Airlift (Discount/Online Retailer Exclusive)
Vehicle ModeRobot Mode
Allegiance: Minicon/Decepticon
Price: ~$4 (U.S.)
Size: Mini-Con
Difficulty of Transformation: Easy
Color Scheme: Moderately light gray, black, and some light yellow and red
Rating: 7.1

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

    Diverging from the previous deco jobs this mold has had, this version of the mold as a discount store, single-packed toy gets a rather realistic color scheme that's primarily gray with a fair amount of black, as well (particularly on the missiles). The gray itself, thankfully, isn't that really blah light milky shade of the color, though it's not exactly exciting either (being flat). However, this said, Airlift's paint apps are what take this repaint from being REALLY dull to actually being decent. The black paint apps on the turbines and the nosecone help things a little, but there's a couple of dots of bright yellow and red paint apps on the toy. The yellow is on the "headlights" on the wings, while the red is on the cockpit windows, the end of each wing, and on the robot head visor. Other than this, Airlift has no other real color to him, but given how evenly spaced these colored paint apps are across the mold, it actually makes him pop visually more than you'd think from a description (the yellow, in particular). A little bit of an additional, odd note here is that although Airlift's packaging calls him a Decepticon, the toy itself bears no such allegiance symbol, but simply a Minicon symbol on his right wing.
    No mold changes have been made to Airlift.
    Airlift is a redeco for those who like more realistic paint jobs on their figures compared to those who prefer paint jobs that "pop" or even remotely approach loud (both of this mold's previous deco jobs had purple as a major color, for example). I personally think that Airlift is the most boring out of the different releases of this mold, but the couple of well-spaced paint apps do up my opinion of him slightly more than if he were just entirely gray and black.



Airlift Tech Specs:
Strength: 8.0
Intelligence: 3.0
Speed: 7.0
Endurance: 7.0
Rank: 7.0
Courage: 6.0
Fireblast: 4.0
Skill: 2.0

Review by Beastbot

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