Most successful and unsuccessful of 2009

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  1. amd098, Dec 20, 2009
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    Sales sucess - Leader Prime
    Sales Failure - Wheelie, no one wants him at all.

    Best figure - MP Grimlock
    Worst figure - Leader Devy

    Best mold reuse - Buster Prime
    Worst mold reuse - Ultimate BB
     
  2. Omnius, Dec 20, 2009
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    Successful: HA Bumblebee. <3.

    Unsuccessful: ROTF Rampage. :( 
     
  3. stevej, Dec 23, 2009
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    Successful: Alternity Cliffjumper / Bumblebee

    Unsuccessful: Movie figures
     
  4. Zherbus, Dec 23, 2009
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    Successful - MP-08 Grimlock, ROTF Leader Prime, HA Bumblebee

    Unsuccessful - ROTF Leader Megatron
     
  5. Grimlock_13, Dec 23, 2009
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    Successful: MP Grimlock.

    Unsuccessful: RoTF Devastator...I actually like it but compared to what it COULD have been it's pretty lame (I know, I sound like a broken record today)

    Favorite: Easily MP Grimlock.
     
  6. Shin Densetsu, Dec 23, 2009
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    Successful- Human Alliance Bumblebee with Sam Witwicky

    Unsuccessful- ROTF Legends
     
  7. ersico, Dec 23, 2009
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    successful--HA line
    unsuccessful--gravity bots and jolt (couldve done much more with his hands)
     
  8. Autoclot, Dec 23, 2009
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    Success: Quite a few I'd consider - RotF Leader Prime, HA Bumblebee, MP-08

    Failure: RotF Megatron - leader and voyager, as well as The Fallen. I think they're the only ones from the RotF line that I've come close to regretting... I really should learn to not get caught up in hype :/

    Most prized of the year: MP-04. I have a feeling he's going to be my "most prized" until Hasbro comes out with a real Optimus Prime :) 
     
  9. leov36, Dec 23, 2009
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  10. Airspeed, Dec 23, 2009
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    Successful/ Animated
    unsuccessful/ROTF
     
  11. Megatronwp38, Dec 23, 2009
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    Successful- Leader ROTF Prime. This guy just seems to get nothing but praise.

    Unsuccessful- Supreme Devastator, what a waste of plastic.

    Favorite toy for me this year would be Henkei Ghost Starscream.
     
  12. Cyber-Kun, Dec 23, 2009
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    Grimlock I wouldn't say is the biggest sucess of the year. Sure, he's a fantastic toy, but it doesn't do anything we didn't expect, he's basically an update of the G1 toy. There's nothing really groundbreaking or surprising.
    For me, I'd say the Animated line. Such great sculpts and engineering, even using clever faux-parts to make them look as screen accurate as possible.

    unsuccessful: I'll go with everyone else: Supreme Devs. I'm over the fact they don't have robot modes, and I wasn't expecting Masterpeice complexity. But come on Hasbro, you couldn't have made it a little more complex to transform? even just a few more steps to make the lack of robot modes worthwhile and I would have been sold on it. That, and a smaller pricepoint.
     
  13. ryan.j, Dec 23, 2009
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    flawless victory: MP skywarp (runner up: WST shockwave, had justitoys managed to get him out the door)

    c-c-c-combo breaker: Chromia. yuck. (runner up: WST shockwave, for justitoys failure to get him out the door :( )

    personal fave purchase: Animated Shockwave <3
     
  14. Liege Prime, Dec 23, 2009
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    I loved a lot of toys this year, but the two biggest successes for me would be MP Grimlock and ROTF Leader Prime. Two of my favorite molds ever now. Unsuccess to me would have to go to WHEEL FEET! When ANYTHING is made for Transformers, be it the movies or comics or cartoons, the most important thing to me is the toys that come of it. For some reason the robot designers had this wild hair up their asses to play around with the feet design for characters. Sideswipe... heads cool, body well designed, cool bladed weapons, and the... WTF is with those feet? Seriously, the problem with messing around with a robots feet is that it doesn't often translate well to a toy. You either end up with a toy that can't stand on its own feet, or you lose accuracy by changing the feet to be stood upon. Like I said, I care about the toys first and foremost, and that doesn't translate well. It hurt the design of Sideswipe, all the bike fembots, Rampage, Demolisher and Wheelie. That's a lot for one line.
     
  15. depthcharge82, Dec 23, 2009
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    Unsuccessful:Supreme Devy

    Favorite toy:Animated Leader Megatron

    successful: Rotf Ejector :D 
     
  16. jerky123, Dec 23, 2009
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    Successfull: Almost the entire Universe 2.0 line, except for a few (I'm looking at you, Hot Shot and Galvatron :lol )

    Unsuccessful: First 2 waves of ROTF Deluxes

    Favored TF of '09: Universe 2.0 Cyclonus

    Most Regretful TF purchase of '09: ROTF Deluxe Skids and Mudflap
     
  17. Mechafire, Dec 23, 2009
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    Most successful: Leader Optimus Prime.

    Most unsuccessful: Deluxe Blazemaster.
     
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  18. 46+2, Dec 24, 2009
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    successful: leader prime
    failure: leader megs
    personal fav: ALL ALTERNITIES. My kids starved for those!
     
  19. NGW, Dec 24, 2009
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    Most Successful: Animated as a whole
    Least Successful: RotF Supreme Devastator
    Favorite: MP01b Black Convoy with many honorable mentions to Animated

    Already have my pick in mind for favorite next year, God Knight Morpher Commander is gonna be amazing.
     
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