Thursday 14 February 2013

NEW YEAR POST- PART 3 TF PRIME VOYGER STARSCREAM

TF PRIME VOYGER STARSCREAM 2012

He was released in wave two of the RID Voyagers. There was a previous version which was a Deluxe from the first addition line but I don't have it at this time.

Back Story

Starscream is the second in command of the Decepticons. You first saw him in "Darkness Rising" part one. In this the first thing he did was to kill Cliffjumper. Megatron was a way from Earth for three years and Starscream was in charge during this time. When he returned with Dark Energon Starscream provided Cliffjumper to test the Energon on. It turned him into a Zombie. Starscream also blew up the Energon mines on Megatrons orders using a bomb that looked remarkably like the bomb in "Count down to extinction" in Transformers war for Cybertron.
When Megatron went to raise his undead army so he could fight Optimus and Ratchet, Starscream against his orders decided to try and find the location of the Autobot base so Soundwave deployed lazerbeak to catch agent Fowler who the Autobots human liaison. Bulkhead along with the others ended up storming the Decepticon ship the Nemasis to rescue him. He did not give up any information. Starscream being a coward ran away.
During the battle the Nemesis was damaged including the lock on disc which was broken off by Bulkhead. Megatron was not too happy about this and the fact that Starscream defied him. The only reason he did not kill him because the space bridge locking system was broken. That meant none of his zombie army could come to earth from Cybertron.
The Autobots managed to destroy the space bridge and when it blew up Megatron was caught in the blast. Starscream got the idea that he could be leader.
In "Masters ans Students" none of the Decepticons would follow him so Starscream wanted to find a powerful warrior to make them loyal to him. he went out with Soundwave to find Skyquake. He was a Decepticon warrior who was in stasus so he could guard the Energon On Earth.
Skyquake would not follow orders and he would not believe that Megatron was dead. When Optimus and Bumblebee turned up, Skyquake on old orders tried to kill Optimus as he felt the order still stood.
Soundwave found an life signal in the debre from the exploded space bridge in earths orbit. This turned out to be Megatron. Starscream ordered Soundwave to stay and record the fight while he went to investigate the signal. Lazerbeak followed him.
He found Megatron barely alive so when he saw this he decided to kill Megatron as everyone thought he was dead anyway. he ripped the Dark Energon cystal out of his chest and kept it. He saw Lazerbeak  watching so he said that he was still alive so he had to help his old master.
In the meantime Skyquake died.
Megatron was brought to the Nemasis and put on life support in stasus. Starscream continued to be the leader
Megatron returned in the episode "Out of his head"
he knew that Starscream had tried to kill him. He knocked him out the air in jet mode. Starscream could not believe it and tried to say that it was a miracle but Megatron know what he had done and said it would be a miracle if he survived his revenge.
Starscream despite his heavily damaged condition due to Megatron used the Dark energon shard to bring Skyquake back as a zombie  and he also tried to infuse his own spark but he was interrupted  by Optimus who blasted his arm off. Starscream called for a space bridge to retreat  but because there was already one there they merged together. Jack Raff and Miko and Zombie Skyquake and his arm got zapped into a parallel dimension.
He got around his lack of an arm but saying that it just dropped off when the medic tried to help.
In the episode "Rock Bottom" Megatron took Starscream to a energon mine because he knew that Starscream had been hiding energon there so he wanted to get him to confess his treacherous ways and to kill him.
They were interrupted by the Autobots, Arcee and Bulkhead, Jack and Miko. When Megatron saw the Autobots he shot his fusion cannon but it hit the roof and caused a cave of the entire mine burying them all.
Starscream took the opportunity to escape as he was only half buried. At first he thought that was the end of Megatron but what is he was alive. he did not want the blame for this so he had to go back and get megatron out.
he found Bulkhead holding up the rest of the cave from the humans. He ended up dropping it on Starscream who ended up like Atlas in the Greek myths holding it up himself until Megatron found him. he rescued him after a thought. Starscream was allowed to come back to the Nemasis but he was in disgrace and not trusted so Arachnid took his place ans second in command.
Starscream and Arachnid went to the Havinger ship which was a Decepticon ship which crashed centuries ago. it had on board a proto type weapon called the Immobiliser. The ship broken in half when it crashed and Starscream did not say this so she tied him in silk and left him whilst she got the weapon. The Autobots found him but he talks telling them about the weapon.
Arcee was left to guard Starscream whilst the others went to stop Arachnid. Starscream let it slip that he had been the one to kill Cliffjumper Arcee's old partner. They ended up in a fight and Starscream ran away becoming a rogue. He become a snitch to the Autobots.

