most absurd alt mode

[Gutsman Heavy]

Pom Poko is awesome! they beat the crap out of people with their nads and are addicted to red bull!

[Sky Shadow]

Mammoth's can have three foot long penises.

Wow. That's really short.

[Pulse]

It feels like I'm getting my TFs & National Geographic lesson at the same time...

[Autocon]

huh wait go back to the kangaroo koala transformer?

[Gutsman Heavy]

huh wait go back to the kangaroo koala transformer?

don't get excited, its not a toy

[GoktimusPrime]

Star Upper (the kangaroo) was designed by a Transfan though. It was a winning entry from a competition - the winner got some prizes with his/her design to be used as a non-toy character. I think Archadys and Mach Kick were toys created by winning fan-designs though.

[SilverDragon]

Star Upper (the kangaroo) was designed by a Transfan though. It was a winning entry from a competition - the winner got some prizes with his/her design to be used as a non-toy character. I think Archadys and Mach Kick were toys created by winning fan-designs though.

So was Bazooka, the neon orange Ankylosaurus.

Those fan designs were weird. And also cool in a unique way.

[MV75]

Megabolt megatron transforms into a giant head with legs... looks more like a big fat tick.

Megabolt rules when used as fort maxs head.

Most useless?
I nominate cybertron laserbeak.

Alt mode is a bomb. C'mon, a bomb of all things. You wouldn't want to screw up that one shot at using the alt modes primary function would you?

[BigTransformerTrev]

Easy-Peasy to answer:

Injector & Ejector

A loinfish-hornet, and a toaster.... c'mon

Megabolt rules when used as fort maxs head.

Most useless?
I nominate cybertron laserbeak.

Alt mode is a bomb. C'mon, a bomb of all things. You wouldn't want to screw up that one shot at using the alt modes primary function would you?

I wonder if thats where they got the idea for Fulcrum from IDW's MTMTE? Does that make Cybertron: Laserbeak a K-Class Decepticon?

[GoktimusPrime]

Holy thread necromancy, Batman! (my daughter hadn't even been born yet last time I posted here! )

*ahem* Yes, the Fuzors were a strange concept... like Transformers meet Wuzzles. I don't think a lionfish/hornet is necessarily any better or worse than most other Fuzor concepts (a hammerhead shark/eagle is just as bizzare) -- but the execution of the toy is certainly the worst.

I like the idea of a toaster as an alt mode! It really drives in that whole "robots in disguise" concept of Transformers alt modes -- I'd really love to see more everyday objects as alt modes, not just vehicles and animals all the time. That's why I wish they'd make a Dispensor action figure. But you look at toys like say G1 Soundwave, Blaster, the Cassettes and Reflector --- they all transformed into objects that you could find in your home. Heck, even Megatron and Browning (not most homes, but some homes with legal ownership of course ). That's also what I really liked about Real Gear Robots -- mobile phone, camera, portable game device, MP3 player etc. It really evokes that "they live among us" feeling for the Transformers. And conceptually I think even a lot of the "Label" series Transformers work that way too, particularly Music Label and Device Label (although the USB TFs are really horribly designed; and they're all overpriced IMHO). Sport Label and Capbots are weird, but still works along the same idea (I'd probably like them more if they weren't Optimus Primes/Megatrons and instead made them new unique characters; ditto the mouses as Grimlock/Trypticon). Device Label Blaster was a neat idea as a laptop -- I reckon Hasbro missed a good opportunity with that idea by not making Brains into a toy for DOTM. Conceptually speaking we saw how deadly Laserbeak was in DOTM by being able to transform into all sorts of household and office devices -- photocopier/printer, flat screen TV, pink Bumblebee (cos who doesn't have one of those lying around? ) etc. It screwed around with rendering it as a toy though.

Even before then we had movie Frenzy who infiltrated Air Force One as a CD player and later was able to follow Mikaela by transforming into her mobile phone; which of course later gave him access inside Sector 7's base and allowed him to take action to freeing Megatron and for other Decepticons to rally at his position. I think it'd be seriously cool to have more Transformers that just transformed into every day objects that you could find in a home or office.

Yeah I know that Ejector suffers from a weird looking Gremlin robot mode... but as far as the alt mode is concerned, I reckon it's awesome! I scooped Ejector up as soon as I saw him in stores! It's a shame that toy pegwarmed as I thought it was one of the better toys that came out of ROTF. Loads better than Supreme Crap Class Devastator.