Kingdom Tracks, I guess they took his "I'd rather stay in my stunning auto mode" phrase to heart.

Honestly, I always enjoy more complicated and in depth transformations so long as they're justifiable. RiD Sideburn, ROTF Mixmaster, those I don't mind, but the recent MPs that overcomplicate themselves so thoroughly because they absolutely have to match a dated cartoon model that often didn't even try to match the actual licensed alt modes the toys have, those I dislike.

Kingdom Rhinox, dear god what were they thinking when they designed the legs?! They’re a transformation nightmare.

I eventually got good at ROTF Prime. But there were always issues. Adding Jetfire to him was much harder than just Prime.

Oh man, the red sideburn was my very first Transformer brought as an adult. I was up all night trying to work it out

I think the reason there are so many speed names is the characters are more high-octane because they have to be in order to pull off their transformations in the span of a 5-10 second clip.

If anyone makes a list of 3rd party figures, that video is gonna be hours long lmao. What I don't like about 3rd party figures is that they seem to overcomplicate things for no reason other than to justify a high price point. Sometimes, the transformations feel more like work than play that I end up thinking "They should have paid ME for this".

Nearly anything from the Alternators line had some really difficult transformations.

For me I believe it would be the original Dark of The Moon Leader Class Sentinel Prime. The amount of moving panels and hinges on that toy was insane. Even with the instructions it took me a long time transform the thing.

I grew up in the difficult to transform era, had a big DOTM Prime with the brick of death trailer and that WFC Bumblebee, so for all the flack that Tracks got I really enjoyed the more sophisticated transformation (until the window started to crack)

RotF leader Prime still scares me with how the chest transforms

Every Masterpiece toy from the last 10 years.

Masterpiece Barricade is actually a really fun, fairly simple process that takes the older toy transformation schemes and refines them. Honestly the SS toy they made from the same basic engineering is way worse because half of it is built on a ball joint on a transparent panel. Great idea, guys!

I honestly hold up Mixmaster as one of the best figures out of the RotF line. I dunno, I loved the complexity of the line and it was a nice pairing with the simple but satisfying Animated line.

maybe it’s just me but as someone who was a child when ROTF came out i absolutely loved that the toys were complicated, i remember my friends and i were taken aback when the toys became less involved with DOTM and AOE

For me, it would be Kingdom Rhinox. I'm sure there's a way to do it without issue, but every time I transform him, it's always the legs. Everything down there just bumps into everything else.

One toy that surprised me at its difficulty to transform was reveal the shield Perceptor, its such a weird transformation.

Kingdom Rhinox. Those legs are such a pain to transform.

Sideburn is definitely on my list (and I own both versions, lol). MP Megatron v2 and MP Hound are also on the list. Megs for the scary paint and Hound for the fragility. One modern one is Kingdom Tracks. Not because it's complicated but the translucent plastic scares the crap out of me.

Owning Revenge of the Fallen Mixmaster as a kid was hell

I have a couple: The first mold of MP Starscream. While both modes are lovely, especially for the era, I'm scared it'll break the next time I try to fiddle with it. I'm specifically talking about the hinges that connect the wings to the body, as mine have cracks in them from even infrequent use. I own 2 versions of the toy, both with the exact same issue at the wings. Animated Swindle thanks to the clear plastic in key joints. It's confined to vehicle mode in my collection. Titans Return Fortress Maximus. He's big, unwieldy and neither the base mode or the spaceship mode feel worth the hassle of handling him. Easily the worst Titan as of writing this.

You think these are bad, compare it to some 3rd party monsters of spaghetti engineering ie. deformation space crimson wings, alien attack mackron, devil saviour split, etc.

I recently bought Side Burn and X Brawn, waiting for Prowl to have all 3, and I had no idea how tough Side Burn was to transform until looking up guides, god damn!

WFC Siege Springer is extremely high on my list of figures i don't want to transform again, love his modes but no thank you, just stay in robot mode.

