Would you collect Transformers human character action figures?

[GoktimusPrime]

If Hasbro released action figures of human characters from Transformers in the same 1:18 scale as their 10cm action figures (e.g. Marvel, Star Wars, G.I. Joe, Indiana Jones Crystal Skull etc.), would you collect them for at the same RRP (approx. $17-18 per figure)? This is providing that they come with comparable articulation and accessories as a 10cm G.I. Joe figure. So imagine say Takara's Kicker and Gamede, but maybe done like a good 10cm G.I. Joe toy.

Or would you prefer:
+ A cheaper toy even if it's simpler (e.g. less articulation) and maybe smaller.
+ Cheaper small non-articulated figurines (perhaps the size of a Robot Hero, but not necessarily "super deformed cutesy")
+ A simpler toy of the same 1:18 scale that comes with a Transformer (although that Transformer would probably be simplistic) - e.g. Hasbro's Kicker w/ Highwire.
+ A smaller and simpler toy that comes with a more complex Transformer, e.g. Human Alliance.
... or something else?

I would collect 10cm figures of human characters if they were made as well as G.I. Joes and at the same price point. If they're going to be as disappointing as some Star Wars and Marvel figures, then I might not. But for the purposes of this poll, let's assume that they would be well made.

I'm curious to see how many of us are just die hard collectors of Transformers as transforming robot toys, or if some of us would be willing to branch out to collect human characters.

Some of you might be willing to collect more than one or all of the above options, but for this poll please select which would be your #1 preference. :)

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I would vote other. I would be more than happy to collect 10cm human toys by themselves of relevant characters, but not at the current price of say the Ironman 2 toys.

I would probably go and order them online and import waves if I needed to. I see that BBTS has the Iron Man 2 toys as 5.99US, which would be about $7AUS. I would be happy to pay up to $10 for them in Australia, but nothing more.

[Sutton]

I remember Brian Goldner coming onto the Don Murphy boards at one point, asking the rather broad question of what we'd like to see happen in the TF line. IIRC my suggestion was for ALLthe movie figures to include human characters, seeing as the humans feature so prominently in the films.


About a year later, and we had those 'Screen Battle packs with the little human figures with bases (basically painted army men). They made one with Barricade chasing after Sam and Michaela (it came complete with an 'army man' Frenzy too, despite the regular Frenzy figure still being present in Barricade's chest). Another set featured Bumblebee with some S7 stooges trying to put him on ice, while another set featured Skorponok with a bunch of actual army men to skewer. The only set I bought was the towtruck set with half an action-master Bumblebee hanging off the back and Michaela molded into the truck. She couldn't be taken out, even when Longarm was in robot mode, which was a bit creepy.

So yeah, those were a bit of a miss for me. Pics if you're interested:

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/toys/transformers-2007/screen-battles-first-encounter/1453/ (http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/toys/transformers-2007/screen-battles-first-encounter/1453/)
http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/toys/transformers-2007/screen-battles-desert-attack/1363/
http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/toys/transformers-2007/screen-battles-capture-of-bumblebee/1454/
http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/toys/transformers-2007/screen-battles-final-stand/1506/


Cut to more recent times, and we've got the Human Alliance range. I've had the pleasure of playing with a few of these in person, and they're all pretty damn awesome, but I still haven't bought one. Why? Because the scale's all wrong. You can buy pretty much all of the movie Autobots in scale with each other (except for the Arcee bikes). If I bought one HA figure, I'd have to buy them all. How many Bumblebees does a collection need...?

[Doubledealer]

That's a negative, Ghost Rider, the pattern is full.

[Sutton]

So in other words...


Yeah, I'd actually like them to do what I said they should do in the first place: include human figures with all of the mainline movie toys. They don't need to be articulated or anything. Just a character relevant to the robot in question. If there's no character that fits in with the robot, the pack-in figure could just be a generic army guy. It'd be like 10 cents of plastic at the most - there'd be more plastic in the packaging. Kids like that sort of stuff - put a red circle around it and call it a 'BONUS SAM WITWICKY FIGURINE' or whatever.

[Sutton]

My kids quite often play with my TF's in and around my Lego buildings. It does look quite cool to see the robots given a proper sense of imposing scale.

[blackie]

where is the option for no?

[griffin]

It could be like the decoy figures packed in with certain Gen1 toys - cheap little rubber/plastic figures.

[dirge]

I'd buy some... if the character had significance for me (eg I'd probably buy Spike & Raoul, but would skip Lord Chumley). I don't especially care for articulation, but I don't want "fixed pose" figures.

[fatbot]

As a fan of Action Masters i would buy any new Transformers done in that style, but the decoy type, or humans no way in hell.

[DarkHyren]

where is the option for no?I'd have to second that.
I don't like the movie stuff that much, and I like the movie human characters even less so they are out.
And I have no want nor need to collect the humans from any other series either.

[GoktimusPrime]

Oops, I forgot to include an option for no. Soz.


