The Energon Pub

Aw cute Here's my list:

- BT Smokescreen (#7 variant)
- BT Streak (Silverstreak)
- BT Lambor (Sideswipe)
- BT Dead End
- BT Ravage (Corvette)
- BT Overdrive (my personal favourite)

- BTA Sunstreaker with Junko
- Kiss Players Convoy with Melissa

Finally, I have an Alternator Tracks with a broken hood I have plans with. Road Rage anyone?

Alternators/BT are part of my Masterpiece collection. Hits are Jazz, Tracks, Hound, Smokescreen, Sidewipe (my 1st, so gotta soft spot for it), Shockblast, Ravage, Mirage.

Misses include Rollbar, Optimus Prime, Camshaft, Swerve, Battle Ravage.

Everything else falls in between.

Kibble wrote:

SJ21 wrote:Maybe not "bashing", but they I've seen a few threads around here that were derogatory towards them. For a while everyone was all about Alternators/Binaltech. They were the greatest things ever. Ebay prices were through the roof. Now, not so much.

I dunno, maybe my point of view isn't a minority one...that the Classicsverse lines have just been so good that Alternators kinda lost a lot of their luster. Plus the fact that the line is over, yet so incomplete. I still think it's a cool concept with well engineered figures, for the most part, but there's just nothing keeping me drawn to them. Just a stagnant collection that's in danger of losing its real estate as new stuff continues to come into the picture with equally impressive engineering, that are more accurate to the characters to boot.

They haven't lost the appeal to me. Sure, it's a dead line but so are so many others, like G1 for instance! I have a G1 display, two neo G1 classics displays (small scale with deluxe Optimus and large scale with voyager OPtimus) and another neo G1 display with MP1, MP4 and the alt/bins. I also have the separate MP display with Seekers, et al. It all works beautifully for me.

Mykltron wrote:They haven't lost the appeal to me. Sure, it's a dead line but so are so many others, like G1 for instance! I have a G1 display, two neo G1 classics displays (small scale with deluxe Optimus and large scale with voyager OPtimus) and another neo G1 display with MP1, MP4 and the alt/bins. I also have the separate MP display with Seekers, et al. It all works beautifully for me.

The problem isn't that it's a dead line...it's that it's dead AND so incomplete. Yeah, G1's dead, but there are 1000s of figures in the line. Alts only got 27 figs...and only 8 Decepticons, with two of those being the same character.

Kibble wrote:

Mykltron wrote:They haven't lost the appeal to me. Sure, it's a dead line but so are so many others, like G1 for instance! I have a G1 display, two neo G1 classics displays (small scale with deluxe Optimus and large scale with voyager OPtimus) and another neo G1 display with MP1, MP4 and the alt/bins. I also have the separate MP display with Seekers, et al. It all works beautifully for me.

The problem isn't that it's a dead line...it's that it's dead AND so incomplete. Yeah, G1's dead, but there are 1000s of figures in the line. Alts only got 27 figs...and only 8 Decepticons, with two of those being the same character.

Personally I think the three main problems is as follows below:

Problem #1,A lot of the Alternators/binal tech toys had extremly limited poseability range of movement. examples: Sunstreaker/sideswipe/deadend has extremly limited walking hip joints & extremly limited range of movement in the knee joints. Tracks/ravage out to the sides shoulder joints. bluestreak/Silverstreak/Rochochett weird molded pieces on his upper thighs that give him limited range of movement in the walking hips joints.

Problem #2,almost all the alternators/Binaltech characters received alt modes that looked nothing like their lisecensed alt modes from 1984 thru 1986. I think only hound,swindle & tracks received liscensed alt modes that were exact to their 1984 toys.

Problem 3,Transformers fans,IMHO,always praise the newer/today stuff & as the years pass dis-like more & more the previous years stuff. some Transformers fans think the newer/today stuff is superior in every way to the TF stuff released last year or from a few meager years ago.