The Micron Legend Aqua Raider Team is a repaint of the Armada Sea Team. It was exclusively available in Japan as a special bundle with DVDs 8, 9 and 10 of the Micron Legend anime, collecting episodes 29-40. Each DVD comes with a single micron: Bilge, the "normal" boat Freeboot, the hovercraft Sunburn, the piece of shit Packaging DVD 8, 9 and 10 Spoiler DVD #8 comes with episodes 29-32: 29: Desperate, the one where Megatron combines with Tidal wave (a tank using an aircraft carrier as shield) and where the Requiem Blaster is introduced. 30: Runaway, the one where the kids help the Space Team escape to the countryside. 31: Past, the one where Wheeljack, the renegade Autobot, arrives to get his revenge on Hot Shot. 32: Past II, the one where Armada Side Swipe (A. S. S.) gets acknowledged by his senpai Hot Shot Spoiler DVD #9 comes with episodes 33-36: 33: Sacrifice, the one where Smokescreen gets smoked. 34: Regeneration, the one where Hoist (TAFKASmokescreen) and Starscream join the Autobots. 35: Rescue, the one where the Autobots break out all captive minicons from the Decepticons. 36: Mars, the one where the Emergency Team first member is introduced. Spoiler DVD #10 comes with episodes 37-40: 37: Crack, the one where Starscream is duped by Thrust into betraying the Autobots to bring Star Saber and Skyboom shield to Megatron. 38: Threaten, the one where the Hydra cannon, a space weapon of ultimate destruction combining the power of nine minicons, is created. 39: Crisis, the one where Optimus Prime acts as a Cybertronian shield. 40: Remorse, the one where Hot Shot becomes the Autobot Commander. Linkage manga, parts 8, 9 and 10 Spoiler In part 8, the plot intensifies, and the evil microns get a MacGuffin. In part 9, the microns Pokevolve. In part 10, the Terrorsaur evil repaint "Ravenus" is deployed against our heroes. The battle for all microns' free will has begun. As the manga moves past its half point, drama intensifies. A lot of original lore here, making it worth reading. Alt mode The three microns look OK, a dark version of the Sea Team. The red windows are 80% of their attractivenes. Robot mode Basic transformations for the most part, giving us three evil microns which are distinguished by their secondary colors, made much more apparent in robot mode: teal, read and yellow. Not the most interesting repaint of the Sea Team, but I'd put them in second place after the blue version released in Armada. Overall... The Micron Legend Aqua Raider team is the second best looking version of the Sea Team, at least for me. The microns indeed look evil, even more evil than the Speed Chaser team, and they do look lovely paired with OTFCC Megazarak. This set alone can cost you hundreds of dollars. I am not sure it's worth it. Probably it's the second least interesting team of the DVD micron teams. Considering the limitations of the Sea Team and the cost of getting this version, I give the Aqua Raider Team a 6/10 at most.
