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Post by legios on Feb 16, 2014 17:06:19 GMT
(For the matter of the record, just to advise I have not missed Week 39 - I have chosen not to engage that particular target. Due to my discomfort with the questionable legality of these companies trading for profit on the basis of characters they don't own I have decided to haul off and move on to other targets). Which conveniently gives me the fuel and ammunition on-board for:-
Week 41: Sideswipe
Just squeezed out of the running: Actionmaster Sideswipe - not a toy I really paid any attention to back in the day but one that has grown on me over the years.
5 TFCC Evil-Beard Universe Sideswipe - One of the Armada moulds I really quite like on reflection (It is instructive to realise how many Armada toys it turns out I actually quite like. The cartoon may have been dreadful but there was a lot of good in the toy-line, redecoed to be a character I am fond of. A relatively rare thing in the convention sets from my perspective.
4. Go-Bot Sideswipe - Love these little fellas. Missed them back in the day in G2 but became acquainted with them in Car Robots and Robots in Disguise.
3. Universe 2.0 Sideswipe - Nice update of the vehicle mode to something a little less "classic car" and more "current gen sports car", no accessories surplus to requirements in either mode, and a fun transformation once you get the hang of it.
2. The Transformers Sideswipe - One of the more unusual Diaclone Car transformation sequences, gives rise to a wonderfully sleek humanoid mode which makes him feel like he has the same kind of aesthetics going on in both modes. I may be the only TF fan to say this but I never felt like he and Sunstreaker had traded up loadouts - I just assumed that the rocket pack was deeply built into his torso and that it had ducted exhausts somewhere or other. The Bio said he had a rocket pack, so clearly it was in there somewhere.
1 Generation 2 Sideswipe - The first Sideswipe toy that I ever owned, and one of the rare survivors of my original collection. Love the slick black deco, and I quite like the second hand-held weapon. It works nicely with the grim 90's action-hero thing he had going on in the comic when he appeared with this deco.
Right, need to go off and find a slot at a tanker to refuel for the next lot...
Karl
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Post by Jim on Feb 16, 2014 21:54:54 GMT
Week 41: SideswipeYour top 5 Sideswipe toys please! 1. G1 - quite simply beautiful, in both modes, and truly iconic. When the MP mould was revealed the received wisdom was of him as a boring nobody who didn't deserve it, which startled me somewhat. He may not have made much of an impact in the fiction, but the toy (and character model) is one of the greats! 2. MP - A pitch-perfect update, capturing what was great about the original while being a brilliantly posable collector-oriented figure but with a non-frustrating and well-engineered transformation. A revelation! 3. Action Master - of course. 4. ROTF Sidearm Sideswipe - I quite like the movie design, but the first version suffered from an awful transformation. Version 2 lost the stabby arms but the dual guns are fun and can even be deployed in car mode. I want to like the DOTM recolour more, but in all honesty find he looks better in silver paint. 5. RID Spychanger - These moulds are always fun, and this one sports a really nice deco. Wouldn't object to seeing it used on the MP mould with a head retool. -Jim
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 20, 2014 9:49:32 GMT
This week's Thursday tease is the key to unlocking this week's theme
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Post by Stomski on Feb 20, 2014 11:55:52 GMT
Cybertron/Galaxy Force?? Quickly get my sideswipes in! Lamborghini Countach. Pin up car of the 80s, bring it on! 5. OTFCC Universe - A shame the robot mode doesn't fit too well (especially with the engine on the chest - sideswipe's chest should be the car bonnet!), but I do like the 3 RiD Car Brothers' molds and it is a Lambo Diablo in alt mode. 4. Universe Classics - Lots of features mirroring the original, and he has a backpack. Nice. Oh and it's another Lambo 3. G2 - Countache in black? Yes please. And a classic mold. 2. G1 - Classic that can not be beaten. Great little figure, looks nice. 1. Masterpiece - Great update of the original, looks great on the shelf.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 21, 2014 7:21:44 GMT
Week 42: Cybertron
Your top 5 Cybertrton/Galaxy Force toys please!
