to devastate or not to devatate, that is the question!

[Seraphim Prime]

You _like_ the concept of six (even though there should be seven) vehicles that don't transform but can merge into a giant robot?

Part of me, yes. Maybe it's just the idea of a giant monster that can tower over my movie figures.

Have you considered getting the Legends/EZ Collection version. You'll have Devastator with all seven Constructicons that can transform from robot to vehicle and merge!

Yeah, I do know about the Tomy EZ Collection guys. Seven V Six isn't that big a deal, considering you hardly see the crane when they're all combined (at least from the photos I've seen) and the movie wasn't exactly that clear on the subject either. Plus I don't have a credit card, so it kinda restricts imports at the moment.

...they were completely unaware that the set was "missing" one Constructicon...

See above.

...and that the individual vehicles couldn't transform into robots...

Again, the individual Devastator components never actually transformed by themselves in the movie. So unless you count the fact that they've each been given names as evidence that each component has individual sentience, then there's no actual canonical evidence of Devastator being more than a multicomponent individual (like BW Neo Magmatron).

I did tell them about the awesome num num gimmick

cause describing it like that makes it sound awesome

I guess they figured it wasn't worth parting with $170 for. :/

Maybe not $170, but at $130 you start contemplating it...