New Powercore Combiners - Stunticons, Undertow and Salvage Revealed at BBTS
Tuesday, November 9th, 2010 8:53AM CST
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Site Sponsor BigBadToyStore has put up preorders for the next wave of Powercore Combiners, images included.
The next 5-pack will be the Stunticons! with their commander being Leadfoot repainted and bearing a homage to G1 Drag Strip.
The 2-packs will be Undertow and Salvage. Undertow is a new mold, and Salvage is a repaint of Mudslinger.
[see the preorderpages with more images here and here
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Posted by Universal Prime on November 9th, 2010 @ 9:01am CST
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on November 9th, 2010 @ 9:04am CST
Undertow looks alright and it's nice to see more sea based TFs. I still gotta get me Voyager Seaspray.
Posted by Covenant on November 9th, 2010 @ 9:46am CST
Can't WAIT!
Posted by kirbenvost on November 9th, 2010 @ 9:50am CST
Posted by WarGraver on November 9th, 2010 @ 10:01am CST
Undertow is pretty cool, though, as far as the 2 packs go. I look forward to it's presumable repaint as leader of a Seacon team.
Posted by ArmadaPrime on November 9th, 2010 @ 10:09am CST
Posted by rpetras on November 9th, 2010 @ 10:41am CST
But I like the 2 pack figures!
Posted by Stockade on November 9th, 2010 @ 10:47am CST
Posted by GuyIncognito on November 9th, 2010 @ 10:54am CST
Posted by Xithys on November 9th, 2010 @ 11:02am CST
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on November 9th, 2010 @ 11:08am CST
Xithys wrote:The two-packs look good, though I doubt I'll be getting either of them. I have yet to understand how hasbro can continue to make toys with these hideous arms.
'Cause kids seem to like them.
Posted by EyeOfTheTigatron on November 9th, 2010 @ 11:12am CST
Posted by Skullcrunchberries on November 9th, 2010 @ 11:20am CST
Posted by Bounti76 on November 9th, 2010 @ 11:21am CST
Posted by Doctor McGrath on November 9th, 2010 @ 11:38am CST
Posted by Mindmaster on November 9th, 2010 @ 11:50am CST
Posted by Bumblevivisector on November 9th, 2010 @ 1:06pm CST
Posted by Windsweeper on November 9th, 2010 @ 2:02pm CST
At least I finally get a Basic Dragstrip to pal around with ROTF Breakdown. Pity in a way since I'm getting a griend to repaint a KO Robotmasters Mirage as Dragstrip.
Why do I keep seeing G1 Sureshot when I look at Leadfoot? Anyone else get that vibe?
Posted by Dr. Caelus on November 9th, 2010 @ 2:21pm CST
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on November 9th, 2010 @ 2:35pm CST
Caelus wrote:Is the Stunticon left-leg drone remolded from the Combaticon's Swindle drone?
I don't think they're new, rather mixed and matched repaints of the Rallybots and Destructicons. Here's what I found:
Arms: Rallybots Race Car Drone and Tuner Drone
Legs: Destructicons Armored Junker Drone and Armored Truck Drone
Posted by First-Aid on November 9th, 2010 @ 3:09pm CST
Posted by Megazarak on November 9th, 2010 @ 3:30pm CST
Posted by Swiftpaw on November 9th, 2010 @ 4:56pm CST
I'm not surprised to see Leadfoot redone for what is likely a Drag Strip homage. But the subline has enough Decepticons I want as is in it, so I'll keep Leadfoot instead.
Mudslinger's mold is crap. Sticking a rocket launcher minicon on it doesn't make it any better... though maybe when he shelfwarms his way onto a clearange rack I'll grab him JUST for said minicon because it's cool in itself.
Posted by OptiMagnus on November 9th, 2010 @ 5:11pm CST
Posted by Mindmaster on November 9th, 2010 @ 5:29pm CST
Windsweeper wrote:Why do I keep seeing G1 Sureshot when I look at Leadfoot? Anyone else get that vibe?
