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

    It was inevitable; any cassette or cassette-like minion for one cassette player-like TF has got to be redeco/remolded for the other! And thus out of Rewind we have Rumble. His colors are very Rumble-y (assuming you're of the "Rumble is Red, Frenzy is Blue" persuasion), with red and black making up his primary colors. The red's a pretty good, vibrant shade without being loud, though the black is a "charcoal-y" shade that I think would've looked better as a more "pure" black shade for better contrast. Charcoal black plastic always just looks dirty, in my opinion. There's also some light muddy brown paint on his tank treads, a small detail near the bottom top of the smartphone mode, and some details on his shoulders and chest. It's a pretty decent accent color, and contrasts against the black pretty well. The chest details are very well-done, and really help to sell this more as Rumble and not Rewind, with the painted details very much like his G1 robot mode's chest. In robot and smartphone modes the colors are pretty well broken up, with the red on the smartphone mode almost looking like a "case" around the phone-- very nice. In tank mode, though, all the red is piled on top, with even the long gun red, so not so crazy with the color breakup there. Just like with the other smartphone Legends, Rumble has stickers used for his smartphone "screen", which unfortunately can peel slightly after repeated transformations. The details on them are pretty cool, though-- we've got two images that show images like Rumble is scanning the density of the Earth nearby so he knows how to most effectively pull off his signature move; a sound equalizer window; a com log window (the text is far too small to read); and some sort of "heat signature"-like image of an Autobot on screen. Pretty neat, well-thought-out details.
    Rumble has a new headsculpt and... it's pretty Rumble-y. He's got the front little forehead crest along the side crests on his head, a red visor, and a silver face with a troublemaking-looking look on it. No complaints here. Otherwise, no mold changes have been made to Titans Return Rumble.
    Titans Return Rumble is a solid redeco of Rewind, taking the best of the smartphone molds and giving it more interesting colors. Definitely my single most recommended smartphone TF from the line.

Review by Beastbot

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