(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 Classics Grimlock. For a review on the mold itself, read the review of Classics Grimlock here.)

    Overkill is a definite homage to his G1 persona, who was one of Soundwave's lesser-known cassettes who transformed into a ceratosaur. This repaint makes Overkill a t-rex-- basically a ceratosaur minus the nose horn, for all intents and purposes here-- but keeps the general color scheme of dull white and pale light navy blue. The colors contrast against each other somewhat well, but Overkill really needs a genuinely dark color to help offset all the light colors. He has some silver and translucent yellow accents, but both of those are, again, light colors, and though they don't look horrible, they don't look great either. Still, it is accurate to the G1 toy, of course, so I can hardly blame them for this. But even ignoring that, he needs a few more paint apps to help break things up. The blue-colored spine in beast mode looks cool, but more paint apps are needed on the sides of the T-rex mode as well as the feet. Either that or needed a few more different colors to help break up up the two main colors-- either way, he just looks dull.
    No mold changes have been made to Universe 2.0 Overkill.
    Universe 2.0 Overkill's color scheme isn't horrid or loud or anything, but it does have a pretty "blah" feeling to it when compared to the other two versions of this mold, and needs a larger variety of paint apps and/or colors to make the scheme really work. This, plus the fact that he costs more than Classics Grimlock due to his exclusive nature, makes me only recommend him to completists or big dino fans.

Review by Beastbot

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