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I really like this figure! Kudos to Hasbro for making the armor and net removable.

This is a much more show accurate figure than the AM version IMO. I never liked the Knockout mold, which is (once again IMO) only beaten in the ugliness department by the Airachnid mold.

One thing about the armor and net: remove them as soon as humanly possible and store them somewhere far away from the figure! Rubber and plastic are a terrible combination and much grief will occur if the the armor is left in contact with the figure.

If you need proof, go dig up your older Megabloks sets such as Blok Bots and Future Force. If you stored the pieces loose in a box, be prepared to find popcorn ball-like clusters of bricks melted and stuck to any rubber parts in the box such as tires and hoses. If you left the sets assembled, the damage will be much less widespread, but it will be there all the same. Rubber kills!

IMO shininess loses to ACTUALLY LOOKING LIKE THE CHARACTER.

Looks to me like they designed this for season 2 but didn't use it, then added the armour. In robot mode the armour is more like an arbour.

I like shiney. But the Beast version is better. Maybe reprolabels will make a shiney set of stickers to go over the existing paint apps.

I've liked him since I first saw his pictures and this review just emphasizes just how cool he is. There really is no contest, BH Smokescreen is just so much better than his AM counterpart.

Is he a little shorter than the Arms Micron figure in robot mode??? If anything he looked a little taller.

There's some quite serious cheating going on with this new figure, but that's kind of par for the course with PRIME and when the end result looks that good I won't complain too much.

Seeing this review has added weight to the idea that I may not get any of the Beast Hunter versions of returning characters (except Smokescreen and maybe Optimus and Magnus). Most of them have significant differences between their standard PRIME and Beast Hunters appearances, but that rubber wreath of Smokescreen's makes almost no difference. Then again I suppose Rhinox, Waspinator and Inferno went the whole of Beast Wars in the same body while everyone else upgraded once or twice. May just get the ones I like i.e. not Beast Hunters Ratchet.