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Is FOC Bruticus the first "Deluxe" combiner?

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Is FOC Bruticus the first "Deluxe" combiner?

Postby GuyIncognito » Tue Nov 20, 2012 5:40 pm

I don't consider ROTF Devastator a true combiner, since the individual vehicles were non-transforming drones.

What would you call RiD Rail Racer? Were the individual trains considered Deluxes or Voyagers?

Every other combiner I can think of was Legend or Scout size (the individual members, I mean).

Is FOC Bruticus the first Deluxe Combiner? When I opened the package from Amazon and saw the G2 version, fully assembled, in the box, it was much bigger than I pictured it in my head.
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Re: Is FOC Bruticus the first "Deluxe" combiner?

Postby Jelze Bunnycat » Tue Nov 20, 2012 6:01 pm

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If it accounts for anything, here's the list of combiners whose components were all sold in the same price point upon first release:

Generation 1
Devastator (6 members)
Predaking (5 members)
Monstructor/Dinoking (6 members)

G1 Japan
Raiden (6 members)
Road Caesar (3 members)
Landcross (3 x 2 members)
Liokaiser (6 members)

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Landfill (4 members, Deluxe)
Rail Racer (3 members, Mega)

Revenge of the Fallen
Legends Constructicon Devastator (7 members)

As for the BW ones, Tripredacus was sold as 2 Basics and a Deluxe, and Magnaboss as 2 Deluxes and a Basic (with more liberal pricing in mind).

While he's not the first to have all members be the same size, FoC Bruticus shares a distinction with G1 Predaking in having 5 members, and as such the torso suffers in overall proportion.
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Re: Is FOC Bruticus the first "Deluxe" combiner?

Postby Zeedust » Sat Dec 01, 2012 11:35 am

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Actually, as far as the BW combiners, Magnaboss and Tripredacus were both just sold as Ultras without any real effort to make their components fit into a pre-established price point.
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Re: Is FOC Bruticus the first "Deluxe" combiner?

Postby Jelze Bunnycat » Sat Dec 01, 2012 11:47 am

Motto: "The only good is knowledge, and the only evil is ignorance."
Nemesis Primal wrote:Actually, as far as the BW combiners, Magnaboss and Tripredacus were both just sold as Ultras without any real effort to make their components fit into a pre-established price point.


For the rest of the world, yes. Japan had their versions (Magnaboss and Tripledacus) both together and individually.
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Re: Is FOC Bruticus the first "Deluxe" combiner?

Postby Optimum Supreme » Sun Dec 02, 2012 4:54 pm

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For all members, same price point, there's also stuff like Universe Defensor. I don't know they sold him in Japan, but when KayBee brought it over as an exclusive, they sold them as six individual micromasters.
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