if your wanting somthing fun and buttery i wouldnt get pipe cleaners vs lizzies.
 im kind of in the same boat as you, im not much of a park rat, like when it comes to huge park hit and gnarley rails, i suck.( not saying you do to)  but being the type of skier that just loves to play around the whole mountain jibing off of natural shit here and there, and learning all of your basics on boxes and shit, your going to love the elizabeths bra.
 i have T-halls along side of my lizzies and bents and i dont like them at all (stiff and unresponsive compared to the elizabeth), so i think id stay away from the pipe cleaner if i were you. just my 2 cents on armada vs. all the soft, playful skis out there like the elizabeths.
i mean they were fast and light and everything, but just too much of a pure park ski for me.
and dont worry about the lizzies and hellbents being too similar of a ski, some people will say that they are way too similar to have both, but theyre not in my opinion, i have the lizzies which are 172 and if your gonna get hellbents as well, make sure you get the 179 or 189 because side by side, last season, my 169 bents and 172 lizzies were like the exact same length, and they actually skied quite simillar except for the fact that you can hella feel the rocker in the bents.( and the bents are a touch softer i think.) this year i replaced my hellbents with 179 so now my quiver makes a little more sence. (hellbents [ my pow ski] being a good few inches taller than my elizabeths [ my all mtn and park ski]. )
but after having the hellbents, i dont even like skiing anything else, i bought the elizabeth thinking it was going to be my hella powder ski, right afterwards is when i learned about rocker camber, now i cant ski anything but the bents, its just too fun. even more fun than the lizzies.
totally my opinion tho so dont just take my word for it. it just kinda sounds like we have similar style/interests in skiing so it feels good to help you out, instead of seeing someone go through pair after pair of skis you dont like. like i did.