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News Credits: 5749 · Sat Jan 28, 2012 4:55 pm

A comprehensive pictorial review of MakeToys Giant Series: Excavator and Bulldozer has been posted on ACToys. Better than TFC Toys Exgraver and Neck Breaker? Enjoy the images mirrored below.

News Credits: 2 · Sat Jan 28, 2012 5:22 pm

These 2 look awesome and are displayed perfect showing off all the detail and engineering that went into Giant. I can't wait to see the next 2 figs. If Roprolabels is smart they will make some form of yellow pattern decals to go over the MTC print. They're not eye sore's really but it would be great to see them go away.

News Credits: 6 · Sat Jan 28, 2012 5:25 pm

Id'e still like it (A Little) Better, if it were green.
(Repaint :PRAY:

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News Credits: 273 · Sat Jan 28, 2012 5:27 pm

Am I the only one who is less than impressed with all this 3rd party Devastator stuff? Even if it was regular retail, not sure I'd be rushing out the door to grab it.

News Credits: 5749 · Sat Jan 28, 2012 5:28 pm

BeastProwl wrote:Id'e still like it (A Little) Better, if it were green.
(Repaint )

The green version is happening.

News Credits: 5749 · Sat Jan 28, 2012 5:44 pm

Delicon wrote:Am I the only one who is less than impressed with all this 3rd party Devastator stuff? Even if it was regular retail, not sure I'd be rushing out the door to grab it.

Considering this is the alternative, yes.

Sat Jan 28, 2012 5:58 pm

I can't wait for the Green Version, once that comes out, it'll be as good as bought. :grin:

Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:02 pm

just not feeling this set. Hurc i feel is a better set, these seem very cheep to me. like scrapper's head is just awful. every time is see them I'm less impressed, who knows maybe the final color version will change my mind.

Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:03 pm

^ yeesh that thing is hideous el duque. yea...lets keep the 3rd party devys coming eh

News Credits: 402 · Updated Oct 21, 2022

I'd really like these two, but I'm not going to go out of my way to get them. If they were green on the other hand...

Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:05 pm

^ yeesh that thing is hideous el duque. yea...lets keep the 3rd party devys coming eh

News Credits: 5749 · Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:14 pm

donnie_707 wrote:^ yeesh that thing is hideous el duque. yea...lets keep the 3rd party devys coming eh

Agreed, but let's give Devy a break. Let's move on to the other G1 combiners, can't wait to see what FansProject has in store for us with their Stunticons!

What's really frustrating about these is there's nothing special about them in terms of engineering. I just completed Hercules earlier this week, and while he's an amazing figure all the designs are rather simple. Has/Tak could have pumped these things out no problem at $20.00 a pop, but for some reason they continue to feed us the "modern combiners are too complicated" line. Better come up with a better excuse guys, these prove otherwise.

Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:21 pm

Looking sweet. I had lost interest in them, but these better pics make me like them again. The posing is still kinda daft; I'm sure they would look way better if they weren't posed kinda stupidly compared to how much more you can get out of their articulation. Now to go to the hospital, as I will need to sell some blood.

News Credits: 17 · Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:32 pm

El Duque wrote:Can't wait to see what FansProject has in store for us with their Stunticons!

Wait, Fansproject Stunticons? when were these announced?! :shock:

News Credits: 5749 · Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:39 pm

cannonfodder4000 wrote:
El Duque wrote:Can't wait to see what FansProject has in store for us with their Stunticons!

Wait, Fansproject Stunticons? when were these announced?!

It hasn't been announced, but it's heavily rumored.

News Credits: 49 · Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:50 pm

I'll buy the first one to do a Shattered Glass recolor.

News Credits: 4 · Sat Jan 28, 2012 6:53 pm

not bad at all. kinda wish I could get a good look at each of them, as I've ideas on a custom I'd like to use one as the base for. (or possibly more likely, get someone else to use the base for, and I'd pay them, depending on the level of work needed) but need to see if any are really suitable.

Bodes well for the green Giant. ho ho ho.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Jan 28, 2012 8:26 pm

That back kibble is pretty bad.
Not as bad as I thought it might be, but still pretty bad.

The arm kibble on Scrapper always was a deal breaker for me.
I just find it lazy design.
If Hercules didn't exist, it might be another story, but it does, so ....

Other than that the bot modes are pretty nice.

