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News Credits: 9 · Mon Feb 23, 2015 3:23 pm

Could have grabbed undertow a number of times but never bothered to get that good a look at him. Now seeing that Combiner head with the diving helmet look, i'm kicking myself.

This was a good line, it took a few knocks for the drone aspect, but there were a lot of good designs fr the main figures, and I'm glad I grabbed a number of them. That said I don't think I have even opened Skyhammer yet....

Plus if you were able to get Heavy Tread and the Maketoys add-ons... That kicks all sorts of ass.

That said... Don't have Double-Clutch, not worried about missing him either.

News Credits: 6188 · Mon Feb 23, 2015 3:34 pm

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.

News Credits: 9 · Mon Feb 23, 2015 4:14 pm

Va'al wrote:Heavytread really really really works with the drone limbs and other products we do not speak

not a word..

News Credits: 16 · Tue Feb 24, 2015 12:13 am

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.

News Credits: 6188 · Tue Feb 24, 2015 5:57 am

It Is Him wrote: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.

I have yet to see if that's the case myself, actually.
It's the only figure I have ever gotten so frustrated at I chucked in the bin.

ScottyP, you got one of the Takara ones? Anyone else?