Toy Review - POTP VOY Starscream

[griffin]

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

STARSCREAM
Series - Generations
Sub-line - Power of the Primes
Size/class - Voyager
New/remould/redeco - new
Wave - 1
Released here - January 2018 (Asia & America DEC 2017)
Approximate Retail Price - (probably about AU$50) US$25
Approximate Size - 20cm?
Allegiance - Decepticon
Alt-mode - Fighter Jet
Main Features/Gimmicks - Combiner core
Main Colours - White, blue, red
Main Accessories - 2 x gun, 2 x combiner foot, red (matrix?)

[BigTransformerTrev]

I find the lower legs and his forearms extremely chunky for a Starscream toy. Combined with his quite small head makes him look like he has been on cyberr-steroids or something. Do like his lower chest though.

Jet mode is kinda cool looking, except like CW Cyclonus he carries a lot of bulk under the back half of the jet and like CW Air Raid etc his arms are just stuck under the wings. Cockpit is a bit small.

Transformation is super easy - no instructions needed.

Comes with a lot of stickers, especially on the jet wings. While they look great and add a lot of detail (like Autobots ticked off, 'ghost attack' etc) they don't give me the impression that they will stay on forever, especially given time and heat.

Overall not a bad Starscream, but certainly not a must-have figure.

[M-bot]

This has been my most disappointing TF toy for quite some time. Too many compromises in order to get 3 modes out of the mould (jet, robot, combined torso) but none of them are executed well. Proportions way off to the point of ridiculous in robot mode. I absolutely cannot get the Starscream head to fold away in torso mode. Jet mode doesn’t peg together properly. The poor quality stickers are applied badly (skew and peeling out of the box).

This honestly feels like a first draft where there should have been 3-4 more passes to get it close to adequate. And then released without decent QC.

Can’t see the benefit of this. Avoid.

[shockNwave]

First up I like the jet mode from an overhead perspective but as the angle starts to lower it becomes apparent that there is too much bulk underneath it.

As for the robot mode, this is better but first I'd like to point out how in anime/manga it's standard for parts of the anatomy to be exaggerated and oversized (e.g. big googly eyes) therefore for me personally the bulky arms and legs on the figure actually work for me.

Thirdly, I love the historical significance of Starscream being a combiner for the first time (unless there's a Starscream out there I don't know of with the exception of fan made ones). This puts the POTP version alongside the Alternity version (the latter being the first time Starscream has ever transformed into a car).

P.S. I hate the poor application of the stickers. It's only second to my dog's breakfast application of stickers on G1 figures back when I was a kid.

[GoktimusPrime]

Thirdly, I love the historical significance of Starscream being a combiner for the first time (unless there's a Starscream out there I don't know of with the exception of fan made ones). This puts the POTP version alongside the Alternity version (the latter being the first time Starscream has ever transformed into a car).

2016's Unite Warriors Starscream was the first combining Starscream toy AFAIK.

[shockNwave]

2016's Unite Warriors Starscream was the first combining Starscream toy AFAIK.

Well, it looks like the internet only refers me to POTP Starscream whenever I type in "Starscream combiner". At least he's the first Starscream to be a central combiner.