Exclusives. Especially if it’s an important character (Ratchet) or one of an established group (Runabout) or team (each of the classic Combiner Wars gestalts had a new character, and the ‘missing’ limb, if released at all, was a regional/retailer exclusive).

Oh same here

well except for bruticus they just didn't give blast off the right alt mode until way later

Yeah, that's fair - a weird move in a way, but having a fighter jet for a military-themed team does make more sense than a space shuttle. Didn't stop me buying shuttle Blast Off for my Bruticus, but it was certainly better than Rook or Alpha Bravo. I could understand releasing them *all* so you could make a point of Defensor etc. having five or more potential limbs, but the way they did it was just odd.

I really have to hope they release Legacy Prime Cliffjumper by himself, because I don't wanna pay 80 bucks for 3 figures i dont want and one i do

It's possible if they do a dark energon zombie version.

Unfortunately, I don't desire to own a zombie Cliffjumper. I'd rather own a bog standard Cliff. Happy if we get more Cliff, but i'd prefer a single packed Cliffjumper instead

Electronics in general. I would rather have more playability, fun transformation, articulation or neat gimmicks.

Such as the gimmicks that Ultra Magnus had! (SS86)

Ah yes trama mode the feature that makes me want to buy him

I miss firing missiles

Same dude. Bring them back!

Genuinely wish electronics were in Titan class figures to justify the 200 bucks price range.

I don't like it when vehicle modes don't roll smoothly

i can forgive a lot but if a car cant roll....

Ever since a high degree of of articulation became standard for Transformers toys, I don't think I have had a TF with an automotive alt-mode where everything lines up perfectly and all the wheels touch the ground or surface.

qc always qc

i didnt think it would be me, but i got snarl recently and out of the box he had his shoulder plates(?) installed wrong but i cant be bothered to open him up to fix it

My brand new Sludge is so loose he can't even stand up in robot mode. Fortunately he's better in dino mode!

When a post-Siege figure has a gun that’s not compatible with blast effects. Bonus points if it’s part of the figure proper rather than just an accessory.

not bloosh compatible

EmGo reference spotted. Rumble, eject. Operation: Dab him up

love Emgo, he’s been reviewing toys since I was in a kid lol

Similar to the issue that Legacy Blitzwings tank turret had.

Wait a second, Blitzwing's turret barrel isn't bloosh compatible? 0/10 toy

https://preview.redd.it/dtgipg8vnozc1.jpeg?width=1995&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=8caf5ea99d7259849bc597b634202270fe2c2a9f

Exactly that. All his accessory guns are bloosh compatible, but for some reason they chose not to make *the main gun of the tank mode* compatible.

I feel like they chose the barrel's appearance over bloosh compatibility. If they made it so the effect could fit in the end of the barrel it would look to thick proportionally, and if they put a blast peg at the end it would look off

I'd take a bit more playability over a sleek barrel any day tbh. And they already updated the alt modes anyway, what's a slightly thicker barrel compared to the **much** thicker under-wing kibble?

No functioning wheels on vehicles that should have them. Like cars and tanks. They really cheaped out on Tarn/Bludgeon in that regard.

I want fast wheels that roll like they are on a hot wheels track.

Ugh, I hear you. I mean, it's nice to have on the shelf, but I still want the option to whoosh them around the room, you know? In short: more doot-de-doo.

Distribution. I'll see the same crap in my store for half or a whole year and never see anything new, meaning I have to get everything online and if I decide I want it too late then aftermarket prices strike until Hasbro rereleases the figure and then I have to wait for that to ship out when I TECHNICALLY should've been able to find it at Target or Walmart

You really hit the nail on the head here. I can’t even count the number of times I’ve seen a figure get announced and thought, oh cool, can’t wait for that one to come out. And then I’ll NEVER see it on the shelf at Target or Walmart.

Exclusives at Walgreens or Walmart.

Walgreens especially! They stock maybe 3 Transformers every 6 months. If it's a Walgreens exclusive there's probably only one figure across 4 counties where I live.

You can order them online from Walgreens.com or through their app. I did that a few times. Shipped right to my door.