They don't need to be articulated or anything.
They do for me. Unarticulated inaction figures are about as fun to play with as... oh wait, they're _not_ fun to play with! (to me anyway :p)

I'd even settle for 5 points of articulation (like 70s/80s Star Wars toys)... but I'd like some poseability for play value.

That's why none of the Screen Battles figures or HA figures interested me in the slightest. That and the Screen Battle figures came with Transformers I already had (I'm not going to buy toys like Towline, Barricade etc. again just to get those small figures). The Human Alliance toys look neat, but again don't interest me because they're characters that I already have in other toy form - and they're not "to scale" with my other movie toys.

If the human toys are going to have little to zero articulation then I don't want to be paying a lot for them. I'd pay for non-articulated figurines if they were sold individually or in packs (like Robot Heroes) -- cos that would make them cheaper than including them with a complex Transformer.

I agree with dirge about figurines being in a neutral pose though. I like SCF Daniel because he's in a neutral pose, but I don't like how Spike is in that "waving hello" pose. Blargh.

[Bartrim]

I have no interest in collecting human figures

[kup]

No interest in human figures but wouldn't love action figures of Aliens in the TF universe such as Death's Head, RacknRuin and Fang.

[GoktimusPrime]

Rack'n'Ruin and Fang are Transformers, not aliens (from a Cybertronian POV).

Death's Head would be cool. What about the Neo Knights? C'mon... who wouldn't want an action figure of Circuit Breaker eh? ;)

[kup]

Rack'n'Ruin and Fang are Transformers, not aliens (from a Cybertronian POV).

Death's Head would be cool. What about the Neo Knights? C'mon... who wouldn't want an action figure of Circuit Breaker eh? ;)

I know, I mis-wrote. When I meant Aliens it was only to apply to Death's Head not the others.

You should know that I wouldn't purposely think that RacknRuin or Fang are aliens - We have discussed TFs enough on this board for you to know that ;)

[GoktimusPrime]

I'd buy a Tony Stark action figure and repurpose it as G.B. Blackrock. ;)

[kup]

I'd buy a Tony Stark action figure and repurpose it as G.B. Blackrock. ;)

Not bad but you need the glasses.

[BigPenney]

There is only one movieverse character I would buy, and that is a G.I.Joe style Seymour Simmons.
I would however buy a heap of action figures (articulated of-course, don't mind what size) of human characters from the cartoon and comic universes (especially Sparkplug, Spike, Daniel and Circuit Breaker ;):p).

[rampagesss]

Defenatly! but only if they were GI Joe scale with articulated, that way they can fit in with my Lord Chumley :D
http://i159.photobucket.com/albums/t152/Rampage_017/Transformers/100_3770.jpg

[Lord_Zed]

I could go for a GI Joe scale figure, but there's no way I'd collect the whole set. A few examples of figures I'd want to see.

Circut Breaker
GB Blackrock
The Mechanic
Lord Zarak in Headmaster armour with removable helmet.
Centurion

The last two aren't really humans, but hey.

And while we are talking non humans, why not do a spin of series with re-imaginings of the Pretender shells as action figures? Sure they wouldn't hide TF's or transform, but who wouldn't want a poseable Bludgeon or Skullgrin pretender figure?

[kup]

Lord Zarak in Headmaster armour with removable helmet.

That idea is pretty awesome.

I also would love Pretender action figures.

[5FDP]

Like a few others have stated, I would have no interest whatsoever in human character figures.

I collect Transformers because they transform.

[Seraphim Prime]

I would be up for 10cm, GIJoe, Star Wars, Marvel style figures.

I bought Indiana Jones Mutt Williams to stand in for Sam with my movie figs (as did many others I think :) )

If you took the pattern from the more recent Ironman line you'd have quite a good way of doing things. One "main line" wave - Sam, Mikaela, Lennox - followed by one "classics" wave - Spike, Buster, Circuit Breaker. The only issue with such a model is that there's more history than current figures, but you could do things like NEST Lennox, Desert Battle Lennox, Desert Battle Sam (w/ Matrix sock), College Sam.

I wonder though how popular it would be with non-TF fans. The Avatar/Terminator/Shrek/Wolverine figures never really seemed to sell that well, and I still see some of them on toy shelves.

[LordCyrusOmega]

I think i would if they were good enough. The human alliance were ok for figures that were meant to interact with the robot but better quality would be needed for stand alone figures. I think with the range of 'interesting' human characters on Transformers Animated this concept would have worked great as a cheaper 'scout class' alternative that would also have appealed to children

[sideswipes brother]

If it doesn't Transform its not a transformer!

[GoktimusPrime]

You just upset the Action Masters!


Good work! :D

[kaiden]

I voted other.

As long as its not the stupid movie characters like shia and megan. though actually i would buy them to roleplay autobots turning against the humans and transforming into cars just to run over them repeatedly.