Nah, I'm getting more of his original namesake, the G2 Rotor guy. If I get Leadfoot, automatic Classics Leadfoot.
Posted by Noideaforaname on November 9th, 2010 @ 6:10pm CST
Posted by Rated X on November 9th, 2010 @ 10:39pm CST
Posted by DTR69 on November 10th, 2010 @ 8:23am CST
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Xithys wrote:The two-packs look good, though I doubt I'll be getting either of them. I have yet to understand how hasbro can continue to make toys with these hideous arms.
'Cause kids seem to like them.
THANK YOU XITHYS!
This what I have been saying all along. I have been using the word "Patronizing" alot, which alot of people have not understood where I'm coming from.
"JelZe GoldRabbit" response helps prove my point. I beleive "JelZe GoldRabbit" is making that assumption due to Hasbro churning more of the like out. And yes maybe some kids do, maybe you have kids and they like them. My point is that I beleive that some people have totaly forgot their childhood. A grea example is Ja Ja Binx. A comitte of grown ups I hope it wasn't George Lucas on his own, sat down and thought I know a crazy whacky character, the kids will love him. No No No. That is an adult who is Patronizing kids.
When we wre kids Transformers was in it's absolute Prime [no pun intended], now look at all the cars, they were realistic cars that adults drove, they were in everyday adult colours. Even the cartoons were darker back in the day. The point is when you were a kid, the main thing you wanted to be was grown up. As a kid we also thought we knew best, and our ideas were not as developed as they are as an adult. When G2 cme along I was appauled, it looked like a child had been let loose.
The problem is, if you ask a kid what they want for dinner, they will ask for everything they like mixed together, put it in front of them and they won't want it. When I was a kid I used to make all these sandwiches with loads of my favourite things in, once I'd taken one bite I threw it in the bin. Kids are learning, they want what they can't imagine, it's up to adults to design something that they would never of thought of, that makes them think. Stop asking kids to think of ideas for you Hasbro, that's your job. You only have to look at most shelf warmers to see that the more mature designs fly off the shelves. And it's the more mature designs that are what the forums are really filled out with.
The other thing is, kids to day are even more mature than we were when we were younger, so give them some credit. I can blatently predict what will and won't be a shelf warmer, that's one thing I have always been right on, I'm not gonna say what I think unless someone specifically asks and I'll pm them, I am not gonna be sucked into an argument and offend people, by saying that I think they have poor taste. And if you like these designs thats kool, but it's the reasoning and concept behind these designs that annoiys me. There's a few transformers with a one eye , spectacle thing going on, and they look like some of the designs I used to do as a kid. I hated my designs I wanted to be able to design like adults..
Hasbro has the Go-Bots range for toddlers, Hasbro need to design for kids not like kids.
Posted by First-Aid on November 10th, 2010 @ 10:13am CST
Now another major issue with the original combiners was the individual parts and the time needed to transform and combine them. I know I am not the only collector that used to have the Parts Bag- the bag you kept all your extraneous foot plates, faces, chest plates, guns, and hands in. Now, kids are HORRIBLE about losing things. How many incomplete toys are out there now simply because the kids lost the parts? The PCC skipped that part by attempting to create combiners that incorprorated EVERYTHING into the figures! It is much more difficult to lose parts now, because there aren't little guns and hands and heads to lose- everything is attached. Also, think about kids' attention spans...okay, trick question. THey don't have any. If something can't get done, they ignore it and move on to something else or they get mad and have their parents do it. The PCCs are fast and easy to merge. Kids get it quickly. Parents can figure it out quickly...which is really the most important part.
Third, I don't know what city you live in, but where I'm at, the more mature designs (which I'm assuming means the Generations figures) have enough dust on them on the shelves to coat the Statue of Liberty. One Wal-Mart has had exactly the same Generations figures on the shelves for two months- I've counted becuase I want them to get the new figures (which is a point I'll get to in a moment). Kids don't want mature designs. They want FUN designs. If it is too "mature" they get it and quit playing with it almost immediately because it's too complicated, which the parents then see as a waste of money. It turns the kids off to the figures, and subsequently, the parents quit buying them as well. You lose customers, and low and behold, your sales numbers go down, you quit making money, and you stop making that toy altogether. It's simple marketing.
