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Sat Aug 14, 2010 10:50 pm

My thoughts with this echo most, and have already been said in the other thread I put up before seeing this one. Yay laziness!

Overall, I'm pretty disappointed with the 5-packs. There seems to be a lot of QC issues, which is strange because the 2-packs have come out nothing short of fantastic for me. I'm really curious to see wave 3, when they use the 2-pack molds for 5-packs and vice versa.

Mon Aug 16, 2010 12:09 pm

Valandar wrote:ONE THING TO CONSIDER:

While the drones may be disappointing, and the minicons little more than robot yoga, the actual "commander" parts (the slightly larger than Scout sized vehicles) are for the most part pretty darn good.

I really want to get Smolder, and in Bombshocks' case, he is the best part of the set. I'll agree with you that Bombshock is a pretty decent, if not very inspiring, figure. Certainly better than the drones. Minicons, as of yet, can't comment.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Aug 16, 2010 12:39 pm

Smolder is pretty awesome, very solid figure. his minicon looks great in weapon, vehicle weapon, and robot mode. His power up is so so, but you can slightly adjust it so that it doesnt look like its just a piece jutting out and actually looks like armor. Smolder's combine mode looks nice too, but I think Huffer has the best as far as pose-ability and ease to get the drones on.

So far with what I have, I'd rate them:

1) Smolder
2) Huffer
3) Bombshock
4) Double Clutch.

I am starting to embrace what is actually good about double clutch, and it makes bearing him a little easier, as he has a pretty good looking robot mode, and the pieces feel solid, just not his joints. His limitations in pose-ability and quality control greatly hinder what could have been a pretty good toy. And after mixing and matching, the rallybots look GREAT on Huffer. I think I'm going to make a review on these guys and let everyone else make a better assessment. Stay tuned!

Dagon wrote:
Valandar wrote:ONE THING TO CONSIDER:

While the drones may be disappointing, and the minicons little more than robot yoga, the actual "commander" parts (the slightly larger than Scout sized vehicles) are for the most part pretty darn good.

I really want to get Smolder, and in Bombshocks' case, he is the best part of the set. I'll agree with you that Bombshock is a pretty decent, if not very inspiring, figure. Certainly better than the drones. Minicons, as of yet, can't comment.

News Credits: 1 · Mon Aug 16, 2010 2:17 pm

So here are some pics of The Rallybots on Smolder, Huffer, and Double Clutch. I think they look great on Huffer, not too shabby on Double Clutch if you pose him just right, and I didn't fool around with Smolder too much, just took a quick pic to give you an idea.

News Credits: 226 · Mon Aug 16, 2010 2:56 pm

Crap is still unfortunately crap no matter how you dress it up. :-(

News Credits: 1 · Mon Aug 16, 2010 4:36 pm

noodles2go wrote:So here are some pics of The Rallybots on Smolder, Huffer, and Double Clutch. I think they look great on Huffer, not too shabby on Double Clutch if you pose him just right, and I didn't fool around with Smolder too much, just took a quick pic to give you an idea.

This is the very reason I want the Rallybots. Once Crankcase comes out, I'll have the closest thing to a new Menasor possible

Tue Aug 17, 2010 10:32 am

^ Yeah. Of all of them they look best on Huffer. That light bluish one from the first set of pictures? That's Double Clutch? Wow, that's bad. Smolder just looks like he needs the 'right' set of drones and he'll look pretty good.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Aug 17, 2010 12:21 pm

i have to say doubleclutch isnt a bad figure at all. maybe my set is the only one that came out decent.

News Credits: 5 · Tue Aug 17, 2010 12:33 pm

Damn, Smoulder's "Commander" form is complete and utter crap. sHoUlDerS hUrt

News Credits: 1 · Tue Aug 17, 2010 8:41 pm

Dagon wrote:^ Yeah. Of all of them they look best on Huffer. That light bluish one from the first set of pictures? That's Double Clutch? Wow, that's bad. Smolder just looks like he needs the 'right' set of drones and he'll look pretty good.

I feel the same way about Icepick. His Altmode and icy appearence just really don't work with any of the drones I've seen.

