ssjgoku22: I do see why this might be cheaper than MP-44 (other the accessories). Some do look a little more hollow and the transformation is quite simple in comparison to MP-44 (which could be a really good thing). I'm not going to jump and say this is better than Phoenix (as that is a very well-made, high quality figure), but so far, this looks promising.

Piggy: I really really want to give ths a higher rating, but the lack of functioning accessories is frustrating.  You want to pose him with blast coming out of his guns like in the pictures?  Forget it.  They don't fit.  You can attempt to shave down the pegs to a smaller diameter, but then the they won't fit in his feet or the rocket boosters on his back.  Those pictures should be removed altogether from the listing.

The arm guns and shoulder mounted machine gun are also a huge disappointment.  They're molded out of a single piece of soft rubber.  I feel that they should have been hard plastic. The guns flex too much and aren't molded to sit flush with the arms.  The shoulder canon has zero articulation and can't be posed at all.  You can try to flex it a bit, but there are thin connection points that look like they might eventually tear apart if moved or twisted too much.  There's also no way to pose him in a good attack flight pose as the canon is unable to point forward, and there's also no good way to have a neutral non-attack position as the the canon can't rotate down against his back as it does in the film.

It really is a damn shame because the figure itself looks great.  There's a bit of overspray on the gold highlights on my copy and a scuff on his chest, and upper leg/hip articulation is not great because of the bulkiness of the thigh parts, but everything else was well done with lots of little details and the bright metallic silver really stands out nicely against the dark matte paint job.

I'm a 100% sure they'll eventually release an LED edition.  Here's hoping they see some of this feedback and can include blast effects that fit his weapons.  2 for the arm guns and 1 for the shoulder canon at the very least.  I know this isn't some expensive Hot Toys type figure but it would also be nice at the very least to have that first segment of the canon arm on a ball joint.  That would open up the posing options quite a bit.

ssjgoku22: Wow, now this is a nice repaint/ resculpt. This looks sending amazing as Elite One. Already have Arcee on preorder, but might go for this as well.