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Prime Wars feels like the bridge between old school Generations and the modern toyline
Definitely agree with this sentiment. There were molds that were still trying to do new takes on classic characters the same way old school generations did, especially with designs that were heavily based on the IDW designs like Combiner Wars Ultra Magnus.
However, as time marched on, the designs started skewing towards more faithful iterations of the classic designs just with modern proportions and engineering.
While this has been a god send for G1 purists, I do miss when Generations was about modernizing the classic characters in new and unique ways.
As cool as Kingdom Warpath is, I vastly prefer Generations 2011 Warpath.
As cool as Studio Series Preceptor is, I miss how 2011 Generations made Perceptor a snowtrack research SUV.
As a unicron trilogy kid, This is the line that got me collecting again
Overlord was an amazing figure. Crazy how his VA in the show also plays Dio from Jojo.
I was worried I'd miss out on him, but thankfully he showed up at Ollies for me. He was good enough, I regret I missed out on Black Shadow.
I prefer non-combining Dinobots. But if they exist, where is the Insecticon combiner?
I honestly like the new take on Blast Off in Combiner Wars as a fighter jet felt far more appropriate than a space shuttle for a combat focus team. Did I still get the shuttle? Yes I did 😆
One thing I like is making a toy of Shockwave that Bruticus can hold as a reference to The Revenge of Bruticus.
Computron was a fun figure. Plus he was voiced by matpat!
That's my all time funny and favourite fact about one of my favourite caracters
Overlord’s VA in that show is Dio from Jojo
Controversial opinion: this trilogy was more consistently good than the WFC trilogy. Yes, Siege is peak and Kingdom has its moments, but Prime Wars managed to pull off every combiner between Devastator and Abominus, introduced a bunch of newbies (not just the replacement limbs, but also most of the Titan Masters, the Torchbearers, Slash, and Viper), the remainder of the Mini-Bots, Pretenders, Triple Changers, and a crap ton of 1987-1988 representation that happened because IDW just so happened to be using those characters in the comics at the time and the 1986 movie turning 30. Fight me.
We got a modern Sixshot.
And most of those points you listed are Titans Return. I still think that Studio Series and Titans Return are the best lines we've ever received.
@@jalengatton Counterpoint to "most of those points I listed being Titans Return": Power of the Primes had Cindersaur, Battletrap, Dreadwind, Darkwing, the and the Terrorcons as 87-88 rep, Combiner Wars did the 86 gestalts and Computron while incorporating elements of IDW into select figures, and the mini-bots were split across the trilogy,.
Regarding Studio Series, I'll concede that it's quite nice... provided we're talking about everything from 2020 onward. 2018 and 2019, while there are bright points, are pretty rough by Generations standards. If most of what was released in those first two years was remade, that'd be greeeeeat. (we're getting there if BBM Bumblebee 2 is anything to go by).
Not only that, but SS's focus has been all over the place. AOE and TLK have been woefully underrepresented in SS while slots that could've gone to those films' characters go to characters from video games you can no longer play or concept art that the general public doesn't know about. I understand that the recency and low quality of the latter Bay films was what kept those characters out of Studio Series early on, but it's shameful the most that Drift has in SS is just a repaint of his awful TLK toy.
Admittedly, Gamer Edition Sideswipe and Concept Art Sunstreaker are pretty neat (and I'm excited for Widowmaker next year), but when AOE Galvatron and TLK Hot Rod show how far the design team has come in regards to capturing designs really not designed with toys in mind, the lack of later Bay rep in SS kinda hurts. We're almost done with the original Bay trilogy and 86 is only two years away from being done (most I can see being done before 2026 are Starscream and Soundwave); why not take the opportunity to finish out the remainder of the Bayverse?!
Honestly I don’t disagree. The cartoon was shit but the toys were pretty great for the time! Like, unlike most folks I LOVE combined wars Optimus prime as he was my very first g1 style Optimus prime! I still have him too, and adore him to this day!
