Going by year...
  • 2006: Bumblebee. Making him a hatchback really evokes the spirit of Bumblebee. Love the design, feels like "Poor Man's Alternators" (much like how good CHUG toys today feel like "Poor Man's MP")

  • 2007: Ramjet. A basic yet effective retool of Starscream. Shame it took so long for the other Seekers to get done.

  • 2008: Sunstreaker. An early example of "pre-tooling" that we often see today - a pretty clever way of engineering both Sideswipe and Sunstreaker into the same core mould. Between the two I prefer Sunstreaker, but Sideswipe is pretty nice too. Both toys still hold up for me; I skipped both CW Sunstreaker and Siege Sideswipe as I still feel that my Henkei are pretty good.

  • 2009: Cyclonus. This is how CHUG Targetmasters should be done.

  • 2010: Megatron. A pretty clever way for Hasbro to give us a Walther P38 Megatron by releasing him as a little Legends Class figure. Quite a nice toy given its size and price point, and to top it off, they even explicitly designed the gun handle to be held by MP Seekers!

  • 2011: Warpath. Love the way that the tank barrel retracts and the toy in general has so much personality. KAPOW!

  • 2012: Powerdive. An interesting redeco of a Bayformers toy into a G2 character.

  • 2013: Springer. Triple Changers aren't easy to do, but they did well with Springer. The modelling based on IDW was also really well done.

  • 2014: Swerve. Again, so much personality in this toy and the IDW base made him distinctive from G1

  • 2015: Megatron. Just an incredible toy, from the moving rubber tank treads to the missile launching barrel. Phwoar!

  • 2016: Wheelie. Just a really good toy. Impressed by the way that the vehicle has a driver's compartment and yet compacts itself in robot mode. This is something that quite a few toys can do now, but back in 2016 this was quite a novel feature.

  • 2017: Trypticon. Read the reviews.

  • 2018: Beachcomber. Same reasons as with Wheelie, but Beachcomber does it better with a far more solid alt mode.

  • 2019: Omega Supreme. I was not expecting this toy to have so few partsforming! Most pleasantly surprised.

  • 2020: So far it's Cliffjumper.