2019 Ozformer Awards results

[Paulbot]

2019 has been described as "a fantastic year" and "a wonderful time to be a fan". "Siege has proven to be an exceptional toy line", "getting better and better" and "an unbelievably great step in the right direction" but perhaps "too many exclusives" and many "not available outside of the US" making it "a very Expensive Year". Masterpiece has been a bit more divisive with fans noting "high prices" and wanting more "unreleased G1 characters".

Here's what the votes said were our community's favourites.



All Time Favourites

Favourite Heroic Transformer Character Ever
Winner: Optimus Prime (29%)
Runner-ups: Wheelie (7%), Ultra Magnus (6%)

Favourite Heroic Transformer Toy Ever
Winner: MP-10 Optimus Prime/Convoy (11%)
Runner-ups: G1 Jetfire (9%), G1 Optimus Prime (6%)

Favourite Evil Transformer Character Ever
Winner: G1 Megatron (17%)
Runner-ups: Soundwave (14%), Starscream (10%)

Favourite Evil Transformer Toy Ever
Winner: MP-13 Soundwave (15%)
Runner-ups: MP-36 Megatron (10%), G1 Soundwave (8%)

Favourite Transformers Allegiance
Winner: Autobot (52%)
Runner-ups: Decepticon (29%), Maximal (8%)



Toys - Siege

Favourite Battlemaster
Winner: Smashdown (27%)
Runner-ups: Rung (19%), Pteraxadon (13%)

Favourite Micromaster
Winner: Laserbeak (31%)
Runner-ups: Ratbat (11%), Red Heat (9%)

Favourite Deluxe
Winner: Refraktor (19%)
Runner-ups: Sixgun (13%), Spinister (10%)

Favourite Voyager
Winner: Springer (34%)
Runner-ups: Optimus Prime (17%), Soundwave (12%)

Favourite Leader
Winner: Ultra Magnus (40%)
Runner-ups: Shockwave (29%), Astrotrain (17%)

Commander Class Jetfire
4.5 Average rating, most popular rating: 5 Star (60%)

Titan Class Omega Supreme
4.5 Average rating, most popular rating: 5 Star (72%)

Favourite Generations Select figure
Winner: Smokescreen (22%)
Runner-ups: Nightbird (19%), Hot Shot (12%)

Favourite other exclusive release
Winner: Ectotron (31%)
Runner-ups: Autobot Ratchet (12%), Micromaster 10-pack (10%)



Toys - Studio Series

Favourite Deluxe
Winner: Dropkick (car) (18%)
Runner-ups: Cogman (15%), Scrapmetal (11%)

Favourite Voyager
Winner: Optimus Prime (71%)
Runner-ups: Long Haul and Rampage (9% each)

Favourite Leader
Winner: Megatron (56%)
Runner-ups: Jetfire (24%), Optimus Prime (19%)



Toys - Other

Favourite 2019 Rescue Bots toy
Winners: Grimlock, Hotshot, and Whirl (29% each)

Favourite 2019 Cyberverse toy
Winner: Warrior Soundwave (26%)
Runner-ups: Scout Shadow Striker (12%), Ultra Slipstream (12%)

Favourite 2019 Cyberverse Power of the Spark toy
Winner: Warrior Gnaw (31%)
Runner-ups: Scout Scraplet (21%), Warrior Jetfire (17%)

Favourite 2019 Cyberverse Spark Armor toy
Winner: Sky Byte w/ Driller Drive (18%)
Runner-ups: Jetfire w/ Tank Cannon (16%), Ark Power Optimus Prime w/ Ark (14%)

Favourite BotBots toy series 1
Winner: Bonz-eye (plant/bot) (12%)
Runner-ups: Burgertron (burger/bot) and Frostferatu (cupcake/vampire) (8% each)

Favourite BotBots toy series 2
Winner: Hamurai (mouldy ham/samurai with sword) (20%)
Runner-ups: Abominable Soundman (headphones/gorilla), Overpack (backpack/bot) and Steve From Accounting (stapler/bot) (9% each)

Favourite BotBots toy series 3
Winner: Smooth Shaker (marracas/skeleton) (11%)
Runner-ups: Quackles (rubber ducky/bot) (9%), Clawsome (clawgrab machine/bot), Fail Polish (nail polish/bot), Grave Rave (headstone/bot) and Trisourtops (mouldy orange/dino) (6% each)

Favourite Masterpiece figure (G1)
Winner: MP-44 Convoy (39%)
Runner-ups: MP-36+ Megatron (24%), MP-10G Optimus Prime (Ghostbusters) (18%)

Favourite Masterpiece figure (Beast Wars)
Winner: MP-43 Megatron (67%)
Runner-up: MP-46 Blackwidow (33%)

Favourite Masterpiece figure (Movie)
Winner: MPM-9 Autobot Jazz (64%)
Runner-up: MPM-8 Megatron (35%)



