The original Star Sabre was translucent, because of the light in the fist of combined Armada Optimus. There was a reissue of it, Dark Sabre, the Decepticon version, which was solid panels.

I like that fans hobby has done some mini-cons, but the mini-cons I wish for them to do the most is Grinder, Sureshock, and High Wire that combine into Armada Perceptor. Those tree mini-cons were my favorite in the Armada series.

If the clear plastic was light piping for an LED, it would be forgivable because a glowing star saber would be cool. But alas...

Missed opportunity to have Star Saber wielding the Star Saber (assuming any of the ones you own can)

I never thought in my life that 3rd party companies would make Mini-Con figures. Oh, Lord, I still have some Cybertron Mini-Cons, this takes me back a LOT. I was only 6 then.

3:12 to be fair hasbro couldn't keep track of which plane was Jetstorm or Runway either.

‘Sonar! Runway! Jetstorm! To me! Powerlinx Star Saber!’

Skyboom Shield and Requiem Blaster next?🤞😁

Yes! Love the way Fanshobby is going about Armada.

I hope the release a version of this without the clear plastic because I am deathly afraid of clear plastic and the solid plastic would make it more “show accurate”.

Lots of recolor potential here. Obviously a solid color version (preferable to the clear version here), potentially an “energized” version made with some sort of bright blue to emulate the lightsaber look from the show. I don’t need it, but I need it. Preferably in solid, it’d be very sad to have another crumbling Star Saber team.

Loved the original, had the dark saber.

SWEET TRANSPARENCY!!! I hope it's high quality plastic

Wonder if they''l remold them into the Energon Star Saber. Hope we at least get a recolor of the Armada Dark Star Saber.

damn, I want this since its super hard to get the original toys. Hope we get the other 2 weapons

I can not wait to see the Fans Hobby version of The Requiem Blaster.

I've also never had issues with the clear plastic parts, but, I also noticed that some reviewers, not naming names, but some, are really "heavy handed," when transforming figures. I'm always gentle and deliberate with my figures. After all, these things aren't exactly cheap. 😂😂

10:29 🎶 Heeeeeey ! Macarena ! 🎶

That loose foot is giving me flashbacks to the originals it was always that foot that got loose too

Knowing Fans Hobby, they'll most likely make a more anime accurate version that replaces the clear plastic with opaque plastic (which is what the Kabaya gum versions did so you had an Air Defense Team that didn't shatter in your hands). Once they do that, then I'll get one

I had the original set, had to glue the sword to stay together

And who can see these guys combining into the Star Saber after Hot Shot holds Sonar and yells: "STAR SABER!" And when I get those guys, I'm gonna have their transformation be exactly like the one from the show.

I’ve been watching for over a decade, glad your thriving. Your a cool part of the TF community

I hope Hasbro takes a crack at the minicon sets because I love this gimmick.

Mach, Shuttle, Jetter, Evolution! Star Saber!

Even if I can look past the clear plastic potentially breaking easily, I just think it makes them look kinda bad honestly. The molds are great, but just being made of clear plastic doesn't look great.

I have the original ones. And, Yes they are mostly clear plastic. I know that they tend to fall apart when they’re in combine mode if you accidentally touch them. However, they do tend to stay in place when there’s no movement, but if you wanna play with them not so much.

Honestly Ive wanted updates of the minicon teams so badly, this is super cool.

Waiting on dark saber to give my fans hobby shattered commander. Still have the original dark saber and gave it a 3D printed handle and the color match is chefs kiss

hot shot should be the one holding that lolz

When you did that triple spin my stomach went into KNOTS! I really want to see if they make a solid group of Sonar, Jetstorm and Runway.

I’m amazed that they almost transform like the original star sabre minicons

i love how they updated the original hasbro toy

The Saber team looks good

I'm very excited for this set. I'm looking forward to seeing how the shield and blaster teams turn out.

What a bunch of cool fellas.

Heres hoping for a retool into the Chaos Saber from the Cybertron toyline and comic in the future.

The three of them in the thumbnail gives Beastie Boys vibes lol

runway is the concord, jetstorm was the one that made the upper half of the blade, i used to have to original and the dark saber version

Hopefully we get a Skyboom Shield and Requiem Blaster from Fans Hobby in the future, and an Armada Preceptor, plus recolors. Hope to see an Energon Saber retool to.

I had the originals and the role play toy when i was a kid, A+ design

The foot on my sonar from the dark starsaber was also loosey goosey

Cant wait for mine to ship , but if they release a full painted one, Id be tempted to get that too

Holy shit I'm old I had these guys and a lot of others

I had the original armada star saber team. The clear plastic did gain stress marks and cracks pretty quickly

Literally just showed my son the originals 😮 not broken even with the clear plastic

Transform and combine!

It's a Runway strip!

A talking sword and attitude with main character of story, where have I seen that before?

G1 Grimlock:"Generations much better!" Cybertron Galvatron:"What a Heroic nuisance!"

15:34 Nuts from Berk

i hope that the skyboom shield and requeim blaster get the fanshobby treatment. because it would be cool to see what they would do with the other 2 weapon combiner minicon teams.

I have the Star Saber from Armada and Dark Saber. I need to get me this team. Maybe FH will do the other 2 weapons teams. I know Primus isn't Armada, but it's fun to display him with the 3 minicon teams posted onto him.

