Worst Toy Ever

[BigTransformerTrev]

Robot Replicas is an honourable mention. I have one or two in my collection.

I dunno - I have 4 versions of Frenzy from the 2007 movie and I reckon my RR version is by far the best of the lot

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Tough to beat.

Robot Replicas is an honourable mention. I have one or two in my collection.

Robot Relpicas were awful, I disagree on the RPMs though, I have (1) Soundwave and I think it's great

Simple, tough and fun!

My thoughts on Worst Transformer Ever would have to be Energon Swoop and grimlock. I still haven't come across anything that beats them yet. Although I have been avoiding buying Transformers I think are going to be bad (which included MOST of the 3rd movie toys).

[GoktimusPrime]

RPMs were poor value for money considering that you could get a die-cast metal Matchbox or Hot Wheels car for less than their full RRP. Unless you think it's worth paying extra for having Cybertronian roadkill stuck on the underside of the vehicles.

[DELTAprime]

What about the various Kreo sets. I love building Lego, but the Kreo build of Optimus Prime I did just wasn't fun. Plus you have to disassemble the set to Transform it.

[Sinnertwin]

What about the various Kreo sets. I love building Lego, but the Kreo build of Optimus Prime I did just wasn't fun. Plus you have to disassemble the set to Transform it.

I don't know about Kreo's, but I know that Griffin absolutely loooooves his Built To Rule sets.

For me, Blazemaster from the live action movies

[M-bot]

For me, Blazemaster from the live action movies

Yep. Alt mode is alright, but the bot mode looks like a mutant chicken that can't stand up.

There was a movie-verse human alliance toy (can't remember the name - Thunderhead or something? - turned into some kind of 4-legged tank) that was just horrible, just a bone-lazy design and ugly. Not really any positives to speak of. Never desrved a release, let alone the repaint that it got.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

RPMs were poor value for money considering that you could get a die-cast metal Matchbox or Hot Wheels car for less than their full RRP. Unless you think it's worth paying extra for having Cybertronian roadkill stuck on the underside of the vehicles.

Ha ha ha! Very valid point and probably part of the reason I only have ONE

[Handsprime]

ROTF Devastator. I thought it was gonna be an awesome toy but I didn't like it enough to a point I just threw him away.
Now the legends one on the other hand was a much superior toy.

[BigTransformerTrev]

My thoughts on Worst Transformer Ever would have to be Energon Swoop and grimlock. I still haven't come across anything that beats them yet.

Again, I'm gonna disagree. Despite not being great toys by any means they were the first toys in over a decade that seemed to pay proper homage to the G1 toys and characters in both modes with their overall design. I think Energon Ironhide was worse with his visible head in vehicular mode and his poor homage to the characters lineage .

I guess all the characters in question had the Powerlink option which was kinda cool but I never made much use if it

[GoktimusPrime]

My thoughts on Worst Transformer Ever would have to be Energon Swoop and grimlock. I still haven't come across anything that beats them yet. Although I have been avoiding buying Transformers I think are going to be bad (which included MOST of the 3rd movie toys).

I think that there are worse toys than them (e.g. Action Masters, Power Masters, Animorphs etc.), but they are certainly really bad toys, and arguably among the worst that's come out of Energon. I think one of the worst parts of Energon Grimlock and Swoop is that neither of them have 5mm fist holes. Because one of the strengths of the Unicron Trilogy is that they standardised 5mm weapon posts. Virtually every Autobot/Decepticon in Armada, Energon and Cybertron can swap weapons with each other, including those formed by Mini-Cons, such as the Star Sabre, Requiem Blaster etc. And of course, they are compatible with 5mm post weapons from other lines, such as some G1 figures (e.g. Optimus Prime, Soundwave, Cassettes etc.) and many Movieverse figures (e.g. MechTech etc.).

So despite the fact that the UT made a deliberate effort to have a running theme across 3 series to standardise the 5mm post, Grimlock and Swoop stand out as the two exceptions who refuse to conform. And to make matters worse, they have no weapons of their own! For a relatively expensive boxed set of toys, that's really, really disappointing. A lot of the other "worse Transformers" that I mentioned before were carded figures, but Energon Grimlock/Swoop are arguably among the worst of the boxed Transformers. And inexcusably bad too... why couldn't they have given them 5mm fist holes? It's not as if it would've broken the budget. If anything they may have saved on using that tiny bit of extra plastic by having bigger fist holes.

And yeah, on top of that the individual figures are weak, and the gestalt mode is just awful, even by Energon standards.