Toy Fair US 2015 Coverage - New Gallery: Transformers Generations Devastator

Love it. Love everything about it!

I got nothing.............

Man, I dunno. The molds look okay for the most part, but if I'm seeing a lack of elbow articulation, that by itself is an automatic deal breaker for me. Like, if even one of them lacks basic articulation, it's not worth the money IMO

Good GOD he's enormous. I'm not super impressed with the individual bots' articulation either, but the combined mode more than makes up for that. It would be hard for Hasbro to top this.

Aceoftherebellion wrote:Man, I dunno. The molds look okay for the most part, but if I'm seeing a lack of elbow articulation, that by itself is an automatic deal breaker for me. Like, if even one of them lacks basic articulation, it's not worth the money IMO

It appears the only way that any of the elbowless arms can get elbows is if brand new arms are designed and installed instead, which could be problematic if one isn't use to removing and reinstalling pins. It looks like that's how most of the problem arms are held on.

I would pay another $15 for good elbow articulation for all the figures. I would hope that figures this size would come with that. But as I'm unwilling to shell out over $300 for Hercules, I don't have much of a choice!

Although if a 3rd party comes up with new arms, I'll be getting those.

he looks like a sad devastator with that look on his face.

cant say i totally hate him, but cant say i totally love him..........

Mr_Autobot411 wrote:he looks like a sad devastator with that look on his face.

cant say i totally hate him, but cant say i totally love him..........

Your right, movie Optimus needs to take his face.

I love how on TFW there's a thread called "Titan Devastator: Elbowgate"

SW's SilverHammer wrote:I love how on TFW there's a thread called "Titan Devastator: Elbowgate"

Hehehe that's pretty funny. The more I look at it the more I think I'll be leaving Devastator combined and the fact that half the Constructicons are missing functional elbows won't make a difference. It would be nice, but at least they are holding guns properly when they're shooting them

It could be worse. They could lack functional hips and knees! At least they can strike a somewhat dynamic pose when standing individually. Though it does blow my mind that the smaller combiners have really good articulation compared to the Constructicons who make up this big guy.

Va'al wrote:

frogbat wrote:i think they did a great job for the price.. even the fact they're all voyager etc. The robot modes are incredibly g1 esque. And the combined mode is awesome... metroplex stands to the right of my tv... maybe i can have devy on the left...

The nerdsphere of the interwebz has been playing around with comparisons, and here are the results:

Compared to G1 Devastator.


Meaning that CW Devastator should come up to Metroplex' chest.

Wow

Ok looks good but the leader class figure looks like a voyager class figure and plus the hollow arms aren't really something nice to see besides that it looks good

I wonder what a masterpiece devastator would be like

Could it be better than Hercules well..
... will have to wait to find out

Concerning Devastator (no pictures of the back?), I wouldn't be opposed to the shades sliding up to reveal two eyes. Looks like Mixmaster won't have a spinning drum. (funny how in the group shot his altmode is backwards.)
As for the individual bots, no elbows on a voyager is just wrong. Use ratcheting joints if you want to maintain stability. I can't argue with super scaled up US Legends. But the sum is truly greater than its parts.


My current must haves list:

1. Arcee. The TT Arcee if possible.

2. MP Star Saber!

3. MP Bumblebee w/Daniel (Spike) for Arcee.

4. MP Ultra Magnus

5. CW Devastator

6. CW Bruticus


I'll work backwards from there to see what molds I still want to grab.
After I find myself on the street, due to my plastic crack fix, I'll see what else I can add to the collection.
Great year for The Transformers fans!

And just because we know that we all want to see what wonders stock photography can do to painted show prototypes as we're told by ScottyP that some figures suffer from the "looks great in person but for some reason not great in photos" syndrome - we've received the official Hasbro images of all the reveals from today's media event at the New York Toy Show 2015! Let's start once again with a big green bang, shall we? Check out below Scrapper, Hook, Long Haul, Bonecrusher, Mixmaster and Scavenger, in vehicle, robot and bigger robot form: Devastator!

"Looks great in person but for some reason not great in photos"

This is really nice because of it's scale and being an officially licensed Hasbro product. I still place it beneath Hercules and possibly even the ROTF Devestator. Thanks for sharing!

Long Haul had his shins blown off by a machine gun in the war.

poor scrapper has no elbows. and zomfg what did they do to long haul ; ;

that being said, over all this is an amazing piece. cant wait to snag this set

So the robot modes are trash...Oh well. Vehicle and combined mode are insane and Im okay with that. He would probably be displayed in only those two anyways.

ShardFenix wrote:So the robot modes are trash...Oh well. Vehicle and combined mode are insane and Im okay with that. He would probably be displayed in only those two anyways.

I assume you could do a better design? Be our guest. Humans! The right of all sentient beings. No pleasing them at all.


Hook's shoulder is kind of a problem with the durability. Hope it won't break. Otherwise, they all look AWESOME updates!

