What do you consider to be the WORST G1 Toy Concept?

[theshape]

So your challenge is:

1. Vote for your Worst G1 Toy Concept in the poll
Action masters

2. List your top 3 worst G1 Toy Concepts with a brief description why you feel this way.

1. Action masters as others have stated
2.micro masters - I never liked small boys
3. Weird mosters

3. (Optional) Would you still buy these toys if you needed them to complete your G1 Collection?

At the moment... no. I rather buy Japanese g1 or euro g1. When I finished with that stuff I'll look at action /micro masters

[GoktimusPrime]

Headmasters - for two reasons. First, I don't think that the engineering at the time allowed them to explore this concept properly (ie most of thes heads ended up looking like oversized bobble heads). Secondly, as a child I generally lost everything that wasn't physically permanently attached to the figure and the prospect of one day having a headless figure was a real downer.

I personally never lost any of my Nebulans as a child. Another child went and lost my Krunk after I let him borrow Snapdragon! Gggrrr!! (Hey kids! NEVER lend your toys to nobody!!)

Weird Monster Things - I'm not against the concept at all, just that execution was usually so lazy.

I thought Hun-Grrr was really well done. But I suppose he's different because he wasn't some randomly invented monster like the Monsterbots or Firecon, but rather a double-headed dragon (i.e. sort of based on an "existing" mythological creature). Do alt modes based on mythological creatures count as "Weird Monster Things"? Cos Sinnertwin transforms into an Orthus (2 headed dog from Greek mythology), as opposed to Blot who transforms into... umm... I have no idea. A blot.

3. (Optional) Would you still buy these toys if you needed them to complete your G1 Collection?


Would I buy a figure from a subline I dislike, from a generation of figures that I dislike? Who does that? No, obviously.

^^

So your challenge is:
At the moment... no. I rather buy Japanese g1 or euro g1. When I finished with that stuff I'll look at action /micro masters

Euro G1 is the same as Australian G1 dude. Australia (and New Zealand) got all those late-G1 Euro-market toys. When it comes to those toys, I find you're better off getting them in Australia than say in Japan. I saw some of the prices in Japan and thought, "zOMG!" Obviously Japanese dealers charge more cos these toys were never released there, but I've occasionally seen them sell in local fairs and markets for way cheaper prices (since they're obviously not as rare or "exotic" here).

[liegeprime]

aaaaw. I can feel the hate for Actionmasters here

For me
Worst toy concept - Battlechargers. sure they have the pull back and roll gimmick and then pop to ''transform''... but the robot form is just ugh, no articulation whatsoever... cant even hold their freakin gun correctly, shame that the awesome look of the altmode is wasted when it comes to the bot mode. Its like tombstones rising for a transformation.

Top 3 worst concepts
1) Battle chargers - they could've made the bot mode more articulated even if it was just the arms. this gimmick is then repeated to the throttlebots - with SDF concept - cute but still its so 2D. there's no fun in transforming these figures. the altmode is its only saving grace - but yeah wasted on the crap robot mode. Crap transformation - if you can call it that.

2) Autobot sixchanger - as awesome and well thought of is Sixshot - is equally on the opposite direction how shoddy and ''forced'' is Quickswitch's. Honestly when you look at the figure - its a boat with rectangular limbs attached and a flat face - the concept is sound but the excecution on this one fails - where sixshot is glorious this is just meh....not all of his 6 altmodes are any good. drill tank, pfft yeah if you are drilling a small hole then how can you fit the rest of him in - the concept of a driller is that the drill big so that the rest of the tank can drive in the hole it makes to dig even deeper - just take a look at that puny driller. Hovercraft mode - uh huh, seen better thanks, pistol - oh please its a boat trying to look like a pistol. Beast - just because it has beast face.... it aint a beast even lego beasts have more proper angles than that. Fighter jet, meh the design isn't so aerodynamic - itll get shot down quick with all the air drag it will have.

3. Firecons - ugh . shame they have good altmodes - firebreathing monsters - but the same spark gimmick has made the figure in bulky sparky squares... then to transform - turn around and unjoin the arms , that's it? ugh. I's one of those they could've done better had they made it bigger... just look at the Monsterbots - they use the same gimmick - sparks - but the altmode/botmode isn't compromised by having the sparking stuff in the torso with proper sized limbs and wotnot. with the firecons its a box housing the sparkler with kibbles attached to the box to make it look the creature or robot. lame.

Would I buy em?

well yeah I already did, which is why I can comment of how lame the figures are. Oh well I got em cheap so it's ok.

[1orion2many]

I'm too lazy to think about all this at once so I'll just answer the first question for now. I voted other "Battle Beasts" rubbery little dudes

[Bidoofdude]

Action Master Devy looks okay to me but it just plain sucks that was all that was available and the ability to not transform.

[Trent]

(Hey kids! NEVER lend your toys to nobody!!)

Soooo… they should lend their toys to everybody??

[Hursticon]

Soooo… they should lend their toys to everybody??

Can you believe that guy is supposed to be a Teacher? - Them teachers learn you good I reckonz...
(Kidding Gok, just having a lend of ya... )

[Starscream77]

Pretenders were the worst by far for me

And no i will never purchase any of them for the sake of being a completist

[GoktimusPrime]

I was intentionally using a double-negative to be facetious.

Action Master Devy looks okay to me but it just plain sucks that was all that was available and the ability to not transform.

The Decepticons did (attempt to) build a second non-transformable Devastator in the Earthforce Saga. The Constructicons had, at the time, lost their ability to combine, so they tried to build a duplicate Devastator who was a separate Decepticon from the Constructicons!

So one could repurpose the 1992 G1 Constructicons (who cannot combine) as the Earthforce Constructicons, and Action Master Devastator as Earthforce Devastator!

[Bidoofdude]

Isn't the action master Devy a bit small?