Windrazor is a new mold if you want to get literal, but this toy is about 95% simply an upsized version of the legion-class Windrazor mold, right down to sharing the same mold detailing. Thus, pretty much all of my comments on the mold itself are covered in my review of the legion-class Windrazor.
    As for the changes made to the mold this time around, the original's bow weapon has been replaced with a more unique spiky mace weapon which has a long enough handle where I COULD see it doubling as a gun in vehicle mode, as it does have a port on the mace head that can connect it to the underside of the wings or also on top of said wings in beast mode, as well as on the knees and ankles. The other non-upsizing changes made to Windrazor are minimal; the pegs on the sides of the feet have been removed as Windrazor no longer needs to combine with another toy, and the shoulder and hip joints are no longer ball joints, having been replaced with fricton joints that move at two points each to allow the toy to better hold up its increased mass. What's nifty is that there's a rotation joint also added just below the shoulder, which allows Windrazor's wings in beast mode to assume a considerably more "natural-looking" pose than they can on the legion class toy. As for the mold detailing itself, it holds up surprisingly well for being upsized-- for the most part Windrazor is still adequately detailed, particularly on his main body and neck, with all the cool little interlocking armor panels. That said, his wings and his arms in particularly could've used more mold detailing, as they look a bit too simple at this scale. His headsculpt blown up at this scale also looks a bit "off", and should have been redone.
    As for the color scheme itself, the general "look of it" is largely unchanged from the initial legion-class Windrazor release, with yellow, green, and purple being the main colors. The shades of the colors are different this time around, being a bit less of an homage to G1 Cutthroat. The yellow is more... well... yellow, with less of a tan influence than on the orignal. The purple is less violet and more a darker shade, with a really nice metallic shade of the color used for the paint on the wings. The green is noticeably lighter and of the seafoam variety, which is a rather negative change, in my view-- it lessens the contrast with the yellow-tan considerably, and makes the overall scheme just a tad too light outside of the wings where the purple dominates. There's also a bit of gold on the talons, beak, and face, which is a nice shade but again I wish was a bit darker to contrast against the yellow a bit better. The red eyes in both modes pop very well, though.
    Deluxe Windrazor looks decent enough, though the upsides of his up-scaling-- such as better wing positioning, a unique weapon, and more weapon ports-- aren't as significant as his downsides, like his less-appetizing green color-- and the fact that his transformation was already simplistic as a Legion figure, and for a mainline deluxe figure it's simply unacceptably too simple. Heck, any of other Terrorcons would've made the transfer to deluxe class better, in my view. Thus, because of how ridiculously simplistic he is in addition to the slightly-worse color scheme, I'd only recommend deluxe Windrazor to Prime Predacon completists (especially since he's already hard-to-get, only being released in Europe and some Asian markets).
 

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Review by Beastbot

* There was a quite rare variant of this mold sighted in later cases of this wave that replaced most of Windrazor's colors with a darker shade, including replacing some of the original's tan with dull gold and gray plastic, making the purple less metallic, the green darker, and making the original's gold paint a bit darker. I've never even seen one for sale on eBay so I'm going solely off of a few select pictures on the Internet here, but to me the rare gold variant looks better, with better color diversity and just a generally more unique look. If you're lucky enough to be able to choose between the two, I'd recommend the gold variant more.

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