I think the robot modes look okay, but hate the elbow joints so very much. It makes the forearm look floppy and incomplete. I don't mind the hollowness or the odd proportions, but those tiny limbs hanging off massive shoulders just kind of loses me aesthetically.

Still gonna buy him for that combined mode, though.

Twitchythe3rd wrote:Long Haul had his shins blown off by a machine gun in the war.

i wonder if he killed fiddy men?

the individual figures are a bit disappointing, but I think we're all here for the big guy himself anyway, and he looks *amazing*

shajaki wrote:

Twitchythe3rd wrote:Long Haul had his shins blown off by a machine gun in the war.

i wonder if he killed fiddy men?

Long Haul would take a bullet for his grandson, but not in the face. That's how he makes his livings.

I gotta say, The Constructicons/Devastator are some of my favorite dudes from G1, and seeing them like this makes me want to switch jobs to something that pays more! Wow. All of them are perfect! Mixmaster is backwards, and I ain't even mad! Longhaul looks like a dumpy (heh heh) little guy and I love it! XD

I need dis.

SW's SilverHammer wrote:

shajaki wrote:

Twitchythe3rd wrote:Long Haul had his shins blown off by a machine gun in the war.

i wonder if he killed fiddy men?

Long Haul would take a bullet for his grandson, but not in the face. That's how he makes his livings.

Long Haul saw the Grim Reaper, and he kicked him in the stones and spit in his eye, and told him it ain't his time yet.

Bot modes aren't as good as they could of been but it's all about the combined mode, and that looks

Wow these look surprisingly good. The detail is there too unlike the recent Combiner Wars figures.

The only sad thing is that Mixmaster gets a derpy cabmode again. TFC, Maketoys and now Hasbro are giving him the short end of the stick. I hope they alter him a bit before his release. All of the vehicle modes are very G1 and he looks so futuristic that i don't know what's the front or the back of him to be honest. Maybe he is mistransformed?

Funnily enough I think the thing that bugs me most is that mixmaster's barrell doesn't roll.

The individual robot modes aren't the best they could be.. Granted. Once I get all conifers I think I'll follow same pattern as my g1 displays... Superion and devy in combined mode.. Stunt icons in individual robots.

I still can't get over as to how close they are to the original robot modes most of these are.

the devy combined mode definitely follows that the whole is greater than the sum of its parts

Starsaber468 wrote:Could it be better than...

It will probably be better than Herc size wise and maybe aesthetics wise for gestalt mode...

Then again what perception of what is better will be very subjective from person to person...

DMSL wrote:The only sad thing is that Mixmaster gets a derpy cabmode again. TFC, Maketoys and now Hasbro are giving him the short end of the stick. I hope they alter him a bit before his release. All of the vehicle modes are very G1 and he looks so futuristic that i don't know what's the front or the back of him to be honest. Maybe he is mistransformed?

Nope, that's how he is. He actually is based on a real type of Cement Truck which seems "reversed" with the drum over the cab, a so-called "front discharge" model instead of the traditional "rear discharge".

Let the dirty jokes commence.

Fires_Of_Inferno wrote:I gotta say, The Constructicons/Devastator are some of my favorite dudes from G1, and seeing them like this makes me want to switch jobs to something that pays more! Wow. All of them are perfect! Mixmaster is backwards, and I ain't even mad! Longhaul looks like a dumpy (heh heh) little guy and I love it! XD

I need dis.

And plus, with the way they arranged mixmaster on the show floor, people could always just pose him reverse in alt mode and it wouldnt look too bad:

ScRaPpEr'S eLbOwS hUrT; lOnG hAuL's ElBoWs HuRt.

Other than that, this looks great. I'm In it for Devastator anyway.

You know guys, at first I was a bit turned off by the individual robot modes (no front discharge from me). But then I looked at the original G1s and HOLY SH!T, this is one serious upgrade.

Long Haul is all kinds of adorable. He's so short and stubby!

I think Devy looks great...all this talk bout durability, design, etc..sheesh, cant we wait till we have it in our hands?? Its a 18" Tall Devestator that doesnt cost $600+ so Im good

And Mixmaster...they have him facing the wrong way on display at Toy Fair and he is based on a REAL WORLD mixer...granted, I had never seen one like it till someone posted a pic on here during the "wheres his cab" debate. My thanks to whomever enlightened us, and bravo, you were spot on brother!!

fenrir72 wrote:

ShardFenix wrote:So the robot modes are trash...Oh well. Vehicle and combined mode are insane and Im okay with that. He would probably be displayed in only those two anyways.

I assume you could do a better design? Be our guest.

Whether you believe this or not, the ability to produce something better is not a prerequisite for not liking something. In other words, I don't have to be capable of designing a better toy to be allowed to not like this one.

