My son and I are currently rewatching TF:A. I really regret not buying any of the figures when they were first released. As an 80's kid who never lost their love for Transformers, I truly believe that the Animated line is one of the best ever produced.
@@PrimeVsPrimehave a question why is tfa blitzing French/british Also love your vids I may be buying the figures you review Edit: this may be a bit far but just a pin or a shoutout (you don’t have to)
Animated designs were perfect. You can especially see it with this blitz wing. Every mode is perfect imo, I don’t mind the treads on the jet but it’s much much better than the legacy imo.
Some of them even give the illusion of mass shifting like Sentinel Prime and Hot Rod's toys. It's crazy how drastic their sizes look in and out of vehicle modes.
@@PrimeVsPrime That g1 Blitzwing was trash (and im a g1 fan for the most part) but the robot mode was good. What I'm saying is that they need to redo it
-Better materials -Better tank mode -Better jet mode -Better robot mode -Better kibble management -Play gimmick -Bigger It really tells when a 15 years old voyager completely annihilate its modern "leader" counterpart.
@@therailfanman2078 It's almost as if they were two versions of the very same character, made out of the very same material, designed and manifactured by the very same company.
I remember, years ago when the Animated toy line was coming out, a ton of the toy reviewers at the time hated this guy. I never understood why, I loved this guy the moment I got him. I'm happy to see people talking about how great he is now!
Transformers Animated Voyager Blitzwing is the definition of simple but effective. In my opinion, every mode cleans up so well that it's better than his Legacy counterpart. Edit: I would love to see you do a review on Animated Soundwave with Laserbeak.
I agree with “Blitzwing” in the intro lol. Animated Bliztwing has always been my fav version of the character. The 3 personality thing was a new change for the character
This guy brings back memories from when I was a Teenager in the 00's. I used to love watching this during the weekends. I'd love to see Hasbro bring back a Megatron or a Soundwave
Ugh out of all figures from Animated, it's Blutzwing, Longarm/Shockwave (which I would explode if they drop in legacy) and and Jetfire were imo 10/10 design and toys. So much fun!!!!
For me, I want Starscream and Lugnut to get massive improvements. I did hear conversations about Studio Series expanding beyond the films, and deciding that Animated and Prime be the first of TV Shows to go into that line. As a diehard Animated fan, I actually want to see it's grand to return in some shaper form. We somewhat got a 3 part episode of Season 4...but as a draft. And now we're getting a Legacy Prowl which doesn't look too bad
Generally they make the toy designs first so I guess the toy designers made them with animation in mind and the animators didn't make too many changes here.
Love the retro review. These toys were on another level. Still has a prominent spot on my shelf. As for other Animated toys to hunt down, it’s rare, but Jetpack/Hydrodive Bumblebee was by far the best Bee animated toy they made. Satisfying transformation with the front end appropriately becoming the feet and he scales perfectly to the other Autobots. Especially if you have leader Bulkhead.
Blitzwing will probably come to us alongside Lugnut, he'll be in the Age of the Primes line and hopefully he'll have his three faces to alongside his three forms.
@@PrimeVsPrime I had him back in the day, but finding him at my old folks' place, cleaning the figure up and fixing the (very sadly) broken ratchet joints in his shoulders is probably too much of an undertaking. If I ever restore him to good condition, I'll message you.
I will gladly obliterate my wallet if Hasbro were to release masterpiece versions of all transformers prime robot characters. Whether autobot, Decepticon, or rogue.
Blitzwing since the G1 days and later in Animated days has always been one of my favorites (getting smoked so quickly in the 2018 movie triggered me). I wish he could appear in the new TV show Earthspark.
One of the best ways used to defeat him in the show, was to anger him into transforming from jet to tank in mid-air and watching him fall to the ground hard.
YES! I 10000000000000% agree! We need an Animated Legacy Blitzwing so much! I really love this figure so much but he's soooo expensive, like around £100
It is sad seeing the quality drop between nowadays, studio series and stuff like this because back then in the early 2000s they wanted to make great toys with fun, gimmicks and transformations with good durable plastic but now they just try their best to make something that looks like someone’s favorite transformer with shitty plastic that will break and I am kind of mad at the designers because I recently bought the car studio series dropkick only for the tail light thing to break off because of clear plastic and that is a stupidly, expensive and hard to find figure
YES!! Really happy to see Blitzwing be the next Animated figure review! :D One of my favorite designs from the show, and probably even my favorite Blitzwing design to date as I just love the German-like appearance, and accent, and the best feature without a doubt being his face-swapping gimmick that's brought over to the Voyager Class toy (don't know about the other versions of this guy)! I really do miss toys that had gimmicks like this (well, as long as they were good gimmicks like Voyager Class Animated Blitzwing's face-swap), and of course weapons that actually fired, specifically spring-loaded ones! I agree, it is a shame that we don't see the same plastic quality build on most of the Transformers figures these days anymore as it really make the Studio Series versions even better, and these older figures even had pinned-joints so they're not gonna be coming off every time you transform the figures! Another solid retro review, PVP!
