Transformers Combiner Wars: SDCC Devastator On Display

Hey look.. Green garbage.

I think this is in the wrong section, I believe it was meant for the fisher price display.. Right?

And with that face on the back, his box doubles as an homage to the Ohmeg Xt'Tapalatakettle head in your basement!

Course, the only question big enough to match a box of that size is:
Any sign of six extra guns in with him?

Are thre images of the individual Constructicons?

A toy for kids. That's what it is

fenrir72 wrote:A toy for kids. That's what it is

Aren't we all kids at heart?

MaverickPrime wrote:Are thre images of the individual Constructicons?

Are you ok with stock images instead of in hand pics? Because there are a ton here.

Here<s a quick one of all of them in one frame:



Also, I hope no one hates me too much but I actually do not like the chrome. Since just some of the purple is chrome, it looks kinda weird. I didnt care too much about Leader Jetfire's Chrome because it was optional (you could remove the guns) and all the chromed pieces were the same red pieces, fitting uniformly on the figure. But some people didnt like it, and now I kinda get it because here it totally distracts from the rest of the figure and gives an uneven look. The paint apps are better, sure, but the adding of chrome takes away any G1 show accuracy and instead gives us something that doesnt really jive well all together. Just my opinion and a reason to not have to splurge on this toy.

Also, the headsculpt is not the head I associate with Devastator but thats a personal thing.

phantom1592 wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:A toy for kids. That's what it is

Aren't we all kids at heart?

Oh you know what I mean bro' That Titan size is just what the doctor has ordered to go with my Voyager size G1 figs. It's just some people who just are ostinate about it.

TimothyR wrote:Hey look.. Green garbage.

I think this is in the wrong section, I believe it was meant for the fisher price display.. Right?

I look at the picture you responded to and I honestly do not see anything meriting that kind of a comment. Yes, CW Devy has flaws, but he's impressively articulated for a figure his size and what problems there are do not subtract from his impressiveness. They especially do not deserve to be hated upon at every turn.

That Bot wrote:

TimothyR wrote:Hey look.. Green garbage.

I think this is in the wrong section, I believe it was meant for the fisher price display.. Right?

I look at the picture you responded to and I honestly do not see anything meriting that kind of a comment. Yes, CW Devy has flaws, but he's impressively articulated for a figure his size and what problems there are do not subtract from his impressiveness. They especially do not deserve to be hated upon at every turn.

Tim is an attention seeker. It's best to ignore him.

He looks really nice. I have noticed that on the stock images the tracks are painted on the outside for Bonecrusher and Scavenger, yet at Botcon ony one has the outer side of the tracks painted green.

DMSL wrote:He looks really nice. I have noticed that on the stock images the tracks are painted on the outside for Bonecrusher and Scavenger, yet at Botcon ony one has the outer side of the tracks painted green.

Perhaps because scavenger's treads should be purple?

DMSL wrote:He looks really nice. I have noticed that on the stock images the tracks are painted on the outside for Bonecrusher and Scavenger, yet at Botcon ony one has the outer side of the tracks painted green.

They are painted but the purple and black is hard to see in the less than favorable lighting.

The chrome used here doesn't actually bother me that much but I was expecting just a little bit more from the sdcc exclusives. Like last year's knights of unicron figures... (okay some didn't like them but I loved the theme and the ideas behind it)

Bumblevivisector wrote:And with that face on the back, his box doubles as an homage to the Ohmeg Xt'Tapalatakettle head in your basement!

Course, the only question big enough to match a box of that size is:
Any sign of six extra guns in with him?

Sdcc does not have individual guns for six members there are pictures show inside of box

BlueBefore wrote:

That Bot wrote:

TimothyR wrote:Hey look.. Green garbage.

I think this is in the wrong section, I believe it was meant for the fisher price display.. Right?

I look at the picture you responded to and I honestly do not see anything meriting that kind of a comment. Yes, CW Devy has flaws, but he's impressively articulated for a figure his size and what problems there are do not subtract from his impressiveness. They especially do not deserve to be hated upon at every turn.

Tim is an attention seeker. It's best to ignore him.

No, it's best to address the fact that a great many of the images that we have seen of this thing do, in all honesty, make the combined figure look like a Fisher Price toy. I hate to say it but right from the start that was the exact impression that I got of this thing too and I still hold to that opinion of it even after all of the pictures that have come out since the initial release of this thing. This behemoth is a straight-up Playskool combiner. It may look different once it's actually in a persons hands but if I have to go by pictures, it will never end up in my hands so I fail to see how you can be so dismissive of his viewpoint since obviously he isn't the only one seeing it. I'm not saying that people shouldn't buy it, that's up to the individual and they have every right. I'm just saying that TimR has a right to his opinion and that he's not the only one who shares it and that your dismissal of him as basically being an "attention whore" is b.s.

