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Armada Over-Run & Run-Over
Micron Legend Surge & Sweep
and
Universe Battle in a Box Over-Run
Review


Over Run

Over-Run is a jet (complete with fold out front landing gear again like the Air Defence Team)

He's mainly composed of the silver plastic that makes up Prime's exhaust pipes except for the landing gear and a joint in the robot's shoulder that are the same blue plastic as the waist and pieces that connect the arms to the body of Prime's robot form (you can tell - on Crystal Over- Run these are still opaque blue as are the corresponding pieces on Crystal Prime). The rear wheels on Over-run are black.

He has one Minicon socket on top of the jet's body. Mounting in using this socket just makes it look like it's second alternative mode, which is a gun: Fold the tail back to pop the handle out then if you want to fold the wings down to flatten the sides and hold upside down. Nice gun resembling Superbase Prime's hand weapon. Prime's the first Supercon Armada toy to have a hand gun ! This gun mode can be hand held or plugged into a socket in Prime's flatbed behind the cab.

TF to robot: Fold the wings up. Stand on end. Fold the undercarriage out to each side to form the arms. Bend the nose down to become the chest and reveal the head.

What's revealed is a serviceable "cone head"esque robot marred slightly by the nose of the jet projecting out the front of the body.

In Japan Over Run was known as Surge and came with Std Convoy (Supercon Optimus Prime) as Micron Legend Toy MC-06.

In the Dreamwave Armada/Energon comic Over-run was a Minicon from another dimension last seen communicating with Cybertron. I'd like to think that when Cybertron rolled around in comic continuity Over-Run would be reborn as Safeguard, Vector Prime's Minicon as there's lots of similarities between them.


Run Over

Run-Over is the Minicon used by Nemesis Prime. You've got to love the name, a neat reversal of the toy's original name giving a much more evil sounding one. Run Over is cast in a dark grey almost brown plastic with the exception of the landing gear and shoulders which are a dark blue. The rear wheels remain black

Sweep

Sweep is the Minicon for Micron Legend Scourge. He's silver in colour, with purple painted trim on the wings and black wheels, landing gear & shoulders. See Crystal Surge bellow for distribution details on this toy.

Crystal Surge

Remy Act 153 and Remy Act 154 Crystal Surge came with Crystal Convoy in Japan - an exclusive released in a pair with Micron Legend Scourge as a limited edition of 5000 for TV magazine. All the silver is cast in clear plastic. The blue remains solid blue - when you look at Crystal Convoy a very few of the blue pieces are still solid on him too. The rear wheels are a clear smoked colour.

Gorgeous. I want.


Universe Over- Run

Universe Over-run is a companion to Battle-In-A-Box Ultra Magnus. Silver becomes pale grey, blue becomes white and black remains black.

Cybertron & Universe Over-Run

There are no Cybertron and Universe/Classics Over-run. The Armada Supercon Prime's in these ranges come with modified planet keys to operate their gimmicks. Both would be very similar to the original - Cybertron's would have very dark grey/black shoulders and landing gear and Universe's would be dark blue.

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