Great review PrimeVsPrime!!! This remains one of my favorite versions of Blitzwing, as well as the first Blitzwing figure I added to my collection, and its one of my all time favorite Animated figures. Keep on being amazing.
This was my first ever Transformers toy. I got it for my birthday when I was 10 and I remember spending HOURS trying to transform it but I never succeeded.
11:10, but we are. Didn’t you hear? Hasbro is planning on expanding Studio Series beyond the movies. Gamer Edition is just the beginning. This decade is indeed the PERFECT time to be a Transformers fan
I’d love to see a review for the sound wave figure when you get the chance. I imagine the engineering in the pauldrons would be rather satisfying to transform
well... they kinda did put this Blitzwing into Generations during the period known as Thrilling 30... that Voyager Blitzwing had the faceswapping gimmick too.
Yes, review Bumblebee, please! :) Transformers Animated is one of the best of the best eras of Transformers out there, great toys, great cartoon, great story, great designs, it's amazing! To me the definitive versions of the Transformers Characters are either the Animated ones of the Prime ones!
I haven't really seen any other version of Blitzwing before (BB movie doesn't count) but this is the best Blitzwing Hasbro have ever done. Amazing design, amazing personality with the 3 heads with their own personalities thing, amazing character. This is THE definitive Blitzwing.
The bulkhead you showed off in this video was one of the figures I had when I was little, I watched this show when I was only 4-5 and it was my everything and it makes me so sad that my parents got rid of my figures when I got older because I had so many memories with that bulkhead and I would kill to have one again
3:43 Hold the Tawara Touta's head while turning into tank mode. 6:10 Turning into crazy triple kind of personality servant mode. 8:23 Tawara Touta was he was kinda crazy he could essentially switch from three distinctive personalities so you have this one which is believed supposed to be his Fujiwara no Hidesato self so here you have Fujiwara no Hidesato Tawara Touta and 8:44 and there you have Ivan Drago Tawara Touta.
I really wish that the show wasn't cancelled after season 3. There were plans for a Shattered Glass episode for season 4. And there was going to be Trypticon in there.
My favorite bit about Animated Blitzwing is that he's the only Transformers character voiced by the same actor in multiple languages; Bumper Robinson is fluent in both English and German.
Unless my eyes are lying .. this is the best transformers line ever…even better than masterpieces. This care and quality in a G1 line would be the best selling for it line in history
Hooray 🎉👏🥳! I knew it you will reviewing my most favorite Decepticon character in Transformers Animated, Blitzwing, the craziest Decepticon EVER 🤩! During my childhood, i always dreaming to get Animated Blitzwing 😌, but unfortunately i not manage to grab it 😞, i so happy you review this figure 😊. This figure does bring me a nostalgic feel during that time, i completely miss Transformers Animated toyline 🥲. Hopefully you review Animated Optimus Prime soon 😊. Transformers toy now a day not really a toy much to me because mostly do not have spring load mechanizim, made me not really happy to have Transformers figure much 😞. Great video, PrimevsPrime 🤗.
The tank tabbing into the feet for jet mode blew my mind! I never thought of that 😅 of course i dont own the instructions so idk if it was in them or not
I always wish I had Blitzwing's figure back when Animated was still ongoing. How can I buy older transformers toys like from Transformers Animated or from the movies or other shows now that many years have past?
Great review! I never collected the original TFA toys, so it's interesting to get these retro reviews. It would be helpful to have one modern figure like Earthrise Prime for alt mode comparisons, just because I don't know how big any of them are and comparing within the same line doesn't tell me anything. Cheers!
It's been a real treat seeing the Animated line finally get some respect/attention after all these years. Upon release most fans I feel felt the line was too childish and were for the most part pretty dismissive of the toys. This is only the second Blitzwing I've owned, the other being that Generations release from however many years go. It was painful to see how subpar to the Animated one it was in terms of plastic quality, engineering and alt modes of which both failed. The only memorable thing about it was the rifle and sword accessories included. The three face gimmick also is stuck on mine since release so manually forcing it is the best option. Psycho Blitzwing has always been my favorite as well. Really excited for an upsized Lugnut if it really happens.
