TFW2005 Community Opinion Piece: Toys We Can’t Put Down

Booster Gold

I really didn't like the classics mould when it came out, it was too different to G1 and the deco and arm kibble put me off. However the Henkei deco was much better in my opinion and convinced me to get one. It's a great toy, with the pick up and play factor that I love in main line figures. MP's are wonderful collectors toys but the price, size and in some cases fragility makes them difficult to play with. The classics mould is robust, a good size, has a simple but clever transformation, in many ways it's the perfect all ages toy.

I really agree with this. A lot of times the masterpiece toys I've found just are not fun to play with and feel like I'm handling a Yamato Valk toy as far as fragility (not a good thing). There are exceptions like both versions of Op (in my opinion), Grimlock, and to my delight Prowl.

The thing about us Transformers fans and collectors, for me and I get the impression this is the way with a lot of other adult TF collectors too, is, unlike a lot of other adult collectors of other toys and/or models, we actually do like to pull our toys off the shelf sometimes and play with them. So they need to be able to handle that. I've realized I generally prefer the mainline toys that don't scare me to death that I might break an expensive toy, and often they still have some really cool features and stuff.

And as an adult fan who loved Transformers as a child you just can't beat the feeling of getting down on the floor and playing Transformers with your kids. Who would have thought when we were the same age 30 years ago that our own kids would be able to play with updated renditions of the same characters 3 decades later? It's just amazing.

Demonss

How MP-01 is "better" than MP-10 is beyond me.

I mean that's like saying G1 prime is Better than MP-01.. While each has their place and are both cool.
Aside from being big and having diecast I fail to see any reason to so much as look at my MP-01 compared to MP-10 anymore..
But to each their own I guess.

no idea, i only brought him out of my basement to take pics for an article, it's on oversized titanium figure/statue

I always have my WfC Megatron handy, because I just love that mold so much. I can't help but fiddle with it all the time   So that's who I can't put down ^^

Code… lots of time and effort went into this results thread, great info….and some surprises, at least for me.  

Booster Gold

I agree MP-10 is technically 'better' in a lot of ways. However, I got MP-01 on original release way back in 2003 and loved it, it was huge, heavy, well made but more than that it was a revelation…groundbreaking. It was the best Transformer ever made, it surpassed all Transformers made up until that point by a very long chalk, it was the Optimus Prime I'd always dreamed of owning. MP-10 is great, possible the best Optimus Prime toy ever made, but it was hardly a giant leap forward, it was tweeking perfection not creating it. That, I imagine, is why people voted for MP-01 instead.

The MP-01 mold was responsible for getting back into collecting Transformers again. I remember standing in Walmart holding the DVD Movie Edition version in my hand and contemplating whether or not I needed to buy this figure as a thirty-plus year old man. I grew up a huge G1 fan and at the close of that era, I never saw anything that paid enough homage to captivate my attention until that fateful day. I gave in to my inner child and the rest is history. I concur that this mold marked a significant evolutionary step in Transformers collecting.

This was a great read! Thanks for the hard work and effort you put into this!

Bit disappointed that RID Scourge wasn't one of the finalists.

WishfulThinking

I think this poll shows a paradigm shift with new vs. old collectors. So many have come in since 2007 that it's hard for newer collectors to vote on something they've never owned, especially from G1. I think that may be why Classics Prime is rated so high…he's the first G1 Prime many newer collectors purchased.

Raiyuki

I'm actually sort of surprised Classics Optimus is on there; I mean he's a great figure and all but to beat out both MP1 and ROTF and not to mention MP10 wasn't on there is a bit of a surprise.

I think it's a lot more simple than you guys are considering

1. Playability: Because he was (at one time) just a $20 Voyager, you never think twice about picking it up off your shelf, transforming it back and forth, moving it around your display, etc… this just makes him much more endeared than the gorgeous Masterpiece that you leave right where it is because you spent so much time making it look just perfect on your shelf.

2. Cost: More people own him.

While I did not cast a vote on some of the newer series. I was not surprised at G1 Prime being the poll winner. He was my vote. Also a good point was made about how many new fans have come on board since the movies came about. Still for me nothing beats good old G1.

mp-01 have

plenty of features ,
comunicators
movable faceplate
working threads
articulable fingers,
die-cast not duck feets or strange type of arms that doesnt looks right
a lot of people belive his head sculpt is better than any other optimus toys