@@Cyber_Horse_Studios87 He was my first G1 Optimus, too! Heck, even with Galaxy Upgrade Optimus from Siege, this guy was the definitive Optimus of my collection until United Animated Optimus came along.
I really hope we see Rook return as a member of Defensor. Yes, Groove (autocorrect messed it up) is iconic but a motorcycle just doesn't make sense as a combiner limb.
It's okay to have an backup! Liokaiser had one with Deathcobra!
Rook is a better limb than groove, fight me
Grove
@@Peridoot3 Autocorrect.
I remember seeing a custom or add on (can't recall which) where Legends Groove mounted onto Rook's leg mode, so you got the classic Defensor look with Groove as a leg, while keeping him at a size more apropriate for his alt mode.
I remember going to every store I could on my birthday the year Power of the Primes was on shelves and blew all of my cash on quite a few figures including voyager Prime and the Walgreens Brainstorm. I had a blast with the compatibility between everything and I don't really remember having that much fun with any other part of this trilogy besides maybe the initial hype for Combiner Wars.
I still wish all TFs had that titan master head port for customization. So many movie toys only need a head swap to be awesome imo
It was a rolicoster of a toy line with fun and unique figure and some that Flop. But it lade the foundation for what's to come in the future.
Titans Return should have been a whole trilogy! :p It was great and I loved the little Titanmasters. Shuffler was AMAZING. Power of the Prime was garbo though and I barely got any toys from it. It was just really unfocus and the prime armors were bad. I love Slash though.
My grandpa got me blurr and that’s when I got obsessed
My Metalhawk has incorpated headmaster, targermaster & pretender in 1 toy😊
The head master can go into the pretender shell.
The pretender shell became the targetmaster for metalhawk.
Honestly, this series was one of the best we got at the time. They made mostly hefty solid toys that while we may look back and laugh at now, were pretty decent back in the day. I still have my combiner wars Optimus prime, and I still love him even though I have a bunch more modern primes that are better.
Titans return was probably the best line ever and got me back into collecting
I really enjoyed the scramble-city playstyle for Combiner Wars: while I do like the Devastator & Predaking we got, I'm also a bit disappointed that they weren't also deluxe/voyagers, so we could throw Constructicon & Predacon limbs on other combiners (not to mention repaints etc). I also adored the Titan Masters & Prime Masters with their wee little vehicles/pretender shells, because I love wee little Transformers. (Still bitterly disappointed the WfC Micromasters didn't apparently sell well enough to prompt more of them, I'd love to see modern versions of Greaser, Hubs, the duo teams, the Monster Truck Patrol, and especially Fixit (no, I'm *not* buying Deathsaurus just so I can have Pipo!).
The prime wars trilogy was a great entry point for me. I was in elementary school when TF Prime came out on the hub and after every TFP episode, an episode of G1 came on and my dad would sit with me and watch it because he grew up on it at the same age I was exposed to it, it made it feel even more awesome. Thrilling 30’s, bayverse, and prime were my first toy exposure, but CW truly opened the door for me. I loved the combiners of G1 and when combiner wars released, there was a fuel to start collecting every character to complete these warriors. Titans return continued my hunt with exposing me to more unfamiliar characters and as I got deeper into the fandom, the love for the franchise only grew more and more. I may be one of the younger fans here on the channel (18) but I truly love the franchise and I love seeing other people’s stories of how they got in
I wish we got a full Headmaster Arcee figure from the TR or Retro Headmaster line. Give it the Arcee head and Chromedome body. They also could have done more with all the Titan Masters sold individually, who don’t have corresponding bodies, like Horri-Bull.
Didn't they do an Arcee from the Blurr mold?
@ they did, but one that was closer to how the original Headmaster Arcee would have been nice. Not to mention that the Blurr-Arcee toy was a rare exclusive.
