The Bay/Movie-verse toys do not look good (yes, even the studio series versions of these toys). The "realistic" overly-mechanical look is not appealing to me in the slightest. The toys are just ugly and don't aesthetically fit in with any other Transformers designs. Also, wtf is up with that "beast-mode Optimus Prime"? A lion face coming out of a truck chest....? That's just not good. Kinda reminds me of Brave, and that's not a compliment.

 

>buys movie toys
>upset when they look different than g1 figures

 

The funny part is that I have never bought a movie toy. This was just my opinion. And if you look at where/what I post, it's not just G1 stuff. So lol at you for using an incorrect meme. 

>Trys to be funny
>Has no idea what they're talking about

 

I’d agree that the Bayverse SS figures are mostly garbage but I know it’s largely based on my ability somehow to have bought the worst figures in the line. I’ve only picked up a whopping 3 figures but they included SS 62 RotF Soundwave and SS 50 WWII Hot Rod.

 

I think most of the problems lie with the Deluxes, which have to take hyperreal vehicles and turn them into ILM accurate explosions of vehicle parts at an increasingly small scale. I'd argue most of the Voyagers/Leaders are at least decent, considering the improvements to size and parts count though there are some flops there too. Also, sorry those were among your only SS figures, that's gotta be rough.

 

RotF voyager Starscream is better than SS Starscream. Something about thin, stick-like limbs of SS one just screams "oversized deluxe" to me (yes, I know it technically isn't it).

 

This has generally been why I've pushed a lot into the 3P Legends stuff in general. Easier to collect when I don't need a whole room of space. I'd honestly snap up a good, Voyager/Leader downscaling of basically all the Titans, including Nemesis. She's got this borderline TFP Soundwave vibe to her gangly proportions and it feels off at her Titan scaling, but as a Voyager I'd genuinely be all over it.

 

I’ve never bought any of the Bayverse figures, either. The movies suck, but I wish I could at least enjoy the toys. I don’t even care if the figures I buy compliment each other because I don’t display them, and I don’t mind realistic detail— in fact, I strongly dislike the simplified Sunbow animation look. But the fractured/shredded designs of Bayverse make them seem more like shapeshifters than transformers, and the insect-like heads and limbs of many of them don’t appeal to me either.

I’m in this more for the toys, so it’s okay when the media representation fails. I’m honestly not a big fan of any TF productions— even the G1 cartoon was just okay at best. Unfortunately Bayverse is bad on all fronts, IMO.

 

Even though it wouldn't fit to scale in terms of canon, I wish you could get nearly every character reissued at Voyager scale - especially the Titans and the likes of Jetfire - because I prefer a consistency of size in my collection to a canonical scale accuracy.

 

Functioning interiors with seats & steering wheels like on Cogman should be made mandatory on car-based Deluxe figures of any kind. Even if your figure isn’t a Headmaster, they should be compatible for them to drive. I have great appreciation for the engineering that goes into making such a feature work.

 

I both appreciate such a feature in a design, and at the same time see how it could be a drawback. I liked the Alternators and Alternity lines for being so realistic inside and out— and as a car fanatic I really appreciated the alt modes— but a functional interior seriously limits a design. Being largely empty space and including elements that can’t be easily used to build a robot means the cabin has to be worked around rather than worked with.

Additionally, from the perspective of the fiction, I don’t need these alt modes to be usable by humans. I see the alt mode as both a disguise and as an alternative means of locomotion or combat. I don’t need my Transformers to accommodate humans at all.

 

That's one of the things I loved most about the Titans Return line. Even the small figures like Beachcomber had accommodation for the titan masters.

 

I'm far from a scale nut, but a Titan-Class BlackZarak is way too big for Legends scale. Scorponok, fine, but BlackZarak is about as tall as Victory Saber. This* is much more in scale with Legends toys than a Titan would be (if you don't care about relative scale at all then I applaud you, and more power to you!  )...




*Not my picture.

 

Aside from the original ‘85 release, United/RTS Turbo Tracks is my favorite toy of the character. I like it far better than even the MP.

If Iron Factory ever gets around to making one it may take the crown, but until then, chonky Tracks wins, no contest.

 

Same here, I had the Wheeljack version but I managed to get a United Tracks not long after Kingdom Tracks was revealed. Same thing happened with Studio Series Blurr, I always wanted the Legends one and shortly after the Studio Series one was announced I lucked out and found one for good price.

 

I only like that mold for Runamuck and Runabout

 

It’s actually one of my favorite Wheeljacks, too. In fact, I like the Wheeljack version better than Tracks, but he has a lot of other really good toys, whereas Tracks doesn’t.

The Runabros are cool, too. I think the mold is great, period, regardless who was made from it.

 

Chonky Wheeljack is best Wheeljack.

 

Yes. Correct opinion.

 

I feel there hasn't been a great Tracks yet. I think RTS was too damn chonk for Tracks and the Kingdom and MP both sucked