Quote Originally Posted by Sinnertwin View Post
i quite like the little Minicons.
i can definitely see their appeal
Disclaimer: I've yet to see/handle Jetstorm IRL. This post is based on the presumption that his level of design/engineering is on par w/ Fracture's Airazor.

These Mini-Cons are FAR below the standard of any other Mini-Con that's ever come before*, and nothing like the Mini-Cons from say the Unicron Trilogy (where some of the best toys were Mini-Cons, often eclipsing their larger Autobot/Decepticon counterparts!). Look at say Armada Sparkplug. He transforms from a Lamborghini Diablo to an articulated robot mode, which is reasonably well designed for such a small figure. Others like the Air Defence Team Mini-Cons even have weapons sculpted onto them! And they also activated gimmicks when plugged into Autobots/Decepticons. These Deployer Mini-Cons transform from folded up robots (or as I call them, "lumps") to unfolded robots with no real articulation. I will grant that Jetstorm's armour add ons look better than Airazor's (who just looks like he got shredded up by exploding shrapnel), but it's ultimately rather superfluous.

The Armada Mini-Cons were so cool that I enjoyed collecting repaints of them with the Micron Booster sets. I have zero intention of purchasing a repaint of Airazor. I'd get a repaint of Jetstorm just so that I could have the mould without needing to purchase Deployer Drift and repurpose him as Jetstorm in the Gokiverse.

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*I'd even rate them as being below the McDonalds Happy Meal Mini-Cons, because they came w/ Transformers that were only $2 each (or free if you purchased a Happy Meal). These Mini-Cons come w/ $23-29 figures, so in terms of value for money, I'd still rate the Maccas Mini-Cons as being above the RiD2015 Deployer Mini-Cons! And don't get me wrong, the Maccas Mini-Cons are really stupid, but they were literally cheap. These Mini-Cons are only cheap in a figurative sense.