Fair enough, can't say I've not had similar experiences. All I seem to remember about Armada Wheeljack is his chest with the torn damage looked great, the rest not so much.

 

G1 Ratchet. I got him in 1988 for my fourth birthday, transformed it, and asked my parents, "Where's the head?"

MP Ratchet would make up for my disappointment nearly 30 years later.

 

Weird, I never had much of a problem with SS Beetle Bumblebee. I guess I got lucky with one that *mostly* tabbed in for the alt mode. There was certainly a point (that I remember) during transformation where I thought "ok, thats good enough".

The two that drove me the most up the wall were third party pieces.

First was the DX9 Transparent Phantom, the all-clear plastic version of their MP Mirage. You know how clear plastic sucks? Well, this abomination was all clear plastic. That thing had the most nerve-wracking transformation where you constantly worry about breaking it. It also have very little detailing, so it looked hideous to boot.

The other one was the SND Nova Prime upgrade kit for the CW white Optimus Prime. That was just straight infuriating to put together. Knocking out pins and putting together the waist was not fun and I wanted to smash that thing against the wall. I had to put it down and return to it the day after just to clear my head of it. Just no, don't bother.

 

Also MP Soundwave, being my first MP I thought "THIS IS GOING TO BE AWESOME AND INCREDIBLY DETAILED/ HARD TRANSFORMATION ETC ETC" at the end he's the G1 toy with modern articulation, the core class Soundwave is exactly the same thing, for such high prices I thought that MP figures were amazing, he feels like an average Generations, Siege Netflix Soundwave is exactly the same thing

 

Mine would definitely be the Generations FOC Combaticons, the retail Fruiticus coloured ones. Originally just got Brawl and Vortex since I like the characters, but decided to get the others since this was the first combiner we'd gotten in years, and another seemed unlikely. Knew they weren't great at the time, but my excitement from having a combiner was enough to balance it out. Then we got Combiner Wars later on, and that ruined any enjoyment I had for Fruiticus. These guys have aged so poorly, between their odd proportions, frustrating combiner pegs, and Onslaught being a mess that looks terrible in all three modes. They are some of the very few figures I've bought that I legitimately regret buying and adding to my collection, and probably the only ones that my feelings on have changed that strongly over the years.

 

Masterpiece Megatron, a total mess. After that, I never bought an official Masterpiece.

They are far away from a "Masterpiece". Really miss the old glory days of the brand.

 

The Device Label Ravage mold. Actually most modern Ravage toys.

I was originally given DL Tigatron by a friend and I loved it. However after a few months, the jaw began to warp and wouldn't sit in properly before eventually just breaking.

I got Ravage and Tigatron at a later stage and they both broke almost instantly. Both jaws and their legs.

I did love Tigatron and got another one. After my previous experience with the mold, I was extremely careful but after a year or so, his jaw also warped and broke.

If it wasn't for the poor plastic quality, it would easily be one of my favourite molds. I'd love if someone on Shapeways made a stronger jaw for it.

Masterpiece Ravage was also disappointing. How can it be considered a Masterpiece when he can't open and close his mouth?

Titans Return and Siege Ravage are both terrible.

 

The Maccadam BAF from the Cyberverse Deluxe line. The pelvis piece that came with Cyberverse Deluxe Bumblebee was never glued, so the little permanent pegs that are supposed to hold its two halves together are just free and loose. The left leg ball joint (or the left leg that came with Cyberverse Deluxe Shockwave) was so badly out of tolerance that when I attached the leg onto it, the leg socket exploded everywhere and hit me in the eyeball. A burst capillary made my eyeball look gross and bloody for a week. Maccadam can barely stand because there's not much left of the leg socket to hold on to the ball joint. Never contacted Hasbro about this, I just went and bought a new Cyberverse Deluxe Shockwave to get a replacement leg, and never even opened him because, what, is the new one going to explode too?

