Power Core Combiner Bombshock & Smolder Image Galleries

And when the next set of pics appears, everyone will be begging Hasbro to release these earlier than scheduled…

And then the set of pics after that will result in Hasbro employees getting death threats…

The inconsistency of fans is amusing.

aprim

Sorry but Fan Projects can't even save those combiners lol.

I wouldn't be surprised if FansProject puts out some sort of replacement limbs (not necessarily with robot mode) that results in an improved powered-up form.

Eh

I'm not to crazy about these. If they're cheap I'll think about it. Other than that I won't bother with them.

There's already precedent for this type of transformer, Energon Optimus Prime (aka Fatassimus Prime) He had 4 drone limbs too.

Sometime's it's NOT good to see detailed pics. I was all over Smoulder untill I saw that big gaping HOLE in the back of his vehicle mode. Sloppy. They couldn't figure out SOME way to cover that?

Still holding out hope that they will make "limb-bots" down the road. After all, those military units just don't seem to go with a fire truck. I'm just sayin,,,

WuLongTi

I think I'll pass on Smolder, but I'm really interested in Bombshock. He will go quite nicely on my work desk ^__^

Lots of folks are getting all bent out of shape because the drones don't transform into smaller bots as a "true" combiner should. We think of combiners like Bruticus and Superion and it's a team of 'bots that form up into a bigger bot. These guys aren't that. These guys are scouts with a 'power up' mode. So instead of having some trailer that forms armor around them or something, they have legends sized drones that attach to them. Similar concept.

So if the haters would think of things that way, in that these guys are not combiners at all rather 'power up' scouts, then I think they become a lot more interesting than your standard scouts. (But their not really combiners, despite what their product line may call them)

Lumpy

totally… i think the name is what's throwing them off… if they were just called Power Core figures people would be more accepting, but since they're Power Core Combiners, people are freaking out…

Agreed. Good points here.

I think maybe the power-up modes help contribute to the negative sentiment, because we're used to seeing such configurations on traditional combiner teams.

If maybe they implemented a different combination method, like split a drone vehicle to form both arms or something, then maybe that would help dull the criticism.

I love 'em. I loved Targetmasters back in the day, and I love things that combine, so this is all win at a reasonable price.

If they don't get fiction of their own, I may put them on my AEC shelves. They'll fit in well there

I think I'll pass on Smolder, but I'm really interested in Bombshock. He will go quite nicely on my work desk ^__^

Lots of folks are getting all bent out of shape because the drones don't transform into smaller bots as a "true" combiner should. We think of combiners like Bruticus and Superion and it's a team of 'bots that form up into a bigger bot. These guys aren't that. These guys are scouts with a 'power up' mode. So instead of having some trailer that forms armor around them or something, they have legends sized drones that attach to them. Similar concept.

So if the haters would think of things that way, in that these guys are not combiners at all rather 'power up' scouts, then I think they become a lot more interesting than your standard scouts. (But their not really combiners, despite what their product line may call them)

Why no pics of Bombshock's individual robot mode?

ORIO

I'm irritated everytime KO toys puts up new product. They just put the new toys next to KO toys that no one has to generate interest in the KO toys the sell on their site.

Agreed. What's more, being KOs, they're useless as comparison figures since there's no way to know if they're the same size as the originals.

wow… smoulder's combiner mode seems really awkward thanks to the whole automorph limb thing… but it looks like there's not really any other way to set 'im up. >.o I suppose I can learn to live with his permanent щ(ﾟДﾟщ) … but if, as a some have commented, he gets repainted into a hotspot-alike and gets his own drones. . . that might change a lot; drones made specifically for a mold will make it's combination mode seem more reasonable, I would imagine.

SPLIT LIP

I see them less as gesaults, and more like power-up armour in the form of drone vehicles.

Not bad.

i agree… can't wait to have bombshock battle against energon landmine…