One of these days I'll meet someone else that likes that Broadside
It’s weird I distinctly remember I couldn’t find the rest of the arial bots and to this day my superion remains incomplete and I’m determined to get the full set of the new ones
Just get a ko limb
My ranking of the Prime Wars Trilogy toy line :
1. Titans Return
2. Power of The Primes
3.Combiner Wars
Is it a hot take to say that blast off makes more sense as a jet
TR remains my favourite TF line since Armada. So much fun, so much integration and they gave us Sentinel Prime!
Predaking is definitely my favorite, even if he is just ok until you get the DNA upgrade kit.
The prime wars trilogy and robots in disguise 2015 were the two series that I started collecting Transformers during.
And for anyone interested, the Machinima series was... weird, including a 3rd party design being used (I think for a Dinobot), Rodimus becoming the avatar of Unicron and Starscream as a floating screaming head.
the prime wars trilogy holds a special place to me, i remember growing up with the combiner wars stunticons and love off road, i wanna see him come back some time. the megatron was very flawed but had a big presence and real treads, my brother and i played with them a lot. the terrorcons are my favorite combiner team and im so happy i completed my set a few years ago, rippersnapper(partialy from my shark bias) is one of my top 10 transformer figures. the trilogy is flawed but i love it dearly, and from then on is the range i primarily collect from.
I have very fond memories of that era (and was my peak in Transformers collecting).
I also know from some forum sites of rumored lists of upcoming figures that were either cancelled or postponed.
I got to tell you TJ, with all the doomscrolling there is on TH-cam, your show is a very welcome change of pace, thank you.
I wonder what the others might've looked like in the matrix fan vote.
Arcee, Hound and Deathsaurus are the most interesting to me as they've never had an upgraded form.
For Arcee maybe reimagine her car mode as a side car for a giant motorcycle that turns into her prime form, not unlile the mega pretender Vroom.
For Hound, maybe turns into a more movie inspired look? No ideas for Deathsaurus.
for Arcee, i see her g1 pink racecar pulling a trailer full of her movie motorcycle forms, that then combine with her to make make a 3h Botcon inspired Spider form.
G1 Hound turning into Movie Hound.
for Deathsaurus, i could see his Breastmasters pulling a Duocon form his "core robot form" and his Evolved form being the Deathchicken we know him for.
My curiosity is how War of The Primes' Movie would have played out with a different Winner (would that winner be the one that would take the Matrix of Leadership from Optimus or would they have had Optimus keep the Matrix?/give it to HotRoad\Rodimus?)
I mean, i don't see Arcee becoming The Prime that rules Cybertron, would have been interesting but i think a different Female like Elita-1 would make more sense
Ps: same thing for Deathsaurus, isn't he like Super Evil?
Starsaber would have totally replaced Optimus Primal and the movie would have played basically the same (i think in the Japan's Continuity he already did replace Optimus)
@@walterlopez5054love the Deathsaurus idea however not sure about that Arcee one. Not only would she not look like any previous incarnation of herself but the trailer is something she has never had and would basically have no use unless you have other plans for it, I adore the spider mode though.
That Victorion picture is absolutely hilarious in how mistransformed it is, no one bothered to try and make the arms not look goofy LOL
The Throne of the Primes didn't come with *all* of them but it did come with the remaining ones to complete the 13.
And while it was dumb for Predaking to have his own "Matrix of Combination", at least it was incorporated in such a way that you can completely ignore its existence and enjoy the Predacons on their own.
I am at least grateful for each part of the trilogy:
CW: Gave us still an amazing Ultra Magnus that was a GREAT transforming Magnus. Siege and ESPECIALLY Kingdom, while good toys and filled the niche of "armored white cab robot"...were not as good Transformers.
