Grahf: A seemingly unaltered 1:1 KO of the second most overrated figure HasTak figure in years. At least it's cheaper and more easily available.

Don't get me wrong, it's a great robot mode. The tank is acceptable but only just. The jet mode is complete trash though and it shouldn't have been. Or rather, there's an easy fix that would've solidified it and made it more visually appealing.

It's just for a figure that was supposedly based on Transformers Animated Season 4 Marauder Megatron, this missed the mark entirely.

Again though, the robot mode is fantastic. It's like an Action Master...er...uh...R.E.D. figure. But those alt modes leave a lot to be desired.

This figure had no original base design as he wasn't even in that movie. So it could've been ANYTHING, including Marauder Megatron, but instead it was disappointing.

The quick fix was to have the hips work like Studio Series BB Shockwave in that they break and spread out at a 45 degree angle at the upper thighs and hips. Then spin the legs 90 degrees like normal. Open up the wings on the lower legs and take out the thrusters. Then collapse the lower leg onto the upper leg but instead of it being at a 'V' shape. Make it bend in at a full 180 degrees like a 'll' shape. Then snap the thrusters behind the thighs where the hips were and there you go.

This way all the leg parts are parallel with the body of the jet making things look more cohesive and everything would be more stable. As it is now, it looks like 'VVV' due to the angles of the legs but should look more like 'llVll'. And since the legs don't tab in anywhere securely, the sides of the jet droop and come untabbed from the front pelvis flaps as well as the arms underneath. That's IF you can even get the arms to tab into the legs as moving the parts into a position where they do tab in, untabs the pelvis flaps from the thighs. The parts just don't line up properly no matter how I fidget with everything. On and good luck trying to tab the Fusion Cannon in underneath and have it be straight. And it's really funny that they designed this tiny almost completely unnoticeable tab and slot

This would also leave room between the body of the jet and the sides of the jet. They could've put the arms there to really lock everything together and it would've cleaned up the underside of the jet by not having arms just hanging out down there. Finish off by having the Fusion Cannon do something, anything better than the nothing it does for all the modes. For something with so many moving parts, it doesn't actually do anything more than just be the exact same Fusion cannon for all three modes.

But yeah, $30 instead of $55 is amazing! Kinda jealous actually lol.

Preordered on Amazon and had to wait forever for a $55 figure that wasn't worth the price yet everyone was seemingly raving about. This is coming from someone who thinks leader Astrotrain, Shockwave, Sandstorm, Doubledealer and Springer are worth it too. ER Optimus, SS86 Starscream and G2 Optimus aren't though.