The Website of Doom » Generation One https://www.thewebsiteofdoom.com Sat, 30 Sep 2023 21:12:03 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.38 Mint in Box: Mech Fans Toys – EMITTER (G1 Blaster) https://www.thewebsiteofdoom.com/mint-in-box/mint-in-box-mech-fans-toys-emitter-g1-blaster/ https://www.thewebsiteofdoom.com/mint-in-box/mint-in-box-mech-fans-toys-emitter-g1-blaster/#comments Wed, 05 Feb 2020 21:50:44 +0000 https://www.thewebsiteofdoom.com/?p=18533 Don’t, don’t, don’t, don’t stop the beat! I can’t, can’t, can’t, can’t control my feet! P-P-P-People in the street, c’mon everybody and move your feet!  

And we are back! Apologies for the delay in more DOOM content but I’m glad to be back on my bullshit with an all-new Mint in Box for something wholly new to this series; a 3rd Party Transformer!

3P Transformers are a unique beast in the toy world and there’s lots of companies doing them but for now we’re just looking at Mech Fans Toys’ rendition of Generation One’s Blaster – Emitter! Check out the video review and the gallery below that!

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]]> https://www.thewebsiteofdoom.com/mint-in-box/mint-in-box-mech-fans-toys-emitter-g1-blaster/feed/ 0 Mint in Box: Transformers Generations – Powerglide https://www.thewebsiteofdoom.com/mint-in-box/mint-in-box-transformers-generations-powerglide/ https://www.thewebsiteofdoom.com/mint-in-box/mint-in-box-transformers-generations-powerglide/#comments Sun, 12 Jul 2015 20:37:09 +0000 http://www.thewebsiteofdoom.com/?p=14058 Let’s look at the new Combiner Wars line with a guy who doesn’t combine! Yaaaaay~ 

Powerglide has always been a firm favourite of mine since I was a kid, you can blame a very well-loved VHS tape with The Girl Who Loved Powerglide on it. As such, when I saw that the new Transformers Combiner Wars line was going to be featuring one of my favourite ‘Bots, I jumped at the chance as soon as I saw him in-store!

IMG_3309 IMG_3310The new Legends scale packaging for the Generations line is slick as hell! It’s crisp and stylish and I kinda dig it. What I don’t dig are the Collector Cards that are bundled in with every figure now. We get it, Hasbro, you need to get your money’s worth out of all that Transformers Legends artwork you paid for…

IMG_3312 IMG_3314 IMG_3315Powerglide transforms into a stylised A-10 Thunderbolt II and it’s entirely serviceable. What do you want, he looks like a better version of his original version? Okay, the back end on my figure likes to bend where his conspicuous knee-joints are but it’s not that bad. And his fins are loose as hell… And his fuselage is wonky. Okay so it’s not GREAT. Like I said, serviceable.

IMG_3329 IMG_3333The new moulds in the Generations like are pulling double-duty as either components to their thematic Combiner or, in Powerglide’s case, as Targetmasters. Yes, Powerglide adds triple-changing into his arsenal by becoming a gun so heft that only five guys combined into one can wield him! It’s not a bad form to be fair.

IMG_3317 IMG_3319 IMG_3320 IMG_3323 IMG_3324Powerglide’s robot mode is what I bought this guy for because he is spot-on, tip-top, G1 awesomesauce! The delicious red, the huge Autobot symbol, that FACE. Mmmm, perfic’! He has a decent amount of articulation, pulling off all the poses you’d want him to but I’d have loved a bicep swivel so he could pose hands-on-hips.

IMG_3327Powerglide is a fantastic little figure but your mileage may vary but I love him and he’ll fit in right alongside his Minibot update brethren.

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