Animated Wave 1 toys - comments and poll.

[Pipesqueak]

I've picked up three so far and think Lockdown is a completely brilliant toy, awesome car mode and such an impressively sized and unique bot folds out of it. I'm happy with Starscream too, despite a lot of visible robot parts in plane mode. It's certainly an interesting plane design. Bumblebee, however, is a huge disappointment, terrible paint, annoying transformation, bot proportions all wrong, stingers won't retract properly. Two out of three ain't bad I guess.

[Kyle]

I find it funny Lockdown has a deluxe size vehicle mode but an impressive "voyager size" robot mode, while Bulkhead has a voyager size vehicle mode but only deluxe size robot mode... (well in terms of height anyway)

[jaydisc]

Yeah, scale is a regular bone of contention with collectors, but I think Hasbro scales based on the mode products are shipped in. If, say like Henkei, Animated shipped in Robot mode, Lockdown and Bulkhead's classes would probably be swapped.

[TF76]

I’ve had the all the individual figures from the first wave a couple of weeks and I really, really like them.

I got the 2 pack the other day and I like that too. I did have a problem with a cracked arm on bumble bee but exchanged it and I like the figure a bit more now. I’ll be trying my best to afford them all as more are released.

I think I like starscream the most and probably bumble bee the least, I think I'll like him more when I get Voyager prime and some bigger Autobots. Scale isn't that much of an issue with me usually but he just seems to solid in build compared to the others I have.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

I am really digging them at the moment. I love the mat colouring in both paint and plastic. Some very interesting transformations going on too. Blackarachnia is my second favourite spider (next to TM Tarantulus) as she looks great for a ckikky-bot. Lockdown is well done and Prowl has some great articulation! Scale doesn't bother me so much, if they were more in scale, Bumblebee would be too fiddly for my adult sized hands.

Oh forgot to add, they have some great lightpiping going on in their eyes! Love IT!

Still haven't recieved my Voyagers yet... Customs seem to want to play with them... They can get their own!

[Paulbot]

I finally figured out what I was doing wrong with Bumblebee: not lifting the bottom of his boot up before transforming him into robot mode makes turning him back into car mode difficult. With it raised before transforming I no longer have trouble getting his legs back in the right place for car mode.

[jaydisc]

Nice one. I noticed the same thing today. Additionally, even if you forgot to fold it on the way to robot mode, when going back to car mode, with the bumper out of site, you can flick the lever on the opposing side to get it into position.

[STL]

I -hate- Animated Starscream with a vengeance. Absolutely. The goddamn legs never stop falling off and it makes poseability which is a pain to begin with even worse b/c the legs are so hopelessly loose. I've developed the ability to meticulously transform him such that the legs don't fall off but when that type of precaution has to be taken it ruins the fun of the toy and the transformation sequence.

About the transformation sequence, pretty damn easy. The automorph is very cool but it takes out a lot of steps and makes the rest of the transformation absolutely boring. The arms can also fall off at the elbow in transformation too and then there are those two clips at the back. A very irritating "Transformer" if u want to call it that. You might as well treat it like Omega Supreme. Rip him apart and stick him back together for robot mode! Voila! Problem is, Omega holds together 100 times better than Starscream ever will.

Articulation in the arms is great but the legs are crap, the head doesn't even rotate. Nice lightpiping but this is the first TF since Armada toys/moulds that I've bought that doesn't have that point of articulation. Bleeping lazy. But that could've been overlooked if he doesn't crumble apart so easily. As much as I look forward to completing the Seekers here as I always do, it'll only be b/c they're Seekers. It's going to be a pain.

This is a terrible TF. Sure, BB's yellow is fugly and those blades don't go in, but Starscream takes the cake for being a sh*t toy. For everything I've seen in Animated so far this toy drops the ball on so many levels.

[Paulbot]

Activator Starscream is quite nice though. Collect the seekers in that size?

[STL]

Activator Starscream is quite nice though. Collect the seekers in that size?

I'll buy them either regardless.

I shld mention I just discovered the head articulation. My bad. Still a terrible toy though.

Can anyone explain to me the cannon gimmicks again where the arm panels pop out? I remember Jaydisc showing them to me and thinking neat but now I'm just asking myself WTF?

Found a great pose here while looking for how dodgy they generally are or if it's just mine:
http://forums.tformers.com/talk/inde...post&p=1244513

But mine falls flat on its face as soon as I try it.