Transformers Cybertron: the Top 10

[STL]

Honourable Mention: Scout Scattorshot; clever use of alt mode in robot mode, armed to the teeth for a deluxe and a quirky and different looking figure, that would have easily made a damn fine Voyager or Ultra Class figure.

I am really intrigued by the mold. I'm trying to get it as the GF version atm but other things keep getting in the way. It will be mine one day and it might breach the top 10.

Personally I'd switch Crosswise/Smokescreen with Downshift, and insert Red Alert over Quickmix or CD Scattorshot. Jetfire and Armourhide really are close to making my top 10 too, but there are just not enough places for them.

Too true. It makes me feel guilty leaving out some in the honourable mentions but 10 is awfully hard.

Then again I love Backstop, so my opinion is mud to many people!

I don't mind him. I don't think he's stellar but for a scout he definitely is neat.

I can't wait for Animated. I think it'll offer us a very awesome line in the same vein that Cybertron did. There's the wonderful scale and so many of the toys, even the average ones look appealing. Can't wait.

[MV75]

My favorite is hotshot. I love that mould the best. The transformation has to be the best out of the lot too, no fiddling around, very g1 like to me in its straight forwardness, which is how a transformer should be.
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[GoktimusPrime]

The nice thing about a lot of Cybertron figures is that the transformations are concise but the toys are still reasonably well articulated and have detailed sculpts and paint apps (although the paint apps are better on some Galaxy Force versions).

The thing that brings it down a bit is that the vehicle modes have more limiting appeal because some of them look more like "fantasy" vehicles rather than realistic vehicles. And that's why I think Cybertron Armourhide and Downshift are such awesome figures - Armourhide is clearly a truck and Downshift is clearly a kind of muscle car. Optimus Prime doesn't really look like an actual fire engine, let's face it. It's really the ladder that gives it away. Fire Convoy (RiD OP) on the other hand you can tell straight away that it's a fire engine (a Hino Brandbilar to be precise).

Car Robot (RiD) sold phenomenally well because a lot of them were based on licensed vehicles such as Lamborghini Diablo, Dodge Viper, Mercedes ML30 (although the RiD version was stuffed up), Nozomi 500, Hikari Railstar 700 et al.

Leobreaker and Scourge's articulation is disappointing by post G2 standards.

But overall Cybertron was the best of the 'Unicron Trilogy' series (Armada, Energon, Cybertron).

[goro]

mmm so many good figures, heres my list... i now own every single one of their moulds made in the cybertron line (including repaints from other lines) except galaxy force starscream (he is impossible to find)

1. Prime - his awesomeness is just awesome.. lol

2. Primus - turns into a planet and i finally have a nemesis to display alongside unicron

3. Scourge / Flame convoy - 3 headed dragon.. i mean cmon...

4. Vector prime - my first cybertron toy.. loved him every since.. especially the galaxy force version

5. Menasor - awesome bot mode and a unique alt mode. love the head sculpt

6. Metroplex - hes got 2 bot modes t make up for the crappy alt mode

7. Supreme starscream - larger than primus himself and he has the coronation crown!

8. Soundwave - perfect homage! wouldnt have been able to better the toy

9. CD red alert - apart from the phallic looking missile, he was armed to the teeth! what an upgrade from a scout toy!

10. wing saber - simply because he could merge with prime to create a 'ninjitsumus prime' (love the swords)

[i_amtrunks]

If we are listing our favourites in order, then mine goes:
1: Leader Prime
2: Supreme Primus
3: Voyager Evac
4: Voyager Vector Prime
5: Deluxe Red Alert
6: Leader Galvatron
7: Deluxe Downshift
8: Scout Armourhide
9: Deluxe CD Hotshot
10: Ultra Jetfire

With honourable mentions to: Scout Scattorshot, Voyager CD Scattorshot, Ultra Scourge, Ultra CD red Alert, Voyager Dark Crumplezone, Ultra Menasor, Deluxe Snarl, Deluxe Unicron and Scout Scrapmetal.

[sifun]

1. Leader Prime
2. Leader Galvatron
3. NoizeMaze
4. Unicron deluxe
5. Shortround
6. Defence RedAlert
7. Defence Scattorshot
8. nemesis breaker
9. Voyager Soundwave
10. Skyshadow

[Lord_Zed]

I don't care for Cybertron and are selling most of my Energon toys, but my purpose on this thread is not to vent my dislike for Energon but rather to ask about Evac.

Evac struck me as rather unimpressive when I saw him in the box so I passed, but he seems to have a lot of fans on every Energon thread. Can someone bring an Evac to the next Sydney fan meet? Seeing as how he's being repainted for Universe I'd like to see him, perhaps I was wrong to write him of.