(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 Prime Skystalker. For a review on the mold itself, read the review of Prime Skystalker here.)

    Although he's meant to be a completely separate, new character, Prime Skylynx does have a few callbacks to his G1 self, and I'm not just talking about the fact that both have a dragon (or dragon-like) mode. This version of Skylynx takes G1 Skylynx's primary colors of white, blue, and red with a bit of gold and alters most of them both to give him a more original color scheme and to help him blend in a bit better with his partner-in-crime in the "Predacons Rising" mini-movie, Darksteel. Skylynx's white is a pretty pure white, just like on the G1 toy-- no changes made there. His dark blue is a very dark, dull navy blue, much darker than on his G1 toy, and almost the exact same shade as the prominent color on Darksteel. This added darkness lets the blue contrast very well with all the other colors on the toy, though having half of the wings dark blue and half white does look a bit odd. The red is also considerably darker and duller than on G1 Sky Lynx, letting it blend in stylistically with the dark dull blue while still contrasting well against it. Finally, the gold on G1 Sky Lynx is now a dark bronze (or a brownish bronze if you're talking about the bronze plastic, used on the wing-discs). Again, this darkening of the color works stylistically with the other duller colors, and the bronze is used often enough where it gives the toy a bit more of a "regal" feel that it otherwise wouldn't have had. There's also a bit of metallic silvery blue used for the robot face, which looks okay but not as good as more of the dark dull navy blue would have, in my opinion. (The bronze paint on the eyes is also a bit of an odd color for such a part.) Skylynx's paint apps are generally quite plentiful, though more of them show through in the robot mode, with the excellent striped paint apps on the robot chest and the bits of white and bronze paint on the upper legs. Even in areas where there isn't much paint, though-- such as the wings-- the plastic colors are varied up enough where they still look visually interesting, with no one major area being solely one color.
    No mold changes have been made to Prime Skylynx.
    Taken by itself, Prime Skylynx is a pretty nice repaint, homaging the G1 version of the character while still going off a bit in its own direction. He's got some nice, fairly unique color shades, and a decent number of paint apps. However, there are two major strikes against this toy, and the first is the mold, which is just the worst of the larger Predacon molds, with a ridiculously awkward robot mode. Secondly, the toy looks almost nothing like Skylynx's character model in the "Predacons Rising" mini-movie, and that's a real shame given that this is the only toy of that show character. I realize the mold was created before the character model, but Hasbro should've either made a less awkward robot mode or insisted the modelers stick a bit closer to the toy. As a redeco, it's got some nice colors, but as a representation of Prime Skylynx it's quite poor. Recommended ever-so-slightly over Skystalker.

Review by Beastbot

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