He's a lovely little jeep, cast mainly in a orange/brown colour which works well. The wheels are moulded in black plastic, there's some sandy coloured plastic on the rollcage & pivot for the crane arm and dark blue on the sides of the passenger compartment which contains seats and has a fold down windscreen ! He comes with a spare tire, mounted on the back of the vehicle, cast in clear red because it will later form part of his Energon weapon. He's also got a crane arm/gun that attaches to a 5mm peg that folds back causing the arm to bend upwards. I think there's been a small oversight here - the 5mm peg could easily have been made a Minicon port enabling Minicons to be attached to this new vehicle.
Mounted behind the passenger compartment is Strongarm's spark. This is similar to the Beast Wars/Beast Machines spark - a silver disc with an Autobot (in this case) symbol etched into .it covered by clear plastic and surrounded by a raised lip. Onto this lip can be pinned an Energon star - all the Omnicons & Terrorcons have them. The Autobot one is a six pointed star with three larger points and three smaller ones mounted round a disc made from clear red plastic. I believe the intention was for the disc to act as a lens making the faction symbol look bigger when you looked at the Energon star but this doesn't work too well in practice
To Transform turn the spare type round revealing the head, then remove both the tyre and the crane arm. In a lovely move turn the back wheels in at the top of their wheel arches to reveal his arms. Spin him round at the waist - the back of the passenger compartment, flip up some panels that lock him together on either side, and bend the bonnet down to form his lower legs. Fold the windscreen forward a little so the windscreen is flat not leant back. Take the spare tyre and split it in two - push one half back while pulling on the other.
What you get out the end of the is a nice looking solid robot. More black is revealed on the upper robot legs while the upper arms and chest are the same dark blue as mentioned before with the forearms being the same sandy colour as the rollcage & crane pivot. The Articulation is great - bending knees, ball jointed hips, rotating waist & neck, shoulders that fold backwards & forward at the body & have ball joints where the arms meet them and a bending elbow. If I had to be picky perhaps the legs bend a little too far below where the knees should be ! He's got a nice head - which I think is the same dark blue as earlier - but the peg hole for the tyre is in the top which means you can mount things like the Energon Sabre in the top of it !
The removed Energon pieces can be used by the robot - the spare tyre can be a throwing weapon or mounted on the robot's shoulder, while one of the posts on the side of the crane arm lets you use it as a gun. Alternately mount the gun on it's vehicle mode post as a shoulder cannon. However their main purpose is to combine to form one weapon: The halves of tyre plug into opposite sides of the end of crane arm transforming it into a double bladed axe which can be held by the gun barrel.
Overall - very good basic, the size class obviously benefited for it's year off during Armada.
Strongarm was sold in Japan as SC-06 Blast Arm.
Strongarm's Energon weapon was made available in several different colours as a promotional item and is also packed in with Superlink toy SC-24 Roadbuster Wild where it has a more orange hue to it.
I think what makes it even worse is there are obvious repaints that could be done - in particular it's a chance missed to do it in green and black as Hound !
A big disappointment after the G1 inspired repaints of Armada.
Worst. Repaint. Ever !
Lovely repaint.
Strongarm finally gets a Hound themed colour scheme - olive green for the orange/brown car body, dark green for the blue and grey for the sandy colour. The Energon becomes a dark smoked colour.
Superb repaint, finally in the sort of colours it should have had all along.
Crosshairs is almost an inverse version of Fallback - the orange/brown is now a sandy colour with the blue becoming brown and the sandy colour becoming grey. The Energon is the same smoked colour as Movie Strongarm.
Again another great repaint. It's nice to see the mould finally getting the treatment it deserves.