Video Review - Transformers Generations Combiner Wars Devastator (English)

Didn't know that someone else had posted about the Combiner Wars Constructions review.

The team looks good, the limitations are expected but no matter. He's a cheaper alternative for those of us who can't afford the third party combiner teams. Hope to get them if able.

Va'al wrote:Yes, we have seen a two-part review of the upcoming, first of its kind Hasbro Transformers Generations Combiner Wars Titan Class Devastator - but fellow Seibertronian Transformermegazord has shared the first review to our knowledge in English, appealing to those of us with limited or no skills in Chinese! Check it out embedded below, and let us know if Ben's opinions change your mind or sway it at all!

OMG! FIRST ENGLISH REVIEW!

Wow that was something! There were some flaws like any other TF but this CW line and the combiners is the best line yet IMO.

I can honestly say that I forgive HasTak for all the bullsh*t combiners they have given us in the past few lines...we are friends again HasTak and I.

Now c'mon Takara lets see what you have planned for our beloved Devastator...please!!

True indeed. The entire 'Power Core Combiner' line was mistake from the drawing board, and FoC Bruticus... well, at least they tried. Or did they, looking at that thing it's hard to tell...

I suspect Hasbro just got tired of seeing 3rd party companies coming out with bigger/better combiners, seeing people making money off them, and not being part of the action. Whatever the reason, I'm glad they finally got their act together and have started making some decent combiners...

That video got me really excited. For all the flaws, this set looks magnificent.

This video really shined some good light and gave up some honest opinions we could understand. I am getting more and more excited for him!!!

That review was EPIC. I'm very thankful for the time and care that went into making it. Sadly the message for me was to steer clear of this behemoth. If Hasbro really went the extra mile for tight joints and whatnot...why was there no extra attention paid to the fact that the functionality of intended vehicles modes are overlooked. I'm sorry I'm not buying another figure where tolerances were ignored to the point that individual figures do not roll in vehicle mode. Additional paint apps are not going to make this figure shine any brighter. Takara cannot do anything to fix tolerance issues. This set is an easy pass. Total Bummer. EPIC Fail. Slag.

~reluctantyouth~

reluctantyouth wrote:EPIC Fail.

Transformers was ruined forever when they released Holowmus Prime in 1983 anyways.

look forward to this set i dont know of fan who buy toy and rolls them on floor when they are mostly on shelf all year person who buy combiner keeps them in combined mode not seperat single bot modes never saw video on youtube someone has combiner in single bot modes and rolls them back and forth.

BlueBefore wrote:

reluctantyouth wrote:EPIC Fail.

Transformers was ruined forever when they released Holowmus Prime in 1983 anyways.

g1 toys are better what we have today that what you saying?

and you still buy them?

dragons wrote:look forward to this set i dont know of fan who buy toy and rolls them on floor when they are mostly on shelf all year person who buy combiner keeps them in combined mode not seperat single bot modes never saw video on youtube someone has combiner in single bot modes and rolls them back and forth.

BlueBefore wrote:

reluctantyouth wrote:EPIC Fail.

Transformers was ruined forever when they released Holowmus Prime in 1983 anyways.

g1 toys are better what we have today that what you saying?

and you still buy them?

Yeah... kinda a strange thing to say BlueBefore.

SillySpringer wrote:Yeah... kinda a strange thing to say BlueBefore.

I thought it was rather befitting of this fine community.

BlueBefore wrote:I thought it was rather befitting of this fine community.

I feel this is a fine community. Do tell, whats a Holowmus Prime?

Well that review certainly was just about as English as you could get. Guess I'm waiting for the Takara version for sure now.

Va'al wrote:Yes, we have seen a two-part review of the upcoming, first of its kind Hasbro Transformers Generations Combiner Wars Titan Class Devastator - but fellow Seibertronian Transformermegazord has shared the first review to our knowledge in English, appealing to those of us with limited or no skills in Chinese! Check it out embedded below, and let us know if Ben's opinions change your mind or sway it at all!

Very thorough, very well done review with little time wasted. Only part I didn't understand is when he claimed to prefer the retail deco over the SDCC deco, and then in the very next breath complained about the tire rims not being painted....a major feature of the SDCC edition.

SillySpringer wrote:

dragons wrote:look forward to this set i dont know of fan who buy toy and rolls them on floor when they are mostly on shelf all year person who buy combiner keeps them in combined mode not seperat single bot modes never saw video on youtube someone has combiner in single bot modes and rolls them back and forth.

BlueBefore wrote:

reluctantyouth wrote:EPIC Fail.

Transformers was ruined forever when they released Holowmus Prime in 1983 anyways.

g1 toys are better what we have today that what you saying?

and you still buy them?

Yeah... kinda a strange thing to say BlueBefore.

