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I took a quick look at the playtest pdf to see what was what and my only thought was that the Race-builder is exactly the same as the eidolon builder. Potentially, at least.
The book introduces a good idea for Race building, certainly, but it kinda ruins the eidolon, makes it common instead of unique. You can make an Eidolon build w/ your Summoner OR just a Race build with your Race-Builder.
Is it just me that sees this?
I like the Race Builder but I'd like to suggest that designers keep in mind that keeping lots of "stuff" "Eidolon-Available-Only" will keep the Eidolon unique; expanding the options for Racial features will ruin the Eidolon.
This is not a player system. Someone might choose to let their players make their own races, but it is not the intent of the system. The system (which is a very, very small part of the book) exists for DMs to quickly and easily make somewhat balanced races on their own. It is not intended to be part of character creation, and as such will not infringe on the specialness of Eidolons.
Also, I honestly can't think of anything that would make sense to have as "Eidolon-only." Natural attacks? Spell-like abilities? Resistances? These, and everything available to Eidolons are already available to other races and creatures used as characters. It wouldn't make sense to arbitrarily restrict the system so that Eidolons, whose abilities are themselves based on what other races and creatures have, feel unique.