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Electro-Static Soundwave w/ Ratbat....

NotEnoughKibble wrote:For anyone's wallet that was starting to sweat, this should pump some life back into it: According to an article on the allspark website, the big ass combining Devy is Voltron-like...without individual transforming bots. There will be separate individual transforming toys for the constucticons as well, but they won't combine.

Translation: Friggin' lame! Pass. Move on, nothing to see here. Sorry gestalt fans, better luck next time.

Uber-Fail


I hate to use the F word, but I'm really sick of Hasbro's defeatist attitude when it comes to gestalts. "We can't do it".

That just kills virtually all interest I had in Devastator. What's wrong with them. They're even lame enough to blame it on the economy. Sorry Hasbro, excuses are for losers.

This should've been the one kick-ass toy to rule them all. If they'd actually gone for it and pulled it off, it'd be just the thing to make everyone forget about the whole stupid financiapocolypse.

I dunno, maybe I'm overreacting, but considering it's their most expensive combiner ever you don't expect them to take the cop-out route.

Bumblethumper wrote:

NotEnoughKibble wrote:For anyone's wallet that was starting to sweat, this should pump some life back into it: According to an article on the allspark website, the big ass combining Devy is Voltron-like...without individual transforming bots. There will be separate individual transforming toys for the constucticons as well, but they won't combine.

Translation: Friggin' lame! Pass. Move on, nothing to see here. Sorry gestalt fans, better luck next time.

Uber-Fail


I hate to use the F word, but I'm really sick of Hasbro's defeatist attitude when it comes to gestalts. "We can't do it".

That just kills virtually all interest I had in Devastator. What's wrong with them. They're even lame enough to blame it on the economy. Sorry Hasbro, excuses are for losers.

This should've been the one kick-ass toy to rule them all. If they'd actually gone for it and pulled it off, it'd be just the thing to make everyone forget about the whole stupid financiapocolypse.

I dunno, maybe I'm overreacting, but considering it's their most expensive combiner ever you don't expect them to take the cop-out route.

Tformers even has pictures of the two devastators, the lame stand-up version and the 2-feet "Voltron" version, as well as some of the constructicons:
http://tformers.com/ig.php?mode=album&a ... 83&start=0

The difference between the non-transforming Rampage (brrr.... that's not a constructicon name...) and the transforming one is clear.

Electrostatic Soundwave's color scheme has shades of Soundblaster. And Ratbat as a keytar? Very 80's! Arcee looks good too, especially with those swords.

You know the worst part? Those are Hasbro's hand-painted, photoshopped pictures. And they still look like ass. How bad must the actual toys look?

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From those pics, it looks to me like it's about the size of RID Omega Prime, if you glued a few Build Team members onto his arms.

Omg, Bonecrusher lives!

Well that seals it for me, no need for me to get Devastator, or for that matter any of the movie figs. Thank You Hasbro for saving me money.

So it's around $100 for Devastator yet with the last picture only two can be seen as voyager class and the other deluxe.

Clearance rack here I come. As cool as a giant Devastator will look anchoring the Movie collection, $100ish for one that does not have individual transformers is crazy. But I do like the look of the bot, and if it is closer to $50 it will probably be mine.

I can't imagine how cool the autobot twins looked before someone melted their faces with a lighter.

Mkall wrote:Well that seals it for me, no need for me to get Devastator, or for that matter any of the movie figs. Thank You Hasbro for saving me money.

It's a shame, ain't it?

Definitely no bot modes on those combiners... Not to mention they look awfully flimsy...

That poor excuse of a toy hasbro is trying to pass off as Devastator makes me cringe. Just from looking at it, the thing can't have very much articulation which is what hasbro used as justification for making a 2nd line of constructicons to form Devastator. I'll pass on this one and make my own from the individual constructicons.

I just posted Hasbro's official Transformers pictures from Toy Fair. The most recently added galleries include the following Transformers segments: Animated, Revenge of the Fallen, Universe and RPMs.

http://www.seibertron.com/events/event.php?event_id=100

I'm working on my photos. As for Transformers, only ROTF products were on display. No Animated or Universe unfortunately. Look for my TF pics in a couple of hours.

For you G.I.Joe fans, I took a ton of photos of their products. I will be posting a full blown Joe gallery later tonight or tomorrow.

Hasbro's official images of Marvel, Star Wars and G.I.Joe will also be posted throughout the weekend. Transformers first!

Any Universe info?

By the way...I'm still at work.

