2014 Ozformer Awards winners
Here we go...
All Time Favourites
Favourite Transformers Toy Series
Winner: Masterpiece (40%)
Runner-ups: Generation One (22%), Classics/Generations (9%)
Favourite Transformer Allegiance
Winner: Autobot (62%)
Runner-ups: Decepticon (35%), Other (3%)
Favourite Heroic Transformer Toy Ever
Winner: MP-10 Optimus Prime (20%)
Runner-ups: G1 Optimus Prime (11%), Jetfire (8%)
Favourite Heroic Transformer Character Ever
Winner: Optimus Prime (27%)
Runner-ups: Grimlock (8%), Ultra Magnus (6%)
Favourite Evil Transformer Toy Ever
Winner: MP Soundwave (23%)
Runner-ups: G1 Soundwave (10%), G1 Devastator, G1 Megatron, MP-11 Starscream, G1 Starscream (4% each)
Favourite Evil Transformer Character Ever
Winner: Soundwave (20%)
Runner-ups: Megatron (13%), Starscream (8%)
Toys part 1: Age of Extinction
Favourite AOE Legion class toy
Winner: Stinger (37%)
Runner-ups: Optimus Prime (28%), Grimlock (26%)
Favourite AOE One Step Changer toy
Winner: Steeljaw (24%)
Runner-ups: Grimlock (16%), Prowl (13%)
Favourite AOE Power Battler toy
Winner: Grimlock (16%)
Runner-ups: Junkheap, Dinobot Scorn (14% each)
Favourite AOE Deluxe toy
Winner: Scorn (24%)
Runner-ups: Drift, Strage, Snarl (12% each)
Favourite AOE Voyager toy
Winner: Evasion Mode Optimus Prime (64%)
Runner-ups: Hound (25%), Grimlock, Drift (4% each)
Favourite large size transforming AOE toy
Winner: Leader Grimlock (44%)
Runner-ups: Leader Optimus Prime (42%), First Edition Optimus Prime (14%)
Favourite large size one step AOE toy
Winner: Chomp & Stomp Grimlock (58%)
Runner-ups: Grimlock (Flip & Change) (18%), Lockdown (Flip & Change) (13%)
Favourite AOE Titan toy
Three way tie: Optimus Prime (w/ sword), Grimlock (w/ club), Lockdown (15% each)
Runner-ups: Bumblebee, Optimus Prime (16 inch) (12% each)
Favourite AOE Evolution 2 pack
Winner: Optimus Prime (41%)
Runner-ups: Grimlock, Bumblebee (24% each)
Favourite AOE Platinum release
Winner: Dinobots Unleashed 5-Pack (35%)
Runner-ups: Autobots United 5-Pack (24%), Breakout Battle (19%)
Favourite Kre-O Dino Force Tech set
Winner: Dinobot Charge (35%)
Runner-ups: Grimlock Street Attack (32%), Lockdown Air Raid (19%)
Favourite AOE Construct-Bots set
Winner: Grimlock (19%)
Runner-ups: Drift, Lockdown, Dinofire Grimlock (13% each)
Favourite AOE Lost Age Advanced toy
Winner: AD-31 Armor Knight Optimus Prime (27%)
Runner-ups: AD-11 Dispensor (12%), AD-21 Hound, AD-16 Dino (10% each)
Toys part 2: Other series
Favourite Generations Legion class toy
Winner: Optimus Prime (30%)
Runner-ups: Starscream (28%), Megatron (23%)
Favourite Generations Legends toy
Winner: Swerve & Flanker (31%)
Runner-ups: Cosmos & Payload (27%), Skrapnel & Reflector (16%)
Favourite Generations Deluxe toy
Winner: Arcee (25%)
Runner-ups: Skids (19%), Waspinator (13%)
Favourite Generations Voyager toy
Winner: Rhinox (37%)
Runner-ups: Brainstorm (19%), Whirl (16%)
Favourite (local) Masterpiece release
Winner: Wheeljack (28%)
Runner-ups: YOTH Optimus Prime (23%), Grimlock (16%)
Favourite (Japanese) Masterpiece release
Winner: Wheeljack (31%)
Runner-ups: Bumblebee (20%), G2 Sideswipe (18%)
Favourite BotCon 2014
Winner: Scorponok (33%)
Runner-ups: Kreo 6 pack (10%), Devcon, Ginrai, Clone (Wingspan), Alpha Trizer (8% each)
Favourite SDCC 2014 release
Winner: Dinobots 4-Pack (44%)
Runner-ups: Knights of Unicron 4-Pack (36%), Kreo Class of 1984 (20%)
Favourite Collectors Club toy
Winner: Chromedome (42%)
Runner-ups: Barricade (19%), Fisitron (12%)
Favourite Transformers Cloud toy
Winner: A03 Rodimus (49%)
Runner-ups: A01 Optimus Prime (17%), D02 Starscream (11%)
Favourite Kre-O toy
Winners: Skrapnel and Trypticon (21% each)
Runner-ups: Mindswipe, Nightbeat (15% each), Jetwash, Highbrow (10% each)
Favourite Rescue Bots toy
Winners: Optimus Primal (Electronic T-Rex) and Blades (Mini Dino - Pterodactyl) (16% each)
