I voted for character paradigms. While I like the Cybertron show, I'd like to see Hasbro shake things up a bit with their characters.

 

Force chips are teh lam3. I voted for line gimmicks.

 

What do you mean by, "That "fresh from the womb" feeling?"

 

I picked gimmick only becasue I couldnt pick them all.
Since every season seems to rotate around whatever gimmick it's using.
The minicons were cool, then is the year 2005, we get ,Keys wtf?!

 

I voted for the super-colorful toy colors, mainly because that's one of the very few kid-friendly things I've NEVER liked under certain circumstances. Gimmicks and emulation of other toylines can be fun sometimes. Simple toys make good fiddle-fodder. Most toys I thought were crap, I usually just thought were crap, as opposed to the for-kids aspects making them so.

 

I didn't vote because my top reason isn't listed! No Megatron/Shockwave guns!!! I guess the projectile power/pointy things comes closest, though. How about Alternator Megatron as a Chaingun?

 

like jesse the body venturas BFG from predator?  

 

Has that actually been confirmed yet? Or is this just more speculation.

As for the topic...forced line wide gimicks.

 

Why does it say I cannot vote in this poll?

I would vote for gimmick. Transforming is the gimmick, and it could be better if not for the other ones they gotta design in ( like powerlinxing, minicon and force chip functions, etc.. )

 

Yeah, I've gotten the "No Vote" thing for the last two polls I have looked at. That said, none of them REALLY bother me that much. The unifying gimmick thing can be a bit annoying, but some of my favorite toys were born out of it as well. And as weird a figure as Armada Hot Shot is, I kept activating his Axle-zooka for hours. And Cybertron Red Alert is a great example of the unifying gimmick going right.

But I guess if I have to pick one, it would be the drop test, due to it preventing the release of RID Fort Max.

 

Without question, the character paradigm. I HATE HATE HATE it when whoever's putting the shows together basically assumes that kids will "not get" anything advanced. Kids are not stupid.

Mike

 

Why can't I vote!!!

 

I don't recall Energon Wing Saber having swords in the Japanese version.

 

Try Cybertron.

BTW is that confirmed? Got Source?

 

Guessing this is in reference to the upcoming Cybertron Wing Saber, which is going to come with swords from what I've heard (no chrome on them though!). All the pictures that have shown up so far, the handful of pictures, haven't shown the swords so, the fandom being what it is, everyone's freaking out.

Anywho, I voted for projectiles not working correctly and 'no pointy things'. The latter isn't much of an issue, but any missile launcher that can't fire more than a foot is, IMO, not functioning properly. Granted, those instances are rare in recent times, since HasTak seem to have (mostly) stopped using those stupid pressure-fired missiles.

As far as the other options:

Characters on the show? Don't care, I don't watch the shows, mostly thanks to Cartoon Network's handling of the series.

Colour scheme? Usually, as long as the colours on the toy work well together, I don't care what shades are used.

Drop-test stuff? Don't care. I've got more than one modern toy that would have pieces broken if it weren't for the drop-test regulations. And it's not like drop-test stuff is the only thing holding back a Fort Max reissue (probably the spectre of TRU charging $600+ for it in the Commemorative Series line factors in too).

Simplistic transformations? Usually don't bother me as long as there's something to balance it out.

 

Actually, starting with Armada the missiles have been a bit TOO powerful sometimes. Also, they often fire randomly when a toy is on the shelf. Especially Energon Megatron.

 

I can't vote either.

But I'll go with line-wide gimmicks. In G1, gimmicks were ok. You had small groups with one gimmick, then another small group with another gimmick. Combiners, head/target/power masters, flipchangers and other guys with kinetic motors (throttlebots etc), you get the idea.

What would really have been cool in Cybertron is if each planet had a different gimmick. Gigalonia sort of has it with the minicons buddies, but they could have really gone nuts with the possibilities for that.

 

Yeah, that would have been cool.

 

TBH, I'd rather have a launcher that works too well than those blasted pressure launchers where the projectile barely clears the weapon.

Looking at some of my old figures, the A/E/C missile launchers pale in comparison to the strength of the RiD launchers and even some Beast era figures. Most AEC launchers average about a foot of distance; foot and a half if we exclude all the (virtually) non-functional pressure launchers in Armada. Seems to me the launcher strength has been reduced in the recent lines. There are aberrations both directions, of course, but the RiD launchers overall fire a lot further.

As far as launchers often randomly auto-firing...I don't know about that. The only AEC figures I've got that have auto-launching problems are E-Megatron (fortunately the launcher sucks, so the missile doesn't go very far) and E-Shockblast. I'll toss E-Sharkticon in there too, athough that's more a case of the triggers being in a bad place that causes them to fire constantly when the toy is manipulated. Granted, maybe the figures I've got just have abnormally good launchers.

 

The drop test thingie pisses me off. Because of it we will never get a Fortress Maximus reissue.