I agree w/ what Sky Shadow said about the Autobot Powerlinxers... really not well executed at all. They took what was originally a really cool concept from G1 (1989's Multi Force) and somehow made it worse. The Multi Forcers are, by G1 standards, a really nice set of toys -- Energon Powerlinx are, by 2004 standards, sub par.

Both Multi Forcers and Powerlinxers are able to interchange with others to form the top or bottom halves of a combined robot form, but Multi Forcers actually have different heads when they become the top half rather than using the individual robot mode head. To me, this helps make them feel more gestaltish and less like one individual robot dominating the other; e.g. Wingwaver's mind is an amalgam of Wing and Waver's minds, not just Wing's mind domineering over Waver's. Multi Out! And of course, Multi Forcers can all combine to form Landcross, whereas none of the Powerlinxers can combine to form a gestalt -- and the gestalt members can't Powerlinx with each other in the same way. So IMO the Energon Powerlinxers are just totally outclassed by G1 Multi Forcers.

Fatimus Prime's super mode feels like a Power Ranger Zord. Even the current Platnium Edition repaint is shelfwarming at Kmarts atm. And the Hasbro version was stripped of chrome in favour of an LED. Megatron was just an oversized "Deluxe," and indeed Hasbro did later release the smaller version of the toy. A neat Galvatron homage though - Hasbro should've just called him Galvatron. Scorponok had that incredibly annoying sound gimmick that kept going off when you play/transform the toy. Multi Batteries Out!

I like the gestalts, although Superion is the weakest and I having transparent Energon weapons as hands and feet is weird and a step backward from having self contained Gestalt parts that we saw w/ Lio Kaiser and the Beast Wars gestalts. But it was because they wanted all the limbs to be interchangeable, and it is kinda cool how they made the same weapon set become either a hand or foot and vehicle weapon too. Probably look better if they weren't transparent though. Having only three moulds per team felt like a cop out though. But HasTak seem to have taken some lessons from this and made notable improvement w/ FoC Bruticus (i.e. all self contained gestalt parts, nothing transparent etc.). A lot of the non-Powerlinx combining Transformers were better though. Snowcat was a great GI Joe homage, and the smaller Omnicons and Terrorcons were neat.

2004 was the 20th anniversary of Transformers, but also the 30th anniversary of Microman, and as part of the dual anniversary Takara produced the Kicker figure. A highly articulated Microman figure uniquely made for Transformers. Hasbro later released their own version which wasn't nearly as good as Takara's. In any case, the 10cm Microman figure was compatible w/ other Microman toys and also in scale w/ other 10cm action figures such as Star Wars, G.I. Joe etc. I really wish they'd release more Transformers related human characters in this scale (how many people bought an Indiana Jones Mutt Williams toy to repurpose as Sam Witwicky?).