Since so many of my comments on Tricerashot's weapon mode rely on his beast mode, I'll start with the latter mode. Of course, as you'd expect from a toy named Tricerashot, his beast mode is a robotic triceratops. For the most part, this is a pretty proportionally solid mode, with the only real issue here being that the two horns on the sides of his headcrest are a bit overly long-- but that's a side effect of being much of the focus of the weapon mode, of course. There's a lot of great mold detailing on Tricerashot. His horns are quite angular, along with the beak on the end of his face. His face has a few vents and robotic lines on it, and he's got a no-nonsense look to him. His four legs are molded in place, so they can't move, but there's gear-like details around the hips/shoulders, with some stylized angular details lower on the feet and the usual RID2015 trio of divots near the lower sides of each foot. His main body also has a few vents and robotic lines on it, though with a long lever coming out of the middle of it. I suppose this could be qualified as kibble, and it DOES look a bit odd, but it just barely sticks up above the surroundings, so it's not a big deal. Tricerashot's tail is just the handle for his weapon mode, and is fairly undetailed because of it, since it has to fit smoothly in a fist hole. It's a bit lower than it should be too, kinda looking like he's... well... like he's pooping it out. This is emphasized by the fact that it and the lever coming out of his back are black, in contrast with the fairly bright orange plastic used on the vast majority of the rest of the toy. There's also some black paint on the outside sides of his horns, and his eyes are painted light blue, but that's it-- on par with other Mini-Cons, he doesn't have much paint. Still, the orange is a nice eye-catching shade without being too "neon", and the black contrasts well against it. Tricerashot can move his head up and down a LITTLE at the neck in this mode, but otherwise he's a brick.
    Tricerashot's weapon mode is... interesting. Basically the entire front section of the beast mode sweeps downward, while the lever on his back and his horns move upward. His tail and underside section also move downward, changing the orientation of the toy so this mode is basically a tri-barreled blaster with a handle near the back end. The long barrels themselves don't look bad, but the main body and four legs of Tricerashot's beast mode just sorta... hang out on the sides and above the main body of this mode. Particularly the beast back end is an obnoxious extra, though the head folds into the main body fairly well and out of the way so it's not that obvious. Even though it's not the strongest weapon mode for sure, if those rear legs were taken care of this would make a decent "futuristic alien gun", but as is it's a bit weak. For Tricerashot's armor parts, they're a somewhat dark transparent shade of blue, which contrast against the orange fairly well and help vary up the color scheme some. First off, he has two pieces that slot onto the sides of his horns to beef up those parts a bit-- however, when taking these parts out, BE CAREFUL, as the tabs that connect them are a bit deep-- the tabs can snap off if you're not careful, which unfortunately is what happened to me, which is why I'm using stock images for Tricershot. There's also a larger piece that slots over his main black blaster barrel, making it look... well, more obviously like a blaster barrel. There's also two armor bits that can fit over his rear beast legs, and make them a bit spikier on the back end, and there's a piece that fits over his dino snout, making his horn a bit bigger and giving him some sharp teeth as well. Overall they're decent armor pieces, though they more just add details as opposed to outright enhance either mode.
    Tricerashot has an excellent triceratops mode with an impressive amount of detailing and a solid, though basic, color scheme. His blaster mode is definitely the weaker of his two modes, with much of his body a very blatant extra and the mode looking quite a bit alien as well. His armor pieces are fairly nifty, but watch out for those horn add-ons-- they can snap off fairly easily. About a middle-of-the-road Weaponizer, overall, with a weaker-than-normal weapon mode and a stronger-than-normal beast/robot mode.
 

Review by Beastbot

(Pictures from Hasbro.)

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