Prime and Megatron should square up, etc. So most of us settle for a sort of ‘reasonable scale.” The Seekers should be bigger than the Autobot cars. G1 has blatant disrespect for scale in every regard, not just robot sizes, and sometimes not just in the same scene, let alone an episode or season. We can trot out that G1 line-art scale sheet as often as we want, but it doesn’t mean crap. Let’s take into account that Transformers scale is a joke. Billed as the largest combiner, and currently only second to Generations Metroplex and G1 Fort Max as biggest period, Hasbro certainly set out to get this guy as massive as they could. His size is a win for me as well, and that is literally no small feat. He hangs up just a bit at the knees, and I don’t know how they could’ve done it, but if there had been some way to incorporate a thoracic joint, he’d be better articulated than a Mattel DCUC figure. About the only improvement I could see here would maybe be a ball-jointed neck and possibly individual fingers. With functioning joints to mirror any production figure a third his size, Devastator can move freely and menacingly in most important poses. One of his absolute triumphs has to be the articulation. They hit the right notes, kept the important parts in place, and made just a few off-calls here and there, but none sufficient enough to take away from just how fun he is. This guy needed to fit the needs of a more demanding enthusiast base, with bigger and even more diverse Transformers collections than anybody would’ve ever thought of in the old days.Īnd overall, I think they did it. So getting a new Devastator has a lot more riding on it than some repackaged Diaclone versions had three decades ago. The recovery of unused storyboards has revealed that Ultra Magnus and a team of Autobot commandos would finally bring him down, while taking some losses. Seriously? Grimlock makes the greatest entrance in G1 history (til the next scene), and he and his Dinobots are dispatched in under 30 seconds. And had it not been for a certain fight that directly followed it, I suspect the showdown Devastator had with the Dinobots would have been the event that stayed with me decades later. His much more suiting voice actor growled “Prepare for Extermination.” in such a collected, almost casual way, yet so intimidating, that I can recall it instantly with no context. Started in production before most of Season 2, Devastator was the only combiner referenced in the movie, and while further adaptations have explained the other combiners were engaged in a concurrent battle fought at the Ark, there is no retconning Kup’s reaction of pure dread seeing Megatron give the order to merge. That’s a formula I still prefer today.īut Devastator didn’t really get his due until the movie. This is because I am a product of the first two seasons of the Transformers cartoon, and while Superion, Menasor, and many, many others soon followed suit, Devastator was the Decepticon’s true big gun. Let’s deviate from our format just a little here and start with Canonball’s video breakdown:ĭevastator was, and will always be, my favorite combiner. Before we get into any of the nuts and bolts of this thing, let me just tell you - even in the Age of Amazon (Like Age of Ultron with more toys), picking up a Constructicon box set at a retail store, 30 years after the original, gives me serious warm fuzzies. The thought of finding this thing at Toys R Us, on a shelf, in a giant box, seems nuts, if I hadn’t done so myself last month. Even after going through this guy in his six individual components, it’s still a little hard to believe that this is a real Hasbro offering.
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