If you could choose only one...

[Hursticon]

RIP Animated indeed. Hope we at least get some more comics one day.

I actually didn't mind the narrative of the show so I'd be interested in some comic adaptations, especially an Origins of TF:A Blitzwing - I thought what they did with his character was an absolute triumph that added to an established character rather than taking away.

[Sky Shadow]

Animated was amazing.

But... back on topic - for me, it would be Puffer:

http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showpo...5&postcount=21

[Jinto]

I've gotta say this thread reminds me a lot of when I was a kid and my parents said "you're too old for toys so we're going to give them to..., you can keep a couple of them only", but my choice would be pretty much the same! For my 10th birthday I got Optimus Prime and went through this sequence , , . He remains my sentimental collection favourite (still in his box, although he's in a well loved/played with condition). Optimus comes with me, the rest proceed to oblivion.

Aargh! How old were you when this happened?

Luckily, by my late teens everyone stopped thinking I'd grow out of them

[crankcase76]

..... thinking.....thinking.......thinking.....

well i must say that my favorite out of all my collection would be Energon Omega Supreme, totally cool in alt mode and in robot mode plus he is one HUGE bot.

[GoktimusPrime]

...I'm really not a big fan of that toy. Just feels like a big (and jolly expensive) Mega Pretender shell. The transformation/engineering is underwhelmingly pedestrian - and likewise the alt modes are pretty ordinary. The Headmaster-Mini-Con gimmick is neat and I do like how the neck becomes the default head when the Mini-Con's not attached (useful if you ever lose the Mini-Con), but still not worth the price tag (trying to remember how much this toy retailed for... $100-150? - it certainly was never cheap). I don't like how the Mini-Con is nameless too... should've called him "Omega Spreem" IMO

If Energon Omega Supreme is one of your favourite toys, then hey that's cool... but for me he's not exactly the most endearing figure. Maybe if he'd been a lot cheaper (like maybe $50?).

[crankcase76]

yer i do agree that it was not a cheap toy, but for the series of cartoons that was on tv it was awesome to have a bot of that calibre written in to the story and to have O.prime combine into him was my favorite part. it is like G1 with metroplex not to flash on the development part but if you had that toy it was awesome. there are alot of toys out of different lines that have better development and look better but IMO i think that for it's time it was a great toy to aquire.

[GoktimusPrime]

I find G1 Metroplex to be a far more substantial toy than Energon Omega Supreme. Once you get over the relative "smallness" (cos I must admit even as a kid when I first saw Metroplex I thought he was small - expected an Autobot City to be bigger) it's a pretty good toy. Metroplex is really designed to interact with the smaller carded Autobots - like the Mini Cars and Scramble City gestalt TFs (he even has ports that you can plug limbformers into!). Scamper is relatively decent (far more substantial than say Gasket and Grommet) - and Sixgun is okay, pretty cool considering that he's basically just a weapons 'storage' system (i.e. an incentive not to lose the individual guns because they form a robot).

yer i do agree that it was not a cheap toy, but for the series of cartoons that was on tv it was awesome to have a bot of that calibre written in to the story and to have O.prime combine into him was my favorite part.

If by calibre you mean big and strong... okay. But he's still - IMHO - a fairly ordinary toy that ill-justifies its RRP. I know that sometimes ordinary (and even crappy) toys can get good canonical portrayals/appearances which can make fans want that toy more - look at G1 Thunderwing (he probably would have been nearly as forgettable as the other Mega Pretenders if he hadn't been given such a memorable appearance in G1 canon). I certainly never bothered to get any of the Mega Pretenders in 1989 -- the only reason I have G1 Thunderwing is because he was a birthday present! I still don't have Crossblades or Vroom.

Obviously characters like Omega Supreme were put in the cartoon and portrayed as being big and mighty as a means of selling the toy - that's fundamentally why Transformers canon exists. But for me, that alone isn't enough to make the toy good (I mean, Devastator was big and powerful in ROTF but Combiner Class Devastator is still a craptastic toy). Having said that, I still bought both Energon Omega Supreme and Combiner Class Devastator...

[crankcase76]

haha, thats the thing goki even thou the toys are sub-standard you have to sit back and determine if the value of the purchase is worth the effort of aquiring the toy (which sometimes it usually is.) i must say that from the start of my collection days i would always say that if the toy was not as good as what the series was and the detail of the line was poor i would not aquire that toy, but as we all know it would end up in the collection anyway. by the way love the pic of metro and supreme looks awesome.

[GoktimusPrime]

haha, thats the thing goki even thou the toys are sub-standard you have to sit back and determine if the value of the purchase is worth the effort of aquiring the toy (which sometimes it usually is.)

Well effort is typically go to shops and buy toy. In the case of my Energon Omega Supreme, a trip to Target.

i must say that from the start of my collection days i would always say that if the toy was not as good as what the series was and the detail of the line was poor i would not aquire that toy,

Yes but with some notable exceptions, Transformer toys are typically out before any series. So for me it's usually - I see a toy, if it looks cool (or if I've had the opportunity to play around with someone else's) I'll get it... otherwise, I skip it - regardless of canonical appearance.

At least, that's how it used to be when I was a kid. Nowadays it's more like...

but as we all know it would end up in the collection anyway.

<sigh> Sad but true! As an adult I often buy toys that I think are crap simply because the character made a canonical appearance and I wanted that toy-character for completion's sake. <facepalms.self> But I was a lot less discerning compared to today when I was collecting Energon (cos I was a single dude back then - having a family kinda makes you more picky and tight ).

by the way love the pic of metro and supreme looks awesome.

Thanks dude.

[Magnus]

In the previous thread I said I'd keep my reissue G1 Ultra Magnus, but this time... I'll probably go with Jetwing Optimus.

RotF Prime engineering with the Buster gun, and a jetpack with two massive Gatling cannons... enough said.