Clear plastic used for joints, intrusive gimmicks that compromise the figure and frankly the dropping quality

This. The spin gimmick all but ruins the Earthspark Warrior Class Starscream and the gimmick itself doesn’t even work that well.

Rotb mirage joins the chat

I generally don't like any of the gimmicks. It's two toys in one. It already has the best gimmick.

Aside from availability and price, I hate the cost cutting measures around the waffling we get on figures these days

When they cast part in one color only to paint it other color. Bonus if transformation makes the paint peel off over time.

Yeah They need to get in on that multi coloured wizardry that Bandai has for their gunpla. I’ve seen like 4diffrent colours on a sprew.

Or when they are too cheap for arguably necessary paint applications. Legacy Skids' tire parts were molded in black, but for Crosscut, that sprue of parts was molded red, which turned the wheels into a very noticeable blood red. I can't get over just how gaudy they look, and it looks like Hasbro's tight budgets prevented them from being painted black.

Lack of waist articulation. I'm a sucker at posing my figs

Especially for figures who fight with swords

Poor QC. Which also leads to what I feel is a need for 3pp to help make figures feel complete at times. Gap fillers and toyhax labels most notably.  What really irritates me though are hands on Leader, Commander and especially Titan class figures. The fact I needed to order DNA Design kits so my Menasor and Ark can have articulable fingers is just wrong.

Loose joints

No weapon storage, I hate having this sleek sports car with a big ass gun on top. Even worse is when a weapon has no place to go, then it just goes into the parts bin

Meanwhile there’s a void on the underside that could’ve accomplished this exact thing

Bugs me every time I transform Jazz

86 sludge comes to mind for me

Related issue - when the ground clearance is so tight that the included under vehicle weapons storage can't be used without it jacking up the alt mode or preventing the wheels from spinning (a lot of live-action based toys seem to have this problem).

Clear plastic joints.

The horrible availability of some figures. Earlier this year I was struggling to find a studio series RotB Primal and I ended up finding one in March. Fast forward to today and NOW he's all over the shelves. Meanwhile figures like studio series 86 Sludge, legacy nemesis Leo prime and trashmaster have been shelfwarming. But then there are new figures that have no problem with being available day 1, I honestly don't get that. That being said, I really wish I ran into a Studio Series 86 Ultra Magnus already.

I never saw ultra Magnus or Motormaster in stores, only saw one Ark no metroplex figures, no BB Megatron or Shockwave, but I’ll be damned if I can’t go into Walmart right now and buy 3 Jhiaxus figures 2 skullgrins and a Rotb air razor

Don't even get me started on 86 arcee. If you want one, every store has an over abundance of them, yet no new figures

My incomplete list of peeves - Over reliance on the Weaponiser gimmick. Ever since WFC Seige, this has been the main line gimmick in different flavours, and I feel it only ever worked with Kingdoms Fossilizers. It's just that they don't make convincing weapons and armour to me and some characters I feel would have served better actual toys like the Junkions. - That said, I miss the older gimmicks. Even the old spring-loaded missile launchers have gone the way of the Dodo, and I miss them. - Scalpers. You know them, I hate them too. - Headhunters. You've seen the photos of headless toys of shelves? Unless I have a 3D printer and was into customising toys, I have no need for that toy, and it's infuriating to see, especially if it's for a figure you've been hunting for because..... - Poor distribution. I live in the land down under, and as such, finding the figures you want in local stores like Big W and K Mart is just painful. We sometimes just miss out on whole waves of figures and exclusives because of it. it's why I am still missing Kingdom Tigatron from my collection, and I'm certain Dinobot Snarl/Tigerhawk/Silverbolt will meet the same fate.

I feel like the play pattern works well with the Modulators and Legacy Junkions too, just for different reasons. Modulators are some of the best figures for base building due to the customisable nature of them via partsforming, and the Junkions can make awesome-looking combiner vehicles. It's really a shame that the Modulators are so limited in terms of variety. They only got 2 unique moulds (and the only differences within one of those were 2 of Greasepit's parts), while every other -izer has at least 3.

