william-james88 wrote:
Yeah he wasn't super obvious to me as a shellformer either. BUT my number 1 pick is along the lines, a shellformer with 0 backpack, can't wait to share it.
Also, from the comments I get, people seem to just look at the picture and read the names rather than read the selecting criteria or what the list is about. Because then I dont think Big Convoy (and AOE Galvatron) would be mentionned as often. Yes, they are the biggest shellformer offender but are they bad shellformers/transformers? This list is only about the bad ones, not the most obvious ones. Someone mentioned G1 Scourge, WHAT!? Why would I put him on the WORST list? He's a fun toy and does his job well. Doesnt mean he's the all time best, but I see no reason to put him on a list next to DOTM Voyager Sentinel Prime.
So in the end, this is about bad toys and I really don't see Big Convoy as a bad toy, at all. I think he wears his shell in a very mighty fashion and the fact that most becomes a giant F**K OFF GUN means he has no backpack. It's also one of the best sculpted toys to ever come out of the brand. Once again, it would kill me to see him next to any of these.
While I wholeheartedly don't think your articles are bad and time wasters, I do think that some of your articles can be improved -i.e. a bit more research for the topic at hand, be more objective about the topic at hand, and try to focus the Transformers universe in its entirety, not just what is available in North America (this is the internet, after all, and people from all over the world - the U.K., PRC, South Korea, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand, for example, may have a richer knowledge than the fans in North America (think NFL - for a good sports analysis, you need to talk about the entire NFL, not just AFC south, or AFC north).
The reason why I bolded G1 Scourge in the excerpt above is because when you look at that particular toy, all it is is just the hovercraft sides/wings covering 80% of the toy, while the lower legs is slightly reconfigured to form the hovercraft's front. The head and hovercraft back is then tilted forward. That's it. G1 mini-spy Bumblebee and Cliffjumper is more involved in their transformation schema at 1/3 of the price. But that's not the offending attribute of this toy - the lack of kibbles in the way presented many articulation allowances. Instead, all the articulation you get is the shoulders/elbows/wrist, and partial hip movement. You can argue that the head and legs can bend a bit due to its transformation, but having only 8 points of articulation is just a poor design when its contemporary toy, G1 Cyclonus, had hip articulation when it wasn't even a necessary part of its transformation schema. You can argue it being more fun, and you may be right. I never had more fun trying to stand G1 Scourge more ramrod straight than my neighbor next door, and having a bricky hovercraft mode to fly around the house is just gravy on top of it all.
Which brings me to my next point - Beast Wars Neo Big Convoy is argued to be a better toy, more "fun" because of the weapons it comes with. If that's the case, none of the figures on your list should be there because they all either have special features (BW Neo Break is a Targetmaster that can interact with other figures), playable features in their alt mode (Sentinel Prime is a great fire truck with features that a kid can role play when using it in a fire fighting play scenario), or weapons/combat features (the remaining figures you've listed) very much like BW Neo Big Convoy. The latter compounds to its poor design in that in its mammoth mode, you cannot move the legs or head without having its shell crack open and ruining the disguise (something you can't say about the rest of these figs when you try to pose it/play with it), and the mammoth panel kibbles just gets in the way of posing when it is in robot mode (something you can't say about Thunderblast or Sentinel Prime, for that matter), and the gun is too heavy for the bot to hold without it having to have a cheaty way of supporting it or have it drooping on you.
That's my critique based on your criteria. Again, I like most of your articles, but I have to side with primalxconvoy on this particular article because of the reasons I stated in my first paragraph of this post.
Otherwise, keep up the good work!
Consider it a 2 part worst shellformers then. With this being the 5 worst and getting 6-10 in two weeks 
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