I have never had a problem transforming a new figure from intuition, usually without the instructions. HOWEVER, back in 2009, a friend of mine got that ROTF mixmaster and I just could not get it transformed… The ROTF prime frustrated me until I realized how the shoulders hinge back for truck mode and then I could flip it back and forth with ease. MPM Prime is just… broken. The mold is broken. And then there is 3rd and 4th party yikes

I would argue that the masterpiece figures are justified in their complexity as they're meant more as display pieces than for actual play, whereas the more affordable toys should strike a fine balance between simplicity and accuracy and be able to withstand extended wear and tear. If there's one transformer I never want to transform again, it's Kingdom (Beast) Megatron. The soft plastic panels on the exterior of the toy are constantly getting in their own way, particularly on the tail, There are a ton of clearance issues, the hips don't stay tabbed in while in beast mode, and worst of all are the ridiculously easy to break slider joints on the beast mode thighs.

I always remember my dad bought me a live action movie ratchet when I was kid, and I hated transforming it so much I didn't buy a transformer for 12 years

I've never owned any of the ones in the video, but for me it has to be Studio Series Barricade. So many small parts on hinges that have to be perfectly placed. Then the last step of folding the arms into the car, needs you to tab them into slots that you can't see from any angle. I'll try again at some point but I'm dreading that day.

that Deluxe Bumblebee from Revenge of the Fallen. Jesus christ I still remember how hard it was to transform that thing back to vehicle mode.

Animated Ultra Magnus. He’s fine until you get to the double hinge on his cab/shoulders. They’re in an inaccessible spot and the joints are so stiff if feels like it’s gonna break off or break your knuckle.

I actually never had an issue with Side Burn. I loved that figure. I don't have mine anymore, I gave it away with the itent to replace it with the red version cause I like the color scheme better than the original but I never found the red version at my local Wal Mart. The toys I think are the worst to Transform, and I'm only speaking on the toys I have personal experience with, I'm sure there are worse ones but I don't own anything worse than these. So my first experience with difficult Transformers was Beast Machines and it's not that they were inherently difficult transformations it's that the instructions weren't really clear what I was meant to do and the joints were so stiff on mine I didn't realize those parts were even intented to move. The Deluxe Optimus Primal I had no idea where his robot mode head was or how to get it out. Checked the instructions and they were no help at all. I did eventually figure it out after an embarassingly long amount of time. Jetstorm, again the Deluxe version I actually transformed wrong for YEARS giving him this super tall robot mode not even realizing the jet could fold in half. 2007 Leader Megatron, it looks like it should be a simple transformation since the jet mode doesn't even really look like anything and the robot is fully visible in vehicle mode however that toy manages to some how have more clearance issues than any other toy I've ever owned. You'd think Optimus would be the harder one to transform but he's difficult for an entirely different reason. RotF leader Optimus Prime, the first time I transformed him technically took me over 8 hours but I wasn't transforming him that entire time. I started to transform him, had to go to work, left him a half transformed pile of loose parts on my bed at home then came back to him after work. The chest is the scarriest part because the tabs holding it in place for robot mode are super tight and thin transluctent plastic so I'm always scared of breaking it. RotF Jetfire I don't like transforming at all because he has rubber parts that have been known to deteriorate over time and basically the only mode that doesn't put pressure on those parts speeding up that process is robot mode. G1 Devastator I also spent a really long time trying to transform but that's because mine was a knock off with no instructions and the picture on the packaging was backwards so my issue was trying to figure out where his arms connected. If you've never seen G1 Devastator before the arms have completly different connection methods so if your trying to put them on backwards there's no actual place to connect them. I eventually had to look it up online before I realize the box art was mirrored. Generations Rattrap. Going to Robot mode is fine, easy, going back to beast mode if his robot arms or legs aren't possissioned exactly right it won't fit properly back into beast mode. Most transformers that transform that way have a bit of leway or at least some tab points to help line it up right but not Rattrap you just gotta fiddle with stuff untill you can actually close up the beast mode. WFC Bumblebee has the opposite problem where there are too many tabs and I actually broke 2 of the tabs off... I don't know why he even had those 2 tabs in the first place cause he holds together just fine without them and it actually makes him easier to transform when they aren't there. MP01 Optimus Prime. I did not realize there were buttons in his legs I needed to press to extend them one of his legs is broken internally so that button no longer even works. Generations Junkion mold, I have 4 of these and two have broken handle bars now. My original ones never had the issue until I got the second set to customize then suddenly they broke and now I'm kinda worried about transforming them again even though I love my custom Junkions. Cyberverse Grimlock... and this is entirely due to how the tail turns into the legs. I hate Transforming that figure and I've actually considered getting a second one both because I hate the Transformation and because Grimlock in the show has DID and literally met himself from another universe in one episode giving me a reason to have 2 different Grimlocks representing his two different personalities. For anyone who's not seen Cyberverse his beast mode is the more familiar "Me Grimlock" personality you would expect of someone named Grimlock while his robot mode oddly enough reminds me more of G1 Tracks than any character called Grimlock.

