(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 Beast Hunters Air Vehicon toy. For a review on the mold itself, read the review of the Beast Hunters Air Vehicon figure here.)

    This Vehicon color scheme debuted at the end of Season 2 of the Prime TV series, with the colors meant to be the "elite" troopers among Megatron's many many expendable identical underlings, who were basically just as expendable anyways. Regardless, it's nice to see this easy redeco get released, even if it's only as a Legion-class toy, and only outside of the U.S. (and thus he's a bit more difficult to acquire, particularly since it's a troop builder mold). Honestly, though, in vehicle mode the Ace Vehicon has a pretty darn boring color scheme-- he's almost entirely white, with black paint on his window. There's a few little red paint apps on his sides-- and his chainsaw-bayonet weapon is a light red as well-- but these colors are used very sparingly, and they're so light they don't provide adequate contrast against the white and make his color scheme look too light overall. Same goes for the safety orange stripes on the Ace Vehicon's shoulders in robot mode (not to mention the safety orange is so close in shade to the light red it's easy to mistake one for the other). What helps save this toy in robot mode is the really nice, dark metallic shade of gunmetal gray painted on most of the robot parts. It provides some excellent contrast against all that white, and is generally just an attractive shade overall. The light red visor on the head also looks great against said gunmetal gray, too.
    No mold changes have been made to Ace Vehicon.
    Ace Vehicon is generally a bland redeco, with far too much white and not enough other colors to bounce off of it and make it interesting, particularly in vehicle mode. The dark metallic gunmetal gray helps save this toy from being completely boring, but even then nearly all of the toy is still monochrome, with the little bits of light red and bright orange not enough to really add much to the color scheme themselves. If you want cheap troop builders, I'd stick with the original Air Vehicon mold instead-- particularly since this redeco is much more difficult/expensive to obtain.

Review by Beastbot

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