I still really like Spike and Daniels Exo-suits and would like hasbro/takara to make them.

[griffin]

If it doesn't Transform its not a transformer!

It is a good general rule, that convertability dictates what qualifies as a Transformers toy, but there are enough exceptions now to make it an awkward claim. Actionmasters were one major example, but still had a convertability element included in each pack, to still be faithful to the Transformers concept. Robot Replicas and Robot Heroes don't even have that, so make it hard for many to see them as Transformers at all, despite being official Transformers (r) toys.

[5FDP]

To clarify my comment about "I collect Transformers because they transform", I also count toys such as Robot Replicas and Robot Heroes (as Transformers) because they are based on transforming character toys. However, to address the topic of this thread, collecting human characters, I over-simplified my response.

[kup]

It is a good general rule, that convertability dictates what qualifies as a Transformers toy, but there are enough exceptions now to make it an awkward claim. Actionmasters were one major example, but still had a convertability element included in each pack, to still be faithful to the Transformers concept. Robot Replicas and Robot Heroes don't even have that, so make it hard for many to see them as Transformers at all, despite being official Transformers (r) toys.

I classify Robot Heroes and other similar toy as collectible 'Merchandise' just like the busts or PVCs.

[liegeprime]

having human figures in Tf is ok by me, Decepticons wouldnt be labeled evil if there's no victim to their evil now wouldnt it? Yep that's what they'll end up being anyways, cannon fodder is play scenarios :Dhehehehhe

But I dont want them to be just plain boring figs with a fixed pose, I rather be having fully poseable ones like Gi Joes, since I know for sure, Hasbro will be charging an eye and a foot for such small things (10cm is fine) they should be well painted and articulated like the joes for full fun in victim roleplay:)

[BigTransformerTrev]

I've inadvertently picked up a Transformers: Humans collection over the years - but they have always been attached to a TF so have gotten them pretty much by accident:


Spike Witwicky Earth, Autobot Sympathizer Autobot Espionage Team G1 (HOC)
Spike Witwicky Earth, Autobot Sympathizer Partner to Optimus Prime G1 (MP)
Spike Witwicky Earth, Autobot Sympathizer Mechtech: Human Alliance DOTM
Private Dedcliff Earth, Autobot Sympathizer Mechtech: Human Alliance DOTM
Major Tungsten Earth, Autobot Sympathizer Mechtech: Human Alliance DOTM
Major Sparkplug Earth, Autobot Sympathizer Mechtech: Himan Alliance DOTM
Sergeant Noble Earth, Autobot Sympathizer Mechtech: Human Alliance DOTM
Dr Archevil Earth, Decepticon Sympathizer Starscream’s Lackey G1 (MP)
Sergeant Chaos Earth, Decepticon Sympathizer Mechtech: Human Alliance DOTM
Master Disaster Earth, Decepticon Sympathizer Mechtech: Human Alliance DOTM
Kreon Police Earth Megatron’s Enemy KRE-O
Kreon Specialist Earth Megatron’s Enemy KRE-O
Kreon Racedriver Earth, Autobot Sympathizer Partner to Mirage KRE-O
Kreon Driver Earth, Autobot Sympathizer Partner to Bumblebee KRE-O
Kreon Driver (2) Earth, Autobot Sympathizer Partner to Sideswipe KRE-O
Kreon Stunt Driver (1) Earth, Autobot Sympathizer Partner to Optimus Prime KRE-O
Kreon Stunt Driver (2) Earth, Autobot Sympathizer Partner to Optimus Prime KRE-O
Kreon Pilot Earth, Autobot Sympathizer Partner to Starscream KRE-O
Kreon SWAT Earth, Autobot Sympathizer Partner to Prowl KRE-O
Kreon Medic Earth, Autobot Sympathizer Partner to Prowl KRE-O
Kreon Fire Chief Earth, Autobot Sympathizer Partner to Sentinel Prime KRE-O
Silas MECH Leader MECH Prime
Mech Soldier MECH MECH Prime



Would I ever buy just a human character from the Transformers on it's own? Hells no!

[ohmic12]

Maybe if they came out with a range like this i might be keen to buy

http://greytechheavyindustries.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/joe_prime1.jpg

http://greytechheavyindustries.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/joe_prime4.jpg






http://greytechheavyindustries.wordpress.com/2013/06/29/thats-just-prime/

[Sinnertwin]

http://greytechheavyindustries.files.wordpress.com/2013/06/joe_prime4.jpg

Have you been going through Gok's cosplay photos again? :p

Similar to BTT, The only human characters i have are those that were available with the HA range, Spike from MP10 and those available with MP03 Starscream etc.
Personally, I wouldn't mind some stand alone human characters.

[High_Q]

Yes, if they are characters from the Headmaster and Masterforce series, or if they are Head/Target/PowerMaster humanoids from the Marvel/Sunbow continuities.

[Jetfire in the sky]

Other = No (for me)