@@nucleonegro9762 I actually agree with you. If the Tri-Rex were retooled and rereleased in the Generations Toyline as a faction of Chimeracons, it would've made more sense than what we got.
Another thing to add about Titanium Megatron: the Autobot sigils on his side in vehicle mode. Yes, I know they symbolize 'Bots he felled in battle, but something different could have been done with them. Like turn them upside-down, with jagged lines through them. But, that would take effort and imagination.
That anomaly actually does have a purpose to be remembered: To NOT be repeated! I recall loyally paying attention to your original "Worst Of" list, and this is just as competent. Please keep it up👍
I actually loved my ROF Scapel toy. It was hard to keep together, but whenever I lost a leg or piece I would pretend that was battle damage. He would often be my mad scientist reviver to bring back any dead decepticons or at one point, the creator of a zombie virus.
This list is very accurate to be honest,it even listed bayverse demolisher,i can't belive that the cool design guy from the unicron trilogy turn into a oversized thing
@PurpleOwlAnimationi think i get it,you mean that sometimes the nemes dosn't fit characters sometimes (for example cybertron menasor he's not even a combiner like what he supposed to)
@@ApologeticPyro How can you like the design it looks like pieces of stuff just glued together it looks awful and you’re probably awful as well (This is a joke calm down)
I'll give it a shot...how about the "Arcee triplets" from Revenge of the Fallen? Arcee, Chromia, and Elita-1 were done SUPER dirty in that movie, even aside from the fact that they were unceremoniously killed off by random gunfire in the overly long and explosion heavy climax sequence. The Arcee "figure" had a motorcycle mode that didn't peg together well, a terribly misshapen robot mode that had virtually no poseability because of the giant arm and needed a stand made out of a side car because it had no legs, not to mention it just looked AWFUL. Chromia also looked terrible and couldn't stand because it's "foot" was a wheel, but it at least pegged together okay in vehicle mode, but Elita-1 who was originally supposed to her own mold at one point turned out to be a repaint of Chromia, and that meant their promised combined mode ended up not being a thing. With all of that crap the most recent Arcee being a lazy shellformer is no big deal...
With the mold for the Arcee figure they had laying around for the first Bayformer movie, I'm confused why they didn't use that as the model for "Arcee" or the triplets. Sure the thing was a bit ugly but at least it could stand upright and had decent articulation from what I can remember.
in defense of the animorphs toys being horrifying body horror abominations, it at least follows how the books would regularly delve into finding any and all excuses to graphically describe the complete terror of physically morphing into non-human organisms with the same nonchalant tone you'd describe a minor back ache to your doctor
I will still wait for the day that they get to the point of redoing Beast Machines characters. I get that they are terrible designs and stuff, but some like the Vehicons really deserve new official toys (in the correct scale too) at some point for Generations. THe only figure we've ever gotten after the original toyline was T30 Tankor. Despite being a deluxe and having some bad QC with parts (namely the shoulders) being misassembled, it was still quite good for what it was. So far has been one of the best figures for Beast Machines imo.
As it turns out, beast machines was the LAST series they covered in the legacy line. Energon, RID, Cyberverse, Victory and even beast wars NEO got new toys before Beast Machines did.
I don't have a "worst" figure, because I always find a way to like something, regardless of how bad it is, but based on the fandom's opinions, I'd say Prime RiD Airachniid, she shelfwarmed HARD, I remember seeing some for about 5 bucks a pop, when CW was already out.
Might qualify as low-hanging fruit, but I do think that Prime Robots in Disguise Deluxe Airachnid belongs on a list of the worst Transfomers toys. Articulation and show-accuracy sacrificed in the name of weird gimmicks and questionable engineering choices, to the point that (as others have pointed out) the Legion-class figure is actually a better toy and a better representation of the character.
the thing with the rubber is because it's made of plastizicer or whatever it's called that melts plastic. yep. same thing is used for blast effects with the wfc line. You can't use any blast effects to display with your figures because you risk them pulling little bits of plastic off. I keep all of mine in the little box that came with tricranius
Why didn't they learn their mistake the first time? I personally don't have any WFC blast effects (despite having a lot of wfc figures) but I was considering trying to get some. Might not now.
