The pretender shell toy as a concept was a good one, unfortunately, the technology of the day did not allow for the full potential of the concept to reach satisfaction. As mentioned earlier, with todays technology and designers the pretender concept could be quite good again.

Providing the robots look and articulate well, and the shells dont look like bricks.

seaspray as a pretender... anthropomorphic whale thing! Cliffjumper ..a satyr! and and maybe pretender shells for headmasters and powermasters.

Them again i think that powermasters should be redesigned as an attachable powersource, ie, they actually contain batteries and attaching them lights something up (parts, weapons etc)

thoughts