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The cartoon should be good, but most of the deluxe line so far ranges from bland to terrible (I'm looking at YOU BH Ratchet, with your ill-fitting Dinobot II homage). Smokescreen shines, and Wheeljack is very fun if you don't already have the regular version or find him on sale. The Predacons so far do nothing for me. I mean...they're just so lazy, it's like they aren't even trying with the transformations, they don't do anything interesting. I grew up with Beast Wars and I loves me some good beastformers, but I want more than legs become legs, arms become arms. I DO realize the utility of that engineering, but it's boring. I want things like...Fuzor Sky Shadow and Cybertron Wreckloose. They mix up the typical beastformer transformations with some very effective tricks. I'm especially fond of asymmetry in beastformers.

For exmaple, when we first saw Ripclaw, I was very excited, I thought the tail would become the arms and it would do something ineteresting with the transformation. Now? I don't even want to bother with it. Every single Predacon so far just has the same boring transformation.

The Voyagers are a bit more promising on the whole. Optimus looks great (thought I'm not a fan of the head), and the upcoming Ultra Magnus retool-mold-fusion looks fantastic. And I'm prepared to gush over how good Shockwave looks.

But the stuff I'm REALLY exited for? ABOMINUS! Cybervers Legion scale, sure, but ohhhhh man, this thing is going to be fantastic. All of the Terrorcons look solid on their own, and I can NOT wait to see Abominus in full, glorious color.\
Oh, and Airachnid finally got a decent figure.
As for CV Commanders, Trailbreaker looks awesome, and Shockwave looks just as good as his big brother, if not better for being cleaner.