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Originally Posted by Tarquinius

Thank you everybody for their wonderful and informative responses. I think you all truly understand where I'm coming from and thusly all of your advice is very sound.

As a collector I tend to try and complete most of the lines I collect, but I've totally given up on that for Transformers...and I tend to collect only what looks cool like everyone has said.

Heres another question I suppose....

much like Iron Man 2 and Wolverine Origins having characters which supplement the Marvel Universe line...are there any characters like that in the movie lines that came out? I've completely ignored them because I wasnt a big fan of the movie renditions of some of the characters but maybe there are a few that are exclusive to this line?

Well, if I understand your question, then... sorta.
The Movie is so specific with the style, and that bleeds through to the *entire* Movie 1 and RotF lines, with a few exceptions.
In the first movie, Hasbro released some repaints of toys that were ment to be in the then upcoming Universe line. Two notable examples were Decepticons Crankcase and Fracture. They were ment to supplement Universe, but Walmart requested more movie and were then shunted there.
So, they're not in the same style as the movie toys.

In the current movie line, with the Scout class, and with the toys released in the Hunt for the Decepticon subline and beyond, Hasbro has started to blurr the styles with "Off Screen Characters." (Hasbro *always* supplements whatever mainline with toys of characters that aren't in the cartoon/movie)
They have a style that blends the asthetic qualities of the movie, with more traditional "G1" asthetics of all the lines before it.
The purpose, I suppose is like slipping comicbook Gambit into Wolverine Movie.
We've gotten several of what could be considered Supplements to Universe/Generations this way. Bludgeon, Bonzaitron, Seaspray, Mindset to name a few off the top of my head, with several more coming.