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Got these three in today. Chromia isn't horrible - yes, she looks a bit masculine (and I'm aware the original use of the mold was for Prowl), but at least she has something that passes as an actual chest (unlike everyone who ended up on the Legacy Arcee and Minerva molds). She's got some good articulation (just missing wrist rotation, sadly). The only two gripes I have about her robot mode are her hands (her right hand is sculpted to be open wider than the other so she can hold weapons with 5mm handles, but makes it very difficult for her to hold the weapons she actually comes with), while the other is with the weapons themselves; they're her hubcaps, and unfurl using a gear mechanism when you rotate the top. Mine keep popping out of alignment, which is almost certainly going to lead to the gears getting stripped as time goes on.
Core BM Cheetor is...disappointing. I heard people describe him as looking like a Happy Meal toy, and sadly I have to agree. It's baffling when comparing him to Vertebreak or the more recent Energeon Megatron - what happened? The kibble on his arms is annoying and does nothing to hide his robot hands in Beast Mode, and his feet (which are totally inaccurate to the source material) have no ankles, which renders all the joints in his legs useless because you can only get him to stand in one pose. He also has pegs on the insides of his upper arms that obstruct arm rotation, and since his head can't tilt back, you can't really pose him in the 'gliding mode' he did on the show.
BB Shockwave, however, is awesome! He's got a ton of articulation (including rotating wrists) and looks great in pretty much any pose. He actually has two normal hands, but you can fold one inside to attach his cannon and recreate his signature look; the cannon itself can be mounted on either hand, or held like a normal gun via a 5mm peg.
His head has light piping, but it doesn't work nearly as well as his Siege mold's (seriously, that thing was some black magic).
