Powerglide! Bombshell!

[BWprowl]

Combiner Wars Bombshell and Powerglide

As has already been said, these are basically the worst toys ever made by human hands. I'll try to communicate my thoughts below, though things are still scattered as authorities struggle to clean up wreckage and look for survivors in the aftermath.

Bombshell:

As Dom said, the biggest problem with this toy is that it does not perfectly match with the previously-released Skrapnel. Whereas Skrapnel was a glorious, solid-gold monument to human achievement, constructed to the highest standards, Bombshell is instead simply a potato. An actual potato packed into TF packaging. Worse, it seems the potato was carrying a disease of some sort, for as soon as I removed it from the box, all of my fingers immediately decayed and fell off of my hands. The potato fell on the ground at this, where it remains even now, as it seems to generate a localized gravity field that forces it onto the ground and prevents any amount of strength from picking it up, though legends are whispered that whoever is able to will be crowned the new king of a hateful demon empire. The instructions were littered with racial slurs, and the collector card was just a picture of a gang of Hasbro employees forcibly sodomizing my mother.

Overall rating: 7/10. I generally expect better from Hasbro, especially for ten whole dollars.

Powerglide:

Powerglide was, somehow, even worse than Bombshell. As soon as I touched the toy, razor-sharp blades sprung from it and lodged it into the stumpy clubs that were left of my hands. The toy's internal time machine then activated, and I was whisked back to discover that this toy, Generations Combiner Wars Powerglide, was in fact singularly responsible for the rise of the Nazi empire and the occurrence of the Holocaust. I tried to avert this terrible destiny, but it could not be stopped; the terror of history brought into existence by Powerglide was already set in stone, and I could only watch in horror as cruel events unfolded as we already knew. I returned to my home time, thinking that the revelations I had bore witness to were the worst of it, only to have the toy suddenly detonate in a chemical explosion, leveling the block and killing all of my closest friends, including Brianne Helm, the only girl I ever loved. I held her in my arms just long enough to hear her ask me "...Why?" before she died.

Overall rating: 6/10. Maybe the next Powerglide toy Hasbro makes will be a little better.

In general, Hasbro really needs to step up their game and get back to the standards we've previously expected. Remember when Transformers toys were actual, functioning sentient robot figures, packed onto cards of solid platinum and hand-delivered to your door by Hasbro employees who would then orally pleasure you as thanks for supporting the brand? Indeed, we are living in dark times that Hasbro cannot deliver on those previously-established promises. Clearly, they just hate the fans now.

[andersonh1]

Somehow your reviews make me want to own both of these even more.

[138 Scourge]

Dang man, you have had some bad luck with QC issues lately.

[Shockwave]

Shrapnel and Bombshell look ok next to each other to me.

[JediTricks]

I can't help wondering if we have the same toys. I liked both of them. Especially Bombshell.

[...] (yes, there are a couple of gaps on the sides, but I do not see "blue robot eyes staring back at me from under the nose of the plane").

Yes, we have the same toys. Subjective opinions can differ. As for that quote there, who are you quoting? I didn't say anything of the sort, I said they peeked out - and they do, unless you truly do have a different toy not from the Combiner Wars line in your hands.

Bombshell: [...] I do wish the head moved, but I understand why it doesn't.

Could you explain it? Because it seems to be about cheapness, the panel on the back of the head would not fully hinder movement.



Hey Prowl, go jump in a pool full of dildos.

[Shockwave]

As for that quote there, who are you quoting? I didn't say anything of the sort, I said they peeked out - and they do, unless you truly do have a different toy not from the Combiner Wars line in your hands.

Bombshell: [...] I do wish the head moved, but I understand why it doesn't.

Could you explain it? Because it seems to be about cheapness, the panel on the back of the head would not fully hinder movement.

It was a vague referrence to your comment, obviously not an exact quote, but I just don't feel that it's quite as exaggerated on mine as it seems to be on yours. As for Bombshell, that's pretty much par for the course for Bombshell toys, the G1 version's head didn't turn either and it didn't feel cheap. Besides, most of the figures at this scale don't have heads that turn: Swerve, Windcharger/Tailgate, Bombshell...

[BWprowl]

Hey Prowl, go jump in a pool full of dildos.

So, like, is the pool full just of dildos, or is this a pool with water that has then had a large amount of dildos added to it? At any rate, I doubt it would be especially unpleasant (save for landing in at an *extremely* unlucky angle), unless you were the sort that was *really* bothered by being surround by a bunch of toy penises.

"Jumping into a pool full of dildos" also sounds like it could be a euphemism for going into a place full of unpleasant people, like logging onto 4chan or something.

Besides, most of the figures at this scale don't have heads that turn: Swerve, Windcharger/Tailgate, Bombshell...

To correct a similar assertion I got called on a while back, Tailgate's head *does* turn, it's just stiff and hard to get to (similar to Skrapnel's).

What is notable to me though, is that Bombshell is very similar in engineering and articulation to Swerve, a toy JT had previously praised, but here Bombshell gets aggressively poo-poo'd. (For what it's worth, I actually like Bombshell better than Swerve.)

[Shockwave]

Tailgate's head *does* turn, it's just stiff and hard to get to (similar to Skrapnel's).

Huh. I'll have to try it later. I guess by extension that would also mean that Windcharger's probably does too. I don't seem to have trouble with Skrapnel's, I just use the ridge on top of his head.

[Dominic]

Combiner Wars Bombshell and Powerglide

As much as Prowl has completely and deliberately mis-quoted and over-stated my own and JT's complaints about Bombshell, his review made me laugh.

(For the record, I like Bombshell and plan to get one at some point. But, it would be nice if it looked more consistent with Shrapnel.)

[BWprowl]

(For the record, I like Bombshell and plan to get one at some point. But, it would be nice if it looked more consistent with Shrapnel.)

Having Bombshell now, and seeing him next to Skrapnel, I gotta ask you: What would need to be...fixed, as it were, to make it more 'consistent' with Skrapnel, in your eyes? Would you just prefer Bombshell was a Skrapnel retool with a new head/antenna, or what?