Just wondering if anyone else is buying these. As a long-time Transformers fan, I've held the belief for years now that nothing compares to the original Generation One and Diaclone output, though I spent years buying up the newer toylines before giving up around the time the new movie franchise started. I came back briefly for Generations and Combiner Wars but was ultimately unsatisfied with the quality. But Titans Return is wowing the Hell out of me. I haven't been this excited about a new toy line since Justice League Unlimited over a decade ago. I've spent hundreds on this series and keep buying more. They are so well designed and fun, many surpassing the quality of their G1 counterparts. In fact, I just bought the Toys R Us exclusive Chaos on Velocitron giftset yesterday, have Trypticon arriving in the mail today, and pre-ordered the Japanese God Ginrai set two nights ago.

My only real criticisms of the series are two-fold:

1. Their only disappointing designs are also their highest profile ones -- Fortress Maximus and most of the initial Leader Class figures. I'm guessing these were designed first. Because then you get a figure like Kup, or Blur, or Perceptor, where the design is so lovingly and perfectly executed. It's an odd contrast. Later Leader Class figures are amazing though -- Sky Shadow utterly blows my mind, and Six Shot/Quickswitch could have been a Masterpiece release.

2. I wish their heads stuck on a little more snugly and snapped in a little more easily. The original G1 Headmasters were largely disappointments, but man those heads snapped in with ease.


Favorites of the series thus far:

Sky Shadow
Quickswitch
Kup
Blur
Nautica
Laser Prime
Doublecross



Oh God, I need to own:

Overlord
Trypticon
God Ginrai
Metalhawk



Won't they PLEASE make:

Scorponok
Starscream and the Seeker jets
A 3rd party mod for the recent Generations Metroplex that makes his head into a Titans Return Headmaster. Otherwise, his base mode is perfectly to scale for that series.