This new Legends class version of Seaspray is quite accurate to his G1 version in terms of its overall construction and design-- though of course, updates have been made to make him look more "modern". In hovercraft mode, Seaspray largely looks pretty proportional overall, with a blue "bumper" around everything except the backside, windows on the front, a missile pack on the top for some weaponry, and some twin propellers near the back that can spin pretty freely. The propellers themselves are the only thing that are a bit out of proportion-- they're too small, and should have been larger to believably provide Seaspray with some thrust in this mode. The robot mode extras are MOSTLY absent in this mode, though there's one fairly obvious sore thumb, and that's the robot head in front of the propellers. I mean, there's a little white plate that comes up in front of the face to "hide it"-- and it does hide the face, but not the head. That's a bit unfortunate; I wish the head had folded away somewhere. As far as mold detailing, Seapspray gets the job done; there's some rear thrusters near the bottom of the back end, some tech-like details and lines over much of the main body, some minor angular details on the front, and some vent-like details near the top back end. It's pretty well-done, though not eye-poppingly complex like some other Titans Return toys. The color scheme is vintage Seaspray, with the naval colors of blue and white making up much of the color scheme; they certainly contrast against each other well, and are segmented logically, with blue being mostly near the bottom of this mode while white makes up most of the body. The rear top section also has some yellow, though it's a pale yellow-- having it be a bit bolder would've helped it contrast better, methinks. There's also some white paint apps on the sides of the front, black paint on the windows, red paint on the front of the missile launcher, and some simple paint decals on the top of the body that mimic his G1 stickers, with some simple blue, red, and yellow rectangular and triangular shapes with some silver underlay. Oddly, Seaspray has no little pegs on his entire body to fit a Titan Master on, nor is there any sort of openable cockpit for a Titan Master to fit in-- even though he's a new mold made for the line, it seems like he was initially planned for another line, given his complete lack of interaction with the chief figures of Titans Return.
    To transform Seaspray to robot mode, you unfold the legs out from the front section, fold that whole section up, rotate around the rear side sections to become his arms, them fold down the rear propeller section into the new cavity under the body to become his head and shoulders. The end result looks pretty nice overall. My biggest issue with this mode is that Seapsray definitely has some big clonkin' shoes. Granted, that's kind of been his "thing" regarding his G1 design, but they seem even more exaggerated here. Still, at least he has no problem standing up by himself! His legs are also a bit thick proportionally, but nothing compared to the feet. Due to the way his arms form the rear side sections, they're cut a bit oddly at the elbows, but this is a small complaint-- they're largely pretty solid. The white body is pretty square, with the aforementioned simple decals helping to break up all that white some, though another paint app or two wouldn't have hurt. His headsculpt is pretty accurate, with a black-painted visor, a faceplate, and a simple round "helmet" around his head-- it's one of the less humanoid TF faces. He's got his propeller sections for shoulders, which fit in pretty nicely with the G1 toy-- though you wonder how Seaspray can see to the side... For articulation, Seaspray can move at the neck, shoulders, elbows, hips (at two points), and knees (at two points, though one is used for transformation). Overall he's fairly poseable, though the lack of waist rotation for no apparent reason hurts him a bit. Seaspray's missile launcher can be held in either hand, but it slots into a small rectangular hole behind each fist; the fists can't hold the weapon themselves, which in turn means other Titans Return toys can't hold Seaspray's weapon.
    Titans Return Seapspray is one of the better Legends class figures, keeping pretty true to his G1 self in both modes while modernizing some aspects of him slightly. I would've liked a bit MORE modernization, but I can see why they wanted to appeal to the fans who just wanted a straight-up G1 redo. He has a couple of minor kibble and proportional issues-- particularly the fairly obvious head in vehicle mode and the huge feet in robot mode-- but nothing that remotely ruins either mode. Recommended, though his inability to interact in any way with Titan Masters is baffling.

Review by Beastbot

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