G1 The Transformers Quiz

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and my original apology from the caveats, which I guess was removed to make the top of the quiz look cleaner when QuizMaster was preparing this for the front page: I chose as a somewhat random baseline qualification for inclusion in this quiz the condition that a character must have had *both* a G1 (generation 1) toy and been featured in the G1 cartoon in the USA. Why? Because I couldn't think of any other rationale that made as much sense and would allow for a reasonably manageable quiz size. While I realize this means excluding hundreds of popular characters (Arcee, Unicron, Alpha Trion, God Ginrai, Star Saber, Nightbeat, Fangry, etc.)... had to draw the line somewhere. Sorry.

I think this only applies to the Duocon Flywheels... sorry Flywheels

well... I've gotten all 196 before. and I advertised this on a Transformers fan forum. and the last reset of scores was not long ago so it has not been taken by many people since then... a few very high scores would up the average. When this hits the front page and gets taken 1000 times or so and the average is still that high, I would probably agree with you.

See? Only 12 hours on the front page and the average is down to 26.

I dropped quite a few not-very-subtle hints that it ought to be. Not sure if that had any bearing on the decision to feature it or not. I still maintain that this is much easier than the Popes quiz (though only slightly more relevant).

The 1986 film, the only real one, was great for what it was. The more recent films directed by Michael Bay are, if you'll forgive my massive understatement, best avoided.

Her toy was never sold as part of the Generation 1 toyline. See comments above for an explanation of why I felt it was important to exclude characters based on this criteria.

This quiz was on the front page a very long time ago and at this point I think the only people who come here are probably huge Transformers nerds. To get 5 points you need to score in the 95th percentile which currently means 192 or better. I'm actually impressed by that, too.

I feel like, for some subjects (sports, Harry Potter, Pokemon, Game of Thrones, Transformers, Simpsons - the sort of subjects that would attract people who have an insane amount of arcane knowledge because they obsess about these things) QuizMaster should probably use a different point metric for those quizzes. Some of these nerd quizzes, like this one definitely, or any quiz where I'm required to know every minor character who ever appeared in a Harry Potter film or book, or every person who has scored a goal in a World Cup game or something similarly esoteric, the standards for getting 5 points ought to be a lot looser than on the general knowledge or geography quizzes. Just because the number of obsessive super nerds (yes, most sports fans are obsessive super nerds) who go to those quizzes distort the numbers.

and I fully get someone complaining about this quiz, or any Star Wars or Marvel quiz, even if I don't, because those are the subjects that I geek out over.

The other solution would be to throw this quiz back on the front page every so often. :) That would drastically lower the average score.

cool. My fastest time is 9 minutes.

what's wrong with it?

I color-coded him so that it's clear he's also a triple-changer, but I put him in the first column because he's also one of the show's main characters. That block also includes three target masters and a mini-bot. I know it's not 100% consistent as I have Bumblebee showing up under Mini-bots (color coded to show he was also a Throttle Bot later on), while he was clearly a main character. But, eh, just how I felt like doing it... I think that my original thinking was that the triple changers on the Autobot side weren't really a big factor. Like, Sandstorm and Broadside show up maybe once in the whole series? On the other hand Springer played a major role in the movie and then was in pretty much every episode after that. But the Mini-bots were a bigger thing both in the show and the toyline. It would have made sense to put Bumblebee in the first block right under Optimus, though. ::shrug::

I think if more fans had taped and watched and rewatched and rewatched and rewatched the 4th and final "season" of the OG cartoon, which was really just one 3-part episode called Rebirth, (as I did) they would do substantially better on this, as that 3-parter introduced a ton of new characters in rapid succession, and pretty much all of the least-guessed answers are from that.

I always get Spike when I get Fortress Maximus and Cerebro. Easy to group him together with them. It might help that I had the toy. And that I had an old VHS recording of The Rebirth, recorded off of some channel on our satellite dish from way back, that I watched so many times the tape broke.

I have very high accuracy on many of the Target Master and Head Master partners that most people miss, no doubt because as a child I watched Rebirth over and over again more than any other episodes probably. Only bit of Transformers media I've seen more times would likely be the '86 movie.