The main body of the rocket is white - unique to this toy in the team. The engines at the rear are attached using red plastic common to the entire team and the middle of the five engines is cast in blue.
The engines themselves have a very odd uneven arrangement - they look like they should be points of a square with one in the middle but some are close together and other father apart !
As well as forming part of the Requiem Blaster Skyblast combined with Payload - find the side of Skyblast with two pegs sticking out and put these into the holes on the back of Payload's vehicle with the nose pointing forward for Payload to act as a transported for Skyblast.
Skyblast also has a Minicon peg. It's not explained on the instructions what it's for but I believe it's designed to incorporate a fourth Minicon into the Requiem Blaster.
The Minicon socket is the middle engine of the five. This means you can mount the rocket on a toy as if it's about to launch - works quite well with Hoist's peg in the middle of his claw or on his (or Overload's) shoulders. However the central engine can be swung out the side of the toy allowing it to be mounted on an arm and pointed along the arm. You can also turn the missile round like this and use the rear engines as a quad cannon. Both modes here have the advantage that the minicon can be turned while mounted. Skyblast can also be held as a weapon by his Minicon peg.
TF: Separate the rear engines and fold under the toy. Rotate the front of the spaceship up 180 degrees and then fold down the nosecone to form the arm.. Fold the blue head - revealed amongst the engines - up onto the body. Point the middle engine up, and then fold down where it meets the white shuttle body to form the other arm. Rotate the toy till the white waist piece faces front.
The robot has a good colour mix between the three used. If you look at the robot's feet from underneath one has the engines close together and one has the engines further apart. He bends at the knees, has ball jointed hips, his shoulders turn and bend to the sides. The knees are the problem on the initial release - they're assembled wrong so the knees bend forward and not back. The Mincion peg ends up on one shoulder and the socket at the end of an arm.
Overall: good rocket, great add on, good robot bar the knees.
In Japan Skyblast was known as Apollo, after the US moon missions using similar looking rockets, and appeared with the other two official members of the Space team in Minicon pack numbered MM-13. This release fixes Skyblast's knees and also removes the dirt off his tail fins. There's no giftset featuring this team as their obvious partner Jetfire is a toy larger than Supercon size.
Original Skyblast Review: "Sky Blast: The real star of tonight for me: In space ship mode his left blue robot arm is hidden amongst the 4 engines in the centre. But it can be rotated down and since it's got a powering socket at the end of the arm it can be used as a mounting onto any powering connector as a big rocket being used by the larger toy. There's more though: he's the 2nd minicon (after Grindor) to have a Powering connector, which means the larger toys can hold the missile too and as I said above he connects into Payload ! To form the robot pull the legs apart and fold the waist down. Flip the head onto the shoulders and rotate the nosecone and the arm we've already mentioned 180 degrees, and then fold down the nosecone to form the right arm. The instructions say rotate the waist so the white bit is at the front, but I'd say put it at the back to give you the benefit of both the hips and the knees. I dunno why but the result reminds me of Megatron somehow ! Anyway this is my new favourite minicon !"
The Space Team's first brush with misfortune occurs late on in Transformers Armada - along with the Adventure & Street Speed teams who were also in Armada Minicons wave three - when their Unicron Battles recolour was cancelled. Red remains red in this team, but the other common colour in the team light blue becomes black.
Like the light blue the white on Skyblast also becomes black giving a good looking monochrome red and black colour scheme to this repaint. The knees would have been correctly assembled on this release.
This version may be the remoulded one mentioned in the Change Micron review bellow.
Red becomes an sandy olive colour throughout the release, the light blue on Mir & Apollo as well as the black on Move becomes brown and the white of Apollo & blue of Mire becomes dark green with lime green zigzag patterns on it suggesting a sort of radiation theme.
This is the only time that the Space team gets the same paint scheme used on all three parts.
Red becomes grey on all three toys and the light blue used on Astroscope & Skyblast becomes a teal blue. Skyblast's white becomes black.
This is the second attempt at doing a black Skyblast: I prefer the black & red unreleased Armada version
Red remains red on all three toys and the light blue used on Astroscope & Skyblast becomes a pale grey blue as does the white used on Skyblast.
For this team Red becomes Purple, Light Blue becomes Grey, Darker Blue becomes a very Pale Grey, Black (only on Payload/Blastcharge) becomes an Off White - these 2 are very similar but different when you see them next to each other and White (on Skyblast/Backblast)becomes a Rust Red.