Title:
Devastator 1st My Original Scrapper Mixmaster Long Haul Hook Bonecrusher Scavenger Constructicons
Description:
Devastator (Giftset, 1985/1986)
Japanese ID number: 37
Accessories: Robot head, head laser, 2 forearms/launchers, 2 fists, 2 drills, ”super wing” chest plate, ”missile mount” hip connector, ”wing” pelvis armor, ”magna laser”/”solar energy rifle”, individual robot guns, Mixmaster’s 2 missiles
The first combiner toy in the Transformers toyline, Devastator originated in Takara’s pre-Transformers Diaclone toyline, where he was the unnamed combined form of the ”Construction Vehicle Robo” team. He is created by assembling all six Constructicons, who, unlike the later Scramble City-style combiners, cannot be rearranged into other configurations. The large pieces of vehicle mode weaponry the Constructicons came with form important connector pieces for the giant robot—in particular, his forearms are the missile launchers that came with Scavenger and Bonecrusher. These launchers can be equipped with silver-chrome drill attachments instead of his fists, but their spring-loaded firing mechanism was severely weakened by Hasbro for safety reasons. He is armed with Mixmaster’s magna laser, though his own bio identifies his weapon as a solar energy rifle.
The combined form suffers from several issues in the toy’s design, mainly down to pegs and holes not made in the correct places leaving some component parts on an almost hair trigger-like connection, the most notable of these being the chest plate, which has the friction clip barely reaching it’s correct spot on Hook making the chest plate sit twisted towards the right side of the combined form. There is also clearly a tab on the chest plate made to go into Long Haul’s grill, but due to how far his chest sticks out, it can’t reach it at all. With hardly anything holding the chest plate on, it is likely to fall off if bumped. The connector that houses Devastator’s head also has it’s posts and holes misaligned with the respective connectors on Long Haul making the combined form torso/waist being stuck in a very slight permanent twist to the right as well. It’s no wonder the Scramble City combiner design became the ”standard” in later years.
In the United States, Canada, and Japan, the Constructicons were originally available both sold separately on individual blister cards (with the additional Devastator parts split up between them) and as a boxed gift set of all six. On the European continent, the individual Constructicons were first released by Hasbro subsidiary Milton Bradley in 1985 (with a giftset rumored to exist, but with no proof as of yet, then re-released in 1986 by Hasbro proper, this time in a yellow coloration manufactured by Joustra. These figures are not to be confused with the yellow European Constructicons released in 1992, who featured grey parts and could not combine into Devastator, nor with the yellow Generation 2 Constructicons (see below), who lacked the rubsigns and forearm-launcher tabs that this version featured.
Japanese ID number: 37
Accessories: Robot head, head laser, 2 forearms/launchers, 2 fists, 2 drills, ”super wing” chest plate, ”missile mount” hip connector, ”wing” pelvis armor, ”magna laser”/”solar energy rifle”, individual robot guns, Mixmaster’s 2 missiles
The first combiner toy in the Transformers toyline, Devastator originated in Takara’s pre-Transformers Diaclone toyline, where he was the unnamed combined form of the ”Construction Vehicle Robo” team. He is created by assembling all six Constructicons, who, unlike the later Scramble City-style combiners, cannot be rearranged into other configurations. The large pieces of vehicle mode weaponry the Constructicons came with form important connector pieces for the giant robot—in particular, his forearms are the missile launchers that came with Scavenger and Bonecrusher. These launchers can be equipped with silver-chrome drill attachments instead of his fists, but their spring-loaded firing mechanism was severely weakened by Hasbro for safety reasons. He is armed with Mixmaster’s magna laser, though his own bio identifies his weapon as a solar energy rifle.
The combined form suffers from several issues in the toy’s design, mainly down to pegs and holes not made in the correct places leaving some component parts on an almost hair trigger-like connection, the most notable of these being the chest plate, which has the friction clip barely reaching it’s correct spot on Hook making the chest plate sit twisted towards the right side of the combined form. There is also clearly a tab on the chest plate made to go into Long Haul’s grill, but due to how far his chest sticks out, it can’t reach it at all. With hardly anything holding the chest plate on, it is likely to fall off if bumped. The connector that houses Devastator’s head also has it’s posts and holes misaligned with the respective connectors on Long Haul making the combined form torso/waist being stuck in a very slight permanent twist to the right as well. It’s no wonder the Scramble City combiner design became the ”standard” in later years.
In the United States, Canada, and Japan, the Constructicons were originally available both sold separately on individual blister cards (with the additional Devastator parts split up between them) and as a boxed gift set of all six. On the European continent, the individual Constructicons were first released by Hasbro subsidiary Milton Bradley in 1985 (with a giftset rumored to exist, but with no proof as of yet, then re-released in 1986 by Hasbro proper, this time in a yellow coloration manufactured by Joustra. These figures are not to be confused with the yellow European Constructicons released in 1992, who featured grey parts and could not combine into Devastator, nor with the yellow Generation 2 Constructicons (see below), who lacked the rubsigns and forearm-launcher tabs that this version featured.
Theme:
1985
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
1985
Country:
United States
Series:
G1
Model Number:
Green Combiner
Date Added:
2018-06-08 15:38:02
Automatic Estimated Date:
2024-01-25
Date Added:
2018-06-08 15:38:02
