Toy Review - PCC Undertow w/ Waterlog

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Toy Review - Undertow w/ Waterlog

Series - Power Core Combiners
Sub-line - N/A
Size/Class - 2-pack (Commander w/ Minicon)
New/remould/redeco - New
Wave - 5
Released here - March 2011
Approximate Retail Price - $15-20 ($8-12 offloading clearance prices)
Approximate Size - 10cm (Undertow), 5cm (Waterlog)
Allegiance - Decepticon
Alt-mode - Dual-hull Speedboat (Undertow), weapon/armour (Waterlog)
Main Features/Gimmicks - Combiner core (Undertow), weapon/armour (Waterlog)
Main Colours - Pale blue, black, bronze (Undertow), transparent green/bronze (Waterlog)
Main Accessories - none (Waterlog is the accessory)

[LordCyrusOmega]

Nice alt mode mould, love boat transformers. Minicon seems a bit out of place for an attack boat but works well in all modes. Power up mode looks good with an old fashioned divers bell helmet for the head, just wish he had some boat drone as none of the others seem to fit.
Worth the money I spent on him

[Pipesqueak]

An absolute winner. I LOVE the deep sea diver's helmet, which it should be noted CAN also be used in a configuration of the regular bot mode ( you have to turn his limbs around and the torso gets turned upside down like in the combiner mode, but it still looks fine).

The diver's helmet is even cooler than Skyhammer's flying goggles IMO and he has cool gattling guns that mean he's nice and powered up regardless of whether, like me, you're not a big fan of the minicon weapons.

I give him a 10/10.

[jaydisc]

Unique alt, average 'bot, lame transformation, crappy combiner mode.

[Decepticon]

This is a surprise for me as I really like him. Not usually a Pcc fan. Speedboat looks mean in black and those guns are cool. Though I actually dislike the power up divers head.looks ridiculous

[BigTransformerTrev]

I love the amount of weapons on Undertow's fairly unique, dual keel, alt-mode. He would kick arse in the next Americas Cup! The weapons are also very well placed on his robot form. Transformation is a bit easy but not too bad. Love the divers helmet head on Undertow and Waterlog looks like a bot that either lives permanently in the water or at least commutes there regularly . That said, I didn't find Waterlog as good as some of the other PCC Mini-Con partners, I thought the one that turned into an axe (whoever that was) was very good, and for the most part the 'armor' version they all turn into is completely pants.

This is a good figure at a reasonable price. I found him randomly in Safeways in Swan Hill, which speaks to his lack of rarity so should still be easy to pick up on the secondary market.