[BW] Rainmaker wrote:Top 10/5 Neon Transformer Toys
william-james88 wrote:[BW] Rainmaker wrote:Top 10/5 Neon Transformer Toys
You mean like crazy G2 decos?
[BW] Rainmaker wrote:william-james88 wrote:[BW] Rainmaker wrote:Top 10/5 Neon Transformer Toys
You mean like crazy G2 decos?
I guess yeah.
[BW] Rainmaker wrote:Top 5 G1 toys still amazing compared to toy engineering nowadays
william-james88 wrote:[BW] Rainmaker wrote:Top 5 G1 toys still amazing compared to toy engineering nowadays
This list is on my mind a lot. The way I had worded it was "top 5 Transformers Toys better than their updates" so that I could include stuff outside G1 if ever there wasnt enough G1. But I couldnt come up with many. Skylynx is number 1, for sure, in either list. Then Fort Max. Maybe Scorponok. Maybe G1 Megatron. But what would come after?
TK415 wrote:Along those lines, but a slightly different idea.
How about something like: Top 5 (or 10) Pre 1994 toys that hold up to the newer generation of toys
Which ever date you all think is best. Like you could do pre 2001, but a whole bunch of Beast Wars have excellent articulation and engineering. Or pre-2003, or pre-1999
Like, Generations Jetfire and Classics Jetfire are both awesome and better than the original, but the original still holds up as an awesome and amazing figure.
WJ, good points, you might be right. I was actually going to leave that to you and Rainmaker, and I was looking forward to hearing more.william-james88 wrote:TK415 wrote:Along those lines, but a slightly different idea.
How about something like: Top 5 (or 10) Pre 1994 toys that hold up to the newer generation of toys
Which ever date you all think is best. Like you could do pre 2001, but a whole bunch of Beast Wars have excellent articulation and engineering. Or pre-2003, or pre-1999
Like, Generations Jetfire and Classics Jetfire are both awesome and better than the original, but the original still holds up as an awesome and amazing figure.
Thats interesting, but I dont really know how to say something holds up aside from those which are better than the updates.
The lists might repeat too. One toy that I think holds up magnificently well is G2 Smokejumper. As for Jetfire, its a gorgeous toy but I dont know how it holds up if the newer ones are better. I mean like Perceptor and Predaking. Those are awesome and gorgeous toys, but their lack of articulation and poseability along with odd proportions and faces that look off make them very much a part of their time. They are beutiful in that time but next to modern day figures, its just very different. But maybe I am not understanding well. if you could give me some examples and what you mean by holding up we could make this work
TK415 wrote:WJ, good points, you might be right. I was actually going to leave that to you and Rainmaker, and I was looking forward to hearing more.william-james88 wrote:TK415 wrote:Along those lines, but a slightly different idea.
How about something like: Top 5 (or 10) Pre 1994 toys that hold up to the newer generation of toys
Which ever date you all think is best. Like you could do pre 2001, but a whole bunch of Beast Wars have excellent articulation and engineering. Or pre-2003, or pre-1999
Like, Generations Jetfire and Classics Jetfire are both awesome and better than the original, but the original still holds up as an awesome and amazing figure.
Thats interesting, but I dont really know how to say something holds up aside from those which are better than the updates.
The lists might repeat too. One toy that I think holds up magnificently well is G2 Smokejumper. As for Jetfire, its a gorgeous toy but I dont know how it holds up if the newer ones are better. I mean like Perceptor and Predaking. Those are awesome and gorgeous toys, but their lack of articulation and poseability along with odd proportions and faces that look off make them very much a part of their time. They are beutiful in that time but next to modern day figures, its just very different. But maybe I am not understanding well. if you could give me some examples and what you mean by holding up we could make this work
Jetfire was the only one that I could think of. It is a slightly different idea then what you proposed. I was just saying which older figures don’t look out of place on a shelf with newer figures. G1 Jetfire doesn’t look like cartoon Jetfire but still looks really nice as a robot, cool enough to hang out on a shelf with newer figures. G2 Smokejumper is a great example.
But maybe it is just the newer engineering started around G2 and then perfected with Beast Wars that allows some figures to match current figures.
Transmetal Depth Charge, TM Megatron, TM Tarantulas, TM Terrorsaur are all as good as most Generations toys made today. Plastic was cheaper then and they often don’t have hollow parts, and are well built.
william-james88 wrote:
42. 2016-08-20 Top 5 Best Original Transformers Comics Characters Who Have Toys
43. 2016-09-03 Top 5 G1 toys not done by Takara
TK415 wrote:william-james88 wrote:
42. 2016-08-20 Top 5 Best Original Transformers Comics Characters Who Have Toys
43. 2016-09-03 Top 5 G1 toys not done by Takara
Hey WJ,
Only two listed unpublished lists left. When you have a chance I would love to know which lists may be upcoming (I don't mind if they change order a bit). It gives me time to look at my collection or just start thinking about and working on my own list. It gives me more time to prepare and to contribute (when I have the leisure time that is). Sometimes it is nice to answer the question before seeing other's lists, it is the difference between thinking of an idea on your own versus hearing and responding to other people's ideas. I hope that doesn't sound like a lecture, I just wanted to verbalize what I like about it. Sometimes I don't have any ideas from scratch and I look forward to learning what others have on their minds.