Armada Scorponok. It wasn’t difficult to transform, but the damn thing nearly took one of my fingers off. My Boys left it in alt mode until big enough and fearless enough to manhandle it.

Ironically, I just got a Super Speed Breaker yesterday & have yet to transform him. I totally agree about the Alternators & Binal Tech as some were no longer fun & got sold off. Another 1 I'd add to the list is Generations Perceptor, though I liked his vehicle mode he was a pain to transform. When a toy is no longer fun, it's time to be done!

Oddly enough, I don't have any figures that I don't want to transform because of the transformation itself. I've had one of those before - WFC Optimus Prime. When I first got this toy, the transformation was so confusing, I vowed to never transform it again. But then, a few years later, I decided to mess with it again, and now it became one of my favorite figures to transform. As for the figures I don't want to transform again now, they come in 3 main flavors. Two figures I don't want to transform due to breakage. MP Bluestreak has a broken off arm, so he will probably spend the rest of his days in the car mode. Just the other day I decided to transform Thrilling 30 Sky-byte and broke the joint his shark nead sits on. Even though I have glued the joint back to functional state, I'll probably won't risk transforming him again. Although, the shark head seems to be locking good enough in both modes without reliance on the joint, so maybe I'll try to transforming him sometime when I feel like it. And if the joint brakes again, the figure's probably going to function well enough as a part-former. The other reason to not transform figures again is space. I don't see myself disassembling and transforming any combiner I have, because I ran out of space to display individual bots. The third reason is I simply don't care about certain figures enough any more to mess with them again. Some figures I've got just to complete the set. For example, TR Broadside. I got him just because I was trying to get as many Wreckers as I could. Bulking up the team is all that figure is good for, there's no reason for me to see its altmodes ever again. And some figures I've got just because I was in the mood to get a new toy and grabbed whatever was available at the store that day, or when I came across a good deal. Ended up with way more Bumblebees than I ever cared for that way.

Masterpiece Lio Convoy, Toyworld Knight Orion, and Jiujiang Winged Dragon are like that for my collection. With Lio Convoy and Winged Dragon (MP TM2 Megatron), every time I mess with them, more paint chips off. And it’s especially frustrating with Lio Convoy, because I feel they absolutely could have just molded those chippable parts in red plastic and they would have been perfectly durable. Knight Orion just SUCKS. He’s what happens when you try to force the 3A CAD model to actually transform. I’d rather transform Alien Attack Mackron than Knight Orion, just because you can tell Mackron was actually prototyped and tested, and most importantly FITS TOGETHER in both modes.

