Rodimus Prime wrote:Having never owned him, I never realized what a beautiful figure Nightstick is. I might have to buy him for CW Cyclonus.
And Kurona, is "recency bias" really a thing? If it is, I disagree with it being a valid reason to exclude recently released figures. If a figure is a great piece, it doesn't matter if it was released 10 years ago or 10 days ago. And yes, I do realize sometimes the luster of a newer figure wears off after a while.
As for my list I am not familiar with characters that turn into weapons past Armada, so I will just nominate the entire Mini-con line from that continuity, with the Star Saber, the Requiem Blaster and the Skyboom Shield taking up the top 3 spots. That is, if combined characters-turning-into-weapons are allowed.
Recency bias is certainly a thing -- even if something comes out that truly is awesome, we will just naturally be inflating how AMAZING AWESOME it is because we've gotten caught up in the hype of actually having it. I'm no psychologist but it is something that's proven to happen with anything -- toys, comics, cartoons, yadda yadda. MP Nightstick might indeed be worthy of even the Number 1 spot, but we just don't want to risk inflating how great it is because it just came out and we're revelling in its release. We should probably include a disclaimer though.
That said, it is admittedly a tiny little bit of a problem when a list comes out that happens to coincide with recent releases -- like this list, or a Top 5 Triple Changers list. But like Will said, he's happy to make an update at some later point so this isn't set in stone