Really fun to see these. One line I think would be cool to look at is RID2001. Following all the Beast Wars stuff it signalled a real change in direction and momentum, but got really overshadowed by Armada. Figures like Megatron and Optimus were really cool in that line. And there were fun combiners. The show is really fun too. More of a comedy than Armada was.
I would recommend you check out the deluxe bumblebee. At first glance, I also thought the takara version was superior because it was much more accurate, but the deluxe mainline is a really cool figure, as time went on I started to like the normal deluxe version more as I started to see more about it; it has a smart and fun transformation and very good articulation (even more than ver. takara), besides the feet that are not accurate, the rest of the figure represents the animated bumblebee better and has the right colors. He also has his weapons as gimmicks and rockets as accessories.
My son and I are currently rewatching TF:A. I really regret not buying any of the figures when they were first released. As an 80's kid who never lost their love for Transformers, I truly believe that the Animated line is one of the best ever produced.
It really really is, they even managed to create the illusion of mass shifting. Hot Rods toy "appears" to mass shift insanely well.
Indeed. The character designs and overall aesthetics are horrendous but the toy adaptations are incredible.
You're not wrong.
the show and toys both are great! lucky to manage bought almost all the characters.
Hasbro is releasing new animated figures as part of the legacy animated universe line
Blitzwing: I will choose this fighter jet.
NO! The assault tank!
The jet.
The tank!
Jet.
Tank!
Jet.
Tank!
Jet.
Tank!
Oh, why not scan both?
Animated just worked for toys.
It was perfect.
Peeerfect.
Down to the last, minute, details.
Happy to see Hasbro is finally going beyond just G1.
They definitely see very toyagenic haha
@@PrimeVsPrimehave a question why is tfa blitzing French/british
Also love your vids I may be buying the figures you review
Edit: this may be a bit far but just a pin or a shoutout (you don’t have to)
@@karimarvargas8603 blitzwing is obviously German not French/British. Each face is basically a ww2. German stereotype
WOOOOO YEAHHHH BABYYY that's what I've been waiting for!
Animated designs were perfect. You can especially see it with this blitz wing. Every mode is perfect imo, I don’t mind the treads on the jet but it’s much much better than the legacy imo.
Some of them even give the illusion of mass shifting like Sentinel Prime and Hot Rod's toys. It's crazy how drastic their sizes look in and out of vehicle modes.
Hope we get a voyager of this Blitzwing in Legacy. I'm tired of leaders being only overpriced voyagers, like his G1 version
Me too! Although considering we’ve just had Legacy G1 version, I doubt it’ll be soon :(
I agree!👍
No. They did Bumblebeebe dirty.
Thanks!
@@PrimeVsPrime That g1 Blitzwing was trash (and im a g1 fan for the most part) but the robot mode was good. What I'm saying is that they need to redo it
-Better materials
-Better tank mode
-Better jet mode
-Better robot mode
-Better kibble management
-Play gimmick
-Bigger
It really tells when a 15 years old voyager completely annihilate its modern "leader" counterpart.
The only drawback is really articulation, but other than that you’re absolutely right.
And working cannons!
Yeah... Because they're definitely the same thing and not from different shows
@@therailfanman2078 It's almost as if they were two versions of the very same character, made out of the very same material, designed and manifactured by the very same company.
It's not only Transformers all of their franchises are suffering
I forgot how cool some of these animated designs were. We need more in legacy.
Ikr?! With prowl let’s hope it’s a possibility!
They put too much g1 in the Figures from other continuities. So they won't be so accurate to the original toy.
@@shockcrusher8956 When is done right most people will get those “G1” styled other continuity figures! Such as Prowl
Sometimes I forget that blitzwing has the same voice actor as bumblebee in animated. He's also rook in Ben 10 omniverse... Dudes got range.
Never known that. 😂
I remember, years ago when the Animated toy line was coming out, a ton of the toy reviewers at the time hated this guy. I never understood why, I loved this guy the moment I got him. I'm happy to see people talking about how great he is now!
Transformers Animated Voyager Blitzwing is the definition of simple but effective. In my opinion, every mode cleans up so well that it's better than his Legacy counterpart.
Edit: I would love to see you do a review on Animated Soundwave with Laserbeak.
