Quote Originally Posted by Oberon Sexton View Post
I've only ever heard good things about Hercules, but considering they were the first third party combiner set, the reviewers at the time I imagine would've been seeing through "rose tinted glasses". Any chance someone can provide some criticism on Hercules for me? and I guess to a lesser extent, Maketoys Giant? I've yet to buy a set, so I'd like some honest feedback to help me decide.
My experience with TFC combiners to date has been limited to playing with others toys. I've played with a couple of limbs of Devastator and Superion. For Maketoys, I own Giant and all of their releases to date minus the minibots (Powerglide/Seaspray) and Shattered Glass Battle Tankers.

TFC - bigger in scale, lower grade plastic quality. Lack of attention to detail. Simpler transformations than TFC. The main draw is size but individual bots tend to be weaker. A very bad habit of theirs that brings them no goodwill is the propensity to leave out key accessories and then package those separately AFTER all the mainbots have been released - thus making customers pay even more for what is already $600 figures.

Maketoys - Giant is gorgeous. The toys are more complex to transform. So feel this makes them not fun but I love the transformation component of TFs so this is a win. QC and detailing is way better than TFC. It's some of the best out there. Scale wise, it's better with Classics than TFC or the Warbotron mob. Maketoys is the higher standard of toy and each of the individual robots are packed with weapons, details, sculpting and well thought out transformations.