(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 Combiner Wars Brawl. For a review on the mold itself, read the review of Combiner Wars Brawl here.)

    Ramhorn is another of the "original Tripredacus" members for this gestalt boxset, with his original BW form being a beetle. A driller tank fits a rhinocerous beetle somewhat well as a "pre-BW" form. That said, like the other Tripredacus members, FunPub chose to base his color scheme and head on how he appeared in "The Agenda, Part I" in the Beast Wars TV show. As such, his color scheme is fairly drab-- he's mostly a pale red and a dull gray, with the gray being a more dominant color than on the other two Tripredacus members. (It's worth noting that the red paint doesn't look quite as light in person as it does in these pics.) Most of the lower legs and arms are dull gray, along with the robot waist and a few "guard rail" paint apps on the tank turret. In an homage to his beetle form, Ramhorn has three "lightning bolt" patterns on each side of his tank mode, which in a rather ingenious way mirrors the six legs of a beetle. That said, little else distinguishes Ramhorn from being anything more than a red driller tank. He does have a decent amount of silver-- the wheels on his treads are all painted silver, as well as some parts on his lower legs, his drill, and his robot chest. The silver helps to "shiny" things up a little, even if color-wise it doesn't add much to the scheme. For accent colors there's a really nice light green used on the windows of his driller tank mode, which contrast so incredibly well with the red I really wish they were used a bit more. Ramhorn also has a bit of light orange on his waist and used for the eyes of his robot head, which contrasts and complements the red well enough. Finally, there's just a little bit of light milky gray used on his combiner port and a few minor connector pieces-- it's a very bland color, but again, it's not used much.
    Ramhorn has a new headsculpt to reflect how he looked in the show, and the actual head looks pretty spot-on to the show. However, due to space constraints in tank mode, his "bat ears" are pretty undersized and look off, and they're so small I do worry a little about them breaking off inadvertently during transformation. His head is also just a LITTLE flattened if looked at from a side angle, but not enough to really bother me. Ramhorn also has the same drill weapon accessory added to the mold for Combiner Wars Nosecone-- which is impressive, given that Nosecone wasn't out yet at the time this set was made available.
    General Ramhorn's vehicle mode fits his Beast Wars beetle form somewhat well, and the headsculpt is nice minus the ears, but his color scheme is fairly bland and boring-- I REALLY wish FunPub had gone for a toy-accurate color scheme for this guy, it would've looked much more interesting in both modes. I do give them props for the "lightning bolt legs" on the sides of the tank mode, though. Still, I feel this was a missed opportunity for the BotCon folks-- as I feel about this version of the Tripredacus Council in general, unfortunately.

Review by Beastbot

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