Spot on indictments of Side Burn and Mach Kick (and BW Neo in general). Revenge of the Fallen was peak for it, but I find the vast majority of Movie-verse toys to be too heavily reliant on panels and precise alignment. Some of them I'm pretty sure were designed in such a way that their parts were meant to phase through each other. And Dark of the Moon (other than Leader Sentinel) was nicely pleasant to transform mostly. More recently, Kingdom Tracks is just... bad. There's no reason his leg transformation should be that complex. I remember being fairly frustrated with Doubledealer (only going into bird mode), Apeface and Snapdragon too. I may just be getting old, but I find I have much less patience for complex transformations than I used to. These days, my ideal standard is something like the WfC Datsuns or Sideswipes. I'll take some degree of complexity if it's nicely innovative. Kingdom Cyclonus, Earthrise Wheeljack, or Titans Return Kup are really good examples of different but intuitive. It doesn't help that instructions have been getting poorer and poorer for years.

No one wants to transform ER Arcee, due to the fact that it's practically an insult to transformation engineering

Me personally, I would never want to transform DOTM Leader Class Sentinel Prime again because that figure (my copy) is just a floppy mess and not fun at all in my opinion. And that's it. Only 1 figure I would not want to transform again.

I love complex transformations like these, MP-36 Megatron and MPM-04 Optimus Prime and two of my absolute favorite figures to transform, so much so that I recked my Masterpiece Megatron from transforming it so much. I stopped collecting transformers in part due to the fact that lots of new figures simply weren’t challenging enough to interesting me, so I might actually like some of the ones on this list

You truly nailed it with ROTF Optimus, Mixmaster, and MP-05 Megatron! I have them all and only ever transformed Megs ONCE I was so terrified that I was going to risk breaking something because the tabs and pieces felt so fragile. It's an awesome robot mode and the gun mode is oversized, for sure, but it looks amazing!

Side Burn was my first ever Transformers figure, and it took me almost 7 years to get the robot mode right

I honestly can't think of any Transformer I've ever had that I never wanna transform again. some of the more difficult ones I'll put off to the side for awhile, but I always eventually come back to them. I think for me it may be because the thing I love most about Transformers IS figuring out the transformation.they're like brain teaser puzzles that test our logic and problem solving abilities

I think Beast Machines Nightscream was the first time my young self saved up to buy a toy, got it home, and had such a miserable time with it I knew I'd wasted my money. Trying to get those translucent pegs to stay pegged... Trying to get him to STAND UP...

RID Sideburn? Love him. ROTF Mixmaster? Love him. *Alternity Bumblebee?* [PTSD screeching]

No shame in avoiding transformations, man. We’re all guilty of it. There’s only so much time in a day and as your collection grows it just becomes harder. However, I will say to anyone reading, unless you’re not transforming your figures for the reasons mentioned in the intro, you owe it to yourself, the money you spent and especially for the joy/fulfillment of our hobby & love for Transformers, to well…transform them. I became complacent for a while and just kept collecting for the sake of collecting. At first I was still transforming them but not taking the time to play and fiddle around with a few figures here and there. Then I would take them out of the box, check them out for a bit but then just put them on a shelf. Then I didn’t even bother to unbox them. Then one day I noticed that I had a stack of 15-20 boxes that were not only unboxed but were still in their shipping packaging and were even starting to collect dust. When I finally got around to opening them and discovered one was badly damaged and the other was missing all the accessories, I had already missed the return policy window. The problem wasn’t that I became uninterested in Transformers or collecting, I was being lazy and just wasn’t having fun. And I wasn’t having fun because buying shit just to “have it” is a waste of time & money and eventually makes you feel guilty and bitter towards the thing you were once passionate about. But most importantly I wasn’t having fun because I was avoiding doing the single coolest, most interesting and most FUN thing that sets these figures apart from every other toy or collectable - transforming them. This may sound silly and dramatic to casual collectors or fans. Others may understand and some might know all too well where I’m coming from. Again, there’s only so much time in a day and most things in life take precedence over a hobby. But when your “hobby” turns into a mindless financial exchange to EBay, Hasbro, Takara or whatever 3rd party for an accumulation of very expensive FedEx boxes to see how much dust they can collect before you start questioning every decision you’ve ever made in your life, it’s no longer a hobby. 😜 A couple helpful decisions I made a while back was to not buy another figure until I’ve taken the time to enjoy and appreciate the most recent one (unless it’s defective or just shitty). The other is to go back to ones you haven’t taken off the shelf in a while, especially some of your favorites or simple ones you can mess around with while watching TV or something. Take it from me and either make the effort to have fun or stop spending the money and find a new hobby. If you’re not making the time to at least take whatever you purchased with your hard earned money out of the box and appreciate it, what’s the point? Whether it was the TV show, comics, characters, or the toys sculpt, design, paint, engineering, or whatever reason got you into this weird ass hobby in the first place, it’s all worth it if it makes you happy and you’re having fun.

