![]() I particularly like the head with its big Animated style chin and flight helmet look. The chest and head in particular have loads of machine parts that all look like they do something, there's some nice faux aricraft parts with vents and whatnot that make up his chest. As a trade off for this, and because his robot form is so obviously indebted to the movie aesthetic, he's riddled with moulded detail. Were he part of a movie assortment, all this would be given a free pass, given the slightly less humanoid forms the movie lines have given us, but as he's supposed to be part of the Generations (nee Classics) range, these things just look that bit more odd. The twin machine guns he can wield as weapons in robot mode help patch over this. Less successfully, the engine turbines and propeller assemblies conspire to give him very awkward looking forearms. And on the subject of his legs, my aren't these marvellous looking things? These lithe struts that give way to these great clawed insect feet – with movable toes! Brilliant. ![]() He has very wide thighs and quite stumpy arms – not too noticeable when he's thrust into all manner of poses, but extremely noticeable if he's just stood still. With purple machine guns.Ī strange,green gangly insect of a thing, Powerdive has legs as long as he is all tall, which does give him some proportion problems. I like to imagine that Powerdive is a sort of 'what-ho' Pathe Newsreel type of aircraft pilot, all stiff upper lip and quiet pride in his work. ![]() If, of course you actually use these things for their intended purpose, rather than as some room decoration akin to an ornamental plate. The bio is sadly the usual bit of pish that you get these days that doesn't tell you much at all about the guy – is he friendly? Mad? Grumpy? Sad? - so its up to you to apply some personality to the toy during play. Straight away I was a bit disappointed that the whole 'Generation 2' homage hadn't extended to giving these guys the requisite faction symbols (you'll have to go for the eye-wateringly expensive Botcon/ Collector Club G2 homages for that), but it was nice in some way to have some more mainstream recognition of one of the, ahem, darkest hours of Transformers. And by return, that makes me more interesting and dynamic as a person. I was originally looking out for mould-mate Hunt For The Decepticons Highbrow (one of those cool looking toys that seems to have come out when no-one was looking), but chanced upon the rather more sexy looking Powerdive and was more than happy to plump for this guy, because as any fule kno, bad guys are way cooler. European markets missed out, as we frequently do, but we survived. ![]() After many dummies were spat out, Hasbro, with what must have been the biggest weary sigh in all of toy retailing, had the toys released with the help of Toys R Us to US markets in 2012 as an exclusive for that store. The line itself is more memorably known for the massive strop that all of America had when they learnt these toys were an Asian market exclusive and weren't scheduled to hit US shores. As such, some of the toys – Powerdive here and the G2 themed Megatron which borrowed ROTF Bludgeon's mould – fell into that same uncomfortable no-man's land as Reveal The Shield's Lugnut, feeling like they didn't quite belong to either the live action Movie feel their toys were aping, nor the neo-G1 of the Classics line. This line followed the trend of the '2010' toys, appropriating various moulds for some fan service Classics figures. That was pretty much all she wrote for Powerdive, until he was singled out for an homage in the Asian market exclusive Generations line of 2012 and got a Voyager sized toy. He got the cliché of a grandstanding moment in the Marvel Generation 2 comic, where, like a lot of new toys in various Transformers media, he kicked all kinds of ass before largely dropping out of sight. The launching mechanism has sadly not been carried over to this new Generations toy. They were amongst the first new mould Generation 2 toys, after a year made up of recolours of older toys. These Transformers featured a wind up motor which when activated launched a detachable rotor disc. Harking from the Generation 2 era, Powerdive was originally part of the Rotorforce sub-group. He doesn't care if his target hears him coming – by the time anyone can react, Powerdive will have destroyed his prey and rocketed back up into the sky. As soon as he detects an Autobot he puts himself into a screaming dive directly at the enemy's position. Skyquake87's Review: Powerdive Name : Powerdiveįunction: Day off at the office, so doesn't have oneīio: Powerdive doesn't mess around trying to be sneaky.
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