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News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 1:41 pm

It came from above!

The newest rebirth of the Aerialbots are in the Power Core Combiners toyline, under the name 'Skyburst'. The 5-Pack has gotten into the hands of Youtuber Peaugh, and he reviews the five airplanes. The central figure, a homage to Silverbolt, is the only one that has a robot mode, while the other planes act as drone limbs. Peaugh also shows the Skyburst drones combined with Autobot Searchlight with Backwind. Check out the video on Youtube or embed below.

[youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CjMrS-Ifmb4[/youtube]

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News Credits: 125 · by **Counterpunch** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 2:00 pm

Why are these all so crappy?

Seriously, someone sell me on this.

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 2:05 pm

Counterpunch wrote:Why are these all so crappy?

Seriously, someone sell me on this.

You're judging something based off on how it looks on the internet? You have yet to experience these hands on. If someone showed you some promo pictures of Transformers Armada, and someone reviewed it on Youtube and wasn't too excited about it either, would you have the Armada collection you have today? Everything deserves a chance, at least one figure for goodness sake.

News Credits: 88 · by **DavidT** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 2:08 pm

Another EPIC FAIL for the PCC Transformers :SICK:

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News Credits: 11 · by **kirbenvost** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 2:10 pm

This one looks the worst of the bunch. I'll wait and see if they do a G1-inspired repaint. Otherwise it's a pass.

News Credits: 4 · by **Firebird** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 2:15 pm

The core scouts seem like nice figures, But the combined modes just don't look good.

Website · by **RK_Striker_JK_5** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 2:35 pm

Yeah... no. Pass, pass and more pass. Total waste, there.

News Credits: 6 · by **City Commander** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 2:45 pm

The central figures are really nice, will be getting searchlight and silverbolt. The drones, however, look absolutely awful. Mine will be in a box.

I don't understand how, considering they have no robot modes, they look so poor? Damn automorph gimmick needs to be stepped away from, a manual transformation for these would've achieved far better results, at least on par with Energon prime's drones.

News Credits: 10 · by **Agamemnon** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 2:58 pm

The first thing that came to my mind was, "cool! Another Valkrie transformation!" I'm not very impressed with these so far. I'll probably get the early wave to see how they are. Good news is my expectations are so low that it won't take much to impress me about these.

News Credits: 1 · by **Vectorshot** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:11 pm

In my opinion those are the worst designs that I have ever seen. It is highly evident that Hasbro is trying to save money with this new line. The drones look like penny racers from the eighties. Universe, and the movie line will be getting my money this year.

News Credits: 3 · by **Dread_Wing** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:16 pm

Ye Gods. What were they thinking with the limbs? Stubby spatula-arm, spindly hook arm, munched up jet foot and incredibly unstable looking copter-foot! Seriously, it cannot have been too hard to design the legs to fold so the cockpits became feet, heel-spurs folded from the back?! As for the arms, they are just a mess.

The central scouts seem OK, and where they could fill a gap in my Classics collection I may grab them, (ie Huffer) but the premise of the PCC set is a huge flop in my opinion, unless future 5 packs improve the 'limb-i-ness' of the limbs.

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 3:58 pm

I am tending to go with the crowd here, I am not digging these. Not digging these at all.

News Credits: 9 · by **Mykltron** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:01 pm

Wow.

The central figure looks dreadful.

The combined mode looks worse.

Combaticons superior. Aerialbots inferior. At least the Deceps look like i can remove the gimmick and install articulation.

News Credits: 6 · by **Dr. Caelus** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:13 pm

Dang.

Cruddy though the combined form may be, I really love Silverbolt's jet mode, even if it will be ridiculously small next to everyone else.

Wondering yet again if these are all gang-molded together or if we might see the scout commanders repainted separately.

News Credits: 4 · by **Megazarak** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:16 pm

Hm, I guess Skyburst looks alright, as he is and combined, however I don't like some of his drones. I never liked when a helicopter piece of a combiner just had it's rotor siting in an awkward position, like the one on his leg. If it was an arm and the rotor was on the shoulder, then that would be fine, but not as is. Moving on to the yellow chopper, I find that he looks awkward as an arm and seems overly long and ugly. The rest of him looks OK, but for one of the first round of 5-pack transformers, I would think that they would have taken less of a chance with the drones and made them look like pretty typical arms and legs.

