Possible ROTF Constructicon Gestalt Toy Details

This is kind of what I was thinking when you hear nine bots make Devastator. Sounds like 1 guy calling a bunch of crap to hang on, so he gets added mass.

Interesting rumor. Thanks s250.

I could deal with that. Would certainly save a lot on purchase costs.

Hmmmm....

Go go BayFormers!

They've got
A budget and a script
that you've never seen before.
They've got
the ablilty to combine
and to make a bunch of explosions.
No one will ever take them down
the power lies in their cgi.

Go Go BayFormers
Go Go BayFormers
Go Go BayFormers
Mighty Morphin Michael Bay Formers!

He knows
the fate of the movie is
lying in his hands
He knows to only use his
explosions for everything
no one will ever take him
down the power lies on his side

Go Go Michael Bay
Go Go Michael Bay
Go Go Michael Bay
you Movie Makin' Michael Bay

Some one will hopefully
take him down
the power lies in a better script

Go Go BayFormers
Go Go BayFormers
Go Go BayFormers
Mighty Morphin BayFormers

Go Go BayFormers
Go Go BayFormers
Go Go BayFormers
Mighty Morphin BayFormers

Go Go BayFormers

Go Go BayFormers

Go Go BayFormers

Sadly for me, I'm not a fan of the classics constructicons. I don't like the limb reuse, the colors for those copycat limbs, or the fact that there are only 5 of 'em. (Energon Superion isn't too bad)

The closest I can find are the RID/Universe 1.0 set, and they only have 4 bots, one of which is purple.

Using Energon Demolisher and Universe Grindcore and replacing purple Scavenger with RID Grimlock, I have 6 decent, but non-combining Constructicons. I'll live with that till they do it right.

Aww...what?! That sounds mega stupid!

One Word: LAME!

Iron-Man wrote:That sounds retarded. Either do it right or don't do it at all.

Word up.

...and the number of new movie toys I will be buying now goes down by 9.

I don't why anyone is bitching, PERIOD. Energon Prime was a great toy, and pulled off the Energon gimmick well. But if the combiner version doesn't suit you, you have the DLXs. If this is true, there's gonna be both, so what's the problem?

Personally, I love the idea. I buy the combiner version, which will most likely best represent the combined appearance in the movie, and save $90 USD. And being disposable income is at a premium these days, this makes me REAL happy.

Iron-Man wrote:My problem is the fact that Hasbro/Tomy had the chance to finally make an absolutely amazing combiner out of deluxe figures, and they opted to go the cheaper route.

Eh, this is Hasbro though, so a 9 Con(if it is 9) combiner would be over there heads. Oh well, I'm still for the E Prime style, also considering that 9 Cons(again, if it's 9) won't get equal characterization. One, maybe two will be focused on, and the rest are just there for the purpose of the team.

I wish the people whose knee-jerk reaction is to cry out "lame" and "stupid" would just stop and think about this for a second.

If Hasbro was to make a Supreme-sized combiner out of seven construction vehicles that are each supposed to transform individually, the whole thing would be an unstabble nightmare. By keeping the combiner version "vehicles-only" you are removing a design element that would simply get in the way of a screen accurate Devastator. Think about the movie style for a second, Devastator is not going to be an old "one robot: one limb" combiner, he's going to be more complex than that, and when it comes to the toy, the less things the designers have to worry about, the better it will be.

From Hasbro's point of view, this is the best way to ensure that a Supreme-sized Devastator would actually be... you know, a screen-accurate toy with actually playability - not an unstable, jumbled up mess of seven transforming figures that would come apart in your hand due to all the joints and parts that would have to connect every which way.