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SoundWave, Devesator and Omega Supreme, those were my favorite.
I loved my original Devastator set. My mother still has all my old Transformers so my son can play with them. I bought the newest Devastator as well which looks pretty bad ass. Only downside is the each individual can only tranform into their vehicle form.
I'd have to add Metroplex to this list. He was a giant autobot base! I loved that one.
Good list of Transformers.....not in the order I would have put them though. My first Transformers were Jazz, Soundwave, Bumblebee and Cliffjumper!! Optimus Prime, Megatron and Shockwave followed these at Christmas. 1984 was a great year for me Transformer wise......still have not topped this haul even as an adult!!
GOD...could not put bumblebee anywhere on the list. Maybe its because hasbro produces a half dozen new bumblebees with each new toy line...even changing the paint scheme as they did with one of the DOTM figures. I'd equally not include an Optimus Primes...My list in no particular order would be:
G1 Shockwave, G1 Soundwave, G1 Megatron, Six-Shot, G1 Scorponok, G2 Dreadwing, Deathsaurus, Victory Saber, Raiden, Predaking.
Deathsaurus, Victory Saber and Raiden were Japanese exclusives. If I went a bit further I always loved the clones, Fastlane and Cloudraker and Pounce and Wingspan, Road Caeser, Dinoking, The Galvatron Dragon from Beast Wars, Scourge from the Cyberton series, Galaxy force Vector Prime, Fort Max..
The Masterpiece Megatron is amzing as well. He actually looks like the original cartoon version!
Bumblebee was one of the few autobots from G1 to be close to the right scale with Optimus Prime...
That said he always looked more like a Fiat 500 (classic Lupin III yellow of course) than a VW Beetle!
Everybody had Bumblebee because he was dirt cheap and small, so we all got him as a stocking stuffer at Christmas. Just because I had one, doesn't mean I ever actually played with it.
I bought that 20th Anniversary Optimus Prime a few years ago. It was a complete nightmare! What a horrible toy. The thing was insanely complicated to transform, and it took ages to do so. It looked amazing as both a robot and a truck, but the thing was far more than the average child could cope with.
Soundwave is the quintisential G1 Transformer. Makes a great robot, and the transforming cassettes are an awesome bonus. I liked playing with Devastator, but it always bothered me that so many of the pieces required to make the giant robot work were add-on bits. Shockwave looked great as a robot and a gun, but his arms were in serious need of a locking mechanism so that a kid would run around with the pistol without the barrel pointing downward.
LOL...Wyldstaar...the Masterpiece line is meant for older collectors, not children! You are right though, it's far more complicated than the original!
I would have had the Combaticons on the list...they're my favorite merging group. Bruticus is just awesome.
Hell, there's just too many great Transformers to make a list like this...classics like Metroplex, Trypticon, the Terrorcons, Jazz, Prowl, Perceptor...even some of the more recent toys have been amazing action figures, particularly the "Leader Class" series from the Bayformers films.
And who can ignore the awesome Unicron toy? Sure it had some "issues", but it's pretty damn awesome and something fans had asked for, for years.
So glad to see Jazz mentioned above so many times. He was my personal favorite. Still is. ~ Robert
What ever, Bumblbee is not number 1.
Now when I was little, back in the 80's I had the Soundwave and the Blaster toy, the Jetfire(wish I still had it now), Inferno, Ultra Magnus, Tracks, Galvatron, and Inferno. Oh and some special transformer that you had to order after buying a couple of the toys. Blaster did not come with any tapes back then. I got my Shockwave for Christmas back in 85, two days later I slipped in the snow while playing outside and broke his arms. I was PISSED! I had to crazy glue them back on in a manner that allowed me to continue to transform him. I always wanted an Optimus but he was always sold out. My wife found one at Toys R us the christmas before last, some sort of anniversery edition. It looks like a re-release of the original toy, but it comes comes with a dvd of the first three episodes and a comic book. Which I just realized, as I am writing this, that I don't know where it is. I guess I better go find it.