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 21, 2014 9:04:28 GMT
5) QuickmixVoyager sized toy. A concrete mixer, when was the last time there was one of those in TFs? 1992 in Operation Combination? The mixer becomes a cannon. AND he's got a Minicon? Fab! 4) Excellion Let me tell you a story: in Japan repaint Exillion, modelled after Hot Rod, comes with a DVD and costs the earth. TF fans bought it because Japanese repaints never get released in the west (they missed command Ravage and the repaint Dinobot the previous year then!) Then Hasbro brough this modified and, imo, superior version to the market and lo there was wailing and gnashing of teeth from some TF fans who'd bought the Japanese version! 3) Cybertron Defence HotshotSuperb toy. So much in it compared to a deluxe today. We talked about the Springer repaint a few weeks ago and it turns out that nobodyhere had a really bad word to say for the toy. Well worth getting, as are the other two Cybertron Defence/Vanguard Squadron toys which narly made the list. 2) Wing SabreWing Sabre is a pretty good plane/robot toy by himself. He's a fab add one for Prime. But the clincher for me is he provides Prime with the means to hold all the Minicon and Energon weapons. 1) OptimusSuperb toy by itself. He's meant to be a futuristric fire engine but, lets be honest, that vehicle mode could be anything. The robot mode however is superb. You get a choice between visored or mouth faces. missile launching guns, plenty of articulation and his only real fault - the hands not being able to hold Energon/Minicon weapons - is cured by Wing Sabre. For my money this Prime is probably the best post RID Prime. In fact I think Cybertron itself is one of the better toylines: nearly every toy is good and I had a huge list of honurable mentions. In the end it was easier to list the toys I didn't like: Scourge, Evac, the speed planet leader, Metroplex and Breakdown. Thundercracker, with his huge missile hand, could be better too. But the others all had something, the new Minicon 3 packs and repaint vs packs are superb and there's much to like here.
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Post by legios on Feb 21, 2014 20:28:45 GMT
I actually quite liked Live Convoy/Evac. Ended up owning a couple of versions of it over the years - mind you, like Classics Jetfire I took some liberties with the instructions. Folded his tail-boom halves down behind his shoulders similarly to what I do with Classic Jetfire's wings. Just spruces up the aesthetic for me). That said, Live Convoy is not going to make The List:
Galaxy Force/Cybertron (done this way around because most of these I actually bought on import, the last line I heavily imported myself in actual fact, so I am more familiar with Galaxy Force than I am Cybertron):-
5. Noizemaze/Sideways: Loved the look of the fighter mode - so many curves and rounded shapes - and then for that to fold out into such an angular looking humanoid mode was rather clever. Loved his slightly sinister overtones to the design overall and fortunately never watched far enough into the cartoon to be disappointed by how he was portrayed there.
4. Excillion/Hotshot: One of my first batch of imports from this line. Loved the vehicle mode, all concept car chic, and the humanoid mode was wonderfully proportioned and had all the articulation it needed to look great on the shelf.
3. Exigeyser/Cybertron Defense Hotshot: Chunky and great. A good solid light-armoured vehicle mode, with a trainable turret with hidden boom inside. A humanoid mode that looks blockly, resilient and full of the kind of hilarious overkill in moulded missile launchers that just seems to say "Hey, GBP armour? We've can do overkill too". Add a pair of over-shoulder cannon and a solid combat knife just in case all else fails, and you've got an Autobot who just looks like the personification of "they shall not pass".
2. Wing Saber - A stylised nod to the A-10, one of the great Close Air Support Aircraft in the world, and packing a collection of ordnance which makes me suspect that any Autobot would be glad to see him overhead to help out in a pinch. Loved the design of both modes - thought they were very visually interesting and the white and chrome colour scheme really seemed to work on him for some reason. Liked the clever way the swords stashed away in various places on him as well. Also has great whooshability - feels nice and chunky in the hand when you are swooshing him about the living room.
1. Vector Prime - Love the aesthetic of him. The cog-wheels that make him look like he is only one generation removed from when the first naturally occuring gears-and-levers brought forth life on Cybertron. The Mini-con attaching to his bracer as a weapon is a nice touch - brings in a bit of a Targetmaster feel too. And as someone who has a bit of a sense of the ancient about him (indeed, his vehicle mode looks like it would be at home next to that of the Last Autobot) it seems appropriate that he brings a sword to the battlefield, and the way it stores away is very clever.
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Post by Bogatan on Feb 21, 2014 21:45:18 GMT
I missed a lot of Cybertron at the time as Armada and Energon had largely put me off and it took a long time for me to realise that I quite liked the line. It was probably thanks to the great Cybertron cartoon that I gave the toys a go. Having said that, while I like the moulds, almost all of them got better repaints in other lines so my list is going to be a cheat.
5. Vector Prime/Alpha Trion - This ones pretty close. Alpha Trion is better except that the head is ever so slightly too small.
