Nightscream

Allegiance: Minicon
Size: Mini-Con
Difficulty of Transformation: Very Easy
Color Scheme: Purplish black, light milky gray, black, and some silver and bright greenish yellow
Rating: 8.7

(NOTE: Because this is a repaint, this is not a full-blown review. This mainly covers any changes made to the mold and the color scheme, and merely compares it to Oval. For a review on the mold itself, read the review of Oval here.)

    This mold looks kickin' in its new color scheme, that's for sure. As you probably know, I've always liked almost any "black and..." color schemes, and Nightscream certainly fits that bill- in this case, black and grey/silver. The vehicle mode looks especially slick, like it's an illegal street racing vehicle or something. In robot mode, it still looks great, although this mold still needs as much paint detailing as ever- it actually gets surprisingly plain in a few areas,like the feet. A really cool yellow eye visor almost makes up for it, though.
    No mold changes have been made to Nightscream, but his lower chest tends to stay in the upper chest pegs much more snugly than on my Oval.
    Oval was already a cool Minicon, but Nightscream is even cooler. One of the best Minicons of them all- his only real weakness is his lack of good paint detailing. Highly recommended, especially if you don't already have the Airazor mold that he's packaged with.

Airazor

Allegiance: Autobot (at least on the package...)
Size: Super-Con
Difficulty of Transformation: Medium
Color Scheme: Purplish black, black, silver, light red, and some white, electric blue, and light green
Powerlinx ports: 2 (0 gimmicked)
Rating: 7.8

(NOTE: Because this is a repaint, this is not a full-blown review. This mainly covers any changes made to the mold and the color scheme, and merely compares it to Airazor Transmetal. For a review on the mold itself, read the review of Airazor Transmetal here.)

    This form of Airazor Transmetal is the best of the three color schemes this mold has been through, in my opinion. Again, I really like "black and..." color schemes, and this time Airazor is mostly black with some red and silver highlights. One thing that I don't like, though, is that about half of her "black" is, in fact, just a very dark purple- not enough where it really contrasts with the black, but enough where it's noticeable. It doesn't give Airazor enough color variance in her robot mode, since her arms and legs have no detailing on them whatsoever. On the upside, though, the red and silver highlights on the wings and back are awesome, as are the baby blue "electric surge" patterns. As with the other Armada beasts, Airazor has had her chrome plastic replaced with regular plastic, and she has Minicon ports molded in- one in the middle of each wing. What's especially odd, though, is that she has a DECEPTICON symbol molded under the panels on her back in bird mode... so what is she, an Autobot or a Decepticon!?
    Airazor has a really nifty color scheme this time around, although I do wish the purple wasn't so dark so that it could provide more contrast. Excellent electric blue patterns. Recommended.

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Review by Beastbot

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