Sounds like you have something in mind you can't quite pull the trigger on. What is it? If you feel that QC is a huge issue across the line for that figure's deco, then by all means that should affect it, but if it's just yours with bad QC, you may want to toss the QC aspect aside.Dominic wrote:- Best Paint -
Dunno. QC is so random that it is tough to be sure.
Yeah, I feel similarly."Transformers 2010" is so damned hazy and undefined that I just cannot get behind it. The over-generalized packaging makes it feel like some kind of remaindered line, regardless of how good some of the toys are.
Bullshit, we all know you just want to give this to Red Alert again and are passing off false modesty.Best retool: Dirge (I cannot give all the praise to RedAlert.(
Hate is good in this case, it's hate because of the shitty execution, because the line is close to being a good line in concept, but they screwed it up in execution, and it makes people mad. Were it merely apathy, that would spell a real problem.-still amazed by all the hate for PCC.
I disagree, in this case Activators isn't aiming for the stars, it is least-impressive but it's cheap to criticize a line for not being something it's not trying to be.Nah. Worst is worst.Worst Transformers 2010 Line -
Activators is the kid's line, so it may not be fair to criticize it. But it's the least impressive
Awesome! PCC Backwind is really terrible even for the PCC minicons. He is a good choice, although nearly all of the PCC minicons feel like such an abortion that it's hard to think of them as TFs at all. That said, I won't be calling him out since he's part of a set, and for me this category is about a main purchase guy - I don't fault you for your choice though.BWprowl wrote:- Worst TF Figure -
Are Mini-Cons eligible? If so: Backwind. Holy crap, that figure barely looks like anything in any mode.
Good call! I may be stealing this for my list.- Worst Transformers 2010 Line -
Star Wars Crossovers. This line never really interested me in the first place, and the new stuff I'm seeing from it now just seems so blah and lazy and pointless that it's a wonder I don't forget about this line more often. Endless pilots and troopers!
Habbah, huh, wha??? Oh my dear god, I just read the wiki entry on that, my eyes cannot unsee that. Why would Hasbro insist on using movie Lockdown for the G1 comic? Is he also going to become a multiverse singularity? Is that just going to be the new thing to save Hasbro money? This is the sort of crap that makes it impossible to take TF as a serious expression of lore rather than just a toy-based moneygrab.- Best Esoteric Character -
[...] Although I think Lockdown is a contender, especially with his ROTF toy getting repurposed into G1 continuity.
That has been Hasbro's business model since my parents were still in grade school. Repaints have been built into their design philosophy since Mr Potato-Head and the original GI Joe, it's what essentially built the entire action figure industry - look at Mego, they're all buck bodies.I know, but that's even more GI Joe-ish: Taking a mold that's already used, adding a couple new parts, and releasing it as a separate character. I'm happy as hell that we're finally getting Wheeljack, but it'd be nice if he actually got his own mold, rather than a tweaked Tracks mold.
This I agree with, and it's why I bought ROTF Scalpel.No, we've gotten plenty of those too. I want to go back to 1995, when Transformers came out that turned into stuff WE'D NEVER SEEN THEM TURN INTO BEFORE. Real Gear Robots was a nice little diversion in this regard, but I want something with a bit more breadth to it.
Or at least make some new organic beast TFs, since it's been forever since we got some of those. Universe Dinobot and Cheetor don't count since they were (lackluster) reimaginings of older characters.
This is quite true, GI Joe is back to using inferior thigh designs and knee articulation, and a rather unfortunate pelvis design stuck mainly in the '80s. That brand has only closed in on itself in design, TF may reuse the characters but it generally moves forward with design, and that's something. Generations is of course going to look backwards, that's the point, it's celebrating the line's legacy, its rich history. Aside from Optimus, Bumblebee, Megs, and Starscream, we don't really have a lot of recurring guys that we suffer through every other wave. As the head of Hasbro SW told me, toys are "fashion lines" in terms of marketing, so sometimes a fashion like Mudflap & Skids will be pushed thinking it'll get responded to by kids whose tastes change season to season, but I think largely TF has been consistent in exploiting only a few characters regularly, and doing a good job of using the novel concept as the fashion itself.Dom wrote:The big difference between Joes and TFs is that new TFs look new. Even when we get old characters, they are not always exactly like the old characters. Joe fans are much more rigid, (to the point of being ass-pie stereotypes), about what is "right" for their hobby. "New" (anything after 1987) is suspect.
Nah, they designed both into the tooling, hence the gun, but I see waaaay more Tracks in the alt mode than Wheeljack, Wheeljack isn't appearing at all there. And the bot mode, it's only the chest really that suggests Wheeljack to me.Have you seen the differences, though? I'd almost say it's more like this toy was designed for Wheeljack first and then turned into Tracks by happy accident.
I like it!Scourge wrote:maybe "Best Repaint/Retool"?
