Help identifying this deception?

[Exformer]

He's from about four/five years ago I think, anyone have any ideas please?

[Paulbot]

That's Heatwave, a TF club membership freebie. An odd toy to randomly have since you had to be one of the (few) members of the club to get it.

[Sinnertwin]

Who also forms the torso of Nexus Maximus... hee hee hee

[Exformer]

Thanks! Yes, a strange one randomly, but now to just to decide where he ends up.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Who also forms the torso of Nexus Maximus... hee hee hee

I wonder what comes up first when one google nexus maximus now? lololololol

[griffin]

I've never thought to look it up before (the non-Transformers item), just for curiosity.
I typed in Nexus Maximus into google images, and turned off the filter, and scrolled down a couple hundred images.... nup. Most were the Transformer.
I had to type in "sex toy" with the name just to get a result... so we as a fandom have triumphed over porn.

[Sinnertwin]

I dunno... AoE Slog has about 16 hanging off him

[griffin]

I'm just amazed that a Collector Club character (Heatwave) has been turned into a regular release toy (in the Hero Mashers line). I was thinking it was the first, but checking past Club/Con toys, it is actually the second... with Flamewar released as a toy in TFPrime.
Still, they'd be pretty happy to see "semi official" characters (created outside of Hasbro/TakaraTomy), being adopted by Hasbro/TT within their official universe of regular-release toys. (not that they need to, since they have thousands of their own characters at their disposal without needing to tap into characters created by license-holders like FunPub)