The best of WFC! Which part of this trilogy did you enjoy the most?

Discussion in 'Transformers Toy Discussion' started by WolverineDragon, Oct 18, 2021.

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Which part of the trilogy did you enjoy more?

  1. Kingdom

    28 vote(s)
    39.4%
  2. Earthrise

    15 vote(s)
    21.1%
  3. Siege

    14 vote(s)
    19.7%
  4. Neither

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  5. I don’t know

    0 vote(s)
    0.0%
  6. I don’t like the toyline at all.

    1 vote(s)
    1.4%
  7. I enjoy them equally

    12 vote(s)
    16.9%
  8. Other

    1 vote(s)
    1.4%
  1. Purple Heart

    Purple Heart Some other time..

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    Depends. I think Siege was my favorite just how I felt when it was releasing. A full on reboot of the line set on Cybedtron with the best versions of the OG casts.

    Where I sort of disagree is with the Weaponizers, Modulators, and Fossilizers. In each line, they improved. The Weaponizers were alright, the Modulators were awesome, but the Fossilizers are so much better then either of them. That said, while I do think every Kingdom figure has been a knockout, I feel like the cohesion of the figures in the line just can’t compare to Siege.

    Siege standardized so many improvements and featured the best versions of core cast members(even if we got Earth modes a year later). So I think for that, it wins, 100%.
     
  2. imfallenangel

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    Considering that I almost ended up getting almost everything from the Siege line (stopped counting after hitting 35), probably a bit over a dozen figures from Earthrise, and around 9 from Kingdom.

    Note that this isn't counting the army building/duplicates and backups.

    And sadly, aside a few exceptions, it felt that the quality went down with each passing wave, with the plastic getting a bit cheaper, more and more gaps, etc, and the number of quality issues (defects) increased quite a bit.
     
  3. worldsgreatest

    worldsgreatest Well-Known Member

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    Earthrise by far.
     
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  4. Jhund

    Jhund Screws>Pins

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    Kingdom for me followed by siege.
     
  5. Expeditor

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    I was all-in on Siege right up until major characters like Ratchet and Skywarp were made overpriced and hard-to-get (and therefore even more overpriced) exclusives. I didn't touch Earthrise, between being mostly slight variations of characters I'd just bought and the same characters being exclusives. Kingdom I dipped in just for the movie characters, but the Kingdom figures all seemed a bit overshadowed by Studio Series for quality.
     
  6. barry

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    Gotta be Siege for me!
    It gave me what have become my definitive takes on so many of the core characters. I'm sceptical that I'm ever going to need to buy another take on Optimus, Megatron, Soundwave, or the Seekers.
    It gave me updates to characters I didn't think I needed or wanted updates of, and now I have two takes of Ultra Magnus and Springer in a collection where there's supposed to be a strict 'one version only' rule.
    I finally got CHUG versions that I could truly love of two of my all time favourite characters in Ratchet and Shockwave.
    Impactor! A real, honest to goodness, original mold version of one of the TF:UK greats. I could barely believe it actually happened.
    A truly excellent Titan in Omega Supreme, filling a much needed gap in the CHUG landscape for me.
    AND they gave us such a loving take on Reflector, of all characters, where you could (but didn't have to) buy three and create the camera alt mode.
     
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    Kingdom IMO far and away the best, while siege was at least interesting.
    All the characters from Earthrise that I wanted were exclusives, so Earthrise was :puke: 
     
  8. Billie94

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    Earthrise and Kingdom for sure.
    Siege gave us Springer, Skyfire, Flywheels, and Apeface, but it also had a lot of filler characters who got new toys in Earthrise.
     
  9. HAL237

    HAL237 Be provocative, be organized

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    Definitely Kingdom. It petered out a bit in the end, but it gave us some truly great toys; Galvatron, Cyclonus, BW Megatron…
     
  10. lord ginrai

    lord ginrai D-list Decepticon

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    Earthrise gave us Quintessons, so gonna have to go with that. Runner up would be Kingdom cuz of the awesomeness that is Blackarachnia.
     
