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News Credits: 226 · Sat Feb 14, 2015 6:59 pm

shajaki wrote:for the record, id have posed them as individual bots

Guess you're going to have to buy two sets then!

Sat Feb 14, 2015 7:00 pm

Nemesis Primal wrote:Am I the only one who doesn't think CW Prime is that bad? Seriously, you all better still hate the mold as Motormaster or you're filthy hypocrites who aren't getting any gummi worms from me.

News Credits: 6188 · Sat Feb 14, 2015 7:11 pm

The Seibertron.com running coverage of the New York Toy Fair is not done yet, as Seibertron and ScottyP laboriously compile, crop and re-upload all the photos taken of the Hasbro area, bit by bit, bot by bot, to provide us with an extensive look at what was offered - starting below with the big green mean killing machine: Devastator! Click on any image to view the full gallery of this G1esque behemoth, first Titan class in the Combiner Wars line.

News Credits: 1 · Sat Feb 14, 2015 7:24 pm

Love it. Love everything about it!

News Credits: 226 · Sat Feb 14, 2015 7:34 pm

News Credits: 60 · Sat Feb 14, 2015 7:50 pm

I got nothing............. :shock:

Sat Feb 14, 2015 8:53 pm

Man, I dunno. The molds look okay for the most part, but if I'm seeing a lack of elbow articulation, that by itself is an automatic deal breaker for me. Like, if even one of them lacks basic articulation, it's not worth the money IMO

News Credits: 11 · Sat Feb 14, 2015 8:59 pm

Good GOD he's enormous. I'm not super impressed with the individual bots' articulation either, but the combined mode more than makes up for that. It would be hard for Hasbro to top this.

Sat Feb 14, 2015 9:19 pm

Aceoftherebellion wrote:Man, I dunno. The molds look okay for the most part, but if I'm seeing a lack of elbow articulation, that by itself is an automatic deal breaker for me. Like, if even one of them lacks basic articulation, it's not worth the money IMO

It appears the only way that any of the elbowless arms can get elbows is if brand new arms are designed and installed instead, which could be problematic if one isn't use to removing and reinstalling pins. It looks like that's how most of the problem arms are held on.

I would pay another $15 for good elbow articulation for all the figures. I would hope that figures this size would come with that. But as I'm unwilling to shell out over $300 for Hercules, I don't have much of a choice!

Although if a 3rd party comes up with new arms, I'll be getting those.

Sat Feb 14, 2015 9:19 pm

he looks like a sad devastator with that look on his face.

cant say i totally hate him, but cant say i totally love him..........

News Credits: 4 · Sat Feb 14, 2015 9:35 pm

Mr_Autobot411 wrote:he looks like a sad devastator with that look on his face.

cant say i totally hate him, but cant say i totally love him..........

Your right, movie Optimus needs to take his face.

News Credits: 25 · Sat Feb 14, 2015 9:46 pm

I love how on TFW there's a thread called "Titan Devastator: Elbowgate"

Sat Feb 14, 2015 10:04 pm

SW's SilverHammer wrote:I love how on TFW there's a thread called "Titan Devastator: Elbowgate"

Hehehe that's pretty funny. The more I look at it the more I think I'll be leaving Devastator combined and the fact that half the Constructicons are missing functional elbows won't make a difference. It would be nice, but at least they are holding guns properly when they're shooting them

It could be worse. They could lack functional hips and knees! At least they can strike a somewhat dynamic pose when standing individually. Though it does blow my mind that the smaller combiners have really good articulation compared to the Constructicons who make up this big guy.

News Credits: 4 · Sat Feb 14, 2015 10:08 pm

Va'al wrote:
frogbat wrote:i think they did a great job for the price.. even the fact they're all voyager etc. The robot modes are incredibly g1 esque. And the combined mode is awesome... metroplex stands to the right of my tv... maybe i can have devy on the left...

The nerdsphere of the interwebz has been playing around with comparisons, and here are the results:

Compared to G1 Devastator.

Meaning that CW Devastator should come up to Metroplex' chest.

Wow

News Credits: 3 · Sat Feb 14, 2015 11:03 pm

Ok looks good but the leader class figure looks like a voyager class figure and plus the hollow arms aren't really something nice to see besides that it looks good

I wonder what a masterpiece devastator would be like :-?

News Credits: 3 · Sat Feb 14, 2015 11:05 pm

Could it be better than Hercules well..
... will have to wait to find out

News Credits: 5 · Sat Feb 14, 2015 11:24 pm

Concerning Devastator (no pictures of the back?), I wouldn't be opposed to the shades sliding up to reveal two eyes. Looks like Mixmaster won't have a spinning drum. (funny how in the group shot his altmode is backwards.)
As for the individual bots, no elbows on a voyager is just wrong. Use ratcheting joints if you want to maintain stability. I can't argue with super scaled up US Legends. But the sum is truly greater than its parts.

My current must haves list:

1. Arcee. The TT Arcee if possible.

2. MP Star Saber!

3. MP Bumblebee w/Daniel (Spike) for Arcee.

4. MP Ultra Magnus

5. CW Devastator

6. CW Bruticus

I'll work backwards from there to see what molds I still want to grab.
After I find myself on the street, due to my plastic crack fix, I'll see what else I can add to the collection.
Great year for The Transformers fans!

News Credits: 6188 · Sat Feb 14, 2015 11:30 pm

And just because we know that we all want to see what wonders stock photography can do to painted show prototypes as we're told by ScottyP that some figures suffer from the "looks great in person but for some reason not great in photos" syndrome - we've received the official Hasbro images of all the reveals from today's media event at the New York Toy Show 2015! Let's start once again with a big green bang, shall we? Check out below Scrapper, Hook, Long Haul, Bonecrusher, Mixmaster and Scavenger, in vehicle, robot and bigger robot form: Devastator!

News Credits: 7 · Sat Feb 14, 2015 11:52 pm

"Looks great in person but for some reason not great in photos"

/:)

Sun Feb 15, 2015 12:10 am

This is really nice because of it's scale and being an officially licensed Hasbro product. I still place it beneath Hercules and possibly even the ROTF Devestator. Thanks for sharing!

News Credits: 2 · Sun Feb 15, 2015 12:11 am

Long Haul had his shins blown off by a machine gun in the war.

News Credits: 18 · Sun Feb 15, 2015 12:34 am

poor scrapper has no elbows. and zomfg what did they do to long haul ; ;

that being said, over all this is an amazing piece. cant wait to snag this set

News Credits: 1 · Sun Feb 15, 2015 12:52 am

So the robot modes are trash...Oh well. Vehicle and combined mode are insane and Im okay with that. He would probably be displayed in only those two anyways.

News Credits: 60 · Sun Feb 15, 2015 12:54 am

ShardFenix wrote:So the robot modes are trash...Oh well. Vehicle and combined mode are insane and Im okay with that. He would probably be displayed in only those two anyways.

I assume you could do a better design? Be our guest. Humans! The right of all sentient beings. No pleasing them at all.

Hook's shoulder is kind of a problem with the durability. Hope it won't break. Otherwise, they all look AWESOME updates!

Sun Feb 15, 2015 1:34 am

I think the robot modes look okay, but hate the elbow joints so very much. It makes the forearm look floppy and incomplete. I don't mind the hollowness or the odd proportions, but those tiny limbs hanging off massive shoulders just kind of loses me aesthetically.

Still gonna buy him for that combined mode, though. :ic$: