Power Core Combiners - do the new Minicons count?

[griffin]

Quote from Hasbro Designers in #32 of the Collector Club Magazine:

...the Power Core Mini-cons are not tied to Unicron or the Last Autobot. ...we see the Mini-cons existing as another 'race' of Transformers on Cybertron, versus being tied to a specific being or theme.

A bit vague, but sounds like it is a resetting of the Mini-con story concept, so that they are back to being a third race of beings, that have an unknown allegiance and origin.

[liegeprime]

hmmm Ive always counted the minicons in my collection count anyways. I mean even if as per UCM the partnered minicons arent counted - there's the 3 pack ones - kinda like the micromaster patrols so those count , so why not the partnered ones as well? and now these ones too, YES for me.

Ive also put on lay by a lot of these PCC ones today. saw them at the racks and swiped them up quick, coincidentally Gok was calling me while Im browsing the aisles heheheh. I feel cheated on the scout now though coz they're just 1 figure and they're priced just the same as the PCC 2-pack