He got released in Japan just a few days ago so I received mine and ...

I was disappointed. Looking at him in the box, my first thought was "Dang, he smoll!" and when I pulled him out and had to assemble the tails fins and the wings, I looked at him and thought. "hmmm"

He seems to feel like he's lacking in paint and seems very limb-y. As a result though articulation is pretty good, except for the shoulders where the big black pylon things seem to get in the way. Man he look really lanky hey. I think this lankiness takes away a bit of his power presence he used to have.

Transformation is simple and pretty similar to the original toy. HOWEVER for some reason plugging the legs together is extremely annoying. They just don't easily plug in and be done. You're kind of faffing around arranging, putting this peg in, then this other peg. Readjusting the toes again. It's so damn annoying.

Vehicle mode is gaptactular and doesn't look too impressive. One thing that made me chuckle was that during transformation, you flip over the head and they have a raised nub, obviously a reference to the fact that his head was Just sitting in plain sight on the original. But then why didn't they take this opportunity to improve the moulding there and make it fit a bit better with the cockpit section? It's dumb stuff like this that makes me shake my head and wonder WTF they were thinking. (Hots shots butt windshield will be the same; why not make it better???).

having also recently gotten my mitts on Super mode Armada Screan, which I quite like, I feel that GF stars here has been adapted from Armada. They transform the same ish way, but the front of GF is the back of armada. Although, these two just copy the original transformations by the looks of things.

Another gripe I have is the lazy panels under the jet mode. These cover gaps in his robot legs, but they stick out like a sore thumb in jet mode. And they clip together way tighter than is needed. Sure they do hold the undermounted gun nice and snugly, but man they are an eyesore in vehicle mode.

Out of all the TFs I've bought this year, GF Stars is the worst one. He does look good in robot mode, but he could've looked better. I would not recommend this guy, even if you don't have an original. He just feels like a Friday Arvo job.

Galaxy Force? more like Galaxy Farce.