Thought I'd start up a discussion around what I consider the oft-forgotten "black sheep" of the Combiner family, being 2010's Power Core Combiners.

At the time, Combiners were pretty stagnant in any Transformers line despite their previous popularity. It seems like Hasbro designers thought of a way to try and bring them back into the mainstream in a more creative way, having only the 'core' robots with 3 modes (Robot, Alt, and Torso) and the 'limbs' only being capable of having vehicles and hands/feet (no robots) which felt very much NOT a transformer-y thing to do.

I was on the fence about these at the time (and it was just before my "collection renaissance" anyway) but I am curious: did anyone get these? Were they any good? Did they provide a good stepping stone towards the better Combiner Wars many years later?