Dave's War Planets Rant:

     Fire Supermoon
     Remora Supermoon
     Tek Supermoon

     The Supermoons have bigger moons than the regular Shadowraiders, and the
moons actually transform in some fashion.  Additionally, their vehicles are
larger, they have unique tentacles and sadly have inferior rubbery plastic
for the warrior pieces.

CAPSULES

     Fire Supermoon: Pretty nifty moon with shooting top, although the
launcher can't handle regular girder missiles.  Very nice "vehicle," pretty
good beast.  Recommended.  $9.99 at Kay Bee.
     Remora Supermoon: Moon doesn't quite work right, very big vehicle, so-so
beast, nifty spy-eye.  Darklord figure has better cape than previous
versions.  Mildly recommended.  $9.99 at Kay Bee.
     Tek Supermoon: The moon transforms into a sort of robot, but kinda
uninspired.  Another big vehicle, and once you glue down some of the cables,
the beast is quite good.  Mildly recommended.  $9.99 at Kay Bee.

RANTS

     I'm going to use the same basic format as I used for the regular moons.

FIRE SUPERMOON

     Probably the best of the three Supermoons released in this batch.
Coloration blends in with the Rock Moons more than with the Fire Planet, but
that's more because the Rock Moons are too lava-ish.
     Moon: Closed, it's about 2.5 inches (6cm) in diameter.  Pressing a stud
near the bottom launches the top face into the air, about half a foot
straight up, which ain't too shabby.  The rest of the moon then can unfold
like a technoflower, revealing two control stations and two connector ports.
When closed, the moon can only connect at top and bottom, by the way.  The
central cone isn't suitable for use as a connector port, nor will it launch
the girder missiles, although you can loosely fit one into the hole.  There's
pegs in the control station areas for the Hero figures to stand on.  Open,
the whole affair can be spun like a top, kind of a neat effect.
     Weapons: There's a single girder blaster, not as huge as it looked on
the Trendmasters webpage, but still pretty big.  There's also two non-firing
guns which can only fit into connector ports (unlike the girder gun, which
sits on a post), and a spare lavabeast head which can be put on the end of a
girder or a tentacle.
     Tentacles: Thicker than regular moon tentacles, with a nice mottled lava
pattern.  Red with black inkwash.
     Beast: Smaller than the regular moon beasts, but sharing the same "no
legs" construction.  Six tentacles around the head can be swiveled, and two
gun-arms have shoulder joints.  Red and gunmetal color scheme, not too
shabby.  Has a driver's seat, but this can only really hold the Heroes, not
the Drone.
     Vehicle: This is actually another beast, a "lava toad."  Hunched down
on all fours with wheels hidden on its belly.  It has two recessed driver
locations for the Heroes (although they're too floppy to be shoved onto the
pegs inside), and connector ports on its back and inside its mouth!  The
mouth port lets you have the extra head coming out of the lava toad's mouth
for a nice "Aliens" effect.  The back-port is deeper than the regular moon
ports, giving more stability to the beast or anything else riding it.
     Figures: The heroes aren't nearly as good as those that came with the
Fire Planet, and are in fact unposeable.  They have bases to help them stand
better, and holes in the bases to fit onto various pegs throughout the moon
and sundries, but the floppy rubbery plastic used means that the legs buckle
if you just push the figure down onto a peg.  Still, these gunmetal guys fit
nicely on the control platforms.  The drone is a pinkish and black recolor of
the ones which came with the Fire Planet.
     Overall: While the heroes are a problem and I wish the planet could fire
normal missiles, this is a pretty cool toy overall.

