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Top 5 Best Thrust Transformers Toys


While he might seem like just another seeker type bot in the Decepticon ranks, Thrust has become a legacy character with prominent roles outside of G1. He got quite the spotlight in Armada and thus eventually in the Legends Universe where that incarnation became part of the Grand Galvatron combiner. He was even in the Bayverse toyline and in Cyberverse (though only in the English dub since he is Red Wing in Japan). Now after over 30 years of Thrusting, let's check out the best toys out there.

5. Transformers G1 1985 Thrust

I am way more lenient with the G1 seeker mode when it comes to the coneheads due to the added variety of the molding, with the idiosyncratic wings and weapons. Sure, they have double the partsforming of regular seekers but the way I see it, if you're gonna partsform either go big or go home. Thrust was a G1 mainstay, getting constantly reissued in the 80s and I can see why he was popular. He is afterall my favourite G1 seeker. I just love the addition of the VTOL fans on the wings, along with the burgundy colour scheme.










4. Transformers Masterpiece MP-11NT Thrust

The masterpiece toy does a good job at conveying the Thrust we all know and love though that mold makes the bot mode look too busy depending the angle. I do like that the MP conehead retool gives that extra transformation step of rotating the nosecone chest so that it is tapered properly. The retooling does lead to the unfortunate fact that the "real" nosecone kibble does end up between the robot's legs, so I guess it's a give and take with this dated mold. I do have an extra gripe with this release concerning Thrust, you can't switch his face out with an open mouth look to recreate the scene where Prime rams him (probably his most iconic scene). I almost felt so petty about it that I wasn't going to include the MP on this list. But there aren't that many Thrust toys out there.








3. Studio Series 76 Bumblebee Movie Thrust

While the Armada toy is not on this list, I do find it very interesting that he was the conehead to break through the pack and become his own character in that continuity. And it's had a lasting impact, as we can see with this toy that borrows the colour scheme from Thrust's Armada version rather than the G1 counterpart. And he is singled out again in the Bumblebee movie by being the only conehead to join the seekers in taking down the tower at the very beginning of the film. The toy itself is very good, much better than the Blitzwing mold, which looked similar at first. Everything connects in a very solid way in both molds and while the bottom of the Cybertronian jet is a bit more chunky than I would like, it does come together well in giving us a new type of Cybertronian alt mode for the seekers. And I love that extra touch of giving him that triangular design behind his head to distinguish him from the other seekers and refer to his conehead roots. Also, of many toys released today, he really has all I would expect from a voyager class mold, with greater complexity and mass (we tend to only get one or the other sometimes).






2. Transformers Unite Warriors Curse Armada Thrust

Does this mean that a combiner wars limb is better than an MP? Hell yeah it does! The deco here is just absolutely sublime. I really like the headsculpt which is a G1ified version of the Armada face and I think it looks better. He's a wonderful homage in one of the coolest combiner sets we have ever gotten. While I am not a fan of the Armada toy, I did like how Thrust distinguished himself as his own character rather than being just another seeker, so I find it a real treat to have a great looking version of that character.
















1. Transformers Generations War for Cybertron Earthrise Thrust

The classics mold was good, and I think the Henkei Thrust (Japanese version of the classics toy) looked especially glorious. And while I do really give props to having the head actually be the nose cone, I admit it did mess with the jet mode, both by being too short and seeing a robot face underneath. This new version gives us the ultimate Thrust toy. We get proper proportions in all modes and makes the classics version feel obsolete (I mean, I personally sold mine). It's a shame he was tough to get for some but that turned out to be the case for most of the coneheads.

I like that I own the traditional G1 Thrust from Earthrise and the Armada-inspired Bumblebee Movie Thrust. Variety is a great thing in my collection.

Two Armada-inspired choices in the top five?Today is a good day.

Shoutout to Revenge of The Fallen Thrust and Beast Machines Thrust:




Day 723 of waiting for Transformers Armada Masterpiece news.

Unless I missed a memo somewhere, UW Grand Galvatron was a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive despite not having the UW-EX code. Guardian/Defensor and Convoy Grand Prime were as well.

That said, nothing to add to the list that hasn't been added already... except for him:


Transformers Beast Wars II Thrust Gallery

Do we have all Thrusts covered now?

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:Unless I missed a memo somewhere, UW Grand Galvatron was a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive despite not having the UW-EX code. Guardian/Defensor and Convoy Grand Prime were as well.

That said, nothing to add to the list that hasn't been added already... except for him:


Transformers Beast Wars II Thrust Gallery


Do we have all Thrusts covered now?

There is titanium Thrust as well as Cyberverse Thrust
And yes, I misremenbered Grand Galvatron's release.

I concur with this list, for the most part. I'd forgotten how awful the artwork looked on the original G1 box, but the toy was awesome. And the Earthrise version was worth the time it took to hunt it down...

I paid far too much for all the ER Coneheads, but I love how they look together.

Beast Machines Thrust. Even though I'm not a fan of the cartoon, I really like the designs for the original 3 Vehicons and loved Thrust's cool attitude. He's one of the first TFs I ever got at a con. But that toy. It just does nothing for me. I wish we got better, cartoon accurate, versions of all three original Vehicon generals, especially Thrust.

Is MP-11 is already dated? What about it makes it a dated mold?

I had Generations Thrust for a long time in my collection; he was a lot of fun but he did have some flaws. When the new Kingdom version of him came out, that guy completely blew the Generations one out of the water!

As much as I like the Baynus sniper plane figure from the video game it's a shame the Baynus Drige/jetblade never got used for a thrust redeco with it being a harrier/hovering air craft and having the armada style head.

MP11 thrust is good but it suffers from visble screw syndrome which is never a good thing on any kind of bot let alone a MP.

Wouldnt mind seeing a top 5 list of TFs that lost an altmode but some ones bound to include Kingdom galvatron in it eeeeeewwww.

My favorite Seeker. I have a few. Don’t like the Studio Armada Thrust, skipping him.
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My favorite so far has to be the Bee movie one, I love that toy a ton. BM would come in 2nd for being so fun and weird, with ER third.