The Energon Pub

I've recently bought a lot of Cybertron toys, and can't help but notice that the difficulty ratings on these figures are often nowhere near those of the movie figures. Some of these toys like Cybertron Metroplex rating a 4 are just plain ludicrous. Most of the deluxes can easily be figured out without the instructions.

I opened up Payload today for the first time ever to transform him, and it got me to thinking: the difficulty/ challenge level ratings on the movie line toys really do reflect better the amount of time, satisfaction, etc that I am going to have transforming a movie line figure, as opposed to Cybertron where it's way, way off. The movie line deluxes on average have more moves, flips, panels, etc things to DO to go from one form to another.

Anyone feel the same, or disagree, I'd love to hear from you. Also, since the only toys I've opened are movie line and Cybertron line (and everything else has been MISB), perhaps those of you who have opened and transformed toys from other lines can advise me of the comparative experiences.

Well, you won't get much satisfaction out of transforming Payload. But yeah out of all my tfs, movie stuff ties with alts for having the best transformations.

I will have to agree with you...I do not have figures from every TF universe but the Alt/BT and movie lines have really nice transformations. They are kind of fun but sometimes difficult every once in awhile.

They gave the movie toys complex transformations so that it matches how they transform in the movie.