I absolutely agree! Very easy to switch between each mode yet so accurate! & yes sure! I’ll get round to Soundwave soon! :)
@@PrimeVsPrime thanks for the reply.
Let do optimus prime
“Ze Itsy Bitsy Spider crawled up ze water spout.”
I agree with “Blitzwing” in the intro lol. Animated Bliztwing has always been my fav version of the character. The 3 personality thing was a new change for the character
This guy brings back memories from when I was a Teenager in the 00's. I used to love watching this during the weekends. I'd love to see Hasbro bring back a Megatron or a Soundwave
They killed it with the Transformers Animated figures!
Ugh out of all figures from Animated, it's Blutzwing, Longarm/Shockwave (which I would explode if they drop in legacy) and and Jetfire were imo 10/10 design and toys. So much fun!!!!
Jetfire looks cool! I think I have the animated version that combines
For me, I want Starscream and Lugnut to get massive improvements. I did hear conversations about Studio Series expanding beyond the films, and deciding that Animated and Prime be the first of TV Shows to go into that line. As a diehard Animated fan, I actually want to see it's grand to return in some shaper form. We somewhat got a 3 part episode of Season 4...but as a draft. And now we're getting a Legacy Prowl which doesn't look too bad
Animated and Prime did a phenomenal job making the toys look as accurate to the animation as possible. Except for…Airachnid 💀
APC toys:
😏😏😏😏😏
Generally they make the toy designs first so I guess the toy designers made them with animation in mind and the animators didn't make too many changes here.
Love the retro review. These toys were on another level. Still has a prominent spot on my shelf. As for other Animated toys to hunt down, it’s rare, but Jetpack/Hydrodive Bumblebee was by far the best Bee animated toy they made. Satisfying transformation with the front end appropriately becoming the feet and he scales perfectly to the other Autobots. Especially if you have leader Bulkhead.
Blitzwing will probably come to us alongside Lugnut, he'll be in the Age of the Primes line and hopefully he'll have his three faces to alongside his three forms.
The big (Leader class, iirc) twinblade mode Megs would be great for next review.
Oh I’d love to get that! Sadly I don’t have him :(
@@PrimeVsPrime I had him back in the day, but finding him at my old folks' place, cleaning the figure up and fixing the (very sadly) broken ratchet joints in his shoulders is probably too much of an undertaking. If I ever restore him to good condition, I'll message you.
I will gladly obliterate my wallet if Hasbro were to release masterpiece versions of all transformers prime robot characters. Whether autobot, Decepticon, or rogue.
This blitzwing is the best designed. I will die on this hill.
Blitzwing since the G1 days and later in Animated days has always been one of my favorites (getting smoked so quickly in the 2018 movie triggered me). I wish he could appear in the new TV show Earthspark.
One of the best ways used to defeat him in the show, was to anger him into transforming from jet to tank in mid-air and watching him fall to the ground hard.
I adored Derrick's designs. What a legend
You should review Animated Soundwave next, he's a cool figure
I actually haven’t even transformed that one yet! But will definitely get round to him :)
@@PrimeVsPrime yay!!
YES! I 10000000000000% agree! We need an Animated Legacy Blitzwing so much! I really love this figure so much but he's soooo expensive, like around £100
I would definitely like to see Shockwave
Love it and thank you so much
Thank you for checking it out!
@@PrimeVsPrime your welcom
I used to own prime and blitzwing, and the quality is super good, now i only have blitzwing body 🤣
lmao that Arnie Blitz impression was good. I love this toyline, man. It's so fricken good.
One of the absolute coolest transformers I've ever seen. Would have loved this as a kid.
It is sad seeing the quality drop between nowadays, studio series and stuff like this because back then in the early 2000s they wanted to make great toys with fun, gimmicks and transformations with good durable plastic but now they just try their best to make something that looks like someone’s favorite transformer with shitty plastic that will break and I am kind of mad at the designers because I recently bought the car studio series dropkick only for the tail light thing to break off because of clear plastic and that is a stupidly, expensive and hard to find figure
Love that intro ❤😂
Haha thank you!
I'd love to see animated swindle! Just one of my favorite characters in any series, especially TFA
Oh yes! Definitely on my list to do next!
