2022 Australian Transformers Fans Awards results

[Paulbot]

Thank you.

I was happy we got past 250 votes earlier this week, 300 would have been nice but it's fine!

I think because Blaster was nearly impossible to find in Kingdom (I never saw one) the Legacy version was the first time people got him. I did think Inferno would be closer or might win. Iguanus and Soundwave were neck and neck for most of the voting, and given that Soundwave as also a clear winner in the all time faves, I guess people really loved getting a little version of him.

Overall the trend I noticed watching the votes come in was that 'G1' still rules supreme. Tarantulas being the favourite deluxe was really the only one to rise above that, alongside Override who was one of the two new Velocitron molds. Even in the "movie" lines it was the 86 movie toys that won out*, and a literal G1 toy (in new colours) was a top pick too. Should be noted though that Crankcase, a G1 character and MTMTE comic cast member, got the lowest votes in any category, but there's a lot of competition in the deluxe.

I think the MP toys fall into the same space, and it was reflected in comments on the form, people want those G1 (US) cast toys. MP Trailbreaker will be in the poll next January, Skywarp was released around Boxing Day Dec 2021 so I held him over from last year too and would keep doing so for any toy released so late in the year overseas. Skywarp is a very nice looking toy though so I see why he'd appeal!

The EarthSpark toy question was partly there for me to get a sense of how much space in the form next year to devote to them. They'll be there but probably not every 'gimmick' toy (nor will all the ROTB gimmick toys be included either).



*I've just realised a layering misfire means Sludge was mostly hidden by Metroplex's saw - I've uploaded a corrected version of the image

[DELTAprime]

The EarthSpark toy question was partly there for me to get a sense of how much space in the form next year to devote to them. They'll be there but probably not every 'gimmick' toy (nor will all the ROTB gimmick toys be included either).

I hoped there would be more interested people, but I guess it's another line not aimed at collectors. (not that any line is aimed at collectors if you ask Hasbro)

[griffin]

*I've just realised a layering misfire means Sludge was mostly hidden by Metroplex's saw - I've uploaded a corrected version of the image

Ah sorry... I noticed Sludge missing in the original picture that I used on our facebook posting, and even though I was so close to typing up "all of the winners" on the facebook posting, I just knew that some smartass would point out that it didn't include all of them.

And yeah, I noticed the really low vote for Crankcase and wondered why, since it is supposed to be a significantly unique enough mould (noting the recycled engineering and parts from Skids) and a rarely used character (particularly for the slow release of Trigger bots/cons)... but since I haven't played with mine yet, I couldn't comment on if it was worth the poor vote.

[JJJ]

Well, I dunno about anyone else, but I'm rather excited about the Earthspark deluxes, and even some of the warriors. They look like fun to me, and they appear (going entirely off pictures of course) to be of slightly improved quality than the Cyberverse deluxes, which I rather like.