New Images of Maketoys Bomber and Hover

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 shit.

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

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

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!

DevastaTTor wrote: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.

These photos are of stolen toys taken be an amateur. These aren't supposed to be finished and polished.

whacko wrote: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.

these two where announced before iGear's where.

Also, I like these more than the iGear ones, now lets see how much they cost.

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

Ruining? How so..I got to hear this...

LiKwid wrote:

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

Ruining? How so..I got to hear this...

don't you know? Everything and every one ruins Transformers on a daily basis.
Even this very post!

I can't decide b/t iGear Seaspray and MT Seaspray (tho I've preordered the iGear one), but ever since the first pics I've thought MT Powerglide looks like "Li'l Powerglide" so since MT is going the 2-pack route I'll probably go with the eventual iGear Powerglide based on prototypes seen so far.

Swindle01 wrote:is it me or is powerglides face way to huge and his legs way to skinny?

Thank you! He definitely has a ginormous head.

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.

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?

Somebody ought to make a spreadsheet for Seibertron with all the different 3rd party toys - future/present/past.

Wait...aren't these the same folks that are making Devastator? I am feeling a little anxious...

Stormrider wrote:Wait...aren't these the same folks that are making Devastator? I am feeling a little anxious...

I'm not. Powerglide and Seaspray look just like their original prototypes, just these are in color. Their Devastator still looks awesome, but they need to at least un-blur those individuals Cinstruction photos already. TFC has product out and has finally released pics of all six in all modes. MakeToys needs to step up if they want to compete, unless they're hoping to compete solely on price (which would make a lot of people here happy I'm sure).

Stormrider wrote:Wait...aren't these the same folks that are making Devastator? I am feeling a little anxious...

Yeah, they have a Devy in the works as well called Giant, not to be confused with TFC Toys Hercules.

Why do I get a feeling everything from MakeToy will be made available at once? We've seen a lot of resin prototypes, and these new figures are in fully molded colour. Assuming they're moving forward at the same pace with all their items (kind of risky I know) then who know?

Pass.

Meh.....i kinda like em.

They do have bit of a 'super deformed' quality to them but they certainly aren't garbage! Which is the vibe i'm getting from most of these posts on this thread.

I wouldn't pay very much for them either. 20 bucks at most including shipping and handling (never gonna happen) but i would buy them

WTF? Not only does Powerglide have monkey arms (like the original) but his knees are designed to bend INWARDS. And his head doesn't seem to fit.

I'ma get em. Yup.

zodconvoy wrote:

DevastaTTor wrote: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.

These photos are of stolen toys taken be an amateur. These aren't supposed to be finished and polished.

Good point. In my jet-lagged state, I hadn't thought of that.

I think these still hold promise and am waiting to make a fair comparison when we see the final images-like I am with their version of Devastator.

I realy like IG Ss much more and Huffer looks excellent and the way things are at the moment its almost guaranteed IG will do there take of PG so i will hold out for him,
i hope IG will bring some other characters out first i would like to see Gears and Cosmos.

DevastaTTor wrote:

zodconvoy wrote:

DevastaTTor wrote: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.

These photos are of stolen toys taken be an amateur. These aren't supposed to be finished and polished.

Good point. In my jet-lagged state, I hadn't thought of that.

I think these still hold promise and am waiting to make a fair comparison when we see the final images-like I am with their version of Devastator.

They've had actual photos on their site for quite some time:
http://www.maketoys.jp/

NemesisMonkeySupreme wrote:

DevastaTTor wrote:

zodconvoy wrote:

DevastaTTor wrote: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.

These photos are of stolen toys taken be an amateur. These aren't supposed to be finished and polished.

Good point. In my jet-lagged state, I hadn't thought of that.

I think these still hold promise and am waiting to make a fair comparison when we see the final images-like I am with their version of Devastator.

They've had actual photos on their site for quite some time:
http://www.maketoys.jp/

And the pics on their site look much cleaner.

Not bad... but I already own Universe 2.0 Powerglide and HFTD Beachcomber is fine for me.