Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst

Monday, March 29th, 2010 2:45PM CDT

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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.

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Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059338)
Posted by Counterpunch on March 29th, 2010 @ 3:00pm CDT

Why are these all so crappy?

Seriously, someone sell me on this.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059342)
Posted by Blurrz on March 29th, 2010 @ 3:05pm CDT

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.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059345)
Posted by DavidT on March 29th, 2010 @ 3:08pm CDT

Another EPIC FAIL for the PCC Transformers :SICK:

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059347)
Posted by kirbenvost on March 29th, 2010 @ 3:10pm CDT

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.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059348)
Posted by Firebird on March 29th, 2010 @ 3:15pm CDT

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

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059354)
Posted by RK_Striker_JK_5 on March 29th, 2010 @ 3:35pm CDT

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

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059358)
Posted by City Commander on March 29th, 2010 @ 3:45pm CDT

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.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059370)
Posted by Agamemnon on March 29th, 2010 @ 3:58pm CDT

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.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059378)
Posted by Vectorshot on March 29th, 2010 @ 4:11pm CDT

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.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059380)
Posted by Dread_Wing on March 29th, 2010 @ 4:16pm CDT

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.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059404)
Posted by Tigertrack on March 29th, 2010 @ 4:58pm CDT

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

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059405)
Posted by Mykltron on March 29th, 2010 @ 5:01pm CDT

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.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059411)
Posted by Dr. Caelus on March 29th, 2010 @ 5:13pm CDT

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.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059413)
Posted by Megazarak on March 29th, 2010 @ 5:16pm CDT

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.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059418)
Posted by Blurrz on March 29th, 2010 @ 5:28pm CDT

Megazarak wrote:Hoping for a Train and a Boat.

The next two combiners are race cars and monster trucks.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059425)
Posted by Overcracker on March 29th, 2010 @ 5:35pm CDT

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.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059434)
Posted by Tigertrack on March 29th, 2010 @ 5:47pm CDT

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.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059438)
Posted by Overcracker on March 29th, 2010 @ 5:52pm CDT

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.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059447)
Posted by Megazarak on March 29th, 2010 @ 6:14pm CDT

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.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059452)
Posted by Blurrz on March 29th, 2010 @ 6:20pm CDT

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.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059455)
Posted by Megazarak on March 29th, 2010 @ 6:24pm CDT

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.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059456)
Posted by Valandar on March 29th, 2010 @ 6:32pm CDT

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

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059469)
Posted by Solrac333 on March 29th, 2010 @ 7:01pm CDT

These are just horrible. Easy pass.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059515)
Posted by kirbenvost on March 29th, 2010 @ 9:28pm CDT

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.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059517)
Posted by Counterpunch on March 29th, 2010 @ 9:36pm CDT

Blurrz wrote:
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.

Yes, I'm basing this off some pictures. Yes, I'm basing this off an extensive review video.

I have a whole F'ing lot of Transformers. I've been looking at them and judging them for years.

These look like crap.

This is coming from the guy who literally wrote the book on, "You should probably have it in hand to make a judgment." Perhaps they'll be nice toys to have in hand, but they still look like crap. Hasbro took a risk with this design aesthetic. It missed the mark.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059520)
Posted by Blurrz on March 29th, 2010 @ 9:47pm CDT

While I have nothing but praise for you, your opinion has faltered before. I know your opinion on Alternity Bumblebee changed from the Peaugh review, while your view on PCC hasn't changed at all, I think that PCC will still be enjoyable, and hey they're affordable. Oh well, to each their own.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059523)
Posted by DavidT on March 29th, 2010 @ 9:58pm CDT

I'm with CP on this one... We've been in the game since day 1 and we pretty much know what we like when it comes to Transformers. Sure there are times when we see one and are kinda iffy about it until we see it in person, but these PCC Transformers I know for a fact, I will have nothing to do with... There's not even a slight curiousity or wonder in my mind... This was a very poorly execution of a great idea in my opinion... but to each their own

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059532)
Posted by Prime Riblet on March 29th, 2010 @ 10:28pm CDT

This line is doing very little for me. They look cheap and disappointing to me.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059534)
Posted by Mkall on March 29th, 2010 @ 10:36pm CDT

Just goes to show that there's different strokes for different folks.

