Had it been pink I'd have hated it, but silver on a grey head is suitably mechanical for me. It's a little strange, although I can deal with it, I know some find it a bad feature. No, you didn't read that wrong - Packrat has an exposed brain - or at least a brain-like section on top of his head. While this works well on Rattrap, the darker blue means it's somewhat lost on this toy. He has a very mechanical looking lower jaw, which is blue like the rest of his head. His gun is light grey and the rat feet sticking out the sides are bronze. His eyes are red, and his side panels, now on his back, are blue. Packrat is blue, light grey and bronze - the chest, head, forearms and toes are blue, the thighs, groin and shoulders grey, his hands, shins and exposed brain are bronze.
All that's left is to unclip the arms, remove his gun halves from the side panels, assemble the gun and place it in either hand. The robot legs swing down into place automatically, too. The head folds down to form the robot chest, the sides (complete with rat feet) fold out to the sides. Pull the tail up and he pretty much auto-transforms, which is part of the gimmick in the first wave of BW basics. Despite this, it's a good mould, and Rattrap was one of the best of the early Beast Wars basics, so it's a good toy to use for a BotCon exclusive. All these are for transformation joints, and the holes could probably been avoided without this costing much more to manufacture. Probably the only real gripe I have with this mode is the seams along the side and various holes on his back and legs. OK, so they skimped on a lower jaw - probably for cost reasons, but the moulding more than makes up for it for me - it's very good for a basic sized toy. The moulded fur looks good, he has whisker holes on his snout and the feet have moulded digits. I guess this makes him look more ferocious. The teeth are a nice touch, even if they're way too sharp for a scavenger's teeth - they're predator teeth. You don't see it from above, but they could have potentially put a lower jaw on the joint which his head is attached to. The lower jaw is basically a hole in his head. There's both attention to detail and some shortcomings in this mode. It's an s-shape, the only joint is at it's base so it's stuck in this s-shape. The tail is a solid grey plastic and has wrinkles as real rats' tails do.
The metallic sheen is slight, and you don't notice the metal flakes thanks to the fur sculpting all over this toy. I'm not sure you'd ever find a royal blue rat, but he looks pretty cool nonetheless. Packrat has yellow eyes with irises, pointy white teeth protruding from the sides of his mouth. A plump blue rat with a very slight metallic sheen, bronze painted feet and a light grey tail.
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