Transformers Generations Devastator Box Art by Marcelo Matere

If only the actual Mixmaster toy's foot mode looked like that. Beautiful work.

Looks like he just drew a stylized illustration of the 1985 toy instead of using the new Titan figure as a reference.

yes sir i like it

Very nice artwork. More G1 Devastator than CW Devastator, but still nice. The box is WAY too big for me to want to keep though!

Mixmaster foot corrections or not this is awesome. This makes me want to see more of the transformer card artwork in all it's raw, line art glory.

hope on a 3rd party to fix that headsculpt

Damn...

They tried everyone with that beautiful Mixmaster drawing. But in reality you get a toilet on wheels.

cool but the toy looks different

I'm torn on this. I have Hercules (I thought it was Green Giant but I mixed the two up) which I think is a good hefty solid Devastator. You could throw one of those components through a window.

But the individual guys don't really match the actual Constucticons as much as I'd like. These guys do, although they also look flimsier and I'm not keen on spending $150.00 after spending $400-$500 on the other set.

Rated X wrote:Damn...

They tried everyone with that beautiful Mixmaster drawing. But in reality you get a toilet on wheels.

I look at the new Mixmaster and I see..... a mixer-forward cement truck. If anybody's a toilet on wheels, it's Long Haul because he's a DUMP truck..... anybody? Anybody? Okay I'm sorry that was funnier in my head.

That Bot wrote:

Rated X wrote:Damn...

They tried everyone with that beautiful Mixmaster drawing. But in reality you get a toilet on wheels.

I look at the new Mixmaster and I see..... a mixer-forward cement truck. If anybody's a toilet on wheels, it's Long Haul because he's a DUMP truck..... anybody? Anybody? Okay I'm sorry that was funnier in my head.

I laughed.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:

That Bot wrote:

Rated X wrote:Damn...

They tried everyone with that beautiful Mixmaster drawing. But in reality you get a toilet on wheels.

I look at the new Mixmaster and I see..... a mixer-forward cement truck. If anybody's a toilet on wheels, it's Long Haul because he's a DUMP truck..... anybody? Anybody? Okay I'm sorry that was funnier in my head.

I laughed.

Ditto.

vectorA3 wrote:Metroplex was NOT exclusive to Costco. He was available at TRU. I think he was available at Target and walmart too, but I never saw him. I don't know why he wasn't more widely distributed. Maybe the scalpers snatched him too quickly at Target, wally and TRU, don't know.

Metroplex had his initial release through BBTS at BotCon, followed by retail at TRU.
He was then released to and sold by Amazon and HTS. Costco had him as a Christmas special item. Target did not carry him at all, regardless of what people or their website might have said. Wal*Mart.com did carry him, but the stores did not.

Mainly due to his size and price point. He was never exclusive to anyone, it's just that no one really wanted to carry him in a B&M store, aside from TRU. Considering how well he sold at their stores and the apparently limited numbers, it felt like he was an exclusive at least.

Autobot032 wrote:

vectorA3 wrote:Metroplex was NOT exclusive to Costco. He was available at TRU. I think he was available at Target and walmart too, but I never saw him. I don't know why he wasn't more widely distributed. Maybe the scalpers snatched him too quickly at Target, wally and TRU, don't know.

Metroplex had his initial release through BBTS at BotCon, followed by retail at TRU.
He was then released to and sold by Amazon and HTS. Costco had him as a Christmas special item. Target did not carry him at all, regardless of what people or their website might have said. Wal*Mart.com did carry him, but the stores did not.

Mainly due to his size and price point. He was never exclusive to anyone, it's just that no one really wanted to carry him in a B&M store, aside from TRU. Considering how well he sold at their stores and the apparently limited numbers, it felt like he was an exclusive at least.

Thanks for clearing that up. I guess we can expect a similar release for Devastator then.

william-james88 wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:

vectorA3 wrote:Metroplex was NOT exclusive to Costco. He was available at TRU. I think he was available at Target and walmart too, but I never saw him. I don't know why he wasn't more widely distributed. Maybe the scalpers snatched him too quickly at Target, wally and TRU, don't know.

