I only have ONE Question....do you own one or two molds from the human alliance basics? Because they certainly are NOT Trash! Give them a chance! Im giving Ultimate OP A chance I thought Id'e never give him, but these cost WAY less, so it's not that much of a loss if you don't like it! My recomendation? Whirl!
No i do not own any of them... to me (yes this is my personal take on the Transformers), that the whole concept and point of the Transformers on Earth is to blend into and hide among us (which i think is super freakn cool). I have all these sexy HA toys (Jazz, Bumblebee, Sideswipe, etc...) with these sick alt modes. The thought for me is this... maybe my Chryser Crossfire is really a Decepticon.. joking joking.. but follow where i am going with this? again my opinion... but the Fallen, and any other cybertronian alt mode is beyond boring... boarderline lazy if you ask me. so no i will not give the HA basic line a second look... unless i want to light something on fire and watch it slowly drip hot flaming plastic on itself.. cuz thats always fun.
to further illistrate my point consider this. The first Transformers Bayverse movie held a decepticons like Barricade, Bonecrusher, Brawl, and Blackout... sure none of them had many lines in the movie, but because of there alt modes you develop a sense of personality from them (ie cops are jerks). So i felt personality from those characters. Great way to cheat and develop characters without having to have much screen time (expense). Now in ROTF and DOTM we had all these Cybertronian mode guys running around... i did not give a crap about... fodder... and i did not like that. I liked when Ironhide died (albeit sad) it felt like it mattered... you felt the loss of Starscream and Soundwave... now i do think they killed off too many cuz we still need cons for the 4th movie. but my point is cybertronian and having no Earth mode doesnt make for an interesting Transformer (again my opinion).