"Actionmaster Elite" Pom-Pom Kitbash
Based on the WWF Signature Series Jacqueline
The idea behind the Actionmasters was that these were highly-poseable
Transformers that didn't transform. In Europe, they released a small number
of Actionmaster Elites, which were highly-poseable Transformers that sorta
transformed. None of the transformations was convincing, and most involved
clipping vehicle bits onto the toy.
Pom-Pom started out as a parody piece. I saw the Jacqueline figure on
clearance at Meijer for two bucks and decided I had to do something with this
insanely busty figure. So I bought it and took it home, then started
tinkering around. (A "pom-pom," by the way, is an antiaircraft gun.
Cheerleaders use pompons.)
The first step was the legs. I had bits and pieces of a cheap knockoff
Gundam (the face of which I used for Optimus Primeape) left over, and with a
little work I made them into boots for the figure. The hip flaps I removed
and glued to the thighs of the WWF figure. Next came the weapons. After
toying with the idea of making the breasts into cannons for a while, I
decided it would be impossible to scan the figure (that, it the out-thrust
chest already makes the figure want to tip over forward anyway). So I went
to my Legos. I built a pair of guns out of Lego bits, then glued 2x1 Lego
bits to the arms and to the head to act as snap-on bases. Another Lego piece
formed the backpack/power unit. Some more Legos for the shoulder launchers
and the "headlights," and I was ready to start puttying.
Having pulled off the fetishy-long hair, I decided that almost none of the
original head should remain visible. I built up a helmet out of putty,
squared off the torso with putty (yes, the breasts really do thrust that far
out on the original toy!) and built up the forearms a bit. I pressed another
Lego bit into the belt area for a buckle, and added a belt with putty.
However, the right side of the belt snapped off, so I decided to go with an
asymmetrical look and made the right side "belt" an indentation. A piece of
twisted wire formed the cable from the backpack to the helmet, which I glued
into place once the putty was hardened.
After casting around a bit, I decided on blue and grey for the main colors,
with gunmetal metallic accents. The "constructicon green" bit just sort of
happened, because I tried the color and decided I liked the way it looked. I
painted a nice big Decepticon logo on her chest, but it's not visible in the
scans, mainly because you could serve drinks off her chest...it's horizontal,
man. Finally, I took a technical pen and detailed the figure, at which point
I discovered that the knockoff toy wasn't symmetric in design...lots of
little differences between the boots.
The transformation is typically simple for an Actionmaster Elite. Move the
guns from the arms to the helmet (and the helmet's side panels to the arms,
the Lego pegs remain covered at all times) and bend her over backwards into
firing position. For nighttime firing, the arms rotate up so that the
shoulder mounted searchlights point in the direction of the guns (pictured is
the daytime mode).
DECEPTICON: Pom-Pom
Vehicle Modes: Antiaircraft artillery (AAA)
Function: Base Defense
Motto: "Don't give me flak, or I'll give YOU flak!"
This minor soldier in the Decepticon army was once only known for her claims
of being Megatron's sister, claims pretty much everyone ignored. But when
the Decepticons started to experiment with Nucleon, she found herself with
the firepower to make those claims credible...not that anyone believes her
anyway. Wields two powerful flak cannons in either mode, which fire energy
spheres timed to detonate at predetermined ranges. Few Autobot fliers can
stand up to a direct hit from her cannons. Darkness is no shield from her
cannons, as she has a powerful rack of searchlights capable of illuminating
targets up to 20 km away. At close range they can short out an opponent's
optic circuits. In artillery mode she reconfigures to feed greater power to
her cannons, at the cost of losing mobility. In robot mode, she has a
weakness in her gyrostabilizers that makes her prone to tipping forward.
STR 6 INT 6 SPD 4 END 9
RNK 6 COUR 8 FRP 10 SKL 7
Avg 7
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