Everyone is entitled to their own opinion. I personally find it very hard to consider this Devy a Fisher Price toy when there are a bunch from Hasbro staring at me in the face, like this one:



This Devy is a play arts Kai Kai figure compared to that Optimus.

Well said WJ

you know, I thought this was a forum for fans of transformers. Not for people to trash transformers seemingly without good reason. It's a cool toy. When did this NOT become a toy collector forum?

I mean, yeah there are flaws, and yeah you can point them out...but POINT THEM OUT. Don't just waste space trashing things. Jeez guys. You aren't cool just by being contrary.

Optimizzy wrote:you know, I thought this was a forum for fans of transformers.

Yeah, but unfortunately the INTERNET is in no shortage of hate. Now if only we could harness the power of hate... channel it into energon cubes we vanquish the Autob - whoop... sorry... lost my head for a second there

william-james88 wrote:This Devy is a play arts Kai Kai figure compared to that Optimus.

A fitting analogy considering how awful Play Arts Kai are.

Optimizzy wrote:you know, I thought this was a forum for fans of transformers. Not for people to trash transformers seemingly without good reason. It's a cool toy. When did this NOT become a toy collector forum?

I mean, yeah there are flaws, and yeah you can point them out...but POINT THEM OUT. Don't just waste space trashing things. Jeez guys. You aren't cool just by being contrary.

Truth.


Too many fans view this whole thing as some kind of zero-sum game. Like if Hasbro makes these for a certain segment of fans, then they are legitimately taking away from the others.

Well, the inconvenient truth is that any time something gets released, there's going to be those who like it, those who don't, and those who are indifferent. Every dog has their day, so just chill & focus on all the things that Hasbro has released that you DO love. Your turn will come again if you vote with your wallet.

Personally? This Devastator will be mine. Oh yes, it will be mine.

Delta Magnus wrote:

william-james88 wrote:This Devy is a play arts Kai Kai figure compared to that Optimus.

A fitting analogy considering how awful Play Arts Kai are.

I was comparing the articulation mainly. What do you personally find awful about them?

DMSL wrote:He looks really nice. I have noticed that on the stock images the tracks are painted on the outside for Bonecrusher and Scavenger, yet at Botcon ony one has the outer side of the tracks painted green.

Only the inside of the treads are painted black; if the outsides were also painted black then Bonecrusher and Scavenger would have black legs and that would be both gross and wrong.

At that price, even if I can use my friend's TRU employee discount, it may be more worthwhile to get the Takara version.

If the SDCC version was intended to be Devastator in all his "G1 deco, vac metal glory" as they said on the Facebook page, I really wish they'd vac-metalled (chromed) the silver bits instead of the purple bits. That, handguns for the team and purple fists for Devastator would have made the SDCC version perfect.

Spanbauer wrote:If the SDCC version was intended to be Devastator in all his "G1 deco, vac metal glory" as they said on the Facebook page, I really wish they'd vac-metalled (chromed) the silver bits instead of the purple bits. That, handguns for the team and purple fists for Devastator would have made the SDCC version perfect.

Woah, if that was indeed their intention, then I would call this a failure. Not a bad deco, but that misses the mark by quite a bit.

At that price, even if I can use my friend's TRU employee discount, it may be more worthwhile to get the Takara version.

NuclearConvoy wrote:At that price, even if I can use my friend's TRU employee discount, it may be more worthwhile to get the Takara version.

I dont understand. Why wouldnt the takara version be even more expensive than this? And have you thought of the import costs when getting it from japan? the shipping will be ridiculous. You can always buy BBTS, but you live in canada right? So let's assume the Takara best case scenario is 200$ US.

Shipping to canada from the states will be 30$ at least. You will be charged 10$ duty and an extra 15% guaranteed tax fee for such a huge purchase/box.

So you would end up paying about 331$ cdn for Takara's instead of about 180$ cdn for the hasbro version at TRU (I am basically cancelling out the taxes with the employee discount). How is this not more worthwhile?