4. Evac - the perfect example of a Cybertron version having the weakest colours. Springer, Blades and Galvatron are more interesting. Galvatron in particular is kind of brilliant. If only the blades had been bright orange.
3. Rhinox - I can't even remember the original characters name, was it Landmine? But as Botcon Pre Beast Rhinox I love this mould. It has a really fun transformation.
2. Tigertron - Clocker was a fun little toy, but colours were a little naff, all the repaints I can think of are better, but Tigertron is beautiful.
1. Downshift - Just a great straight forward Transformer. Still annoys me that it hasn't been repainted as Wheeljack or Slicer. Lets not forget Big Daddy either.
Bubbling under: Primus- manages to turn in to a sphere. Not quite as impressively as Darth Vader, but a better robot mode. Jetfire, needs to be recoloured as Powerflash.
If Takara or Hasbro had done the sensible thing and brought out a Signal Lancer it would have comfortably topped this list and probably any other it was eligible for. Bad Hasbro and Takara.
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Post by Jim on Feb 21, 2014 22:18:29 GMT
Week 42: CybertronYour top 5 Cybertrton/Galaxy Force toys please! Quite hard to decide this one, some great toys in this line and looking through TFU's list just now a good few I slightly regret not getting. 5. Vector Prime - distinctly remember seeing the first official image and really wanting. A nice, unique style and generally very playable toy with a good mini-con. 4. Crumplezone - maybe not an obvious choice, but he has a nice futuristic vehicle mode and the robot has a lot of character. And the first one I got from the line (Galaxy Force version). 3. Cybertron Defense Scattorshot - fun gimmick, and a suitably tough Cyb Defense upgrade style. 2. Armorhide - a brilliant scout, posable and full of character. 1. Landmine - always have a soft spot for construction-themed TFs, and he came out particularly well, again very characterful. Lots bubbling under - Starscream (TRU version) looks great in maroon; Quickmix; Ransack GTS looking good in those colours; Unicron, maybe a bit odd at deluxe scale as a tank but it's still a fun, attractive toy; Excellion; Cyb Defense Hot Shot; Evac... Shellformer though she is, I even quite like Thunderblast for her boat mode. -Jim
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 27, 2014 7:13:31 GMT
Thursday tease:
They'll be 7 main choices that people will vote from..... but if you added up all the possible options you'd get a combined total of 20 possibilities.
Oh and there's a real chance Martin might be able to vote!
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 27, 2014 7:52:19 GMT
Hmmm intruiging.
In the meantime, my top 5 Cybertron toys. I loved this line. An improvement on Energon which was an improvement on Armada. The style of the these lines is right up my alley, and got me back into collecting TFs. Cybertron then overtaken by Classics/Generations. I have moved most of my Cybertron on now. But I remember the line as one of the best. The only thing this line lacked was a good Megatron.
5 Starscream. The smaller voyager figure. Great cybertronian 'Seeker' design. I wish they'd have done all six in this mold.
4 Cybertron Defense Scattershot. What an upgrade for Scattershot! Excellent toy with a great look and great features.
3 Optimus Prime. Huge magnificent Optimus. One of the best ever. Very hard to sell this on, but he was sitting in a box and this toy deserves to be played with.
2 Vector. Excellent space ship. Robot mode spoilt by the way the front of the ship rested on his back, but still a great toy, with lots of play potential.
1 Landmine. I love this mold! This figure is Scoop (a childhood favorite). He IS Scoop! He has been my 'Classics' Scoop for many years, and has even caused me to pause in purchasing the excellent looking Generations Scoop! I think he works so well as an updated Scoop, partic how the shovel splits onto each arm so he can use it in robot mode, instead of hanging down his back.
