what would be your ideal TF toy line

[5FDP]

More Classics gets my vote as well. I collected more of that line than any other in the last 8 years. Classics Jetfire is in my top 5 list of all time favs.

[optimus1]

My top modern lines are:
Alternators (Finally realistic vehicles!)
Masterpiece (The 2010 mystery figure should be good)
Classics/Universe (Modern G1 as it should be)
Animated (show accurate robot modes!)

My preferences are for realistic vehicles with a sturdy robot modes. The movieverse has realistic vehicles but many suffer from much weak robot modes. They dont feel as sturdy as similarly sized Classics/Universe and Animated figures.

The most impressive feature for me are details and realism, that why I love Alts and MPs. Gimmicks are only good if they add an extra touch onto a great figure, like the lightup Matrix chest of MP Prime. Great detail and transformation is THE gimmick for me. Anything else is a bonus, but should not be the main feature. Other great examples are Universe Cyclonus and Hound, both of whom I would have got by themselves anyway. Great figures with bonus partners (Nightstick and Ravage).

[kurdt_the_goat]

Since i have rediscovered TF's (around the time of Movie 1), i've been satisfied with all the lines. I don't particularly want every toy to be a "must have" - i don't want to buy every toy in the mainline! Especially considering Japan has some great exclusives that i want more than any of the mainline toys, i have plenty to buy as it is!

But overall, I think there are enough good toys for me in Movie 1&2, Classics and Animated that i'd be bound to find *something* i like in whatever they come up with next.

My ideal line(s) however already exist - Masterpiece and Alternity continuing from Binaltech!

[Verno]

I'm a BW fan, always will be, but I can see why Universe/Classic figures are so popular. I'm all about realism and having a connection to a character and those lines have brought what was possible in the 80's into the 21st century by retaining what those characters were and making them better.

[i_amtrunks]

The animated and Cybertron lines did some spectacular work regarding the toys looking like the characters from the television series, while personally I do not find it all that important, I think it is an important factor regarding sales.

After the QC drop during and after the first movie line, my ideal tf line would be one where QC issues are minimal (going back to the level of Cybertron toys)

[morg176]

thankyou for your responses, please keep them coming.

many want innovation. im all for this. and with the engineering available for toys [tf] today very little is impossible. I think that a main figure with a partner has often been popular [master series]

perhaps a main figure whos bullbar [or similar] pulls off and transforms into a animal or something. having a partner that integrates fully into the vehicle mode.

and poorly executes concepts such as the duocons [ive always loved the concept] where 2 vehicles join to form a robot. Two animals could do the same thing, or a vehicle animal mix. And having two components tf into a robot would be more appealing than Movie Devastator

Keep the ideas flowing

[kup]

I think that we are all for innovation but what we diverse in is the execution of it.

[SofaMan]

and poorly executes concepts such as the duocons [ive always loved the concept] where 2 vehicles join to form a robot. Two animals could do the same thing, or a vehicle animal mix.

I always liked this idea. Something similar to this?

[SofaMan]

I kind of want something more epic.

• A proper, complete War Within type line. Real TF origin stuff.
  
• Alternate Realms, like Hearts of Steel.
  
• A line of mythology-based TFs. We've had the odd mythological creature, but I think there's more potential here.
  
• Updated Pretenders, with proper transforming shells.

[morg176]

ahh duocons

the concept was awesome, yet so very forgotten. only two figures; flywheels [cybertron mode jet and tank] and everyones favourite brutal sociopath battletrap. The figures where well, sad really. virtually no articulation to speak of but simply because they combined they were cool. IMAGINE what they could do with them now....

what two vehicles/two animals/ veh-ani mix would you have and what would you call it. what type of weapons would it have

also: slamdance and beasttalk also fall into this category [as well do the jap gestalt cassettes]