Metroplex had his initial release through BBTS at BotCon, followed by retail at TRU.
He was then released to and sold by Amazon and HTS. Costco had him as a Christmas special item. Target did not carry him at all, regardless of what people or their website might have said. Wal*Mart.com did carry him, but the stores did not.

Mainly due to his size and price point. He was never exclusive to anyone, it's just that no one really wanted to carry him in a B&M store, aside from TRU. Considering how well he sold at their stores and the apparently limited numbers, it felt like he was an exclusive at least.

Thanks for clearing that up. I guess we can expect a similar release for Devastator then.

No problem.

If I remember correctly, it was stated at one of the shows that he is, in fact, NOT a TRU exclusive. Basically, whoever will carry him, they'll have 'em sell him. Problem is, as we've seen in 2013/14, none of the big box B&M retailers are willing to take a chance on him, aside from Costco in a last ditch effort to have something for the holiday season, and TRU, of course.

I'd say we can expect to mail order this guy or make a trip to our local TRU. I'd imagine Wally World and Target (pronounced Tar-zhay (in my circles) for craps and giggles) will again back out. From what I hear, TRU and Target are splitting the Power Rangers Legacy line and those are very expensive, and generally large, items. I can't imagine them giving Hasbro/Transformers the same courtesy.

I still don't understand why Wal*Mart will carry that ridiculous Ninja Turtles playset (roughly the same price point) and overstock on it (which did finally sell out, crazy!) but they won't have their stores carry a handful of Titan Class items. I always see PR selling like crazy, plenty of empty shelves and pegs through most show runs, but TFs? Oh, you'll always be able to find a Transformer here and there in the aisle. I know they tend to target the same (and also not) demographic, but it's just not working, at least not in my area. Transformers just aren't the big seller they were circa 2007.

Autobot032 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Autobot032 wrote:

vectorA3 wrote:Metroplex was NOT exclusive to Costco. He was available at TRU. I think he was available at Target and walmart too, but I never saw him. I don't know why he wasn't more widely distributed. Maybe the scalpers snatched him too quickly at Target, wally and TRU, don't know.

Metroplex had his initial release through BBTS at BotCon, followed by retail at TRU.
He was then released to and sold by Amazon and HTS. Costco had him as a Christmas special item. Target did not carry him at all, regardless of what people or their website might have said. Wal*Mart.com did carry him, but the stores did not.

Mainly due to his size and price point. He was never exclusive to anyone, it's just that no one really wanted to carry him in a B&M store, aside from TRU. Considering how well he sold at their stores and the apparently limited numbers, it felt like he was an exclusive at least.

Thanks for clearing that up. I guess we can expect a similar release for Devastator then.

No problem.

If I remember correctly, it was stated at one of the shows that he is, in fact, NOT a TRU exclusive. Basically, whoever will carry him, they'll have 'em sell him. Problem is, as we've seen in 2013/14, none of the big box B&M retailers are willing to take a chance on him, aside from Costco in a last ditch effort to have something for the holiday season, and TRU, of course.

I'd say we can expect to mail order this guy or make a trip to our local TRU. I'd imagine Wally World and Target (pronounced Tar-zhay (in my circles) for craps and giggles) will again back out. From what I hear, TRU and Target are splitting the Power Rangers Legacy line and those are very expensive, and generally large, items. I can't imagine them giving Hasbro/Transformers the same courtesy.

I still don't understand why Wal*Mart will carry that ridiculous Ninja Turtles playset (roughly the same price point) and overstock on it (which did finally sell out, crazy!) but they won't have their stores carry a handful of Titan Class items. I always see PR selling like crazy, plenty of empty shelves and pegs through most show runs, but TFs? Oh, you'll always be able to find a Transformer here and there in the aisle. I know they tend to target the same (and also not) demographic, but it's just not working, at least not in my area. Transformers just aren't the big seller they were circa 2007.

It's a non movie year, plain and simple. I've seen it happen every year after a movie.

