Mine just refuses to stand on anything other than a hard flat surface because of those feet. And that's after I went and reversed his feet (so left foot on right leg, etc.) because that made mine stand better than the "correct" assembly!

Also, another thing I would have added? Neck joint. GOD it is a pain to pose him as he always has to face anything he's looking at head-on.

Mine's never allowed to leave alt. mode because he can't stand.

At least not without me putting an old McD's Armada Red Alert under his body - it's just the right height to prop the bastard up  

I think the problem there was nobody apparently thought it through just what the logistics of those guys combining would have entailed. Like, IIRC the "official" stance by Hasbro on ROTF Devy is that there isn't a set number of required Constructicons to make him - how many are around will always be enough, so the fact not only does the count of components differ between literally every toy version of the combiner, but the fact none of those actually even match the CGI model (which has like, three bulldozers in him), are moot, because they're all correct.

 

For whatever reason, I never have a problem getting him to stand. Although, I do always have him standing on a hard surface, so there's that...

Definitely agree on the neck joint though. Especially since I've had two whose heads both broke off because of the clear red plastic joint. I've actually often felt the same way about RotF Ravage. He would kick major ass if he had a neck joint instead of the stupid jaw clamping gimmick. But alas, it wasn't meant to be  

This is true. And it confused the hell out of a lot of us fans when the movie came out and there was a Devastator on the screen at the same time as the bots that were supposed to be making him up.

 

I would have just deleted everything between G2 and Classic. While there are a few awesome figures between Beast Wars and Cybertron, it would have been nice to have just cut to the chase...

 

But Beast Wars toys laid the cornerstone of modern toy engineering - without BW, there wouldn't be ball joints on but a scant few figures in any line.

 

That is a hilarious thing to say because you can't build the future by erasing the past. The franchise had to go through all those things in order to get to Classics and the new toylines.

For example, we started seeing G1 homages in Armada, which you could argue, gave HasTak the confidence to try a full-blown G1 homage line (Classics). Energon had PowerLinx and Maximus combiners, which you could argue, helped jumpstart the 3P market, which in turn has influenced a lot of decisions HasTak has made in the last few years (Combiner Wars, MPs). The original RID used realistic cars-- possible precursor to Binaltech and Alternators. Original RID's car robots theme of realistic cars in a modern earth setting possibly encouraged Takara to start producing G1 reissues which in turn reignited the popularity of G1 and then Classics, BT, Alts, MPs, etc.

So... it's all connected. You can't have one without the other. Experiments in one toyline get refined and improved in future toylines.

 

The movie line could've been better.

TF1 - glad they got rid of the real gear from the future movies
ROTF - this was a great line but they really spent too much money releasing the same character in different molds (yeah i liked blades bumblebee but it was so late).
Loved the leader class and HA lines
DOTM - Picked up all the leader classes.. too mad HA was reduced to pieces of plastic/weapons. Had to buy the Asia only release of soundwave. Wish they brought back HA and did a better megatron leader class
AoE - this line was horrible. I picked up nothing in this line.