Part of the reason I stopped collecting is because figures are getting too expensive. Leader class figures cost £45 so at a certain point some 3P and Hasbro figures start to get close. I think that everyone should get what they want, and only children get so offended over things like this, like idiotic console "wars" I wish I could like Hasbro's Constructicons, but I can't stand the kibble.

 

you know what would be fucking awesome that hasbro will never do. Along with redoing all the movie stuff in Studio Series, they should also start giving toys to these random ass concept art characters.

like, imagine some of the already great movie figures in interesting characters getting redos also. I have fond memories of the deluxe Breakaway. How about a modern voyager of that design?

In the case of the concept art constructicons, make them compatible with Devastator. Not as like additions to just keep piling more cons into Devastator, but like to swap out existing pieces. Cyclops Torso McBuzzsaw here for example could stand in for ScrapMetal as the left hand giving Devastator a gnarly Buzzsaw hand.

I always loved the nonsense designs that where coming the form the movies. Devastator and the Constructicons chief among them for being the most out there.

 

Wow. The paint job is amazing, but movie toys are so fiddly, I\'m not sure I trust a first time 3rd party to make ones that don\'t break.

 

That would be dope, but you have to be star wars or star trek-level popular for decades to get that kind of cool stuff to be made. I would love to see some of the concept art stuff for the movies made into figures.

 

Yeah, I'd love Bayverse toys of characters that didn't actually make it into the movie, like Breakaway, Skyhammer, Guzzle, and even characters that never got toys like Prowl, Hoist, Grapple, etc.
And your Constructicon idea is brilliant!

 

now i'm wondering what the others would be... Buzzsaw cyclops face was pretty easy to come up with something because he's so unique but the other concept constructicons are pretty normal by movie construction standards, I guess they could just be variations on the limbs? I would at least make sure that none of them would replace the same part that way you could use em all at once for a funky tooled up Devastator.

 

(That's supposed to be reply to Shmoptimus Prime but forget to add multiquote)

Yes, should be dark grey, dont know why they go with dark blue

 

I don't know what I love more, the designs or the them being referred to as boys. Either way they're all my children now

 

deeply hyped for this. both the painting and sculpting look excellent

 

Where's the Decepti-dog hood ornament in that picture?

 

It's a shame that all these awesome concepts never made it into the movie.

 

As with the mainline studio series dev team, im super excited to see how they handle some of the weirder larger characters, Overload mainly. The studio series one looked like it was leaning towards the two legged design for Overload, it would be really interesting to see a third party company with no reserve for large figures with high parts counts go hard on a full crab styled Overload, four big spikey legs, four big hooked arms. Id grab that on its own!

 

I hope they fix Scavenger’s wheels, SS one is way better

 

In their defense it forms the grinder for Devastator, unlike the SS version.

 

it does, i posted this in the SS devastator thread. it's not the best nor the way you think it would happen, but the wheels do form the back of the grinder.

 

Yeah I like the way this has done it

 

From what we have seen so far, it is clear that DS designers do not intend to follow the "accurate movie" line... but they focus more on a personalized interpretation of the individual Constructicons! For example: [photo 1] A) Mixmaster DS in robot mode, it is devoid of the two horizontal segments of the shoulders, which make the arms wider (and longer); B) the first two shields are hooked on the upper part of the bust, near the shoulders (at the CGI of the film, they are hooked on the second joint of the two horizontal segments, in addition, there is a structural detail that should not be evident in robot mode... two sections of Devastator neck gears, which in this model cannot be hidden! C) The two tanks on the back and the cannon, are a single piece that remain in evidence in robot mode (at the CGI of the film, the cannon is exposed only in battle mode); D) the two smokestacks of the cement mixer, are positioned vertically on the sides of the robot's chest (at the CGI of the film, they are positioned diagonally). The alternative mode is inspired by the "Voyager ROTF 2009" version: [photo 2] A) the bumper has no upper central section, leaving the radiator mask of the cement mixer exposed; B) it has only four rear wheels, missing the two spare wheels; C) has two funnels with a curved tip, a typical detail of the Mack tractor (the real cement mixer of the film, has tips of cylindrical smokestacks). Another detail that I don't like is in the combined mode... the two red horns on the Devastator head are actually two strips painted on two panels (evident in the robot mode, on the thighs of Mixmaster DS)!

 

What kinda bugs me about this figure and what we've seen of the SS version is that Devastator's head is too narrow.
It just looks weird. :/

 

And it makes a lot of sense from a story aspect. This way you don't need to keep the entire team together all the time just in case Devastator is needed. You can send specialists on separate missions because there are alternates.

 

i think once we see the full thing completed with proper transformations and colors it will all come together nicely