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BESTS

Best Kamen Rider Toy: DX Sengoku Driver-love the sounds and the return to less noisy, less gimmicky rider belts.

Best Sentai Toy: I'd have to go with Gabutyra de Carnival. I love the amazing amount of sounds it has and it's just a lot of fun to mess around with.

Best Official Transformer: MP Soundwave (US Edition). I've always loved Soundwave since I was a kid and this just knocked it out of the park. I love the transformation and I love each cassette! Close second: MP Prowl (who loses to Soundwave only because I wasn't a huge fan of the character when I was a kid).

Best Third Party Transformer: This is a hard one. I just got back into third party Transformers (and back into Transformers in general). Over the past 4 months I've gotten MMC Bovis, MakeToys Yellow Giant, MakeToys Chaos/Paladin, Fansproject Code/Quad-U/Smart Robin and I love each of them. If I had to pick only one I'd go with MMC Bovis since I love the quality on this guy and can't wait to complete Feral Rex (hopefully) this year!

WORSTS

Worst Kamen Rider Toy: None really. Drago Timer is close due to how bloody loud the gears are but I still like it overall.

Worst Sentai Toy: Kyoryujin. I had 4-5 clips break over the year and I barely played with the thing! I wish I could say I like him but the quality is definitely not the same as it once was.

Worst Official Transformer: Transformers Prime. Pretty much all of it. There are a few I liked here and there but overall I didn't like the aesthetics nor the transformations all that much. And don't even get me started on Beast Hunters...

Worst Third Party Transformer: Hands down TFC Uranos. I wanted to like this guy. I really did. I liked Superion as a kid and I dug the TFC aesthetic for the most part. But three out of the five guys I got where pretty much broken out of the box. Combiner joints were completely floppy on one of the legs as well as one of the arms. Missiles were cracked on some of them. Mis-assembled shoulders on the central figure, Blackbird. I ended up sending all of them back to the vendor and got my money back. While mine might be a rare case I also did not like the fact that they ended up releasing the "true" version of Uranos as an add-on kit. Never again will I buy a TFC product.