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Post by Stomski on Feb 27, 2014 9:27:41 GMT
V. quickly... Galaxy Convoy Starscream Galaxy Force Vector Prime Primus Evac
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 28, 2014 6:55:40 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 28, 2014 8:46:07 GMT
I'm going to vote purely from the initial versions of the toys though it could easily have been very different. Long term readers of the forum will know which two I'm leaving out and why. 5) BruticusDecent combined robot. Love the dual cannons on the back. Don't let it's low placing fool you this is a very good toy but overuse has possibly lessened it's impact 4) AbominusThe first go at animals in this scale is a good fun romp with mythical beasts. The combined robot works really well too. 3) ComputronLove Computron. Nice futuristic vehicles. 2) DefensorIf Guard City had better plastic and was painted better that would be here: a red fire engine would be much more appropriate, but prevented by Inferno still being on the shelf. It represents what the Autobots stand for in one complete package. The combined form looks decent and well proportioned and as a bonus doesn't require an additional head piece. 1) PirranaconAgain I think there's a better deco version of Pirranacon out there: God Neptune. But GN is missing a team member and extra parts so the original wins easy. Beasts again here, but done even better than Abominus. This time they've thrown an extra gimmick in with all the limbs able to convert to weapons with an extra member that becomes the combined mode's gun. Of course having one extra limb then promotes limb swapping as Piranacon get to use each of his guns. And if that's not enough there's some great hidden features with Snaptrap allowing team members to ride him into battle. And with the recent cheap reissue there's really no excuse not to own one.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 28, 2014 8:52:33 GMT
A second list: Phil's favourite SC combiner repaints: 5) Universe Ruination a consistent colour scheme which makes the combined robot look better. However there's far better colours this toys been done as. 4) Baldigus this beats Ruination in my mind because the Ruination combined robot pieces are in grey, like Bruticus, and just do not look right. A decent looking military set and an enhancement over the original 3) Guard City Oh if only the fire engine was all red. If only. I so hope Defensor gets a reissue so E-Hobby can do a version with an all red Hotspot and decent plastic. 2) Wal*Mart Ruination a superb consistent colour scheme over the set. Fabulous. But oh so har to get. 1) God Neptune Beautiful. Far far better than the original. Only misses out on the main list due to the missing team members and weapons.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 28, 2014 8:59:42 GMT
And a third: 5 Scramble City repaints they should have made 5) Beast Abominus A consistent all green beast modes combiner. Black for the other parts. 4) Decepticon Superion/Aerialbots The Decepticons are planes! They should have got the plane combiner! It wasn't until the Sixwing repaint that we got a Decepticon plane combiner. For a GI Joe version how about Sky Patrol Aerialbots with silver chrome vehicle modes? 3) Autobot Menasor/Stunticons Similarly the Autobots are cars. It would be nice to see this one done with the cars in the colours of the Autobots they resemble 2) Night Force Bruticus There's several Transformers with hints to GI Joe and borrowing the Night Force colours for this set would be cool. 1) Vehicon Computron During Beast Machines there were rumours Computron was going to be re-released/coloured as a Vehicon combiner. You can see the vehicles in this set working as Vehicons. Black and purple throughout please.
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 28, 2014 15:13:10 GMT
Week 43: Scramble City CombinersYour top 5 Scramble City/Special teams combined robots. YYYYYEEEEEEEEAAAAAAAAYYYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! LOVE SCRAMBLE CITY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Gonna give this some thought, mainly 'cos when I've thought about it, I may have surprised myself at which my favorite set is.
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 28, 2014 15:25:27 GMT
My list. Turns out I hadn't surprised myself with my number one. For a second there I almost put Guard City as number one, but then.... I remembered.....
1. TERRORCONS! Immensely fun designs, great personalities.
2. GUARD CITY. G1ick Protectobots. Brilliant. I'd swap out Blades though.
3. STUNTICONS. For some reason, this team was the first to grip my interest as a child, and as such is very nostalgic to me.
4. PROTECTOBOTS. Great set of a variety of alt modes.
5. COMBATICONS. As the Protectobots.
But the other sets are certainly all bubbling under. Scramble City are just fantastic geniusly designed fun. I'm genuinely surprised Hasbro haven't done more of this style of design. They've come close once or twice, but never reproduced them as they deserve. Great era of G1.
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Post by kayevcee on Mar 1, 2014 0:58:59 GMT
Scramble City, you say? Time to come out of hibernation in this thread, methinks! Now then...
1) Defensor. Four distinct, well-proportioned vehicles and robots (and Groove) and a unique looking combined form with unparalleled articulation around the head giving him much more expression than most combiners and even most figures around the time. Nice set of weapons and accessories too.
2) Car Robots Valdigus. My favourite colour scheme for the excellent Combaticons. Five completely different vehicles and robots with distinctive weapons and kit, and the extra holes to let the handguns combine just seals the deal.
3) Computron. Really distinctive set with crazy vehicle modes, led by an enormous spaceship covered in guns with a spring-loaded extendable phallus cannon. When Maketoys releases their version I'll be in there like a shot.
