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News Credits: 1 · Sun Nov 14, 2010 2:57 am

What is the most rarest, hardest to get near impossible to obtain Generation 1 transformer to actually find and by?

News Credits: 226 · Sun Nov 14, 2010 3:04 am

I think it's a safe bet to say Fortress Maximus.

For the whole "he's too bloody hard to afford" factor.

News Credits: 1 · Sun Nov 14, 2010 3:15 am

yeah i think your right about that one i thought it might be overlord or reflector. a friend of mine who talks abit of s!#t reckons his brother is a collecter and that he has just about every G1 figure but i got a feeling hes all s!#t

News Credits: 60 · Sun Nov 14, 2010 3:20 am

Metalhawk and Grandus. Haven't seen one in ebay for some time.

Sun Nov 14, 2010 4:17 am

Burn wrote:I think it's a safe bet to say Fortress Maximus.

For the whole "he's too bloody hard to afford" factor.

I think you are right. It might not be quite as hard to find, but it is sure hard to obtain.

News Credits: 2 · Sun Nov 14, 2010 6:40 am

I think when it comes to domestic U.S. I would agree to say Fort Max simply on price and Reflector too considering all the weeding out one must do to not get a crappy KO. And as far as import TF's I would say any of the Zone bots would be a bit tuff simply cause of price such as Metrotitan, Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber...I would think!

News Credits: 150 · Sun Nov 14, 2010 9:15 am

If you are talking G1 in both the US and Japan it would be the White Headmaster Heads.

News Credits: 22 · Sun Nov 14, 2010 9:37 am

Hmm, I figured it would be Overlord, if prices aren't taken into consideration. Maximus is expensive, but not rare. I never thought Reflector would be that rare, though.

News Credits: 36 · Sun Nov 14, 2010 10:14 am

A boxed red Euro-Tracks has go to be up there surely?

News Credits: 4 · Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:03 am

if your going to the extreme, Gen 1 unicron and Arcee prototypes.

Action master Elites as well as action master Sideswipe, Slicer, thundercracker etc are pretty rare too

Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:18 am

yup Action Master Tracks,Sideswipe and Bombshell are damn tough.but I have to say the Original Fortress Maximus too.and worst thing?I had these and the AM Elites when I was young......the Motorvators too.Flame,Gripper and Lihspeed had some savage battles with Overlord when I was 11.

I didnt find Overlod hard to get at all.loose Mint complete BIN $325.

News Credits: 33 · Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:31 am

I can think of a few contenders that were commercially available-

Black

And the more esoteric

News Credits: 4 · Sun Nov 14, 2010 11:40 am

My freid Duckstar has a Hotrod, gen 1, which came with the action master and both guns in the box and they all fit.

He always thought it was a mistake.

The mexican TF gen 1 mini bots are nice oddities too, I found a deep maroon and i think the second colour is white gears at a boot sale with the yellow cliffjumper once. And a complete original gen 1 Shockwave in a brickabrack store for £12.00. Overlord bodies occasionally turn up at bootsales and jumble sales, but his parts are hard to get.

Tue Nov 16, 2010 12:50 am

The Dino Cassettes. Zaur,Dial,Graphy and Noise. You are very lucky if you EVER see them up for auction anywhere. SUPER RARE. If ya do your paying out the nose for not a lot of transformer. A single cassette can go for 1200 bucks if your lucky.

EDIT; actually....i jsut found a Dial on ebay for 1500 hundred bucks and a Zaur for 1551.00 on a private auction.

News Credits: 150 · Tue Nov 16, 2010 7:07 am

You still can't beat the white headmasters. Sure a non-produced figure like G1 Unicron will go for around $12,000. But the White Headmasters I think go for around $3000 each.

News Credits: 104 · Tue Nov 16, 2010 8:01 am

Makes me glad I have Fort Max and Reflector..

I would agree that both of those would be at or around the top of the hard to get/obtain list.

News Credits: 33 · Tue Nov 16, 2010 10:33 am

On the matter of Reflector, I'm so glad I snagged one (complete) for £90 before the K.Os came out. :KREMZEEK:

Tue Nov 16, 2010 10:53 am

I don't find either Reflector or Fort Max that hard to obtain. Expensive, yes, but not hard to find. As for the US ones; finding a complete Vroom, Bugly, Skyhammer and Longtooth is a bitch. Longtooth is, in my experience, the one hardest to find. Until recently I haven't seen a complete one in months for sale.

Check out this ended auction;

http://cgi.ebay.com/Transformers-G1-Lon ... 255ec33618

As for european ones I'd say Omega Spreem, Windmill, Tracks and Bombshell. Pyro, Deftwing & Ironfist are also rare, but they're G1,5. Haha.

I'm not that familiar with the rarity and stuff regarding Japanese exclusives, but I'd say the white Headmasters and the Dino Cassettes. Roadfire is quite rare too.

News Credits: 16 · Tue Nov 16, 2010 11:11 am

There's also the red Sunstreaker.

Amelie wrote:On the matter of Reflector, I'm so glad I snagged one (complete) for £90 before the K.Os came out.

Vintage KO Reflector's exist, too. Too be honest, I need to check if mine are authentic. They're in storage, but I'll get around to it one day.

Tue Nov 16, 2010 11:20 am

Crystalboy wrote:
As for european ones I'd say Omega Spreem, Windmill, Tracks and Bombshell.

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alongside the Motorvators:Gripper,Lightspeed and Flame Id have to agree

News Credits: 36 · Tue Nov 16, 2010 11:47 am

It Is Him wrote:There's also the red Sunstreaker.

Was that ever confirmed? I've seen a red SS packaged as "Diakron" (the limited US Diaclone line), but not as a TF...

News Credits: 33 · Tue Nov 16, 2010 12:01 pm

It Is Him wrote:Vintage KO Reflector's exist, too. Too be honest, I need to check if mine are authentic. They're in storage, but I'll get around to it one day.

I've checked mine over quite thoroughly, so I'm satisfied about that.

What about Rabbicrater? He's pretty rare. To my eternal shame, I passed on the figure in a local second hand shop because I don't collect Micomasters (nor did I know about the rarity of the figure).

News Credits: 16 · Tue Nov 16, 2010 12:02 pm

Pretender Skywarp wrote:
It Is Him wrote:There's also the red Sunstreaker.

Was that ever confirmed? I've seen a red SS packaged as "Diakron" (the limited US Diaclone line), but not as a TF...

My friend at Transformerland.com seems to think this is legit. And I trust him.

Tue Nov 16, 2010 1:58 pm

It Is Him wrote:
Pretender Skywarp wrote:
It Is Him wrote:There's also the red Sunstreaker.

Was that ever confirmed? I've seen a red SS packaged as "Diakron" (the limited US Diaclone line), but not as a TF...

My friend at Transformerland.com seems to think this is legit. And I trust him.

The red Sunstreaker were never sold in Transformers packaging. It's a legit Takara toy, but it's not a Transformer but a Diakron figure. Same with the black Tracks, that's a finish Diaclone, not a G1 Transformer. Though the red Tracks is a G1 toy, produced by MB in Europe. And yeah, that makes my european list too.