In series two he made an alliance with Mech who are human terrorists. They wanted to make a transformers and had acquired Bumblebees T cog by ambushing him so he could now not transform. The Transform that they build would not work so he told them about energon. They made an alliance. Bumblebee stormed the Mech base to get it back but the T Cog was badly damaged. They stole Starscreams T Cog instead. he was left grounded. They ended up making Nemasis Prime.

Later in the series he found a Decepticon Lab inside the Harvinger and he made clones of himself to kill Megatron and take control. he made five and all were destroyed but one who wanted to  destroy him but him managed to destroy him. he felt there pain as they were killed.
Starscream using a number of gadgets including a Ground bridge controller in the lab. He ends up getting a Cybertron relic "The Apex Armour" using the controller to the Artic. Dreadwing and Optimus were also after it but he got there first.

In " New Recruit" Starscream finds out that the humans have found red energon which gives the user hyper speed. Using the Apex armour he gets nearly all of it but looses most of the armour. Smokescreen the Autobot new recruit using his fazshifter kicks Starscream out of his Apex armour. He escapes through the space bridge. He has Hyper speed.

In "Hardknocks" He used red energon to steel an Omega key which can revitalise Cybertron. Starsceam overhears Smokescreen and Bulkhead talking about the Omega Keys.

In "Inside Job" the Autobots have three of the Omega keys. Starscream wants all four so he contacts the Autobots and saying that he will give them the key in return for a T Cog. So as Optimus, Ratchet and Bulkhead arrive all they find is a clone of Starscreams body. In the meantime the real Starscream goes on the space bridge and steels the tree keys and escapes.
he ground bridges onto eh Nemesis and uses the keys as a gift for megatron so he can rejoin their ranks.
Megatron eventually lets him back .Megatron had Starscreams T Cog installed once again.Dreadwind finds out that Skyquake was brought back as a zombie. He was angry as this was his brother. He wants revenge  and sets out to kill him but Megatron kills Dreadwing with his cannon. Why, I don't know. Starscream was back in Megatrons good books and got his own squadron. The last time you saw him was when you saw him standing in the ruins of the Autobot base. That is it until series three.

 
BIO; Unknown
 
FUNCTION; Air commander and sometime Decepticon leader
 
MOTTO; Unknown
 
 
Jet mode front
 
 
Jet mode side
 
 
Robot with Power riser weapon
 
 
With light
 
 
Robot mode
 
In Jet mode he does looked pretty good but he is not as sleek as the first addition. He has a good look but people have been complaining about the kibble on the underside of him.
He comes with this translucent cockpit where the power riser weapon clips in for this mode. I don't use this as I think generally the weapon is stupid.
he has missiles which clip under his wings which I like. This is more cartoon accurate.
He has a nice after burner mold but it is blue. I suppose they had to do this as he was blue in the cartoon.
His tail fin does not clip together that well and it is annoying
For some reason he does not have landing gear!
 
 
His robot mode is pretty good . I don't know why people complain about it. I think it is quite attractive. I think people with the first addition are almost snobby about it. They think he is too big!
His missiles can be kept on his wings  or his fore arms.
The missiles or his head crest do not have any red on them. This would make it cartoon accurate.
Again people complain about the kibble on the side of his feet but it stabilises him. I know he has high heeled shoes.
He has posability
His face is well done with purple light piping and red eyes. he has a bit of a smirk on his face.
He has translucent arms and chest. Could this be dark Energon?
His knee spikes and head crest are rubbery plastic. I am almost afraid to touch the crest in case I damage it.
The insignia is on his shoulder instead of his chest and wings.
The power riser weapon is not worth mentioning and is too big. It ruins the figure to put it on him. Throw it to one side.
 
This figure is pretty good and don't listen to everything you hear about him.
I do recommend him for your collection
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

















 

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