Has anyone seen this? Video by CautionLowSign from TFW



He's gonna friggin' huge! Those hands are about the size of a baby's! It's like Hasbro had a look at all the 3rd Party combiners, including Warbotron and then went "HA! See if you can get BIGGER than THIS!"

damn.....giants gonna look tiny next to these guys in robot mode. ugh to have 2 sets of constructicons or not??

Ginrai Minor wrote:damn.....giants gonna look tiny next to these guys in robot mode. ugh to have 2 sets of constructicons or not??

Not, keep Giant, at least most of his components- oh no, wait -ALL of his components have elbows.

Ginrai Minor wrote:damn.....giants gonna look tiny next to these guys in robot mode. ugh to have 2 sets of constructicons or not??

Get both. One to display with your classics collection and another to display with your MPs

william-james88 wrote:

Ginrai Minor wrote:damn.....giants gonna look tiny next to these guys in robot mode. ugh to have 2 sets of constructicons or not??

Get both. One to display with your classics collection and another to display with your MPs

At least till Takara do proper Masterpiece releases for them in the near future.

ZeroWolf wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Ginrai Minor wrote:damn.....giants gonna look tiny next to these guys in robot mode. ugh to have 2 sets of constructicons or not??

Get both. One to display with your classics collection and another to display with your MPs

At least till Takara do proper Masterpiece releases for them in the near future.

I love my giant and will always keep him!...probably will breakdown and get the Hasbro devy to stand with the mp's, I only have 6 mp figs, and only four are post mp-10, but they are all

ZeroWolf wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Ginrai Minor wrote:damn.....giants gonna look tiny next to these guys in robot mode. ugh to have 2 sets of constructicons or not??

Get both. One to display with your classics collection and another to display with your MPs

At least till Takara do proper Masterpiece releases for them in the near future.

Yeah. I hope we dont sound like buying Devastator is this trivial but if someone was willing to spend 400$ to get a 3rd party, 150$ for an authentic Hasbro devastator that fits with MPs doesnt sound like too much. One thing I can guarantee you, anyone who waits more than a year for Devastator will be paying through their nose for him. Might as well get him if you are not sure and then sell him for the same price you bought him a year later if you really dont like him.

Ginrai Minor wrote:

ZeroWolf wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Ginrai Minor wrote:damn.....giants gonna look tiny next to these guys in robot mode. ugh to have 2 sets of constructicons or not??

Get both. One to display with your classics collection and another to display with your MPs

At least till Takara do proper Masterpiece releases for them in the near future.

I love my giant and will always keep him!...probably will breakdown and get the Hasbro devy to stand with the mp's, I only have 6 mp figs, and only four are post mp-10, but they are all

So just the Seekers and Soundwave?

Indeed sir, a very insignificant mp line up compared to some. and I only have 3 not 4 post mp-10 figs, my B

Takara Soundwave
Acidstrom
Thundercracker
mp-03 Skywarp
Convoy sleep mode
20th anniversary mp-01(had him since I was 13!)

classics kinda rules my buying habits....especially 3rd party so I'm playing catch-up most of the time, plus I"m kinda salty I still haven't talked myself into a mp-10 mold yet.

Ginrai Minor wrote:Indeed sir, a very insignificant mp line up compared to some. and I only have 3 not 4 post mp-10 figs, my B

Takara Soundwave
Acidstrom
Thundercracker
mp-03 Skywarp
Convoy sleep mode
20th anniversary mp-01(had him since I was 13!)

classics kinda rules my buying habits....especially 3rd party so I'm playing catch-up most of the time, plus I"m kinda salty I still haven't talked myself into a mp-10 mold yet.

If it makes you feel any better, I have only five: Hasbro's MP01, Hasbro's Skywarp, MP11 Starscream, Prowl, and MP10.

Mindmaster wrote:

Ginrai Minor wrote:Indeed sir, a very insignificant mp line up compared to some. and I only have 3 not 4 post mp-10 figs, my B

Takara Soundwave
Acidstrom
Thundercracker
mp-03 Skywarp
Convoy sleep mode
20th anniversary mp-01(had him since I was 13!)

classics kinda rules my buying habits....especially 3rd party so I'm playing catch-up most of the time, plus I"m kinda salty I still haven't talked myself into a mp-10 mold yet.