I like them as scout figures, but not the combined mode. I may have to find another use for the drones.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059537)
Posted by ang3l3s on March 29th, 2010 @ 10:41pm CDT

Vectorshot wrote: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.

+1 , Since i 1st say them it was a nay.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059539)
Posted by Kibble on March 29th, 2010 @ 10:46pm CDT

Can't speak for all the combiners, but this one looks like teh suckz! I may just skip this line...then again, I said the same about Animated and have been going gung ho on the clearence sales and have liked most of what I've picked up.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059554)
Posted by Starscreams bad comedy on March 29th, 2010 @ 11:23pm CDT

My theory:

Hasbro purposely made these as cheap as they could so they could crank out a bunch of crap figures, sprinkle in a few decent ones, and hope all the kids and collectors would buy multiple packs in order to get decent looking/stable combined modes. Cause really, the limbs on these things look horrid, and as vehicles youre better off just getting some hot wheels.

Speaking of the limbs, can we ditch the stupid claw hands already? Its one thing to have a bot here or there who has a claw hand, but do we really need to have both hands and nearly all the bots with lobster hands? :BOOM:

Pass/10

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059567)
Posted by Evil_the_Nub on March 30th, 2010 @ 1:13am CDT

That does look terrible, but what bothers me the most about this line is these combiners are all TINY. I thought the whole point of combining was to make a bigger more powerful bot, not to make a bunch of little guys feel less inadequate.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059573)
Posted by Valandar on March 30th, 2010 @ 1:34am CDT

I once again iterate my opinion that HASBRO should do packs of nothing but limbs - at the VERY least to replace the helicopters on this set.

I really don't wanna buy two sets and break out the spray paint just to have a viable decent "Aerialbot" set.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059601)
Posted by DevastaTTor on March 30th, 2010 @ 6:20am CDT

It's clear that Hasbro sacrificed decent limbs for the auto-morph gimmick. Those helicopters ruin these. When are they going to learn?

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059613)
Posted by Tigertrack on March 30th, 2010 @ 6:56am CDT

DevastaTTor wrote:It's clear that Hasbro sacrificed decent limbs for the auto-morph gimmick. Those helicopters ruin these. When are they going to learn?

It's sad because helicopters are my favorite alt mode, and these are blech.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059635)
Posted by --B-- on March 30th, 2010 @ 8:07am CDT

I could live with the spindely limbs if they had hands and feet, but yuck.

The face molds on these aren't great either. I think you could get all of them and make one decent combined bot, but then have a lot of worthless plastic laying around.

Did anyone else get a G2 Smokescreen/Cyberjets vibe from Skyburst? Transformation is almost the same with the extra parts in the extened backpack.

Again, not my cup of tea, but I can see my 5 year old really digging these.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1059644)
Posted by heltskelt on March 30th, 2010 @ 8:27am CDT

How did Hasbro know that i needed to save money? Thank you Hasbro!

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1105015)
Posted by Atomatron on July 28th, 2010 @ 6:24pm CDT

the machine robo rescue "drones" transform too, that is how these should have worked. will still eat them all regardless

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1105033)
Posted by bvzxa on July 28th, 2010 @ 7:01pm CDT

It's good to know that the 5 pack scout leaders will be available in the two-packs just with different colors and fraccion allegiance. I have the Bruticu....I mean Bombshock 5 packs now. I have the first three individual PCC 2 packs, but I skipped the Aerial bots altogether. I may get the next wave, but the 5 pack to watch out for is the Destrons pack.

Funny how Hasbro used Takara's name for the decepticons.

Re: Video Review of Power Core Combiners 5-Pack Skyburst (1105038)
Posted by Flux Convoy on July 28th, 2010 @ 7:04pm CDT

bvzxa wrote:It's good to know that the 5 pack scout leaders will be available in the two-packs just with different colors and fraccion allegiance. I have the Bruticu....I mean Bombshock 5 packs now. I have the first three individual PCC 2 packs, but I skipped the Aerial bots altogether. I may get the next wave, but the 5 pack to watch out for is the Destrons pack.

Funny how Hasbro used Takara's name for the decepticons.

It is in homage to them. So yeah, the Aerialbots? Garbage. Combaticons are okay at best. The two-packs look like where it's at so far.