(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 RID2015 legion Strongarm toy. For a review on the mold itself, read the review of the original RID2015 legion Strongarm here.)

    Ratchet is a redeco and SLIGHT remold of the Legion Strongarm figure, and as far as the colors go, it's pretty spot-on Ratchet. He's mostly white plastic, with some black on the wheels, windows, knees, and a bit on the shoulders. Of course those two colors by themselves would make for a pretty boring color scheme, so in his usual Autobot-y manner he's got a decent amount of red too-- dark red, in this instance. It frames most of the bottom of his vehicle mode (car doors excluded), along with some on the middle of his front hood and on his lower legs in robot mode. All of the three major colors are spread throughout Ratchet pretty well and keep him from being too one-tone in any one area of the toy. There's also some dull orangish yellow on the headlights, which was a nice choice, since a lighter yellow wouldn't have stood out enough against the white. I think it's really unfortunate that the vehicle mode hasn't been changed at all mold-wise from Strongarm, however, as Ratchet is an ambulance, not a police SUV! He has the wrong vehicle mode on this version. For cryin' out loud, Hasbro...
    The remolded part of Ratchet is the chest/main body section, which also includes the head. Of course Ratchet's head has been remolded to fit in with Prime Ratchet's general look, with a skinny red head crest, a silver face, and blue eyes. There's also a bit of black on the chest that's meant to be faux windows lined up similar to how they were on the Prime Ratchet toys, but there's a problem with that, too-- this isn't how Ratchet's chest looks in the RID2015 show! He has a single longer black window for his chest on the show, so that's another oversight as well, even on the one remold they DID do to the toy. Meh.
    RID2015 legion Ratchet has a decent color scheme that's "spread around" the mold quite well, but as a representation of this design of Ratchet it falls a bit flat. The vehicle hasn't even been retooled into an ambulance so he has the wrong vehicle mode, and the chest details in robot mode are also incorrect. It's a decent toy, but not a decent Ratchet-- get either of his other RID2015 toys instead.
 

Review by Beastbot

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