Treadshot is some sort of black Triangular fighter jet..... According to sources I've read he's based on an F-22 Raptor. His colouring would insinuate he's meant to be the original Aerialbot Air Raid, which his Japanese name (see bellow) sort of confirms.
And now I'm coming to review them I'm struggling to remember how their weapons mount in jet mode ! Oh well. (one unclips from the bar, then they each attach under a wing using the 5mm peg hole in the wing) The jet has landing gear - woo ! - one under the nose & one under each wing. The cockpit canopy and the gun barrels of the weapons are moulded as clear blue Energon. An embossed Autobot symbol is on the body of the jet to one side of the cockpit which will cause problems if they ever want to do a Decepticon repaint of this toy - see Breakaway bellow and the entry for TFCC Nexus Maximus.
TF: Unnpeg the wings & sides of the jet from the body, then fold back behind the jet to form the legs, turning at the knee so the wings face the same way as the cockpit. The tail finds and spark fold forward onto the back of the jet. Fold the arms out to the sides from under the jet then fold the nosecone down to form the chest and reveal the head..
The robot is great - mainly black still with some pale blue being revealed on the robot limbs. He's very poseable with ball joints at elbow, shoulder, hip & knee plus a turning head which is light piped. The ariculation for the combiner limbs is some of the best Energon basics. The only downside here is the lack of a waist, removed to make the combined mode possible.
The point the toy starts to fall down is in limb mode limb mode involves the jet mode with the legs of the robot unhitched from the sides and the waist separated in two. The legs are then folded out along the nose of the with the front of the lower leg facing the same way as the top of the cockpit. The legs are then fixed in place with the arms. The weapons lock into the plastic bar to form the hands - one slides in from the side, the other pegs through the hole - then locks push up from the bar and *should* clamp round the side of the foot to hold it in place. The weapons can then be stretched out for feet or folded up for hands. Neither limb configuration looks that good - both are very wide with the leg looking unbalanced next to the thin leg formed from Sky Shadow/Terradive while the arm mode has a hand with hugely spaced out fingers. For a leg you'll get a better result by rotating the jet 90 degrees at the joint to the leg of Storm Jet so the spark crystal faces out then moving the feet so that both guns face vaguely forward.
Great as an individual toy though.
Treadshot was released in Japan as part of the SC-26 Superion giftset where he was called Air Rider.
Windrazor swaps most of the plane mode black for red and the robot mode blue for grey, but also makes the lower arms & legs - which were red - grey as well. Given the plane is mainly red you'd be thinking he's most likely meant to be the Aerialbot Fireflight and his Japanese name sort of insinuates this.
Windrazor was released in Japan as part of the SC-26 Superion giftset where he was called Firebolt.
Another horribly clashing failure from the fan club.
The toy that does get the Fireflight name in the Superion set is mainly brown, just like the original Beast Wars Airazor, leading me to think that there's been a slight muck up with them names here. So in my house this toy will be Fireflight while the brown A-10 will be Airazor.
The tolerances on the mould aren't as good on this version (moreso than Air Raid in the same set) I've had one of the knee joints keep coming apart on mine and while fixing it have broken off one of the clips onto the body to hold the feet in place in robot mode.