Devastator In-Hand Images With Size Comparisons

Cleanup on isle 4, I soiled myself.

He looks so awesome. Would love to see a Predaking or Abominus that size.

phantom1592 wrote:Really?!?

Why would that be desirable??

Smoe people might find it more affordable to buy each member seperately rather than all at once cos at least you have a toy while you're waiting to buy the next one. Certainly it was that way for me when I was a kid and someone bought me Brawl for my birthday and so steadily I saved up for each of the other Combaticons and it was a nice sense of 'achievement' once I got them all.

Others may only want a particular member of the team cos the character itself is a favourite of theirs and they don't want to pay the extra money for more toys they don't really want and have no intention of combining. I feel that way about certain teams both combiner and non-combiner. I'm not that much of a collector that I feel the need to buy things just for the sake of collecting.

So there are two Devs. Visor eyed and separated optics. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooooo!

phantom1592 wrote:However, with Combiners I really never see them as 'individual' figures. They were the team. Even if I only had one (like Motormaster) I would have to get THAT whole team just to use the part to it's fullest potential.

If there was only one I wanted... I'd probably hit Ebay or something.. I just don't see individuals selling really well...

Yeah I can see eBay being useful where people may buy Combiner sets for the idea of selling each member individually and making a bit of a profit those fans who just want a particular member or need to replace a broken one.

Some characters in the teams stand out for me more than others. I think this may be because I grew up with the Marvel UK comics and from time to time you'd get a bit of extra characterisation on a member who isn't there with his whole team and maybe you end up liking the character more for that (for example when Blades took on Megatron (or what we thought was Megatron at the time) in London with the assistance of Action Force. Or people like Swindle's personality from cartoon and comics where he's a con-artist and salesman and that gives him a bit more uniqueness amongst combiner members. Friend of mine had Swoop and Divebomb purely because of their battle in the Marvel UK story about Divebomb having been originally Swoop's name in it. Even though the other Dinobots and Predacons were in that story it was mainly about those two characters and my friend didn't own any of the others in those teams.

This is similar to reasons why I get a bit annoyed with simple repaints and minor retools where totally unrelated characters or even arch-nemesis' of a sort end up with the same mold. The characters feel like they lose their individuality. The toys are obviously the main focus of the brand but often it's the characterization in the fiction that helps sell them. Even a crappy TF figure can be helped by that.

Ok I pretty much babbled there you get what I mean. Some of us TF fans like to have the whole set of something, other TF fans just want their fave characters. =)

While the size is impressive, the pant apps are still a let down. Especially after seeing the SDCC version. I really don't understand why so much detail is put into deluxe class, but the larger figures all feel cheaper.

Ironhidensh wrote:While the size is impressive, the pant apps are still a let down. Especially after seeing the SDCC version. I really don't understand why so much detail is put into deluxe class, but the larger figures all feel cheaper.

"Devastator needs a decent pair of pants!"

Brace yourself for posts hating on the siz...nevermind, RX has already been.

Burn wrote:Brace yourself for posts hating on the siz...nevermind, RX has already been.

Well that's because by RX logic, Hasbro doesn't make real Transformers.