I absolutely love the Armada Side Swipe. Yes, it's terrible but it's loveably terrible. The motorcycle that flips out of the back is a very fun gimmick. He may look like a car crash in robot mode, but I love him.
OH MY GOD SOMEONE ELSE ACTUALLY REMEMBERS THAT ETERNALLY-CURSED ANIMORPHS TYRANNOSAURUS! I got that in a box lot once and was entertained wholly by how revolting it was.
I kinda wish the upscaled Prime cyberverse toys had gotten another wave. Finish out the abominus team as deluxes, and embiggened commander class Hardshell and Unicron/Megatron
TJ, I LOVE your videos, and have been watching for years. I have a pretty large collection of Transformers myself, and was hoping to have most of them on your list.. I was just missing a few.. but had my feelings hurt a little on Scalpel and Retrax I don't know why, but I've always loved both of those bots!!! LOL I would have thrown on ROTF Arcee, and Beast Hunters Abominus on there. Yech. ROTF Arcee is definitely my most hated Transformer in my collection, which is also why I love her.
He actually did do a video on Abominus years ago. He basically takes the view that it's not a great combined mode, but considering that it's a Legion-class combiner, it's more of a bonus mode to five other toys that are mostly okay at worst.
Authentics Dinobot Grimlock 'Bravo'. Maybe the fact that a Voyager-class figure comes with some assembly required should have been a sign. He's so disappointing and depressing to look at, and bits of him fall off very easily, at least on mine. He's a McDonalds pack-in style toy that you actually have to pay for.
Eh. I'm on Retrax's side. I rather like bots like him and Bonecrusher where there's absolutely nothing else like them. I like when the designers take risks. And I think his weird techno-cow headsculpt looks cool too.
Scalpel's alt mode has been misnamed for years, it's not supposed to be a microscope, it's a stereoscope, wich serve a similar purpose of a microscope, but with large objets.
I have mine in "spider" mode posing at the ceiling-edge of a TF shelf display...looks creepy & I believe my wife has sprayed it several times with Raid... O,o
I'd still like to see someone revisit Titanium Megatron's design. I think the robot design is pretty cool, but of course that toy's robot mode is totally unplayable. The tank wouldn't be too hard to fix, mostly just balancing out the color and making the lower half look less like a block.
A couple of ones I would say is that personally I think nightscream from beast machines was my least favorite, though I don't know if it's actually the worst or not. Both modes look ridiculously ugly, it's also hilariously out of scale just like silverbolt (I think nightscream was shorter than rattrap), and even the articulation sucks because a lot of it is just ratchety uncomfortable crap. At least with silverbolt he can have a kind of cool unofficial gryphon mode just like how longhorn can have a minotaur mode to save that figure, And supreme cheetor isn't offensive to the eye and his hilariously bad. If you're gonna talk about an ugly weird robot mode from revenge of the fallen that can't stand, my first pick wouldn't be demolishor, but instead Arcee. That figure has an okay vehicle mode, but one of the worst robot modes I have ever seen in my life. It actually astonishes me that some people consider Earthrise Arcee worse than that figure, at least Earthrise Arcee has arguably the best looking robot mode of any of Hasbro's attempts, even if it's lacking in paint in a couple of areas. Revenge of the Fallen Arcee is just an absolute mess and the sad thing is the first movie was perfectly fine, so I don't get what they were thinking (yes I'm aware the toy is based off of the movie, but they still could have made a more appealing toy)
And the worst part is, Arcee was not originally gonna look like that. Her 2007 movie toy is based on her original CG model that was supposed to appear in the 2007 movie, but she was replaced by Ironhide. She even had legs and everything. Why she never had legs in the 2nd movie is beyond me.
The thing I always found galling with the scaled up cyberverse figures at the end of the Beast Hunters toyline is that if you go into pound shops you're likely to find upscalled legends class KO figures in there for a couple of quid, and Hasbro were doing the exact same thing (or near enough), and charging full price.
Supreme Cheetor is the stuff of my nightmares... I never saw much of Beast Machines and thankfully never SAW this thin in series... BUT HOLY HELL WHO THOUGH CROSS-BREEDING CHEETOR WITH A CENOBITE AND A XENOMORPH WAS A GOOD IDEA?!
I can see why you let out G1 ones as they were based on Diaclone and others, and were first. Ratchet/Ironhide were not even the complete robots with pilots as they were in Diaclone. But no, not the worst.
