Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster

Wednesday, March 24th, 2010 2:16PM CDT

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We've got plenty of images regarding two Power Core Combiner releases. KOTOys have cooked up galleries for both sets - the 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster. Bombshock is the only one with a robot mode, while his limbs are considered to be drones. This pack resembles the familiar Combaticons. The 2-Pack includes a main component Smolder, with his Targetmaster partner Smolder. Smolder, much like every main Power Core Combiner, can combine with 'drones'. Check out the images and links to the galleries below!

Bombshock

Smolder with Chopster

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Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057718)
Posted by HighPrime on March 24th, 2010 @ 2:48pm CDT

I love how KOtoys shamelessly plugs KOs (which they specialize in, of course) with most of the images they dole out. :lol:

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057719)
Posted by Mkall on March 24th, 2010 @ 2:49pm CDT

I gotta say that even though the collector market is on average luke-warm to these guys, Hasbro sure has hit the nail on the head in marketing these guys to kids.

2 figures for 10 bucks and 5 for 20, any parent is going to see that as a decent deal. And of course kids will love to play with them.

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057724)
Posted by dragons on March 24th, 2010 @ 2:57pm CDT

[url]2 figures for 10 bucks and 5 for 20, any parent is going to see that as a decent deal. And of course kids will love to play with them.[/url]

20 form combiner 5 pack thats expensive but ill still pickteh m up i paid 15 something at target for target superion & bruticus packs & tehy have bot modes what makes this 5 pack so special that it goes extra 5 dollars.?

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057727)
Posted by DTR69 on March 24th, 2010 @ 3:02pm CDT

WHAT A MESS

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057728)
Posted by Dead Metal on March 24th, 2010 @ 3:03pm CDT

Lol I still like these guys.

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057732)
Posted by Mkall on March 24th, 2010 @ 3:11pm CDT

dragons wrote:20 form combiner 5 pack thats expensive but ill still pickteh m up i paid 15 something at target for target superion & bruticus packs & tehy have bot modes what makes this 5 pack so special that it goes extra 5 dollars.?

You're comparing a sale price to an MSRP which is apples to oranges.

First time in a long while (RiD I think) That a combiner has 5 sperate molds that have gone into it.

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057762)
Posted by Grimlock Magnus on March 24th, 2010 @ 4:20pm CDT

I love these! Combiners have always been a staple of transformers and honestly, who didn't swap limbs from the various merge team. (I especially did cause it took years to get afford my first full team). Has/Tak has a potential goldmine here. Practically limitless combos for characters.

Also, I gotta say I think its really cool that all these guys are practically scout class. Thats seems to be my fave class right now.

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057781)
Posted by ButtZilla on March 24th, 2010 @ 4:51pm CDT

Dead Metal wrote:

LMAO!!!

Is it me or these designs are just damn ugly? Stupid looking!

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057790)
Posted by Ungie on March 24th, 2010 @ 5:20pm CDT

As an older "kid" i feel like these are fun on the bun. The whole idea of a 5 pack combiner that interacts with all other Power Core combiners provides so much playability even i might play with these. I like both of these so far.

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057792)
Posted by Blurrz on March 24th, 2010 @ 5:24pm CDT

Ungie wrote:As an older "kid" i feel like these are fun on the bun. The whole idea of a 5 pack combiner that interacts with all other Power Core combiners provides so much playability even i might play with these. I like both of these so far.

Agreed. This has never ending playability. I believe they have the same aesthetic as Movie toys, but hell, atleast they're a bit more creative than them. Even if they 'suck', you can end up with an original figure out of mismatching of drones and the central piece.. something I can't wait to fool around with.

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057807)
Posted by heltskelt on March 24th, 2010 @ 6:18pm CDT

I'm sure kids will love the line, but i sure don't. The lack of robot modes for the drones is not compensated with articulation nor aesthetic. Everything looks lazy and awkward. Kudos to Hasbro for keeping the Transformers line marketable.

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057810)
Posted by Dr. Caelus on March 24th, 2010 @ 6:23pm CDT

Wish they hadn't put faction symbols on the drones.