Rodimus Prime wrote:How about a Top 5 Most Effective Personal Weapons? (Like a sword or cannon. No WMDs like the Matrix.)william-james88 wrote:Feel free to use this thread to let us know which Top 5 list you would like to see next.
Great thanks! It is a great idea, and I have been really happy reading, thinking, learning and discovering older toys! Thanks!william-james88 wrote:TK415 wrote:william-james88 wrote:
42. 2016-08-20 Top 5 Best Original Transformers Comics Characters Who Have Toys
43. 2016-09-03 Top 5 G1 toys not done by Takara
Hey WJ,
Only two listed unpublished lists left. When you have a chance I would love to know which lists may be upcoming (I don't mind if they change order a bit). It gives me time to look at my collection or just start thinking about and working on my own list. It gives me more time to prepare and to contribute (when I have the leisure time that is). Sometimes it is nice to answer the question before seeing other's lists, it is the difference between thinking of an idea on your own versus hearing and responding to other people's ideas. I hope that doesn't sound like a lecture, I just wanted to verbalize what I like about it. Sometimes I don't have any ideas from scratch and I look forward to learning what others have on their minds.
Your wish is my command, I added a few more to show you what I have cooking.
I am really glad you are into these. I write them for the exact reason you pointed out, inorder to know what other people think about particular toys. Especially older toys that we can all rediscover
TK415 wrote:Great thanks! It is a great idea, and I have been really happy reading, thinking, learning and discovering older toys! Thanks!
Delta Magnus wrote:I have a few ideas... Well, quite a lot actually.
Top 5 best Transformers toys with real-world altmodes.
Top 5 male Transformers that would make good fembots (with retooling).
Top 5 best female Transformers toys.
Top 5 best non-humanoid robot modes.
Top 5 most needed (non-G1) reissues.
Top 5 convention exclusives.
Top 5 worst headsculpts.
william-james88 wrote:Delta Magnus wrote:I have a few ideas... Well, quite a lot actually.
This is so great, thanks!
Top 5 best Transformers toys with real-world altmodes.
I am assuming you are exclusing trucks and planes and other transportation vehicles right? I am asuming you mean handheld objects and the like, right?
Top 5 male Transformers that would make good fembots (with retooling).
I had not thought of this one before (maybe because I would rather get new molds than retools). Which would you have in mind as an example? Animated Lockdown maybe?
Top 5 best non-humanoid robot modes.
Top 5 most needed (non-G1) reissues.
I had not thought of that. Which would you have in mind?
Top 5 convention exclusives.
There will be several lists about exclusives coming eventually They will be done by another member though since I do not collect convention toys. How sizeable is your exclusives collection? I ask because if you know your stuff, you could maybe help us out
Top 5 worst headsculpts.
Also had not thought of that. Would be hard to not just write movie toys There is G1 as well, but do you think it would be fair to concentrate on those? Let me know!
Black Hat wrote:Top 5 male Transformers that would make good fembots (with retooling).
I had not thought of this one before (maybe because I would rather get new molds than retools). Which would you have in mind as an example? Animated Lockdown maybe?
Off the top of my head, there's Cybertron Ransack (quite petite, high heels etc), Animated Blurr (very slender and svelte), Animated Lockdown as you mentioned, DotM Icepick (curvy, heels, thin waist, the lot), and Beast Machines Cybershark (quite inhuman but oddly feminine nonetheless).Top 5 best non-humanoid robot modes.
I have a best casettebot list on the way. Aside from Skylynx, which one wouldnt be covered that should?
Caelus wrote:Top 5 best or most expressive facial expressions on the toys themselves (e.g., the first Masterpiece Starscream).
I know head sculpts are already on the list, but to me this is qualitatively different.
Black Hat wrote:Here's an idea: Top 5 best Movie Optimus Prime toys. There's been so many of them, and there have been some real gems. The DotM Voyager (AKA Super Robot Prime), AoE Evasion Optimus Prime, the first Leader Optimus Prime (the loveable chunk that it is) and of course one of the many versions of the Leader ROTF mold.
Rodimus Prime wrote:How about a Top 5 Most Effective Personal Weapons? (Like a sword or cannon. No WMDs like the Matrix.)william-james88 wrote:Feel free to use this thread to let us know which Top 5 list you would like to see next.
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