I actually like the yellow. Not enough to pay $120+ for the pair.
If these were a retail release, I'd buy a yellow set.

I've always said it this set isn't bad, it just pales in comparison IMO to Herc.
Herc was worth the price tag, these are not.

Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:09 pm

El Duque wrote:
Delicon wrote:Am I the only one who is less than impressed with all this 3rd party Devastator stuff? Even if it was regular retail, not sure I'd be rushing out the door to grab it.

Considering this is the alternative, yes.

What I don't get is that people actual;ly bought this, and I know everyone is entitled to there own opinion, but seriously this is where I throw that notion out the window, I don't respect anyone who defends designs like this, it's patronising, and there's not even the G2 aspect of it's so hideous it's kool, i used to collect thos eporrly designed hooker cards in phone box's, I'm a graphic designer and the way they were designed brakes all the rules, and the fcat that the girl in the pic was probaly not the girl who's being advertised was one of those unbeleivable things of it shouldn't work but it does. G2 is patronising becuase of the way they thought bright colours and graphics plastered all over over advertising the toy would fool kids into buying an old toy repoackaged.
It took me a while to appreciate why people liked G2 but understanding that it wa sfo rthe reasons I hate them makes me understand the fondness people have for them. To me shattered glass is todays G2, it's a dumb idea and a forced story to recolour toys, and an over complicate dway of doing it, all it is making the goodies the baddies, but what made me hat eit was one little thing, why does shattered glass optimus prime have physical shattered glass. As I'm a designer and am trained to think conceptualy and sometimes what seems a good idea at the time actually isn't. When I see soemthing like that it makes me doubt the credibility of there designers they have and the whole thought process behind it. Fansproject on the other hand have a really good team, the way they put there own spin on things is really of a high standard, there city commander head sculpt is amazing, it's not G1 accurate but that would of been easy, they have modernised it in there own style, the G1 head sculpt wouldn't of suited the overall design aswell as the one they did, you have to give them props. This is what make sme hate Hasbro so much, that combiner is a true monster and it's up to Fansproject to make ther esuperion and bruticus worth buying.
I'm not against Transformers with designs that break the norm, look at early G1, shockwave with 1 eye and a gun for a hand, but it was done on a mature way and not for a crazy funky effect, look at todays minicons with one eyes, they almost look like pirates or cyborgs from B movies.
Back on topic these 2 yellow devastator figures look really good, and I like the whole figure combined especially the outline, he looks more beefy than the other 3rd part offering, but the green one has some great features, I like the way the forearms are made from the actual figure rather than add ons, and the design is different enough to make both worth having. Why do hasbro think that something like this would be less appealing than what they have given us, and why do they take amazing designs like Unicron and give him see through parts like a flashing gay hand. Alternators prove they can produce complicated figures that hold up well, so larger figures will hold up eve beter, they sell big figures all the time so this would sell. MO prime sold well, so much so they reissued him, so G1 style can make money, and there offkey interpretations are just good for warming shelves.
What makes the situation worse is that a this sort of figure is a no brainer, hasbro should of done this ages ago, in fact a new g1 shockwave and Galvatron are going to make big moiney for who ever gets there first, the same goes with a dinobot range, it's so obvious it can make anyone with any sense go mad. And those people who bought hasbros devastator you are the people that fuekl hasbro's silly way of thinking, and the more you buy these stupid designs the more they will make.

Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:11 pm

make a predaking please.

Sat Jan 28, 2012 9:40 pm

I think im gonna pass on the figures, but I do want to try that Japanese "Fire" beer !!!

Sat Jan 28, 2012 11:06 pm

griftimus prime wrote:make a predaking please.

That would be nice, doesn't quite have the following, but would definently be a good choice. I don't know why figures for characters that never had toys made like supe megatron or what ever his name was. [Thats the G1 reborn Megatron from the Japanese Manga comics]

News Credits: 5 · Sun Jan 29, 2012 12:09 am

These look really good, but I don't need them. I already have Hercules (which I still like more).

Now if Maketoys had turned their talents to a combiner that hadn't been done yet, like Defensor or Computron or Abominus, I'd be all over these. Leokaiser would be great too, since most people don't own a G1 Leokaiser it would be a great opportunity for many collectors.

Anyway, this gives me confidence in their abilities and I'm looking forward to their next project. I just wish 3rd parties would stop re-treading the same ground as each other.