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You might want to open them up now. I just got scavenger and he has 2 left fingers. So I cant even transform him into shovel mode because the 2 hands dont peg together. The seller made good on the refund and let me keep the bad figure since they had no replacements. But there are no scavengers to be found in the wild so I gotta pray one shows up so I can do an exchange and let the bad one make his way to wherever factory duds end up. My advice is open them all up now and inspect them, transform them, look for loose joints, bad pegs, etc. while theyre are plenty out in the wild to exchange hassle free.

 

If I can get better pics, it may be my new favorite Leader Class figure.

Good thing Blackout and Shockwave are not listening, They wore themselves out after hitting each other with mallets.

 

Holey moley thats a good lookin Devastator all things considered. The fact we're getting 8 bots, who pull fairly screen accurate models, and decent vehicle modes, AND the big Dev, its pretty sharp. If i had to get nit-picky, i really wish that head had some articulation, just so when you put him in a pose on all fours he isn't staring at the pavement. Up on two legs he looks pretty gruesome, but he only ever walked on all fours, so its a weird design choice to me.

Scrapper and Overload look as expected. I'm pretty pumped that they really tried to make Overload look like his concept art, since he never had a bot mode in the actual movie. Part of me was lowkey hoping for the horrible 4 legs 4 arms variant, but structure wise in Devastator it just wouldn't have been viable, he looks super great. I'm excited to see how they try and mush him into a box.

 

Here's hoping that a 3rd party will design the shoulder-mounted rocket pods and turrets. I was really hoping to see those on the official fig.

 

Just noticed Scavenger’s cab drooping floppily in the left armpit.

I don’t think Overload’s mixer drum cuff is fully in place on Mixmaster, either. It is symmetrical this time, so I’d believe it’s fully clasped onto the top half of Mixmaster’s mixer, but I think it’s all angled up higher than it’s supposed to be, instead of fitting into place along the bottom edges. For a piece that fits so poorly onto Overload, you’d expect it to fit precisely on Devastator.

It’s not a design choice, it’s a posing choice. We know the legs bend more than this. We’ve seen it in the much worse displays.

 

Remember those are takara Numbers Not Hasbro

Hasbro's are likely.

60, 61 and 62

 

I'll have to give him a once over and see, that is a good idea.

 

He's cold

 

Wow, I knew it, that\'s look awful.  What a terrible looking figure when combined.  I didn\'t think they\'d be able to pull this off.  Not trying to be mean. 

 

All the people saying they need the balls... just buy some metal ball bearings and put them on chains, problem solved.  

The less external kibble that goes anywhere in alt mode, the better, so nope, don't need those. besides those are not fins, those are Scavenger's sides... and they already exist and go elsewhere.

 

Devastator looks beautiful.

 

Oh baby that was worth the wait. He looks fantastic. Can't wait to get this bad boy completed and displayed.

How did they screw it up so badly in previous displays?

 

Ok, yeah, Devastator is standing upright, which makes him look a bit awkward, but other than that, HasTak had my money from the start. I think Overload looks fucking amazing, even if he doesn't have the bug legs like his concept art, which is what I would've liked to see. Scrapper's front loader mode could look a lot better IMO, but the robot mode looks awesome, and again, I'm getting him no matter what. I am so glad they made a new Devastator, because I never really planned on getting the original ROTF toy, and even though I liked them a lot, it sucked that the regular Constructicon toys couldn't combine.

 

Crotchgate. I suppose one could always superglue Shockwave's Wheelie and Brains figures to the crotch area.

 

I think I get the transformation of Overload into combined mode. It's an upside down transformation.

 

Wander if there will repaint of the generation one Devastator for this set repaints happen with every toy series

 

I laugh at the idea that someone will have the "honor" of being the first 3rd Party to give Devastator his wrecking balls.

 

The yellow shield on his knee would fit really well if that Skipjack repaint of Rampage is real.

Almost like that was the original plan until they turned him orange.

 

I am so excited! I love how this is turning out.