to mysteriously exist just to hold peg space. It can be for many reasons from a bad mold, to uninteresting, to ugly, boring or anything else. These are the fan-vote results for top 10 Transformers shelf-warmers!

Where as last week fans voted of shelf-warmers, this week they voted on the top 10 shell-formers, those bots who are more encased in a shell than perform a true blue transformation. The voting and results were pretty odd. Some were nailed but some were surprises and a couple completely omitted by voters that I would have thought were a shoe-in.

Here are the results for the top 10 "best selling" Transformers. Please note, that a proper list would require access to and analysis of official sales data. Herein, we have what fans think, followed by another rundown at the end based more in sales and pricing from a few other sources. It's a fun topic but hardly a factual ranking. A fun topic to explore though!

In honour of Halloween just passing, these are the results for the Halloween week fan vote for the Top 10 most Ominous and menacing Transformers names!

Looked at the Studio Series Devastation Optimus last week, and am following it up today with the studio series ONE deluxe Optimus. He's hefty...but rough!

The results are in for top 10 most compatible/cross-playable brands that work with Transformers, as voted on by fans. A lot of brands and some interesting and solid results!

The fan voted results are in for the top 10 most absurd alt modes. It was a wacky round of voting for a wacky topic. Basically, these are the alt modes so preposterous it made fans ask why it existed at all.

The results are in and the voting was far and wide, but here are the results for what fans selected as the top 10 WORST Transformers robot modes!

Everyone has favorites and some of us could never dream of getting rid of our collections, but some folks have to and some have them taken by fate (ex: fire or theft). So, what ONE would most fans most make sure to NEVER part with was this week's topic. Here are the results!

This week's results are in for Top 10 Transformers figures fans immediately hated right out of box! An interesting, eclectic mix!

That time of year is here! These are the results for the fan-voted Best Transformers releases of 2025!

Based on fan votes, here are the masses picks for worst Transformers figures of 2025! Always fun and always a bit controversial, especially in a year THIS strong!

After two weeks of the fan-voted top 10 best and worst Transformers of 2025 lists, I now run through my own personal picks, which, like your own lists I assume, looks very different from the fan-voted selections!

Happy New Year! Here's my personal list for top 10 worst Transformers of 2025! Some are the weakest of the best but a few truly are stinkers! My number one worst never even had a vote from fans, go figure...

Stay with me now, these are the fan-voted results for the top 10 Transformers mold misues. That means a mold might be good or bad but it just plain did not fit the intended character!

The results are in and it was a challenge to package the votes for best Transformers packaging. So, let's unpack the packaging results...get it? Got it? Good!

The results are in for the fan suggested top 10 in-hand physical transformers media, from VHS, to DVD, to comics, to soundtracks and more. It was hard to amass the votes so honorable mentions are handled a little differently this time.

Fans voted on a fan suggested topic this week and these are the results for the Top 10 Transformers fans would most like to hang out with and befriend!

Fans voted and these are the results for the top 10 pieces of advice fans would give Hasbro to improve. Quite a range here, some good, some odd and some out right bad.

Fans voted on an interesting fan topic, who are the top 10 Transformers, pre-86 movie, who SHOULD have been kept on for season 3?. These were very intriguing. with a few notable caveats.

After last week's foray into which season 1 and 2 Transformers characters from G1 should have been in season 3; it got me wondering, according to fans, who were the top 10 G1 transformers characters from season 3 proper anyway? We had a whole new cast to pick from! These are the results!