ROTF toy line, a success or a failure to you?

[donosaur]

I saw the ice cream truck in the store the other day and thought about grabbing it, but I realized it would only be for the weirdness factor. Honestly that toy would be be a lot more appealing with better color, although I'm sure scourge would disagree

[Onslaught Six]

I picked it up for a friend, and he said it blew, so.

[138 Scourge]

There's a better color than pink?

I dunno, the pink ice cream truck factor made me want it at one point, but then the whole "Ugh, movie characters" phase happened, and I lost interest. They look like they'd be ok toys out of context, though.

[Dominic]

That is kind of my take on them. I was on the fence about getting Skids and Mudflap, and their association with the movie tipped me against the purchase.

Dom
-but, yeah, they do look fun.

[onslaught86]

The ice-cream truck is okay, it gets by on novelty value. The actual Skids and Mudflap toys aren't that bad, and I'm glad I got them. All four look good together. I try to forget their association with the movie.

As for the poll, I picked Moderate Failure. This line is, I feel, vastly less fun than the first movie line, has lost the novelty "Ooh, new aesthetic" value, and has delivered some horrible toys that should never have been made. The hit:miss ratio is tipped higher in favour of miss than any other main line I can recall in recent years.

[Dominic]

The only main line I liked less was "Energon". And, I would have to do a toy by toy comparison to be sure.

The only other lines that I can think of that I liked less were "Alternators" and "Titaniums".

Dom
-saving oodles of cash though.

[Onslaught Six]

Animated, for me, was a big disappointment. And it wasn't the aesthetic, either, because I loved the show at first, then finally settled on just kind of liking it (Because there were too many filler eps and stuff, mind), but the toys just weren't fun. I bought five of them and only really liked one.

I think this week I'm gonna take down some of the ROTF I've shelved and actually fiddle with it...

Remember what happened the last time we had a toyline with shit for fiction? Cybertron. And we took the ideas and ran with them and made our own awesome ideas? Why aren't we doing that with ROTF?

[Dominic]

"Cybertron" generally had well written tech-specs. In RotF, some of the profiles are not that good. And, some of the good ones are for characters who died in the movie.

Dom
-also notes our "Cybertron" RPG never really took off.

[onslaught86]

The only main line I liked less was "Energon". And, I would have to do a toy by toy comparison to be sure.

The only other lines that I can think of that I liked less were "Alternators" and "Titaniums".

Dom
-saving oodles of cash though.

Energon had a lot of misses in the larger scales and on the Autobot side, but the Decepticons were largely hits, I felt. Given I own all but..what, five toys? from the entire line, I definitely preferred it to ROTF.

Alternators had a lot of filler, yet I felt the hits were strong enough to hold the line up in my mind. Again, own almost all of it, it displays very nicely, and the universal scale makes a huge difference.

Titanium, there I liked more than most did, but you may have me on that one.

[Dominic]

I am not sure if the scale was as consistent as you are remembering it. Slugslinger is pretty under-sized compared to some Decepticons. And, having Ironhide combine with Jetfire does not exactly show consistent scaling.

I do agree that most of the better toys were Decepticons.

Dom
-and there were some Minicons too. Cannot ignore the Minicons.