(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 Gravity Bot Sideswipe. For a review on the mold itself, read the review of the original Gravity Bot Sideswipe here.)

    Nitro Sideswipe follows the same general color scheme as Strike Mission Sideswipe, in that three racing stripes have been added to the car mode to help break up the colors in that mode a little. It makes the car mode look considerably more striking. Also like Strike Mission Sideswipe, Nitro Sideswipe has the N.E.S.T. Global Alliance logo near the front, and dull metallic red shading used for his windows. The red really looks snappy, and the light pale blue accents used for the headlights and eyes in robot mode serve as nice contrast colors to such a "warm" color. However, unlike Strike Mission Sideswipe, Nitro Sideswipe's base color plastic has been changed, to a slightly darker, more blusih gray color. It's amazing how such a small change in the main plastic color makes the toy look so much better-- although still gray, it's definitely less "blah" than the original Gravity Bot Sideswipe's light milky gray. Nitro Sideswipe also has some really nice gunmetal gray paint on his chest and face in robot mode, which go with the aforementioned bluish gray plastic quite well. These new paint apps do come at a slight cost, however-- the spokes of the wheels and the grille of the vehicle mode are left unpainted, as is the back end of said mode.
    No mold changes have been made to Nitro Sideswipe.
    Nitro Sideswipe is a definite improvement in color scheme over the original Gravity Bot Sideswipe, with the slightly dulled gray plastic making more of an improvement than you'd expect, and other changes like the metallic red windows and the black stripes adding to that improvement. If you already have the original Gravity Bot, this one isn't different enough to justify another purchase of the same mold, but if you want one and don't have either version, go for this one.

Review by Beastbot

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