Referencing the list, there are four toys that I have personal experience with, thanks to family members owning them, since I never owned them myself.
Legends Jazz was pretty disappointing. For the engineering that was put into the figure, you'd think they could've found a way to have his actual grille be his chest and the rear of the car be his legs, as it should be.
Energon Hot Shot... ugh. Of all the Energon Powerlinx Autobots my nephews had, his figure was far and away the worst piece of crap, and pretty much for all the reasons stated in the list.
Wideload... ehh. I don't think I'd rate him the worst G1 figure, but yes, sacrifices were definitely made to keep him at the same price point as Goldbug and the others.
The Armada Side Swipe mold I know from experience with my nephew's Universe Treadshot figure. And that's definitely a worse piece of crap than Hot Shot. The vehicle-mode gimmick comes off as nonsensical to me, and the robot mode looks like something Wreck-Gar might throw together if he was having an off-day.
As for some other horrible toys I have experience with? I'd have to say that in my most recent history, it'd be CW/UW Motormaster and the Dead End mold. I got the UW set last year, and the first time I transformed Motormaster, the waist broke, so I had to replace him with a CW figure. (Wasn't terribly crazy about the "black" on UW Motormaster being brownish, anyway.) As noted oh-so-often, Motormaster is a floppy mess as a torso, and iffy at best in robot mode, though vehicle mode is decent enough. As for Dead End and Wildrider, while they look great in robot mode, and are serviceable as legs, they are garbage as arms, as their legs absolutely refuse to stay connected together in arm mode, causing a lot of floppiness. I never have that issue with Drag Strip or Breakdown, nor with any of the Aerialbots.
And, as for this...
allcody wrote:
As Joel Robinson might say, it looks like somebody needs his loadpan emptied!
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