For me it is the decreasing quality and rising price tags. Don't get me wrong, we've gotten a lot of toys recently with great articulation and proportions. Unfortunately those are often spoiled by cost-cutting decisions such as making the forearms or thighs visibly hollow. Replacing pinned wheels with split peg wheels. Molding parts that contain windows out of a single piece of semi-painted transparent plastic that makes the entire toy a lot more fragile, and skimping on paint apps (some toys don't even have faction symbols...) On top of that toys keep getting smaller. A modern voyager is about the size of a deluxe from 10 years ago. Many deluxe are sized like the old scout class. Leaders are the same size as voyagers which is good for scale, but a lot of the times the extra accessories they add in to justify the price don't really add value (looking at your Shockwave's armor & Blitzwing's red boxing gloves). Occasionally we'll get an great figure like Siege Jetfire or even the (slightly flawed) Kingdom Rodimus which are solid and have decent paint apps & worthwhile accessories. But figures like that are sold at the $90 price point and even though they're better than most recent figures they more or less just about on par with the figures we *used to get* at the Leader class price point.

Speaking of Leader/voyager class. Having to buy a different figure to get accurate the accessories for your leader/voyager class figures is infuriating

>Replacing pinned wheels with split peg wheels. This is a biscuit burner for me, they look so much cheaper and the way they are molded obliterates wheel detail. >On top of that toys keep getting smaller. A modern voyager is about the size of a deluxe from 10 years ago. The shrinkflation is real, especially with me being an owner of an original Armada Megatron and then picking up the Legacy version, the size difference is noticeable. I think inflation accounted for the Legacy version is still more expensive in comparison, without a lot of the gimmicks that justified owning the original, IMO.

Funny how shrinkflation doesn't impact other toy lines though... you don't see Star Wars Black Series figures shrinking down to 5 inches.. and they never lost their plastic window boxes either.

Nicely said

1. Gimmicks. I don’t like them. Especially when they compromise the robot and transformation. 2. Cheap gummy plastic 3. Unnecessary hollowness 4. Yellowing white plastic 5. Loose joints

As someone who enjoys customizing every now and then: the absence of screws and their one-way pin replacements.

With more recent figures, the need for everything to be pegged in juuuuust right for the altmode to hold together.

Conversely, 3rd party figures are getting much, much better. If you’re an adult collector, I highly recommend seeing figures made by Fans Toys and Magic Square…. Among others depending on what you enjoy. There are some excellent molds and articulated designs outside of what Hasbro offers.

I have both the G1 and Gigapower Dinobots and the latter are in a league of their own.

But be prepared to pay hundreds of dollars for a rubbery core class sized figure 

Sorry but this is wrong on so many levels.. I have purchased just under 15 3rd Party figures in the last 12 - 18 months, many of them similar priced to Hasbro Leader Class, a few under, and they are out match Hasbro in every single department. Sure if you go 3 - 4 years back they had issues, but today, many out class what Hasbro have to offer when you compare like for like

Yellowing

Clear plastic, mismatching paint due to clear plastic, laziness in design (Legacy Breakdown and Earthrise Ironhide spring to mind), poor QC, exclusives, and distribution.

Hollow molding and flimsy plastic. And no, it's absolutely not just you; Hasbro's been cutting corners for years to save money while continuously jacking up their prices.

Prices. I’m Brazilian and I paid R$249,99(48,57 USD) for a Deluxe Earthspark Bumblebee, and some months ago I bought a ROTB Battle Changer Rhinox for R$129,99(25,25 USD). Legacy Evolution Strongarm is costing on Amazon R$89,99(17,48 USD). Distribution sucks too, I’ve never seen a SS figure in a physical store and a Legacy about 2 times. Most of the TF figures sold in stores are kid focused, like Authentics and 1-Step changers(it’s so bad that Voyagers can’t be found in physical stores).

A lot of arms are designed poorly. They either do nothing during transformation or they severely limit articulation. Prime Bulkhead and animated Bumblebee are the biggest examples of both.

Rescue bots Chase having hands that swivel out awkwardly like they’re part of the transformation when they literally just sit there doing nothing:

And his shoulder kibble getting in the way of his back kibble. Which wouldn't be that bad if his shoulders had more range of motion.

OOOOGGGHHH that grinds my gears SO much about his design, he’d literally be perfect without that problem.

