(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 Legends of Cybertron Thundercracker. For a review on the mold itself, read the review of Legends of Cybertron Thundercracker here.)

    For a change of pace, Thundercracker is now repainted as Starscream! It makes for a fairly convincing Starscream nonetheless, even though the mold was originally designed for a completely different character. The traditional gray/blue/red color scheme that Starscream's almost always had is, as expected, present on this Legends class figure, but there's a few tweaks to the colors that really make them stand out, in my opinion. For one, Starscream usually has a rather bland shade of gray for his main color, but this time around it's a milky brownish shade of gray, which actually works striking well with the other colors, particularly the blue. And speaking of the blue, there's more of it than usual on Starscream, which I think it is a good thing. There's also less red (again, a good thing), being used only for the traditional stripes in jet mode. Starscrean still retains his orange cockpit and black headcrest, though, to help increase the "Hey, it's Starscream!" value of the toy.
    No mold changes have been made to Starscream.
    Universe 2.0 G1 Legend class Starscream (Egads, that's a lot of prefixes!) is a mighty fine repaint, even if it's of a rather mediocre mold, with a nice twist on Starscream's classic color scheme. He's tied with Universe 2.0 Legend class Silverbolt as my favorite version of this mold. If you like Legends class figures and don't mind repaints/don't have this mold yet, by all means pick this bad boy up.

Review by Beastbot

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