A random stop into a TRU today bore fruit, as I made a nice little find. After getting home with my new acquisition, I could not help but to take a few photos of it with another toy I've already had for some years...
Powerglide finds a new gun!
It isn't a bad gun, but there
is something a wee bit off about it...
What could it be...?
Surprise! The gun is
also Powerglide!
Both Powerglides are confused. How could there be two of them? But in the end, they decide to be friends.
Maybe they'll even go on a flight together!
And they flew up into the clouds, and lived happily ever after. Until they ran out of fuel, after which they both crashed into the home of Astoria Carlton-Ritz, killing her in the resulting explosion.
The end.
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While probably not a surprise, since it seems a popular opinion, I must declare this new Powerglide is full of win! Not to say it doesn't have a few issues... I
really wish the hands were a bit less obvious in vehicle mode, and while they stay together fine once you get them to do so, his legs can be a pain in the arse to peg together when transforming him. But besides that? Perfect robot mode, a near perfect vehicle mode, and a gun mode that, while not essential,
is passable and is pulled off without a negative effect on either of the other two molds.
The Ultra Class Powerdlide does still win a bit in a few areas... The arms are much better disguised (with the hands hidden away a lot more effectively) in vehicle mode, and for those to whom such things may matter, the larger size would tend to scale better with most other figures in vehicle mode. (Although I personally prefer the smaller size for Powerglide.) But overall, if I had to choose only one Powerglide, it is the new one, hands down, no contest.
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