TR: THE BEST G1-based Arcee toy. The Blurr mold works surprisingly well for a feminine-but-not-overly-so design. Still my go-to Arcee
POTP: ELITA MOTHERFUCKING ONE. Granted, she's not THAT great, I prefer being a land vehicle, and I care not for her combiner torso mode...but it's a VOYAGER ELITA ONE. Big, yes, and taller than any Optimus after that isn't 86, but the two subsequent Deluxes are puny and are even worse in scale compared to OP, and ESPECIALLY 86. Still my go to Elita with a more respectable body than a size that would make Optimus be wanted by Cybertronian FBI
The POTP Dinobots were really good as individual figures, but yeah, that combined mode was awful.
My country skipped over the entire Prime Trilogy, so I went for the combiner boxsets and Leaders and Legends when importing. The Leaders were the last traditionally big bots but their plastic density was really feeling stretched thin.
Evolution gimmick in POTP was the best thing that came from the line. Though i still believe that more characters could have been incorporated like Star Saber, Megatron to G2 megatron or Galvatron etc.
I remember buying victorion for 40 bucks. selling it for 120. and regretting it now that it is about 300. I also enjoyed most of the teams getting a new member.
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 i hope that of all of them. i regret getting hasbro's technobots when takaras are SO much better. i also missed the predacons. i'm most looking forward to defensor and he's at least a year away
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 studio is hard to figure out. but they've been talking about expanding studio into a more general line now that much of the original movie cast is done (weirdly brought up game and comic characters... which aren't really studio) so maybe they'll sneak it in there. can't remember if they were in the scramble city short. or maybe they will count the return of optimus as a movie
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 i just checked nexus prime (i'm not completely up on my primes) and i'm willing to be he's a titan class.
@frenchfriedbagel7035 i see where you are coming from. I still think it's possible. They also need to fit in g2 commander class motormaster somewhere so we'll see.
I was broke when this line was up. While I regret I had missed out on most of the toys but at the same time it was a blessing?
Like the triliogy was gimmick heavy base with combiners and headmasters and making characters that ain't a headmaster or triple changer into one like Trigger Happy was a trigger master than head master and Optimis and Megatron became headmaster and Optimus a combiner!
The ones that I did regret not getting (a few few on sales but I told myself to saved my cashs) were CW Silverbolt, Wheeljack, Smokescreen, Hound and Trailerbreaker. Would had made into a funky combiner. Also missed out of TR Sixshot when he was only £25 and he was my favourite G1 toy aswell!! Did bought a preowned one a coupld of years ago! Also while I bought a discount TR TRigger Happy, I also had to passed on Quake, Twinferno and Kroc too!
I do hope they returned to these characters in the future as in making Trigger Happy as a headmaster eventhought the TR itself is like the best one from the line!
Titans Return is the era of Transformers where I started getting interested in collecting some figures again.
For me Transformers is the most fun when it's being creative with it's gimmiks.
I also would love for Hasbro to figure out a more interesting innovation for the Pretenders Gimmick. You think modern tech would allow them to more than just shells.
The fact that we could finally get most, if not all, Combiners, was a great thing, molds may have been repetitive, but still, Combiner Wars was ultra cool. Titans Return was certainly quite special, the return of the HeadMasters and the classic Triple-Changers with the same gimmick. Power of the Primes, I liked because of Abominus and yes, Volcanicus, not perfect but still very nice in my view. There were home runs and misses, but I guess that is true for most toylines. Loved the Prime Wars trilogy in general!
With combiners, the similar colors is WAY mitigated by "gotta collect 'em all!"
wrong audience, thats from POKEMON.
@@TFGourmet That's "catch"
@@lynngreen7978 I know, just trying to be funny, teasing you 😜
The nice thing with the Scramble City style is you can sub someone in. Missed a Protectobot? Well that Prowl works to fill in, even if you end up with two police cars.