Anyways, I'm still liking these guys, besides a few minor quibbles. I still look forward to getting them. I've always been a sucker for combiners. Hoping for a Train and a Boat.

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:28 pm

Megazarak wrote:Hoping for a Train and a Boat.

The next two combiners are race cars and monster trucks.

News Credits: 7 · by **Overcracker** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:35 pm

Looks to me, like Hasbro is taking a page out of Bandai's Machine Robo Rescue line.

A central Robot that has 4 drones follow him and then combine into a larger robot.
Of course Bandai used the same mold for all 4 limbs (and gave them robot modes, bad ones but robot modes nonetheless). But the theory is pretty much the same.

One has to question the decision of giving them weird looking claw arms. Having already forfeited the robot mode, I'm sure it would have been easier to design normal looking arms with regular humanoid fists and legs from the drones, than these weird claw arms with the springy automorph. Lose the Autmorph and make them humanoid looking limbs and it would be acceptable. (But I guess some would complain that they'd look like Power Ranger Knockoffs).

And damn that Apache chopper leg looks extremely unstable. I mean he's standing on the tip of the cockpit.

Still the central robots look decent enough on their own.

I'm sure if a few more sets like these are released, there may be enough drones to mix together a decent looking larger robot.

Other than that the drones are quite worthless.

News Credits: 1082 · by **Tigertrack** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:47 pm

Overcracker wrote:Looks to me, like Hasbro is taking a page out of Bandai's Machine Robo Rescue line.

If these grow on me like Machine Robo did, then it will be a cool line. But the central figure has got to sell it. And I do like the fact that the drones do have bot modes of their own. Isn't there a lot of add on weaponry too? These lack that piece too.

News Credits: 7 · by **Overcracker** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 4:52 pm

tigertracks 24 wrote:
Overcracker wrote:Looks to me, like Hasbro is taking a page out of Bandai's Machine Robo Rescue line.

If these grow on me like Machine Robo did, then it will be a cool line. But the central figure has got to sell it. And I do like the fact that the drones do have bot modes of their own. Isn't there a lot of add on weaponry too? These lack that piece too.

Yeah, the Robos had guns and weapons for the drones. But you know how Hasbro hates accessories with their figures for some reason.

News Credits: 4 · by **Megazarak** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:14 pm

Blurrz wrote:
Megazarak wrote:Hoping for a Train and a Boat.

The next two combiners are race cars and monster trucks.

Thanks, but I know. I didn't necessarily mean either of those as a 5-pack, I actually meant as a 2-pack with a mini-con. Anyways, speaking of these guys, they both look really good and am interested to seeing them and their combined forms.

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:20 pm

Oh I see. I do also then hope for a 2-Pack that's a boat.... just so I can I make a 'I'm On a Boat M*********' signature.

News Credits: 4 · by **Megazarak** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:24 pm

Besides, there may more waves of Power Core figures, so you never know. It would also be pretty cool if they brought Tidal Wave (boat of course) as a Commander (though it seems like they're staying away from established names) with the Dark Fleet as his Drones.

by **Valandar** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 5:32 pm

The jets seem decent as limbs - but the helicopters SUCK.

News Credits: 1 · by **Solrac333** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 6:01 pm

These are just horrible. Easy pass.

News Credits: 11 · by **kirbenvost** » Mon Mar 29, 2010 8:28 pm

Double Clutch looks potentially good, I'm really interested to see how that turns out.

Now that I've watched the entire video, here are my further thoughts: It's almost as if Skyburst was designed for the torso mode, and the other two modes were somewhat of an after-thought, design-wise. The torso mode actually looks pretty decent, but the robot mode is overly simplistic, and both robot and alt suffer from pretty bad kibble.

Both of the helicopter limbs look terrible, the other ones are passable.

Still, if this sees a G1-ish repaint I might pick it up, otherwise no.