(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 Energon Skyblast. For a review on the mold itself, read the review of Energon Skyblast here.)

    Skyblast, compared to his Energon version, has a much more realistic color scheme this time around, as is fitting when compared to the other Target Exclusive movie Scout repaints-- after all, the live action movie's aim was to make Transformers as realistic as possible, so realistic colors are needed to help shoe these in to the movie line. Movie Skyblast has an overall urban camo color scheme, with black and a dull gray being his main colors-- hardly exciting colors, but realistic. The camo paint decos look great on his vehicle mode, with the white and light tan working fairly well together. The transparent light purplish brown is a pretty ugly color, however, and doesn't contrast well with the other colors-- making it a clear weapon or a transparent black or goldish-yellow weapon would have worked better, methinks. As good as the camo scheme is in jet mode, however, it breaks up quite a bit in robot mode and doesn't look nearly as good- especially since the side of his wings that are the most easily visible in this mode are almost completely unpainted while the other side of said wings is covered in the stuff-- needless to say, it doesn't look all that hot. The few patches of metallic greenish gold on the upper legs and head do look nice against their surrounding colors, however-- I wish it had been used more on the figure.
    No mold changes have been made to Movie Skyblast.
    Movie Skyblast is certainly a realistic-themed repaint, even if the alternate mode itself isn't very realistic, but compared to Energon Skyblast he seems rather dull, and the color used for his transparent pieces isn't attractive at all. Thus, I'd recommend the original over this repaint.

Review by Beastbot

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