Finally getting a chance to give the first wave a good look over and transform, and as impressive as they are to have on display (their main marketing point, as seen by the included diorama displays), transformations are either annoyingly fiddly with heavy reliance on panels locking into each other, or the transformations are based on existing toys.
I knew that Bumblebee was based on the wave 3 TF5 Bumblebee toy, but I didn't realise that Voyager Starscream was an up-sized version of the TF3 Deluxe Starscream toy, or that Ratchet was also based on the TF3 Ratchet toy.
The thing that annoys me so much about panel-locking figures, is that they tend to have so much crammed inside with no spare space, that if anything is even slightly out of alignment, the panels don't line up or lock into place. If a toy needs to create an outer shell from panels, it needs to have space inside to allow for parts to be where they need to be, with a little tolerance.
I also see what other fans meant about Bumblebee needing a pin on the roof panel, as it doesn't seem possible to transform the toy without it popping off.
I still have the two Leaders to do yet, and I've seen that reviewers rate those two as the best of the first wave.

Quote Originally Posted by FruitBuyer View Post
Brawl is a Voyager
Ah, I should have seen that in the link title.