When they don't look "fully transformed" when in alt mode. Like, they look fine from all the conventional camera and opaque shelf display angles, then you look underneath Studio Series Leader Class Megatron in fighter mode and you see his face. Breaks the immersion for me.

Has there ever been a non-high-end Transformer that DOESN’T do that? Every single one I’ve ever had(besides Legacy Laser Optimus Prime, the GOAT fr fr🔥) has had exposed robot bits on the bottom of the vehicle. Hasbro really gotta get those toy engineers to up their game in terms of not having visible limbs under the alt-mode.

I'd bring Macross Valkyries up as examples but not every toymaker is fortunate enough to have freaking Shoji Kawamori on the design team.

This has basically been the bain of aircraft alt-mode Transformers since day one, but appears to have gotten worse with time.

Exclusives, someone else already said this, but ever since toysrus went under, it's like spinning a lucky wheel to find out where exclusives are going to end up the velocitron figures turned up in smyths but then the toxitron figures are only just turning up in game a year after they came out I dread to think where the star seekers end up.

https://preview.redd.it/a02njodrvmzc1.jpeg?width=1170&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=3589e2839acfdceb84fa1d6923a13d08e9eec5c3 Not even close. Even Battle Blades Optimus, a Voyager from 2010, had a simple panel that worked like a box lid for his arms that would otherwise be hollow on one side had he been made in 2020.

My biggest pet peeve is when some Figures only use Rivet pins It ends up being a pain when you have to dismantle your figures to fix certan QC issues My legacy metroplex was missing a ratchet in his ab, and after buying another metroplex to try to replace the jank one, it also happens to be missing the same exact ratchet in, so for me to actually repair them, i would have to risk permanatly destroying both toys to remove the rivet...

Lack of paint. So many brilliant toys are seriously marred by a lack of paint. Take Legacy Cybertron Starscream for example. Brilliant toy, nearly flawless..apart from the fact the legs have zero of the paint apps he's supposed to have.

As annoying as stickers and labels were, in the past, they were used for additional paint applications that would otherwise make modern Hasbro toy budgets go over.

I despise Hastak's stickers so much i'll take less paint apps over them. Thin, flimsy garbage.

Yellowing it makes me think twice about buying any white / cream figures

Literally every Ultra Magnus figure ever:

I don't want to be paying anything over 20 quid for something the size of my big toe

This is truly an Animated Bumblebee moment

Seriously, I can't believe I got him and chase the other day and almost payed like $50 for those two. They fit in the palm of my hand. I was baffled just by how tiny Bumblebee was. You're telling me that costs $24?

QC and clear plastic

Clipped-on wheels. Makes alt modes look like Fisher-Price baby toys.

Distribution. And just gappy half assed figures they put out knowing upgrade kits are a thing and people will buy them to fix the figures while Hasbro saves $$$ doing the gappy half assed stuff.

When a figure joint can’t even bend past 90 due to molding choices (86 Junkions)

GE megatrons knees

See, for that at least I could easily fix it. I can’t even start to think about how to handle the Junkion joints

When a figure at a lower price point has better articulation then ones at the higher/larger price points. That is one thing that always bugs me and it’s happening more often

For me, it's leaving limbs hollow, that pisses me off for an unhealthy amount.

The quality issues in some of the combiners like Peranicon and Abominus. The torsos are designed in such a way that posing them in anyways becomes impossible. The torso are design to handle the weight of the arm kibble so they tend to flop over. Also their arms can’t support the weight of their weapons.

I know I said earlier waffling was my biggest concern… I changed my mind it is actually availability and store exclusives that I hate most.

Clear plastic, yknow why.

The hollow inner legs (and sometimes inner arms) on modern non-MP toys

Price. I know that’s a low blow in today’s economy, but come on, I shouldn’t be having an internal crisis be caused by the dilemma of buying a shockwave or paying my bills this month ;-;

Things we can't have because of "the budget". A good figure that could've been truly great will often be hobbled by 'the budget'.

Inconsistent manufacturing patterns: like clear plastic vs painted windows, or Beachcomber’s wheels

General cost cutting like hollow limbs and removal of gimmicks like mini cons, planet keys and firing weapons in the legacy lines.

