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Oh Power Core, Why Are You The Way You Are? - Transformers Power Core Combiners
While their designs leave a lot to be desired, these babies make for very fun deskbots that you can transform/combine back and forth multiple times a day..
The best PCC scouts are Smolder, Undertow, and Heavytread. All are great scouts and neat torsos.
Heavytread with the Combaticon Drones is my 2nd favorite combination in PCC.
Huffer is good too
Sledge is also a fantastic one! Don’t forget him! (He’s the only one I actually have at the moment but I wanna get more Cus they all look kinda cool in their own way)
Smolder is one of the only PCC figures that I have that has not shattered into pieces over time, so yeah he is definitely one of the best simply because he is durable compared to the others
I had an Icepick figure for a long time without anything else, bought the Bombshock 5-pack later on to make it a full combiner. Was pretty disappointed with it after the "wow this is neat" wore off. I did however buy a Heavytread and those TFC Iron Army drones and love them. Fully transformable drone sized figures that can also be articulated arms and legs and in WWII vehicles, those were worth it. Side note, I checked since you mentioned it and the normal drones are about the size of a Hotwheels car.
I bought a few of those at clearance because I really liked the minicon and gave a few to my classics toys.
Oh my gosh I almost completely forgot I owned a power core buffer I loved that thing when I was a kid because he turned into a truck and I didn’t have an Optimus at the time
I can still remember the first time I saw Powercore Combiners back when they new. I thought the concept was so cool and I bought the military and aerial teams on the spot.
...then I got them home...
Honestly, I don't think I've ever gone from excitement to disappointment so hard. The the torsos are to their credit still pretty nice figures, especially at their scale, but the drones.... the drones just fail so miserably, and most of the fault lays in the damn auto-transforming gimmick. They just end up a mess of levers and springs, sorta fun to combine the first couple of times, but not worth loss in possibility and playability.
In the end you're left with a figure that maybe looks okay sitting on desk, but that's about all those combined modes are good for.
I used to have a bombshock figure as a kid and I loved that thing! His design is very fall of cybertron brawl and It’s awesome!
I really liked these figures but they had so many design flaws - overly tight or loose joints, plastic that was just a bit too thin for the stress they have to endure, clearance issues... A bit of refinement and they wouldn't be so prone to breaking. But I still have my Bruticus wanna be.
Actually, rather than Bruticus, I should clarify that I use Bombshock as my personal collection stand-in for Nexus Prime. I got the right vehicles for all of his limbs from a couple other sets (some of which lost their torsos due to breakage - pain) and the overall look is a lot better IMO than the hard candy red and blue translucent that his official toy was made in.
We need these Scouts upscaled to Voyager size and all of their issues fixed, and the drones gotta be Deluxe size. They'd be freaking awesome
Nah, upscaling would defeat the entire concept of combiners on a budget. The only change they need is to drop the auto-transform gimmick on the drones and replace it with some actual articulation in limb mode.
@@EmeralBookwise I don't care about the budget. I'll pay full price for these guys.
Something I kind of hope would happen eventually would be something similar to this where the torso pieces is the only one “alive” and all the limbs are mindless drones, except the torso leader bot has an almost endless army of drones so he can swap between the limbs at will with whatever is better suited for the current task
The tank one looks amazing with the tfc limb upgrade. I named the combined mode “Blitzkrieg”
I loved the energon power link combiners.
It was so cool having a figure be able to turn into either half of another figure and form a bigger robot with another figure.
They need to bring that gimmick back.
Icepick with chainclaw was my favorite power core figure. He had good possibility and a cool vehicle mode and chainclaw was so fun to play with
I think it's funny that the scout class/size is now "Core". Imagine if we got Core-scale combiners. Maybe call them "Power Cores" or something.
Wait...
If you can track it down, I recommend the tank one from one of the later waves. That one's great in all three modes.
I remember having the dinobot one, I absolutely loved it, that and the excavator one
I loved Dino Pope
I feel like pcc figures would be a great thing to bring back to make Victorion available at a reasonable price. Perhaps even some of the other combiners. It's not a perfect idea but I feel like there's potential there for the characters who are known for their combined forms like computron. (Perhaps they could work like the giant devastator figure from rotf where the components didn't have robot forms, just vehicle and body part forms)
As a concept, I'd love to see Hasbro take another crack at "budget" combiners, but for the love of primus, drop the auto-transform gimmick!
The drones don't need individual robot modes at this scale, but please, please give them actual joints in limb mode so the combined form can be posed and doesn't just fall over if you look at it funny.