Looking back, you got to include the Thrilling 30. Back in 2014, Hasbro was celebrating 30 years of the franchise and they got a taste for how many collectors were really out there. That spurred them to try Combiner Wars and carry it on into the Prime Wars trilogy. One thing I remember, Hasbro didn't reveal any of its plans, so some figures got a big FOMO wave in these early waves. Like Sky Lynx really shouldn't have been in Combiner Wars, but this was the first time seeing his figure in years. So what if he was a combiner, you had to jump on that. You never knew if the they'd be another Ultra Magnus or an Ironhide, like I said FOMO.
Combiner Wars: I preferred the origin stories. To the point I made up an origin series for the combiner teams. Personal favs: Viper, Alpha Bravo, and Offroad (I thought CW Ironhide was cute next to my daughter's Applejack.
Titans Return: Improved on a lot of the problems from CW. I like Perceptor as a headmaster. That one felt right. I think this is where Hasbro really saw the money making potential. So many retools/recolors meant they could double or triple their profit for the cost of a new coat of paint. Personal favs include: Triggerhappy, Blurr/Brainstorm/Nautica (same mold), and Hardhead.
Power of the Primes: The concept was solid, but I wish the targetmasters came in here and helped fill out the line. I liked the Terrorcons and while the Dinobots didn't impress, I'm glad they tried something different. The idea of Prime masters hiding in Pretender shells gave the line some legs. A story worth telling . Personal faves include: Elita-1, Pretender Skullgrin, and Rippersnapper.
There was no excuse for Power of the Primes Orthia to be made of a space ship and 4 of the same weirdly slim cars. Some of the girls' alt modes were already known, and Combiner Wars had already brought out those vehicles. Moonracer was a car, but was the wrong type (her G1 alt mode is more akin to the Lambos), and Novastar was a flatbed truck (which we already had, although I guess trying to make her more slim to match her G1 robot mode could have been an issue). Lancer was a hard one, because her robot mode gave no hints, although because she was a solidly built robot, she could have had a bigger vehicle - maybe even something like Rook (although that mightn't fit her role as a scientist). Greenlight is the only one where a slim Cybertronian sports car made sense. For Orthia to have had consistent proportions however, they could have had Chromia instead, using the Afterburner mould as a base - OR, because they weren't really being terribly accurate anyway, they could have made Moonracer a variant of the Dragstrip mould. They had all the options in the world, and yet they went with clones.
I feel like for Combiner Wars they created new characters and redid Blast Off's alt mode so they can get extra use out of molds.
I think Titans Return is my fav line, even to this day.
Blot is my favorite Terrorcon, and the PotP version is an absolutely fantastic update/upgrade. I am very happy with PotP Abominus. Optimal Optimus was the first time I have ever had buyer's remorse. I've come to appreciate some aspects of the figure, but it will likely never see the light of day again.
I wish Hasbro would reissue Grotesque. Also sad that Rippersnapper could never be used as a leg.
The Combaticons had a spotlight in the Fall of Cybertron game.
Titans Return in my opinion is the best toy line in The Prime Wars Trilogy.
Waiting for an Ultra Magnus where the chest piece is also a mini jet that a Titan/Prime Master can pilot.
I talked to Pete Sinclair on Twitter one time that some of those unreleased & odd recolors would make sense in their "Of Masters & Mayhem" continuity.
Titan Masters is still my favorite TF line.
I wish Power Of The Primes had been more like Power Masters, with them unlocking something.
And as long as I'm wishing, I wish Combiner Wars hadn't insisted on making every limb usable as an arm or a leg. Having toys that can only be arms, and other toys that can only be legs, would have made given the individual Transformers more variety and given the combined forms more heroic proportions.
I feel it's okay for the dinobots to combine so long as they aren't doing it to fight other combiners.
Because yes, it is really cool that they can take out Devastator on their own power. But what if they have to face a titan? Cyberverse actually hit this nail on the head for me
Honestly, my strongest opinion is that the legend classes from the Prime Wars trilogy was the best thing to come out of them
With the reveal of the new Megatronus, I kinda created this little headcannon regarding their symbols & the Pretenders that were associated with them.
