My animated collection, what's left for me.

[UltraMarginal]

Thanks everyone for the constructive input, I do have an activators ratchet and Starscream, they are quite neat but I don't feel a need to get any others.

I'm going to have a look at those toy of the year threads for sure. there are some great deals on ebay at the moment for both the Aus and Japanese releases. I guess our dollar helps.

Are there any stinkers that anyone would definitely steer clear of? not counting loose joints, I'm not afraid of applying a bit of nail varnish to ball joints to tighten them up.

[liegeprime]

If you can try and find activators soundwave (goodluck with that though) as you can make a little army (mebbe of 3) to represent his "mini me's" in one of the episode. I tried but as you can see it was veeeeeeery hard trying to locate even that one at the time (still not giving up though). As for what to avoid well not really avoid but do take care with Blitzwing, Gok has had a string of bad luck with the figure breaking a tab somewhere (can't really remember) til he finally resorted to getting the Jap version. All in all the line is pretty decent.

[loophole]

i highly recommend leader Megatron he is just pure awesome, one of my favourite animated figures

[Paulbot]

Are there any stinkers that anyone would definitely steer clear of?

I think you could safely avoid Jetfire/Jetstorm (Safeguard). Pretty boring robot modes and jet modes... it's just the novelty of the combined robot form really that those figures have going for them.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Yeh, I secomd the Jetfire/Jetstorm comment. They were probably the most disappointing figures.

I thought Voyager Megatron was pretty bad too.

Definitely need a Leader Megs though, and Magnus. They were both winners in my book!!

[i_amtrunks]

I think you could safely avoid Jetfire/Jetstorm (Safeguard). Pretty boring robot modes and jet modes... it's just the novelty of the combined robot form really that those figures have going for them.

Third the Jet combo. I bought mine second hand really cheap from Skyshadow (I think) and am glad I paid unders for them.

Starscream was not a great toy, but such a central character. Blitzwing was also underwhelming, but I love mine. The Dinobots are also not the best figures, personally I like them, but I am not blind to their faults, simplistic robot modes, boring transformations and mostly bland detailing.

[KaRNiV8L PRiME]

And collection is not complete without the rainmakers

[UltraMarginal]

And collection is not complete without the rainmakers

I recognise sun storm and acid storm but who is the third and have they been custom painted?

[KillinSpoon]

If you are after a leader Megatron, I have one MISB somewhere that I would like to get rid of. :/

The other one is 'Icestorm' iirc and yes, they are custom paintjobs.

[Shirokaze]

All I can say is holy #@$% I didn't realise you had a Minerva. It would be such a waste not to collect all the animated figs, because she makes you 1 of less than 100? in the world that will ever have the opportunity for a 100% complete Animated collection.

Not that I'm trying to sway you or anything, just putting it out there