His forearms, hips and lower legs are spearmint, the hands and elbows purple and the rest more or less lime. Surprisingly the two greens and purple almost work in this mode, mainly because the mix of greens makes sense now. Detach the gun, pop the grille back and put the gun itself in his hand. You're meant to detach the grille and fold it over to form a handgun, but the grille panel just sits on top of the gun. In reality the arms wont flip right out, because the gears that stick out the sides and end up on his shoulders provide resistance, so you'll have to finish flipping out the arms. Lift up the hook and theoretically he'll transform himself. It's still a fairly poor truck, with the robot arms so obviously visible and some odd colour choices. Having said that, I won't call lime, spearmint, purple and transparent orange a _good_ colour scheme. Despite the bad colours, this is my favourite version of this mould as a truck, simply because of the more realistic finer details. Play value is limited to rolling Tow-Line along on his plastic wheels. Most of the colours underneath are fairly dark, so you don't see the purple bits, although under bright light his face stands out. Which would be fine if it didn't leave this clear gap. The other thing that bothers me is the gap underneath the truck, which is to allow for the front to fold down and become the chest. Sticking out on either side are the gears that the arms pivot on, although at least now they've painted them silver to resemble fuel tanks, whereas in Machine Wars they were just kibble. The transformation might be simple, but it takes it's toll on this vehicle mode. The hook sticks backwards from between the hands, and doesn't move. The forearms are spearmint, with purple fists - pretty conspicuous on a lime green truck. The back section is essentially two side panels doing a bad job of hiding the robot arms, which are meant to be machinery or something, but are fairly obvious from the top view. Given the transparent windows, silver smokestacks and chrome grill, I prefer Tow-Line's colours, although only just. Tow-Line's probably a little bit too colourful, but he's more interesting. Both Hoist and Hubcap were essentially monochrome toys with solid grey windows. The two greens work fairly well, and I'm glad he has transparent plastic on his windows, something the original Machine Wars toys of this mould both lacked. There's an awful lot of colour here, and in truth there's too much going on. There's a red Autobot logo stamped onto the hood, which is offset slightly to the left on mine - a minor factory defect. There are big fuel tanks on the sides, as well as smokestacks, that are painted silver, while the front grille and bumper are chromed silver. On the sides are orange and purple pinstripes and the words "TOWING SERVICE" in red towards the rear. A lime green tow truck with transparent orange windows and sunroof, Tow-Line has black plastic wheels with chromed hubcaps, a purple hook at the back, and lots of spearmint green, notably on the front and rear fenders.
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