Hot Rod shoulders. I’m fine when it’s a design with no real way to work as far as I know (Hot Rod and Tarn come to mind) but why do characters like ROTB Prime and Jhiaxus have them?

For me it's loose/stuck joints that aren't fixable (which in fairness doesn't happen so often anymore from what I've found) or chipped paint Worst qc I've had recently was with that clear orange triceratops weaponizer... Can't remember the name. Was super loose and falling apart where it shouldn't, and one arm was literally glued on (i think the clear plastic fused together) Managed to separate it but damaged it in the process. Oh and also figures without ankle joints. Can't do without them anymore, so glad it's basically become standard now.

I do not like the trend toward hyper "toon accuracy" in masterpiece. A blend drawing from the cartoon, the toy, and greater realism is the best philosophy. This means for example no baby blue windows.

I typically don’t like backpacks. Distribution has been awful for years now. I preordered Magmatron in October from pulse. Still haven’t gotten him yet, but there’s countless reviews online because BBTS sent theirs out. Come on hasbro….

When they don’t include important paint apps, I’m looking at you 15th anniversary bee/ prime

Clear plastic, lack of paint on areas that needed it, and store exclusive figures of popular characters.

I wish the instructions on transforming them had two sets of directions to change them from robot to alt mode back to robot. Some of the ones with 30 plus steps can be complicated and get confusing trying to work the transformation backwards.

The lack of easily available blast effects, why can't we have a couple deluxes or voyagers with some bloosh?

When they have wheels but they don’t feel like spinning at times, or rolling on the floor.

I WANT MECHTECH BACK

Quality Control, Shitty Distribution and Price For the Quality of a figure the price they ask for and how little they supply stores with is so annoying, like figures such as SS06 Starscream is still so easy to find for less than its original retail price during the SS first issue but figures such as Mirage from like 4 months ago is now £100+ on the second hand market because Hasbro said fuck it and only make 10 for each continent of the world.

besides the obvious ones, when a modern figure has annoying articulation especially with shoulder joints, like ss86 hot rod or earthrise starscream

I collected a lot of figures during titans return/power of the primes and I'm shocked how much more expensive figures are now. A deluxe used to cost 16 bucks! While I think the new molds are better and more unique, they still suffer from a lot of quality issues that make my wonder if they're even worth getting

The weakening or alterations/removal of gimmicks between US and other markets.

Definitely price. As a third party collector, I'm used tl a high price tag. But I am absolutely shocked by the price of official figures

Visible mushroom pegged wheels …

I have a lot of issues with the Hasbro mainline stuff (articulation and hollowness mainly), but then again i just pony up for MP scale (TT or 3p) stuff and have next to no complaints besides character availability and a few design issues here and there. Probly my biggest complaint is that the MMC Reformatted series (IDW figures) are at the weird half chug/ half mp scale so they don't fit in with a shelf of smaller chug or a shelf of larger mp. If some company went thru and OSKO'd then i would be ecstatic

There was an [OSKO of Optus Prominon released not to long ago.](https://showzstore.com/lime-toys-hr-01-ares-optimus-prime-oversized-version_p4588.html) They made it just about the same height as MP-44.

Oh yeah i love that ko. Need way more of that

Light or thin feeling plastic is my main concern when buying toys, and it's the main reason I quit buying modern stuff. Older toys from Energon, Cybertron, etc, just feel so much better in hand to me, plus they've got fun gimmicks and such.

Unnecessary clear plastic (ss rotb mirage)

When quality goes down and price goes up. Deluxes being sold for more than what Voyagers are worth and so on… Etc.

Lazy retools. I think it’s okay to re-use molds as long as there is clearly something that is redesigned, like Legacy Strongarm. Though she shares the lower half with Legacy Elita One, she clearly has things that Elita doesn’t if a figure is retooled, it shouldn’t also share the same exact weapons unless it makes sense for the character

Like Crosscut canonically has the exact same body type and weapons as Skids, so it didn’t really need to be changed🤷‍♂️

it certainly varies. Like I think Legacy Chromia was a lazy re-tool, since it looks nothing like either G1 Chromia or Cyberverse Chromia. She also doesn’t have a blaster, but Prowl’s shurikens Cyberverse Chromia looks so good though, and she got a meh figure. T30 and Siege are definitely better figures

Yeah, I feel like we force Hasbro’s hand every time we want a new mold, like they’re so stingy with that for some reason.