I feel like I'm leaning more toward the SDCC version, unless the TT version blows me away on Saturday. I mean, someone can 3D print the guns right? RIGHT?! Also, where's the non-firing missile attachment for SDCC Devastator's head (G1!!)?! Has anyone mentioned that?!

itscramtastic wrote:I feel like I'm leaning more toward the SDCC version, unless the TT version blows me away on Saturday. I mean, someone can 3D print the guns right? RIGHT?! Also, where's the non-firing missile attachment for SDCC Devastator's head (G1!!)?! Has anyone mentioned that?!

I'd be shocked if a 3rd party didn't offer a set of six blasters, along with anything else a person might want for this set. But I think if you're planning for those additions you've got to factor that into the cost. Settling for the $150 Hasbro retail version and then spending $100 on reprolabels and 3rd party upgrades doesn't make a whole lot of sense in my book - assuming the Takara Version gets you everything you'd want.

itscramtastic wrote:I feel like I'm leaning more toward the SDCC version, unless the TT version blows me away on Saturday. I mean, someone can 3D print the guns right? RIGHT?! Also, where's the non-firing missile attachment for SDCC Devastator's head (G1!!)?! Has anyone mentioned that?!

I am sure there will be upgrade kits available. But while upgrade kits are fun, pound for pound nothing beats officially licensed exclusive stuff in the secondary market (meaning increased value down the road).

william-james88 wrote:

NuclearConvoy wrote:At that price, even if I can use my friend's TRU employee discount, it may be more worthwhile to get the Takara version.

I dont understand. Why wouldnt the takara version be even more expensive than this? And have you thought of the import costs when getting it from japan? the shipping will be ridiculous. You can always buy BBTS, but you live in canada right? So let's assume the Takara best case scenario is 200$ US.

Shipping to canada from the states will be 30$ at least. You will be charged 10$ duty and an extra 15% guaranteed tax fee for such a huge purchase/box.

So you would end up paying about 331$ cdn for Takara's instead of about 180$ cdn for the hasbro version at TRU (I am basically cancelling out the taxes with the employee discount). How is this not more worthwhile?

Your logic may well be right. I haven't imported much recently.

william-james88 wrote:

itscramtastic wrote:I feel like I'm leaning more toward the SDCC version, unless the TT version blows me away on Saturday. I mean, someone can 3D print the guns right? RIGHT?! Also, where's the non-firing missile attachment for SDCC Devastator's head (G1!!)?! Has anyone mentioned that?!

I am sure there will be upgrade kits available. But while upgrade kits are fun, pound for pound nothing beats officially licensed exclusive stuff in the secondary market (meaning increased value down the road).

Truth

Seriously though, where's the missile.

NuclearConvoy wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

NuclearConvoy wrote:At that price, even if I can use my friend's TRU employee discount, it may be more worthwhile to get the Takara version.

I dont understand. Why wouldnt the takara version be even more expensive than this? And have you thought of the import costs when getting it from japan? the shipping will be ridiculous. You can always buy BBTS, but you live in canada right? So let's assume the Takara best case scenario is 200$ US.

Shipping to canada from the states will be 30$ at least. You will be charged 10$ duty and an extra 15% guaranteed tax fee for such a huge purchase/box.

So you would end up paying about 331$ cdn for Takara's instead of about 180$ cdn for the hasbro version at TRU (I am basically cancelling out the taxes with the employee discount). How is this not more worthwhile?

Your logic may well be right. I haven't imported much recently.

The thing that I keep underestimating is how piss poor our dollar is. It will gravely affect my decision, and probably yours too.

It's so piss poor that it's worse than TRU predicted. Devastator is on preorder for 159.99$ US everwhere which is 196$ cdn, so slightly more expensive than what TRU is asking for.

Stupid fees. It's why I stopped shipping things internationally when I sell stuff on eBay. It'd be great if I could get stuff to people safely and cheaply. It's a shame other Devastator options would be so much more for you kids

itscramtastic wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

itscramtastic wrote:I feel like I'm leaning more toward the SDCC version, unless the TT version blows me away on Saturday. I mean, someone can 3D print the guns right? RIGHT?! Also, where's the non-firing missile attachment for SDCC Devastator's head (G1!!)?! Has anyone mentioned that?!

I am sure there will be upgrade kits available. But while upgrade kits are fun, pound for pound nothing beats officially licensed exclusive stuff in the secondary market (meaning increased value down the road).

Truth

Seriously though, where's the missile.

Not in the G1 cartoon, therefore not on this toy. It looked rather silly anyway

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

itscramtastic wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

itscramtastic wrote:I feel like I'm leaning more toward the SDCC version, unless the TT version blows me away on Saturday. I mean, someone can 3D print the guns right? RIGHT?! Also, where's the non-firing missile attachment for SDCC Devastator's head (G1!!)?! Has anyone mentioned that?!

