Combiner Wars Devastator Rumour

[Zippo]

The BOX is Metroplex sized according to the rumor, not the figure in combined mode.

[Trent]

The BOX is Metroplex sized according to the rumor, not the figure in combined mode.

Yeah, if the bots are voyager sized, then no way is this thing going to be Titan class in combined mode. All of TFCs combiners and Feral Rex have voyager sized limb bots and those are nowhere near Titan sized. At best Hasbro Devy will be the same size as Hercules.

[Zommael]

The BOX is Metroplex sized according to the rumor, not the figure in combined mode.

Yeah, if the bots are voyager sized, then no way is this thing going to be Titan class in combined mode. All of TFCs combiners and Feral Rex have voyager sized limb bots and those are nowhere near Titan sized. At best Hasbro Devy will be the same size as Hercules.

I don't know how big those toys that aren't Transformers that you're talking about are, but the wording on the rumour is ambiguous at best. "Box are Metroplex sized" is what it says, which could just mean it comes in a box the same size as Metroplex's. At best, it tells us nothing about the nature of the actual toy. According to the rumour, the source doesn't even know how many toys will be included. If it's six rather than five, as with G1 Devastator, then the extra bot could easily bulk up the size to be comparable with Metroplex, if not at exactly the same height. If it ends up being around the size of supreme Unicron, for instance, then it would still be in the ballpark of Metroplex.

[philby]

well I for one am glad at least that there has been some more info on it! When do you think there will be an official announcement and reveal? Is it strange to have listings in store computer systems before anything has actually been shown?

[Paulbot]

The New York Toy Fair in February should (hopefully) reveal and put an end to all the rumours and wild mass guessing.

[Trent]

I don't know how big those toys that aren't Transformers that you're talking about are, but the wording on the rumour is ambiguous at best. "Box are Metroplex sized" is what it says, which could just mean it comes in a box the same size as Metroplex's. At best, it tells us nothing about the nature of the actual toy. According to the rumour, the source doesn't even know how many toys will be included. If it's six rather than five, as with G1 Devastator, then the extra bot could easily bulk up the size to be comparable with Metroplex, if not at exactly the same height. If it ends up being around the size of supreme Unicron, for instance, then it would still be in the ballpark of Metroplex.

You and I obviously have very different ideas on what defines "ballpark" . Take the below pic. I don't have Gen Metro so have used Fort Max as a stand in. The red and white combiner is Perseus, a recolour of TFCs Hercules (aka not Devastator). It is made up of 6 voyager sized bots. To the right you have Green Giant, which is made up of six large deluxe bots (some of them could be classed as voyagers). And then you have Feral Rex on the left, made of 5 large voyagers. None of them come anywhere near Fort Max in the size department.

I can't see how 6 voyagers, even if one of them is a leader, could be construed as forming a Titan sized gestalt. Not without some awesome engineering anyway.

[UltraMarginal]

The Leader, rumour is a bit disappointing, 6 voyagers sounds a lot more exciting to me in a 'respect to G1' kind of way.

c'mon Toy Fair!

[Bidoofdude]

The New York Toy Fair in February should (hopefully) reveal and put an end to all the rumours and wild mass guessing.

Celebrating Valentine's Day for the first time this year.

[Zommael]

You and I obviously have very different ideas on what defines "ballpark" . Take the below pic. I don't have Gen Metro so have used Fort Max as a stand in. The red and white combiner is Perseus, a recolour of TFCs Hercules (aka not Devastator). It is made up of 6 voyager sized bots. To the right you have Green Giant, which is made up of six large deluxe bots (some of them could be classed as voyagers). And then you have Feral Rex on the left, made of 5 large voyagers. None of them come anywhere near Fort Max in the size department.

I can't see how 6 voyagers, even if one of them is a leader, could be construed as forming a Titan sized gestalt. Not without some awesome engineering anyway.

Given that none of those toys is an actual Transformer, the use of terms like "voyager" or "deluxe" to describe them is misleading. However, even taking that at face value, none of them is made up of five voyagers and a leader, or any combination of any number of bots and a leader (which, given that we do not know the make-up of the rumoured toy, it could be made up of). I compared the potential size of the thing to supreme Unicron, a large supreme-class toy. Taking "Feral Rex" there as an illustration, I'd imagine that with a leader-class torso and a similar sort of make-up it would approach that toy in size. That toy is in the same ballpark as Metroplex, coming in just below the shoulders. The largest toy your picture shows is the KO Predaking, which you say is made up of five large voyagers. I'd imagine it's only slightly shorter than Unicron, looking at Fort Max behind it. It's likely Hasbro will go with the G1 style for Devastator, so it will be made up of six bots. If one of those is a leader-class, then the toy can easily be significantly bigger than Feral Rex, slightly bigger than Unicron, and in the same ballpark as Fort Max and Metroplex. All it really needs to be to qualify as a Titan, though, is bigger than a supreme.

[millhouse]

I'm hoping for information on this one soon so I can decide whether or not Giant Type 61 is my best option for a Devvy.