Iron-Man wrote:Wal-Mart here has deluxes (all of them) for $7.77 which is pretty much what a scout was costing last I checked.
Sweet action, they were still on sale here too. And turns out the Activators are nearly $9! WTF?!
Anyway - grabbed animated deluxe Oilslick, Jazz, and Optimus for the kids.
I know the first two are good (sturdy, well articulated, and stylish) but I'm going out on a limb with Optimus - I hadn't heard anything bad about him though.
They had new classics too (I grabbed Smokescreen and Sideswipe for myself
) but the latest run of Classics has felt more fragile, complicated, and look more difficult to repair than their animated counterparts.
While they're good for looks, they didn't seem primo choice for a kid who will be loving the hell out of the toy.
Maybe I should have grabbed a couple more while they were discounted, but our final bill was pretty steep as is...
Additional Plug - For those of you that have packratted broken figures, you might look around at what the local fire stations do around Christmas. The Firemen back in Jefferson City used to (I presume still do) collect broken toys and spend their free time trying to repair them for their own Christmas toy-drive.
Alternatively, if you're one of those mad-awesome kitbashers out there, you might ask if they want help with that...