(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 Prime "Robots in Disguise" commander Bulkhead. For a review on the mold itself, read the review of the original Prime "Robots in Disguise" commander Bulkhead figure here.)

    As with most of the Beast Hunters Autobots, Bulkhead is a heavy remold of his original "Robots in Disguise" Prime toy of the same size class (in this case, the commander-sized version). And what some awesome remolding Hasbro did! Bulkhead's vehicle parts in particular are now very heavily armored, with padding-like detailng and spikes everywhere on both the back and the front bumpers. The brown spikes on the front in particular are insanely long-- be careful Bulky, or you're going to impale someone on those things! This armored, spiky look goes PERFECTLY with Bulkhead's new headsculpt, which now looks like he's wearing a "beard" and a Viking helmet strikingly similar to a helmet from the Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim video game. (Dragonborn Bulkhead, that's what I like to call this version.) He's also got an axe weapon, which in vehicle mode has the bottom of the handle pointing forward and, in a rather ingenious stroke, serves as a push-missile launcher in that mode, with the handle being the projectile! The downside to this is that when Bulkhead's holding his axe in robot mode, the axe head tends to swivel around the missile-handle way too easily and a little loosely.
    Bulkhead's green is still here on this version, but it's noticeably less prevalent and just a TOUCH lighter than on the original version. The black is also in pretty much the same places-- the wheels, windows, and bottom of the feet. The big change here is that Bulkhead is sporting a lot of dull orange and brown. The overall color scheme appears to make him a light homage to G1 Roadbuster-- another heavy-duty Autobot character-- though this could simply be a coincidence. In general the more varied color scheme works well, with the orange working well with both the brown and the green and giving Bulkhead a very "earthy" tone. There's also a few bits of silver for places like his rear spikes, headlights, taillights, and robot face, which helps to round the color scheme out with a few accents.
    Cyberverse Beast Hunters Bulkhead is an excellent remold, and encompasses pretty much everything I love out of the Beast Hunters remolds. He's got insane spikes added, lots of armor-like detailing, a generally neat (if slightly flawed) weapon, a more interesting color scheme, and a freaking VIKING HELMET. If that doesn't sell you on this toy-- even if you already have a previous iteration of this mold-- than you have no soul. No SOUL! (Or we just like different things. Could be that, too.)

Review by Beastbot

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