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    Earthrise easily for me. I bought the most from that line and it had the most exciting figures. However it did have even more potential than it actually provided but that’s a what if scenario at this point. (Needed more baseformers and rampformers)

    Earthrise had
    • Best Micromasters (it’s still so sad these stopped!)
    • Best characters (Arcee, Snapdragon, all the Base guys)
    • Best battlemasters (ramps will always be better than random guns)
    • I didn’t get any commanders but if I did it would have been Skylynx
    • Plus the show was my favorite of wfc.
    Sure the retread of crappy S1 characters was a shame but I could look past that.
     
  12. Fenrys

    Fenrys Formerly Tigatron2002

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    Kingdom for me since it brought back my childhood Transformers
     
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  13. KFGatri

    KFGatri Madman with a Blue Box

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    Pretty much. I’m so glad BW was included to break up Sunbowfest. Otherwise this trilogy would be the least interesting iteration of Transformers for me.
     
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    Gotta be Earthrise for me.

    As someone who prefers G1 orders of magnitude more than any other Transformers iteration, Earthrise was a dream come true for me. Getting G1 AS FUCK figures, with close to original alt modes where applicable, to G1 AS FUCK robot modes, I was practically in heaven. Aside from the snafu of exclusives during that line, I managed to get almost everything for retail, only resorting to the secondary market for Thrust and Netflix Bumblebee.
     
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    Hard to pick a single favorite.

    Siege has the bonus of being the first line, and being such a big and exciting change from POTP (which was a bit of a letdown to me). However, the battle damage was a mixed bag, and so many of the Cybertronian modes were not "alien" enough for me and just felt like modified Earth modes. I really wish they had gone harder on the alien alt modes, or at the very least referenced more Cybertronian alt modes from previous series (it's hilarious that G1 MTMTE Wheeljack never happened) The character selection was pretty damn strong though, and I was so happy to see the Weaponizer system added (and those characters too).

    Earthrise gave us a lot of nice toys, but at the same time, SO MUCH of it was just Seige-but-Earth. I didn't feel "lied to" or scammed, it just felt uninteresting to get so many of the same characters again immediately. The toys themselves were all pretty good though. The bases were fun, but it's a shame that we only got 2 molds, and no voyager+ bases (outside of titans). The Ramp-masters were fine, but not as innovative or diverse as the Battlemasters before them. It's not the line's fault, but ER was also the begining of pandemic-related challenges to actually obtaining these toys, making the line just a little tarnished in my eyes.

    Kingdom (and SS86, because it's basically more of the same) is probably the most consistently good of the 3. I love 90% of the BW molds and it's just great to have a variety of styles in Generations again. The G1 toys of Kingdom (and SS86) are all pretty spot on too. A small chunk of them are a bit boring to me for just being more Siege updates, but there's much fewer this time. Overall the G1 parts of Kingdom feel like a further refinement and improvement of Earthrise. This also leaves me pretty happy going into Legacy which seems to mostly be WFC - Part 4 rather than an entire reboot.
     
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  16. motorthing

    motorthing Too old for this $hit

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    That.
     
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  17. Darkwolfgreywhite

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    I voted I don't like the toy line at all for the obvious reasons.
    Like, it's the most hollow toy line ever.far too many yellowing toys. Inferior lighter plastic. Incorrectly scaled toys.
     
  18. AlphaCentauri

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    Kingdom!
     
  19. DecepticusPrime

    DecepticusPrime "Essential" Personnel

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    What are you talking about?
    Most hollow....id say equally hollow to what we have already gotten?
    Inferior lighter plastic- is straight up wrong as ive seen multiple customisers on her mention this plastic is harder to cut than the old type. This is a different formula from hasbro than what they used years ago
    Incorrect scale- again what? Outside of core class, 95% of figures are scaled pretty close to each other
     
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  20. DubV

    DubV Lighten up, Francis.

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    You complain about the same stuff in every forum you’re in. Let go of your anger.
     
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