I am sure there will be upgrade kits available. But while upgrade kits are fun, pound for pound nothing beats officially licensed exclusive stuff in the secondary market (meaning increased value down the road).

Truth

Seriously though, where's the missile.

Not in the G1 cartoon, therefore not on this toy. It looked rather silly anyway

I thought the SDCC was supposed to represent the G1 toy? Therefore it SHOULD exist, but we aren't getting individual bot guns on the SDCC either so..

william-james88 wrote:

NuclearConvoy wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

NuclearConvoy wrote:At that price, even if I can use my friend's TRU employee discount, it may be more worthwhile to get the Takara version.

I dont understand. Why wouldnt the takara version be even more expensive than this? And have you thought of the import costs when getting it from japan? the shipping will be ridiculous. You can always buy BBTS, but you live in canada right? So let's assume the Takara best case scenario is 200$ US.

Shipping to canada from the states will be 30$ at least. You will be charged 10$ duty and an extra 15% guaranteed tax fee for such a huge purchase/box.

So you would end up paying about 331$ cdn for Takara's instead of about 180$ cdn for the hasbro version at TRU (I am basically cancelling out the taxes with the employee discount). How is this not more worthwhile?

Your logic may well be right. I haven't imported much recently.

The thing that I keep underestimating is how piss poor our dollar is. It will gravely affect my decision, and probably yours too.

It's so piss poor that it's worse than TRU predicted. Devastator is on preorder for 159.99$ US everwhere which is 196$ cdn, so slightly more expensive than what TRU is asking for.

And it's all because Stephen bloody Harper decided we, as a country, only needed the oil economy and crippled us by shacking our dollar directly to the boom and bust of big oil.

itscramtastic wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

itscramtastic wrote:Seriously though, where's the missile.

Not in the G1 cartoon, therefore not on this toy. It looked rather silly anyway

I thought the SDCC was supposed to represent the G1 toy? Therefore it SHOULD exist, but we aren't getting individual bot guns on the SDCC either so..

And if it was the U.S. release G1 it would have purple forearms AND fists, so there's that. You win this round JZGR....

william-james88 wrote:

Delta Magnus wrote:

william-james88 wrote:This Devy is a play arts Kai Kai figure compared to that Optimus.

A fitting analogy considering how awful Play Arts Kai are.

I was comparing the articulation mainly. What do you personally find awful about them?

PAK are known for ugly joints, QC problems, bad paint, being overpriced and being woefully out of scale with other figures. I personally don't own any but what with all the horror stories I've heard about them (plus the fact I generally stick to 6" scale for my figure collection, and the insane prices) I avoid them.

NuclearConvoy wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

NuclearConvoy wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

NuclearConvoy wrote:At that price, even if I can use my friend's TRU employee discount, it may be more worthwhile to get the Takara version.

I dont understand. Why wouldnt the takara version be even more expensive than this? And have you thought of the import costs when getting it from japan? the shipping will be ridiculous. You can always buy BBTS, but you live in canada right? So let's assume the Takara best case scenario is 200$ US.

Shipping to canada from the states will be 30$ at least. You will be charged 10$ duty and an extra 15% guaranteed tax fee for such a huge purchase/box.

So you would end up paying about 331$ cdn for Takara's instead of about 180$ cdn for the hasbro version at TRU (I am basically cancelling out the taxes with the employee discount). How is this not more worthwhile?

Your logic may well be right. I haven't imported much recently.

The thing that I keep underestimating is how piss poor our dollar is. It will gravely affect my decision, and probably yours too.

It's so piss poor that it's worse than TRU predicted. Devastator is on preorder for 159.99$ US everwhere which is 196$ cdn, so slightly more expensive than what TRU is asking for.

And it's all because Stephen bloody Harper decided we, as a country, only needed the oil economy and crippled us by shacking our dollar directly to the boom and bust of big oil.

To be fair, that could have gone either way. It's the uncontrollable factors that make it a risky and currently bad idea -- factors like the US's continued meddling in the middle east that results in the Saudis and others yanking their leash with oil production to try to bankrupt the shale production companies and the resulting economic fluctuations which are apparently impacting Canada in a worse way.