Also wondering if the scout-class figures are gang-molded with their respective drones/minicons. If not, then when the repaint stage hits, Hasbro could get pretty creative, packaging the toys in different combinations.

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057814)
Posted by mechabooks on March 24th, 2010 @ 6:39pm CDT

Though I am uber excited about the Combaticons, was it just me or did the up close individual images of the transformers look like really, really cheap plastic?

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057827)
Posted by Geekee1 on March 24th, 2010 @ 7:43pm CDT

Ya know, if we're going to have drones that don't have robot modes, could they at least make a some decent looking appendage modes? I mean f'n seriously. I'm cool with the playability factor of these, and kids are definitely gonna dig'em, but please give me something more than the blade of the bulldozer becomes the fingers transformation.

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057828)
Posted by El Duque on March 24th, 2010 @ 7:56pm CDT

Geekee1 wrote:Ya know, if we're going to have drones that don't have robot modes, could they at least make a some decent looking appendage modes? I mean f'n seriously. I'm cool with the playability factor of these, and kids are definitely gonna dig'em, but please give me something more than the blade of the bulldozer becomes the fingers transformation.

Agreed. I can live with the drone concept, but those limbs look brutal.

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057834)
Posted by kirbenvost on March 24th, 2010 @ 8:06pm CDT

Hmm, smaller than I thought, but then I was forgetting that the central bot is a Scout. I'll probably end up getting the Combaticons, but I'll pass on Smoulder. He's just a weird figure, being a Decepticon firetruck. Unless I slap some Autobot symbols on him and call him Inferno... But he doesn't look that great anyway, and the minicon's pretty fugly.

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057835)
Posted by alexison on March 24th, 2010 @ 8:09pm CDT

So combined they stand about voyager to ultra class? That's not too bad. I have to confess, these things are growing on me hardcore.

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057849)
Posted by Zeds on March 24th, 2010 @ 9:29pm CDT

Me no likey. I will save my money for something worth buying...

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057852)
Posted by Cryo Prime on March 24th, 2010 @ 9:37pm CDT

I like these but the close ups do make them look cheap(realizing they are only scout class) but my only problem is that with no individual bot modes this screams Cybertron Op to me, at least these will have better individual play. Not hating them totally but not totally satisfied ether,all in all I'll still get them.

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057860)
Posted by Swiftpaw on March 24th, 2010 @ 10:09pm CDT

Caelus wrote:Also wondering if the scout-class figures are gang-molded with their respective drones/minicons. If not, then when the repaint stage hits, Hasbro could get pretty creative, packaging the toys in different combinations.

I'm waiting to see Smolder redone in blue and packaged with rescue vehicles, or as a black truck with race cars.

As for Smolder himself, being a DECEPTICON fire truck amuses me, much like Barricade being a police cruiser. The false sense of security, then turns out to be one of the -bad- guys is delicious.

My only real complaint is the translucent plastic on the minicon sidekicks. But at least its not overindulgance in chrome!

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057868)
Posted by Name_Violation on March 24th, 2010 @ 10:50pm CDT

Smolder looks hella good. Imma have to get him

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057871)
Posted by Anonymous on March 24th, 2010 @ 11:02pm CDT

So let me get this straight, combiners and minicons/targetmasters can connect to any of the main figures.... I better start saving mulla! :grin:

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057892)
Posted by Starscreams bad comedy on March 25th, 2010 @ 2:14am CDT

Geekee1 wrote:Ya know, if we're going to have drones that don't have robot modes, could they at least make a some decent looking appendage modes? I mean f'n seriously. I'm cool with the playability factor of these, and kids are definitely gonna dig'em, but please give me something more than the blade of the bulldozer becomes the fingers transformation.

Quoted for truth.

Re: Extensive Look at Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Bombshock and 2-Pack Smolder with Chopster (1057921)
Posted by Prime Riblet on March 25th, 2010 @ 5:11am CDT

Zeds wrote:Me no likey. I will save my money for something worth buying...

I tend to agree with this. And, as stated earlier, there is a certain lack of quality that comes across. Oh well. You get what you pay for. I won't be paying for these any time soon. I am disappointed to feel that way; I really liked them the first time I saw pics, but now I really don't have any interest whatsoever.