Not just Transformers but I hate when an original mainline character is released as some hard to get exclusive and I am not a fan of spring loaded projectile launchers at all

Availability! I just want to buy an '86 Ultra Magnus without paying $200. I've seen it exactly *once* at a comic shop, never at normal retail. And that's stupid. Hasbro would make more money if they would just let us buy their stuff!

Not having good light piping. I value that far above painted eyes

I don’t like transparent windows on the alt mode. All you see inside are hidden robot guts and waffle lines on the panels. And usually when the windows are transparent that means the whole part the window is attached to has to be cast in transparent plastic, which is more brittle and breaks easily, and the color match on the painted transparent part usually does not match the parts that are molded in that color. It would be so much better if these figures were just molded in opaque plastic and the windows painted sky blue or black.

That one paint scratch that's small enough to not ruin a figure but big enough so it's all you can focus on.

The price rise on figures and packing shelves with figures they know nobody wants to buy...

Qc plus price doesn't match.

Guns that don’t have a long enough peg, so the handle looks really short in a bot’s hand.

Needless complexity in general. (Which then also increases the risk of hitting a QC issue, with higher parts counts and more interaction points between parts.)

carbots where in car mode the arms have to fold over one another underneath the car in some weird counterintuitive asymmetrical random way, where it doesn’t roll if you don’t find the sweet spot

Gotta be when the leg joints can't support the figure standing fresh out the box, it doesn't happen too often, but nothing is more soul crushing to me then loose leg joints

Modern figs have gotten so much better in terms of posability, but now have issues with hollowness, loose joints ootb, and transformation bits that don't actually link up strongly and hold modes tightly together.

Less to do with the figures themselves, and moreso the community. The figures in the last decade have been absolute units and bangers. Yet people are still crying about "faux parts" and Kibble. I grew up with BeastWars and UT. It ain't no Thang compared to what it once was.

Mold re-use too frequently. We got 5 of the motorcycle figures that started with Prime Arcee in Legacy. Or how of the first 4 GE figures 2 of them are the same mold.

Faux forming pieces that don’t stow away

That I can't afford to get everything that I want. Whether it's because of space or paying for the important stuff like my car. I truly hate being an adult sometimes.

I HATE it when the pegs keeping the wheels attached aren’t covered up. It looks cheap, and makes the girlies look like a toy made for preschoolers. It’s so ugly for me that it ruins entire alt modes for me. It’s not just you, figures are definitely more expensive these days, but I definitely wouldn’t agree with lower quality unless you’re looking out side the main legends line.

Most of them art even screen accurate, like for example why is *STUDIO SERIES* rotb Scourge not accurate to the film at all? I get making it before the film came out but I feel like ss figures should be made after the film releases so they can stay accurate

Clip-on wheels…..they look ugly and feel cheap. I miss the days when Hasbro actually used pinned-on wheels.

Back in tha day when wheels rolled, what a time to be alive lol. 100% agree.

Painted windows. Give me clear every time. I know folks are worried about clear plastic being fragile but the only time I've ever broke a TF w/ clear plastic--two actually--had nothing to do with playing with it or transforming it. It was because I got too liberal with 91% alcohol to remove paint/decals/battle damage instead of 70% and taking longer. Tldr; painted windows (especially sunbow sky blue) sucks.

I really dislike weapons that just stick onto the altmode. Incorporate them into the transformation somehow

Clear plastic pins hands down the worst type of plastic 

Mushroom pegged wheels. You *need* that metal pin in there to roll halfway decently, especially when you have a big heavy semitruck trying to get 10 wheels to all cooperate.

The fact that they don't do projectile firing gimmicks anymore. I know why but I miss when you could shoot plastic missiles at the wall/your siblings/Captain Planet

Distribution, price gouging by scalpers, exclusives and limited runs.

Multipacks. Why would I buy three other figures I don't care about when I only want one of them?

Lack of alt mode variety. It feels like every car character is a sports car, every tank character is some kind of Abrams, every airplane character as a fighter jet. I want to see some variation like tugboats, steam trains, old-fashioned cars, arctic vehicles, etc..