If my snark translator is working correctly, I believe the point he was attempting to make is that we Transformers fans fell in love with the franchise even when first-generation toys were unequivocally worse toys than what we are getting today. Yet there are those among us that believe that what Hasbro has been serving us with this Devastator is the pinnacle of cheap, lazy toy design in spite of the fact that had we received this toy in 1984 it would have been held as the greatest robot toy ever conceived in our wildest imaginations.

But my snark translator might be a bit out of tune.

shajaki wrote:

BlueBefore wrote:I thought it was rather befitting of this fine community.

I feel this is a fine community. Do tell, whats a Holowmus Prime?

Probably some Pre-Transformer thing since the line started properly in 1984.

Jones wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:

dragons wrote:look forward to this set i dont know of fan who buy toy and rolls them on floor when they are mostly on shelf all year person who buy combiner keeps them in combined mode not seperat single bot modes never saw video on youtube someone has combiner in single bot modes and rolls them back and forth.

BlueBefore wrote:

reluctantyouth wrote:EPIC Fail.

Transformers was ruined forever when they released Holowmus Prime in 1983 anyways.

g1 toys are better what we have today that what you saying?

and you still buy them?

Yeah... kinda a strange thing to say BlueBefore.

If my snark translator is working correctly, I believe the point he was attempting to make is that we Transformers fans fell in love with the franchise even when first-generation toys were unequivocally worse toys than what we are getting today. Yet there are those among us that believe that what Hasbro has been serving us with this Devastator is the pinnacle of cheap, lazy toy design in spite of the fact that had we received this toy in 1984 it would have been held as the greatest robot toy ever conceived in our wildest imaginations.

But my snark translator might be a bit out of tune.

On the mark. Some people................well you can't please despite whatever else you do. Don't know if it's for the sake of complaining or just trolling.

I keep on repeating this in my previous posts....back in the G1 days, we had to use this while squinting our eyes.......



G1 Bumble didn't look like his show counterpart until the Takara TFC 2004 release. Did we complain back then?

Now, we have advanced engineering technologies and still people are complaining.....on something NOT RELEASED yet!

If the complaint is about design faults like for example, Ironhide henkei drooping head or MP09 exploding shoulders..........justified.

After Ben's review I will still wait and see what Tak is going to come out with but if Im not blown away by the extras... this bad bot is mine. Great review, joints were an issue I was worried about so glad the review focused on them

"That should just sit plush"

THAT'S NOT HOW YOU PRONOUNCE FLUSH.

That review triggered my inner grammar Nazi a bit.


That aside, Great review. To the point. Less than half the length of the chinese one with the dude who had disgusting fingernails.

I'm really hyped for this figure, and I can't wait to have him in hand. I wish I could get my hands on the SDCC version though, as I'm so tempted to bust out a paint brush to add little details in, and I know I'll end up doing too much and making a mess of it.

Here is a review from Ben's collectables

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhvpC7Y ... E_5YWFmC_A

Well I'm now gutted I can't afford him. Why must the things I want cost money?

ZeroWolf wrote:Well I'm now gutted I can't afford him. Why must the things I want cost money?

I know you pain my friend here is a Hug from me If they didn't cost money I could get all the awesome Third Party Gestalt’s

Rodimus Minor wrote:Here is a review from Ben's collectables

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BhvpC7Y ... E_5YWFmC_A

I think you're a bit late on posting that since someone already posted a link last page.

there may be some minor problems I have with Devy but all the pro's completely over shadow any of those flaws.

Just a quick question, how is the retail Devy packaged. In the individual robot modes or vehicle modes? Or in combined mode?

SillySpringer wrote:Just a quick question, how is the retail Devy packaged. In the individual robot modes or vehicle modes? Or in combined mode?

Looks like vehicle mode for the Hasbro retail version, in an ugly brown box tray.

Spanbauer wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Just a quick question, how is the retail Devy packaged. In the individual robot modes or vehicle modes? Or in combined mode?

Looks like vehicle mode for the Hasbro retail version, in an ugly brown box tray.

I think it's an amazing looking brown box. It's not like you're displaying the tray.

I love the box art in that pic looks like devy is reaching for op.

Spanbauer wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Just a quick question, how is the retail Devy packaged. In the individual robot modes or vehicle modes? Or in combined mode?

Looks like vehicle mode for the Hasbro retail version, in an ugly brown box tray.

I actually it rather be in vehicle modes, then in either combined mode, or robot modes. I like transforming it from vehicle mode, and it being kind of a mystery of how big robot mode is. I also don't like it already in combined mode, because I want to have the experience of combining them for the first time.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

SillySpringer wrote: I actually it rather be in vehicle modes, then in either combined mode, or robot modes. I like transforming it from vehicle mode, and it being kind of a mystery of how big robot mode is. I also don't like it already in combined mode, because I want to have the experience of combining them for the first time.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

Agreed.

