Darthshadow wrote:Gotta disagree with the list.
Every one of the top 10 worst TFs all belong to the movie line. Nearly every movie figure ever made is crap.
Darthshadow wrote:Gotta disagree with the list.
Every one of the top 10 worst TFs all belong to the movie line. Nearly every movie figure ever made is crap.
Leonardo wrote:Take your lips off my pipe!
Ironhidensh wrote:Darthshadow wrote:Gotta disagree with the list.
Every one of the top 10 worst TFs all belong to the movie line. Nearly every movie figure ever made is crap.
Well that's flat out wrong. The leader class Primes from the first 2 movies are awesome. Human alliance Jazz is a figure good enough to earn a spot on my masterpiece shelf. Hell, even AOE had an amazing figure in EMOP.
Turns out, he was referring to his long skirt piece in the back, which means his back is a mess that looks like a Piet Modrian painting naturally.
Burn wrote:Let it be known, I murdered Amelie.
Accidentally.
Randomhero wrote:-scrolling down the list- yes, yes, I agree so far, yes, yes, these are terrible figures, 2. Armada sideswipe, I can't argue that. Man I can't argue any of these. 1. Cybertronian animated Megatron...awe man...I really enjoy that figure. Lol well to each his own. I won't deny he is does transform into a lump of nothingness and his canon hinge is awful and you can't lock his chest in but he's so charming to me!
Darthshadow wrote:Gotta disagree with the list.
Every one of the top 10 worst TFs all belong to the movie line. Nearly every movie figure ever made is crap.
Alpha Dominus wrote:With the exception of that animated Megatron (dat robot mode!)figure I dig this list.
Let's not forgot perhaps the laziest marketing idea for Transformers-Combiner Wars! When it first started out we were treated to new renditions of our favorite combiner characters. Hey look, a newly engineered Superion! Over there, Menasor! And whoah, check out Devastator! Just one of those figures is almost as large as the original! But very soon, we discovered some of its cheap shortcuts.
Multifunctional hands/feet looks good on paper but really it looks pathetic in person. With the exception of that amazing Devastator each combiner suffers from Cinderalla feet. Placing fist size hands on any combiner is just bad comedy. You know what I'm talking about.
Another gimmick that looks great on paper: Modular construction. Just "no". Just because a bot can combine doesn't mean they should combine. By shoehorning characters that don't share relatively similar designs or alt functions,we're left with a combiner that is noticeably conspicuous. Optimus Maximus, Betatron and Sky Reign are the abominations/results of this Hasbro experiment that would certainly make Jhiaxus proud.
The idea of retooling/recoloring is a manufacturing concept that has been with Transformers since the beginning. From it we've been introduced to some of the most memorable characters in the canon. It certainly helps to maximus Hasbro's quarterly return. Kudos to them (and any other toy company) for milking this approach. Unfortunately, the volume of redecos in the combiner line has become noticeable to the point of exploitation. "Computron" and Victorion were perfect examples of missed opportunities which instead sought to recycle resources for capital gain. "Twin" helicopters? Sure. "Afterburner" and "Strafe"? Yeah, not exactly hi sci-fi designs there.
For my vote, I nominate the extremely obvious cost-cutting measures that the Combiner Wars line displays on virtually all of its figures. For eye-searing color schemes (Victorion), sneaky recycling (G2 combiners), daft designs (Scattershot) and misguided,flawed size consistency (silly feet) Combiner Wars takes the win.
Darthshadow wrote:I agree completely. The author just hates being told he's wrong when he is clearly wrong.
That Animated Megatron is the best toy on that list and to say G1 Wideload is worse than the other Throttlebots is just downright ridiculous.
The movie lines are filled with garbage.
Randomhero wrote:
So your vote is for figures you don't own or haven't even seen in person. There's that back seat criticism I was saying.
Darthshadow wrote:Andrius wrote:
And yes, the movie toys should have dominated this list with a whole mess of Unicron Trilogy figures not far behind.
I agree completely. The author just hates being told he's wrong when he is clearly wrong.
That Animated Megatron is the best toy on that list and to say G1 Wideload is worse than the other Throttlebots is just downright ridiculous.
The movie lines are filled with garbage.
Randomhero wrote:Darthshadow wrote:Randomhero wrote:-Kanrabat- wrote:Darthshadow wrote:Fine, those fans are fools because the movie toys are SHIZZLESNIT, period.
Shhhhhhhhhh... Grown ups are talking.
More like people who actually bought movie toys and can say what's fun about them while others who bought maybe one or none at all and feel like being back seat critics because they saw pictures of them and say they're the worse toys ever.
