Urian says:

I’m a big fan of the original Ravage character (the black panther that popped out of Soundwave’s chest in the original series,) so Battle Ravage was the first Energon figure I picked up. That, and the fact that it was the only Energon figure Wal-Mart had left.

I’ve been pleased with the figure, though. Transformation is simple, and he comes with a nice variety of weapons. Even better, all the weapons easily attach to Ravage in both beast and robot mode, so kid’s aren’t going to loose the weapons *as* quickly. The weapons are very well sculpted–one laser cannon looks just like the original Megatron’s fusion canon, which is a very nich touch. The missile launcher works extremely well, maybe even a little too well. And the tail can be detached and used as a mace while in robot mode. Finally, the weapons can be assemled to form an even larger laser canon, which can be used by other “Energon” figures.

The Beast Mode looks great, but I have a couple of complaints of the figure in general:
1.) Beast mode looks WAY to much like the Black Lion from Voltron. I keep wanting to yell “And I’ll form the head!” everytime I look at him.
2.) The front claws could have been articulated better. They tend to get in the way in robot mode, and curl up funny in beast mode.
3.) Most insulting, however, is that Battle Ravage is described as a “mindless drone” in the pack-in comic. My favorite Decepticon–reduced to drone status–arrgh.

Still, a really good figure, much better than anything (besides Unicron and Starscream, anyway) to come out of Armada.