I begrudgingly have grown to like dlx Ironhide, but yeah, Ratchet is Ratshit.Honorable mentions to Deluxe Ironhide and Deluxe Ratchet for just looking like ridiculous pieces of ass.
I didn't find Bludgeon in '09, but that is when he came out, 4th quarter, so it's a little fuzzy, but I'll give it to you.Onslaught Six wrote:- Best TF Figure -
ROTF Bludgeon. A damn fine figure all-around; he's a G1 homage character that improves on the original, and he works just as well in the Movie line context. This is a figure who'll feel at home in almost any TF toyline.
Why hold out on the WFC? I bought them before I played the game, and I really like them, and now that I have played the game, they're awesome.- Best Transformers 2010 Line -
Generations, man. Sure, I haven't bought a single WfC figure but the rest of the toys have been spot on.
Great choice! Very bold, but very very true.- Worst Transformers 2010 Line -
Animated. A poor showing, after all of Hasbro's talk of releasing the figures somewhere, and on top of that I honestly couldn't care less about the line.
Best Paint means Best Deco, yes, that's a fair use of the term, I think of "paint" and "deco" interchangeably despite tampos and dyed colors. But Repaint/Retool is a separate category for sure (though you could have 'em both be the same answer).- Best Paint -
Shouldn't this be something like...Best Deco? Or, even better, Best Repaint/Retool? In which case, Generations Red Alert. That's a swanky fig.
Interesting choice. I never would have thought of a Legends figure as qualifying, but it's reasonable at $5. To me, they're just single-carded breakfast cereal prizes.Shockblast ;-) wrote:Worst TF: Legends Fallen. The full size version is asstastical and so is this one.
True dat! Now I have to decide between PCC and the amazingly disappointing SWTF.Worst Line: Power Core Combiners: Lackluster names, bot modes, drones with no bot modes, and merge modes that can't/won't stand very well or at all without falling apart just makes this all one big pile of fail.
And Breakdown sucked to begin with!Worst repaint: Oil Pan: It's literally ROTF Breakdown but with slightly darker colors. Seriously, they're almost identical.
Awesome category.Best WTF?
So true, all of it.Worst WTF? Tuner Skids. You've got millions of Tuner Mudflaps stinking up the toy aisles so what do you do? Release Tuner Skids of course. ???
Best TF fiction (non comics): War For Cybertron. Despite connection errors, lack of host migration and limited color palletes, it really is a fun game with a decent story mode and a lot of versatility in MP mode.
Worst TF Fiction (non comics): Prime. In less than five episodes it turned into Transformers: 28 Cycles Later. Even I don't care if I miss the rest of it.
Also, I am going to modify mine for "Best TF Fiction" since I don't read the comics. Thanks for the idea.
This is an interesting problem for me, TFs are alien robots, either they come here already speaking our language, or they come here and learn our languages from the media or internet. If it's the former, then we've got to accept that they're speaking our language to streamline the concept of communication a la the Universal Translator on Star Trek. If it's the latter, then we've got to assume that they have the capacity to learn ALL the world's languages and thus would not merely blather out nonsense from a foreign language when trying to communicate with others unless they were mentally overwhelmed by it, or doing it as a style choice. That said, it's a cute little side thing with this 1 figure.Well in all fairness I've been the one who's been saying it on here, but no big. I guess the main reason I like Rapido so much is the concept that you mentioned: One of a TF being manufactured in another country with English as a second language. Now, I've actually known people that spoke like that, so it came across as natural and authentic to me so I guess that's what I like about Rapido specifically (add to this the fact that I am part Spanish and can speak a little Spanish and there ya go).
I agree. I have known plenty of folks of Mexican origin, and a few of Latin American origin, and the only time spanish words enter in is either when they're communicating with a native language speaker who will understand anyway, or they don't know the word's english translation, or very rarely when there is no exact english counterpart.prowl wrote:None of my Latino co-workers mix Spanish in like that, generally just using it for more abstract, esoteric concepts, or more often, to swear. Though maybe Rapido's random-easy-word-switch thing is more of a Central American thing than a Mexican thing, I don't know.
He is from '09, but he pegwarmed THROUGH '10. That said, I am baffled as to why you bought him at all.anderson wrote:- Worst TF Figure -
Tuner Mudflap is probably last year's figure. But he's certainly the worst Transformer I purchased this year.
Dang, this figure has become a sleeper, at first people were pretty harsh with it, it's a pretty mild dlx figure in of itself. Personally, even if I were a huge Thunderwing fan before, the rather underwhelming head sculpt kills its chances in this one for me.I'm going to have to amend my best figure of the year entry. I really like Thunderwing. He may have to win the spot, as far as I'm concerned.
Ok, now I'm going to go do some chores and try to come back and finish my list, it's about 1/3rd done.