Quote Originally Posted by griffin View Post
Got mine combined yesterday, and it was very nice and a lot sturdier than I had expected for such a huge figure. Aside from Hook coming apart a little while posing/playing, Devastator is like a single solid toy.
Have you ensured that Hook is securely attached to Long Haul via all four connection points? The two obvious ones are the black connectors which plug into Long Haul's smoke stack and the driver's compartment roof, but there are also two tabs on the top of Long Haul's shoulders which plug into two small slots underneath Hook. They're small and easy to miss, but I find that they do notably help to secure the attachment between Long Haul and Hook. The connection on my Hook can be less secure if I don't have those tabs properly plugged in, but it's fine if they are. Works on my Devastator anyway.

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Okay, I'm going to be slowly reviewing each Constructicon separately to appraise each toy on its own merit before reviewing Devastator as a whole. Today I'm looking at...

SCAVENGER

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Vehicle mode
Robot mode
Devastator (right arm)

Vehicle Mode
L: 10.5cm W: 7.3cm H: varies 6.5cm to top of roof or 18cm with shovel arm fully extended
True to his G1 counterpart, CW Scavenger transforms into a massive excavator. Primarily lime green with purple treads and windows. The hydraulic piston on the shovel arm is painted silver, and there are further silver and red highlights on the sides. There are also silver and red paint apps on the back, giving the appearance of rear tail/brake lights, although I have no idea what a giant excavator would do with tail lights considering that they're not even road-worthy vehicles (they need to be transported on backs of trucks). Ah well, I guess kids won't notice (the Constructicons drove around on roads in G1 and it never bothered me ). There's actually a lot of really nice detail throughout the sculpting of this toy, although much of it is lost in the G1-accurately bland colour scheme. I don't necessarily mean this as a criticism of this mode btw, as I said, it is G1 accurate. Unfortunately the upper section of the vehicle cannot swivel, although the shovel arm can, so you can have Scavenger with the scoop face either forwards and backwards. Scavenger has 3 wheels which helps the toy roll along, which is a big improvement over G1 Scavenger which just had... nothing (you just had to slide the toy along and scrape the bottom of the treads!). There's also a small Decepticon logo tampographed on the front of the driver's cabin which looks pretty nice.

Transformation
* Separate and swing down the caterpillar tracks
* Swing down waist and swing up groin section. Some force may be needed to untab it.
* Swing pelvis up.
* Swing tracks down and extend to form legs.
* Open bottom of tracks to form feet and heel spurs.
* Swing shovel arm forward and flip cabin towards the middle.
* Lift up rear sections of each side (robot arms)
* Swing shoulders forward
* Lower arms and flip out fists.
* Compact shovel arm into recess on back
* Open chest panel
* Flip out head and close chest panel

Robot mode
H: 17.5cm W: 10.5cm D: 9cm
Points of articulation: 11
A really good rendition of G1 Scavenger's cartoon model accentuated by the exquisite detail from the alt mode. There are also additional paint apps in this mode to break up the blandness, and also homage some of the detailing from the original G1 toy (which the cartoon model omitted). So sculpt wise, it looks like the G1 cartoon model, but with extra paint ops which reference the G1 toy. The face is silver with a red visor, just like the cartoon. The head, shoulders, elbows and knees are all on ball-and-socket joints, allowing for a free range of motion. The ankles are on swivel joints. Like many contemporary toys, it does use some "hollow" parts to reduce the amount of plastic used, but none of it really compromises the integrity of the toy, so it seems that HasTak are getting gooder in the use of hollow parts. Scavenger's weapon is a hand held missile launcher which forms Devastator's right hand. The missiles themselves aren't individually painted like in some promotional images.

Overall
One of the best Voyagers to come out in a long time, and for the equivalent price of a Deluxe! Unfortunately mine came with two left fists, but I haven't heard of anyone else having this problem.

Highly recommended.