You should never assume, one I bought the entire run of the first movie toys and the first movie toys are among the best from all the movies and they are still crap.
So you bought an entire line of something you hated? Who's being foolish now? That's a lot of money spent on something you don't like.
william-james88 wrote:Darthshadow wrote:I agree completely. The author just hates being told he's wrong when he is clearly wrong.
That Animated Megatron is the best toy on that list and to say G1 Wideload is worse than the other Throttlebots is just downright ridiculous.
The movie lines are filled with garbage.
Nobody is wrong, it's all about opinions, nothing here is factual. And the list isn't just my opinion but a round up of the community's collective opinion. There is even a link to the thread discussing that Megatron figure for everyone to check for themselves.
This is supposed to be fun, a chance for us to all let loose and say what we loathe. I look forward to reading people's own lists Feel free to tell us which top 10 movie figures you dislike the most.
Andrius wrote:Darthshadow wrote:Andrius wrote:
And yes, the movie toys should have dominated this list with a whole mess of Unicron Trilogy figures not far behind.
I agree completely. The author just hates being told he's wrong when he is clearly wrong.
That Animated Megatron is the best toy on that list and to say G1 Wideload is worse than the other Throttlebots is just downright ridiculous.
The movie lines are filled with garbage.
I get the sense that the list was written to spread the hate out over multiple lines, which I get from a "political" standpoint.
And every line has its duds, for sure.
But I find it hard to pick on anything from G1, mainly because, on some level, MOST of them are somewhat crappy, by modern standards. Many are funny-looking, overly-simplistic, or just downright stupid. But you know what? It's G1 and we're talking about toys that broke a whole mess of ground and set this whole thing in motion. So I'm able to look at them with the eyes of that kid who picked up his first "scramble city" limb and didn't care that the head was unpainted, square, and comically small.
(The Pretenders on the other hand... well, I'll just let that go for now.)
But of the modern lines -- and by that I mean Beast Wars onward -- each line has had some real missteps and real triumphs. What makes lists like this one sort of silly, though, is that these lines are NOT created equal.
Beast Wars, Animated, Prime, and most CHUG iterations are characterized by a bulk of designs which can be considered "good" or better, along with some truly exceptional designs and a small number of duds. Those lines skewed high.
But when I look at the movie toys, all I can think about was the almost nonstop disappointment of nearly each and every figure. There are absolutely exceptions. Unquestionably. But the deluxe/voyager lines skewed towards fiddly, kibble-heavy, ugly figures --particularly the toys that were based on movie characters. The lines, on the whole, were just depressingly bad.
Leonardo wrote:Take your lips off my pipe!
Alpha Dominus wrote:With the exception of that animated Megatron (dat robot mode!)figure I dig this list.
Let's not forgot perhaps the laziest marketing idea for Transformers-Combiner Wars! When it first started out we were treated to new renditions of our favorite combiner characters. Hey look, a newly engineered Superion! Over there, Menasor! And whoah, check out Devastator! Just one of those figures is almost as large as the original! But very soon, we discovered some of its cheap shortcuts.
Multifunctional hands/feet looks good on paper but really it looks pathetic in person. With the exception of that amazing Devastator each combiner suffers from Cinderalla feet. Placing fist size hands on any combiner is just bad comedy. You know what I'm talking about.
Another gimmick that looks great on paper: Modular construction. Just "no". Just because a bot can combine doesn't mean they should combine. By shoehorning characters that don't share relatively similar designs or alt functions,we're left with a combiner that is noticeably conspicuous. Optimus Maximus, Betatron and Sky Reign are the abominations/results of this Hasbro experiment that would certainly make Jhiaxus proud.
The idea of retooling/recoloring is a manufacturing concept that has been with Transformers since the beginning. From it we've been introduced to some of the most memorable characters in the canon. It certainly helps to maximus Hasbro's quarterly return. Kudos to them (and any other toy company) for milking this approach. Unfortunately, the volume of redecos in the combiner line has become noticeable to the point of exploitation. "Computron" and Victorion were perfect examples of missed opportunities which instead sought to recycle resources for capital gain. "Twin" helicopters? Sure. "Afterburner" and "Strafe"? Yeah, not exactly hi sci-fi designs there.
For my vote, I nominate the extremely obvious cost-cutting measures that the Combiner Wars line displays on virtually all of its figures. For eye-searing color schemes (Victorion), sneaky recycling (G2 combiners), daft designs (Scattershot) and misguided,flawed size consistency (silly feet) Combiner Wars takes the win.
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