For me it was definitely the Moon Studios Raiden figure, I love the figure but I nearly tore my fingers apart trying to transform them between their individual modes and combined mode so now they’re combined and they’re staying that way 😅

Never mind again, I never successfully transformed ROTF Mixmaster back to vehicle mode at all, I think the shells popped off and I put them back wrong or something 'cause I never managed to get it to align ever

I had that ROTF Optimus when I was a small child. Neither me, nor my dad could figure it out lmao

If you extend beyond Transformers, then I would name all MG scale Zeta Gundam, ReZel and Victory Gundam and their variants. They are all super fragile at their transformation joints with too much weight hanging on them. Sometimes, they will break on the first transformation

Mixmaster seems like a joke in comparison to what we have now a days.

Alternators grimlock was my first transformer in 2005 ish. I was five years old at the time. My father and I didn't know how to transform him at the time so he ended up coming apart.

I'll be honest, its gotta be the masterpiece Arcee/Nightbird mold. I remember wanting to buy my first mp and heard Nightbird was great to pose even with the massive back kibble, but man she will never see her alt mode ever again as long as I can help it. I'm just tired of every fembot having to be just a skinny humanoid robo lady with an alt mode shell around her. On the flip side thats why I love Legacy Elita-1/Minerva. sure it still has huge back kibble but at least it actually works the robot mode legs into the back kibble and its a fun and easy conversion.

Seige ravage mold. After my seige one broke I’m terrified of my more exclusive Netflix or SG breaking as well so I now own four of that mold with one always in robot mode.

I don't think Takara actually moved out of that Beast Wars Neo/Car Robots philosophy if you look the last time they did a line on their own with Transformers Go. Those things look rickety and rattly like a friggin' Shinkalion. And Shinkalions are basically one step changers so that make sense.

I only have one thing in my entire collection that fits this category: Darth Vader/ Death Star from the old Star Wars crossover line. It's simple in theory, but you need to put all the death star panels into place in the right order and if it doesn't line up (it almost certainly never does), then you're stuck undoing large portions of the transformation just to hope you get this one piece in place. Honestly? It's a pain in the ass. I only transform him when someone asks me to because I just dread thinking about it.

I have a unique list for you if it hasn't been done yet "Transformers who deserved a 2nd figure in their series"

Looking at Mach kick, somehow all I can think is “FEAR ME, FOR I AM THE EXPLODED HORSE!”

Omg yes!!! I hated the twins, not only were they annoying characters in the movie but their toys were a pain to transform. The only good one was their ice cream truck mode.

i watched someone transform mpm ironhide and man even I was sweating with just how tightly everything fits together and how perfect you need to be or something will snap.

Oh yeah, ROTF Prime and Jetfire, impossible.

For me it was X-Transbots Boost/Hatch (Tailgate & Windcharger), I actually broke Boost (Side window came of during the first review I did) and had to repair it and I left Hatch in robot mode since I only wanted them for the car mode since finding a 3rd gen firebird in their scale that isn't a Knight Rider KITT car and is just the normal base model of that car nearly impossible. I ended clipping most of the tabs off and while the legs on both are still annoying it made the figures way more fun but infuriating I had to modify them that much to enjoy them.

