Toy Review - TFPrime Deluxe Arcee V2

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(Please post photos, comments or even a fully comprehensive review - these are just brief details to start you off)

Toy Review - Arcee
Series - Transformers Prime
Sub-line - Robots In Disguise
Size/class - Deluxe
Wave - 2
New/remould/redeco - New
Released here - Should be here Mar/Apr (released globally March 2012)
Approximate Retail Price - ($24-30?) US$12
Approximate Size - (12cm?)
Allegiance - Autobot
Alt-mode - Motorcycle
Main Features/Gimmicks - (Spring-loaded feature?)
Main Colours - Blue, black, grey
Main Accessories - Gun & sword (combines)

[Sky Shadow]

That's Deluxe? It looks like Energon Arcee in blue.

[Bumbleb33]

Brillant figure, looks great, feels great, great transformation, even my girl was impressed. Get RID Arcee she is awesome!

[GoktimusPrime]

Well, the kibble-less shoulders are more show-accurate than FE Arcee's... but still not sold on the rest of the toy, particularly the lighter shade of blue, oversized single gun and single blade (is that Hasbro grey?). Will need to see one up close IRL to make a better judgement. So this toy's out here now?

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Opened her up today, and she's lovely. Kinda small and the transformation won't appeal to anyone who likes a challenge (it's at Easy-for-a-Scout level), but she has a fairly solid bike mode and a really nice robot mode. The light piping is just amazingly good, the backpack isn't that bad in person, the giant gun actually sorta works, and she's pretty poseable.
She's no Vehicon Mk 2 or FE Starscream but still...well worth getting. TFPrime seems to be very much a mixed bag, with really good and really bad figures, and happily she's on the good side.

[GoktimusPrime]

...a toy with Scout-level engineering should be sold at a Scout price point IMO. (-_-) If they made it Scout sized that'd probably work in its favour as Arcee is shorter than the other Autobots in the cartoon anyway.