(NOTE: Because this is a repaint, this is not a full-blown review. This mainly covers any changes made to the mold and the color scheme, and merely compares it to the original Generations Windblade toy. For a review on the mold itself, read the review of the original Generations Windblade toy here.)

    Airazor gets another "pre-BW" toy-- another jet, but a remold of Generations Windblade this time. The color scheme is incredibly spot-on, with the main colors being a charcoal black that under certain lights look like a very dark brown as well as a Bumblebee "cheesy" orange-yellow. There's plenty of other colors, though, like a really nice pale light brown on halves of the wings, the outside of her upper legs, the "feathers" on her arm blasters, and most of her vehicle mode nosecone (the tip is left black to "ape" her future bird mode look). The things that really make this toy an absolutely AMAZING homage to Airazor, though, are all the intricate robot mode paint apps. Her upper legs have the pale brown on the outside, dull pumpkin orange lines in the middle, and yellow on the inside; yellow and pumpkin orange on the toes to imitate her "talons"; a mix of pumpkin orange, yellow, and silver on her waist in a very good attempt to mimic her eagle head-chest, but with a jet cockpit there in place of the eagle head; gray wavy lines on her upper chest and shoulders to emulate eagle feathers; and, best of all, yellow, dull orange, and silver on her face that mimics her BW show model face admirably well given that it's not a new head mold. Her light green eyes really pop against all those colors, as well, and this is carried over to the transparent light green plastic for the jet cockpit in vehicle mode.
    No mold changes have been made that are unique to Airazor, but she has the same changes made to the Windblade mold as TakaraTOMY Legends Slipstream; that is, a new head, a new robot chest with a faux jet cockpit worked into it, and arm blasters as opposed to Windblade's sword-and-sheath.
    Airazor is definitely the BotCon 2016 exclusive with the best paint apps-- there's a ton of them even for an exclusive, particularly in robot mode, and a LOT of work was done to make a toy that was originally intended to be a completely different character look almost EXACTLY like Airazor-- the face, chest, and upper leg paint apps are particularly well-done, and it's generally just a good color scheme in general. Plus, the fact that it uses molding previously only available from TakaraTOMY is another bonus. Unfortunately, the mold itself isn't that great, though the changes made to Slipstream make it minorly better. I don't think it's quite as good as FunPub's first attempt at a pre-BW Airazor (though it has better paint apps), but if you can't get that version this is a pretty decent back-up.

Review by Beastbot

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