I kinda picked him up on an impulse since I felt jipped that Hound and Cyclonus were missing from the pegs. I have AS and classics SS, but I'm a sucker for geewiz akkurasee. He looks spiffy in the packaging, but keeping figures in the package no matter how cool they look in there has always been tough.

He looks beautiful after you scratch off all of the sloppy, misplaced paint. But he's not worth it just for the beauty. I'll give him one thing, though, the nature of the beast is certainly StarScream.

like I said before, its really not the mold being worn out, so much as the different plastics/colors affecting shrinkage after molding. since they're having this issue, they could up the mold temp by 10 degrees and add a couple seconds to cooling and the shrinkage issue would go away.

and fwiw the all the parts for ramjet except the wings were most likely made with the same mold as starscream. the head change is just an insert that gets swapped out to make a conehead. all the rest is identical.

I figured they'd use the sane bodl cast for the diffrent seekers.

I broke down and opened mine (as seen in my av). As far as I can tell mine is an exception to the rule. SS doesn't have a single loose joint or sloppy paint apps. The wings are slightly loose, but they don't flop. My Classics SS has loose hips and this one outshines him there. I really dig the simple paint job and how clean it turned out.

My brother nagged me until I decided to get another SS 2.0. I opened him and he actually had decent QC. I mean, his left leg's slider joint was weak as hell and most of his other joints were loose, but nothing came apart. I fixed him up and now I'm happy.

My 2.0 Starscream is nice & tight, no issues to speak of.

^ Do you mean that AFTER you fixed him up? Because you totally forgot to mention that you need to shave away a good deal of plastic on Cyclonus's feet in order to get his legs stable in jet mode per your transformation.

no, straight out of the package, same as my two Cyclonus's. I didn't have to shave, tighten, or glue anything.

If you say so.