Toy Review - AIR RAID (Age of the Primes)

Aerialbot AIR RAID
Series - Age of the Primes
Size/class - Deluxe
New/remould/redeco - new
Wave - 1
Released here - April 2025
Approximate Retail Price - $39.95
Approximate Size - 13.5cm (head height); 15cm (total height)
Allegiance - Autobot
Sub-Group - Aerialbot
Alt-mode - F-15 Eagle jet fighter
Main Features/Gimmicks - becomes gestalt component
Main Colours - white, black, red
Main Accessories - x2 torque pistols, x2 vertical stabiliser fins

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WYSIWYG; this toy is what you would expect with no real surprises. This is the most cartoon-like G1 Air Raid toy made so far and feels like a Budget Masterpiece. :) Much like the Deluxe Legacy Breakdown and Wildrider, Air Raid can also transform into a leg filling for Superion. This is, of course, emulating Superion's design in the Sunbow cartoon. It does mean that Air Raid doesn't become the entire leg, and he can no longer transform into Superion's arm (losing the Scramble gestalt gimmick from Combiner Wars Air Raid/Unite Warriors Air Rider).

He does come with two vertical stabiliser fin attachments. On the down side, anything detachable on a toy can be potentially lost. On the upside, they are solid plastic instead of rubber like on CW/UW Air Raid. The pistols don't fit in as snugly as I'd like but they're not loose either.

Unlike the Stunticons, Air Raid doesn't feel like a massive upgrade from his CW/UW counterpart. In some ways, I still prefer the CW/UW mould. Definitely recommend collecting the Age of the Primes Aerialbots if you want a hyper cartoon-like set of G1 Aerialbots. This feels as good as you can get without going MP level, and honestly, considering the mess that MPG Raiden is, I think that this is the perfect scale for a gestalt. Going Masterpiece may give us superior individual 'bots, but the gestalt mode suffers. These smaller and cheaper figures are also more solid than a Masterpiece, leading to a more solid gestalt. Well, in the case of Superion, Silverbolt is the gestalt. These limb robots are just fillers. :p