When I was younger I had the decepticon version of that huffer figure and the autobot ambulance Stakeout (the protectobot set) and both Crankcase and the jet drone limb part he came with decided to quit life like one of your figures,but stakeout is very solid,his color scheme also uses that allspark blue on the combiner pegs so they don’t stand out.
I was so excited when I first saw these when they released, I was like 10 I think. I had a lot of fun with them, and I distinctly remember going to TRU and seeing the big sets and going crazy (I never got to go to TRU so it was always a huge treat when I did)
Seeing Bombshock (along with the drones) in this video now makes me miss the ones I had ten years ago.
The Steamhammer with Constructicons was actually my introduction to Transformers and I loved that figure as a kid.
5:01 Oh no you have THAT Soundwave. This’ll be fun.
When I was little, my parents made a deal with me that if I did one chore each day Monday through Friday, they would buy me a Transformer. The Steamhammer set was the first, and only one I ever got.
I just realised something.....Scout class became today's legend class.
I really liked Power Core Combiners. I went completionist on the Hasbro line and also got some of the Japanese Unite EX releases because of the cool colors.
It really helped when they went on clearance so it was inexpensive to complete them. I even got two Over-Runs and I peeled-off all the stickers on one so I'd have a mint in box Spastic.
Mudslinger looks like a construct bots figure bc of the tires and I can’t unsee it
I had one of these and only one. And lemme tell ya this was definitely one of my figures that went in the bin
I have power core Steamhammer, I remember my mom getting him for me at Marshals when I was little. Not exactly the transformers to really get me into Transformers, nor do I plan on keeping him, but still little me was over the moon with him
If I may say something, the best set to come out of this line would be the dinobot guy and his drones. They all have the G1 dinobot colors, best alt modes all being dinosaurs and one dimetrodon, plus the combined mode is the best one visually.
The Dino Pope!
Yeah, I had Grimstone too. I think the Dinobots and the Aerialbots were definitely the best ones.
I had the car set when I was little. Best toy ever
I remember owning a white reskin of the firetruck one from cyber mission. I loved it
I actually kind of like weird spindly crab claw arms. In general, I liked that part of the early Bayverse decepticon aesthetic; making the alien robots seem more… alien was just a really cool Idea. We've had a lot of years of humanoid piles of boxes… Not that I hate on boxy G1:ers, I love the heck out of them. But Bayverse just added some nice diversity in forms, not being as tied to strict humanoid shapes.
Aesthetically I actually like Powercore. It's got some of that "alien" vibe without going full walking scrapyard. If only the auto-transform gimmick didn't leave the drones with little too no articulation in limb mode, Powercore could have been one of my favorite sub-lines.
Dang, they had those guys for $10 in large packs at Walmart? If I had known, I'd totally have gotten them.
I use to have Double Clutch as a kid, but lost it, I eventually got Stakeout years later
Funnily enough Maketoys made a figure of The Fallen/Megatronus with their Chaos Paladin which uses this system for armour
The feet on energon combiners weren't as bad as the hands, but my god those hands were basically non-existent.
to quote one of my friends "what is power core, WHY is power core?!" Still pretty neat tho
I remember playing with the Powercore combiners. I used to think one of them was Devastator.... I had just watched the movie (I like 5 years old).
Looking forward to this. A much hated line but I’ve still got mine.
Mines are broken but still there
i had got the original Grimstone power core combiner 5 pack back when it had first come out. it was one of my first transformers and i still have him today
Pretty much sums up most of my thoughts on them.
Of the ones I have, I'd say Bombshock is the best, Huffer is okay (though his tabs are tight when going from truck to robot), Searchlight looks cool... when his blades aren't interfering with his clumsy design, and Double Clutch... exists.
The best thing they can do is scale pretty close to the DOTM Cyberverse figures.
Unless you're Double Clutch.
I remember seeing these guys years ago, was kinda interested in them but didn't get many. I only got sledge and leadfoot, sadly both are not in the best condition. Leadfoot broke his arm years ago, those managed to glue it back on but then eventually the panel that held his head broke off but I think I can glue it back on. Might not be the same for Sledge. First the socket for the arm broke, then the panel that said arm was attached to also broke off. Again might be possible to fix but could also be tricky. Never did get any of the 5 packs but I probably would've gotten the rallybots and constructicons for both to match. Shame to know these guys are a lot more prone to breaking now a days. Still though, they were fun for what they were.
