Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock!

Thursday, March 25th, 2010 1:50PM CDT

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Peaugh has gotten hold of the upcoming Transformers Power Core Combiners, PCC for short, Bombshock with Combaticons and has decided to post a video review of this set.
You can view the video ether by clicking here or just by scrolling down.

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Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058040)
Posted by Dead Metal on March 25th, 2010 @ 2:05pm CDT

Mkall wrote:Heh, he's got knees and shoulderd. That's pretty cool

Yea but man do his arms suck.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058047)
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on March 25th, 2010 @ 2:29pm CDT

I don't see too much difference between these guys and the Energon Combiners. Kneww articulation? Check. No elbows? Check. (Although Smoulder looks like he might have elbows just because of how he works).

But they're much cheaper than the Energon combiners, so that's a plus for those who like 'em. So far I'm not seeing anything I like tho.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058049)
Posted by Forgotten on March 25th, 2010 @ 2:33pm CDT

he's got the video for searchlight/backwind up too. I kinda like these guys. can't wait to see smolder
:KREMZEEK:

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058050)
Posted by --B-- on March 25th, 2010 @ 2:35pm CDT

I somehow get the feeling that these could be decent for the price, and are definatly kid friendly. If/when these hit tv commercials, my sons will be all about them.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058057)
Posted by paul053 on March 25th, 2010 @ 2:50pm CDT

No individual robot mode, pass
Ugly face, pass
Arm popping out during transformation, pass
Looks like having balance issue, pass

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058058)
Posted by Mkall on March 25th, 2010 @ 2:52pm CDT

Dead Metal wrote:
Mkall wrote:Heh, he's got knees and shoulderd. That's pretty cool

Yea but man do his arms suck.

Yeah, but no worse than the energon limbs before FansProject. I've gotten used to them.

De-sensitized as it were.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058063)
Posted by Vectorshot on March 25th, 2010 @ 3:07pm CDT

It's obvious that Hasbro is trying to save money. The drone idea in my opinion is LAME. The combiner modes look like crap. The makers need to take note of these fan groups and what they are doing. I can see Fans Project coming out with some add ons for this new line that will put Hasbro to shame.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058068)
Posted by First-Aid on March 25th, 2010 @ 3:16pm CDT

Vectorshot wrote:The makers need to take note of these fan groups and what they are doing.

Not really. The Fan groups are by the Collector, for the Collector. These toys are by a toy maker, for kids. Sometimes it amazes me that Hasbro even listens to us at all considering how most collectors treat them.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058069)
Posted by Aluus on March 25th, 2010 @ 3:18pm CDT

Yeah. I'm really NOT impressed with the Power Core Combiners so far, especially after the detail of the figures in the ROTF line. Some of the deluxes in that line were just awesome (looking at you Lockdown.) Even the SCOUTS had better transformations than these do. To me these are just hasbro trying to sell people a lower quality product hidden behind a gimmick

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058070)
Posted by Razorclaw0000 on March 25th, 2010 @ 3:20pm CDT

First-Aid wrote: Sometimes it amazes me that Hasbro even listens to us at all considering how most collectors treat them.

Ain't that the truth. We are, collectively, a bunch of whiny little brats.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058071)
Posted by mechabooks on March 25th, 2010 @ 3:25pm CDT

Eh..I still intend to get this set at the least. I like the look of the PCC Bombshock with combiners.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058079)
Posted by ang3l3s on March 25th, 2010 @ 3:52pm CDT

The lowest i will go is those rotf repaints and no lower, now i will have money saved for older figures i missed.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058081)
Posted by Blurrz on March 25th, 2010 @ 3:59pm CDT

DavidT wrote:Still too much...it's just a scout size figure with oversized non-transforming minicons

Wow, what needs to be done to please you?

Anyways I think everyone knows my opinion on PCC's already. This line was made for me and I'll collect it like no other.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058084)
Posted by DavidT on March 25th, 2010 @ 4:07pm CDT

Blurrz wrote:
DavidT wrote:Still too much...it's just a scout size figure with oversized non-transforming minicons

Wow, what needs to be done to please you?

Anyways I think everyone knows my opinion on PCC's already. This line was made for me and I'll collect it like no other.

They could make better figures or not make them at all

I was excited when we first heard about these coming out, and now that I see them, they are hideous!

.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058094)
Posted by dragons on March 25th, 2010 @ 4:58pm CDT

It's obvious that Hasbro is trying to save money. The drone idea in my opinion is LAME. The combiner modes look like crap. The makers need to take note of these fan groups and what they are doing. I can see Fans Project coming out with some add ons for this new line that will put Hasbro to shame.

maybe fan projects wont have to make an add on set for this combiner if there add on set for energon bruticus can combine with this series teh nthey can save some money & time & only make an add on kit for pcc superion but any other way it may or may not happen fans projects would have to make 4 new bots for these combiners if thats the case combiners have crappy looking limbs but nnot as bad as enrgon combiners i can deal with these combiners with out an add on kit but energon differnt situation.

ill still buy tehm if fp decides to make kit for this seriesi buy it if not i can deal with it

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058101)
Posted by Mkall on March 25th, 2010 @ 5:13pm CDT

Oh by Primus. Let's all drop the thought train that if something isn't 100% perfect, then some 3rd party will make it better. Don't like it, don't buy it. If you buy something with the sheer hope that FP will make something for it, then you're sending the wrong message to Hasbro.

