TF: Flipchanger. Pulling back on the tail causes the sides of the beast to fold out, the head to fold under the beast revealing the robot head, and the beast legs to extend out the back of the toy. From here the arms unpeg from the sides of the toy.
His robot mode exposes a more sandy brown on the upper robot limbs and the lower chest, while the head is the same reddish brown as before. He's the BW basic standard for articulation - ball joints at knees, hips, shoulders and elbows plus neck. The head is molded to take a lightpipe, but like all the early BW basics it's disabled by using an opaque piece of plastic and the eyes are painted.
Like all the BW basics he has a concealed weapon. In his case it's in the black piece of fur on the robot's back. Remove it and flip out a dual cannon. This can either be hand held or - in a nice touch - reattached to his back and fired over his head.
Overall: Simple, effective and done well. I look at these BW basics and rarely see anything really special but they're all perfectly decent toys. No feature that doesn't work or isn't implemented quite right, they all TF ok, they all look like beasts and they all have decent articulation. We didn't know how lucky we were.
Randy is Neo toy C-34 and is also part of VS-34 with Crazybolt - the rather fetching Iguanus recolor.
Randy is a basic colour swap. The sandy brown is now white. The reddish brown is gold. And that's where the trouble started for me. I got my brand new Randy and tried to pull him out the packaging. Off came his leg and with it a sizeable proportion of one side of the beast. Randy had fallen prey to GPS - Gold Plastic Syndrome. A certain sort of gold plastic used in toys has a tendency to break easily. Amongst the toys affected are Bristleback, Black Zarak, G2 Slingshot, Thunderclash, BW Grimlock & Armada Superbase Op have all had plastic breaking reported by various members of the hub. As it is the gold looks a little silly on a beast ! So maybe a slightly different choice of colour may have been in order.
I've got a 2nd on the way. That'll be cut out of it's packaging !