Transformers: Beast Wars II Deluxe Powerhug (Retrax)
Back in the glory days of Beast Wars, after the initial series in Japan, Takara decided to start making new beast molds on their own. We got the fantastic Lio Convoy and Galvatron toys, repaints of a number of G1 and G2 toys, including two that had never been previously released. We also got a lot of straight repaints of American Beast Wars toys. I picked up all the new, G1, and G2 molds, but not the Beast Wars repaints. I was looking at stuff on ebay and found 4 deluxe and 2 mega molds that I didn’t get back then, really cheap, so I picked them up. All are repaints, slight to total accept one. I thought I’d review them since when I got them out of the box I got a little nostalgic for toys that I hadn’t thought much of back in the day, but seem so much better with the passage of time.
I’ve always hated this mold. His ability to turn into a ball is pretty silly, but Powerhug’s red, blue, silver, and white paintjob is amazing on a really forgettable mold.
Overall: Every Transformers series has to have a turkey, and this is one of Transformers biggest turkeys of all time.
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He’s a roly-poly bug, which does roll up into a ball. Kind of weird for a Transformer, and I’d argue poor execution, but if they’re making the bug, he ought to be able to roll up into a ball.