Can now pick my least favorite after last night, Devastator,

 

Best Combiner: UW Bruticus
Best Voyager: Silverbolt - Makes a great torso.
Best Deluxe: Air Raid/Groove
Best Legend: Bombshell

Worst Combiner: Menasor - Just a huge floppy mess.
Worst Voyager: Motormaster/Optimus Prime - Motormaster is nice as an individual figure, but horrible as a torso.
Worst Deluxe: Breakdown mold
Worst Legend: Groove

 

Favorite is bruticus. Least menasor, altho he does look good with $100 worth of add ons. Victorian comes in a close 2nd for least. The fans obviously can't be trusted to design transformers. Lol. Megatronia looks a little bit better without the red and pastaccio green colors, but I'll pass and save my $$$ for TR wave4.

Devy you kind of just put together and leave be. Not a great toy for playability, but he looks damn cool.

 

I just had CW Menasor, Bombshell and Skydive, so this is more based around images and what I've had in hand.

Best Combiner: Devastator or Menasor (Yeah, I like that floppy mess of a figure as he officially is, but wth the PE Add ons...oh man)
Worst Combiner: Either Defensor or both versions of Computron
Best figure: Brake-Neck/Wildrider (his colour palette and his Head sculpt are amazing!) And a close second could be Leader Magnus
Worst figure: Dead End And (this hurts inside) Breakdown cuz he had that annoying crotch piece and those feet that couldn't touch the floor. (I still love him by the way)


(hold the fuck up, didn't you liked Wildrider? Yeah, I did, but Dead End colours were bleh, plus one of the pegs that makes the legs stay in arm mode broke)

And now, to spice things up, Best/worst looking figures
Best looking figure(s): General Seaclamp and UW Wheeljack
Worst Looking Figure: Unit-3/Tigatron

 

Well I personally don't like devi, too big for the rest of the line and I think he could have been a better toy if they hadn't made him so big but does that make him the worst... no probably not. I think that honour has to go to legends groove, he's all leg, his robot mode is largely a mess his chest shield mode is pointless and while his bike mode isn't awful it has the random peg and peg hole on either side WHAT ARE YOU FOR! He is over all just a let down for me, dlx is better clearly but I actually really like rook.

Best now bruticus is really good but UW Computron is just wow, it loops great, is a solid toy and is some of the best use of retooling I have ever seen.

 

It's fun to look at this thread now that we're a few more months removed and we have had a ton of new molds to cleanse the palette.
I have since sold off Defensor with deluxe Groove and Bruty. They were cool but I'm 100% done with those guys.
I still have a Menasor with Wildrider (the online excluve grey guy) ...but he may be up for sale soon.

I'm finding that the only CW guys that I want as permanent members of my collection are Devastator, Superion and Sky Lynx with the oddball dudes as limbs (Rook, Offroad, Alphonse Braveaux...and I threw on a Mirage because the colors matched).

Unite Warriors Computron might not count here but I'm keeping that one too.  

 

I see a lot of hate for Breakdown.

I rather like him. Almost love him, he's a perfect update of his G1 figure IMHO, and long time, BIG want in my book. That said, in fairness, it's helped that I got an example with nicely tight joints.

 

UW Devastator is my favorite set from the line. LOVE the individual robot modes. The combined mode is great but the individual robot modes are what shocked me. Huge and fun to pose. Devastator could've used more ratchets and better chest plate connections like clips instead of pegs.

Leader Megatron is a great figure. Ultra Magnus is very close but is surpassed because Minimus Ambus doesn't store that well in alt mode and the hands irritate me. I wish hands with 5mm holes were used instead.

 

Yeah, fun to go back through this one. I've since bought Ultra Magnus, as despite his well documented issues he's a good toy. I like him.

I'm keeping Bruticus, and Superion with Powerglide and Alpha Bravo. They get to stay forever. Will I hold onto Ultra Magnus or Hasbro's Scattershot? Who knows.

My son still loves his Defensor, so as a parent this line was a success.

Looking back though, my only real regret is not buying Victorion. I have a daughter who is way too young for this line but she's starting to play with her brother's old Recue Bots and starting to show real interest in scout sizes guys like Cosmos (who has joined her MLP's and Shopkins...nice to see him included). Victorion might be something I go back and hunt down for her down the line.

I don't regret passing on Computron as many times as I have at all. Can't say why. And I still have no desire to buy Menasor.

 

For deluxes Offroad(kinda surprised noones said anything about him), Firefly(same as Offroad), and Blades(neglected to get Alpha Bravo unfortunately) are all tied for my favorite. As for Voyagers I like Hotspot the best, followed by Onslaught. The others are alright. For me the worst is all the Breakdown mold characters, that mold just looks so weird to me, as well as Brawl. God that weird torso gap... Imo the worst torso would have to be either Optimus or Betashot(or whatever his name is).

 

I don't get the hate for breakdown. Mine is nice and tight. The hate for Brawl though. Thats completely deserved. That waist is atrocious

 

Best Voyager: Battle Core Optimus

Worst Voyager: Scattorshot

Best Deluxe: Ironhide

Worst Deluxe: Sunstreaker

 

i thought that mold was great for Breakdown, arguably one of the most faithful updates in the line.

I thought it totally sucked for everyone else they tried to make it work for because it is so specifically Breakdown, even reshelled as Wheeljack.