Cases where you loved a figure but hated the character, and vice versa...

[KELPIE]

I buy figures because I like the character.

It's less about the toy. If the toy is rubbish, then I'll happily leave it sealed.

Sadly, I like a lot of unrepresented characters, disliking a lot of the popular ones. That said, I don't think I dislike any character enough to negatively impact my enjoyment of a figure, I just wouldn't buy more than the one or two figures I'd need to represent that character.

And man o man am I sick of Optimus Prime.

Some company gets the license for Transformers, they make a Prime, I buy it to support the line, they stop making their product.... rinse, repeat and my collection starts to look more like an Optimus Prime collection and less of a Transformers collection.

[TaZZerath]

Sadly, I like a lot of unrepresented characters, disliking a lot of the popular ones. That said, I don't think I dislike any character enough to negatively impact my enjoyment of a figure, I just wouldn't buy more than the one or two figures I'd need to represent that character..

Same! I tend to avoid the usually oversaturated figures. It drives 'casual' transformers people nuts when they come see my collection

*Gazes over collection trying to find familiarity*

"Is that Optimus Prime? He looks a bit weird"
"No actually thats God Ginrai, he's a Japanese character. He only looks like Optimus Prime."

*Eyes glaze over*

"Oh right, yeah, uh huh....."

[BigTransformerTrev]

A lot of characters from RID(01), S4 of the G1 cartoon and a lot of characters from the Unicron Trilogy I did not like one bit but enjoyed the toys. I'm don't think there has ever been a character I've ever hated enough to make me bypass a toy I wanted, though a lot from ROTF like the twins came damn close

I am guilty of buying the odd toy that wasn't much good just because I wanted a representation of the character.

Not having the TF-budget I used to have makes it easier. If its a character I don't like, and most definitely a toy I don't like, I'll just bypass it now. And as others have stated, there are characters I just bypass completely as I have so many already - I've got over 100 different Optimus, I don't need anymore