IMO of course, but there are far better and cooler things that FP, ImpToys, etc can do instead of wasting time on the PCC figures.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058163)
Posted by Mindmaster on March 25th, 2010 @ 8:51pm CDT

I LOVE YOU PEAUGH!!!!!!! DEATH TO THOSE WHO ARE UNBELIEVERS!!!!!!! Now you see why he's my favorite reviewer!!! 8-}

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058206)
Posted by Craven Knight on March 25th, 2010 @ 10:46pm CDT

I like the concept of drones turning into limbs for a super mode but the execution here is lacking - those limbs look terrible. One can understand it if it doesn't look too flash because it needs to have a bot mode and a limb mode but these don't, they just go from being a vehicle to an arm or whatever and they do it poorly.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058238)
Posted by JRFitzpatrick7 on March 26th, 2010 @ 1:22am CDT

Blurrz wrote:
Wow, what needs to be done to please you?

Anyways I think everyone knows my opinion on PCC's already. This line was made for me and I'll collect it like no other.

i believe you and i will both be collecting this line like no other. 2 OF EVERYBODY!!

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058262)
Posted by Aluus on March 26th, 2010 @ 4:18am CDT

You know it's really not a hard concept to grasp. Hasbro's had no problem getting combiner sets to sell in the good ol days. I mean honestly, who here didn't collect all 6 constructicons individually? Or how about Rail Racer? Now THAT was a combiner. 3 figures, no extra parts you had to add to make hands or feet. Instead we get these crappy little sets with "drones" that turn into barely passable limbs. Energon had the right idea, it was just executed poorly. Honestly, i think even G1 did better. How hard is it to give us a Voyager with 4 deluxes that turn into limbs without having to add any extra parts? I mean we've seen what hasbro is capable of. they're just cheap.

Honest to god, i mean the freaking GOBOTS could pull it off for christ sake... http://counter-x.net/gobots/reviews/com ... zzler.html

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058271)
Posted by Serpent O - R on March 26th, 2010 @ 5:56am CDT

Aluus wrote:...i mean the freaking GOBOTS could pull it off for christ sake... http://counter-x.net/gobots/reviews/com ... zzler.html

Pwn'd by a Gobot... that hurts.

I have nothing else to say. It's just 'sigh'.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058335)
Posted by kirbenvost on March 26th, 2010 @ 10:05am CDT

Well, I think I'm sold on this line. I can accept it for what it is. Looks like fun to me.

I also didn't mind the limbs on the Energon combiners, though I'm stoked as hell about the FP kit.

I just wish the paint job on this set was a little more G1, but that's okay, it'll pass as a Bruticus homage.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058348)
Posted by Doctor McGrath on March 26th, 2010 @ 10:29am CDT

Mindmaster wrote:I LOVE YOU PEAUGH!!!!!!! DEATH TO THOSE WHO ARE UNBELIEVERS!!!!!!! Now you see why he's my favorite reviewer!!!

Don't know what your intentions are with these posts but I'm pretty sure he's married.

Mkall wrote:Oh by Primus. Let's all drop the thought train that if something isn't 100% perfect, then some 3rd party will make it better. Don't like it, don't buy it. If you buy something with the sheer hope that FP will make something for it, then you're sending the wrong message to Hasbro.

IMO of course, but there are far better and cooler things that FP, ImpToys, etc can do instead of wasting time on the PCC figures.

I could not agree more.

As for the figures, the price and the endless mix and match possibilities, these suckers are pretty cool.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058352)
Posted by Dead Metal on March 26th, 2010 @ 10:50am CDT

Aluus wrote:You know it's really not a hard concept to grasp. Hasbro's had no problem getting combiner sets to sell in the good ol days. I mean honestly, who here didn't collect all 6 constructicons individually? Or how about Rail Racer? Now THAT was a combiner. 3 figures, no extra parts you had to add to make hands or feet. Instead we get these crappy little sets with "drones" that turn into barely passable limbs. Energon had the right idea, it was just executed poorly. Honestly, i think even G1 did better. How hard is it to give us a Voyager with 4 deluxes that turn into limbs without having to add any extra parts? I mean we've seen what hasbro is capable of. they're just cheap.

Honest to god, i mean the freaking GOBOTS could pull it off for christ sake... http://counter-x.net/gobots/reviews/com ... zzler.html

Lol car-hood penis.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058399)
Posted by Aluus on March 26th, 2010 @ 2:13pm CDT

Gotta give em credit though. Puzzler was WAY ahead of it's time. I think the main difference between him and a TF gestalt is that his designers started out with the combined mode in mind. the result is that the individual robots, while passable and IMO pretty interesting, suffered a bit as compared to say the constructicons. When it comes to their combination gimmick though, they blow all the old G1 gestalts away, robo penis or no robo penis.

Here's another one for yah. Monstrous: http://www.toyarchive.com/Gobots/Combin ... erous.html

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058411)
Posted by Dead Metal on March 26th, 2010 @ 2:53pm CDT

Aluus wrote:Gotta give em credit though. Puzzler was WAY ahead of it's time. I think the main difference between him and a TF gestalt is that his designers started out with the combined mode in mind. the result is that the individual robots, while passable and IMO pretty interesting, suffered a bit as compared to say the constructicons. When it comes to their combination gimmick though, they blow all the old G1 gestalts away, robo penis or no robo penis.

Here's another one for yah. Monstrous: http://www.toyarchive.com/Gobots/Combin ... erous.html

Puzzler still sucked, he broke due to his poor waist design.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners Bombshock! (1058414)
Posted by Mindmaster on March 26th, 2010 @ 3:07pm CDT

amcgrath929 wrote:
Mindmaster wrote:I LOVE YOU PEAUGH!!!!!!! DEATH TO THOSE WHO ARE UNBELIEVERS!!!!!!! Now you see why he's my favorite reviewer!!!

Don't know what your intentions are with these posts but I'm pretty sure he's married.

Aww, now that's just cold yo. Anyway, when he did the Smolder review, did anyone enter for the contest? If so, good luck getting him! :WRECKERS: