What about the various Kreo sets. I love building Lego, but the Kreo build of Optimus Prime I did just wasn't fun. Plus you have to disassemble the set to Transform it.
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What about the various Kreo sets. I love building Lego, but the Kreo build of Optimus Prime I did just wasn't fun. Plus you have to disassemble the set to Transform it.
Again, I'm gonna disagree. Despite not being great toys by any means they were the first toys in over a decade that seemed to pay proper homage to the G1 toys and characters in both modes with their overall design. I think Energon Ironhide was worse with his visible head in vehicular mode and his poor homage to the characters lineage .
I guess all the characters in question had the Powerlink option which was kinda cool but I never made much use if it
I think that there are worse toys than them (e.g. Action Masters, Power Masters, Animorphs etc.), but they are certainly really bad toys, and arguably among the worst that's come out of Energon. I think one of the worst parts of Energon Grimlock and Swoop is that neither of them have 5mm fist holes. Because one of the strengths of the Unicron Trilogy is that they standardised 5mm weapon posts. Virtually every Autobot/Decepticon in Armada, Energon and Cybertron can swap weapons with each other, including those formed by Mini-Cons, such as the Star Sabre, Requiem Blaster etc. And of course, they are compatible with 5mm post weapons from other lines, such as some G1 figures (e.g. Optimus Prime, Soundwave, Cassettes etc.) and many Movieverse figures (e.g. MechTech etc.).
So despite the fact that the UT made a deliberate effort to have a running theme across 3 series to standardise the 5mm post, Grimlock and Swoop stand out as the two exceptions who refuse to conform. And to make matters worse, they have no weapons of their own! :eek: For a relatively expensive boxed set of toys, that's really, really disappointing. A lot of the other "worse Transformers" that I mentioned before were carded figures, but Energon Grimlock/Swoop are arguably among the worst of the boxed Transformers. And inexcusably bad too... why couldn't they have given them 5mm fist holes? It's not as if it would've broken the budget. If anything they may have saved on using that tiny bit of extra plastic by having bigger fist holes.
And yeah, on top of that the individual figures are weak, and the gestalt mode is just awful, even by Energon standards. :rolleyes:
I have to nominate TF Prime Deluxe Airachnid as my pick.
She's just awful, and the worst bit is she could have been halfway decent with just a little effort.:(
OMG how did I miss this piece of hot garbage.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h6gq5E0FZWg
Yep. Alt mode is alright, but the bot mode looks like a mutant chicken that can't stand up.
There was a movie-verse human alliance toy (can't remember the name - Thunderhead or something? - turned into some kind of 4-legged tank) that was just horrible, just a bone-lazy design and ugly. Not really any positives to speak of. Never desrved a release, let alone the repaint that it got.
ROTF Devastator. I thought it was gonna be an awesome toy but I didn't like it enough to a point I just threw him away.
Now the legends one on the other hand was a much superior toy.