Title:
Mega Octane Ruination 2nd Robot Mode
Description:
Dolrailer (2000) / Mega-Octane (Deluxe Class, 2001)
Takara ID number: D-010
Takara release date: July ??, 2000
Accessories: Rifle, chestplate, ramp, Ruination parts (head, chestplate, left & right fists, left & right footplates)
A redeco and minor retooling of the "Generation 1" Onslaught toy, Robots in Disguise Mega-Octane transforms into a flatbed truck and trailer with a twin-barreled cannon. He also has a third "battle station” mode with a ramp for carrying smaller Decepticons in their vehicle modes. As the toy uses the "Scramble City” style of connection, he can form the torso to any combination of similar robots, though naturally he is normally the torso to the combined robot Ruination. He also came with the combiner kibble to Ruination.This toy was first released as "Dolrailer” in the fifth assortment of Takara’s Car Robots line, and received many small but significant retoolings from the prior versions of the toy. The twin-barreled cannon now has a 5 mm hole to store his large rifle in vehicle/base mode alongside the smaller hole from the Generation 2 tooling of the toy. (You can use the smaller hole to store the small weapons from the other members of Ruination if you want. Why not?) The ramp was also given a 5 mm post, which lets it store on the cannon-base, or be hand-held (awkwardly) as a shield in robot or super robot modes. His large rifle also had one of the small circular holes cut all the way through, making it easier to attach the smaller components’ rifles to it. (You could still do this with the original sonic stun-gun, but the shallower pegs made the connections kinda loose.) Odd for a toy from this era, Dolrailer makes use of multiple stickers for large parts of his deco. Odd for a Takara release, he uses the Hasbro assembly that inserts a plastic filler where the spring-loaded vehicle launcher would be in base mode.The later Hasbro release as "Mega-Octane” in the fourth wave of Robots in Disguise Deluxes (the only new toy in that assortment) made many further changes. The most immediately-noticeable are in its deco; Dolrailer’s lighter olive turned dark forest-green, his metal-flake mustard-yellow turned a flat stony-blue, and the slightly-shiny reddish-orange became a flatter more orangeish-red. (Yes, there is a difference.) Mega-Octane does not use any stickers, leaving all of those areas blank. His camo paint operations are the same pattern, but the black-with-copper has been changed to a light-olive-with-black. And, of course, there is now a great big Decepticon emblem on his roof, rather than the "Anti-Cybertron” badge on the truck-door stickers that aren’t there anymore. Mega-Octane also got some further retooling, most notably his rifle barrel was shortened considerably (likely for safety reasons, possibly breakage potential?), but furthermore his cannon/backpack now attaches via larger 5 mm pegs, plus a new rectangular peg was added to the cannon-stand to better secure it in "battle station” mode. The cannon’s twin barrels are also filled in all around, presumably for aesthetic reasons. His shoulders were also changed from clicky ratchet joints to friction-based ones that pop apart if excessive force is applied. All subsequent releases of this toy from Hasbro or Takara/Sonokong (including the "Generation 1” Combaticon reissue) used this version of the tooling as the base.This mold was also used to make Great Cannon.
Takara ID number: D-010
Takara release date: July ??, 2000
Accessories: Rifle, chestplate, ramp, Ruination parts (head, chestplate, left & right fists, left & right footplates)
A redeco and minor retooling of the "Generation 1" Onslaught toy, Robots in Disguise Mega-Octane transforms into a flatbed truck and trailer with a twin-barreled cannon. He also has a third "battle station” mode with a ramp for carrying smaller Decepticons in their vehicle modes. As the toy uses the "Scramble City” style of connection, he can form the torso to any combination of similar robots, though naturally he is normally the torso to the combined robot Ruination. He also came with the combiner kibble to Ruination.This toy was first released as "Dolrailer” in the fifth assortment of Takara’s Car Robots line, and received many small but significant retoolings from the prior versions of the toy. The twin-barreled cannon now has a 5 mm hole to store his large rifle in vehicle/base mode alongside the smaller hole from the Generation 2 tooling of the toy. (You can use the smaller hole to store the small weapons from the other members of Ruination if you want. Why not?) The ramp was also given a 5 mm post, which lets it store on the cannon-base, or be hand-held (awkwardly) as a shield in robot or super robot modes. His large rifle also had one of the small circular holes cut all the way through, making it easier to attach the smaller components’ rifles to it. (You could still do this with the original sonic stun-gun, but the shallower pegs made the connections kinda loose.) Odd for a toy from this era, Dolrailer makes use of multiple stickers for large parts of his deco. Odd for a Takara release, he uses the Hasbro assembly that inserts a plastic filler where the spring-loaded vehicle launcher would be in base mode.The later Hasbro release as "Mega-Octane” in the fourth wave of Robots in Disguise Deluxes (the only new toy in that assortment) made many further changes. The most immediately-noticeable are in its deco; Dolrailer’s lighter olive turned dark forest-green, his metal-flake mustard-yellow turned a flat stony-blue, and the slightly-shiny reddish-orange became a flatter more orangeish-red. (Yes, there is a difference.) Mega-Octane does not use any stickers, leaving all of those areas blank. His camo paint operations are the same pattern, but the black-with-copper has been changed to a light-olive-with-black. And, of course, there is now a great big Decepticon emblem on his roof, rather than the "Anti-Cybertron” badge on the truck-door stickers that aren’t there anymore. Mega-Octane also got some further retooling, most notably his rifle barrel was shortened considerably (likely for safety reasons, possibly breakage potential?), but furthermore his cannon/backpack now attaches via larger 5 mm pegs, plus a new rectangular peg was added to the cannon-stand to better secure it in "battle station” mode. The cannon’s twin barrels are also filled in all around, presumably for aesthetic reasons. His shoulders were also changed from clicky ratchet joints to friction-based ones that pop apart if excessive force is applied. All subsequent releases of this toy from Hasbro or Takara/Sonokong (including the "Generation 1” Combaticon reissue) used this version of the tooling as the base.This mold was also used to make Great Cannon.
Theme:
Robots In Disguise RID
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2001
Country:
United States
Series:
Robots In Disguise
Date Added:
2022-05-14 17:50:24
Date Added:
2022-05-14 17:50:24
