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[OldOfflineMan]

Thank you so much for the responses. The final voting results are 60/40 in favour of LG-EX God Ginrai, which is indicative of how hard the choice was.

I do think the Cybertron set is of superior quality. Those toys are rock solid, made to last, beautiful and is really fun. Not to mention the set was hard to assemble.

The God Ginrai is nice looking as well, but half the time I'm afraid I'll break something when I'm transforming them. The joints don't seem all that robust to me and will probably wear out after a few more transformations. The headmasters' legs and hip joints feel fragile. It seems like a toy meant to be posed rather than play with.

I ultimately went with God Ginrai though, and it's really for nostalgia. I grew up with Prime being a semi-trailer truck alt mode and a rather boxy robot form with a plate over where the mouth should be. Even though God Ginrai is a futuristic take on Prime that's armed to the teeth, I still see the old Prime in him. It also helped that Powermaster Prime was one of my favourite Transformers toy back then, even though it couldn't really move and it reminded me of a T-Rex with those dinky arms and large head. God Ginrai was the version of Prime I wish I had as a kid. Looking at him triggered many happy memories of childhood.

When I look at Cybertron Prime, my eyes see a superior toy to God Ginrai in every respect (my opinion), but I just didn't identify with a Prime with a mouth, a fire truck alt mode and angular cab design. I also didn't see any of the Cybertron cartoons and didn't know they existed until I ran into the toys on Ebay as an adult.

So I went with my heart rather than my head.

I'll be selling all five Cybertron figures (loose and complete; transformed once at most) as a batch with an asking price of $230. They along with pictures to my sales thread later this weekend.

Thanks again for all your help!