(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 Titans Return Shuffler. For a review on the mold itself, read the review of Titans Return Shuffler here.)

    The Ramhorn set is a remold of Shuffler, so accordingly the Ramhorn Titan Master is a remold of the Shuffler Titan Master. In robot mode, there's actually a change to the Titan Master's head. Since G1 Ramhorn has always been a rhino, here his head's been remolded to look like a rhino head squashed and stretched into human proportions. It's actually a pretty cool look-- he has little bits above his head that look like ears, a tiny silver horn for a nose, little light blue eyes on the sides of the head, and a silver faceplate-like detail on his lower chin. It's a nice "roboticized" rhino head and honestly kinda reminds me of one of those old Battle Beasts, being a humanoid with a beast head. The rest of the Titan Master has the same mold details as Shuffler, and sadly beyond the head the rest of the mode is entirely a milky dull rusty orange, with no other paint apps or color variations whatsoever. The rusty orange is a pretty decent shade, but having the entire robot mode in it is rather boring. In head mode, the face has also been remolded, apparently to resemble a cancelled rhino-to-head Japanese Headmaster. It's a pretty solid headsculpt, with side antennae that also look little ears the way they droop forward a bit at the top. His center headcrest is fairly large, hinting back at the whole "horn" thing, and he's also got some minor mechanical details and other lines on the "helmet" to mix things up a bit more. The face itself is pretty humanoid, with blue eyes but otherwise painted silver with a normal nose and mouth. The lines below the eyes look pretty cool and add a bit more unique of a detail to the face. Because the whole head itself is dull rusty orange beyond the face, there isn't any odd color "mismatch" along different sections of the head as there can be with other Titan Masters in head mode.
    Two mold changes have been made to the accessory for this set, both done primarily for the beast mode. First off, the beast head has been completely changed, to fit G1 Ramhorn's head-- the details are quite well-done, with all the robotic details taken pretty much straight from the G1 toy but more 3-D, with two vented ears and many hard edges to his no-nonsense face. In tank mode, the rhino head folds out into three separate sections, but... it doesn't really look like anything? No visible cannons or guns or anything, just... well, a rhino head segmented out into three sections. The horns point forward, but given that the front of the tank pokes out further than said horns, it's hard to see them doing much damage to any potential Decepticon. Also, the shoulder pads on the toy have been changed to match a close approximation of Ramhorn's shoulder missile launchers (again, from the G1 toy). They're smaller and longer proportionally than the source material they're trying to ape, but still look prettty appropriate, with three little "bumps" near the front that look like missiles popping just a bit out of a missile launcher, with several square and angular details near the back end of the toy.
    The color scheme on the Ramhorn accessory is prety simple-- just like the Titan Master, he's almost entirely a milky dull rusty orange. The only exceptions to this are some metallic gold paint on his remolded shoulder "missile launchers", and some on the eyes too. I mean... really, that's it? No painted treads, or perhaps the missile pod details from the weapon mode? These two colors both complement and contrast each other nicely, but man, Ramhorn desperately needs some more paint apps here. This color scheme is far too bland.
    Titans Return Ramhorn is an interesting twist on the old G1 cassette character, giving the Titan Master a rhino head and a new character face, while the accessory gets some remolding to make him look like his G1 toy in beast mode, but then giving him weapon and tank modes as well. Unfortunately, the toy being almost entirely one color-- even if it's a decent color-- was a bad decision, given how little paint is on the toy (especially the accessory). The new rhino head looks good in beast mode, but it doesn't make for a convincing top to the tank mode. Overall still a pretty good Titan Master set, but not as good as Shuffler.
 

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