Armada Hotshot is easily the worst toy ever made. THAT is a playschool former. Can't wait to see how they improve him.
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So last winter I found some what seemed like some pretty decent knockoff combiner transformers in a Walgreens. I picked up a knockoff Aerialbots, combaticons, and constructicons. I got home and opened them up excited for a cheap knockoff that could potentially be decent enough. I knew before hand they wouldn't be as good, but I still hoped. Turns out they were all soft plastic that just bent and didn't transform well at all and the combiners didn't even stay combined. The extra pieces that were suppose to be the head and the front chest plates didn't stay, they just fell off so they went straight to the trash. Worst $15 bucks I ever spent. Outside of that, I'd say the worst for me are the Titanium Opimus Prime and Megatron. They make the cybertron Thundercracker seem like a transforming god.
-Looks at silverbolt thumbnail- Gah I love that figure! Anyways, I watched the first two. Can't wait to see the smokescreen one. I subscribed.
For me personally it's the horrible transformation, the subpar articulation, the hideous jet mode, plus I'm not the biggest fan of the Animated aestetic to begin with. I used one of the Mcdonald's $5-off coupons and I still left absolutely ripped off.
Speaking from first hand experience with the toys, The Cybertron Legends were pretty damn great. Not only were they well articulated and great mini representations of the regular figures, but almost all of them incorporated their character's corresponding key-activated feature or special attack mode. Hotshot (& Excellion) with his wings, Starscream (& Sunstorm) with his gun and sword, Megatron (& Galvatron) with his chest cannon, Leobreaker with his claws, Scourge with his 2 extra heads, Evac with his shoulder cannons and copter blade, Jetfire with his back cannons, Soundwave with his arm shield, Thundercracker with his arm blaster, and Cybertron-Defense RedAlert with his missile. The Classics Legends also benefit from these great little figures since they are just repaints of the Cybertron Legends. I will agree with your statement though, most of the Movie Legends on the other hand were very disappointing. Most of them suffered in both modes, most of them had no weapons or features, and some of them were not even accurate. Legends Movie Prime had only 1 smokestack on his truck, instead of the correct 2. Megatron had the old, discarded head design (but that's not really a gripe, because it was too late for Hasbro to change it), instead of the new finalized head design. The Cybertron Legends excelled because they were just scaled down and simplified versions of the regular toys. If the Movie Legends had been more of that, then I think they would have fared better. Regardless, with the complex designs of the characters, the small size of the figures, the limited room for parts and movement, and the delays with receiving the finalized design artwork from Michael Bay's robot design team, Hasbro's effort on the Movie Legends was a darn good one.
Not crappy toys, but after handling RiD Autobot Brothers figures (had to transform them about 20 times in total), I really appreciated Cybertron Red Alert. Unique but not overly complicated
Some of them aren't bad...the WW Seekers and The Fallen and G1 Rodimus and Scourge are fairly solid, but the die cast absolutely kills the overall toy. Even knowing it would have a lot of setbacks I was still really disappointed with Soundwave...it's pretty sad when a 20+ year old toy is better than one with modern engineering.
I can't stand Armada for some reason, I think I skipped the whole line except for maybe the Prime deluxe from Cybertron repaint. Only one lately I can't seem to wrap myself around are AniStarscream, AniLeader-bulkhead and Universe Silverbolt. AniScream I own but hes just odd, BH I'm debating and Silverbolt, well, eh, I think I might pass.
