Bombshell

When did Hasbro get the rights to the name back? Or was the name 'Hardshell' a flight of fancy that never won the fans over? Or maybe too warlike or something? Anyway, I digress....

G1 Bombshell was my 3rd ever TF so I've always loved this little psychopath and this is a great figure that does him justice. The colours are really vibrant, the face on him is absolutely perfect and he is that well proportioned you'd swear he was a non-transforming toy. The bug mode looks good too, though his little connector jet engines coming out the back look a little odd and I had trouble with getting his front insect legs to sit flush on the ground. The Transformation is so like G1 Bombshell (except for the hip swivel) that you would swear they just decided to go the same route.

After playing with him I checked the instructions to see what 3rd mode he had - weapon or armor - to combine with the gestalts and was surprised to find none. I thought all these litle figures were going to do that He has sort of cannons on the ends of his arms which serve no real purpose so I'll assume that they are for a gun mode that they did not deign to tell us about