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I abstain from voting due to the fact that I can not single out one particular mold as being the best or even the worst of the Armada line.

Many of the figures are sadly underrated, it doesn't matter how poseable they are to me, some of the details and sculpt work on the Armada figures were quite impressive, have you seen Tidal Wave? Or Megatron? Or Cyclonus?

The Decepticons of this era were some of my all-time favorites, compared to RID which was full of repaints for the 'cons, the newer bulkier molds were some of the best Hasbro made.

Demolishor, Thrust, Starscream, Thundercracker, Skywarp, heck even Sideways has his merits and he's an unposeable lump of plastic with puny arms and hands that don't hold anything.

Lest we forget Wheeljack, the Autobot turned 'Con, the first Autobot to actualy go over to the 'Cons purposefully I believe.

And how can we forget Side Swipe, the mold that just wouldn't die (and I still want all four/five versions of this mold from the Universe 1.0 line. :rofl)

Hot Shot, Smokescreen, Blurr, Hoist, Laserbeak, Red Alert, Scavenger, Overload, Jetfire, Optimus Prime, many of these figures were a great step back into the world of vehicular transformers, in spite of the flaws of the engineering due to their gimmicks.

The Mini-Cons, the modern equivalent to the Masters of the past, you want a Targetmaster, you've got it, you want a Powermaster, you've got it, Headmasters, check, Micro Masters, defintiely, Action Masters... Uh, ok, so maybe not, but you get the point. A pity Hasbro's Mini-Con creativity tends to be only a handful of new molds each subsequent year and then a bunch of repaints of the same darn molds we've seen infinitum.


Unicron, the ultimate force of Chaos and Evil in the Transformers universe at last recieved an action figure, I still want his Energon Dark Repaint dang it, but I digress.

Transformers Armada may not have been the ultimate success, Hasbro did a few things right, they did a few things wrong, and even a few things that still have folks scratching their heads even today, but Armada took the success that was Beast Wars, the flop that was Beast Machines and the over the top success that was Robots in Disguise and transformed the franchise yet again.

In the end, I'd like to see more Classicverse interpretations of Armada figures, a new Demolishor and Cyclonus would be great and I could always use more Mini-Cons.

And even Laserbeak has his merits, he's massively out of scale with the rest of the Autobots, but he's the first Role Play item to be made since the G1 days. And if they'd stuck to the black and red color scheme with an orange plug on him, I mean he was a camcorder that transformed into a bird and what could have easily been identified as an alternate camera mode instead of gun mode and they could have easily gotten away with it... It's not like it even resembled a damn real life gun. *Shakes Head*

'Bendy' Prime may be a great mold I suppose, but personally I don't see why he has to be hyped up so much when a lot of other figures from that line have really great sculpts and are ten times more fun to play with, 'Bendy' Prime is great for posing and junk, but his gimmick has got to be the worst one of all next to Side Swipe's, he punches his chest in an unconvincing attempt at swinging his fists... Oh wow. If he wasn't so full of ball joints and junk to make poses he'd be a pretty poor excuse for a Prime figure.