Top 5 Best Wheeljack Transformers Toys

Been a while since they posted one of these! Well done

I can only but agree on 1st place: although I only own the mold as Exhaust, it's one of my favourite MPs ever.

A bit dubious about the Prime toy placing 2nd, personally I'd probably switch places with the Earthrise one.

Earthrise should totally be number 2.

And Prime should be number 1, if only because I don't own the MP.

Earthrise is as close to a perfect G1 incarnation of wheel jack as one could expect. He's also a really fun toy to mess round with.
I think the only thing I'd deduct points for is the tiny windshield sections that rotate into the legs. Mine has a stress mark on the lone on the left leg already and keeps popping out.

I am glad however Alternators / Binaltech did not make the list. That is one convoluted toy, and does not even get the green and red decals. Just blue racing stripes for some reason. It works better as Grimlock which I own, but is still not a fun toy to mess around with.

I'd replace Earthrise Wheeljack with anything, his square torso is annoying and not at all g1 like. Doesnt matter for his other incarnations but for something trying to emulate g1 it shoudl at least have the shape. Not to mention the grey wings.

Studio series bb movie #3? No way. I've found dozens that have shoulders that don't connect in robot mode. A factory defect. He wouldn't make my list at all.

Interesting list, I like it.

I don't own the G1 toy, but I own the other 4 in some capacity, so my list would go:

5) Earthrise Wheeljack: I rank this as #5 pretty much only because it is better than the CW figure and Cyberverse Scout. To me, this mold is ridiculously boring. Yeah it is a good Wheeljack and a solid figure, but it is not an interesting figure. It's good, but has no personality, no flash, no stand out features, it just is there. It's boring, very boring.

4) SS BBM Wheeljack: This is a solid mold. It is a bit small, but well built and designed, and I love the headsculpt. I wish he was a bit bigger and that his feet had more posability, and also maybe remove the clear plastic? But it's still a solid mold.

3) Transformers Dark of the Moon Wheeljack: I am counting this one since that name was on the package, even though in my heart he is Que. I love that toy a lot. The car mode is slick, the robot mode is well built, and the transformation is quite involved. Plus, the accessories add a lot to him too. He is a lot of fun.

2) Prime Beast Hunters Wheeljack: I rate this one here since I don't own the standard Wheeljack. This mold is so wonderful, it has so much personality and some great shapes and posability. It is a super fun toy.

1) MP20 Wheeljack: this is the perfect MP toy, the perfect Wheeljack toy, it is perfect in so many regards. it is wonderful, it will most likely always be #1.

While I hold a lot of respect for this list, Earthrise’s inclusion on here is a crime when Energon Downshift was a much better toy. The ER mold is just so boring. Anyway, major props for this list, hope we can get another one soon!

Emerje wrote:

Tigerhawk7109 wrote:While I hold a lot of respect for this list, Earthrise’s inclusion on here is a crime when Energon Downshift was a much better toy. The ER mold is just so boring. Anyway, major props for this list, hope we can get another one soon!

Is it boring? I was just playing around with the Netflix figure the other day and still get a kick out of part of the windshield being hidden in the legs. Engineering wise it's a clever figure.

Emerje

While an interesting concept, I don't really get why they went out of their way to make the windshield be so angular and square in robot mode. That removes one of the main design cues of G1 Wheeljack which is the curved Lancia windshield as the chest. We finally have the most accurate Wheeljack in this scale and they go and do that, why? Plus those two pieces can get annoying when transforming.

I think the list is fine, I would move the ER WJ to #2 and move the other two up but that is just my preference.

5 G1
4 SS
3 Prime
2 ER
1 MP

I had no idea so many people harbored enmity and/or apathy for ER Wheeljack for *checks notes*....being a good G1 Wheeljack? Like I get that some people still don't like the windshield in the legs, but other than that it has no issues...and apparently that's a negative because that means it's "boring"? Or are people just annoyed that it keeps getting repacked?

Can't critique the actual list though, since I haven't touched most of those figures (although I did admittedly let out a groan of "of course" to see another list where the Masterpiece wins by default of being a Masterpiece figure).

william-james88 wrote:Also, it tended to be the remaining toy from the Netflix line in stores, even though that was the first time it was ever reissued, as if it was the one people were least excited about.

I feel like this wasn't the fault of the ER WJ mold so much as the following factors:
-That Netflix wave came out in late 2020, so that Wheeljack had already hit shelves earlier that year with ER wave 1 without the unnecessary amount of extra bird crap paint with a better paint job (and because of Covid's effects on distribution, that meant in some areas ER WJ and Netflix WJ were sharing shelf space)
-The other Deluxes in the wave were Bee & Elita-1 (who were exclusive to the line, prominent in the show, and also one was Bumblebee) and Impactor & Red Alert (who hadn't been on the shelves earlier in the same year like WJ had, were somewhat prominent in the show I guess, and were shortpacked)
With that in mind, of course it was the one people were least excited about.