Little information about ROTF Devastator toys

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by S250, Nov 5, 2008.

  1. Bumblethumper

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    Since nothing is mentioned about the torso, perhaps it is made of 'drone' vehicles.

    I was thinking about this, and maybe it's like there's 6 Constructicons (like there always was), but to form Devastator, they sort of comandeer nearby vehicles to assume additional bulk for a once-off showdown.

    Could be cool.

    I'm also guessing he could have gorilla-like proportions, since the arms are each made up of 2 vehicles. But not necessarily, as it's always possible the leg vehicles could be massive. These things come in all sizes and shapes.

    If he were somewhat gorilla shaped, it'd probably work well for a Kong style rampage.
     
  2. Lookout

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    well this is just down right dissapointin'! In my opinion, it's a scam that they didn't just make a powerlinx/ scramble city style combiner out of 7 deluxe/ scout sized toys? it would be less cost efficient though... gah. damn tootin' shame.
     
  3. alanyap

    alanyap Will work for LEGO

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    My 2 cents:

    From all the past toys hasbro/takara made... their complexity and all. I'm sure cranking up a gestalt toy with fully transformable limbs, movie-centric... is possible. its a matter of how they gonna compromise on lets say.. the individual robot's built/proportion. Hell we've seen single movie toy that transform into only ONE MODE, that looks more like a gorilla than a well proportioned robot.

    Hasbro just wanna milk us dry by producing 2 different sets of toys. I bet many of us will buy both variation (and in many quantities too).

    Well the only good thing about this is, there's a better chance the gestalt toy would have bettter proportion as a combiner since he only consist of individual drones. And hopefully the deluxe version of all combiner members would look good in their robot modes.
     
  4. Torque

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    what are thoughts on Scale? because for a movie-style combiner to work, all the toys would need to be in scale with eachother-unless in the movie they're all out of scale as well.
     
  5. iceburn9

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    Well, Devastator and the Constructicons being my favourite ever TF's .. regardless of how the toys turn out, i'll be buying the entire lot of them.

    I'm only hoping the gestalt will be have a more humanoid-proportion, rather than a ape-like build such as Starscream. (Previous rumors mentioned Devastator having lots of upper-body strenght, which makes an ape-build a possibility)

    Only time will tell, looking forward to seeing it ..
     
  6. DecepticusPrime

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    So what I am wondering, since the name devestator was already used in the first movie, is that point going to be ignored or is the big boy getting a new combined name?
     
  7. Optimus Crab

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    Good news for me. Combiners almost always suck when they try to shoehorn all the modes into tiny figures. Kibble city. I'd rather just grab a good Devastator and skip the little drones than get a crappy Devastator that can transform into five or six crappy robots with crappy vehicle modes.

    Count my ass in for this one.
     
  8. Bumblethumper

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    Personally I would've thought they could've fixed that for the dvd release. It was about as easy a change as you can get, and probably the simplest solution.

    Or they could come up with some convoluted story point to tie the two together... like maybe Brawl 'Devastator' was torn apart, but some pieces were left behind with some sort of cosmic allspark energy that goes on to infect some vehicles on a construction site...

    Or, who says 2 separate bots can't have the same name, like how you can have 2 dudes named John without them being the same guy.
     
  9. Squints

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    I'd guess we're looking at something like this:
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    (Updated from my previous sketch; the head would also be part of the mixer, obviously.)
     
  10. Sol Fury

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    Explain it away with a throwaway line about how any high-powered Decepticon with the ability to take out a whole battalion is given the title "Devastator" as a mark of honour and make mention of the fact Brawl was so proud of earning the title he adopted it as his own name.
     
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    Now that I've thought about it, this news does not bother me at all. Sure, Hasbro could make Deluxe combiners if they really wanted to but it would end up costing Hasbro far too much time and money to make each individual mold as movie accurate as possible in robot, vehicle and combined mode.

    The toys will also most likely need to be scaled up to at least Voyager scale, and the toys will cost far to much for Hasbro's target audience - kids. Having seven Voyager Constructicons in one line will also prevent us from having Voyager molds of other characters.

    The movie toys have to cheat with transformations in the first place to get the robot to look even slightly movie accurate, so adding a third mode, or in this case a third mode for several characters that also need to be able to combine with eachother will just give Hasbro even more problems than they already had.
     
  12. tomagnus

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    meh
     
  13. Zaraxion1021

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    I cant w8 to see the actual design cuz i cant imagine it in my head. :lol 
     
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    I figure Brawl just has delusions of grandeur, and the Decepticons were too busy to call him on it. (the ultra-extra-secret-directors cut shows Barricade rolling his eyes after "Devastator" reports in though.) ;) 
     
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    Sure you can. Just imagine a scrap pile of parts in a junkyard standing up, or (better yet) what a bunch of Transformers thrown into a blender would look like standing up.
     
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    I think that borders on the general definition of trolling, dude. You're trying to get an emotional response out of somebody who likes the movie designs while you laugh at them for taking the bait.
     
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    It may not look like you want it to, but it will look good.
     
  18. Scottimus

    Scottimus That's what she said

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    ya know with all this talk about how big Devastator is and how massive "the Fallen" character is gonna be, PLUS with all these pictures of Bay shooting all these airplanes on that aircraft carrier, i am just SMELLING the high probability we will see SUPERION appear to help defend the autobots. Total possibility. Bay LOVES fighter planes. Superion - i'm banking on it.
    [​IMG]
     
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  19. Torque

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    hmm, think they'll even name Devastator in the movie? cause if they dont name him in the movie, that clears up the problems with Double Names and then the toy can be called Devastator. problem solved, right?
     
  20. Foster

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    I don't consider the name reuse error a problem that won't be simply disregarded. Remember, this is the guy who made Armageddon. The DaVinci Code it ain't.