Unicron's Mini-Con, Dead End, is a satellite mounted with a large gun.

Leader-1 is a kind of buggy with large guns who transforms into a robot AND a handgun for Megatron. His fixed arms seem awkward and stubby, but I guess that's the only way it could have worked.

The Dark Fleet can also combine with Megatron to give him a powered-up look with extra firepower and a huge claw.

Ramjet, as mentioned is very small. He also looks very awkward and thin in robot form. It almost looks as if he has only one leg, on which he simply hops around, but that's just a limitation of his construction.

Now, all arguements about old warplanes and bumblebees being 'too fat to fly' would just fall over laughing at the Armada Seekers. The nose is fine, but the body of the jet is ridiculously chunky, though it looks great from above. Transformation is reasonably impressive (and simple), and robot mode is... just plain odd-looking. With the guns forward or back, he looks more than a little ridiculous from the side. Surely the back end could have folded down just like the nose, even with the electronics? Speaking of those, the sounds are good... but nothing outstanding. There seems to be a nasty glitch with the switch at the rear of the plane, in that the sound effects sometimes won't switch off!

Something I don't like about the Armada Seekers is that their only non-Mini-Con weapon is a sword made out of one wing. It just doesn't look like a sword... and some kind of handgun could have been mounted somewhere in plane mode, surely?

Starscream's Mini-Con, Swindle, is a curiosity for several reasons. Firstly, why is a jet paired with a racing car? Secondly, why package such an iconic character with such a terrible looking partner (this mold also features as part of Skyboom/Street speed team)? Thirdly, how did such a terrible looking Mini-Con, with so little in the way of posability and overall play value ever get made in the first place? And lastly, why does this red racing car have the name of one of the Combaticons?

 The head is pretty good - very robotic, rather than having a proper face like Starscream - though the large crest is awkward. Not half as awkward, though, as having half the plane sticking out of his back. The whole thing, apart from the head and the tiny guns either side of the cockpit, is exactly the same mold as Starscream, just in different colours. It's difficult to decide which has the best colour scheme. On the one hand, both are instantly recognisable, and Starscream's clean and simple look works perfectly, but Skywarp's extra painted details on his forearms makes a big difference to the look of the upper body.

The electronic sounds are identical to Starscream's, and the rear, Mini-Con activated switch has exactly the same problem.

Skywarp's Mini-Con, Thunderclash, transforms in a very similar way to his Seeker master, and looks similarly awkward in robot mode. Pretty neat, nonetheless, and a much more appropriate partner than Starscream's

I have to admit, the more I look at these models, the more I like them. Sure, they're awkward and have too much hanging off their backs, but they're pretty fun toys. The Decepticons did far better out of Armada than the Autobots. It is rather a shame that they didn't vary the sound effects between the three, just a little.

Disappointingly, Thundercracker even comes with the same Mini-Con as Starscream but, again, recoloured and renamed to become Zapmaster. It's still a crap model, easily one of the worst Mini-Cons.

The truck Prime is slightly larger than the basic version and has a button on the roof, as opposed to a Mini-Con link. Transform from truck to robot, and the trailer becomes the base. Transform into the torso of the larger robot and the trailer becomes its legs. One very neat little feature is an LED in Super Optimus Prime's right fist. Plug in his gun, push a button on his shoulder, and you get a neat lighting effect (but no sound)

Base mode and Super Robot mode have odd little sound effects, and the trailer in its various forms is bristling with Mini-Con links, some of which activate special features.

Prime's Mini-Con, Sparkplug, looks very much like an upgraded Bumblebee. Some of his joints are VERY delicate, and can pop apart all too easily.

Laserbeak has no Mini-Con link points, and comes with no Mini-Con companion... probably because the scale is all wrong. It is most likely a huge coincidence that Armada Laserbeak is about the right size to use the Gen 1 cassettes, including the original Laserbeak.

Vehicle mode is nice and chunky (and totally disproportionate from any other model in the range) with two Mini-Con activated features. The first, on his bonnet, opens the front and fires a disc projectile. Whether this is a weapon or a rescue ring is open to debate. The second is very odd - a peg towards the rear of the car, on top of the central rig (whatever it's supposed to be) flips out what looks to be a dual missile launcher... whereas in fact it's a claw-missile launcher.

Transformation is quite simple, but the resultant robot is rather awkward looking. In many ways, he looks as if the designers just stuck the front of the car on a model of RoboCop. The torso is very chunky, but the legs seem too long and thin for such a broad-chested 'bot.

The use of translucent grey plastic for light-piping is somewhat hampered by the blue paint over the top of it. Why they didn't just use blue translucent plastic, I don't know, as it would have been a perfectly sensible substitute for the grey, and might have done a better job of hiding his head in car mode.

His Mini-Con, Longarm, is a tiny wee crane in black and orange, with almost no paintwork, making him look incredibly plain. Even in robot mode, he looks unfinished.

Magnus is vastly more posable than the larger version of this model, largely because there's no powerlinking to a trailer to take into account. That having been said, the arms could have been dealt with similarly, as this one's ball joints are far superior to the larger model. The big surprise was that the range of movement in the legs isn't hugely different from the larger one. They move out to the sides more, certainly, but the hips are molded in a way that prevents too much forward movement. On the upside, the waist swivels and the feet move quite freely, allowing some fairly dynamic poses.

One obvious flaw with this fellow were that his forearms had been put onto the wrong arms, meaning his elbows bent backwards rather than forwards. It was simple enough to switch them round, though. Another flaw, this time in the molding, is that the tabs on the inside of the wheel do not match the slots in the chest piece which forms the underside of the truck. I seem to recall that this was also true of the smaller Optimus Prime model. Other than that, the only problem with this figure is the incredibly sparse paintjob.