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At the moment, there's only two size classes planned for
Power Core Combiners. Deluxe has a Scout-sized core character and a
four-changer (robot, vehicle weapon, robot weapon, armor) Mini-Con. Voyager
has a Scout-sized core and four vehicles that can turn into limbs (two arms,
two legs, not fully interchangeable) for any core character.
Line-Wide Notes
Rather than sticking all the notes on concept and trade dress into the
arbitrary first review, I've made it a separate file this time. Updated:
7/16/10
Bolded names got Strongly Recommended, while italic indicates a
rating of neutral or worse.
This is called the Commander Class. Each has a Scout-sized core figure with
three modes (vehicle, robot, and combiner core) and a Mini-Con with four
modes (robot, vehicle, hand weapon, chest armor). Commander cores can
combine with limbs from the Voyagers.
- Wave 1: Huffer (Autobot semitractor/tow truck)
with Caliburst (artillery emplacement/cannon), Searchlight (Autobot
helicopter) with Backwind (hook truck thing), Smolder (Decepticon firetruck)
with Chopster (attack jet/axe).
- Wave 2: Icepick with Chainclaw (Icepick is an
arctic vehicle much like Armada Iceberg, Chainclaw becomes a roof-mounted
missile rack), Leadfoot with Pinpoint (formula racer with an engine/gun
Powermaster type), Sledge with Throttler (Backhoe with a drillbit).
- Wave 3: All redeco wave. Steelshot with Beacon
(Bombshock with Backwind), Windburn with Darkray (Searchlight with
Caliburst), Darkstream with Razorbeam (Skyburst with Chopster).
- Wave 4: Heavytread with Groundspike
(Heavytread is a tank, Groundspike is a mine-sifter and claw), Skyhammer with
Airlift (Jet with gun emplacement), Undertow with Waterlog (speedboat with
gun emplacement), Salvage with Bomb-Burst (Mudslinger redeco with Chainclaw
redeco). Passed on Salvage.
Listed as Combiner Class. It features a Scout-class core character with
three modes (robot, vehicle, combiner core) and four Mini-Con-sized vehicles
that can become limbs but not robots. Arms must be arms, they can't double
as legs. The core can also wear the chest armor Mini-Con from a Commander
Class.
- Wave 1: Skyburst with Aerialbots and Bombshock with
Combaticons. Skyburst is so-so, Bombshock is almost strongly recommended,
but has some flaws.
- Wave 2: Double Clutch with Rallybots and
Mudslinger with Destructicons. Mudslinger is reminiscent of Cybertron Dirt
Boss, and comes with a bunch of Mad Max style road vehicles. Double Clutch
is a sportscar and comes with a group of other sports and racing cars.
Double Clutch has some serious flaws.
- Wave 3: Crankcase with Destrons (black Huffer with
black and gray drones that mix the Aerialbots and Combaticons), Stakeout
with Protectobots (white Smolder with the other redecos).
- Wave 4: Grimstone with Dinobots, Steamhammer with
Constructicons. The Dinobots are all in G1 Dinobot colors, but use a bunch
of seldom-used or never-used species. The Constructicons lack a unified
color scheme, but also use some oddball vehicles.
- Wave 5: Overrun with Stunticons (Leadfoot with some Rallybots and some
Destructicons), and unannounced other redeco using the rest of the drones.
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