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News Credits: 8 · Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:07 pm

That looks pretty badass. As long as theres no stupid gimmicks like cyberkeys or spring loaded missiles this may be one of the best TF lines yet.

Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:22 pm

epic win.

News Credits: 2 · Tue Mar 23, 2010 1:31 pm

Why does everyone keep referring to the commanders as "having a second head"? Having it built in hasn't been new in how long? As we can tell from Smolder (and if you're smart, already knew from Bombshell) it looks like a fair amound a reconfiguring for the combined mode, so it's essentially a third mode. Like any other combiner.

News Credits: 1452 · Tue Mar 23, 2010 2:01 pm

Talous wrote:Over the awesomeness of these pictures I can almost hear my wallet crying.

I don't see the reason why.. these are Voyager and Deluxe sized figures combined. Awfully inexpensive.

Tue Mar 23, 2010 2:24 pm

That just looks awesome with either combo. I love it.

News Credits: 767 · Tue Mar 23, 2010 2:40 pm

You know the combined Combaticons do have normal knees ontop of the inwards bending joints!
These are pretty damn awesome and have sold me on the line now, and yes we need drone packs.
Still I wish they had proper arms in their combined mode.

News Credits: 668 · Tue Mar 23, 2010 2:46 pm

Blurrz wrote:
Talous wrote:Over the awesomeness of these pictures I can almost hear my wallet crying.

I don't see the reason why.. these are Voyager and Deluxe sized figures combined. Awfully inexpensive.

Um. Wait a second, what?

These are Scouts with Mini-Con partners.

Because of that, they'll be inexpensive (we think), but something will come along and make them more money.

I think the theme packs would be a double edged sword.

On the one hand, it'll give each main robot a set to combine with (aside from the countless combinations that can be made as is).

On the other hand, I'm not sure they'll all sell as well as hoped, and we'll see a lot of pegwarming out of the Scout/Mini-Con packs and shelfwarming out of the boxsets once the inital awe has worn off. Plus, the fact that the drones do absolutely nothing but create UGLY limbs, won't help sell either.

Power Core Combiners will work with some kids, most likely find an audience with collectors, but in general, I don't think it's going to find as much of an audience as people think.

Not unless they start making those limbs more like what we're used to.

As much as it pains me to say this... if they were to G1-ify some of these sets and make 'em look like their G1 counterparts, I'd be interested in buying.

And I don't see why Hasbro couldn't do it. We could have a new Menasor and Defensor, and if they looked like a downsized version of the originals, with Mini-Cons in tow, I know a huge number of fans would buy into that. Why Hasbro didn't go that direction with these guys is beyond me.

Blargh.

Tue Mar 23, 2010 2:57 pm

Now I will admit that these look great! Like said before it would have been kool if these had there own individual robot modes, but they would probably end up looking poor. Now if you released just one or two big combiner core bots that would take the individual smaller cores to make up the limds for a larger combiner? That would totally make my day! You would just double up the connector ports (side by side)to make the joints. On a side note... I think if hasbro reissued their orignal combiners that would satisfy the G1'ers.

Tue Mar 23, 2010 2:59 pm

not bad but not great enough for me to reach for my wad!!!

Tue Mar 23, 2010 3:20 pm

FFFFFFfff- THEY DO HAVE KNEES?!?!
Oh great, and I only learn this AFTER I pre-order the crossfire sets! #-o

Well... he doesn't get all the hands and neat guns that I do!

Also Smolder really adds the true Bruticus touch to this. Apart from being red that is.

News Credits: 1 · Tue Mar 23, 2010 6:07 pm

Hee hee. It's like he has striped shorts!

Tue Mar 23, 2010 6:24 pm

Why have them look stupid even when they can't transform into robots?!?!!?!?

http://www.youtube.com/user/Slayershoop · Tue Mar 23, 2010 6:34 pm

For those wondering, PPC's will be $10 US for the two-packs and $20 US for five-packs, a price lowering for deluxe and voyager respectively, according to the Aussie Toy Fair

News Credits: 251 · Tue Mar 23, 2010 6:37 pm

Holy mother of...That...is the most...Oh, my Primus, I can NOT wait for the Combaticons and these Power Core Combiners to be released!!!!! These would look SOOOOOO awesome on my shelves!!!!! :BOOM:

Look, I'm crying tears of joy! :KREMZEEK:

Tue Mar 23, 2010 7:38 pm

Very cool, a must buy- both of them. Love the way the two different TFs combine.

News Credits: 20 · Wed Mar 24, 2010 7:41 am

Blurrz wrote:Smolder Combaticon = Badass

Flux Convoy wrote:I thought this was common knowledge. Hence the universal connector joints. I don't think it's been seen yet, but yeah.

Yeah, but it's the first time we've seen it. So your point is?

Thanks for repeating what I already said. Reading truly IS fundamental.