Offroad
Ironhide
(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 Movie Voyager Ironhide toy. For a review on the mold itself, read the review of the original Movie Voyager Ironhide toy here.)
Ironhide's "Offroad"
repaint is filled to the brim with ALLSPARK POWAH! electric blue, and has
a very interesting and unique color scheme on top of it. The dominant color,
dark metallic blue, makes a really nice base color and is fairly realistic,
while still looking good against the Allspark Power light blue that is
a prerequisite for all the Allspark Power toys. The gray makes a nice secondary
shade on the toy, with the gray actually being two slightly different shades
to mix things up a bit and keep it from just being the same light milky
gray that's been used on a LOT of the movie toys. The accent colors--and
there's tons of them-- look great as well, with plenty of electric Allspark
Power blue being used in all the right places, from his guns to his chest
plate to his vehicle mode lights-- it contrasts very well with its surrounding
colors, and it's not used so much in one place that it looks gaudy. I also
like the addition of a few spots of dull yellow in robot mode-- it makes
the color scheme a bit more original, and goes well with the dark blue
and black. Another detail I'm particularly fond of on Offroad Ironhide
is the brownish gray "mud splatters" on the back ends of his tires, which
look quite realistic and are a nice, unexpected detail.
No mold changes have
been made to Offroad Ironhide, though the peg that connects to his roof/windshield
parts that go on his back in robot mode seems even more loose on this toy
than on the original Ironhide, so it can get pretty annoying the way it
constantly falls off.
Offroad Ironhide-- with
the exception of the aforemtnioned loose peg-- is superior to the original
in very way, in my opinion. Though it's a good mold regardless, Offroad
Ironhide takes the original's "black, black, and more black" color scheme
and REALLY spices it up with some really nice Allspark Power-y colors that
go extremely well together and tons of paint apps. Highly recommended.
Review by Beastbot