Which is fortunate, because I think these look cheap. I don't like the hollow gaps, I really had a good laugh at the elbows on most of these guys, and I think Devastator in general is underwhelming. I thought he looked better in the Nuremburg picture, though, and even then he was not all that impressive. The bots do certainly look like a nice update of the G1 figures though, and Scrapper especially looks nice in robot mode. I think Long Haul looks real sad, but I do realize that it's probably a terrible looking figure in order to satisfy his role in the combined form.
If these were 10-13 bucks separately at retail, I would most likely be all in. For 150 though, it's pretty much an impossible sell for me.

Holy b'jusus, these are awesome!!! the head sculpts look so g1 good!
Love Longhaul, wow, just wow.

All I can say is that the rest of the Constructicons have a decidedly European feel to them in terms of design but Long Haul is 100% American and very obviously in a supervisory role. Are we sure that he isn't part of the DotM Wreckers crew? He looks like he should have a "Body by Budwiser" bumper sticker plastered on his front bumper.

I find these toys to be quite devastating.

DEVASTATOR!!!!!!!!!



I couldn't help myself. Had to do this. Can you tell I want this guy?

Dagon wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

ShardFenix wrote:So the robot modes are trash...Oh well. Vehicle and combined mode are insane and Im okay with that. He would probably be displayed in only those two anyways.

I assume you could do a better design? Be our guest.

Whether you believe this or not, the ability to produce something better is not a prerequisite for not liking something. In other words, I don't have to be capable of designing a better toy to be allowed to not like this one.

Which is fortunate, because I think these look cheap. I don't like the hollow gaps, I really had a good laugh at the elbows on most of these guys, and I think Devastator in general is underwhelming. I thought he looked better in the Nuremburg picture, though, and even then he was not all that impressive. The bots do certainly look like a nice update of the G1 figures though, and Scrapper especially looks nice in robot mode. I think Long Haul looks real sad, but I do realize that it's probably a terrible looking figure in order to satisfy his role in the combined form.
If these were 10-13 bucks separately at retail, I would most likely be all in. For 150 though, it's pretty much an impossible sell for me.

Well put, particularly the last part. Individually, they seem worth about that much, shame they only come as a high priced "gift set"

Here's hoping that G2 redeco of Devastator for Comic Con turns out to be true!

Maybe they'll do some paint magic and paint the bridge of Devastator's "shades" the same color as his face, to give him the two-eyed design the G2 toy had.

Also, it's been a long time since I had the G2 Constructicons in hand, but did the individual members have yellow Eyes or Red? I know Devastator had Yellow eyes, but I can't remember what the members had.

Gearslide wrote:Also, it's been a long time since I had the G2 Constructicons in hand, but did the individual members have yellow Eyes or Red? I know Devastator had Yellow eyes, but I can't remember what the members had.

Silver, or black with silver face plate.

I like keeping tabs on the rumours. Our old pal Chuck had previously reported that these same constructicons would be released as individual MPs in Japan. While this does not outright prove that rumour false, I really dont see these as MP material, especially for individual release (though the combined form looks like an MP and fits the scale). So Chuck are you having doubts on that rumour too?

Optimum Supreme wrote:

Dagon wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:

ShardFenix wrote:So the robot modes are trash...Oh well. Vehicle and combined mode are insane and Im okay with that. He would probably be displayed in only those two anyways.

I assume you could do a better design? Be our guest.

Whether you believe this or not, the ability to produce something better is not a prerequisite for not liking something. In other words, I don't have to be capable of designing a better toy to be allowed to not like this one.

Which is fortunate, because I think these look cheap. I don't like the hollow gaps, I really had a good laugh at the elbows on most of these guys, and I think Devastator in general is underwhelming. I thought he looked better in the Nuremburg picture, though, and even then he was not all that impressive. The bots do certainly look like a nice update of the G1 figures though, and Scrapper especially looks nice in robot mode. I think Long Haul looks real sad, but I do realize that it's probably a terrible looking figure in order to satisfy his role in the combined form.
If these were 10-13 bucks separately at retail, I would most likely be all in. For 150 though, it's pretty much an impossible sell for me.

Well put, particularly the last part. Individually, they seem worth about that much, shame they only come as a high priced "gift set"

10-13 Bucks?!? Deluxes aren't even 10-13 bucks (such a random amount ). Hell, I honestly don't remember a time when anything Voyager size was in that price range.

Of course, we are all entitled to our opinions, but if someone doesn't like it can't we leave it as that instead of a long drawn out diatribe that seems intent on sucking the life out of a conversation?

Just a thought...

I think it's funny...I keep hearing scale issues with Devy. Personally, I think Devy is the only correctly scaled combiner, not complaining though. Can't wait for preorder for him.

Voyagers with almost completely hollow legs... and even no elbows? Sure, Devastator looks nice in combined mode, but the Constructicons look a bit too cheap-made for me.

For me, this is the only 'must have' that I saw from the show. There are a few problems, such as Hook's elbows, but for the most part, this looks great. I hated gen. Jetfire because of the hollow areas, but they don't look that bad on the constructicons. The hollow silver thighs can be overlooked and the other hollows look like they might be like that for transformation, which is acceptable. I'm not liking the black hands, though. Those suckers should be purple (and mine will be)