Fiction

Opinion of the 2019 IDW comics
3.5 Average rating, most popular ratings: 3 star and 4 star (29% each)

Opinion of the Rescue Bots Academy TV show
3.1 Average rating, most popular rating: 3 star (40%)

Opinion of the Cyberverse TV show
3.4 Average rating, most popular rating: 3 star (37%)



Fandom

Best local news of 2019
Winner: Zing getting TF exclusives (Ecotron/Unicron/Seacons/MPs) (59%)
Runner-ups: WFC Siege released (27%), New cartoons airing locally (5%)

Best global news of 2019
Winner: Fan-backed Unicron to be produced (67%)
Runner-ups: War for Cybertron cartoon for Netflix in 2020 (14%), Transformers Manga translation (6%)

Best reveal of an unreleased figure
Winner: Unicron (50%)
Runner-ups: Takara Raiden tease (18%), King Posedion (12%)

Favourite online store/dealer
Winner: Toybotz Imports (18%)
Runner-ups: Amazon (15%), Oh My Primus (9%)

Favourite third party release of 2019
Winner: Fanstoys Roadking (13%)
Runner-up: Nicee (10%)

Favourite Acquistion Topic Title of 2019
Winner: May-all-your-purchases-be-MISB! (BigTransformerTrev) (32%)
Runner-ups: July Acquisitions (Magnus) (13%), April's Amazing Amassment of AWESOMENESS (Sharky) and Delicious December Drops (Omega Metro) (9% each)

Favourite OTCA creative person
Winner: Snaketales (32%)
Runner-ups: M-Bot and Miss Kitty Fantastico (10% each)

Ozformer Member of the Year
Winners: Griffin (23%)
Runner-ups: Paulbot (11%), UltraMarginal (9%)
Other members receving multiple votes: BigTransformerTrev, GoktimusPrime, Raider, Sinnertwin and The Phantom




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Previous awards
2018 Ozformer Awards (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php/26178-2018-Ozformer-Awards-results)
2017 Ozformer Awards (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=25145)
2016 Ozformer Awards (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=23892)
2015 Ozformer Awards (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=22291)
2014 Ozformer Awards (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=20231)
2013 Ozformer Awards (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=17814)
2012 Ozformer Awards (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=15321)
2011 Ozformer Awards (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=12838)
2010 Ozformer Awards (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=9919)
2009 Ozformer Awards (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=6732)
2008 Ozformer Awards (http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=310)

[Trent]

Wow. Some pretty interesting results there! Wheelie just nudging Magnus for second most heroic transformer ever! And griffin being OOTY again!

Also interesting to see that TBI won the favourite dealer.

Thanks again for running it Paulbot. May I ask how many votes this attracts on average each year?

[Raider]

Wow. Some pretty interesting results there! Wheelie just nudging Magnus for second most heroic transformer ever! And griffin being OOTY again!

Also interesting to see that TBI won the favourite dealer.

I think you spelt TBIs name incorrectly :p

Way to go Trev on getting the Thread name win, Griffin on Member of the Year (kinda picked that one although yay to me for an honourable mention) and Snaketales for the customs.

Good work as always Paulbot.

[graza78]

Yeah would be keen to see how many voted in the poll. Also how did Nicee get runner up, it's not even released yet?!?

[Tober]

Congratulations to the winners and runner-ups. Except Toybotz Imports...


Also how did Nicee get runner up, it's not even released yet?!?

Yeah, I was about to post that too. I think some fans are just way too exceeded by that figure...

[UltraMarginal]

Well done once again Paul, congrats Griffin for OTCA Member of the year.
some interesting results, all of the customizers again have done a cracking job this year, quite possibly one of my favourite sections of the board.

[griffin]

Thanks once again Paulbot, for the work you put into this. Even if my favourites don't win, it is interesting to see where the interest is among my fellow Australian fans.

[Paulbot]

Minor correction after retallying the vote. In the Favourite online store/dealer caterogy Toybot Importz received 21% of the vote and Oh My Primus actually shared 9% of the vote with The Little Toy Company.

[snaketales]

Congrats to everyone who polled a place and thanks to those who voted

I’m tipping Uncle Pete’s for favourite retailer next year (unless someone stupendous shows up, that’s where my vote is going)

[Tha_Phantom]

Thank you Paulbot for creating the poll and congrats to the winners. Also interesting I got "multiple votes" for member of the year. Although far from a win, I'm relatively new here so it's appreciated whoever did vote. :)

[Bidoofdude]

Thanks once again to Paulbot for organising, always a treat.

[griffin]

A group shot of most of the toy winners that I posted up on our facebook page (I don't have any of the Masterpiece winners, and some of the other winners missing from the photo - some I did have, but they were still in packaging)....

http://www.toycollectors.com.au/news/2020/012701.jpg

[Unicran]

You did it griffin. Best Ozformer Of The Year for 3 years running.