New Galleries: Power Core Combiners Undertow, Salvage, Skyhammer and Heavytread

Most underrated series of all time. I wish they had made a train and insect team.

I really dig many of the PCC toys. Undertow and Heavytread are at the top of my want list, but finding them at a reasonable price is another story all together.
Anyway, this was a really underrated toy line, and I would love to see some of the designs and characters brought back into the fold!

heavytread was the hardest to track down for me.

Ah, PCCs. Such a fun line. Really '09-'10 had to be my favorite period in Transformers.

I've always wondered what Undertow and Skyhammer were like. The other end-of-the-line figures (Steamhammer, Dinopope, and Heavytread) are all pretty amazing.

jogunwarrior wrote:Anyway, this was a really underrated toy line, and I would love to see some of the designs and characters brought back into the fold!

At the very least, Smolder should be adopted into the "main" series.


Also, wow, just noticed the original thread title used the Minicon's name instead.

Heavytread was pretty hard to find.. but looks amazing with Fansproject Mobine (Jungle).

Undertow is a pretty nice one. I managed to make a pretty cool looking Chaingun turret alt mode out of it.

PCCs are some of the most underrated figures of all time.

Except Double-Clutch, that mold is crap.

Mkall wrote:PCCs are some of the most underrated figures of all time.

Except Double-Clutch, that mold is crap.

Ok, this post comes from someone who unashamedly and openly appreciates the PCC line (Double-Clutch excluded, that toy went straight in the bin).

Out of the four galleries posted, Undertow and Heavytread are easily the best of the lot. I have a lot of love for Smolder, but those later wave figures are fantastic little scouts, with great modes and Heavytread really really really works with the drone limbs and other products we do not speak of.



Skyhammer is alright. Feels a bit too misshapen to actually work with the others, but the torso mode is so bonkers I had to get it too.




Are they masterpieces of engineering? No. Really not at all. But for a venture back into combination territory, they were great little toys that I learned to really enjoy after my first experience with them.

And I still think they look pretty fine, in their Frankenstein bodies.

The only way to explain how in unfathomably awful Double Clutch is, is to assume someone poured absinthe into Hasbro's water cooler, and the designers blacked out and told everyone it was cool to skip quality assurance.

Just as bad, the fans started passing around a rumor that a "fixed" version of Double Clutch was released later by Hasbro. I've never found evidence to verify this is true, though I wonder if the Takara version sucks as much.