The toy takes a little more after the 2013-era Generations Deluxe than the Armada toy, which is kind of a shame. And that’s not even sarcasm.Īrmada Starscream has fewer notes. Trying to balance this out, it looks very much like Infernos’ robot head is made with a movable jaw, so you can effectively pose Inferno screaming, which as we all know is another highly important facet of his character. As an iconic feature of Inferno both in the show and the original toy, it’s a shame that early indications are that it was not represented as well as it could have been. The gun Inferno is shown with is modeled after the rocket engine from the original “blender butt” and probably can be attached to the simulated flight unit here to complete that display option. If it still spins at all, it’ll probably be poorly balanced as a result. The ant butt can still unfold to make the “petal” or rotor structure, but apparently missing the fourth panel entirely. The robot mode goes for show accuracy as best it can, but seems to lose out a little particularly with the ant-abdomen flight unit. It will remain to be seen how well that comes across in hand with actual handling. In this case, the new engineering looks like it’s with the intent to emulate how Inferno appeared to transform in the TV show, with the front and back ends of the ant compressing toward the middle. Unfortunately many robot mode parts can be spotted within the beast mode, as much of the robot anatomy is separated from the beast mode, where the original toy went for a simpler limbs-for-limbs engineering – although that had its drawbacks as well. The pictures show mandibles that are movable, and hinged antennae, giving some degree of expressive possibilities. Inferno is crafted as a semi-realistic giant red ant, and actually looks to have beefy enough legs that it might be able to support its own weight in beast mode.
Both toys sacrifice some of the spirit of their originals, but offer what they can to make up for it. Causing no small amount of excitement this week has been the reveal of Legacy Voyagers Armada Starscream and Predacon Inferno through their stock photos.
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