What are the best transformers from each line?

[Sangron]

What in your opinion are the best figures to get loose in each line. I have recently sold all my MISB, MOSC, collection of Beast Wars, RID, Armada, Energon, and Cybertron. But some I have opened and like the way they display and the playability in both modes. So based on criteria of playability, display, and awesomeness what do you consider the best of the best in each line? So I can start hunting some loose ones. I am only concentrating on the lines from BW and up, had a series, and are no longer available. Best in my opinion are:

 

Beast Wars:

Scorponok

Inferno

Transmetals Megs

Optimal Optimus

 

Beast Machines:

None

 

RID:

Scourge

Grimlock

 

Armada:

Unicron

Hot Shot

Optimus (deluxe)

Tidal Wave

Starscream

Megatron

 

Energon:

Gestalts Combiners

Sharticon

Megatron

Hot Shot

 

Cybertron:

Downshift

Hot Shot

Sideways

Scourge

Supreme Starscream

[Superior Grilled Cheese]

Beast Wars:

Optimus Primal, NOT the TM one

I second TM 1/2 Megatron

Any version of Dinobot if you enjoy his character

 

Beast Machines:

I agree with the none

 

RID:

Optimus Prime, regardless of if you like/hate that he's a fire truck

Ultra Magnus, but only if you have OP

Megatron/Galvatron has a pretty good bot mode, but most of the alts suck

 

Armada:

Honestly, I'd just go with Unicron, though I myself prefer and own the black Energon repaint. He just looks so wonderfully evil ^.^

 

I'm going to leave Energon and Cybertron as no comment. The Unicron trilogy was pretty pathetic in my eyes and there's not much I would truly want others to spend money on, let alone ebay prices

[slugpitcher]

RID: OP + UM + x-brawn, sideburn, and prowl...

 

armada: Tidalwave and the sea team minicons, sideways, SIDESWIPE

 

ENERGON sharkticon, shockblast, towline

[Datastream]

I have to agree with Energon Sharkticon. He's one of the better figures out of the entire line. However, all the individual robots that make up the gestalts in this line are pretty well engineered and have decent posability.

 

For Cybertron, the molds I enjoyed most were Evac and Sideways.

[Liege Evilmus]

Beast Wars:

Transmetals Megs

Optimal Optimus

Terragator

Scavanger

 

Beast Machines:

BP Optimus Primal

Blackarachnia

Tankor

 

 

RID:

Scourge

Railracer

Omega Prime

 

Armada:

Unicron

Optimus (deluxe)

Tidal Wave

Overload

Minicon Sea Team

 

Energon:

Sharticon

Megatron

Omega supreme

 

Cybertron:

Downshift

Hot Shot

Sideways

Supreme Starscream

Optimus(sonic wing mode)

CD Red Alert

CD Scattershot

[sgt__york]

IMHO, cybertron Starscream is just TOOO damn big. It's a nice figure and transformation - but the size of it is just so out of scale to everything else, it renders it useless in MY opinion. Even my (now 8yr old son) never plays with it and hasn't in the past 2 years that he has had it. He has played with a lot of his cybertron ones, but the SC is rarely touched. When I asked him once, he said the same thing - it's too big.

[Optics]

Beast Wars

TigerHawk

TM2 Megatron

Optimal Optimus

Silverbolt

TM2 Cheetor

 

Beast Machines

Cheetor (only in alt mode)

 

R.I.D.

Prime and Magnus (individual and combined)

Combiners

Scourge

 

Armada

Unicron

 

Energon

Shockblast

Combiners (Teams)

WingSaber+Prime (Combo only)

Prime+Rodimus

 

Cybertron

Prime

Hot Shot (not CD)

Galvatron

[Liege Evilmus]

For a figure the size of Starscream there should be alot more going on then a few flip transformation.

 

Based off the show I understand the size, but over all, it is a lacking figure.

 

Not a fan of the key gimmick, but Cybertron had alot of great figures.

[Yuyuyami]

Beast Machines:

 

DLX Jetstorm

[Slayer58]

Beast Wars:

Inferno - pretty show accurate and fun to play with to boot.

Depth Charge - Same as inferno, although back kibble limits posing

 

Beast Machines:

Spystreak - a lot of fun for such a small figure

 

RID:

Scourge

Ultra Magnus

 

Armada:

Dlx Optimus

 

Energon:

None, only because I only own Skyblast and he's most definitely not the best.

 

Cybertron:

Sideways

Legends of Cybertron Starscream- for such a small figure it has a lot of detail and has some pretty decent posing.