Grahf: This set got absolutely roasted when they revealed it on Facebook. It's horrible. How are so many people in this comments section going on about how great it is and how it does so much?

The only good or useful parts here are the door fillers for the truck cab and the front skirt for super mode...well, if the gold color actually matched that is.

The flaps that cover the super mode hands in truck mode can't be used in conjunction with the trailer. So they're actually useless about 90% of the time as who really will display Optimus without his trailer? The trailer is what's needed for super mode. It's not useless like the G1 and G2 trailers or even the trailer for Rodimus. This is one figure that will always be with its trailer. So there's no need to cover the hands in truck mode as the trailer will do that for you. So all these flaps do is make the super mode shoulders look like shit AND block the 5mm ports up there to do it. So no potential Minicon or Micromaster compatibility up there anymore. Oh and the flaps only hover over the hands which looks just as silly as just having the hands there. Maybe if the hands were smaller top to bottom and the flaps went down into the recessed area over the hands then it would look good. That way they could also be utilized with the trailer. They'd still look stupid on the super mode shoulders though.

The hands are barely more articulated as there's only the one knuckle joint in each finger. There's no secondary or tertiary joints to point the fingers straight and the thumb has very limited articulation. They also have the tab and slot connection to hold weapons which doesn't always work. Sure there's to adapters for it but why not try to make them like Jetfire to begin with? Hasbro already had a good thing there and didn't use it for this.

The chest piece is outright stupid looking. It also required the whole old chest to be used on top of this instead of just the removable Autobot badge. And what utility do we get from all that needlessly extra nonsense layered onto the chest? Two little flaps that kind of sort of hide the smaller robot hands in cab mode but also make the back of the cab even worse looking in the process not to mention how goofy the top of the cab now looks.

The feet flaps are okay. I just wish that the blue parts had something molded into the bottom of them like the black parts. This way when in truck mode, the blue blocks on the sides of the trailer could've been missile launchers or guns or something. But really though, who wanted this to be taller except for that one guy in these comments? Armada Optimus prime is too tall for their already established scale as it is just like Galvatron was. He should've been the size of Star Saber, Super Ginrai and SS Ultra Magnus but Optimus is taller as it is stock, he doesn't need to be any taller still.

They replaced the rear flap for the super mode. That's great! That area is probably the only real problem with the figure. However they somehow made it look just as bad but in a different way though. Why have those two flaps go to the sides to hide behind the thighs? Why not just have them flip around to the back on a double hinge system to get them behind the rest of the rear flap? This way they're completely out of the way instead of trying, and failing, to hide behind the legs. It's just such a stupid choice.

The gun. Oh the gun. It's nice that there's a gun extension. Apparently that's something that almost every kit for this thinks needs to be addressed. However it's so long that it's its own gun. They made the gun too long now. But that's fine since you can still use it as a separate gun. It's just that you might as well get a better looking gun at that point and there are many out there like the extra Over-Run Minicon I have for him or the oversized Ion Blaster from the Centurion set that's way too big for Earthrise Prime or one of the other guns for this that was made. Well what else does it do? Oh it allows the absolute worst part of the figure to attach to it to make the gun look like it has a bookcase under it. Look, you already replaced the rear flap, why not replace that stupid missile launcher flap sandwich hitch thing too so that it converts into the gun extension instead of making a gun extension that accommodates that stupid looking mess of flaps. This is far worse than trying to make the Motormaster base mode tower into a weapon for Menasor. Just replace the fucking things.

There are better kits out there already than this. Ones that do more with the parts provided or have increased articulation and usability.

I was waiting to see what DNA would do with this. I like their SS RotB Scourge kit and their SS GE Optimus kit as well as their Animated Prowl kit fo the most part. So I thought they were back on track to making good kits again finally but this is just a mess of unneeded parts that are badly color matched. Such a shame that there's so many pieces here that ultimately do nothing.