Hasbro had the retail and SDCC versions of the massive 18 inch tall Combiner Wars Devastator on display along with the SDCC Combiner Hunters Arcee, Windblade, and Chromia. Other current products from Combiner Wars, Rescue Bots, and Transformers Robots In Disguise toys, most of which have already been photographed in our galleries. Check out the pictures below (or in our event galleries) and make sure to share your thoughts about these upcoming products on our forums.

Wow, that is some serious back kibble those individual figures are sporting. Just another reason to not feel guilty for passing this up.

Madeus Prime wrote:Wow, that is some serious back kibble those individual figures are sporting. Just another reason to not feel guilty for passing this up.

right because you never intend to combine them if you do own them and because kibble has been total taboo from Transformers for 30 years. what are you even expecting?

Randomhero wrote:

Madeus Prime wrote:Wow, that is some serious back kibble those individual figures are sporting. Just another reason to not feel guilty for passing this up.

right because you never intend to combine them if you do own them and because kibble has been total taboo from Transformers for 30 years. what are you even expecting?

While a little harshly worded, I totally agree.

Wow, that's alotta unpainted realestate

Are these the sdcc versions? the legs on the bulldozer guy weren't painted...

NuclearConvoy wrote:

Randomhero wrote:

Madeus Prime wrote:Wow, that is some serious back kibble those individual figures are sporting. Just another reason to not feel guilty for passing this up.

right because you never intend to combine them if you do own them and because kibble has been total taboo from Transformers for 30 years. what are you even expecting?

While a little harshly worded, I totally agree.

*Sigh* I think the individual figures look, honestly, really crappy. The Combined form is great, no arguing that, but honestly, I don't get a sense of awe when looking at it, the arms look a bit to small and the head is, while perfectly G1, very simple. I'm not trying to aggravate the Devastator fanboys out here, but I'd take any of the 3'd Party figures over this guy. At least they all have elbows, even the legends scale one.

Madeus Prime wrote:

NuclearConvoy wrote:

Randomhero wrote:

Madeus Prime wrote:Wow, that is some serious back kibble those individual figures are sporting. Just another reason to not feel guilty for passing this up.

right because you never intend to combine them if you do own them and because kibble has been total taboo from Transformers for 30 years. what are you even expecting?

While a little harshly worded, I totally agree.

*Sigh* I think the individual figures look, honestly, really crappy. The Combined form is great, no arguing that, but honestly, I don't get a sense of awe when looking at it, the arms look a bit to small and the head is, while perfectly G1, very simple. I'm not trying to aggravate the Devastator fanboys out here, but I'd take any of the 3'd Party figures over this guy. At least they all have elbows, even the legends scale one.

and i plan on continuing to support Hasbro/Takara to show my gratitude that after 30 years, we still get G1 characters modernized. spend your $600 on $120 worth of plastic. ill continue to support the people that made my childhood great while you spit in their face saying you'd rather buy 3rd party figures.

@Randomhero

He's got a fair point of the individual figures being somewhat lacking. I'm sure lots of collectors display combiners individually; I do, Sometimes I just dismember a combiner and pose my fleet of figures.

So wanting a nice set of individual figures is equally important to some, as a cohesive combined mode is to others. I will not buy this set so long as it is tremendously underpainted, and/or lacks individual elbows. I won't go 3P, I'll just miss out; but I have my rules and Devestator breaks them.

Randomhero wrote:

Madeus Prime wrote:

NuclearConvoy wrote:

Randomhero wrote:

Madeus Prime wrote:Wow, that is some serious back kibble those individual figures are sporting. Just another reason to not feel guilty for passing this up.

right because you never intend to combine them if you do own them and because kibble has been total taboo from Transformers for 30 years. what are you even expecting?

While a little harshly worded, I totally agree.

*Sigh* I think the individual figures look, honestly, really crappy. The Combined form is great, no arguing that, but honestly, I don't get a sense of awe when looking at it, the arms look a bit to small and the head is, while perfectly G1, very simple. I'm not trying to aggravate the Devastator fanboys out here, but I'd take any of the 3'd Party figures over this guy. At least they all have elbows, even the legends scale one.

and i plan on continuing to support Hasbro/Takara to show my gratitude that after 30 years, we still get G1 characters modernized. spend your $600 on $120 worth of plastic. ill continue to support the people that made my childhood great while you spit in their face saying you'd rather buy 3rd party figures.

Considering Hasbro has very intelligently not shut down 3P groups who are clearly infringing on their IP I don't see how anyone is spitting in anyone's face. Hasbro has clearly been watching the 3P stuff to guage what fans want but what most can't afford and have been carefully constructing well engineered official competition for 3P buyer's attention.