4) Piranacon. My ideal set of Seacons has the original's build quality and weapons and BWII God Neptune's colour scheme. The animal alt modes are ambitious given the limits imposed by the Scramble City design, but these guys pull it off with more aplomb than the Terrorcons and generally look good in robot and fish-monster-thingie modes.
5) By my count, there's only Menasor, Abominus and Superion left. I'll say... Superion.
-Nick
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 1, 2014 9:39:06 GMT
Scramble City, you say? Time to come out of hibernation in this thread, methinks! Now then... We miss you Nick, come back all is forgiven!
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Post by Grand Moff Muffin on Mar 1, 2014 9:51:00 GMT
Generally I favour Transformers with proper disguise modes, so as individual toys I rate the individual members of the original four Special Teams over the Technobots, Terrorcons and Seacons. However! Taken as teams, the poor sense of scale (which I can overlook normally in TF toys, but not with combiners) and the lack of colour co-ordination bug me. So if we're doing complete teams combining, I put Seacons at the top of the list and Protectobots/Combaticons at the bottom - even though they are the best individually.
Martin
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 1, 2014 9:59:19 GMT
Thursday tease: They'll be 7 main choices that people will vote from..... but if you added up all the possible options you'd get a combined total of 20 possibilities. Oh and there's a real chance Martin might be able to vote! And Lo the great prophet did speak the truth :-)
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Post by Jim on Mar 1, 2014 11:40:40 GMT
Week 43: Scramble City CombinersYour top 5 Scramble City/Special teams combined robots. Scramble City has a certain ring to it, but to me they'll always be the Special Teams! (exclamation mark required) The only full set I have experience of is the Seacons, sadly. Was really hoping for more Encore reissue sets. 1. Seacons - lots of personality, and I got quite attached to them after learning their A to Z profiles from the annual by heart. My brother owned a couple of them, Tentakil and one I don't remember. Was well pleased to get the reissue set and was tempted to acquire a second when it was cheap on eBay. 2. Protectobots - I like the diversity of vehicles and colours. Had a Streetwise as a kid and have since acquired First Aid, but that's my lot. 3. Aerialbots - the one I wanted most when I first saw the original four, possibly due to the idea of Autobot planes beyond Jetfire seemed great. Got a Fireflight as my free gift for getting a letter printed in the comic! But that's all. 4. Stunticons - like a flip-side of Superion, Decepticon cars! Had a Dragstrip as a kid. 5. Technobots - love the vehicle modes. The Terrorcons are very close behind the Technobots, hard to choose. I find Bruticus the least interesting, which seems a shame as he's the most readily available in one form or another. -Jim
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 1, 2014 23:20:58 GMT
BLOT!
-Ralph
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Post by legios on Mar 3, 2014 20:18:05 GMT
Week 43: Scramble City Combiners Scramble Power! ON! Right, first list based purely on original versions:- 5) Menasor: A nice solid combined form, a good "theme-swap" with them being the first major Decepticon ground force. Good solid stuff. 4) Bruticus: A gaggle of military vehicles is ideal for Decepticons, and the combined form has a nice lean look to it. Love the howitzer/mortar setup with Onslaught's weapons 3) Pirranacon: Sea Monsters, great theme for Decepticons - lovely use of the extra member as a Targetmaster. Another one with a wonderfully integrated look in combined form. 2) Defensor: Autobot Emergency vehicle team, chunky and solid looking combined form who just looks the part of a sturdy lineholder. Top Stuff 1) Computron: Lovely futuristic vehicle modes on the individual components. Lovely integrated colour scheme on the combined form. Great Stuff. Aaaand, the best of the colour variants: 5) OTFCC Pirannacon - No, it isn't the best Seacon colourscheme. Yes, it is a bit bonkers. Some part of me still rather likes it though. 4) G2 Superion - Yes, he edges in here despite not making the main list due to my not being fond of the combined forms overall look. But the G2 repaints are marvelous - the individual limbs look like they are all masquerading as members of different display teams, whilst Silverbolt looks like an airlines promotional re-liverying. And yet somehow they all look like they belong together, which is quite a feat. 3) Valdigus - Narrowly edges out Ruination, but we have yet to reach my favourite Combaticon repaint. 2) God Neptune - My absolute favourite Seacon Colour scheme. Visually striking. Love it 1) Urban Camo Ruination: Lovely unified colour scheme, and urban camo just suits these guys in my mind. It almost feels like the sort of thing they would adopt as a mean spirited joke at the human soldiers trying to stop them. Scramble Power! OFF! Karl
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 3, 2014 22:46:18 GMT
I am behind a week here on the 2014 top fives.
