Transformers that disappointed you

Discussion in 'Transformers Toy Discussion' started by Scarlet knight, Dec 19, 2019.

  1. Hyoumaru

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    Combiner Wars Motormaster
    Combiner Wars Menasor
    Siege Apeface
     
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    Fc203 Jazz is a Pontiac not a Porsche

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    Tlk dragonstorm ss bonecrusher ss barricade ss 32 optimus cw menasor potp dinobots siege impactor
     
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    Within the cheap hollow plastic syndrome era? Entire lines!

    CHPS is even in the "Masterpiece" line so the real task is to find Transformers that don't disappoint me.
     
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    Any original G1 character that never got a proper update & then gets a shitty repaint instead of a new mold. A couple examples would be Doubledealer & Crosshairs. I don't want Blitzwing painted in Doubledealer's colors & I don't want Ironhide in Crosshair's colors. I don't want Hasbro making fan customs. Leave that to the fans.
     
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    G1 Motormaster: Why's he so much smaller than Prime?
    G1 Ironhide: I'm so confused...
    G1 Sinnertwin: He's supposed to be like Hun Grrr but orange...
     
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    OmegaTaco Supreme Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb

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    Well to be fair the toys came before the cartoon and from a entirely different toy line. When given to Marvel and Sunbo they said F this guy. We're making him and Rachet coll.
     
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    TLK Megatron. Simple yet beautiful transformation, great posing, I even think the detailing on the figure neat.

    But that face.

    That. Butt. Ugly. Face.

    That wasn't the face of any decent Megatron. You gotta be a special kind of person to be able to take an above average/grade-A toy and reduce it to regrettable purchase by mandating it look like scrud.
     
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    DotM Leader Sentinel Prime.

    RotF Ultimate Devastator.
     
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    Tenebrouser Craft...or is it crap?

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    PotP Optimus. That cab mode is really inexcusable.
     
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  10. BW megatron

    BW megatron tiran

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    umm this would become a very very very very long list

    as a whole quality, lazy paintjobs and bad enginering in most figures makes them dissapointing. Recnt figures look cool, but they don't hold a candle when it comes to longlivity to anything made before 2010, when KO-ing became standard practise.

    My biggest recently is the only deluxe size dinobots instead of voyager size. I know they wanted to do a combiner, but still it was a huge dissapointment. I hope we get CHUG voyager dinobots soon. I can't believe hasbro never went with this. The movie dinobots were stupid.
     
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  11. Mudslide

    Mudslide Eyes rolled so hard they fell out of my head.

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    I forget their numbers, but MPM Ironhide and MPM VW Bumblebee.
     
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    The Alternity series, particularly the Seekers and to a lesser extent Megatron. Fiddly as hell transformation, the former can’t help but popping multiple parts of joints and cursed with a lack of locking tabs that means the finished product can barely hold together, god help you in posing it.

    All in the size of a deluxe.
     
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    Wow. To tell the truth, I too was very disappointed with that cab! I second this! Yes! That cab truly was disappointing!
     
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    Last year, my son and I found an original G1 Ironhide at a local comic store. I believe he said something along the lines of "what the heck is that?" He wasn't impressed at all.
     
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    Yeah, I can't find fault in most G1 figures because I grew up with them. HOWEVER, I will say, even as a child I remember thinking the G1 Springer toy sucked.

    As for which figures disappointed me, I'll say:

    • Bumble Bee 2.0: It's not bad but not that great. I feel like after Sunstreaker, 3.0 Convoy, BW Megatron, and BW Dinobot, the designs and quality were at new heights. Those figures made me forget all the MP-09 nonsense, Tracks, etc. Bee is just a weird toy, I think it looks great in alt mode and in robot mode (from the front of course) but something happened during the execution.
    • Siege G1 Reflector Toy Repaint: AMAZING FIGURE, let me start with that but if the emphasis is on toy accuracy, not providing the figures with their G1 toy head is disappointing.
    • TT Big Convoy Reissue: Nothing is wrong with the figure but why do we have to buy ANOTHER Big Convoy to receive that cannon? The cannon should have been included with both reissues.
     
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    I can relate. I'd have much preferred if they repainted Flywheels from Titans Return Blitzwing. They'd already made the Titanmaster.

    I agree completely on Motormaster, especially since is tech specs specifically mention his rivalry with Prime. At least Actionmaster Prime went some way to fixing the scale between them.

    Primemasters!! After the magnificent Titanmasters which lended themselves greatly to customising, the Primemasters were the ultimate disappointment with those stupid glyphs. I wanted Cloudburst, Skullgrin and the others to turn into the heads of their G1 inner robots.
     
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    Perfect Effect Mega Doragon - Wobbly
    Masterpiece Optimus Prime V3 - Voicebox
    Masterpiece Bumblebee V2 - Kibble Management
     
  18. TickTockGoesTheClock

    TickTockGoesTheClock Dōmo arigatō, Mr Roboto.

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    Good thing theyre supposedly making an earthrise DoubleDealer
     
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    MP 44 Optimus. My copy was blessed with bad paint, wonky antennae and the knees scare me....
     
  20. Taureanstar

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    For Siege Starscream - they did re-release it in a later wave with a fixed chest that would not fall off during transformation. Not saying you or anyone else should like it; just saying it was available at one point.

    TR Galvatron may be the most disappointing ever to me. That thing feels cheaper than Siege shockwave feels short.

    Prime First Edition Vehicon - the other first edition deluxes were so good, and this one just did not measure up. Luckily prime rid vehicon saved the day.
     
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