If it makes you feel any better, I have only five: Hasbro's MP01, Hasbro's Skywarp, MP11 Starscream, Prowl, and MP10.

but you do have mp-10

Ginrai Minor wrote:Indeed sir, a very insignificant mp line up compared to some. and I only have 3 not 4 post mp-10 figs, my B

Takara Soundwave
Acidstrom
Thundercracker
mp-03 Skywarp
Convoy sleep mode
20th anniversary mp-01(had him since I was 13!)

classics kinda rules my buying habits....especially 3rd party so I'm playing catch-up most of the time, plus I"m kinda salty I still haven't talked myself into a mp-10 mold yet.

I dont have many either, I find them very pricey and not always worth what I pay (for the seekers for instance). I did get MP 10 though simply because now is when he is at his cheapest in years for the takara version since he's being rereleased. Once this run goes, he will go back to his insane 400$+ pricetag (which he is not worth).

Now that I'm caught up on IDW, I wonder if devestator will have the option of removing scrapper, placing book as a foot, and later on we will get a prowl figure to go as the head?

Ironhidensh wrote:Now that I'm caught up on IDW, I wonder if devestator will have the option of removing scrapper, placing book as a foot, and later on we will get a prowl figure to go as the head?

I remember reading somewhere that they designed this set to keep the Constructicons as we know them and that any Prowl integration has not been kept in mind during the design phase, making his appearance as a part of the team in toy form probably a no go. He'd have to be Voyager Class to make it work.

Autobot032 wrote:

Ironhidensh wrote:Now that I'm caught up on IDW, I wonder if devestator will have the option of removing scrapper, placing book as a foot, and later on we will get a prowl figure to go as the head?

I remember reading somewhere that they designed this set to keep the Constructicons as we know them and that any Prowl integration has not been kept in mind during the design phase, making his appearance as a part of the team in toy form probably a no go. He'd have to be Voyager Class to make it work.

Well darn, I want a prowlestator. Hopefully a 3rd party steps up.

Hasbro could always release titan prowlastator next year as a retool in cases like this, that I'm glad that third party companies exist, a prowl head will be very simple to do

Did anyone notice preorders up for Devastator? http://www.agesthreeandup.com/transform ... tator-set/

SkyWarpt wrote:Did anyone notice preorders up for Devastator? http://www.agesthreeandup.com/transform ... tator-set/

Woah, its a bit overpriced. The MSRP is 149.99 and he is to sell in canada at toysrus for 179.99 (Not 199.99). People are getting a bit greedy with this guy.

william-james88 wrote:

SkyWarpt wrote:Did anyone notice preorders up for Devastator? http://www.agesthreeandup.com/transform ... tator-set/

Woah, its a bit overpriced. The MSRP is 149.99 and he is to sell in canada at toysrus for 179.99 (Not 199.99). People are getting a bit greedy with this guy.

Hoping the BBTS price is much lower than this.

That Bot wrote:

Rated X wrote:Damn...

They tried everyone with that beautiful Mixmaster drawing. But in reality you get a toilet on wheels.

I look at the new Mixmaster and I see..... a mixer-forward cement truck. If anybody's a toilet on wheels, it's Long Haul because he's a DUMP truck..... anybody? Anybody? Okay I'm sorry that was funnier in my head.

*Snicker*

Transformers Colombia, a Facebook fan page, has provided two images of the upcoming Titan Class Combiner Wars Devastator, courtesy of group member Felipe León Nájera. This time he's being held in hand so you can get a rough idea of his scale, which looks to be massive! You'll notice it's badly mis-transformed and missing parts, but neither of those are enough to detract from the awesome in the pics.

We've mirrored the images below:





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Mr. U.S. President, I regret to inform you that your Devastator is horribly mistransformed.

Never mind the robot, who is *that*..?

Honestly, is there any other company on Earth that is this lazy when trying to showcase new products? Do car manufacturers present their latest models at expos with the doors installed backwards? Does Microsoft unveil laptops with all the keys arranged upside-down?