 

lmao wtf is happening with Hasbro's QC

 

My MP-09 was set to self destruct. One day he just..... exploded  

 

1) FOC Combaticons, came across the set on liquidation, and once I started opening them, I was confused of the cheap and hard plastic used, the empty feel to them and such. I wasn't getting that many figures during that time and it made me cringe at "is this the quality that Hasbro is doing now?". This caused me to really hesitate to buy figures in the years that followed, and then...

(that said, years later I look and do really like the figure(s), but that plastic... )

2) 30th Jetfire... I loved the preview images, and when the time arrived for it to be in stores, I hunted it hard, being a huge Jetfire fan, I loved the Generation version but always saw it as a SD version as he's so "bubbly" and so seeing the sleek look of this guy I was truly hyped about it. I hunted from store to store, wasted a lot of gas and finally found it, and at the time, money being a bit tight, the 50+ $CAN made me grind my teeth a bit. Then I get home, pop it open and discover that it's the same freaking hard and brittle plastic again, the transformation being two main sections that were dependent in a very small center "clip" to hold them together was terrifying. I never did break it and I'm extremely careful with it but seen many posts about others breaking theirs. And on top of all that, 6 months later (something like that) it's overstocked at Walmart and selling at 1/2 price... (and the last cherry on top is walking in a Walmart considering getting a spare "in case", only to see a guy with a cart overloaded with them... yes he had just scalped ALL of them). There's even more related to this figure, but I'll stop here.

And 3) Fortress Maximus. Having missed Metroplex,I jumped on it as I really did love the space fortress/ship mode. Then finding the recycled Metroplex legs that can't even be open and used easily.... *sigh*

 

Thrilling 30. I'm call out a toyline for this one. Orion pax, two left shoulders. Megatron two right fists. Brainstorm's well known issue. Arcee's hands breaking. Skids' hip breaking off. Tankor with his right claw frozen in place. Whirl's head breaking off.
Now to clarify it was mostly my bad luck. For some reason I just kept getting defective copies. I'd return them and get another and all would be fine. But man did it leave a bad taste in my mouth for Thrilling 30 when I just kept getting bad ones.

 

the Dark ages started with FOC, then Thrilling 30, then AOE and finally Combiner Wars, people forget that WeiJiang literally saved the quality of Transformers, before WJ Hasbro literally stopped using clear plastic for windows in CW imagine that, literally small KO-tier figures, WeiJiang changed the game with M01 and the AOE KOs, they bitch-slapped Hasbro so bad that Hasbro NEEDED to produce respectable Transformers again with Titans Returns, I literally stopped collecting Transformers with CW, the worst quality that I've seen in my life, not even pinned wheels, man, CW Constructicons are literally 5POA figures, I still cannot believe how Hasbro had the balls to sell low quality crap with the brand "Transformers" there

 

Which MP Megatron? If you're referring to the first one, its because it was designed in 2 weeks.

 

What the fuck are you smoking?

 

Specifically toy-wise? Anything having to do with TM BW Megatron. Mine is an action master... for now.

  I loved T30 and CW. A lot of really cool designs came out of that era. Probably the best Springer IMO came from T30. Along with Whirl and Roadbuster.

 

POTP Cutthroat. His legs won't stay pegged together in any mode where they need to and his bird head falls into pieces whenever its nudged. It just sucks.

 

The thing is, I hate FOC, T30, and AOE, but I loved CW. That said, the reason Hasbro figures were bad at the time is because of the oil crisis costing plastic prices to skyrocket(which meant Hasbro has cut costs to keep figure prices down.)


But this dude honestly thinks thats Hasbro was just lazy and that a chinese knock off company that wasn’t all that well known at the time somehow “shamed” this massive, international, multi-million dollar company into make better figures.


It takes either a lethal dosage of mushrooms, or anti-vaxxer levels of ignorance and mental gymnastics to believe that.

 

Makes a lot of sense concerning the quality of the figures at the time. I still think we've seen some pretty stellar engineering with the circumstances surrounding oil prices. I have WJ MPP-10 and all things considered, the quality is on-par in comparison with the production limitations at the time. I was impressed at the ingenuity of what was being produced. I loved T30 and combiner wars.
FOC was okay in some aspects, but many of the figures were pretty bad.