Windcharger's vehicle mode is a fairly nondescript spotscar that looks like it belongs in the '80s or early '90s-- in other words, it's pretty accurate to the source material of the original toy, not updating the alt mode nearly as much as his other fairly recent toys. His proportions are fairly spot-on, with no real robot mode extras unless you want to count just the tiniest bit of his chest he's got sticking out below the bottom middle of the car. This is very minor, though. He's got some "shade" lines down the rear window and some other fairly basic details, most of them just a few lines here and there-- a bit un-detailed as far as Generations figures go, but he IS supposed to be a fairly sleek car, so there's that. There's some simple vents on the front, taillights molded into the rear section, and little spokes molded into the wheels, though, so there is that. The color scheme is pretty basic-- basically just a dark red and black in this mode, for the most part, with the black reserved for the wheels and windows. However, though not immediately apparent in this mode, some of the black-- namely, that used for the windows that aren't the back windows-- is actually a pretty dark tinted clear plastic, so you can see through it ever-so-slightly. This helps a bit, as you can pull back on Windcharger's hood and back section in this mode and there's a space in the middle there to seat a Prime Master or Titan Master, to help him fit in with the line. There's some silver paint on his front grill, as well as on the back. However, on the back end it's painted rather oddly-- in two fat stripes, as these become his upper legs. The actual molded details back there aren't painted.
    Windcharger's transformation to robot mode is fairly simple-- rotate the back halves and roof back and fold those roof bits up a tad to become the robot legs; fold the front hood onto the back; then flip out the arms from the sides and rotate down the top portion of the body just a titch so it's not as long. Tada! Robot mode. If the alt mode was pretty faithful to G1, this one is fairly slavishly so. The proportions are fairly blocky, with clonkin' feet made from the center section of the car mode; a fairly rectangular chest, though with a rounder waist; and fairly square arms, too. The arms have a bit of the car doors hanging off the sides of them, and the hood sticks out a little from behind the main body, but these are both fairly minor; there isn't really any obnoxious kibble in this mode. That said, the proportions are just a little off-- the legs are a bit short and the body a bit long/large. Again, it's not a huge, toy-ruining issue by any means, but it is noticeable. There's quite a few angular, squarish details on the chest, which help make up for the lack of mold detailing in vehicle mode. There's also a few minor stylistic details on the arms, as well. The head is... well, where I think things definitely get TOO slavishly G1. It just looks odd; the head's too old-school, with a slightly narrowed square for a head behind a fairly wide face with diamond-shaped eyes and a fairly nondescript, neutral expression on his face with a slight "chinstrap" detail on the bottom. It just looks right like it belongs on a G1 toy and not a toy from 2018-- update or not, the proportions needed to be changed here with a better expression on the face. For the color scheme, a fairly dull brownish gray makes its appearance in this mode, entirely on the main body, waist, and head, and helps add at least a bit more variation to the red-and-black. His appendages are mostly still those colors, but his upper legs are, as mentioned earlier, painted a nice silver shade. There's also silver on his face, some light metallic silvery blue on his eyes, and a bit of black on his waist and chest. It's not an amazing color scheme, but it does the trick. For articulation in this mode, Windcharger can move at the neck, shoulders (at two points), elbows, hips, and knees. Unfortunately no waist rotation, but many of these points are ball joints, so he's fairly articulate, especially above the waist.
    Windcharger isn't a bad Legends class toy by any means-- he has almost no kibble in either mode, and his car proportions are great-- but I think they went a bit too slavishly G1 with this update. The headsculpt is definitely off, his car mode needed to be modernized a bit more in my opinion, and his proportions are slightly skewed in robot mode as well. Other than that he's a solid, though fairly straightforward, toy. I think the Autobot Alliance version is better if you can find/afford that older toy, but this is better than the kibble-tastic Combiner Wars version.
 

Review by Beastbot

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