YES!! Really happy to see Blitzwing be the next Animated figure review! :D One of my favorite designs from the show, and probably even my favorite Blitzwing design to date as I just love the German-like appearance, and accent, and the best feature without a doubt being his face-swapping gimmick that's brought over to the Voyager Class toy (don't know about the other versions of this guy)! I really do miss toys that had gimmicks like this (well, as long as they were good gimmicks like Voyager Class Animated Blitzwing's face-swap), and of course weapons that actually fired, specifically spring-loaded ones! I agree, it is a shame that we don't see the same plastic quality build on most of the Transformers figures these days anymore as it really make the Studio Series versions even better, and these older figures even had pinned-joints so they're not gonna be coming off every time you transform the figures! Another solid retro review, PVP!
Great review PrimeVsPrime!!! This remains one of my favorite versions of Blitzwing, as well as the first Blitzwing figure I added to my collection, and its one of my all time favorite Animated figures. Keep on being amazing.
This was my first ever Transformers toy. I got it for my birthday when I was 10 and I remember spending HOURS trying to transform it but I never succeeded.
Why did the Legacy figure not have the swapping faces! It’s a shame I couldn’t get this guy😢
Still trying to find this guy MISB for less than $100, unfortunately it’s not very easy. Phenomenal review as always PvP!
Thanks so much! & ah that sucks! How about a loose version? Or do you solely want MISB?
@@PrimeVsPrime No problem! Yeah, I just like the feeling of opening figures out of the packaging. It brings me a sense of nostalgia
@@DarkScorch the cheapest complete loose one I spotted was about $80cad on eBay.
@@mitchellbambam5926 I’ve seen him for $60usd loose and complete, but like I said I prefer MISB
This figure actually doesn’t look bad
Ikr?! Pretty good
11:10, but we are. Didn’t you hear? Hasbro is planning on expanding Studio Series beyond the movies. Gamer Edition is just the beginning. This decade is indeed the PERFECT time to be a Transformers fan
Yooo love the Metal Slug reference, that was my childhood! This is such a cool figure, has so much going on!
I’d love to see a review for the sound wave figure when you get the chance. I imagine the engineering in the pauldrons would be rather satisfying to transform
An 3P MP version of this guy would probably be my favorite figure ever
These animated toys were so fun man. I used to have a double pack that had battle damaged versions of Optimus and megatron
well... they kinda did put this Blitzwing into Generations during the period known as Thrilling 30... that Voyager Blitzwing had the faceswapping gimmick too.
6:37 Agreed especially with them using open window, it would prevent the whole head snatch "trend" as of lately!
Yes, review Bumblebee, please! :)
Transformers Animated is one of the best of the best eras of Transformers out there, great toys, great cartoon, great story, great designs, it's amazing! To me the definitive versions of the Transformers Characters are either the Animated ones of the Prime ones!
Absolute best version of blitzwing
I haven't really seen any other version of Blitzwing before (BB movie doesn't count) but this is the best Blitzwing Hasbro have ever done. Amazing design, amazing personality with the 3 heads with their own personalities thing, amazing character. This is THE definitive Blitzwing.
He has to be a my favorite character design of blitzwing to ever be made
Dang, this one looks great!
Agreed! It’s really cool!
The bulkhead you showed off in this video was one of the figures I had when I was little, I watched this show when I was only 4-5 and it was my everything and it makes me so sad that my parents got rid of my figures when I got older because I had so many memories with that bulkhead and I would kill to have one again
3:43 Hold the Tawara Touta's head while turning into tank mode. 6:10 Turning into crazy triple kind of personality servant mode. 8:23 Tawara Touta was he was kinda crazy he could essentially switch from three distinctive personalities so you have this one which is believed supposed to be his Fujiwara no Hidesato self so here you have Fujiwara no Hidesato Tawara Touta and 8:44 and there you have Ivan Drago Tawara Touta.
This is currently my only animated figure but ya amazing! He’s my favourite character in animated so I’m so glad to have him!
Cool video primevsprime
Love Blitzwing's stumpy potato tank mode ❤️
Best impression of blitzwing
Please review Animated Bumblebee🥺
I really wish that the show wasn't cancelled after season 3. There were plans for a Shattered Glass episode for season 4. And there was going to be Trypticon in there.
My favorite bit about Animated Blitzwing is that he's the only Transformers character voiced by the same actor in multiple languages; Bumper Robinson is fluent in both English and German.
Great review ❤ Voyager Optimus next!!!
Thanks so much! & sure!
Screen accurate, tripple changer, good articulation. I do remember seeing the tank treads in jet mode on the show.
Most impressive part is that those threads somehow don’t look dumb or tacky on the jet
Lmao the way you snickered when you said pedestrian trains
Yeah, Blitzwing got an updated version... of his G1 self. He's fun, but if you got Lugnut, they go well together.