Also, whenever I ship anything like this, I like the vehicle mode because it's more compact and solid. Fewer arms or legs or things hanging out potentially getting moved/shifted/broken/loosened etc.

Keep it simple... keep it safe. At least till it arrives in the buyer's home

BIG news for all Canadians. Thanks to fellow Seibertronian Jones, we now know that Transformers Generations Devastator is on preorder at Toysrus.ca for 189.99$ cdn (156$ US).
There is a limit of 2 per person and the estimated shipping date is August 1st 2015.



Also, the price is 10$ more than the 169.99$ cdn price initially listed on the computers (pictured below), which is similar to the US preorders of 159.99 being generally 10$ higher than the previously rumored MSRP.

I was so close to snatching one. But I had remind myself to wait for SDCC's or TT's.
Patience shajaki....

Pre-order at TRU, eh? Let the clamoring begin...

Must resist. Already have Hercules.

But so big and pretty.

shajaki wrote:I was so close to snatching one. But I had remind myself to wait for SDCC's or TT's.
Patience shajaki....

Me too! But it would be Takara. The added weapons and prefered headsculpt as well as the probable greater ease in getting him takes the sdcc version out of the equation for me.

I wonder if any IDW completists will also pick up Roadblock to repurpose back into Scoop.

http://tfwiki.net/wiki/Roadblock_%28Adventure%29

So glad they put a "2 per person" on it.
Hope they do that in the states.
Go get'em Northies!

this might be a dumb question but since im in the states, can i order it from the CA toys r us site?

Rookie Prime wrote:this might be a dumb question but since im in the states, can i order it from the CA toys r us site?

Unfortunately not. You guys have to wait for your dot com's to list em, and we have to wait for our dot ca's. For brick and mortar anyways.

Oh, and WELCOME!!

Oh how I want stick my 15 year old fingers into this figure! It looks even better in the photos than in the photoshoped pictures that first came out. Definitely a must have for me.

I know I've said this before, but I really hope, to combine with Devy, we get a 3rd party set of: Prowl as a torso, Hook as a leg, and maybe some better arms for the individual robots.

Or even if we just get better arms and combiner bits, that would be nice. I would MUCH RATHER the combiner bits to actually transform into normal looking weapons, than those Constructicons just holding the combiner pieces like idiots.

Devastator is for preorder at:

thechosenprime.com
http://www.thechosenprime.com/TitanDevastator

primetoys.net
http://www.primetoys.net/products/combi ... devastator

automatontoys.com
http://www.automatontoys.com/transforme ... evastator/

And others, but they are sold out.

SillySpringer wrote:I actually it rather be in vehicle modes, then in either combined mode, or robot modes. I like transforming it from vehicle mode, and it being kind of a mystery of how big robot mode is. I also don't like it already in combined mode, because I want to have the experience of combining them for the first time.
¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I agree that figures boxed in vehicle mode makes for a more fun experience, but that SDCC packaging is pretty cool.

So we currently don't know what Takara's Devs will look right? And the major difference between SDCC and retail is the slight difference in green paint and the shiny purple yes?

Nemesis Destron wrote:So we currently don't know what Takara's Devs will look right? And the major difference between SDCC and retail is the slight difference in green paint and the shiny purple yes?

No, each individual constructicon has a ton more paint apps. And the headsculpt is different. It is not the version with the shades, he has individual eyes in the SDCC version (which I like less, personally).

Nemesis Destron wrote:So we currently don't know what Takara's Devs will look right? And the major difference between SDCC and retail is the slight difference in green paint and the shiny purple yes?

The shade of green is the plastic color, not paint. The OTHER details are paint.

So when is this getting released in the US?

That Bot wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:So we currently don't know what Takara's Devs will look right? And the major difference between SDCC and retail is the slight difference in green paint and the shiny purple yes?

The shade of green is the plastic color, not paint. The OTHER details are paint.

Also, there's no difference in the shade of green between U.S. Retail and SDCC. That's just Hasbro's bad and inconsistent product photography at play.

Here's a photo of SDCC Devastator in-box without Hasbro's bad retouching:



And here's a photo of the retail edition from Amazon:

Decepticon Sunstorm wrote:So when is this getting released in the US?

It should be the same time, August. That's what has been said as a release window from the start.

Then again, I would have said the same thing about MP Bluestreak but for some reason TRU doesnt have him in the states yet.

I will wait what Takara looks like before jumping at hasbro version if Takara have less chrome and visor on face it may be buy if it looks good in detail added weapons nothing for me where put them in combined and vehicale modes

william-james88 wrote:

Nemesis Destron wrote:So we currently don't know what Takara's Devs will look right? And the major difference between SDCC and retail is the slight difference in green paint and the shiny purple yes?

No, each individual constructicon has a ton more paint apps. And the headsculpt is different. It is not the version with the shades, he has individual eyes in the SDCC version (which I like less, personally).

Yeah I like Devy with shades too.