Fracture's Warrior version has a pretty decent rendition of his spiky motorcycle alternate mode. As with the show model, you've got hard angular edges and spikes galore, with the spikes particularly evident on the back end of this mode. The detailing of the front wheel cover, the sides of the main body, and the handlebars are particularly angular. Other than all the angles and spikes, though, the actual mold detailing is fairly minimal, with some red-painted "RID2015-standard" trio of divots here and there around the figure, and with a very small circular windshield, but otherwise it's pretty sparse. The overall proportions are pretty good, with one notable exception; the lower legs stick out a bit further down below the main body than they should, making the body just a bit too bulky. Otherwise, the proportions are good, with no real robot mode extras visible beyond the upper legs, which are a bit obvious on the front of the main body-- the fact that they're black, though, helps to hide them a bit. Overall the color scheme is mostly purple and black, though in this mode the purple by far is the bigger contributor to the color scheme. Unfortunately the two main shades of purple are a bit too similar; one is dark, and the other is on the dark side of medium. Thus they don't really contrast against each other as much as I'd like. Both shades of purple have some nice glitter in the plastic, though, so they both look semi-metallic. Black is the main contrast color, though mostly in this mode it's only used for the side exhaust pipe. There's some silver on the top of the rear spikes, and some dull red on the rear spikes to serve as sort of "headlights", along with some red details on the front wheel cover, part of the windshield piece, and on the exhaust pipe. The red contrasts quite well against the black; a bit less so against the purple. It's still a decent color scheme, but it could be better. (And yes, there IS a flip-down black kickstand to help keep Fracture stable in this mode.)
    The transformation to Fracture's robot mode is mostly straightforward-- you fold out the arms from the sides and the legs from the bottom, but there's an ingenious part where the front wheel section rotates around the middle of the entire main body to have the head flip up while the front wheel folds up on the back-- it's pretty cool. That said, the front wheel does stick out a bit compared to Fracture's otherwise lithe form, and though it doesn't really get in the way of movement much, it is a minor obvious extra. The wheel halves on the inside edge of the lower legs also don't look that great-- I wish there was some way they could have folded back behind the feet, or something. Other than that this is a remarkably solid mode with GREAT proportions that absolutely nail Fracture's overall look. The sculpting is all quite good (though again, fairly sparse beyond all the spikes). The use of the black for the hands, feet, upper legs and arms, and middle of the chest helps break up all the purple better in this mode compared to the vehicle mode. The addition of silver paint on the knees and face-- as well as more red paint on the abs and chest, eyes, and lower legs help add some more color variety as well. Fracture's headsculpt is spot-on, with his spiky mohawk and a stern expression on his face. His weapon is his exhaust pipe folded out, which makes for a pretty cool, proportionally long blaster. For articulation, Fracture can move at the neck, shoulders (at two points), elbows (at two points), inwards a bit at the wrists, and movement at the hips (at two points), knees, and back-and-forth at the ankles. Given how well-balanced he is, this means he can get into a lot of nifty poses.
    Although the warrior class version of Fracture has a couple of minor downsides-- such as his two shades of purple being too similar and the fairly obvious front wheel behind his body in robot mode-- overall he's a solid toy in both modes. His transformation has a nice little surprise flip to keep things interesting, he's got great proportions and articulation, and a cool weapon and overall look. Unless him not being able to deploy Mini-Cons is a deal-breaker for you, I'd recommend this version the most out of his various toys.
 

Review by Beastbot

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