Armada Forever ☀

The clear plastic used on the three seems to be the textured ones which to me is sturdier than directly clear ones. Hoping though, they might release a powered version of this set but will likely be just two robots forming the blade both in full blue color and likely provide an effect part which is a clear blue blade effect. As to why still having the two robots in full blue color, there were instances on the show that the energized sword silhouette are the basic combined form of the blade. But most of its scenes is the energized blade used in combat. Or the other scenario is an upgrade kit with a different main Robot given the effect parts for the sword or just the effect parts on its own.

Beautiful intro

I love how Runway looks heavily influenced by the Firefox from Clint Eastwood's movie.

The originals did indeed have all this clear plastic, the original Armada Prime had an LED in his fist that was supposed make the Star Saber light up. It was not super successful at this.

I wonder if they're gonna come out with a version that doesn't have clear plastic? If not, can the clear pieces be replaced with 3D printed parts??

I used to have them the original ones but 😢I lost them but some day like to buy them back some day.

The Air Defense team can combine and form the Star Saber sword.

i mean "technically" the last updated sword we got was the new one that came with legacy armada starscream

I’m so hope to see a Fans Hobby version of Armada Race Team.

I still have the original Armada Star Saber set with its lovely transclearent plastic. Let's just say there's a few more pieces to it now and one of them has become a partsformer.

now just to wait and see when Fan Hobby makes the Skyboom shield and the Requiem blaster, I own a copy of the Skyboom shield from Transformers Armada never got the other weapon mini-cons

Had both the star saber and dark saber, sky boom shield and the requiem blaster I need to get this

Me: Eeeeugh. EEEEUGH! Brutha, EEEEEEEEEUGH!! What’s that, brutha?! EEEEEEEEEEEEUGH!!!!!!!!

Next Is Boom Shield And Requiem Blaster Armada

Jetstorm looks like Jet from Little Einsteins and sonar looks like thunder bird 3

I have had mixed results with clear plastics, so I'll wait for a redeco

What a transition

I just hide they release versions where the translucent plastic is grey and white, not only for fragility concerns but it'll just look cleaner

So I own the original and the fan hobby it is based off of the US version of the star saber. I also have the dark saber and the set version of the solid colors. I hope they make the solid color version. I may get it, but I may be content with the originals that I have for size for my figures but I’m getting there other mincon teams what I would recommend is get the third-party for your commander class size figures and get the original for your other figures or 3-D print the sword for your deluxe all depends on your preference but I find it funny with hotshot holding a giant sword like monster hunter

I forget if i posted this or not. But Sonars shoulders can actually rotate like the old one. But theyre kinda tight. Umm idk It exists ig

pity it didn't come with a yellow translucent cover for them when in blade mode to look like how it does in the anime

Star saber and sky boom shield.

Would be awesome to see the Skyboom Shield team and Requiem Blaster team next, never cared much for the Armada Star Saber (because the actual sword combine mode is just so... Meh) but the others were awesome.

I don't get why their shield comes with an extra part to make it look more like the show, but not this sword. It would look so much better on display if they could replicate the glowing blue blade

Only 3rd party can bring these back. Hasbro should also put them back like core glass.

I still have these guys from the original set i wonder if they plan to do the skyboom shield and requiem blaster sets

I honestly kinda want these guys because my old original Star Saber team are... beat up to hell and back by this point, since I had them as a kid And yes, the original Star Saber team had this much clear plastic as well, they're pretty much 1-1 even with Sonar's clear thighs

I hope they release these in the future without the clear plastic

Dude they look so cute

Powerlink, Star Saber!

Surprised you didn't compare them to Storm Cloud and Visper, the Siege Air Strike Patrol, which were the closest we've gotten to a Star Saber / Dark Saber in recent years.

what about Starsaber wielding the Star saber?

in my personal transformers fanfiction, the transformers don't size change they're just always as big as their alt mode, but then can I not have minicons? Their whole thing is being miniature...

I don't really mind clear plastic, but I'm still confused as to why they decided to use completely clear plastic. It doesn't particularly look that nice, and if they used a pigment of sorts, it'd look more accurate and strengthen the plastic a little.

I see a lot of displeasure for the clear plastic, so let me ask. What style/color would you guys prefer for this original version of the team? I'm sure we'll get the purple Dark Saber sooner or later, but as for this team I was thinking go full white but feel that'd blend with the silver to much while blue would only look good for the sword mode but not Shuttle or robots.

the originals also were mostly clear plastic to my knowledge. and that was for a light up hand gimmick the Hot Shot and Optimus toys had. to my knowledge fans hobby armada prime does not have a shining hand. so why they made them clear I don't know.

Emgo, I hope you are ready for the new Kamen Rider belt. By that, I mean you better pre-order the belt if you can so you can get the bonus collectables. Thought I would let you know about that.

jetstorm has a twin brother named jetstorm nicknamed runway haha

No Sad Pacman makes me Sad 😢😢😢

1:27 why dose sonar’s alt mode look like kamen rider fourze’s shield

I think a way Hasbro can revive the G1 Transformers continuity is if they decided to make Hot Rod turn out to be the son of Elita 1 and Optimus Prime. Would that not be awesome? No more Hot Rod/Rodimus Prime hate!

I swear that box is pure perfection

Have they done Dark Saber Team in regular or Translucent Plastic and/or the Dark Energon Saber from TF Headmasters Anime/TFP?

When are they gonna release the requiem cannon, skyboom shield, and the street team that for perceptor

What about a skyboom shield set to match?

Wait Emgo you forgot to do Star Saber holding the Star Saber .