Lastly, individually packaged combiners are barely possible anymore due to the fact that Hasbro's distribution network is so horrific anymore. My region is still stuck with Wave 1 of the HFTD and Generations figures, while others are seeing wave 4. Packaging them individually means very low odds of getting complete combiners at any point anymore and, like I said before, the kids are going to move on to something else because of their attention spans. Packaging them in a gift set is too expensive for most parents (remember the price I brought up before?). Even the legends class Devastator gift sets from ROTF are $30...so that option is out. What Hasbro has done with the PCCs is create a "gift set combiuner" that is affordable and reasonably priced and keeps kids interested because of the ease of transformation (and let's make a note that the ease of change allows younger children to get in on the action, thus building the brand name at a younger age), has good playability, and is colorfully done as well. It all boils down to a successful marketing model that Hasbro has taken advantage of. And even though some of us collectors aren't improssed with them doesn't mean that kids aren't...because they are selling like hotcakes.
Posted by Dagon on November 11th, 2010 @ 10:41am CST
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Xithys wrote:The two-packs look good, though I doubt I'll be getting either of them. I have yet to understand how hasbro can continue to make toys with these hideous arms.
'Cause kids seem to like them.
I thought the kids hated them, which was why they weren't selling and thus made everyone else hate them? I find it interesting that since they've begun to show pictures of wave after wave of these figures, public opinion on them has been improving rapidly. I've always thought they were cool for the record, but I am glad to see their prices going down, because for next to $30, they aren't that cool at all.
Anyone think that the PCCs may be the next evolutionary step in combiner toys? Like they'll end up being the missing link? Maybe there's combiners on the horizon which will have robot mode capable limb figures but this automorph transformation gimmick that the drones have....Maybe that long-desired Voyager torso/Deluxe limb combiner? Just a thought I had on the ol' throne the other morning.
Posted by Dagon on November 11th, 2010 @ 10:41am CST
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Xithys wrote:The two-packs look good, though I doubt I'll be getting either of them. I have yet to understand how hasbro can continue to make toys with these hideous arms.
'Cause kids seem to like them.
I thought the kids hated them, which was why they weren't selling and thus made everyone else hate them? I find it interesting that since they've begun to show pictures of wave after wave of these figures, public opinion on them has been improving rapidly. I've always thought they were cool for the record, but I am glad to see their prices going down, because for next to $30, they aren't that cool at all.
Anyone think that the PCCs may be the next evolutionary step in combiner toys? Like they'll end up being the missing link? Maybe there's combiners on the horizon which will have robot mode capable limb figures but this automorph transformation gimmick that the drones have....Maybe that long-desired Voyager torso/Deluxe limb combiner? Just a thought I had on the ol' throne the other morning.
Posted by First-Aid on November 11th, 2010 @ 10:47am CST
Posted by Dagon on November 11th, 2010 @ 10:50am CST
First-Aid wrote:Best thinking takes place on the throne. My guess is that Albert Einstein came up with the theory of relativity while emptying some sauerkraut.
You know what, about a second after I submitted that post I thought "Here comes a warning" for my ahem, toilet humor. It may come later, but I'm in agreement. The Chamber of Solitude is where all great thoughts are born.
Posted by angelababy on November 11th, 2010 @ 7:38pm CST
Posted by Amelie on November 11th, 2010 @ 7:55pm CST
Dagon wrote:The Chamber of Solitude is where all great thoughts are born.
Is it Hemorrhoids or just an bad itch?
Pretty deep shit, man.
On the subject of PCC - I like them. If I was still in the habit of buying new toys, I'd get the lot. Cute little figures.
Posted by ArmadaPrime on November 13th, 2010 @ 3:46am CST
Mummy, can i have that one please?
he's spastic!