For the Autobots - My favourite character is Grimlock, it’s such a cool thing to have a transforming robot T Rex and that immediately made me like the character from G1 cartoon and the Fall of Cybertron game.
For tbe Decepticons - Brawl of the combaticons, I really like tanks and this character was drawn to me with his rugged, battle tested design in the games and films. Oh and the fact he turns into a friggin’ tank.
Who more than meets the eye for you from each side?
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I loved soundwave as a kid, mostly because of his voice in the original cartoon.
As for toys that I had, the Devestator set was fun.
My fave autobot toy was metroplex.
For Decepticons it’s the original Soundwave. I love the voice, the mono lense eye, the cassette minions he spawns, and the fact he turns into a boombox instead of a military vehicle is baller.
For Autobots I’m going to cheat and pick Dinobot the Maximal from the old Beast Wars cartoon. I liked the redemption arc, his noble warrior personality, his weird spinning tail weapon, and the fact his raptor form is “generic dinosaur” in my head.
War dog. Something about a grizzled adrenaline junkie is cool, with the firepower to lay down some hate.
Shockwave. Something about a highly intelligent scientist and senior combatant is super cool.
It is a coincidence they are both tanks
Character - Optimus Prime & Megatron
Toys - Fortress Maximus , I always wanted that toy. I just thought it would be cool to make multiple robots into one.
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Shockwave , I just like the design of the robot and the gun mode
For both toys I’m talking about the original version. Not remakes or re releases
I’m a huge Transformers nerd, grew up with the G1 cartoons and comics, have read all the IDW series comics, own several action figures, etc etc (but hate the Bayverse movies), so this is hard to pick just 2, because I like so many of the characters for different reasons, but:
Autobots - Ratchet. The older I get, the more I identify with him.
Decepticons - Ravage. He was my favorite when I was a kid because he was a Transformer AND a cat, which was just the coolest thing ever to me. I still have a G1 Ravage figure that turns into a cassette tape.
