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Some new images of Maketoys' Hover (aka Seaspray) and Bomber (aka Powerglide) have been posted on the Chinese toy forum ACToys. As you can see they share an instruction sheet, which further points to them being a two-pack. According to the original poster these will go on sale in October for about 240 Yuan (approximately 37.50 USD). Images mirrored below.

meh ... not overly impressed.

Igears Seaspray looks better imo and that screw in Powerglides head looks great.

Hmmmm.... Looks like (if they EVER get released) they'll be a 2-pack, if the shared instruction sheet is anything to go by. Powerglide looks okay, Seaspray not so much - might stick in an order for iGears.

I'm getting mightily confused over who is doing what between this Powerglide and the other X-Transbots or whatever they're called this week, along with the notWheelie featured the other day - anybody recommend what ones to wait for, and which ones to go for as soon as the orders go up?

These might as well be the original G1 figures that have been retrofitted with more joints. Not particularly blown-away. If memory serves one G1 episode had Powerglide make use of a laser mounted on his forehead. Maybe that's what the screw in Bomber's head is meant to represent.

I think these might struggle against iGears proposed collection of Minibot based figures as we already have prices, initial release dates and they come with weapons.

Why do all these 3rd parties keep making different versions of the SAME characters... it gets damn confusing. How many Powerglides, Devastators, Bumblebees, Reflectors, etc etc etc do we actually need?

I love Transformers and I love all of the 3rd party companies spending time to make awesome custom figures, but c'mon if you see one company is doing a character you were thinking of doing pick another one! That way you won't have as much competition, and maybe we can finally get some modern molds of some of the more obscure characters.

They look out-of-proportion with themselves. DEFINITE pass.

Yeah, there is plenty of 3rd party fans out there but, in my opinon, slowly but surely 3rd parties are ruining this hobby.

phase wrote:They look out-of-proportion with themselves. DEFINITE pass.

How are they out of proportion? From plain to boat that's pretty scale, and even if not, their mini-bots, so scale's never been an issue...
But to end things on a posative note, PowerGlide has monkey arms, and no elbow swivel to make up for it...so yeah, kitbashers have fun.....

NaM3L3sS wrote:Hmmmm.... Looks like (if they EVER get released) they'll be a 2-pack, if the shared instruction sheet is anything to go by. Powerglide looks okay, Seaspray not so much - might stick in an order for iGears.

It is a 2-pack set. If you go to their website, it said that.

Since when did Powerglide got so popular? His "heart" made me want to throw up.

is it me or is powerglides face way to huge and his legs way to skinny?

BeastProwl wrote:

phase wrote:They look out-of-proportion with themselves. DEFINITE pass.

How are they out of proportion? From plain to boat that's pretty scale, and even if not, their mini-bots, so scale's never been an issue...
But to end things on a posative note, PowerGlide has monkey arms, and no elbow swivel to make up for it...so yeah, kitbashers have fun.....

Mabey not out of scale on SS but PG looks a bit off actually his thighs are tiny.

Still like the molds but they look less impressive than they did at BotCon. I'm not liking the dark gray..

Autobot Genocide wrote:

BeastProwl wrote:

phase wrote:They look out-of-proportion with themselves. DEFINITE pass.

How are they out of proportion? From plain to boat that's pretty scale, and even if not, their mini-bots, so scale's never been an issue...
But to end things on a posative note, PowerGlide has monkey arms, and no elbow swivel to make up for it...so yeah, kitbashers have fun.....

Mabey not out of scale on SS but PG looks a bit off actually his thighs are tiny.

yeah, well, a perfect powerglide may be too much to ask from anyone...

Hahaha! Those look terrible! Powerglide looks like a midget or something because his head is way to big for his body. And Seasprays is a little too round and pinheadish. Also he should have a bit more of a gut on him. Also the colors are off. All the grey on Powerglide should be white. And Seasprays faceplate should be yellow too. It really just seems like they're trying to take the G1 minibots and articulate them. As if the past 5 years of Classics, Universe, Generations, and other similar lines never happened.

At this point I'm much more interested in what iGear has to offer.

Sodan-1 wrote:If memory serves one G1 episode had Powerglide make use of a laser mounted on his forehead. Maybe that's what the screw in Bomber's head is meant to represent.

The screw in Powerglide's forehead is a homage to THE SCREW IN POERGLIDE'S FOREHEAD. It was so prominent that it made it onto the cartoon design as a normal feature of his head and they even made it a sculpted and painted detail of the Universe 2.0 Voyager Powerglide.

El Duque wrote:At this point I'm much more interested in what iGear has to offer.

If they go back to the lighter plastic shown at BotCon, I'm on board. I don't care for the head sculpt on iGear's Seaspray.

I like'em. But please, paint Powerglide's headscrew

Hmm, I dunno. Powerglide's head looks huge compared to his legs especially. I'll wait and see about these guys.

Want!

Can never have too-many mini-bots.

It doesn't help that these photos are terrible. They need to steal a page from their friends at Fansproject and get some great photos done with good poses. These stink.

Pardon my French but those figs look like ****.

The proportions are all over the place. Looks like i'll be sticking with Igear for now.

Of course they look like ****, the original G1 figures looked like ****.

Perfect example of when G1 is over it's time. I hate to hate on what I love but G1 aesthetics are just to terrible for the new age. If someone wants a MP G1 Jazz, I hope it's NOTHING like the original G1 figure, because I have it, and it sucks.

I love Powerglide and Seaspray, but the whole mini-bot idea is Stupid. In the cartoon they are carrying other transformers, so make em the same size as the other main bots. I don't care about retrospect, just make some decent versions of the figures.

for example:

Igear Ironhide ( about the right size, good bot mode, good vehicle mode. Doesn't come with the base mode ( that's G1, but it was also terrible, and made the figures really stupid IMO.

TFC Hercules - Not exactly devastator of G1, but enough to tell you it is supposed to be. Better articulation and larger scale.

Igear Cliffjumper ( NON-stubby Porsche and you have a winner.)


Just because something in G1 was a certain size, doesn't mean 25 years later it should stay that size. IMO mini bots sucked. and Still do. The littlest ones I like are the Throttle Bots, at least they clicked into place when in modes.

El Duque wrote:At this point I'm much more interested in what iGear has to offer.

Freakin' A...what a total let me down...'nuff said!