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My Favorite= All voyagers, Beast Fire Predaking

Worst: So far, Bulkhead

I think Beast hunters in my opinion was more interesting than RID. While we did get awesome figures like RID Magnus and Wheeljack (My favorite figure I purchased last year) and the vehicon, and soundwave, I feel if someone missed out on the figures last year, they can still get awesome autobots and cons. Beast fire predaking is bigger than they showed in the reviews. I stopped at my local target yesterday and saw him. Defiantly going to pick him up as soon as I can

Favorite, beast fire predaking.

worst, Grimwing just because his chest doesn't lock into place in bot mode.

Favorite, so far: Smokescreen

Worst: Starscream

The former was the figure I wanted most, and while I love the majority of the line, I was more interested in having a 'complete' Prime line than a Beast Hunters line. The new Starscream simply has no reason to exist, given it has two superior predecessors to choose from, each with different scales to work with.

I've only bought two so far so this is easy:

Best: Voyager OP, although he needed a lot of work:


Worst: beast fire Predaking. He needs even more work than OP.

Best: BH Voyager Ultra Magnus (rather surprisingly)

Worst: Deluxe Starscream (completely craptastic IMO)

Best? Smokescreen easily, the mold's so good.

Worst? Mold-wise, it's Lazerbeak with a landslide, he's the worst of the worst by far. If we're talking Hasbro's version only, make it a four-way tie with Bulkhead, Starscream and DinoRatchet, those decos are awful. In the case of the Autobots, it's homages gone HORRIBLY awry. Bulkhead tries to homage a handful of different characters all at once, and fails miserably at all of them; Ratchet is much the same.

Honorable mention: Voyager Optimus Prime; that chaingun really should have been his accessory instead of the missile launchers.

I'd give Shockwave more love if his altmode wasn't complete crap.

I'd feel more comfortable listing the main lines from best to worst..

1. Shockwave - Incredibly screen accurate and articulate; looks great in both modes
2. Ultra Magnus - About as cool as Shockwave
3. Prowl - So much better looking than Hasbro's Smokescreen
4. Grimwing - Really nice looking mold.
5. Voyager Predaking - Super awesome in both modes.
6. Voyager Optimus Prime - Pretty okay, but needs some work
7. Lazerback - He's being Lazer back!
8. Ripclaw - Nice mold; should've been Serket
9. Bulkhead - He's.....okay looking....ish...
10. Wheeljack - Same as Bulkhead
11. Skystalker - Looks nice in dragon mode, kind of awkward in robot mode.
12. Vertebreak - Not as good as Lazerback.
13. Ratchet - Nice homage......looks like ass.
14. Arcee - Again, looks like ass.
15. Knock Out - Same as Arcee
16. Megatron - Same as Knock Out
17. Starscream - Same as Megatron
18. Soundwave - Same as Starscream
19. Bumblebee - Same as Soundwave, but I love the bow
20. Night Shadow Bumblebee - Nice try, Hasbro, but no.
21. Smokescreen - Takara's is superb compared to this ugly chunk of kiddie-menu-colored garbage. Gross!
22. Dreadwing - The ugliest piece of crap in this line.

Also, I disagree with you on "More interesting than PRiD." That line was full of Gems, with the only "craps" being Starscream, Bulkhead, and Airachnid. For Beast Hunters, it's quite the opposite: full of craps with the only true gems being Shockwave, Ultra Magnus, and Prowl.

It's not often I disagree with you Pryme, but I must here. As an ardent lover of Shockwave, I have to say his Beast Hunters mold does NOT "look great in both modes". His h-tank form is okay, but hardly great.

And ranking Soundwave lower than Starscream? I agree the yellow is hideous, but at least Ravage is there to compensate.

Henry921 wrote:His h-tank form is okay, but hardly great.

It's better than Ultra Magnus' no-smokestack, shoulder-kibbled truck mode with robot textures blocking the windshield. I bet the driver of that truck gets into thousands of accidents.

And ranking Soundwave lower than Starscream? I agree the yellow is hideous, but at least Ravage is there to compensate.

At least Starscream's arms don't forcefully bend in-ward to make him look like a monkey.

I think Ravage looks like crap. The brown & black is not one of his best representations.

My Personal favorite: voyager Shockwave. (Beautiful looking in robot mode, awesome colors, and a great representation of the character. Drawbacks: odd transformation, meh, tank mode, serious stress marks on cannon cord, poor ratchet joints in thighs.)
My personal least favorites: voyager Megatron/deluxe Dreadwing (Could just be me, but I already wasn't a fan of the look/feel of the voyager Megatron we got for the PRID toyline. Terribly tiny compared to teh first edition Optimus voyager figure and even to the PRID counterpart. Not even the same height. So what does Hasbro do? They try to pull off a sharkticon homage with the mold, and even then, it doesn't look very appealing. then there's Dreadwing who really isn't a necessary figure from any sense of the word.)

My professional favorite: voyager Optimus Prime. (Overall in my opinion truly the best toy for the general audience.)
My professional least favorite: Ultimate Optimus Prime (intended for a younger audience, and yet seemingly fails to be appealing as the scale is terrible and the fact Optimus has a huge spiraling backpack that can't detach.)

Slashercon wrote:Terribly tiny compared to teh first edition Optimus voyager figure and even to the PRID counterpart. Not even the same height.

Yes, the FE Prime is taller, but what are you talking about with the PRiD? Megatron is over half a head taller than PRiD Optimus. Plus, Megatron's supposed to be two or three heads taller through the show's scale.

for the BH line its between 3 characters for me for top honors...

1. Grimwing/Darksteel mold
2. BH Ultra Magnus
3. Smokescreen/Prowl mold

Worst cant really say because their were not to many that I really just loved from the moment I saw them. I prefer the standard PRIME and PRiD molds to the BH sets.