The Rallybots look like they might fit Leadfoot better than Doubleclutch in the same vein as Searchlight is a better fit for the Arielbots

News Credits: 1 · Tue Aug 17, 2010 9:03 pm

Burn wrote:Crap is still unfortunately crap no matter how you dress it up.

You can't polish a turd...

Great quote, Burn! :lol:

I just can't bring myself to buy these 5-packs. I've been a completist since ROTF came out, but it stops here. 2-packs are great. These are...how do I put it?

Counterpunch wrote:...a foul, miserable failure of a toy.

Yeah, that does it.

Wed Aug 18, 2010 12:46 pm

Okay, I got the Rallybots and the Destructicons today...

1 ) My Double Clutch is pretty solid. He's also stiff as heck, not very articulated, squat, and not at all the kind of robot you expect from a relatively sleek car. Blech.

2 ) Mudslinger is also tight-jointed, but more articulated, and you'd EXPECT a stocky bot mode from a monster truck.

3 ) Personally, the Destructicon arms are slightly better than most of the arms out (other than the spyplane from the jets and the Tank Drone of the Combaticons), the Armored Truck drone is a decent leg, but the best leg of any drone to date is the Armored Junker drone

4 ) The Rallybots are all decent, with the except of the red "Drag car drone", which is really annoying.

End result?

Huffer + Rallybots - Drag Car Drone + Armored Junker Drone = My mini-Menasor. Breakdown's gone emo, I guess (woulda been Dead End or Wildrider, but Dead End is too vain, and Wildrider's too fast)

News Credits: 4 · Fri Aug 20, 2010 5:05 pm

Yeah Double clutch is pretty horrible. It will be a total shelf-warmer if it is ever released in two pack form.
The drones aren't that bad though and look great on Leadfoot.

Dagon wrote: Smolder just looks like he needs the 'right' set of drones and he'll look pretty good.

Mudslinger's work pretty well...

News Credits: 1 · Fri Aug 20, 2010 9:03 pm

Hey guys, I finally made my first written review of Double Clutch & the Rallybots. I plan to ultimately review all the PCC line first. Hopefully I'll be able to do a video review once I figure out a good camera set up as all I have is my iPhone 4. Please let me know what you think and if there is info you guys think I should add or remove to help me better future reviews. I don't include detailed instructions on how to transform them completely as I find it kind of useless to read it literally. I forgot to take individual shots of the drones, so I'll add those tomorrow. Thanks in advance!

http://transformerstoyreviews.blogspot.com/

Fri Aug 20, 2010 11:01 pm

So does anyone know how to get Double Clutch's commander mode head off? It's one of the few salvageable pieces for my Bits box, looking a LOT like Jazz... And, oddly, one of the few parts that does NOT fall off...

News Credits: 4 · Sun Aug 22, 2010 3:08 pm

Good review Noodles. Keep up the good work.

I've played around with Double Clutch and I've been able to get him into combined mode without any modifications. It just takes a lot of fiddling to get him aligned perfectly so he will fit together. I really think that his design is too complex for a scout sized figure. I'm liking him a lot better in gestalt mode though, but normal robot mode is still pretty weak.

I also "discovered" an alternate way to pose Double Clutch's legs in gestalt mode that makes him a little bit taller and won't stress the joints. And it is incredibly simple:

The Money Shot:

News Credits: 1 · Mon Aug 23, 2010 10:52 am

Well After I first transformed this guy it was a mess, arms were popping off and stuff. But now I transformed this guy about five times now and I have no idea what happen, but the arms arn't popping off, and I don't have to pop the legs off anymore either. I was going to take it back but after five attempts of transforming him with no problems....I'll keep him

News Credits: 226 · Fri Aug 27, 2010 11:04 pm

Picked up Mudslinger today. Definite improvement over Double Clutch. Couple of things that irk me (aside from the PCC concept).

His colours. Completely clash with his drones. Bright green versus brown? Yeah, doesn't work for me.

His normal robot head ... with the freaking giant intake hat? It just looks ... well, silly.

Guess as far as PCC's go, 'Cons win, 'Bots lose.

Sat Aug 28, 2010 6:50 am

I saw him the other day at TRU and passed, i didnt like the look and the drones sorta sucked :s i have a feeling ill be passing on the 5 pcks and sticking to the 2 pck PPC as i already ahve one grou of drones and they just dont do much for me