Basically, the Pretenders incorporate their symbols on their bodies like hieroglyphs or tattoos because the Primes have certain beliefs & values that they agree, stand by or in some cases, worship over.
Although which pretenders would've used the symbols of Prima, Nexus, Onyx, Amalgamous or The Arisen?
@@frenchfriedbagel7035 Going by their official bios & promo descriptions, yes.
never forget the awefulll stickers we got halfway into titans return.
Age Of The Primes is gonna absolutely DESTROY the legacy that the Prime Trilogy has had for so long. Better combiners and actual primes
i really wish the potp Leader Evolution gimmick would be explored some more.
just imagine with me, Cybertron Hotshot, Red Alert, and Scattorshot with that gimmick, Evolving into their Cybertron Defence forms.
or a G1 Gun/Tank Megatron that evolves into Galvatron or Super Megatron
I agree with you on how Combiner Wars was yuck, TR was good, PoTP was Filler for trademarks.
I have a bunch of TR and PoTP toys.. I like Windblade. I spent alot of money to get almost all the Primes ( From what I seen, the Botcon Optimal Prime does not have Onyx prime, I could be wrong ). I do like the Lore of this series. I wished Hasbro made a new Unicron or Primus. ( I know Hasbro DID made Unicron but that price tag killed my interest lol )
I see the prime wars trilogy more like a duology with an epilogue. POTP seemed more like just a last gasp to get any of the other Ideas they didn’t have time for for the other two series
I like the thrilling 30 blitzwing, robot mode seems to be based on idw blitzwing and the alt modes look cool. Robot is a little floppy but not the worst.
Battletrap make me want a figure of dreadwing that does the something similar where it's not just a combined jet mode but they can form a robot mode too preferably with g2 dreadwings head.
Combiner Wars was great at first then I got bored. I regret not completing the Aerialbots or getting Rook at the time. Streetwise is a good figure, but Brawl isn't very good at all. Titans Return however was great. Titan Masters, Deluxe, Voyager, Trypticon and after 4 years I got Blaster on clearance. Though 1 figure I wasn't that thrilled about after getting him was Skullsmasher, since I could not secure his neck to his shoulders in beast mode. Trypticon remains to this day my biggest Transformers figure. I still found POTP to be decent. Got most of the Prime Masters (including the 4 with Throne of the Primes OP), Though I only got Vector Prime with Metalhawk last year. Took me nearly a year to complete the Dinobots, got Grimlock, Swoop, Slug & Slash in stores but had to get Snarl and Sludge from overseas. Then about 3 months later wave 2 finally shows up at a retailer in June or July 2019 by that stage I'm after SIEGE figures. Volcanicus might not be that good but it took me ages to complete him. The Terrorcons were easier to finish. Got Sinnertwin, Blot and Cutthroat fairly close together, got Hun-Gurrr just after Christmas and Rippersnapper was the first figure I got in 2019. Abominus was better be several degrees than Volcanicus, I was happy to have both teams complete.
Decent trilogy overall, however WFC was better, Legacy continues to be great & hopefully Age of the Primes will be too.
I love the Micronus prime titan master as a functioning head
I'm still a fan of that Dreadwind and Darkwing set from Power of the Primes. Sure, it's yet another use of the Aerialbot molds hot off the heels of the Liokaiser ones, but at least this time they're retooled and can make the combined jet mode. They look great in those colors and the molds being overused at least doesn't stop them being good. My only fault with them is the POTP hand-guns can't form feet on their own like the Combiner Wars hand-foot-guns could, which doesn't ruin the set if you don't plan to use them on combiners anyway.
12:10 don’t get me started TJ
This is the line that stopped me from buying anymore Transformer figures. I had bought so many figures from this line I was like "That's it I'm done."
I think of jet Blast Off as being Shattered Glass Slingshot.
