Blurr with Incinerator:

Incinerator (Minicon, Blue dragster)

Features: Aside from the standard Minicon features, Incinerator is also designed to fit into the back of Blurr's car mode to pop out the wings.

Pros: Looks OK in both modes, if a bit boxy and simple.

Cons: Pretty simple. Has the whole front of a dragster on his right arm

Blurr (Autobot, silver-gray race car.)

Features: When Incinerator is plugged into the back of the car, the sides pop down and make wings for a flying car mode. Has two minicon-activated missile launchers, which can either fit on pegs on the car mode, or holes in the robot's arms.

Pros: Car mode is very nice looking, and the flight mode is clever and seems convincing enough. Robot mode is also quite good, looking somewhat in style with the 'Robots in Disguise' cars.

Cons: Not very posable at all, with no knee joints and no useful articulation in the hips or shoulders. Most of the car mode hangs off his back, and he falls backward easily.

Score: (out of 10, Main toy scores twice) Blurr 8, Incinerator 6.5, Overall 7.5

Optimus Prime with Over-run:

Over-run (Minicon, silver space-jet)

Features: Transforms from jet to robot to a gun that can be held by Optimus or any robot that can hold standard weapons.

Pros: Gun mode is decent and convincing, somewhat evocative of the original Optimus Prime weapon. Jet mode has a tiny landing gear to sit level.

Cons: Robot mode is a bit weak. Jet nose sticks straight out from the chest, and the legs can only pivot sideways.

Optimus Prime, (Autobot, Red and Blue miniature of the large Optimus truck cab)

Features: Can hold Over-run gun in hand, store on back, or on the back of the truck mode. Truck cab can hitch to the trailer of the larger Optimus Prime toy (but not combine into a super robot). Robot mode is well-articulated, more like a Beast Wars toy than most Armada toys. Attaching a minicon to his back and sliding the lever causes the arms to move in a punching action.

Pros: If you prefered the articulation of Beast Wars or Robots in Disguise toys, this is the Armada toy to get. Excellent articulation from head to toe, including a waist swivel, tilting ankles, a ball-jointed head, and moving flaps on the armor 'skirt' to allow leg movement. Looks very good as well, with nice paint detail and styling. I'd love to see a Megatron toy done this way to match. (though Megabolt Megatron seems to make a decent stand-in)

Cons: Since this is intentionally a smaller, less expensive Optimus toy, I can't really fault this, but it doesn't seem nearly as tough or imposing as the larger version. The truck mode doesn't look as quite as sleek as the larger toy either, even though it doesn't have robot hands sticking out the back. A few joints, such as the shoulders and hips, could have been improved to help articulation even more. The legs scrape against the hips, so they can't go very far forward, for example. Finally, the punching action isn't very impressive, looking more like some kind of lame dance move IMO.

Score: Optimus Prime 9.5, Over-run 7.5, Overall 8.8