(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 the original RID2015 1-step Grimlock toy. For a review on the mold itself, read the review of the original RID2015 1-step Grimlock here.)

    "Gold Armor" Grimlock is essentially the RID design in G1 colors. Unfortunately, the vast majority of his plastic is that awful, boring light milky gray plastic that I just really do not like and really should've been made more metallic. In beast mode, he's got plain yellow paint around the section that would be metallic gold on the G1 Grimlock toy, but other than that and the red eyes, there's no paint in this mode at all. Just all that blah light milky gray plastic. No paint on the head crest, nothing on the back legs or feet, nothing on the tail. Nada. In robot mode he sports a few more colors-- beyond the yellow on the chest and the bits on the sides of the head, he's also got some red on the waist and some glossy black on the upper legs and head, with silver on the face and red eyes. Unfortunately his entire arms and lower legs are still that milky gray. The thing is... with that particular color combo of red, black, and yellow, and the way it's arranged, and with the slight "ear" antennae, Gold Armor Grimlock, he..... he kinda looks like Mickey Mouse. *snirk* Once I saw that, I could not unsee it.
    No mold changes have been made to Gold Armor Grimlock.
    Mickey Mou-- I mean, Gold Armor Grimlock is pretty much a waste of plastic. I don't say that lightly, but sometimes G1 isn't the way to go. You take a fairly bad 1-step mold like this and kinda half-way it with some very basic G1 colors in robot mode and only some yellow in beast mode, you make waaay too much of it in that bland light gray plastic, with the t-rex mode in particular just barren... I just can't recommend it except for the biggest Grimlock completists. Get the warrior class version of you want this design in G1 colors.
 

Review by Beastbot

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