Like the other Titans Return Legends toys that are compatible with Blaster/Soundwave, Rewind's alternate mode is a smartphone. ...or is it? There's foil stickers placed on the center of this mode that have a picture of a cassette tape on them, but ALSO the little symbols along the sides you'd associate with a smartphone screen, like wifi bars, a battery life symbol, etc. I guess Hasbro lets you decide on this one. Anyways, the proportions for this mode are fairly solid, being mostly a square that's slightly narrowed at the top for transformation purposes (it's not a big deal, though). There are some hollow parts or bits seen on the sides that are minor eyesores, like gaps in the plastic on the sides, the fairly obvious gun slotted in the left side, and gray ball joints easily seen on the bottom side. Again, though, these are minor complaints at best-- it's still a pretty solid mode proportionally. The foil stickers used for the "screen" on the smartphone are a bit on the fragile side, so they can crease or crinkle a bit after repeated transformations, but given how Rewind transforms it's not as bad as on the other Legends smartphone molds. The color scheme of black and light milky gray (yes, it's that really blah shade of the color) isn't particularly eye-catching, but the aforementioned foil sticker details and a bit of red and silver around the bottom and top of this mode help give at least a little bit of color to the mold.
    To make Rewind more exciting than just transforming into a block of plastic, like the other Titans Return smartphone 'bots he has a vehicle mode as well and it's... actually good, especially for a tertiary mode. Basically you take out the gun from the sides, and then the side pieces of the smartphone fold up and upon themselves to form the turret of the tank, with the removed gun then slotted into the front of these turret parts. (Make sure to take out the gun BEFORE you start to fold up those side bits-- you can bend that gun piece easily if you don't take it out first. Also, the two pieces on the sides fold up VERY tightly, to the point where a few people have seen theirs crack after repeated transformations, so be a bit careful with that step.) There's certainly some issues with the tank mode proportionally-- the back segment behind the turret is a bit too thick, the turret can't move at all, and there's an extra bit of "tank body" in front of the tread details on the side-- but by and large it's a pretty decent mode. The colors are broken up a bit more cleanly, with the turret having nearly all of the gray and the tank body having nearly all the black plastic. Rewind's smartphone mode obviously didn't have a lot of mold detailing on it, but in tank mode there's a few more details that come out-- the silver-painted treads are a nice extra detail that also helps break up the black some more, and there's a couple of "armor plating" details on the turret as well. On the top of the turret, there's four total little pegs so you can stand two little Titan Masters on top of Rewind in this mode, to help tie him into the rest of the line.
    Rewind's robot mode is essentially a folding of the lower arms and unfolding of everything else from smartphone mode, and the end result is pretty darned strong. It has a few nods to the IDW version-- such as the little camera embedded in his head, which is rather IDW-esque in its molding-- but otherwise he's a bit more G1-esque in how "buff" he is, particularly in the arms. Honestly, his lower arms are my only real complaint about this mode-- having the lower arms merely molded into overly large plastic blocks is rather weak, especially given that one of them has hollow detailing. The wide shoulders look pretty good, though, and it complements the somewhat skinny waist and legs pretty well, like Rewind's been bodybuilding or something. I also appreciate the little nub of the treads that fold up to become toes and keep Rewind stable in this mode. There's some pretty nice paint apps on the chest and shoulders that hearken back to the G1 toy's detailing, and help break up the black as well. The red faceplate and light blue eyes also look nice against the gray head (though if it were up to me, the head would've been painted silver). Rewind's gun can be held in either of his fist holes, or mounted in a hole on the side of his right lower arm. As for articulation, Rewind's got that too-- he can move at the neck, shoulders (at two points), elbows (at two points), hips, knees, and VERY slightly at the ankles. He's fairly well-balanced as well, so he can get into some cool poses.
    Rewind is easily the best of the Titans Return smartphone molds-- all three of his modes are at least decent. His smartphone mode is solid, his tank mode is a tad awkward in some respects but still pretty good for a teritary mode, and his robot mode in particular is very well-done (lower arms aside). He's got a few nice paint apps here and there, but his main weakness is his color scheme-- light milky gray and black is just a boring scheme, G1-accurate or no. They should've added either a few more paint apps or given him another base color to lighten him up a bit. Still, a very easy recommendation for fans of the character-- I just we had gotten Eject from the mold too, as he has better colors...

Review by Beastbot

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