What bothers me the most about newer Transformer toys is some literally have to be broken to transform. One in particular I remember, it was a motorcycle character released around 2005/2006. To transform into a robot or back, you had to break the toy in half and transform it then the pieces would snap back together. This was not one of those rarer releases that was two robots that formed one big robot, it was one robot. Each half formed just that half of either form, there was no third form for just that half.

Then there are the "fold formers" these are the ones that feature tons of steps to transform, limbs might have 20+ moves each as things open up, others fold into/out of the space.

It is the only way they could do things like what the Michael Bay Transformers required for their look. It is just way too complicated for me. Those things are getting transformed one time.

I have noticed that they are packaging these things in the form they look the best in. In the 80s it was their vehicle form because the robot was quite "off" especially when we look at the smaller ones like Bumblebee, Cliff Jumper etc.

Still it is great to see kids getting toys in their childhood and to think what toys in the future may look like. I just know I won't be helping transform any robots. 😂