I happen to have three of the Armada Sideswipe mold - the original with Nightbeat, the Cybertron redeco as Runamuck (Runabout) with a gun block, and the Battle in a Box Treadshot which I painted as actual Runamuck (with the unchanged Nightbeat painted as "Battlecharger") to go with the Cybertron one. Far from my favorite Armada figure but weirdly interesting.
Tri-rex is made almost entirely of a completely normal yellow non-swirled plastic that's going to last as long as any other transformer, minus the tail which is a rubbery plastic
Still #1! Megs was still the worst for me and I gave him to you. I'm curious if he has had any parts leprosy over the past decade. Are the die-cast bowling balls still hanging from threads or have the threads finally snapped? I'm mainly thinking of the arms. The legs or pelvis you just have to look at funny and he falls to pieces.
Always #1. Admittedly I haven't looked at him in a while, he's kept in a bin with the other Addict toys where he cannot harm the world anymore, but last I checked he was still barely holding together.
I hope scalpel gets an update Edit: I’m surprised he didn’t bring up SS Scavenger which has more possibility especially the arms, more stable for both wheels, and a third chest mode for Devastator
I would only touch Returns Silverbolt and Armada Sideswipe because there are no decent alternatives that I know of. The rest can sit in a museum exhibit of bad toy design. Edit: after seeing how big Scalpel is, maybe, just maybe, I’ll make an exception for him as well.
5:45 I would've gone with Airachnid since her legion is better than her deluxe. 10:31 My understanding of Animorphs is body horror abounds, so these toys are accurate in that regard.
Yep, my Scalpel's leg joints all disintegrated one by one. Though he would have been an okay figure in my book if he'd managed to stay intact. He's mistransformed in most pictures I've seen of him, the shell halves should come up all the way and meet each other forming a kind of spine instead of covering up his (materially shameful) hips.
I once had that Supreme Cheetor for a bit. Because it was cheap but complete. I played with it, confirmed that it was garbage, then sold it with a profit. Also, replace Double-Cluch from the team and replace him with PCC Huffer to make the team perfect. Those from the list that I love just because they are adorably "bad": Retrax, A. Sideswipe (and his repaints), Titanium GI-Joe Megatron (deserving his #1 spot.)
The first one instantly had Phelous rush into my head because of HIS 'Worst of the g1 episodes' review. "The microscope beat the combiner! The MICROSCOPE-! Beat the COMBINER!"
Scalpel was SO fragile. I actually went back and got a second to try and have enough unbroken legs between them for one to work, and I still didn't. But I liked how he looked enough to try, at least. I left them in microscope mode as props for a diorama for a while. EDIT: It just hit me that Armada Sideswipe and PCC Doubleclutch's combined mode have the same head design. Coincidence? I THINK NOT!
I had that Retrax as a kid, and always assumed it was some kind of dollar store knockoff! I am literally only now realising it was an actual licensed figure instead of Super Deform Star God or something. Jesus wept.
Animated voyager megatron, in a line that excelled with great engineering and cartoon accuracy, this guy is an embarrassment. Bad paint, bad plastic, doesn't fit together, and the gimmick sucks. Plus bad proportions, huge legs with a tiny body that's the same size or smaller than the deluxe.
Man i started watching your show like 10 years ago; funnily enough i checked on my little brother who had gotten into my old transformers only to see his favorite one…was rotf demolisher
I feel that was some unfair flack leveled against Scavenger/Demolishor as a design because the Studio Series figure proved that you can make a functional, fun figure out of it. Not to say the old RoTF mold isn’t bad but to this day I still don’t quite agree with it being “worst of all time” material, especially with far worst contenders emerging after that figure
First off I want to say thanks for not bringing up the Action Masters, everyone adds them to their worst lists, and like they were really not that bad (I actually love them). Sure they can't "transform", and yeah some of them had bad paint jobs, but at the time they came out they were pretty cool.....at least in my opinion they were. As for your list, I have to say I agree with you, meaning they ones you mentioned are pretty bad, not saying I would have them on my top 10, but they do deserve the hate. With the said, I would like to say that in my opinion Titanium Series Megatron is the best of the worst. And what I mean by that is he is the BEST example as to why Die-Cast can be the worst when it comes to Transformers. I am not saying that Die-Cast is terrible, but it is not the "Lost Art" as people seem to think it is. In many cases it is a headache to say the very least. Yes, G1 seemed to have known how to use it right (most of the time), but since then we get figures like the Titanium Series. Megatron may be the worst of them, but the series as a whole is not that great. I have that Megatron, and unlike you I like the design, but it is hindered by the Die-Cast. Perhaps if it was just plastic it would not be that bad, but then it would have never been made if it was. And this is not the only series that I find Die-Cast to be an issue, the other one would be the Binaltech line. It is sad that I prefer the Alternators versions over the Binaltech and that is all because of the Die-Cast. Trying to transform some of the Die-Cast versions can be quite annoying, and let's not even talk about the paint chipping. So actually I take back what I said, perhaps it is a "Lost Art", since they don't use Die-Cast like they used to back in the days of G1. I will say some (not all) of the Masterpieces use it fine and all.
