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

    After all these redecoes, Strongarm FINALLY gets a color scheme I think of first when I think of jeeps-- green and brown. Of course, given that the whole theme of the Target Scout repaints is "realistic deco jobs", finally giving Strongarm a realistic green/brown scheme is fitting here. The colors fit together very, very nicely, especially the two shades of green. You wouldn't think two shades of the same color would complement each other so well, but they really do. The light grey and black also serve as nice secondary colors, and are, of course, realistic colors as well. This particular shade of brown looks nice against the green, but it's a bit of purplish color, and just a plain muddy brown would have looked better (and a tad more realistic), in my opinion. The same goes for the color of Strongarm's transparent parts-- it's that same ugly transparent purplish brown that's on some of the other Target Scout movie exclusives, and although it fits Strongarm SLIGHTLY better than it does on the other occasions that it's used, it's still just an ugly color for an energy weapon. One other, very minor, thing I'm not fond of is that Strongarm has a Sector 7 paint app on the left side of his chest (whee!), but his Autobot symbol isn't colored in at all (boo!).
    No mold changes have been made to Movie Strongarm.
    Although his transparent weapon is a somewhat ugly color, overall I think this version of Strongarm has the best color scheme out of all the versions of this mold released. The greens, gray, black, and brown go REALLY nicely together. If you haven't picked up this great mold yet, now's the time.

Review by Beastbot

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