Power Core Combiner figures

Hello everyone,

Though I am sure you noticed I thought I would bring it up as I found it interesting.

I recently purchased the latest 3 PCC 2-packs and the 2 5-packs all of whom are redeco's. As we all know, Hasbro decided to play mix-and match coupling other bots with different Mini-Cons. I however think this was a late change as it is clear that Darkbeam (the new partner for the Searchlight rededo Winburn) matches perfectly with Crankcase (the translucent green plastics are identical). Just as much as Razorbeam (whom is now packaged with Darkstream) fits with Stakeout. And Beacon and both Windburn share red in their color schemes.

Hasbro probably wanted to change the colors to make this less obvious and this color change made it unto the packaging (save for Darkstream and Razorbeam whom feature on the packaging in the colors they are sold in) but it was not actually put in effect.

I think it is interesting as the new combinations do work reasonably well (well for toys not specifically designed to work together) save for (again) Darkstream and Razorbeam. The names match but sadly the figures do not. Armor mode is useless and Darkstream cannot even hold Razorbeam in axe mode. A real shame.

This does lead me to conclude that Hasbro should go for straigt on redeco's and keep the same pairings. I do like the PCC line overall, barring a few figures that are not so cool.