I would like to see Optimus or Prowl next
My voyager bulkhead will always be one of my favourites
What a tank mode. The metal slug type tank looks really nice
You should do longarm/Shockwave, that is another great figure
That is really cool!
Unless my eyes are lying .. this is the best transformers line ever…even better than masterpieces. This care and quality in a G1 line would be the best selling for it line in history
This one was always a favorite of mine from the animated line.
After I collect the Studio Series, I plan to get the Animated figures.
Hooray 🎉👏🥳! I knew it you will reviewing my most favorite Decepticon character in Transformers Animated, Blitzwing, the craziest Decepticon EVER 🤩! During my childhood, i always dreaming to get Animated Blitzwing 😌, but unfortunately i not manage to grab it 😞, i so happy you review this figure 😊. This figure does bring me a nostalgic feel during that time, i completely miss Transformers Animated toyline 🥲. Hopefully you review Animated Optimus Prime soon 😊. Transformers toy now a day not really a toy much to me because mostly do not have spring load mechanizim, made me not really happy to have Transformers figure much 😞. Great video, PrimevsPrime 🤗.
Do sentinel prime next!
Oooo maybe!
The tank tabbing into the feet for jet mode blew my mind! I never thought of that 😅 of course i dont own the instructions so idk if it was in them or not
these transformers from back then always make me wish that i had got into transformers sooner
animated blitzwing, or as i call him, blitzving, was my favorite character from the show and toy
You overgrown Autobot I will scramble your circus so bad you need a GPS scanner to find your exhaust port (man I love that quote)
LOVE this whole line. I suggest leader class megatron, bulkhead or ultra Magnus.
Herr Blitzwing is living up to his name.
Transformers Animated toys were the best!!👍👍👍👍😎
They definitely seem awesome!
👍😎
I'm fine with any review. I like knowing if a figure is worth it.
I always wish I had Blitzwing's figure back when Animated was still ongoing. How can I buy older transformers toys like from Transformers Animated or from the movies or other shows now that many years have past?
Great review! I never collected the original TFA toys, so it's interesting to get these retro reviews. It would be helpful to have one modern figure like Earthrise Prime for alt mode comparisons, just because I don't know how big any of them are and comparing within the same line doesn't tell me anything. Cheers!
Out of Animated, voyager Blitzwing and Shockwave were my favorites
Animated blitzwing is my favorite version of the character, hope we get one for legacy evolution
A review of Animated Waspinator would be cool. That is a pretty solid version of the character.
Can't wait to see some more Animated reviews. Bit jelly to see you get Lugnut and Waspinator, they're missing from my collection 😭
You should check out any/all of the leader class figures. They are all fantastic.
Blitzwing was so funny but menacing in tf animated the figure was cool too
Honestly the animated line is underrated af
It's been a real treat seeing the Animated line finally get some respect/attention after all these years. Upon release most fans I feel felt the line was too childish and were for the most part pretty dismissive of the toys. This is only the second Blitzwing I've owned, the other being that Generations release from however many years go. It was painful to see how subpar to the Animated one it was in terms of plastic quality, engineering and alt modes of which both failed. The only memorable thing about it was the rifle and sword accessories included. The three face gimmick also is stuck on mine since release so manually forcing it is the best option. Psycho Blitzwing has always been my favorite as well. Really excited for an upsized Lugnut if it really happens.
Really fun to see these. One line I think would be cool to look at is RID2001. Following all the Beast Wars stuff it signalled a real change in direction and momentum, but got really overshadowed by Armada. Figures like Megatron and Optimus were really cool in that line. And there were fun combiners. The show is really fun too. More of a comedy than Armada was.
"The Name's Blitzwing, Insect. Remember it"
I really like to see a Animated Lugnut review
Imagine a G1 line with this quality of plastic and thought .. would be the ultimate collection
its the best spin on a character with a face that spins
I would recommend you check out the deluxe bumblebee. At first glance, I also thought the takara version was superior because it was much more accurate, but the deluxe mainline is a really cool figure, as time went on I started to like the normal deluxe version more as I started to see more about it; it has a smart and fun transformation and very good articulation (even more than ver. takara), besides the feet that are not accurate, the rest of the figure represents the animated bumblebee better and has the right colors.
He also has his weapons as gimmicks and rockets as accessories.
In terms of 3rd party animated toys there is the mario and luigi (huffer and pipes) toys out there. Those are very cute toys.