The rear of the vehicle forms a visible hood behind his head - and it's very obviously a deliberate thing, since he had one in all of his G1 appearances. While I generally don't like faux vehicle parts, it does enable is that rubsign indent. His sculpt is actually very detailed on most of the sections that don't form part of the car shell - the exception being the chest - it's a false roof but is smooth to resemble the roof. It's a great looking Runamuck that closely matches the cartoon. The Decepticon logo sits in an indented square which is a nice nod to the rubsign indent of the G1 toy.
EARTHRISE RUNABOUT WINDOWS
Give him his guns, as desired.Ī black robot with transparent red windows on the fringes of his chest, a purple Decepticon logo with white bordering in the middle of his chest, some red pinstripe on his boots and red eyes flanked by gunmetal on his face (except the black mouthplate). Fold down his chest flip out the head and close the chest again. Rotate the forearms, flip out his fists, Swing the back of the car down to form a backpack. Rotate the front 180 degrees, extend to form his boots, fold up the feet & split the boots. Unclip the doors, swing out to the sides to form his arms. Unclip the rear, lift it up - the cabin will come with it - fold away the rear wheels and pivot the cabin towards the back of the car. Unclip and set aside the guns if attached. The play value is minimal, but it's clearly Runabout and the red windows look very sinsister. Not as much paint as Runamuck - which also means less concern about paint being scratched or chipped - but he comes with an extra gun. The wheels themselves roll freely, though.Ī decent car mode once you get clipped together. There's no clearance underneath for him to roll on a table, and I'd recommend against forcing it as the chest under there is painted, like most of the toy. One is the same as the single gun of Runamuck, one is unique to Runabout. The guns are painted over black plastic with the handles and tops left unpainted.
His red guns can plug into a hole on the roof - surprisingly for an Earthrise toy there's only one spot for this in vehicle mode - and so while he has two guns, you've got to either combine and plug in to this one port, or set one aside. One issue this mould does have though is very tight tolerances - I find that I've really got to press everything together for him to stay together - the cabin, feet (halves of the front) and arms (door panels) all include easily as everything is so tightly packed. The sculpt is simple but effective and the transparent red windows look good. There's a purple Decepticon logo on his roof with a white border, rounding out a good colour scheme which matches G1 nicely. He sports black tyres with white hubcaps, and his taillights are painted red. The cabin roof and rear _are_ painted over red plastic, but the blacks match almost perfectly so you're not really aware of this at a glance. The shell of the car isn't painted, but there's red pin striping. Unlike his mould mate & fellow Battlecharger, Runamuck. A black generic 1980s sports car, Runabout is close the Lotus he was in G1.
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