Grahf: I seen one pic the other day and I was excited but thought something was off about the front end as that's all the pic was. Then I seen these pictures and I realize what that was.

Now I'm not nearly as excited.

They buried Armada Starscream under Energon Starscream...or worse, Movie Starscream

This isn't Armada Starscream anymore. Even with the smaller wings, the cannons on top and the little wings deployed up front, this isn't Armada Starscream. They changed too much to get the F-22 Raptor in there. Now it just looks like Energon Starscream.  Do one or the other, not some weird cobbled together version of both.

None of their other Armada or Energon figures so far have been a mix of the two designs. So why for this one? If you're making Armada Starscream, just make Armada Starscream. It's not like there aren't options for reuses of the mold and they needed to do something to make the mold worth casting. Not that it matters to this company who decided that G1 SG Optimus Colors were good on ARMADA OP even though there's four other decos they could've done instead that actually exist.

This isn't even tooling that Jhiaxus would need either. That I could've seen happening. Having the wings be able to switch between the Starscream look and the Jhiaxus look. Having guns under the wings instead of the swords. Ramjet and Skywarp definitely wouldn't need this tooling either let alone Thundercracker who's an exact copy of Starscream.

If they wanted a more complete looking jet mode for Armada Starscream then a mix between Armada and Animated Starscreams would work better. Animated Starscream is seemingly mostly based on Armada Starscream to begin with. So blending those two designs would work better than whatever they're trying to accomplish here.

If you had to mix Energon Starscream into something then it should've been G2 Starscream. No, not THAT G2 Starscream. The new mold that had a limited release alongside G2 Megatron (no not THAT G2 Megatron) and was later redecoed and fully released as G2 Smokescreen and Dreadwing. The two jets that combined in jet mode and that the larger ATB could also turn into a tank.

As this is, I just don't see enough of Armada Starscream in the design to get excited about it anymore. Which is a shame as I REALLY wanted a big so called MP version of Armada Starscream to go with the so called legends class version, the deluxe and the voyager as well as the original. One that could stand next to Maketoys Galaxy Meteor Cybertron Starscream.

Guess I'll still be waiting.

Grahf: Why are people calling this Cliffjumper? It's clearly red Bumblebee. They are two separate things lol.

Bumblebee came in yellow and red. It's just that the cartoon used the yellow one.

Cliffjumper came in red and yellow but they used the red one in the cartoon.

Then there's Hubcap that is also yellow and is the same overall car that Cliffjumper is. However he is not yellow Cliffjumper though as his tooling has a different head as well as it doesn't have the spoiler. He also came on cards that said Hubcap.

Finally there's Bumper/Bumblejumper. He's also yellow but he has a different mold entirely. He was supposedly sold on BOTH Bumblebee and Cliffjumper cards. So fans came up with the name of Bumblejumper as a portmanteau of their names which was then shortened and G1ified into Bumper.

Regardless though, you have a female Bumblebee mold yet you don't actually redeco it into the actual female character that is a redeco of Bumblebee?

Poor Glyph never gets any love. She has two toys total that were intended to be her from the start (Botcon and Mass Toys) and another two (Bump of Chicken Bumble from Takara and Valentines day Bumblebee from Art Feather) mostly in her color that are just Bumblebee in blue and one of those two might not have actually been made (the Art Feather figure).

Her Botcon figure uses the keychain version of G1 Bumblebee.

Her Maas Toys figure is the War Within mold they made for Bumblebee.

The Bump of Chicken figure uses the PotP mold.

The Art Feather figure was an early third party VW Beetle reshell of Classics Bumblebee.

So yeah, it would be great if the female Bumblebee figure is done as the actual female Bumblebee option.

It would also be great if Hasbro or Takara gave Red Bumblebee and yellow Cliffjumper names after all this time to try and uncomplicate the situation. Shame Fun Pub isn't allowed to do it anymore. Knowing Hasbro though, the name would just be as lame as blue Trailbreaker (DK-3 Breaker) and black Ironhide (DK-2 Guard). At least Takara gave yellow Hoist a name for the MP (Rigorous). Maybe E-Hobby can give them names if they made new figures for them.

Eating: Man, we really need that hologram globe...such a crucial piece.