Yo I had titanium megatron as a kid and can atest to its structural integrity. A couple months back I actually found one of his legs in my closet years after finding an arm in a completely different house.
The fact that you mentioned Built To Rule in the beginning really just reminds me of how old I am. I had 2 sets of Armada Demolisher (one was night attack?), the Optimus Prime and Hung Ho from GI Joe.
Beast Machines as a line drove me crazy because of its lack of scale. Optimus and Megatron dwarfed by Rattrap and Nightscream? Supreme Cheetor was just the cherry on the garbage sundae.
I made a top 10 worst list a while back, and my bottom 2 were G1 Guzzle and Choro-Q Megatron. Guzzle because he has less transformation steps than some of the Wendy's GoBots, AND they're painfully tight, AND the gimmick was dead on mine. Choro-Q Megatron because, as awesome as a chibi transforming gun is, I've never encountered plastic so fragile. It broke in multiple places _immediately._ And then the replacement TF Source sent me *also* broke in multiple places immediately. _It actually loses to G2 Electro, who I was able to get one full transformation out of._
Sideswipe! One of my earliest memories! Hid under my pillow and played with at night! I DESPISED any of the fallen devastator figs The horror. Treads are my least favorite aspect because of them!
Can confirm on ROTF Demolisher: The rubber threads is warping away at the dark metallic olive plastic he has inside the wheel assembly. It looks like melted cheese. Nothing too severe but once you see it, you can't unsee it. Heard the Bludgeon mold has a similar condition.
I think that ROTF devastator was terrible to be honest. Extremely expensive, essentially a giant statue, and his components are out of scale and dont even properly transform. It took them a decade to attempt a proper, fully functioning devastator with "triple changing" component-bots.
I may have never had my own Titanium Megatron or seen it until today, but that is single handedly the sickening design I've ever seen... I actually want to throw up
RotF Demolishor is especially not great now that Studio Series Scavenger is a thing. A version of that design that doesn't have rubber treads, is capable of combining with the other Constructicon figures, and, while it does still require a bit of extra support to remain upright, can be very simply mistransformed to give it a more stable standing surface.
i'll always sorta defended armada sideswipe for one reason. the colors are nice and the alt-mode is interesting. yes, its a sedan, but that means its a departure from the normal sports cars, trucks, and occasional van, SUV, or off-road vehicle. its ordinary, but that's the point! robots in *disguise*, yeah? yes, it has two autobot badges and "transformers" on the windshield, but if i saw something like blurr i'd be more weirded out by that than by sideswipe.
sideswipe still is in line for what car enthusiast did to their car in early '00; Blurr and scavenger where flat out of primus' grace. hell, some of the decepticon would have been less obvious
bang on about retrax. the beast mode is fine, but the robot mode is utter trash. I also remember finding that cheetor stomach piece in a bin of parts and thinking it was part of some bug transfromer. It really was a giant piece of plastic turd.
I'll say that the upscaled Legion class figures are great for kids. You have the bigger scale that's better to hold while having a little more complexity. I think the same of the Cyber Battalion figures they had at Walgreen's and now on Hasbro Pulse.
I loved Retrax! He was one of my favorite Preds outside of the Mainframe characters. Sideswipes bot mode is bad but I like him being a regular, boring looking car. Kinda suits his personality. You could make a top ten worst just using Titanium figures.