Runner-ups: Optimus Prime (Truck & T-Rex), Optimus Prime (Rescan T-Rex) (14% each), Heatwave (Dino - Brontosaurus) (11%)
Favourite Hero Mashers toy
Winner: Jetfire (23%)
Runner-ups: Starscream, Rodimus (14% each), Slug, Springer (11% each)
Favourite Angry Birds toy
Winner: Optimus Prime Bird (33%)
Runner-ups: Soundwave Pig (21%), Galvatron Pig, Ultra Magnus Bird (12% each)
Age of Extinction Movie
Favourite Autobot character in AOE
Winner: Hound (40%)
Runner-ups: Optimus Prime (25%), Crosswise (12%)
Favourite Enemy (non-human) character in AOE
Winner: Lockdown (75%)
Runner-ups: Galvatron (15%), Stinger (7%)
Favourite human character in AOE
Winner: Cade Yeager (Mark Wahlberg) (41%)
Runner-ups: Joshua Joyce (Stanley Tucci), Su Yueming (Li Bingbing) (11% each), Harold Attinger (Kelsey Grammer) (10%)
Favourite action sequence in AOE
Winner: Dinobots arrive/rampage in Hong Kong (30%)
Runner-ups: Optimus Prime vs Lockdown (15%), Optimus Prime vs Grimlock (13%)
Funniest moment in AOE
Winner: Bumblebee unhappy with the knock off on display (26%)
Runner-ups: "How do you say 'Get the **** out of the way' in Chinese?" (19%), My Little Pony cameo, "You better have insurance" (10% each)
Comics and cartoons
Favourite Transformers Comic Book Series of 2014
Winner: More Than Meets The Eye (59%)
Runner-ups: Regeneration One (17%), Windblade (10%)
Favourite comics writer this year
Winner: James Roberts (MTMTE) (65%)
Runner-ups: Simon Furman (ReGen) (13%), Mairghread Scott (Windblade) (10%)
Favourite comics artist this year
Winner: Alex Milne (MTMTE) (47%)
Runner-ups: Sarah Stone (Windblade) (14%), Andrew Griffith (RID) (10%)
Favourite episode of Transformers Rescue Bots (series 2 & 3)
Winner: Road Trip (29%)
Runner-up: Blame the Gremlins (12%)
Fandom
Best Australian Transformers-related news of 2014
Winner: Combiner Wars to be released locally (33%)
Runner-ups: Peter Cullen attends local conventions (31%), Local stores import TakTom toys (24%)
Worst Australian Transformers-related news of 2014
Winner: Generations figures not getting a local release (52%)
Runner-ups: Dropping value of the Aussie dollar (25%), Overstock of AOE wave one and gimmick toys, non-sale prices of exclusives at local retail (9% each)
Best Global Transformers-related news of 2014
Winner: Details of new Masterpiece releases (54%)
Runner-ups: Combiner Wars revealed (38%), Platinum release of G1 toys revealed (5%)
Worst Global Transformers-related news of 2014
Winner: Final list of the Thrilling 30 of 30 toys (38%)
Runner-ups: Age of Extinction plot holes (15%), Unconfirmed MP rumours (13%)
Best Toy Dealer/Online Store
Winner: Big Bad Toy Store (29%)
Runner-ups: Robot Kingdom (18%), Hobby Link Japan (17%)
Best 3rd Party release in 2014 (inspired by a Transformer character)
Winner: Scoria (43%)
Runner-ups: Feral Rex (10%), Quantron (5%)
Best 3rd Party accessory/replacement part(s) released in 2014 for an existing Transformer toy
Winner: Dr Wu upgrade for Masterpiece Wheeljack (33%)
Runner-ups: Dr Wu upgrade for G2 Sideswipe, Microblase Creations FOC Bruticus upgrade (16% each)
Favourite OTCA customiser / creative person of 2014
Winner: M-Bot (84%)
Runner-ups: Snaketales (13%), Goktimus Prime (1%)
Favourite Acquisition Topic Name of the year
Winner: June Super-Lucky 3 Dragons Supeshyaru FAITO PUNCH!!! (Ode to a Grasshopper) (38%)
Runner-ups: October and his fine Fembots (Tober) (17%), August Awesome Acquisitions and Arrivals (aduthie1980) (9%)
Best Transformers Gathering/Meet you attended in 2014
Winner: Parramatta Fair meetups (35%)
Runner-up: Melbourne Central meetups (29%)
Ozformer Member of the Year
Winners: Goktimus Prime and Griffin (17% each)
Runner-up: Sinnertwin (15%)
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Any further comments about the AOE toys?
