Guest comments from Justin Anderson, who found one on clearance for $10
at Meijer.

DECEPTICON: CRYO SCOURGE
Planet: Jungle (ruler)
Altmode: Dragon
Key Code: u3fl

     Long exposure to the freezing waste of deep space has irreversibly
mutated SCOURGE.  No longer a flame-spewing monster consumed by his passions,
he is now a creature of ice and cold.  Calculating, cruel, and without mercy,
he radiates a freezing aura that causes circuitry to short out, and renders
AUTOBOT alloys brittle and easily shattered.  His breath, once a raging
firestorm, is now a creeping cold that sneaks into joints and mechanisms,
destroying them from within.  The blade of his axe is a razor-sharp shard of
supercooled hydrogen ice that leaves a deadly numbness wherever it strikes.


STR 9  INT 8.5  SPD 7  END 8  RNK 8.5  COUR 10  FRB 9  SKL 7.5  Avg 8.44

stat numbers unchanged.

     Key Code Info: This color for a dragon is not a new thing for Hasbro!
During the Beast Wars era, there was a massive Megatron figure that turned
into a ferocious red dragon.  Two years later that figure was painted into an
ice dragon and released as Cryotek!  As an added bonus, the name Cryotek is
from an old Hasbro toy line called "The Visionaries" from 1987!!
     (Visual content is the pantone color guide.)

     Packaging is basically the same as Scourge with the new photos, artwork
and bio, plus a Primus Unleashed bit in the window.  The inner tray seems to
be the same as well, with a plastic protective wrap around the big shoulder
spike to protect it from window scuffing (wrapped with a rubber band).  I got
a Giant Planet map with mine.  Co-sells are GF Prime, Primus, Unicron and
Quickmix.  

     Color changes: The key is a standard Jungle Planet key, he doesn't get
to keep the leader key now that he's dethroned.
     The main color scheme is a double homage - the blue dragon scheme and
"Cryo" name prefix come from Cryotek, a Target exclusive blue recolor of
Transmetal 2 Megatron from several years ago.  The multiple blues with silver
also match well with G1 Scourge.
     The sprues do not totally line up.  The torso, upper and lower arms,
jaw, chest panel and head are a dark blue plastic.  The fists, inner thighs
and lower legs are a medium blue plastic.  The shoulder spikes, Beavis heads,
beast head, chest panel ends and feet are a light blue, with a transparent
green-tinted blue for the claws.  The dragon forehead/eyes are yellow.  The
axe is mostly dark blue with light blue ratchets and spike, with a big
transparent blue blade bit.  Paint trim is either yellow or silver with a
non-outlined Decepticon emblem tampo'd on the forehead and some white
airbrushed here and there.  Eyes are red, while the beast eyes light with a
red LED.  I have some light factory scuffing on mine but thankfully, only in
silver spots, so it can be eaisly touched up.
     Sounds, etc seem the same.  No mold changes I can tell.

     Overall: My only dislike of the Scourge mold was the rather busy color
scheme, which this fixes with a much more uniform "ice" theme, plus the
double homage is a nice touch.