Somethin' is up here...
Why have two dumptrucks when there are plenty of other cool construction equipment they could've chosen? And it's seems REALLY convenient that so many of the alt modes match up real damn close with their G1 counterparts, while that was hardly the case with the robots from the first movie (Ironhide, Megatron, Bumblebee, etc.)
And if this combiner rumor is true, what about the other rumor floating 'round here that there'll be approximately 20 bots per faction this time? Provided that both of these rumors are accurate, that would mean that Devastator will take up a significant chunk of the new spaces for the Decepticon warriors (7 out of approx. 16 new 'con spots). That'll be cool if each Constructicon has his own screen time, but if they just transform into robots once, then combine into Devastator, and then promptly get destroyed during their first battle (a 'la Bonecrusher from the first movie), then why bother with giving us a gestalt? Just to squeeze us for cash through the inevitable repaints of the figures as so many clever forum users have pointed out previously?
No to mention the fact that Devastator was KILLED in the first movie, remember? Somebody on the TF 1 production team effed up and named him Devastator in the movie while the toys and video games refer to him as 'Brawl.' Thus, we've already seen 'Devastator' kick the bucket during the assault on Mission City in the first movie. How are they gonna explain that? Do 'cons just steal names from their fallen comrades now, or is Bay gonna go all George Lucas and put out a new 'fixed' edition of TF 1 with the subtitles fixed to read 'Brawl' instead of Devastator? Most likely, they'll probably just swipe another combiner name from the G1 series such as 'Menasor' or 'Bruticus' (or 'Runination' from
RID.)
I guess it doesn't really matter in the end. I dug the first flick and was hoping that the second installment would take the franchise to a whole new level, but I've resigned myself to the fact that it might just be more of the cheap disposable bot treatment we got from the first movie. I mean c'mon, Starscream had TWO FRIGGIN' LINES IN THE WHOLE MOVIE!
Well, here's hoping we get a kick-ass sequel!
