(JULY-2013) Armada Era Toys - Reviews and Favourites

[Kapryiath]

What are your Best and Worst toys of this Era?
best: wheeljack - absolutely loved playing with this toy!
worst : cyclonus - really not that fun to play with far to simple imo

What was your first one, and when?
wheeljack ( cant remember when i got it )

What ones are you currently most looking for and why?
the blue star saber because i only have the dark one

[Paulbot]

What are your Best and Worst toys of this Era?

I recently reviewed my Armada toys, and found I didn't want to keep any of them, but one. So by default my favourite toy is supercon Optimus Prime. He's a nice size, got a classic OP feel, and one of the best minicons in Over-Run.

I did think the Targetmaster Mini-Cons (Emergency team and particularly the Air Military team) were the best ones. The Star Sabre team, particularly in the Decepticon colours were also good, and better than the Sky Boom Sheild and Requiem Blaster. Hmm, maybe I will keep the Dark Star Sabre.

I thought Scavenger, with that silly auto-walking gimmick was pretty poor. And the "role-play" Autobot (?!?) Laserbeak was not a good idea. I didn't like the Beast Wars repaints that they mini-con'ed up either.

What was your first one, and when?

Got Demolisher from Kmart Fountain Gate back in 2002, probably on the way to work, when I first saw the toys in store.

What ones are you currently most looking for and why?

Happy with my drastically reduced collection. But I will get the Generations Armada Starscream

Show us some pics of your collection of the ones you have.

Last man standing

[KalEl]

What are your Best and Worst toys of this Era?
Best-
Optimus/jetfire/overload
tidalwave
too many to think of.
Worst-
Hotshot
Sideswipe...........................

What was your first one, and when?
Overload - not sure when around the original release

What ones are you currently most looking for and why?
Starscream and many others

[Bidoofdude]

Where's the popcorn emoticon?

[Deonasis]

The Tidal Wave mould was used as Shockwave by Takara.

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Tidal_Wave_(Armada)#Armada

Thanks and D'OH! I thought Gok was referring to Shockblast/Laserwave from Energon/Superlink.. damn crazy name swapping.

[Golden Phoenix]

What are your Best and Worst toys of this Era?

Nemesis Prime - Hands down the best toy of the line. Awesome figure, good design and play value. Way better colours than the Optimus Prime version. And the mini-con that goes with him turns into a Gun.

What was your first one, and when?

Nemesis Prime - Near the end of the line. Got him at Myer. Got me back into Transformers.

What ones are you currently most looking for and why?

Tidal Wave and Megatron. I keep meaning to pick these up. I have Prime/Jetfire/Overload, and I need someone for them to fight.

[liegeprime]

What are your Best and Worst toys of this Era?

Best would prolly be the Minicons... I really like the little buggers! So much that I even got some of the recolours, but not all. Armada started the concept of a third race of TFs. Before this TFs are all just plain cybertronians with just "factions", but in Armada - factions become "race". Which I can relate too and plus they're cute like pokemons hehehe Wish they made a whole lot more of them in the early runs and not a lot of recolours though.

Worst would prolly be that Laserbeak camcorder thing - Had a chance to play with it and almost bought it at Parra fair once... but yeah good thing I had a play with it first... it was rubbish IMO so I didn't pursue buying it. hahahaha

What was your first one, and when?

The Street minicon team - the one that combines into a mini gestalt bot - Perceptor? Anyways yeah started the line with the minicons coz even though these were originally just the gimmick part of the line well, I love the figures even though some minicons had absolutely rubbish looks hehehe. I thought the bigger bots looked blocky and uninteresting but yeah, ended up getting them too hahah.
Cant remember exactly when but it was Armada being the current line at the time.

What ones are you currently most looking for and why?
Not actively looking, prolly if I get to chance upon a cheap affordable one, I will grab it - Red Alert - he's more in the main cast so I wanna have him , but as I said not actively after it.... Armada bigbots are kinda rubbish IMHO but for some crazy reason I don't wanna get rid of them in my collection at the moment...yet. Ill prolly keep all the minicons given the final decision if I was to eliminate the series in my collection.

Before him I was more trying to get an affordable Leader 1 minicon - this one was really hard to find cheap. but Ive since Acquired him so the seat goes to Red Alert. - already have his minicon partner, too.

Show us some pics of your collection of the ones you have.

Ill take a more updated pic when it's day time and add here. Ive recently rearranged again my collection room so need to take happy shots of it in better lighting - daytime hehehe

[Sharky]

What are your Best toys of this Era?

Tidalwave/Shockwave Megatron wasnt bad

What are your Worst toys of this Era?

Sideways - i really disliked that figure
Laserbeak - a giant camcorder sucky.

What was your first one, and when?

probably the first week they hit shelves i had all the large bots and probably opened up prime first, the trailer gimmick was cool but kinda sucky at the same time

What ones are you currently most looking for and why?
None that i can think of

Show us some pics of your collection of the ones you have.



there is a few missing from this picture....

[crankcase76]

What are your Best and Worst toys of this Era?

Best toy would have to be unicron and sideways.
Worst would have to be Optimus with the trailer as he couldn't move his legs even though the trailer was automatic fold out. But also with the smokestacks on prime as figure they just kept falling off.

What was your first one, and when?

Optimus prime with the trailer. Like the idea, but not a refined toy.

What ones are you currently most looking for and why?

UltraMagnus as Overload.

[Sharky]

To Celebrate Armada Month i have decided to do a little bit of Reminiscing, to see what it is like to open one of those figures for the first time the smell of the plastic the awesomeness tht was the twist ties and the cool little mini comic and colour catalogue. ahh The good old days.

So here it is what i will be opening for the very first time

Armada Powerlinx Optimus Prime with Corona Sparkplug




The Unboxing

do you remeber what the armada boxes where like the curved front 3 pieces of tape holding the flap closed keeping the toy sealed in its plastic.cardboard prison...nothing a good old fashioned Stanley cand fix





Close up



ohhh shiney



THE TWIST TIES

not like the modern marvels of paper ties these were the heavy duty wire tiess with plastic coating..



now there are to ways you can do this... painstakingly untwist them or the prefered method....Sidecutters...





ten to 15 minuttes later...a mess



FREEEEEDOMMMMM UPDATE 23/8/13



and whats in the baggy



Sparkplug



this little guy really is shiney but has a nice coolness feel to him, i guess deep down i think he is to shiney (is that possible) i think his face needs to be normal

Optimus Prime UPDATE 24/8/13




a blocky looking thing, but it did have a matrix in the chest kinda



Base




as far as trailer bases go this wasnt to bad, great for the minicons to use for the final battle... but then if there was to be a final battle i doubt very much prime would go in to battle without his pants

Pantimus Super Optimus Prime



blocky and brikky but it did have its cool points like the IR activation and self transforming.... someting we really have not seen again since


and that ladies and gentlebots is the unboxing of Powerlinx Optimus Prime.

hope you enjoyed it!