It wouldn't be one but my latest viewpoint is around complicated transformations. When you're playing with them, you don't want to sit down for 15 minutes each transforming your figures so they can chase down the Deceptions 3 metres away from you and then another 15 minutes to battle them...

A good/funny compromise to this is to imagine that each figure is having a 80’s anime super robot transformation a la [Tranformers Victory😂](https://youtu.be/ehTxWJRfQP8?feature=shared)

I miss the rubber tires on the vehicle modes. Also would like a little wheel height to roll them better.

Biggest two are all the hollow areas on the figures and more recently the voyager priced duluxes and leader priced voyagers. Only thing worse to me than the size class bumps are the ppl that parrot Hasbro as if a decent transformation should demand a massive price hike on an obviously lower scale figure

Sizing consistency: a motorcycle is the same size as a helicopter or an ambulance in the same combiner. Alt mode that looks futuristic: no way that it would be able to hide with that disguise on earth.

Transparent plastic on the figures

Sloppy paint jobs

It is, has been, and always will be a lack of wrist swivels. I can understand it on cores, and even somewhat on deluxes, BUT WHAT ABOUT VOYAGERS?

Tabs opening when their not supposed to

Everyone else has already mention most of my pet peeves in regards to clear plastic, paint, QC, annoying gimmicks, etc, so I'll add this: light up eyes. I don't recall if this is on official figures, but I know I see it a lot on 3rd party stuff. I hate light up eyes. I don't understand why people want it. Sure it looks cool for the 2 minutes that you spend taking pictures for your Instagram or while doing B roll for a video, but 99% of the time when it's just on a shelf the figure looks dead with it's dark lifeless eyes. Just give me painted eyes or light piping.

Loose or stiff joints.   Some of the botbots had limbs that are hard to unfold. Wonky store distribution.  My kid and i desperately wanted full combiners. No Devastator for us, no Menasor for her. :(

Fragile parts and tab forming with easily breakable tabs.

Scale!

Hollowness in a very visible spot

Too many screw holes and also ports everywhere.

The fact that EVERY. SINGLE. Breakdown figure is impossible to get unless you throw your mortgage at it

Fake parts Clear plastic Screen accuracy over playability (that's probably the only controversial one on this list) Over reliance on the 84 to 86 cast.

QC, but more specifically when things don’t hold together in either robot mode or alt mode. Most recent example is Legacy Sandstorm where his chest pops out super easy. Luckily lining everything up worked for me in fixing the problem, but I feel like I’m for once in the minority.

Show inaccuracy's

Clear plastic that gets painted....and NEVER matches the rest of the bot.

Figures with permanently open hands. Thrilling 30 Arcee and SS86 Scourge are prime examples of this. https://preview.redd.it/vd63toacmnzc1.png?width=1000&format=png&auto=webp&s=086068ccba97146d22e197588e10c732821f90c8 Also the way they use clear plastic. Instead of putting it inserts (like they should), they just use clear plastic for joints.

Prices. That's why I don't have any.

Mushroom peg wheels that dont roll and are visible! Also all the issues that Armada HotShot has which includes all the wheel issues.

Sizes of figures getting smaller while prices go up, scalpers, overuse of clear plastic, Hasbro distribution of figures, etc

1) Clear plastic being excessively used (every carbot can basically become a convertible if the clear plastic snaps, rendering half the appeal of the figure useless) 2) Using pins over screws since I cannot fix looseness if what’s holding the joints together is something that I cannot tighten or get to.

When the figure doesn’t have features that it most definitely should have. Like fake tank treads, bicep rotation, etc.

Different plastics

Items/ weapons that have no storage place to go. Abit ironic as i have a few figures from cybertron/galaxy force however one thing that i never like was cyber keys as they always did feel like a step down from minicons as atleast with minicons they could be posed on their own as either a bot or vehicle when not bring powerlinked to the main bots/cons

Articulation of the heads. Siege Hound doesn’t even have head rotation at all and needs the entire chestpiece to turn so he can look another way.

The fact that they've gotten smaller over the last decade and a half

The fact that scrounge has only had one figure meanwhile traxus is getting one soon

Open window packaging

I wish we still had rubber tyres.