"Thank goodness they will soon be gone from the shelves. Retailers never learn from their mistakes, too much wave 1, then nothing."
"I have enjoyed these Movie toys, there are times when they've had some issues, Monkey arms or articulation limited by kibble location, but some of the transformations have been really interesting it's just a shame that Collectors haven't been able to be aware of the different number of paint schemes coming in advance enough to pick one and go with it without gambling on picking an early paint scheme hoping it will be the one they prefer."
"Welcome return to more simple transformation designs and the sculpting is admittedly gorgeous, however I don't feel the toys were very well inspired nor were they marketed well."
"Worst line in years"
"Surprisingly good"
"The first time I have completely skipped a TF line. None if them tickled my fancy enough to get some."
"ME GRIMLOCK SMASH!!!!"
"Not a bad line-up of Movie toys this time around. Could have used a few more characters in the Generations line (hello Stinger), but nothing too major to complain over."
"Under-rated in my opinion."
"Impressed with the movie toys compared to last movies, they were better designed and more life like in my opinion"
"Mostly very ugly transformers which I avoided. I like how they stuck to a medieval warrior look for the Dinobots though."
Any further comments on the Age of Extinction film?
"Possibly the worst film I have ever seen. The rocket boots just killed me."
"Its really bad... really really bad. My wife fell asleep in the last 30 minutes of it."
"Again surprisingly Good and my fav"
"By no means a masterpiece but not as bad as everyone says it is. I actually feel like the non-Prime & Dinobot Autobots are real characters with personality in this one."
"I went into this film with extremely low expectations and surprisingly came out feeling very good about it :-)"
"Fool me once, shame on you..."
"A fantastic and heavily underrated sequel/soft reboot, which shows the Transformers at their most (arguably) human basics, especially the suffering Optimus Prime, and the subsequent fanbase questioning over the potential justification in killing one of the very beings he swore to protect."
"Such a disappointment. It was a particularly dumb and nasty film."
"I'm not a real Bayverse fan, but for what is was it holds up."
"garbage"
Any further comments on Transformer fiction?
"I wish we were treated to annuals this year! Combiner Wars will hopefully be far superior to Dark Cybertron and I hope that empire of Stone is the last we see of McCarthy, his writing this time around is dull and boring, and I am not sure if it is more or less of an insult than what he subjected us to in AHM."
"Apart from the Windblade splash page my favorite piece of artwork for the year is the box art for this years Botcon set, it's spectacular and highly detailed."
"I wish i read it."
"Certainly the mainstay of the franchise in terms of long-term brand recognition and credibility. A worthy investment by Hasbro."
"The comics are my second favorite aspect behind the toys when it comes to Transformers. Why have we never seen any TF animation with writing, style and intrigue like we see in the comics?!"
"I'm still waiting on my "ReGeneration: Beast Wars" or "ReGeneration: Animated" ongoing series to start... C'mon IDW - WTH guys?"
"As I said last year, it was nice to have a Transformers comic that ironically wasn't shamelessly cramming in new toys by the issue. Not any fault of the authors of course, simply Hasbro getting in the way of attempting to tell good stories."
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