Interesting question.
As far as the Universal Counting Method is concerned...
Although Article04 states:
I'd say that this is negated by Article05 and Article17.Only the component members of a gestalt team count.
Article05 states;
Devastator's individual parts are like "multi-in-1 components," much like say the two halves of the Duocons or say Skysaur, Landsaur and Seasaur - the three individual components of Magmatron. Furthermore they lack robot modes.Individual combiner robots count separately but multi-in-1 components do not.
Furthermore, Article17 states:
While these vehicles are able to combine, I'd say that they do not fall under the conventional definition of "transform" as far as Transformers action figures are concerned.All transforming movie Transformers count but non-transforming movie Transformers do not.
I might bring up this discussion again in the UCM Discussion thread after RotF has come out. But for now I'm just keeping it in this section for spoiler reasons.![]()