Phil's
Armada Stormcloud,
Micron Legend Knot & Bilge
and
Micron Booster Mile
Review


Stormcloud

Stormcloud is a speedboat (Lovely, Super, Smashing, Great. Let's have a look at what you could of won. Ooh, it's the Speedboat !" He's got a Cyberjet style ball missile launcher mounted into the middle of his passenger compartment. Said launcher is hinged at it's base and where the connecting strut meets the missile. it can't be moved off of the forward pointing direction.

Stormcloud's Minicon socket is underneath the vehicle in the middle of the toy. He's automatically earning points by providing a missile launcher upgrade to a larger toy but it comes at a cost as he's got a pointed prow which gives him a sort of upside down triangular look when mounted on a flat surface or a Minicon peg. You get the missile launcher but you do get the odd shape which can't be anything other than a boat too.

TF: Pull the front of the boat out to the sides and down a bit. Fold the back of the boat down to become the legs.

Unlike the rest of the Sea team Stormcloud doesn't have his missile launcher arm mounted in robot mode. Instead it's on his back. It can be folded down to give extra support or over his head to be fired forward. His legs - despite first appearances - do separate allowing him to bend independently at both knee & hip. In addition the shoulders shrug up at the body and have a ball joint connecting them to the arms. The arms also have an elbow joint on them which is much more solid than those seen on the Street Speed team.

OK boat, poor add on despite the launcher but good robot.

Original Review:

"These should not be good. They're boats, they're a brick orange colour, and they've got lilac missiles. And yet somehow they're great ! The ball Missiles help....

Stormcloud

A speedboat. In fact bar the black paint job this is Nightboat, the crime solving boat ! The missile launcher on this pivots back and forth on the boat and up and down, no sideways movement. As with all the port is underneath the vehicle. The front splits and pulls to the sides to form the arms, back folds backwards to become the legs. Hips, knees, elbows, and ball jointed shoulders PLUS a missile launcher which can either hang on his back or pear turret like (ala Hotshot) over his head. Fun !

I dunno, I just like these 3 - I think they're fun and work better than you think the missile launcher on a boat idea should. "


Unicron Battles Stormcloud

The Sea Team were returned to sale in the last wave of Unicron Battles toys in Armada.

Rust brown becomes blue and lilac becomes grey, Much improved overall these colours help to emphasise that Waterlog is in fact a Minicon version of Seaspray. Given that Oceanglide is obviously meant to be Powerglide (especially in the original colours) what does that make Stormcloud ? Given the 1985 Minibot connections of the other two I suggest looking these as well - and the obvious choice is Beachcomber both for the blue & grey colourscheme and the sea related name.


Micron Knot

The Japanese Sea team were released as MM-15. Stormcloud is known in Japan as Knot. The Japanese version of the team is significantly different to the US version and matches the images seen on the packaging as well as the animation in the cartoon. Rust brown becomes red and lilac becomes yellow.

Much improved. The name is good for a Speedboat (as in travelling at a rate of knots)


Dimension-X Knot

During Micron Legend limited edition repaints of the Minicon teams were released under the Dimension-X label but within the Micron Legend numbering system. The Dimension-X Sea Team were numbered MM-18 Rust brown becomes purple and lilac becomes grey. The recolouring of this team perfectly matches the Micron Legend Shockwave toy which is a recoloured version of Armada Tidal Wave.

Original review: "The business. A purple that matches Tidal Wave, and makes the boys look rather evil. Get them "


DVD Bilge

The Sea team are renamed the Aqua Raider team for the DVD releases and are packed with Micron Legend DVDs volumes 8-10. Rust brown becomes brown and lilac becomes black.

Bilge has sandy & red painted highlights. Not my favourite version of the toy. Bilge comes with DVD volume 9.


Micron Booster Mile

This repainted Sea team is found in Micron Booster v1. Original Review nearly says it all:"Repainted Tat Sea Team in a horrible bright pale green for red and pale yellow for purple colour swap ! "

Mile has some orange highlights on the his robot chest & forearms. Mile is Micron Booster V1 toy number 9.


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