I'm still not sure if that is the actual Dev Supreme package. But to everyone who is naysaying, think of it this way. How complex do we want them to be? Really complex! Make it real! how complex can the TARGET AUDIENCE handle? Not very. Combiners are not complicated for a reason- if they are too complex then they simply are not fun to play with because it takes too long to change them! The G1 Omega Supreme and Jetfire figs are pretty rare...because they didn't sell as well back in the day- they were too complex for the target audience. Maybe Takara will get ahold of these and make a MP type fig, but for the time being, Hasbro did what they could with what they had. I'll cut em some slack on that point. And who knows, maybe we'll see a Premium line Dev...

This is ridiculous.
I refuse to buy this disgusting excuse for Devastator unless they release one that has individual robot modes and a gestalt mode.

Thanks for saving me $100, Hasbro.

Seibertron just uploaded all of the official images received from Toyfare 2009 for multiple Transformers lines. From TF Animated to Revenge of the Fallen, the latest figures to be released are featured.

Revenge of the Fallen









TF Animated







Universe 2.0







Transformers RPM







And thats not all Seibertronians. There are even more images available for your viewing pleasure, to see them, just click here.

The only Tranformers figures that were actually on display at Toyfare 2009 were Revenge of the Fallen models. Sorry kids, no Animated or Universe 2.0 to be seen. Seibertron also wanted you to know that he's currently working on even more galleries from the exhibit and will have those up soon.

We'll keep you up to date on all the happenings of Toyfare 09, right here on Seibertron.com, you're number one Transformers resource.

First-Aid wrote:I'm still not sure if that is the actual Dev Supreme package. But to everyone who is naysaying, think of it this way. How complex do we want them to be? Really complex! Make it real! how complex can the TARGET AUDIENCE handle? Not very. Combiners are not complicated for a reason- if they are too complex then they simply are not fun to play with because it takes too long to change them! The G1 Omega Supreme and Jetfire figs are pretty rare...because they didn't sell as well back in the day- they were too complex for the target audience. Maybe Takara will get ahold of these and make a MP type fig, but for the time being, Hasbro did what they could with what they had. I'll cut em some slack on that point. And who knows, maybe we'll see a Premium line Dev...

Please, stop. You're just throwing out unsupported assertions here. I'll point you at RID Landfill and Rail Racer as examples of better combiners. Not that complex, but they stil managed individual robot modes.

You know why Omega and Jetfire didn't sell well? They were expensive. Toys that size aren't expected to sell as well as toys in lower price brackets. The toys were hardly "complex" by modern standards, or even by the standards of the day.

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Never saw the resemblance of Battlestar Galactica's Vipers until now

Chaoslock wrote:

Bumblethumper wrote:

NotEnoughKibble wrote:For anyone's wallet that was starting to sweat, this should pump some life back into it: According to an article on the allspark website, the big ass combining Devy is Voltron-like...without individual transforming bots. There will be separate individual transforming toys for the constucticons as well, but they won't combine.

Translation: Friggin' lame! Pass. Move on, nothing to see here. Sorry gestalt fans, better luck next time.

Uber-Fail


I hate to use the F word, but I'm really sick of Hasbro's defeatist attitude when it comes to gestalts. "We can't do it".

That just kills virtually all interest I had in Devastator. What's wrong with them. They're even lame enough to blame it on the economy. Sorry Hasbro, excuses are for losers.

This should've been the one kick-ass toy to rule them all. If they'd actually gone for it and pulled it off, it'd be just the thing to make everyone forget about the whole stupid financiapocolypse.

I dunno, maybe I'm overreacting, but considering it's their most expensive combiner ever you don't expect them to take the cop-out route.

Tformers even has pictures of the two devastators, the lame stand-up version and the 2-feet "Voltron" version, as well as some of the constructicons:
http://tformers.com/ig.php?mode=album&a ... 83&start=0

The difference between the non-transforming Rampage (brrr.... that's not a constructicon name...) and the transforming one is clear.

Both versions are the lame version. There's the expensive lame version that could've been cool and the even lamer version that was always intended to be lame.

For all the compromises in $100 devestator, neither bot nor alt modes are good.

At any rate, there's gotta be some consolation. Maybe there'll be legends Constructicons. And if the voyager and deluxe transforming constructicons don't combine, I'm sure kit-bashers will find a way to make it work.

I love Animated Arcee. I was hoping Hasbro wouldn't re-paint Soundwave into Soundblaster as I've already done it, but I will have to buy him only for Ratbat. Movie Devastator is "meh" to me at this point. Some of the G1 Gestalts appeal more to me than this guy. Thanks for the photos though Ryan.

Supreme Convoy wrote:

Never saw the resemblance of Battlestar Galactica's Vipers until now

If someone could make a handheld weapon that became a vertical tail fin for the jet mode, that would be sweet.