I’m surprised Mirage made the cut given his status as a retailer exclusive (here in the US, at least), and I don’t mind this direction they took. Despite looking like a jet G1 Mirage, the personality gave me something closer to RotB Mirage (especially with his powers). This little series is giving me G1 vibes where the scripts aren’t terribly in depth, the strong visual direction and strong voice acting elevates some fairly pedestrian concepts and story beats.
I do appreciate some really novel use of Mirage’s powers, and it’s clear that the writers know a general “toy plan” and were given enough time to “play” with the character concepts when writing these instead of writing a complete shell of a series and “slotting in” different toys.
Plus, LANDSHARK.