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News Credits: 19 · Thu Jul 02, 2015 8:04 am

Powermaster Prime is the only G1 figure I still have from my childhood. Was a memorable birthday and I just can't part with that figure yet.

Doubledealer was a fun figure too. My preferred mode for him was the Decepticon bird mode. Is one reason I don't much care for the Generations figure (apart from the issues already common with the Blitzwing mold). Also I liked the lil bat powermaster engine. Was a nice change to get an animal 'master companion.

News Credits: 3662 · Thu Jul 02, 2015 10:07 am

RhA wrote:Excellent stuff! It's good to see more G1 stuff in the galleries. There's a shortage of powermasters in there.

Only 3 left! I've had all of these Powermaster galleries finished since before SDCC last year. It was my big gallery push that I did right before SDCC so that I'd have something new to work on for Seibertron.com on the plane and during my travels for SDCC 2014. Unfortunately, that never happened and those galleries, like so many others, just sat on my computer unfinished. Now that I knocked out Doubledealer and Powermaster Optimus Prime, hopefully I can get to the Autobot Powermasters next week during my travels for SDCC 2015.

News Credits: 293 · Thu Jul 02, 2015 10:08 am

News Credits: 1 · Thu Jul 02, 2015 12:49 pm

Seibertron wrote:
RhA wrote:Excellent stuff! It's good to see more G1 stuff in the galleries. There's a shortage of powermasters in there.

Only 3 left! I've had all of these Powermaster galleries finished since before SDCC last year. It was my big gallery push that I did right before SDCC so that I'd have something new to work on for Seibertron.com on the plane and during my travels for SDCC 2014. Unfortunately, that never happened and those galleries, like so many others, just sat on my computer unfinished. Now that I knocked out Doubledealer and Powermaster Optimus Prime, hopefully I can get to the Autobot Powermasters next week during my travels for SDCC 2015.

That would be supersweet.

Is there any way you can compare them to their Masterforce versions? In particular the Ranger/Joyride comparison.

shajaki wrote:

The one, single time when Hasbro made the perverse version.

News Credits: 3662 · Thu Jul 02, 2015 1:02 pm

RhA wrote:
Seibertron wrote:
RhA wrote:Excellent stuff! It's good to see more G1 stuff in the galleries. There's a shortage of powermasters in there.

Only 3 left! I've had all of these Powermaster galleries finished since before SDCC last year. It was my big gallery push that I did right before SDCC so that I'd have something new to work on for Seibertron.com on the plane and during my travels for SDCC 2014. Unfortunately, that never happened and those galleries, like so many others, just sat on my computer unfinished. Now that I knocked out Doubledealer and Powermaster Optimus Prime, hopefully I can get to the Autobot Powermasters next week during my travels for SDCC 2015.

That would be supersweet.

Is there any way you can compare them to their Masterforce versions? In particular the Ranger/Joyride comparison.

shajaki wrote:

The one, single time when Hasbro made the perverse version.

Not yet ... don't have Ranger yet or Doubleclouder. One day!

News Credits: 1235 · Tue Jul 14, 2015 10:55 pm

The galleries of Seibertron return to the realm of Generation 1 to bring you high quality galleries of the last 3 Powermasters to pass before the lens. These galleries include Getaway, Joyride and Slapdash as well as their Nebulon partners Rev, Hotwire and Lube.

The Powermaster partners serve as an external power source to give a power boost to the Transformer they are bonded with. Powermasters need their nebulon partners in order to unlock their transformation.

Click the images below to see all the galleries anxiously awaiting you.

G1 1988 Getaway

G1 1988 Joyride

G1 1988 Slapdash

G1 1988 Rev

G1 1988 Hotwire

G1 1988 Lube

News Credits: 7 · Tue Jul 14, 2015 11:09 pm

*BOMP*

Knowing Getaway only from MtMtE, I'd have never guessed he had a little guy that turned into his engine block.
Or that he had an engine block to begin with.

News Credits: 1 · Wed Jul 15, 2015 12:44 am

Awesome!

I love these cluncky bricks.

News Credits: 19 · Wed Jul 15, 2015 3:50 am

I had Joyride. His spoiler in robot mode doesn't even trrrryyy to hide the fact the lower legs are just one big piece. Leg articulation? What's that?

Always thought Hasbro shot themselves in the foot a little by using the Macross figure for Jetfire cos once I had that and it's excellent articulation, pretty much every Transformer following it just felt basic as all hell. But I still got them anyways.

News Credits: 54 · Wed Jul 15, 2015 6:42 am

I always misread their group name as

wait for it...

SHOWERMASTERS!