Cybertron
Having been a huge Armada fan, by the time this came round I was a bit burnt out with the Unicron Trilogy and I didn't see anything coming out in the Cybertron line that was doing anything we hadn't already had; it just seemed a mass of odd colour combinations and funny shaped robots. Primus could have been a landmark, but you only need to stand him next to Unicron to see what a wasted opportunity he is. The only Cybertron toy I bought and still own is
1. Wing Saber, because he has a solid robot mode, an excellent plane mode, and he makes that top heavy Optimus into something quite nice looking.
I really can't add any others, they're all bobbins.
Scramble City
Is a different matter though.
1. Bruticus. Trying to complete this chap dominated my life when the Special Teams were released and at that point, next to Optimus, he was awesomely huge. A massive combined robot. The biggest of the big in my early collection, and made up of a really nice collection of different vehicles that all worked well together.
2. Computron. Another of the ones that got away. Never owned, but always wanted. Love the variety in the vehicles, the shape of the combined robot is the overall best of the bunch and his colours are very striking. I loved the personality too - a hulking great gestalt with superb intelligence crippled by the need to analyse everything in minute detail.
3. God Neptune. I didn't get hold of the Seacons until the really cheap reissue recently, and the squat combined shape is pretty off putting initially but the whole ensemble does grow on you the more you look at it. I can even cope with the garish colours now, however, the God Neptune colours are brilliant in comparison, they also make something out of an otherwise naff head, and unlike Phil I'd be more than happy to sacrifice a team member to turn Piranacon into something palatable.
4. Superion. Was going to be my next conquest after Bruticus, but other newer more exciting figures came out. Bandy legged, sure, but the torso and colours work. I liked the idea of some air support for the Autobots.
5. Defensor. Wins over the remaining figures because of the variety in the alt modes. Menasor was too much of the same thing.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 7, 2014 7:23:57 GMT
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 7, 2014 8:35:57 GMT
5) Volt chosen by the "pick your top 4 and then choose the best of what's left" method. I never liked the asthetics of these car modes but did like the light up weapons and, if I'd ever opened one, the articulation. Volt wins by being a Hot Rod hommage. 4) SmokescreenSmokescreen IS AN AUTOBOT. It's Darkwing. A highly jet, lightpipe eyes, missiles and combining ability with... 3) DreadwingThis by turn should be Dreadwind: MASSIVE jet and robot, again highly articulated. But this time throw in a third tank mode and the largest cannon on any Transformer toy and you're onto a winner. Why has he never had a repaint as Blitzwing? you'd have thought that one was obvious. There's a reason these two kept coming back: they are that good. But to my mind there's better this year: 2) Megatron/ArchforceNow the G2 Megatron, while a good toy, always felt like a brick and an expensive brick at that. The Combat Hero shrinks it down to a more affordable price, paints it in Decepticon Purple and throws in one of the best missile launchers ever. 20 years later this is my Go To Tank Megatron still. Repaint it in green Camo, and equip it with a more modern launcher and you could easily release this toy again today. The vote goes to the Archforce version which lacks the silly Megatron rules sticker. 1) Optimus Prime/SureshotReally this toy should suck. An Optimus with a white cab and a white long nosed cab at that? A roibot chest not formed from the cab front? Everything that offencds my Prime sensabilities. But the robot is so so good. The air powered missil launcher is so fun. And when you're fed up with it hanging off the arm it's one of the easiest toys to take apart and remove. Again the vote goes to the UK Sureshot version (I assume these were renamed to remove confusion with the 1993 G2 version which appeared the same year here: yeah that worked well) The articulation level is superb, like Megatron this is a toy you can play with as an action figuyre as well as a Transformer. But what ultimately makes Op get the vote over Megatron is his lightpipe eyes. This was the first toy I owned with this feature and I loved it and still do. Again you could easily re-release this toy now. Like Megatron update the launcher and then just repaint the cab in Black (for a G2 Laser Prime version) or Blue (for a movie version). Or even go all white - it amazes me it's never been done as Ultra Magnus!
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Post by The Doctor on Mar 8, 2014 14:10:10 GMT
Sureshot and Archdorce are tops toys!
-Ralph
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Post by Philip Ayres on Mar 13, 2014 15:29:31 GMT
Two votes? Is 1994 that unpopular?
Hopefully you'll like this week's subject better.....who's a bit confused about what colour he should be
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