Remember Masterpiece Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime? The one with Very Fragile Knee Ratchets so tight that it breaks the soon as it moves? that Thing is WORSER than MP-5 Megatron, Not only are His Knees were Fragile, But attaching the Car to his Trailer was a PAIN to do, The fact that he's NOT on here is WILD AF Lol

One of the hardest to transform figures I've ever had was G1 Guzzle. ...All the parts on mine were gunked shut.

To this day I still hate the original G1 Megatron. Like a big jumbled mess that I was never sure I had fully transformed correctly

From my memory, I've had a few cases of toys I just never wanted to transform again. ROTF Leader Prime being one of them. I love this toy. He looks fantastic in both modes. Just PLEASE never ask me to transform it again. Luckily my workaround was buying the HFTD version (I missed out on the initial run) and then getting the Jetwing Prime from DOTM. The HFTD guy stays in truck mode with the Jetwing guy stays in robot mode. Problem solved. Otherwise, I have to agree that the movie toys from back in the day were just super complicated for the sake of being complicated, like DOTM Leader Sentinel Prime. That's another one I almost never want to transform and don't have an easy workaround, especially now that he goes for much higher prices. Another one on my mind is the Prime Beast Hunters Smokescreen mold in which I found he was more complicated than I think he needed to be. After a while, I got used to it, but he was such a pain to go through. Especially when the arms would keep popping off and not stay put. And while I don't own any modern MPs (thank you, sky-rocketing prioces), a lot of those transformations scare me. And on top of that, you have cases like with Hound and 3.0 Prime where you can break something. Like okay, yeah, no thanks. And it's third party, but I'd like to give an honorable mention to Apollyon, a toy that I got in May 2015 and have NEVER transformed because of the horror stories I've heard. It seems third party companies have a lot ot learn about plastic tolerances and QC, so at least Hasbro and Takara mostly have them beat there.

For me the one that is just not fun to transform is definitely Kingdom Beast Megatron. He looks amazing in both modes, but getting from one to the other is the exact opposite of satisfying. None of it feels good to manipulate, he feels both super-dense and also fragile making me feel like at any moment he's going to break, it's not a good time.

For me, it's Fanstoys Quietus, only because of the damn hands

My main problem is MPM-08 Megatron. My copy has a slightly misaligned backpack so the diecast parts don't line up properly in vehicle mode. Took me 3 hours and 2 EmGo videos to get him transformed for the review.

I almost had a revenge of the fallen mudflap as a kid, THANK GOD I chose lego instead. There was no way I was gonna be able to transform that thing.

I hated transforming Razorclaw from G1 Predacons. He had this sticker on his chest that when you put him in robot mode, you moved his lion head onto the chest and there was no way to protect that sticker on the chest. Plus, the two pieces of plastic liked to dig into each other.

If you want a fun MPM that's pretty easy to transform and is fun to transform and is a gorgeous piece get Barricade

Mine is the "86 Series" Kup (not the OG one from 86). I love the look for both his modes, but getting his parts to fit together correctly in vehicle mode is a pain in the ass.

I think for the wfc generations segment, it would have been more fitting to have shown the Optimus prime from that line. Bumblebee was also a pain yes, but that Optimus was the most complicated I felt. The end result alt mode was great however

This is a random figure, but Cyberverse deluxe Prowl actually hurts to transform.

