Power Lords Packaging Samples

Check it out - Adam Power, Lord Power, Ggripptogg, Ggrabbtargg, and a blue Ggrapptikk with extra limbs, heads, and other parts are pictured at Source Horsemen.  According to the forums, it seems likely these will be shipping to people in the next month June.

If what I saw in a video preview was right, the blue one with the bonus gear is exclusive to Power Lords Club members.  Not a bad figure.  Also note Adam Power and Lord Power each include bonus alternate heads.

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Power Lords Package Art Revealed, Gorgeous

Rather than wait for Toy Fair, the Four Horsemen posted the front and back of their new packaging for Power Lords!  It's beautiful.

World Premiere: New Power Lords Packaging! pretty much says it all - click here and cast your gaze on the finest packaging since the last finest packaging you've seen.  The Horsemen are really exquisite graphic designers, they really made this look like it fell out of 1983.

5 More Power Lords Figures Coming Soon

In a post called "Deploying SOON," the Four Horsemen have revealed 2 new Power Soldiers and 3 new variations on the Ggripptogg mold - and dagnabbit if they don't all look better than the last ones.   The four-armed brute on the far right was teased at Toypocalypse 3 last year, and the blue Power Soldier looks a heck of a lot like Cobra Commander.  So naturally, of course, I have to get these too.  Harrumph.  Check 'em out!  There's a Spider-Man-esque combo shown, plus the close-ups of the instrument panels on the larger figures look like they're very early 1980s.  Well done!

New Power Soldiers: Brown, Grey, Pre-Orders in November

Along with the reissues of the black and white Power Soldiers from Power-Con, the Four Horsemen announced these two new Power Soldiers with a pre-order date of November.  Presumably, they are interested in actually making enough of them for demand, and I applaud them for this.

What's more, they also posted shots of variant heads for each Power Lords figure - which makes me wonder what I have to do to get some of those!  (Heck, I'd have ordered more black and white figures if I knew I could get more heads.)  Check 'em out.

Power Lords + Glyos = Compatibility

My Power-Con exclusive Power Lords Power Soldier and Elite Power Soldier showed up in the FedEx today just after lunch, meaning I finally got to find out just why nobody was posting pictures of Onell Design or Outer Space Men figure parts swapped in with these new sci-fi marvels.

The good news is that the Power Lords from the Four Horsemen use the Glyos system, but with a twist.  Many of the parts - like the shoulders and head - use the traditional full-size Glyos plug.  The elbows, wrists, and ankles use a smaller Glyos plug as seen in The Outer Space Men hands and feet for Alpha 7 and Gemini.  Due to some peg gender-bending, you can't put the OSM hands on the Power Lords wrists - plugs plus plugs and holes plus holes won't work here.  The same is true of the feet - you may only swap those between Power Soldiers.

The figures are 3 3/4-inch scale, more or less, putting them right at home with your Outer Space Men and Star Wars action figures.  On a shelf, these are probably more likely to go with non-Glyos figures due to the realism of sculpts and the fact that while some of the parts swap nicely, others don't.

 Getting the existing Glyos parts into a Power Soldier torso is tricky - the hole is recessed deeply in the shoulders, and the Power Soldier ball shoulders look positively wonky on an Outer Space Men torso.   The legs can sort of be swapped onto the Onell hips, but they don't really work on the OSM.   Heads from other figures don't fit easily in the Power Lords socket other than the Banimon offerings, but you can get some long, narrow pieces to fit in there as you see an arm and a ray gun in the above pictures.

I've only had these for a short while, and a longer review with impressions will be posted to 16bit.com on Wednesday.   In the meantime, enjoy the pictures and let me know what you're coming up with!