These are children's toys for goodness sake, it's not rocket surgery to follow the instructions to Transform them properly! The average consumer might look at that display, think it looks hideous and simply move on, needlessly costing Hasbro money and drawing unfair criticism to their designers. Yes, this Devastator is clearly a design for older fans, but you'd think they'd want to draw in as many younger fans as possible... It's simply not gonna happen if they have crappy displays like that!

I love laughing at the ridiculous mistransformations in the "professional" stock photography as much as the next guy (that recent Combiner Wars Hot Spot was a cracker!), but come on... Have some pride in your products, Hasbro!

This thing looks terrible! Look at the hollowness of Mixmaster, and the thinness of the plastic. Isn't this figure around the same price as MP Starsaber?

MegaDump wrote:These are children's toys for goodness sake, it's not rocket surgery to follow the instructions to Transform them properly! The average consumer might look at that display, think it looks hideous and simply move on, needlessly costing Hasbro money and drawing unfair criticism to their designers. Yes, this Devastator is clearly a design for older fans, but you'd think they'd want to draw in as many younger fans as possible... It's simply not gonna happen if they have crappy displays like that!

I don't know... to be fair the difficulty ratings on Transformers is INSANE since the 80's... Add in the fact that the instructions are often just poorly angled pictures leaving it up to interpretation what you're doing...

I'm getting better at these puzzlebots, and I doubt he'll be as tough as the Masterpiece primes or some of the 3pp stuff, but even Skydive's shoulders I just realized they were supposed to rotate back in jet mode.

leakin' lubricant wrote:This thing looks terrible! Look at the hollowness of Mixmaster, and the thinness of the plastic. Isn't this figure around the same price as MP Starsaber?

.... Well, those SIX figures are the same price as Starsaber...

I never would have expected 6 figures to be of masterpiece quality and as large as small child and still only cost what one of them cost...

It's still a comparasion between the $100+ or the $500+ 3P figures... And at that outlook I'm still looking forward to it

leakin' lubricant wrote:This thing looks terrible! Look at the hollowness of Mixmaster, and the thinness of the plastic. Isn't this figure around the same price as MP Starsaber?

True dat. It looks like something bought in a beach shop to amuse toddlers in the sand. It's getting to the point where the budget wannabe transforming toys like Roadbots are looing much more impressive than the real deal. I mean, just look at those shitty clip-on wheels on Devastator. They look ugly, cheap and fragile.

Thanks Obama.

monstrinhotron wrote:

leakin' lubricant wrote:This thing looks terrible! Look at the hollowness of Mixmaster, and the thinness of the plastic. Isn't this figure around the same price as MP Starsaber?

True dat. It looks like something bought in a beach shop to amuse toddlers in the sand. It's getting to the point where the budget wannabe transforming toys like Roadbots are looing much more impressive than the real deal. I mean, just look at those **** clip-on wheels on Devastator. They look ugly, cheap and fragile.

This also happens to be 4x bigger than a Roadbot.

Its massive, and oh no very hollow. look at the bottom of the feet. Devastator might even crumple under his own weight.

I know I'm not the first to comment on the mistransfomation, but it is so bad, that I feel justified in adding my two cents, as well.

There is mistransformations, and there is this. What the smeg in hell is this? At least in most mistransformations, the result is still functional and there is only an effect on the aesthetics of the product. But what was whoever assembled this thing smoking?

First of all, if the end result cannot even stand up on its own, you need to maybe go back and give it another crack.

And secondly... what is going on with his left arm? How does that even look remotely like an arm? These don't strike me as the most complex toys ever, yet that alleged arm is just a total mish-mash of just randomly positioned parts splayed any which way but the one way they should be. It almost seems like pure luck that the connecter joint ended up in an accessible location.

Seriously...?

The more pictures that come out for this set, the less and less thrilled I am. My purchase outlook on this set has gone from "hell yes!", to "probably not".

Yotsuyasan wrote:
And secondly... what is going on with his left arm? How does that even look remotely like an arm?

It's called standards, which the Old Spice guy here obviously doesn't have. Klaus would have never allowed himself to be photographed with a Devastator in such disarray....
I miss Klaus.