Both Masterpiece and Kingdom Tracks and their variations. Both with leg clearance issues due to the transformation not being as intuitive as it should be (especially on the KI figure, seriously it makes me long for me to get my RTS figure back from whichever nephew of mine has it), and the MP actually has a worse backpack because of the poor way it "locks" in. Also MP-9 Rodimus Convoy and Hasbro MP Rodimus Prime. It was a nice thought to try to execute a Hot Rod and a Rodimus as the same toy, but the litany of issues: *A backpack that would just not lock into place because it relied on a hinged box covering a pair of tabs that didn't actually grip anything *Overly powerful springs in the feet that made you fear you would break something *Side panels on the calves connected by a fragile armature that would almost certainly break on the panel side (it did on mine's right leg) *The sheer fiddle factor of getting the legs properly transformed, and the other calf panels not wanting to stay locked in place and thus end up dragging on the underside (again, tabs into slots that did not have enough friction to stay put) *The gap in the trailer for the spoiler being so narrow that it guaranteed the spoiler would get scraped *The spoiler itself being attached with shallow screws due to the nature of its assembly, making it an easy candidate for breaking off (as mine eventually did) *The front end of Rodimus Prime's vehicle mode that was connected to the trailer, specifically the windshield hatch not locking in place so that when tucked away for battle station mode it would drag on the underside *Hasbro's version not only lacking the trailer, but the chrome on the hubcaps, so just swapping the Hasbro version into the Takara trailer doesn't look as good - unless you want to try to disassemble both figures to switch the wheels, but even that's risky because of the last point: *Hasbro's use of more brittle plastics, virtually guaranteeing the figure will eventually break - it's not GPS, and it won't crumble in hand as easily as a Randy, but it's close!

I have an Alternators Wheeljack, (somewhere) so that's my obvious answer. My copy of WFC-Kingdom BW Megatron doesn't want to transform into beast mode at all, and the amount of force I need to use in places actually hurts me. I don't think I've transformed him since I photographed him almost 2 years ago. In terms of fragility, I still have my childhood G2 Electro. He is broken but not badly, and his truck mode holds his pieces together very well. I'm never transforming him again, as I'm just going to treat him like a Fabergé egg.

LOL OMG Sideburn. Sideburn was a Christmas gift from one of my brothers. It was the first TF toy I had owned since the G1 days when I was 10! Imagine, to my surprise, or should I say horror, how ridiculous it was going from the simplicity of the G1 toys to Sideburn! Even as an adult I refuse to transform it, this after handling masterpiece figures.

I never even bothered transforming MPM Starscream, it's the only MP toy that I own and just looking at the instructions makes me dizzy I also have that studio cell Unicron 3P figure that I'm not brave enough to turn into a planet, I've heard from other people it can be a painful process. However I think the most interesting one for me is Siege Starscream, the transformation is simple enough but the shoulder stacks that form the front of the tetrajet tab in so tightly that thinking about separating them is enough to disuade me from that conversion.

That ROTF Optimus Prime...I remember him so well...for taking me over an hour to transform. Never again. Though to be honest, the one I REALLY never wanted to transform again... In fact, I never even fully transformed it was the Leader class Megatron from the first live action Transformers movie. There just seemed to be a couple of steps missing to get him into the Cybertron jet mode. I got halfway through transforming him, got confused by the instructions and then turned him back to robot mode.

I'm really glad I took the precaution to pre order two Fanstoys Jazz figures, because while both modes are damn near perfect and feel amazing in hand, the transformation is such an over-engineered mess that I don't plan on transforming either of them again. I was always planning to keep one pristine in robot mode and have one that I could freely transform without worry of ruining the paint, but after one conversion I decided that one wasn't leaving car mode or else it would probably end up breaking mid tf.

For a figure I don't transform because of complexity: MPM Bumblebee movie Bumblebee. I got so fed up trying to get the back end of the beetle to behave that I left it in robot mode for over a year before giving it another shot and realizing what I did wrong. Guess what? It wasn't super clear in the instructions. A figure I don't transform because of fragility: Kingdom Tracks. I do not trust that roof section to not break on me after converting it too many times. I've transformed it twice after I got it and was so scared that I haven't since. Plus his knees are hella weak on my copy for some reason.

The guy who designed Sideburn also went on to make the Alternity Questors. Make of that what you will

For me it's ROTF Optimus Prime. Cool toy, pain in the ass to transform. (Oh hey, video mentions it, ye ye)

TLK Leader Megatron _was_ one of these for me till this November when I finally *got* the final steps to work (robot to jet), now I honestly kinda love the jet mode

The only movie Masterpiece figures I bought are BB Optimus Prime, 2007 Megatron, StarScream, and Blackout, and the transformations of Blackout and Prime are easier than most of the Movie Masterpieces. I refuse to transform Masterpiece 2007 Megatron. It is AWFUL!!! Never transforming it again.