News Credits: 56 · Wed Jul 15, 2015 9:25 am

Nice pictures!

1988 was really when the toys in Japan and the Unites States really started to separate. It would be cool to see comparison photos with their Japanese counterparts Lightfoot, Ranger, and Roadking.

News Credits: 462 · Wed Jul 15, 2015 10:07 am

o.supreme wrote:Nice pictures!

1988 was really when the toys in Japan and the Unites States really started to separate. It would be cool to see comparison photos with their Japanese counterparts Lightfoot, Ranger, and Roadking.

At the very least, Lightfoot and Road King seem identical to Getaway and Slapdash.

Thu Jul 16, 2015 9:09 am

I see some cool design similarities between Powermaster Slapdash and Endergon Prowl. If I could have used a head from the Armada Blur on Prowl, and just a little bit of paint, it would have made a cool custom. Talk about a missed opportunity since I got rid of both that Blur and Prowl last year.

News Credits: 6188 · Wed Aug 05, 2015 3:28 am

You want some Mini-Bots from Generation 1? We got some Mini-Bots from Generation 1! The latest instalment of the Seibertron.com galleries bring you a look at what Bumblebee's pals (now that the MP gallery for the G2 version is available) looked like in the old days, by showing off IGA Blue Cliffjumper, Bumblejumper, and Micro Change MC04 Mini CAR Robo 02 XG1500 (Yellow).

They all share very similar molds, identical transformations, sport different colours and there are even some head sculpt differences (but no ankle tilt) - take a roll down brick memory lane by clicking on any of the images below to access the full galleries!

G1 1984 Cliffjumper

G1 1984 Bumblejumper

Micro Change MC04 Mini CAR Robo 02 XG1500 (Yellow)

News Credits: 1 · Wed Aug 05, 2015 3:32 am

Minibots make my head asplode. So many variations! I can never seem to tell what's an actual TF, a Diaclone or a KO.

News Credits: 372 · Wed Aug 05, 2015 3:42 am

Va'al wrote:

Nice face sculpt.

News Credits: 1 · Wed Aug 05, 2015 3:47 am

Cyberpath wrote:
Va'al wrote:

Nice face sculpt.

I agree. The blue makes him pop.

News Credits: 388 · Wed Aug 05, 2015 10:07 am

Aside from the sticker, is there any difference between Bumper and the Microchange Familia?

News Credits: 3 · Thu Aug 06, 2015 1:07 am

Something tells me their will be a lot of mp bumblebe repaints...

Fri Aug 07, 2015 1:03 am

Wow, your toys look great, Lost Cybertronian

News Credits: 3662 · Fri Aug 07, 2015 12:49 pm

LegendaryAntiHero wrote:Wow, your toys look great, Lost Cybertronian

These are mine (as are all but a very small handful of the toys featured in the galleries) ... but thanks for the compliment!

News Credits: 3662 · Fri Aug 07, 2015 12:52 pm

Bounti76 wrote:Aside from the sticker, is there any difference between Bumper and the Microchange Familia?

The head sticker and chest stickers are different, and the shade of yellow is different (at least on the ones I photographed). I think the Micro Change version was a lighter shade of yellow and the Transformers one was a more standard yellow, but it's really hard to tell in my pictures which one was the lighter shade.

I sold the Micro Change one and I'd still like to replace at least the chest on my Bumblejumper because of the scratch through the Autobot sticker. Other than that flaw, it's a really nice Bumblejumper.

News Credits: 6188 · Tue Aug 18, 2015 1:01 pm

Following on from the recent Seibertron.com offering of the Takara Tomy Transformers Masterpiece G2 Bumblebee galleries (which you can find here), we are happy to present another dive into the multicoloured world of Generation 2 with the Minicars Bumblebee, Hubcap, Seaspray and Beachcomber!

Take a look below at the predecessors of the latest MP release, some of the stranger movieverse and Generations toys of recent years (pre-Combiner Wars), all in their miniature sizes from the early 90s, by clicking on any image below to view the full works.

Generation 2 Bumblebee

Generation 2 Hubcap

Generation 2 Beachcomber

Generation 2 Seaspray

News Credits: 6 · Tue Aug 18, 2015 3:04 pm

WOOT!!!

Shiny paint FTW!!!

:lol:

Though my Hubcap isn't as mint as the others, I still like it.

News Credits: 7 · Tue Aug 18, 2015 3:20 pm

For being G2 figures, they seem rather plain. Apart from just being shiny, I mean.

I think I dimly remember the cars from my early childhood, but without realizing they could transform. I dunno, maybe I'm confusing them with Hot Wheels or something...