I remember having power core combiner that was like an F1 car and I never see it mentioned anywhere
GOD WHY DO I REMEMBER HAVING THESE SO VIVIDLY
I have Huffer and smolder. Huffer’s tight hips are crumbling and smolder is one of my favorite characters in my collection! Especially when using his combiner head for his main head
if I recalled correctly the Japanese versions has the connectors not in All-Spark blue but in matching colors depending on the figure thus blending them more well.
Huffer's combined head reminds me of combiner wars menasor.
I really like my Heavytread. Still on my shelf using the limbs from TFC.
I had 2 Mudslingers break their legs, one broke its left leg and the other broke its right leg. Used the first one to salvage the second one and now someone else owns him and his drones after I sold it. Ah, PCC.
i remember when these came out. I was so torn on it. i was excited for the combining element. but the drones were so iffy. and the cores were only ok. the dino team looked really fun though
I remember I got one of these that was a jet autobot main one with a bunch of aerial vehicle drones and I could never get them to stay together lmao
These toys were my childhood.
To get Menasor I got crankcase and the rally bots. Worked good till I got combiner wars. Remember this line gave us the first American Dinobot combiner.
I remember getting the gristle set as a kid at full price and then the mudslinger and icepick 5pack sets together for like 15 dollars as a kid and I loved it. I had to sell them but I still have the grimstone set
i remember i had a Dinosaur one of these, I loved it because i was like 5 or 6
RIP in peace, Mudslinger's leg.
Broke cream off.
The drones do fit well among hot wheels as a kid I had the dinosaur set and the 4 drones that you had on huffer missing the scout. Those drones I got with a big tub of hot wheels from a garage sale
I kinda have a soft spot for the power cores. They were goofy as all get out, but I remember as a kid we couldn't get much but my parent always tried to get me either transformers or legos for the holidays. (You should've seen me when kreo transformers was announced.) Anyways, I got the Crankcase, which for all intents and purposes, was just a black and grey repaint of Huffer with different limbs. But I ADORED this goofy mess. It was the first combiner- like toy I've ever gotten and I was more than happy to receive it. It did confuse me a bit bc I distinctly remembered Crankcase from DOTM, which keep in mind at the time I was a kid and didn't understand the concept of timelines. Still, I love these weird little goofballs.
I had Mudslinger and I thought it was okay, but never got the rest of the other combiners.
I wish Power Core Combiners was brought back, just make the drones manual transformation, add some extra changes, keep the interchangeability and these would be great box sets
I love the idea of PCC and I like pretty much all of the torso bots. But if the did the drone similar to Energon Prime's drones, it would be better.
the construction one ive seen many times at MixGoods in Green Bay, but its on the top shelf like 9 feet off the ground with a bunch of stuff in front of it, i barely reached beast hunters sky lynx without knocking everything over and it was two shelves lower,
gripes aside i am really upset that they are closing down the perkins plaza location in favor of one on the east side of town, because it'll be across the river as opposed to 5 blocks away
I did get a Steamhammer pack with the tank scout who's name I've forgotten again when I was a kid. I still have the scout and he's pretty solid.
I am aware that I have nostalgia goggles here but my boy Huffer deserved better SMH my head.
Honestly a good video tho lol
Beast Wars had combiners too with Magnaboss & Tripredacus.
8:12 There was also A Monster Truck Optimus Prime that released in the rescue bots toyline, which I know you don't collect, but I did and I have it, so just letting you know
9:26 yes it is and also the Mobine Series of Maketoys also made some
My mudslinger broke his other leg at the same point, pain
There's a playground insult: "My mum thinks your nose looks funny"
I'd suggest getting Heavytread and Undertow if you can find them cheap. They, and Grimstone, were released at the end of the line and seem to have far better quality control/survivability where the designers seem to have learnt from all the previous mistakes.
For some reason kid me only bought the booster pack scout bots, never the limbs. He was also often confused why they all became torsos and never limbs 🤦
i had an icepick and a leadfoot, no limbs
I only ever got the full set of Smolder and his partner. I lost Smolder himself, but still have his axe partner
I have mudslinger and the autobot version of dirtboss, they're definitely weird, but mudslinger's drones work well in gas lands,(a hot wheels scale mad Max style racing game)
I like Steamhammer, but the backpack is way too big, so I usually have him with his combined mode head in his regular robot mode.
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Bombshock is also in that ICONIC stop motion by harrisloureo
Hasbro could have probaly made this work, had they gone with how Energon Optimus did his super mode. Just fold up the feet, T-Pose the core figure, and put the drones on like they were sleeves and boots. The resulting combiner would at least look more solid.
