Rating:  -
I used to have a complete Generation 2 Devestator set, and I was looking for something like that when I bought this toy at my local Walmart. At first it looked pretty great with vehicles that I kind of remembered from the oldschool toy but once I started playing with it I began to be dissapointed.
First of all, Devastator was made up of 6 Construction vehicles, a Bulldozer, Crane, Dump Truck, Excavator, Cement Mixer and Front Loader. This toy only comes with 5 vehicles, and of the 5 two are cranes and two are Front Loaders. The last and largest is a Steam Shovel. This toy lacks the variety that original toy had, as well as misisng one character.
When in vehicle modes, the toys are fairly sturdy. The Front Loaders are both pretty solid, and the Steamshovel is all right. The cranes are a bit floppy, the joints do not hold them in vehicle mode very well but they are not bad.
In Singular robot modes, these toys are also pretty solid. Although because two of the robots are cranes and two are front loaders, there is not a lot of variation in the looks of the robots, aside from 2 being green and two being black. The Steamshovel character doesn't have a left hand, since his arm is made up of the Steamshovel bucket, but that is not a major issue, just an annoying design descision.
My main issue with this toy is that when you combine the individual robots into the larger Devastator robot it is nearly imposible to move or pose the large robot without having an arm or a leg fall off. Each smaller robot forms and arm or a leg, and the Steamshovel robot becomes the chest and head of Devastator. Becuase each arm and leg has the same kind of connector any of the maller robots can become either an arm or a leg, which is really kind of cool, unfortunately the connectors that hold the smaller robots in place are kind of large hexagonal "nubs" that do not made very well with the holes in the smaller robots, which means that if you move the Devastator robot, they easily fall off. If you try to bend Devastator's leg at the knee (he has nicely joined knees) his leg will fall off. Overall the larger robot mode is very unstable.
Another issue that was a little dissapointing is that according to the instructions sheet, one of the cranes forms a leg and foot, and one forms an arm. Whatever one you choose doesn't matter as they are both the same aside from color. To form the foot you have to attach the small robots "weapon" a kind of claw like thing, to the cab and to part of the crane hook. This makes for a somewhat unstable leg that easily looses "foot shape" which can cause the toy to fall over when displayed.
Yet another thing that is a little dissapointing, and which the rest of the "Classics" transformers moved away from with their re-envisioning of older toys, was the reliance on accessories during transformations. The old Devastator toy had about a dozen small parts that came together to hold the large Devastator in robot mode. This toy does that to a similar but slightly lesser extent. For this toy you only need the accessories if you want your Devastator to have feet or hands. But it is still annoying trying to keep track of lots of small accessories since they do not store well on the toys, and if you lose them you can no longer transform the toy into Devastator.
This toy is actually a re-color of a group of Transformers: Energon figures, also called the Constructicons, but who, when combined formed a character called COnstructicon Maximus. Only the Steamshovel is intelligent, with the other 4 robots being "drones", its easy to tell this is an Energon recolor, because this toy comes with a small Energon plug that plugs into the decepticon symbols found around the smaller robots.
I gave this toy 4 out of 5 stars, despite all my complaints, because the smaller robots are all well made from quality plastics. And although the toys combined mode is flimsy, it is still a neat gimmick and is not really any more flimsy than the original toy. It would have been nice to have these technical problems fixed.
Rating:  -
I bought this for my husband AND my 7 year old nephew. They both loved it equally - so did my two brother-in-laws!! It was a major hit and all the guys had fun assembling. Can't go wrong with this one---guys of all ages will love it and Transformer fans will want to add this to their collection.
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"Are you looking for devastator as you remember him from the good old times?? well this is not the one you saw. bonecrusher and scrapper are the same only different color, long haul and high tower as well, and in the original each and everyone of the were diferent. and there were six instead of 5. so if you want something that will wake your inner child don't buy this one."
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While I enjoy the Transformers series and toys I enjoy collecting them, thus getting Devastator again for 2007 ever since he came out in 84. The toy is nice and detailed but the one gripe I have about it is that 1 of the original Constructicons are not present in this remake, Mixmaster being replaced by Hightower, but in either case this is one toy that a Transformers fan shouldn't pass, even if you collect them or play with them.
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This product was purchased for my husband who is a huge fan of Transformers, and was not purchased tucked away immediately upon receipt. Based on his analysis the toy is in perfect condition.
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