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With thighs that short and shoulder articulation that limited I'm spending my money on something else.

loving this bad boy so far, ordered exgraver and heavy labor and pre ordered the other 2 from robot kingdom...I am in agreement with everyone about the visor, I would also like to see the pruplr chestplate to really top off that G1 goodness!!!

Hmmmmmmmmmm.....so where's Mixmaster in the new pics? 2 scrappers as legs? lol

whacko wrote:

Dr. Heavy B wrote:WHY CAN'T HASBRO DO THIS. there combiners are five guys, made from three molds, and they don't even have elbows

Because Hasbro has to build toys to a specific price-point.

If this thing hit Walmart or Toy R Us with its $600.00 price tag no one would buy it. Hell, most stores probably wouldn't even wanna stock it since it is so far outside the price range most consumers will pay for a toy.

When you are building a toy to a particular price point you need to make sure you don't over-invest in designing and manufacturing the toy so that the toy remains profitable to sell. 3rd parties have less constraints in this regard, especially if said 3rd party don't have a whole lot of overhead costs such as labor, facilities, etc to worry about.

tfc and hasbro produce on a different scale. if hasbro was to produce this devi...they would find ways to cut cost. and since hasbro would be mass producing this figure it would cost exceptionally less. since tfc is only making limited quantities....they gotta jack the price up(or the retailers jacking them up.....BBTS lookin at you).

and i dont wanna hear crap about over investing in design and manufacturing.....they have been doing this for over 20 years. they had some great toys in the RID, energon, cybertron series. even some good looking combiners(omega prime, jetwing prime, landfill, railracer). it just seems like they are willing to sacrafice quality for quantity nowadays since the company has gotten so big with movieverse......but i guess it comes with the territory. rant/

I always figured he had knees. my Long Haul arrives Tuesday! Can't wait!

that is definantly the best devastator remake ever

Got Longhaul today. Very cool figure! Extremely excited for this to be complete.

Would like to give props to TFC for their willingness to listen to the fans. It seems like every time a request is made in mass they respond. IE - posting pics displaying knee articulation not to mention replacing the Scavenger shovel. I would not be surprised if they respond to some peoples request for a snap in visor.

Sometimes I wonder if HasTak even monitors fan sites to get their opinion....let alone care.

Behavior like this makes me want to give them my business. Way to go TFC!

On a side note, I cant remember if they posted a pic of Bonecruchers color scheme. My only fear is that in an effort to look like the G1 fig they give him green treads, which I think would look bad seein as how they are now serving as his forearms. Hopefully they will be black for uniformity.

skooba81 wrote:loving this bad boy so far, ordered exgraver and heavy labor and pre ordered the other 2 from robot kingdom...I am in agreement with everyone about the visor, I would also like to see the pruplr chestplate to really top off that G1 goodness!!!

It will have the chest shield.

If we don't get some new pictures and a truthful estimate from Maketoys about when their Giant set is being released along with some preorders on US sales sites, I'm going to cave and declare TFC Hercules my Devastator-of-choice. I'm starting to warm up to it the more images that are released.

If that's the limit of the posability then it's not great, but at least there definately is some. Devastator was never exactly a model of agility.