A hugely disappointing clunky, mis-fire from Hasbro. This is more power Rangers Mega-zord than Transformers gestalt. I'm a bit baffled by the corner cutting rationale behind this release. The individual constructicon vehicles have no robot modes of their own and simply transform into various body parts and clip together (in a slightly frustrating fashion it has to be said, for something so simply designed) to form Devastator. It doesn't take long to do, and there's the usual light and sound palaver that seem to be de riguer these days.
What is massively disappointing about this toy is that it isn't a true Transfomers combiner. I can't understand why Hasbro have not bothered with robot modes for the individual vehicles. Yes, they don't transform to robots in the film, but they are clearly the same characters as the Voyager scale constructicons (that pervesrly, do have robot modes but can't combine!). Its not like Hasbro and their Japanese patners Takara-Tomy don't have the where with all to produce excellent merge groups - all the way back to the '80s with stuff like the original Debastator, the likes of Defensor, Menasor and so on, to the more complex and detailed Beast Wars combiners (Tripredacus, Magnaboss) and even more recently with 2001s superb Robots In Disguise combiners (Landfill, Railracer). The technology and engineering exists, so why have Hasbro and Taktom bottled it for this release?
The other main failing of the set is that the vehicles are all hugely out of scale with each other - the cement mixer in particular is massive - and feel like the cheap plastic ugliness that Tonka toys have now become.
One to avoid at all costs - particularly at £100- and worth waiting for Tak-Tom to release their redictionist Legends scale Devastator, which features seven constructicons with their own vehicle and robot modes which can combine to form Devastator.