I really loved Combiner Wars and it never petered out for me. I know some people didn't like how "inaccurate" it was to the original teams, both in design and members, but I personally always loved the fresh new take. The only thing that ever disappointed me was that we never got a proper G2 Defensor, So I just ended up having to use Inferno with Hound, Smokesceen, Trailbreaker, and Wheeljack, as a makeshift stand in.
I even actually prefer Combiner Wars Menasor over the newer legacy counterpart. Sure he might be proportioned like a gorilla, but I think that actually sorta fits his brutish personality. Also, I just don't care for the way the Lagacy version is mostly only Motormaster combining with his trailer, while the rest of the team end up as superfluous armor accessories instead of being actual limbs.
Probably gonna end up passing on the new studio series Constructicons too. They look absolutely great, but $210 is a steep ask for my current wallet when the Combiner Wars version, no matter how individually flawed, still looks plenty good enough displayed fully combined.
Im curious to know how Arcee would have managed as a leader evolution figure. Like prime bike to bigger car?
at least we got a better volcanicus in legacy.
as for my favorite, it's titans return, no question. it's the line where i went all-in on collecting
I did largely enjoy this line, especially the combiners. Admittedly I skipped the PotP leaders because I thought they scaled too big, despite being bigger toys.
But I was disappointed that we got Optimus Primal as a leader instead of Thunderwing, who I thought would be perfect for the gimmick. Thunderwing has a smaller bot mode, individual vehicles modes for both the bot and shell, and even combines. Plus, didn't the character get the Matrix in the Marvel comics? More obscure, but I really wanted a beefier version of him than the Deluxe Generations figure. Missed opportunity.
I think the POTP Optimal is pretty decent if you want a more accurate and better articulated version on your shelf. I just kinda wish it didn't bother with the evolution gimmick and not have the slab Optimus Primal be a thing
Optimus Prime was a combiner torso about a decade earlier, in Energon.
Battletrap is so great.
I found Battletrap too floppy in robot mode, although I do like the gimmick of two small toys with their own vehicle modes combining.
Can't wait for your reviews of Earthspark season 3.
it always irked me how they did Powermaster Prime in Titans Return
when we could've gotten his core robot in POTP, had they waited to do him *then*
Aside from Menasor, I enjoyed the combiners even if most were resued molds.
Honestly imo this era was the worst toyline for TF i barely bought anything, what we have now in legacy is so much better
Combiner Wars was as good a toy line as budget and the realities of the market would allow. Plus Rook and Off-road are genuinely good. They really should have made a new Combaticon instead of making Blast-Off a jet though.
Titans Return was fantastic and gave us SO MANY great characters and toys. Still one of the best Megatrons we’ve gotten in recent years.
Power of the Primes was definitely a mess. I like all the characters we got, including what I thought at the time were the best Dinobots we’d ever get. But it’s shorter run and unfocused gimmick was a mixed bag. Battletrap was definitely brilliant and Slash is adorable. I actually do like Optimal Optimus, though. I think the Optimus is pretty meh on the other hand.
I loved this era, but PotP did feel like a random hodge-podge of ideas. Personally, I'd have designed the Prime Master play pattern at the centre of the line and done Powermasters.
Late Titans Return and Power of the Primes are what got me back collecting. At the time I fiercely defended PotP against its many naysayers….but let’s just say there’s only a very small selection of those toys still present in my collection 😅
However, I actually really like Combiner Wars in retrospect. I prefer their more toyetic combining gimmick to the “slap everything on a skeleton” gimmick of Legacy Menasor. Especially after getting a couple upgrade kits, I’ve chosen to mostly skip any new combiners
Personal opinion, some of the new members for Combiner teams like Alpha Bravo I’m all for keeping as for like the Aerialbots it’s kind of boring that their all Jets/planes and Alpha Bravo adds more diversity to the lineup.