That first MP5 Megatron of mine has never been transformed by me.

I was so hyped when MMC announced their Carnifex (Overlord). The first time I spent this much money on a toy, the first time I pre-ordered one - and now he's taking up shelf space because his shoulder assemblies are so fiddly and fragile, I don't want to mess with him. Transformed him once into each mode and decided I'll not risk it any more.

TJ, as a college basketball player. No. No I cannot hold MP megatrons gun mode.

Lol, I saw the title and thought about all my alternators gathering dust.

I haven't watched the video yet. But MPM Ironhide better be on this list. By far the worst Transformation I have ever attempted. Notice I said attempted because I never was able to finish it.

I don't have the SS ROTF Jetfire, so idk how much better or worse it is than the figure I'm about to mention, but the Transformer that comes to mind first out of my collection is Ultimate X-Spanse. Picked him up recently at a local toy store for 30 bucks sealed, and despite him not receiving the best reviews from other people, I personally like him a lot... except for the transformation. It's fiddly, it feels cramped, and it's just not enjoyable whatsoever imo. I've dealt with possibly worse transformations over the years, but those figures are long gone out of my collection, so I don't have to worry about them ever again. SS BBM Wheeljack is a good contender as well, especially the legs.

ROTF Scalpel, my biggest regret was buying that pos. I was never able to transform it to "robot" mode or fold its legs in properly for the microscope mode

Hardest figure I’ve got is SS Grindor. A toy that size *really* shouldn’t have that much tabforming.

Surprised that Universe Galvatron wasn't on this list. For years ROTH Voyager Mixmaster was the only non legends figure i had from the line, and from the first time i transformed him ive never had any issues. I dont transform him much, but i did get a Universe Galvatron to see what he's like. I understand the issues others have with him, but i still like the figure. I got Neo Longrack last year, & he is very finicky, but i like him and wanted to get something a little challenging.

I don't find MP Dinobot difficult to transform, but a bit of his gold paint on the ribs always seems to rub off. Cheetor is also not super hard but not really enjoyable. I want to like MP Soundwave, but why oh why did the side bits of his legs need to be on stiff hinges prone to cracking and breaking?

My main issue with ROTF Mixmaster is getting the parts that form the mixing drum in vehicle mode to tab into place. Have this issue with the Studio Series one as well. I feel that live action Mixmaster is just a bad design.

For me it's the Transformers War for Cybertron Kingdom Beast Wars Megatron ( some of his connections, particularly the groin area where the dino mode legs connect together and where the robot chest locks in,are so tight and hard to connect/disconnect with sharp edges that my 3rd or 4th time transforming him i cut open the back of my finger) Kingdom Rhinox ( also for overly tight connections and hurting my fingers, though thankf4not drawing blood this time ) Legacy Beast Wars Inferno ( where every time I touched it, i had a weird almost allergic reaction.. What kind of plastic/ paint are they using in the factory these days? ) and Kingdom Dinobot ( somer overally tight connections but also overly loose robot foot, so he has to lean a bit against the shelf and a loose-ish robot waist/ Dino neck that would only get worse with time if I were to try transforming him a lot)

Alternators Wheeljack has had me in tears before.

Why can’t Hu Tao’s EN voice actress say “Haii-Yahh!!” the same way Uncle Roger does? I feel like that is part of Hu Tao’s charm.

Up until 6 months ago, I pretty much exclusively collected 3rd and 4th party movie masterpiece-style figures. I actually quite like the transformations, even though I would never want to transform more than a handful on any given day. With that in mind, fetch the Newage Mista! I love the design of that DOTM Soundwave, and I can appreciate the brilliance of its engineering, but to this day, I need the Emgo tutorial and at least an hour of free time to convert him from either mode!