(MAY-2013) Beast Machines Era Toys - Reviews and Favourites

[KalEl]

What are your Best and Worst toys of this Era?
Deluxe Jetstorm is My fav for reasons below.

What was your first one, and when?
Jetstorm so he's nostalgic for me got him when they first came out here from a mate who ran a toy store at the time,

What ones are you currently most looking for and why?
None to be honest

[Paulbot]

Deluxe Jetstorm, Deluxe Blackarachnia, and Basic Nightviper.

That's about all I liked from this series. Buzzsaw was kinda cute too with the springy stinger.

And we can curse this series for introducing "same character at different size classes" approach that's a little out of hand these days. Others will disagree.

Okay some of the Dinobots are okay too (Magmatron is more than okay!) but as a subline of repaints from other series I tend to forget about those when discussing Beast Machines. And how did they fit in. If I recall correctly their packaging looked like BMac packaging but did they come out at the same time as Armada? I think of that line as a proto "Universe" line.

[Sky Shadow]

The US Beast Wars toys had been getting worse every year, and sadly this continued into Beast Machines.

The good Beast Machines toys are:

- The Deployers (although they should have had pegs/handles so they could be easily wielded as guns by larger toys.)
- Blast Punch Optimus Primal.
- Strika.
- Deluxe Thrust.
- And I have a soft spot for Skydive because he's totally a pelican.

If we're counting Beast Wars Returns then Megahead Megatron is awesome.

Some of the recolours of Beast Wars toys are great too:

- Airraptor, T-Wrecks, Magmatron, Triceradon and Apelinq.

A few others are just okay (Obsidian, Deluxe Jetstorm/Sonic Attack Jet, Mega Tankor, Night Viper and Hammerstrike), but pretty much the rest of the Beast Machines toyline is rubbish: Ultra Nightscream and the Beast Riders in particular.

[UltraMarginal]

What are your Best and Worst toys of this Era?
I only have robot heroes Tankor. so that's it. no wait, I have cheetor as well.


What was your first one, and when?
see above

What ones are you currently most looking for and why?
none really. I don't have the space/time or money to invest in an entire other line of transformers. and from what I've seen much of the execution of the toys was sorely lacking.


Show us some pics of your collection of the ones you have. Later.