Adding diversity doesn’t mean having to alter or exclude the existing guys. I’d rather have Alpha Bravo as the sixth member of the team, not a replacement member.
@ I can agree with that, the main point was that groups like the Aerialbots with their alt modes lack of diversification being all jets and that having a Helicopter or another type of Aerial vehicle breaks up the formula and makes them more unique.
@@nycholasrandolph9780 I like the idea of Teams having substitute members, just in case. Blame Deathcobra from Victory, even if the poor guy never got to be an arm.
@@Martyndeyou sound like Dave Rubin when he triggered by the word diversity.
@@nycholasrandolph9780I replaced Skydive with Alpha Bravo because I didn’t really like that toy. I did the same with CW Breakdown and replaced him with Off-road.
Hot take: hasbro should have gone even further. Couple of bots and cons still didn't get in on the combiner action (like Arcee, Scourge, and Megatron), and this would have been a perfect opportunity to remake the Power Core Combiners into full-fledged combiner teams.
Arcee was one of the Transformers that where in the vote with Optimus Primal, so i guess they did have a Concept for her (and most likely wasn't even a Retool as the only Female Combiner that's a Chest-Piece was a Bike [from what i remember] and it didn't have The Matrix)
A bit of a silly but understandable idea, whichever is better in the Japanese Unite Warriors Devastator compared to the Hasbro release and vice versa, you combine the two for the ultimate Devastator before we get to see it again in Studio Series 86 for the whole 2025.
Also, with concerns about Power of the Primes... WHY NOT INCLUDE BUSTER AND HYDRA TITAN MASTERS IN POWER OF THE PRIMES TO FIT WITH BLACKWING AND DREADWIND!? You know me and my Masterforce bias, but it's still silly.
Not gonna lie, Im not really a fan of Devastator normally
(maybe if they were more of a Mix of Construction yellow and black 🚧 rather that Green and purple)
But even im seriously considering pickin it up from the shear Quality, Effort, not to mention such open transparency in the pricing and final product You'd be putting your money towards.
I love abominus
I have repaint ahm... combiner wars. three complete teams, the stunticons, airalbots and the maximus prime group, the homage to optimus prime from transformers energon or the stunticons after a face turn. all three with ther upgrade kits from perfect effect.
27:46 At least from what I've seen, that's usually not true.
Combiner wars while a lot of repaints which was dull after a bit but was nice to get combiner updates some better or worse than others but nice updates and the scramble city style done pretty well will say the hand/foot thing was kinda bad for a foot very hard to balance some combiners. The leaders were interesting Magnus was probably the best if that bunch a very fun figure
Titans return pretty fun a lot of enjoyable figures the deluxes for the most part, voyagers being all triple changers gave those characters updates nice yet the others that got the change was fun too, leaders interesting but good overload really nice leader popular as well
Power of the primes was alright kinda felt like combiner wars 2. The legends pretty good, volcanicus while that figure was wonky was cool to see a Dinobot combiner but abominus very cool, predaking was also pretty cool to see, the leaders were fun Optimus then the nemesis figure pretty good and a hot rod that became Rodimus was a fun idea
Some I’ve been hunting is abominus, computron, and overload I’ve been tempted by that special Optimus primal but hunting all those cores not fun tried looking but gave up
I don't know if this is a controversial take but I preferred Misfire to Triggerhappy. (I blame IDW)😅
TR Blitzwing was good, but he desperately needs some customization. Like extra TFAnimated accurate heads, a silver painted sword, and the stickers suck
Bye bye 12" combiner wars combiners. Hello new hasbro 14" to 15" combiners. Keeping my third party 15" and 18" combiners.
Ik heb the takkar tommy versie van THRONE OF THE PRIMES en ik heb er 100 euro voor betalre
Power of the Primes struck me as a cheap means of incorporating the Powermaster gimmick, without the downsides of that gimmick.
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Gro-tusk?
It's Gro-tesque!, lol