You know why he was headless, though? The "head" was originally a seat in the Diaclone original. It was supposed to be a pilotable mech, and figure would be placed on the seat.
Metroplex is too small to serve it's purpose as a City, but I like Fortress Maximus because he is big enough. Also, I like that when he is in City Mode, he actually looks like a base and you wouldn't think it turned into a robot.
Broadside was an absolute trd. Also, I didn't care for Topspin and Twintwist, but mine always worked. Pull back, let go and they flip up. Not quite as cool as Runabout and Runamuck, but it was a fun gimmick for about 10 pulls.
To be fair, Ironhide and Rachel were never meant to be full on robots, but piloted mechs suits with a little driver inside from the Diaclone days. However, because of the design in the cartoon, the toys were very disappointing because they did not resemble what you saw on tv at all. I was so confused by this when I was a kid until I found out where these toys originated
When I was a kid I bought Blaster thinking he was the rival to Soundwave. But, of course, the scale was way off. The worst part about him was that I couldn’t put his tapes in his chest. As a kid I thought it was stupid, until I got to adulthood and found out his chest could actually open up for his tapes. I guess my copy’s chest was fused together. So I have a love/hate relationship with him.
The writers did such a good job making me care about the characters that I didn't mind the toys playablitily. I had Ironhide and Ratchet, and I really loved the toys! For me, around the time of the movie is when my interest in the toys waned. Not only was I getting older, and my TF interest was more in the comics and stuff than the toys, but the switch from die-cast metal to plastic bothered me
I had Topspin as a kid and the jump action worked perfectly nearly every time AS LONG AS you were doing it on a smooth surface like a linoleum tile floor or similar. It would also work okay on low pile carpet. Not great on regular carpet, though.
I had one of those jumpstarter things and yeah totally useless in robot mode because it was not poseable. However I did have it work a few time to jump into robot mode and stand up. I think I had the one with the drills in the front.
I agree with most of the choices. Idk why they made Blaster so huge and Ultra Magnus was too large and bulky. I would also add the Throttlebots as they had no posability and Whirl as well.
I loved Powerglide and I still have him. I love him purely because of nostalgia.. Ultra Magnus was poor but his white cab saved him for me as i didn't have Optimus.. I thought Gears or Huffer would have made this list.
You didn’t like a lot of good transformers . That being said iron hide and ratchet were and still are the worst transformers ever made . Never to be topped
Agree (mostly). Blaster was, what, bigger than Devastator or something? far bigger than Optimus Prime; It simply felt wrong. At least Jetfire was depicted as being big in the cartoon. Ultra Magnus was an ugly brick, even back then; It had a white Prime, that was it. Absolutely LOVED Roadbuster though, still do; it felt so much more 'deluxe' than other bots. Ratchet/ Ironhide; I remember looking at these at the shop in full wonder of their ugly-ness and lots of question marks (did anyone actually buy those?..).
As far as Ratchet and Ironhide are concerned why oh why hasblow thought it would be a good idea to bring two headless human piloted mech from the diaclone car robo into the transformers line and try to pass tjem off as living robots.
I can’t think of his name but if you hate large bulky transformers then you had to have hated the one that was a large space ship with the train track thing going around it. Can’t remember his name.
I liked Topspin and Twi.twist just because they had their guns as part of their arms. For some reason I thought that was super cool. I can see why people don't like them but Blaster? A boom box isn't exactly a fun toy but he was one of the few that looked right in both modes, which is way more than can be said for many G1s. Also, dude you put Ultra Magnus and Metroplex on the list? I never had Fortress Maximus so I can't speak on him. It's your opinion and I'm really not trying to say you're wrong. I am saying that you're totally insane though.
@@theafroalien3169 yipeee I do have to admit the head is ugly as hell the black head and mouth don’t work for superion Thank god they changed it to a mouth plate a visor which is the superion we know today
@@theafroalien3169 well a lot of g1 toys were really weird Some are super great and to this day are still fun to play with like jazz and prowl Others not so much But I played with him a little bit as a little kids with powerglide and I loved them both
Those animation accurate heads they made for G1 Ratchet and Ironhide saved those figures for me, otherwise Id definitely agree with them being at the top of this list.
@@hodgepodgechannel1597a stroke of genius from whomever designed them. what do you think of the Gear4Toys upgrade? personally I thought it was an interesting idea, but its a case of modifying your G1's to the point where they stop feeling like G1s.
I had Topspin. I really like his design and I'd like to have a figure that actually transforms instead of folding in half. Yeah, the jumpstarters did kinda suck.
It's rare and the colours are different but Kabaya Blaster was a nicely scaled down version of G1 Blaster similar in height to Springer. The third party clip on heads for Ratchet and Ironhide really improved them and they look great with Prowl and the other Diaclones. 10 Worst G1 Autobot toys to me were: Powermaster Optimus Prime. Stumpy arms and oversized goofy head. Chromedome. Too large and hideous colours. Goldbug. An unlikeable upgrade of an annoying character. Wreck-Gar. Only Junkion I don't like. Facial hair looks ridiculous on robots. Slapdash. Not a fan of faceplates. His character model looked much better. Dogfight Pretender Grimlock. Inner robot was too small but even articulating his jaw would have improved him a lot. Slingshot. Ugly head design and an obnoxious character. Kup. Ugly head and an annoying character. Pretender Jazz. His bonnet obscures his head in robot mode. They did it again with G2 Rapido. At least Actionmaster Jazz and Grimlock can fit in their Pretender shells, replacing the inferior inner robots. I mentioned Slapdash's character model looking better than the toy because I've never liked faceplates. Other Autobots similarly afflicted include Sandstorm, Backstreet, Hardhead, Air Raid and Fireflight which is a shame because I liked the characters.
I hated the jumpstarters. I agree Ratchet and Ironhide both sucked. Wheelie should be on the list. I disagree on Blaster both his modes were decent for the time.
Ultra Magnus wasn’t that bad People like got upset the Mp Ultra Magnus truck cab didn’t transform , people like me scour eBay & Facebook market place for Ko white Mp Optimus prime To have a transforming ultra Magnus cab , And you believe I that transformer.
Ultra Magnus wasnt so bad. Ok. The legs didnt had any articulation but still was nice and big. Also in this days many of transformers didnt had articukation.
Bro, your entire list sucks. lol. A lot of your reasoning sucks. Maybe the Twin Twist/Topspin one was actually bad. But then, why not the battlecharger guys? Or the throttlebots? There are better candidates for bad G1 Transformer toys than most of the stuff you posted. Blaster? Come on now. You just hate him because he was out of proportion. That's a great toy!
Well, I guess when there's new recreations of these figures you can call them bad. But for those who had them at that time, I doubt they were complaining how bad it was because they would never know that Hasbro one day would make better versions of their beloved toys.
I still have these figures and their new counterparts, and you know what? I still love them. I still love old school Blaster. What's wrong with it? It's not proportionate? Who tf cares. It's a good figure!@@aweirdredtoad3637
The flip bots were cheap and you are right about 'scale'. How can the combiners be ten times as tall as optimus prime in the cartoon but only 1.5 times as tall in real life?
