Powerglide (Kre-O)

The name or term "Powerglide" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Powerglide (disambiguation).

Powerglide is an Autobot from the brick-built world of Kre-O.

Powerglide is a supersonic daredevil and aerial acrobatic ace, but also a huge attention-seeking showoff—he doesn't see the point of pulling off his amazing stunts unless he's got an audience. His dream is to appear on his favorite show, KREONS Have Talent!.

Toys

Kre-O

• Powerglide (Kreon Micro-Changer, 2013)
  • Collection: 2
  • Bag number: ***** 73
  • Accessories: Logo brick, 2 clip-on rifles

As part of the second wave of blindpacked Micro-Changers, Powerglide is a Kreon patterned after Generation 1 Powerglide. He can be rebuilt into an airplane. He reuses Mirage's helmet and Starscream's arm guns.

This Collection was still in circulation at "dollar" stores and drug stores up through 2015. They eventually lost the individual-identifying bag codes, but other changes were hidden inside the bag. The 2015 releases replaced the 2x4 logo stand-brick with a new 3x4 logo plate. The Kreon was also given the slight retooling to the arm seen in the 2014 Kreons, making the "cuff" parts more sharp-cornered and better adapted to being used as studs. Some of the add-on pieces may also be slightly off-color, possibly due to a change in factories in mid-production.

• Kreon Class of 1985 (Kreon figure set, 2015)
  • Accessories: Small pistol

Voted "Will Do Anything on a Dare" by the Kreon Class of '85, this version of Powerglide has his deco much more heavily based on the original Powerglide toy, plus his helmet is now the pointy jet-nosecone type. Like the rest of the set, he uses the almost-totally-retooled 2015 style of Kreon body.

This box set of thirty Kreons was a San Diego Comic-Con 2015 exclusive, with leftovers being sold on Hasbro Toy Shop online after the show.

• Acid Wing (Kreon Micro-Changer, 2016)
  • Collection: 2
  • Accessories: Logo plate, 2 clip-on rifles

In 2016, Collection 2 was re-released in a whole new production run for Dollar General stores in the US as part of a large collection of re-released Kre-O sets. But where most of these releases are nigh-identical to the originals, the re-released Micro-Changer blind-bags use the almost-entirely-retooled 2015 Kreon, with slightly-differently-hued plastics than the originals. (It is possible for some of the add-on pieces to be in the older hues.) Powerglide's head has changed from light gray plastic to a metallic silver, and his light gray tampographs have similarly gone shiny silver.

Sadly, this release has no individual-identification code on the bag, requiring you to use the feel-through-the-bag method or just buy blind and hope.