While the others look like warriors, Long Haul looks like a Sumo.

 

Everyone is focused on Scrappers elbows and didn't even notice his waist articulation. That's a positive for the figure.

 

  You just gave me the idea for the first 3rd party upgrade: A mawashi for Long Haul. Heck, add on a Sumo's "wig" for him as well  

 

They aren't very articulated, but I do love the look of them, and it's a giant Devastator!

 

It's not perfect, but I like it. It's a definite buy for me.

 

I would still be in for a 3p set of contructicon guns ala Art Tek or something.

 

Just look how skinny the others are compared to him and those thighs!

 

I'm liking the bot modes... but damn Long Haul sure packed on the pounds the last 25 years. Talk about birthing hips!

 

These aren't upscaled deluxes. They're upscaled Legends. And yes, they have fit more in on less of a budget, unless the budget's been reduced below Car Robots levels. JRX, The build Team. All awesome. Fucking Energon's combiners beat these, and looked /better/.

 

Devestator looks great.
The vehicle modes look aces.

Those robot modes, though. Eugh. They range from "pretty decent" to "...really." I don't know what's worse: Hook's weird hinge elbows or Scrapper's complete lack of elbows.

 

I'm also of the opinion that we shouldn't /have/ to have a third party come in and fix Hasbro's shit. I miss the days when that wasn't necessary almost every fucking line.

 

I'm okay with the individual modes. Looking back on the G1 figure they weren't going to be the easiest bots to get a nice updated robot mode out of with all the articulation we could ever want, but what we have sure beats those tiny little G1 Constructicons. Head sculpting is nice, plenty of G1 tributes, and I rather like some looking beefier than others, sort of gives the robot modes a bit more personality.

 

If you notice Scrappers elbows are on a bicep swivel. Looks like the can also slide out and be replaced. Should be an easy fix for 3P.

 

The head sculpts are the best things about these.

 

these all look great! i cant wait to pick them up!

 

Cheap, hollow shit is all i see and that's unfortunate because i was expecting more. These look like dollar store kos   come on hasbro.... jesus.

 

Ok, so normally hollowfication doesn't bother me, this time however hasbro has taken it to a new extreme, and the individual bot modes look like the kind of things that KO producers do to cut costs, it is soooo intrusive this time I am unsure if its worth fixing on my part, its a very good thing that the alt modes and combined mode look respectable, cause those bot modes are pretty fucking lame at a "voyager" size, I think I might finally splurge on yellow giant, and avoid all the extra work I'd have to do to get these guys to look presentable in bot mode

 

 
Good lord, and white knights will defend these.

 

devastator would have been 200% better if they had done this instead.

Deluxe class Bonecrusher, Scrapper, Mixmaster and Scavenger. (All of which would be CW compatible limbs. But WITHOUT the scramble gimmick that way all parts of gestalt mode could be implemented without the need for those hand/feet pieces)

Deluxe Class hook and a voyager-ish class longhaul. (the two together would have formed a CW compatable torso.)

devastator would have STILL been bigger than the rest of them and they could have STILL sold it in a 6 pack at a price hovering around $100 or greater. AND it would have had the play ability to be interchanged with everything else. (compatible play ability alone would have helped this thing sell even more)