Heavytred was neat out of that line. And I have the Dinobot set NiB.
I started collecting these last year for some reason and I enjoy them. Not my favorite by any means but their gimmick is fun. I have the boat one with the diver helmet in combined mode on my shelf.
Undertow looks great with the Destron drones and that diver's helmet is worth the price of admission.
I owned the combaticons, the Arielbots, smolder, and leadfoot.
En mi opiniòn:
Concept: I love the concept. It's a fun idea, but was it executed well? Uuuuh...
Designs: I love the designs of most of the commanders. Most of the drones look cool too. In vehicle mode, at least.
Limbs/minicons: Well, the minicons are okay. The drones... are uuumm... yeah... they're cool, but some of them don't stay connected, especially that jeep one with the missiles.
Longevity: Okay, so I have 4 commanders.
Windburn: Windburn is the oldest PCC I own. I got him when he was released. He broke pretty recently, one of his knee connectors broke so I had to superglue it so I could keep him looking good in both modes and still be able to combine. He lost some combiner articulation, but that's the price to pay. Also, the plastic on his arms cracked, making his arms super floppy. The right one falls off pretty easily so I performed surgery on him by combining paper towels and superglue and it kinda worked.
Crankcase: Crankcase is a repaint of Huffer, so most of TTGs criticisms hold true with Crankcase. One of his shoulders cracked like on Windburn and now his arm has permanently fallen off. I won't risk surgery with him because his arms work differently than Windburn. His drones also don't hold in super well.
Double clutch: OOOF. Almost all of his connector points have broken once, two of them broke twice. Superglue fixed it to the point where he still functions properly, but I don't mess with him much anymore to prevent more breakage. Also, his design isn't very good.
Icepick: This one is my favorite. I got him in mint recently and he has no problems so far. His hip joints are kinda loose though.
Overall opiniòn: They're cool Designs and a good concept, but the plastic used to make them was very low quality. Is the plastic was in higher quality, these would be a lot better and more worth the price. Oh also, Windburn's minicon, Darkray. Yeah, his leg fell off.
I despised (and still do) the exact same drone in this video with Bombshock because it really just wouldn’t stay in place and I just kept getting frustrated with it. I do wish these things were revisited and improved but I can see why they decided against bringing them back.
i have always wanted one of these
If the power core combiners had decent limbs and better build quality they could have been a really cool toyline. It’s a shame it wasn’t meant to be.
Don't really care for the Drones, I just hope there's like a tutorial about how to get the blue parts on the scout out of the figures so that I can use the Minicon Targetmaster instead.
what they should have done with powercore is what maketoys did with chaos paladin and the mobine
I remember Powercore it was a time when I was 12 had no money and had yet to get back into transformers I would see these at my local Toys’R’Us and what was weird the area they had these guys was very dimly lite so ya it was kind of odd.
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The only two problems PCC has are drones and minicons. Actual core figures are fun and solid.
I actually liked the minicons especially the missile launcher and drill one.
In my mind, the combiners that resembled these were way better. Energon Steamhammer being my favorite. Look it up. They are actually cool in my opinion.
Thx for all the info.
I have a single "booster pack" deception boat, also is there any combiner teams like thes you would recomend( for a good cheap price obviously)
Undertow is worth it for the old timey diver's helmet for a combiner head. He looks great combined with the Destron drones.
@@toysmostwanted is it a boat, because I think i already have it
I had basically all the PCC sets besides dinobots and constructicons
My mudslinger broke in the exact same place.
Ha u mentioned emgo i watched him since i was five good times
I really think the drones being manually-transformable would be a lot better than automorph, and allows that mold/engineering re-usage that Hasbro really loves to do. Making them automorph just... doesn't really seem to work? It sounds like a good idea, but you can engineer a simple manual transformation for limbs much more easily than an automorphing spring pylon thing. Even if they were partially automorph that would be fine.
I honestly don't mind having small, desk-toy sized combiners, especially ones that don't do the stupid amounts of overengineering that third-parties often do. Honestly, if these were released today without the automorph gimmicks (or a reduced emphasis) and had the compatibility with the blast effects and 5mm ports of the main generations line, they'd make for fun little toys.
Dragstrip? More like...
Cheese strip.
Looks like superion have some brothers
In my opinion Hasbro should have put out packs of just drones. And I think Hasbro missed out on some names like Fortress Maximus and the Head Masters or Leader-1 and the Guardians.
Was powercore just Energon Prime done as a whole line? Except they forgot that the stone limbs should look like actual limbs and not crap?
I had the Undertow one without any limb drones