REMORA SUPERMOON

     The one thing this toy undisputably has going for it is color scheme.
Dark blue with black and silver accents is very classy and menacing.  Almost
makes up for the bunny ears.
     Moon: Same size as the Fire Supermoon, this has three connectors when
closed, although one is off-center.  It also has a pair of blades which
connect loosely to pegs on the surface and make the moon look like a bunny
head.  Somehow this is not menacing.  It transforms into a "battle engine,"
the sides of the planet popping out as platforms (they're reversible so
either the connector port or the command platform can be on top) and the main
body splitting apart and rotating to form a "foot" for the thing.  This may
require use of excessive force, it did in my case.  The top half can rotate
freely to wave its silly blades at enemies.
     Weapons: The silly blades, two rubbery non-firing guns, a large black
with silver accents girdergun, and a spy-eye.  The spy-eye is a rather creepy
(in a 1960s Ditko Dr. Strange sense) attachment which looks best on the end
of a tentacle.
     Tentacled connectors: Dark blue with silver brush-on in a techno
pattern, again thicker than the regular moons' tentacles.
     Beast: A somewhat squamous mass forced into red and purple cybernetics
and armor.  A little paint on the eyes and teeth would have helped a lot in
terms of making this look threatening...from more than a few inches away it
looks kinda silly.  Has a driver area, without peg.
     Vehicle: A long, sleek "remora tank" which makes me think "Cadillac"
even though it doesn't bear any specific resemblance beyond being long and
sleek.  Oversized driver area has one peg, and there's only one connector
port, making this vehicle flashy but not very functional.
     Figures: The drones are purple recolors of the poseable Beast Drones,
and instead of two heroes, this toy has a single Darklord, with a base added
to his feet and the cape remolded to swoop dramatically around one leg.
Again, these are rubbery plastic, hard to get pushed onto pegs or otherwise
manipulated.
     Overall: Points for appearance, except for the rabbit-ear blades.  Moon
is unstable and hard enough to transform to knock my overall opinion down a
bit, however.

TEK SUPERMOON

     This one had the most promise in my eyes, since the moon transforms into
a robot.  But a lot of the execution was lacking, sadly.
     Moon: Again, 2.5 inches (6cm) in diameter, in theory this moon turns
into a robot.  But when you transform it, it looks like the arms are on
backwards, because there's no real "face" on the front side, and the legs
suggest that it should point the other way.  In fact, the picture on the
Trendmasters webpage has it facing backwards  Some paint on the eyelike areas
of the front would have helped a LOT.  Both arms fire girder missiles, and
they can be popped out even in moon mode.  There's no place on the base moon
for figures, although putting an "extension gun" (the rubbery weapons) on top
provides a driver's seat.
     Weapons: Because the robot mode of the moon has two launchers, there's
no independent launchers.  There's two rubbery extension guns, which have
pegs that a hero can theoretically stand on (I had trouble forcing the
rubbery pieces together) and a grabber claw similar to the ones on the
regular moons.
     Tentacled connectors: Red with grey "wrapping," they look almost scaly.
     Beast: A muscled-up cyborg thingy in red with grey armor and weapons, it
also has a turnable head and a number of connecting cables on its arms whcih
keep falling out.  The extremely rubbery arms make it seem too organic for
Tek.  I'm not quite sure which way the head should go...either it has horns
or face tentacles.
     Vehicle: A pretty big "Tek Tank" which reminds me slightly of Narn
cruisers.  Again, the connector port on top is deeper than on the first
vehicles, and the beast can actually sit flush with the vehicle making it
very stable. 
     Figures: The drone is just a somewhat sloppy recolor of the Tek Planet
drones.  The heroes are slightly buffed up, hunched over, and with bigger
guns.  Their feet are designed to fit into slots on the extension guns, and
are larger overall for better stability.
     Overall: The big minuses here are the weird design of the moon robot,
and the problems caused by the floppy plastic and loose connections it
brings.  Plus, the paint job is rather haphazard, going outside of the lines
more often than not.  Still, most of these problems can be fixed at home, so
if you don't mind a little work with glue and paintbrush, it's a pretty good
toy.  

     Storage note: Like the regular moons, nothing stores at all here.
However, in all three cases, all of the parts will fit nicely inside a
quart-size zipper bag.