(APR-2013) Beast Wars Era Toys - Reviews and Favourites

[BigTransformerTrev]

What are your Best and Worst toys of this Era?
The Transmetal 2 ones were kinda cool. The worst was whatever that half bee/half lionfish thing was

What was your first one, and when?
Depthcharge -late 90's

What ones are you currently most looking for and why?
Not looking for any - concentrating more on finding G1 toys as well collecting the TFPrime & Generations figures

Show us some pics of your collection of the ones you have.
There is a pic of my various Waspinators in this thread:
http://www.otca.com.au/boards/showthread.php?t=15361

[GoktimusPrime]

What are your Best and Worst toys of this Era?
The Transmetal 2 ones were kinda cool. The worst was whatever that half bee/half lionfish thing was

Injector.
I remember once seeing a really funny photo story where Injector enters some guy's collection room, and the other Transformers all freak out (it was Sizzle who discovered him and thought there was a monster -- others gathered around and discovered he was a new Transformer). The other TFs were like, "Oh no, you've got a giant fish on your shoulders that's swallowed your head," and Injector's like, "No, this is my head."
...awkward silence from every toy...

[1orion2many]

What are your Best and Worst toys of this Era?
Best - Optimal Optimos
Worst - Retrax or Injector but I still liked them

What was your first one, and when?
I bought all 4 deluxes as soon as they were released I think it was the following
Cheetor, Waspinator, Dinobot & Tarantulas. 1996 or 1997 whenever they hit the stores here

What ones are you currently most looking for and why?
Botcon Tigatron 2001, I just love this mold

Show us some pics of your collection of the ones you have.
In Hibernation, I'll see if I can bust some out

[Gouki]

What are your Best and Worst toys of this Era?

Really the entire line is full of so much great engineering and crazy designs that it's hard to really say 'worst'. It's a true high point of the franchise. That said, Optimus Minor barely transforms and the Mutants are an interesting idea but not for me.

The best? Hmmm. Excellent question. I love Silverbolt and TM Tarantulus, even if I only owned them myself recently. Always made sure I used my friends ones when playing. Armordillo is crazy awesome for a basic.

I brought Snapper over Insecticon once and regretted that, if that counts.

Honestly, though I never got many of the toys, like with G1. sucks growing up poor.

What was your first one, and when?

Armordillo. Got him for Christmas 1997, and I was thrilled. I originally wanted Razorbeast because of the name (and the Lion King), but I was far happier in the end.

What ones are you currently most looking for and why?

Definitive toys of show characters, and visually striking toys. Also TM Prowl II, because a transforming Owl is cool.

[Autocon]

Definitive toys of show characters, and visually striking toys. Also TM Prowl II, because a transforming Owl is cool.

The black owl or the white owl?

I cant remember my first bw toy but my first tf toy ever was the black and grey plane for superion

[Gouki]

The black owl or the white owl?

Not sure. I prefer the white in Owl mode, but the black in bot mode. So probably which ever I can find cheaper in packaging.

[1orion2many]

The black owl or the white owl?

I cant remember my first bw toy but my first tf toy ever was the black and grey plane for superion

UGH! I completely forgot about the black version, Something else I need to chase down now

[GoktimusPrime]

The black owl or the white owl?

The black variant of TM2 Prowl (as well as the white variant of TM2 Dinobot) never came out in here IIRC.

I cant remember my first bw toy but my first tf toy ever was the black and grey plane for superion

You mean Skydive . . . . . .

[GoktimusPrime]

Worst - Retrax or Injector but I still liked them

I don't hate Retrax... but he is a pretty awful toy. But you'll remember the one thing that got people excited about Retrax at the time he came out -- he was the closest thing we ever got that approximated a Unicron toy!! The beast mode could curl up into the "ball" mode with two big pinching mandibles like Unicron's planet mode, and the robot mode has a head with two big Unicron-like horns on it! Some people even made customs like this one.