Giftset Contains: Grimlock, Heavy Load, Hightower, and Wedge
Allegiances: Autobot
Price: $15 (U.S.)
Color Scheme: "Cheese" yellow, black, light gray, and some dark reddish brown, transparent dark blue, dark blue, and silver
Mold History: Landfill was a completely new gestalt created for Car Robots (which subsequently became Robots in Disguise).
Overall Rating: 7.7
 

Grimlock

Size: Deluxe
Difficulty of Transformation: Medium
Individual Rating: 7.3

(For a full review of the RiD Grimlock mold, check out the original toy review here.)

    Grimlock's color scheme is more reminiscent of an actual excavator this time around- instead of green, he's now more of a constructiony yellow. He's got some nice "mud" fade patterns on the lower half of his vehicle mode, his treads, and his digger shovel. Combined with the "worn metal" silver paint apps that are scattered throughout his body, he makes a more convincing excavator as this guy. However, as the overall color scheme goes, I think that the green was a bit better to look at rather than just the plain yellow and black. Not that this scheme is bad, though.
    No mold changes have been made to Grimlock.
 

Heavy Load

Size: Deluxe
Difficulty of Transformation: Easy
Individual Rating: 7.9

(For a full review of the Heavy Load mold, check out the original toy review here.)

    Like the other Yellow Build Team members, Heavy Load has some nice mud fade patterns on his bototm half in vehicle mode, as well as silver "worn metal" splotches throughout his structure. However... he's almost exactly the same as his previous version otherwise. It doesn't show that a whole lot of thought went into him. I mean, I can understand the need for unified color schemes, but at least switch the colors up a little or something. Also, the fact that ALL the paint apps for his front and back bumpers and headlights are gone as a sacrifice for the mud paint apps makes him look a little underdetailed in his alt mode. Still, he's a heck of a lot cheaper this time around...
    No mold changes have been made to Heavy Load.
 

Hightower

Size: Deluxe
Difficulty of Transformation: Easy
Individual Rating: 8.2

(For a full review of the Hightower mold, check out the original toy review here.)

    Yep. Pretty much the same comments for Hightower as for the other two. More realistic scheme with the mud and worn metal paint apps, but the former colors still looked better. No headlight or bumper paint apps because of the mud stuff. But he is a lot cheaper. Let's keep moving on... (I think that's the shortest toy review I've ever done...)
    No mold changes have been made to Hightower.
 

Wedge

Size: Deluxe
Difficulty of Transformation: Easy
Individual Rating: 9.3

(For a full review of the Wedge mold, check out the original toy review here.)

    One of the things I like about Wedge is that he's small enough where this color scheme doesn't start to get a little monotonous. The silver worn bits on the front hood break up all the yellow prettty nicely, as do the treads. Oddly enough, there's no mud paint apps on the front plow, even though there's some on the treads. That's... not what I'd expect... And as for this scheme compared with his previous one, I'm on the fence as to which one I like more. This one is more realistic and the paint apps are better-placed, but yellow on Transformers HAS been overdone recently, whereas orange hasn't... Hmm.... Let's just say I like them both just as much. But this version gets a little higher of a rating because he's cheaper.
    No mold changes have been made to Wedge.
 

Landfill

Size: Gestalt (combination of four Deluxes)
Difficulty of Transformation: Very Hard
Individual Rating: 5.9 ("Heavy Load" and "Hightower" configurations [see the original toy review for pictures of those configs]); 5.8 ("Grimlock" configuration [shown above])

(For a full review of the Landfill combined mode, check out the original toy review here.)

    The color scheme is definitely its best in the combined Landfill form, as it's a little bit (but not much) harder to tell that he's a gestalt. No more green, red, orange, and yellow Landfill here- now he's just an even yellow, black, and gray. With all the paint apps of the previous versions, of course. Shame about the mold though.
    No mold changes have been made to Landfill.

    Landfill, at least going by his color scheme, is probably a bit more boring as this version, although at least the worn metal and mud paint apps help spice things up a bit. But, dude... he's FIFTEEN DOLLARS for a $40 toy. And some Wal-Marts have even marked him down below THAT. That's an insanely good deal. So even though he looks a little worse than the original RiD Landfill set, I'd recommend this version over the older one any day.

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