The Micron Legends (Armada in the US) is one of the more successful series ever since G1 ended. The story is not canon in TF mythos but yet garners quite a huge following. I have not watch the series yet but I do hope I get to spare some time to see what I've been missing out.
Let's see some pictures.
First up is Overload. The limbs do not bend at the 'elbows' and 'knees', its just a very blocky looking character. I think its cute in a robotic sort of way. It transforms into dual cannons that attaches to the back of Optimus.
Jetfire, more articulated than overload and I like its chubby design. But why does he use a loudspeaker for a weapon?
Here we have the star of the show. I liked the truck's robot mode but the combined super mode doesn't sit well with me especially with its legs wide apart like that. And being unable to bend the knees in super mode sucks too. Not shown here is its base mode. Its sort of a spiritual successor to Ginrai but comparing the designs, Ginrai would definitely kick this Convoy's ass.
Moving on we shall see the combine mode of the 3 Transformers.
This is how they combined when in vehicle mode. Again see the spiritual resemblance to Ginrai and God Bomber combination? It possesses the same problems too, for one I can't display it in this mode because I don't have a case wide enough for me to display this in. Which leads me to...
This mode I can live with. It looks bad ass, the 2 cannons reminds me of Gundam Virtue in 00. The only gripes I have with it is that its too top heavy and can easily fall over if given enough a strong breeze and the knees can't bend. I think the kness being unable to bend is the biggest thing that's turning me off on this figure. How do one expect to give it a kick ass pose if you can't bend the knees? Thank god recent Takara/Hasbro abominations do not have these problems. At least if they look ugly, they still can pose well.
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