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Now that we have enough contestants ... pick the most infamous of the movie line and edit a poll into the thread. I'd like to see how that ends up!

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Movie leader Megatron

i'd have to say FABs, aside from FAB prime, who's actually pretty solid for a toyformer.

Any of the Legends toys, they are the ugliest POS Ive ever seen. In my town at least, they're the only toys from the movie NOT flying off shelves

Oh and in close second if Voyager Megatron. Transformation sucks, resembles the movie character far less then Leader meg, and the Ice detail is just an awful idea. I love Leader Meg 10x more. In fact, I dont know why all the hatred towards leader meg, hes one of my favs

Brawl and Protoforms

My Barricade doesn't transform back into car mode that well. The hood is always split open, no matter how hard I try. Also, getting his legs to fold into the car is a pain.

Blackout is also a mess. The blades refuse to stay on, and the part that houses Scorponok will not stay closed. Meh on that toy.

Also, I have one Protoform and it is extremely meh as well.

I love my 70 whatever Bumblebee. Also, I love these tiny die-cast ones.

Tallgeese wrote:The worst has to be...Voyager Starscream. Decent jet form, but a ugly robot design.

how can you say the jet looks decent when it doesn't look like an F22? It looks a brick with the top silhouette of the F22 attached to the top of it, and where are the engines? A fighter plane is supposed to be aerodynamic!

Would you accept Optimus Prime if the only angle that you could view it that looked like a truck was the top? I don't get people's broad acceptance of movie Starscream - it's sh!t. Go to google and look up "F22" - for crying out loud movie Starscream doesn't look anything like it.

People don't accept anything less than a tank looking like a tank, a car looking like a car, a truck looking like a truck, but when it comes to fighter planes we can have this rectangular brick with wings and two humungous cylinders attached to the wings and accept that that thing could actually fly? You guys amaze me.

It's called "imagination". To me, Armada Prime is a poor excuse for a truck, but it's still one and I'm okay with it.

ajy101 wrote:

Tallgeese wrote:The worst has to be...Voyager Starscream. Decent jet form, but a ugly robot design.

how can you say the jet looks decent when it doesn't look like an F22? It looks a brick with the top silhouette of the F22 attached to the top of it, and where are the engines? A fighter plane is supposed to be aerodynamic!

Would you accept Optimus Prime if the only angle that you could view it that looked like a truck was the top? I don't get people's broad acceptance of movie Starscream - it's sh!t. Go to google and look up "F22" - for crying out loud movie Starscream doesn't look anything like it.

People don't accept anything less than a tank looking like a tank, a car looking like a car, a truck looking like a truck, but when it comes to fighter planes we can have this rectangular brick with wings and two humungous cylinders attached to the wings and accept that that thing could actually fly? You guys amaze me.

I agree here's hoping if/when leader class starscream comes out he'll look better in both modes...

ajy101 wrote:I don't get people's broad acceptance of movie Starscream - it's sh!t.

I am lenient on the jet form, unlike many people. But I still did nominate him as the WORST, didn't I?

Yes Starscream jet looks ****. Doesn't look anything like the F-22 at all. Why is there a hole in the centre of the toy jet? Very crudely made.

lanzajr26 wrote:Voyager Megratron is the worst in my book.

I think that Voyager Megatron is the best of the movie Megatrons, actually. Aside from maybe the Robot Replica variety, which is pretty good.
All the movie Megatrons are crappy as all get out, it makes you wonder why they would even include such a craptacular figure/character/design. Megatron sticks out like a sore thumb amongst the rest of the figures. We can complain about the lack of similarities between Starscream and an actual F-22, but gee whiz, what the hell is Megatron? In robot and whatever alt mode he has, he's unrecognizable. As anything. His alt mode looks like **** and his robot mode is even more laughable.
Sermonizing aside, I nominate Leader class Megatron as the worst of the line, the worst of the year, and possibly, the worst of all time. I just can't get over how he doesn't look like anything at all.
Did anyone ever see the 1978 remake of Invasion of the Body Snatchers, starring Donald Sutherland? When they find the still developing pod-body in that mudbath owned by Jeff Goldblum and his wife, and the pod body looks vaguely human yet lacks any distinguishing characteristics and features? Yeah, Leader Megatron.

The entire real gear, FAB, and Robot replica line up!!! Hasbro should have put more effort into making more leader class, and detailed voyagers instead of making guaranteed shelf warmers!!

Maximal Primal wrote:The entire real gear, FAB, and Robot replica line up!!! Hasbro should have put more effort into making more leader class, and detailed voyagers instead of making guaranteed shelf warmers!!

Add to that all the lame Prime voice changers, the Cyber Slammers, and those stupid transforming guns. They should have took a leaf out of the Universe toyline and concentrated on making more figures and better ones at that.

Actually apart from the Scout/Deluxe/Voyager/Leader figures, all the others are useless, except maybe Softimus Prime and Slumblebee. They are cool.

The most disappointing figure is Blackout, he had so much potential.

However the worst figure is either Voyager Starscream, or Deluxe 77 Bumblebee.
Starscream is possibly one of the worst transformers toys in recent times (including Armada) for his horrible alt mode, and disgusting robot mode.
Deluxe 77 Bumblebee would not have been such a bad toy if not for his QC issues.

most of my opinions have already been posted!
voyager starscream- fugly in bot mode-BAD!!!
deluxe brawl- coulda been one of the best!
both megatrons- just repaint the dam things!!

i_amtrunks wrote:The most disappointing figure is Blackout, he had so much potential.

However the worst figure is either Voyager Starscream, or Deluxe 77 Bumblebee.
Starscream is possibly one of the worst transformers toys in recent times (including Armada) for his horrible alt mode, and disgusting robot mode.
Deluxe 77 Bumblebee would not have been such a bad toy if not for his QC issues.

Megatron. Megatron is also very disappointing. \

I don't have Starscream yet, and looking at how many people hate him, I guess I won't be getting him. Thanks for saving me some money guys!

FAB SS is the worst movie tf I have. Voyager starscream has a pants alt mode, but his robot mode looks surprisingly good.

upther wrote:It saddens me to see so much Dreadwing hatred since he is clearly my favorite of the movie toys I have.

My vote goes for the bridge troll known as Bonecrusher.

Yup, why no Voyager? It's stupid, sure he wasn't a major character, but he sure as hell desearves to be BIGGER.

My vote is for Screamer:horrible design any way you look at it...wether it's the inaccurate Jet, the inaccurate robot, or the craptastic missle launcers. Seriously, why do they even bother putting parts of the figures that fly off into obscure corners of your house to be carried off by mice never to be seen again?

Not that that's happened to be, btu still, it sucks having to look for those.

My vote goes to the damn boxes these things come in. Seriously, Hasbro, how many freaking twist-ties do you need?

Other than that, I haven't opened all my Transformers yet, but I'm none to happy with Blackout. The blades can't be aligned equidistant from each other, I'm terrified those tabs holding it together are going to snap at any minute, and the cage holding the crappy Scorponok figure doesn't properly fit with the rest of the copter. There's a rather large gap.

Dreadwing has an awesome alt mode - about 800x better than Starscream. It's the robot mode that's wider than it is tall that I have issues with. That's the same reason I hate Starscream.

And why does 1/3 of Blackout have to be kibble? Why couldn't they have reworked it so the rotor was on his back like it was in the movie, but 90% of that whole segment was worked into making him taller like the rest of the voyagers?

Even with Megatron so disappointing to you guys, is he worth buying?

Of course, I love leader Meg, though I can understand why some people hate it.