I would only recommend the Deluxes IF cheap. These are crappiest^least interesting PlaySkool Transformers I've ever picked up - no where near as nice as the Go-Go-Go-Bots/TF Big Adventures or 1-2-3 Transformers or even My First Transformers. Bah. Damnit! Now I have that STUPID Go-Go-Go-Bots theme song in my head!! <headbutts wall>

The so-called "one step" transformation is actually not one step - because the feet have to flip out for Optimus Prime and Heatwave (don't know about Bumblebee - I don't have him)... so that's really two steps. And even the main "single step" transformation doesn't work as elegantly as say the Flipchangers -- which work a LOT better. So that was disappointing... I was hoping these toys would have like a simplified form of Flipchanger transformation, but not really.

The large electronic ones are a complete WOBTAM... don't even bother with them. Playsets don't interest me... neither do the basic figurines which just look like expensive accessory add-ons. Do these things even sell? They seem to be shelf-warming everywhere I go.

The Deluxes seem to sell like hotcakes though... they've been DAMN hard for me to find (I finally found them at my local Myer)