Review: #807
Name: Starscream
Brand: Transformers
Allegiance: Decepticon
Line: Generations - Legacy: United
Year of Release: 2024
Size Class: Voyager (Wave 2)
Mold Status: new
JET MODE:
Based upon his appearance in the Cybertron cartoon, Starscream transforms into a Cybertronian jet.
It's a tetrajet and looks fairly faithful to the original.
Size-wise, Starscream is a good size in jet mode, he feels bulky and chunky (although maybe not in a great way).
Starscream comes with a mini cyber-key, although it just slots into place and doesn't activate anything.
The blades in each wing are flipped out manually now, it's cast in translucent purple plastic.
The robot gun usually pegs underneath the jet mode, but it can also peg on top, underneath the tailfins.
He has some undercarriage kibble, and is a bit too chunky underneath.
Otherwise, this is a good jet mode.
TRANSFORMATION:
He transforms very similarly to the original toy. The sides are the arms which flips down. The front splits in half to form the legs, and then you fold the cockpit down for the torso. It's a simple transformation.
ROBOT MODE:
The goal of this figure is to give the character an update, and he has much slimmer proportions, giving him a lanky look.
He has giant shoulder pads as kibble, and the tailfin on his back. Given the shoulder pads are the key defining trait of the character design, he doesn't actually have that much kibble.
The head sculpt is okay, it's typical Starscream.
In robot mode, despite his tall lanky look, he's only average in height and size.
Articulation is good, with joints for his head, shoulders, elbows, wrists, hips, knees and ankles.
He comes with a purple gun, and the cyber-key can peg to the back of it.
He can hold the gun in either hand.
The cyber-key can stay where it was in jet mode, which is his back now. You can manually flip down the blades in either shoulder.
The blades are another key defining trait of the character design, even though they are a bit awkward to pose with.
An interesting thing is that the shoulder pieces (the jet's wings) are attached via 5mm pegs, so you can actually remove them and peg them anywhere there are 5mm slots.
The original toy has proportion issues, and it seems worse here. Given how his legs fold up for jet mode, his thighs are long, emphasizing his lanky stature
The gun can store on his back when not in use.
Despite the lankiness, this is still a decent robot mode, but can feel somewhat generic.
OVERALL:
Starscream is a solid update to the original (which wasn't too bad either). He retains the gimmicks of the original (just manually executed rather than springloaded), and is a faithful update. Although his proportions makes him look stretched, it's still a good figure.
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