Razorclaw is a crab, with mismatched claws. His right hand claw is much bigger than the left. The dominant colour in this mode is the clear dark blue of the shell with orange making up the legs, upper arms and the claws sticking out the back - I'm presuming this is meant to be the end of another set of legs ? There's a gold wash on the back of the crab. The crab mouth opens and closes. Inside the smaller claw is a little molded in gun. The clear blue plastic is good - catching the light well.
The large claw if meant to have an action feature in it. There's a lever on the outside of the claw that when you pull it back is meant to flip the claw open - the way this should work is there's 3 struts of plastic inside the claw attached to the lever that should run in a groove on the other side of the claw. You can see a lot of "meant" and "should" in there. It doesn't work. Invariably - unless you take special care - the struts fold away with the lead one outside of the groove it's end runs in making the feature hard/impossible to work. I've checked both of the mold I have here and they're both the same in this respect.
TF: turn the beast over so you see it's underside. Pull the beast jaw up to reveal the head - the lower jaw is formed from the crest on top of the ad which recesses into the body. Unpeg and fold back straight behind the toy the crab's tail - moving the robot legs to the side to do so. Turn the lower robot legs round at the knee so they're pointing down to the sides, straighten the legs up at the knee and fold straight down in front of the tail at the back of the crab. Pull the sides of the crab shell up - there's a hinge at the head. Fold the crab side legs back under the sides of the shell so they form wings for the robot mode. Open the feet and pose the arms.
The robot shows a lot more of the orange on the chest, upper limbs and feet. The blue plastic really shows off the toy in this mode and lights up well with a light source behind it. He's got ball joint at knees, hips, shoulders, elbows and neck, with bending ankles and his right wrist. The robot is designed with a separate piece forming the back of the head so I assume it was meant to have a lightpipe here. The eyes at the front are painted over. You can't really complain too much here as the entire head lights up !
Overall: not bad basic, maybe slightly odd colours for a crab. Nice to see the clear plastic back.
Rockbuster Razorclaw here is a repaint released with a videotape containing Aftermath and Call of the Fuzors 1. As far as I'm aware this is a US exclusive
Rockbuster is a Beast Wars Neo toy available by himself as C-33 or in a vs pack with Hydra as VS-33. There's a little bit of a G1 homage going on with the names here: Buster and Hydra were the names for the Japanese recolours of Dreadwind and Darkwing respectively.
I'm lumping these 2 together. On first sight there is no difference at all between these toys. But if you look *very* closely at the rubsign you'll see that one's a Predacon and the other is a Maximal. TFU.info have gone to great lengths to make sure their photos catch this. This is a basic colour swap - Clear blue becomes dark red. Orange becomes a sea green. The gold paint on the robot chest becomes orange, while the inside wing paint becomes silver. There's a new orange pattern on the shell.
Time to go out on a limb and make a big statement: This is the best basic repaint *ever* and possibly the greatest TF repaint of all time. It makes the toy look different, it's appropriate to the toy (red lobsters and sea green) the colour scheme works well - excellently in fact, It original. I just love it to bits so much so that if I was forced to sell everything Rockbuster would be one of the last toys out of the door.