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The new $100 Devastator Transformer toy from Hasbro is a mixed bag. Let’s go over the good and the bad of this much anticipated new transformers toy.
From the box before even opening it you can see a fully transformed Devastator. It looks cool and the mixmaster head part lights up and you can demo that feature and hear its sounds in a store. If you do play with his sounds feature in a store it feels really sturdy and well constructed. This starts setting up the expectation of a well constructed and designed transformers toy like we are used to with some of the more expensive $35 – $45 figures like Optimus Prime or Megatron.

This is where you are setup for disappointment if you are expecting all of Devastator’s vehicles to be of solid build quality and similar feel. When you open the box and start to untie the roughly 20 twisty ties to free Devastator from his factory sealed prison you will find ohly his Mix Master head is a part of decent quality. The rest of him is light weight hollow feeling miniature vehicle parts that don’t do much.

The arms and legs of devestator transform into miniature vehicles that are not of the same scale of the Mix Master head or Scavenger body. They have no robot mode. This means Devastator goes from fully formed colossal giant mode to separate vehicles only to vehicles that are small and feel cheap.
Now let’s keep some perspective here. The fully formed Devastator mode is pretty cool. In fact I caught my son shoving Mud Flap (an autobot toy) in his mouth. So Devastator’s mouth is big enough to have fun with and his eyes light up and he makes menacing sounds and has several cool audio sayings built in. The Devastator mode is very cool visually. It’s big and bulky and looks like some kind of indestructible decepticon. There is a lot of fun to be had like that. I do feel it is disappointing that is where 80% of the value of your $100 went to . After that fully formed mode it is downhill from there.

The separate parts of Devastator that only go into vehicle mode are not cool. They are light weight and are just the same as buying a $1 construction vehicle sandbox toys. Now if you have seen the Voyager class vehicles of Devastator’s separate vehicles those are decent individual toys. They have the usual scale, weight, and quality they should for a Transformers toy. The only problem with buying them separately is they don’t form Devastator! Thanks a lot Hasbro!

It seems Hasbro has us in a catch 22. Do we want all the vehicles that make Devastator that are also the usual high quality toys we are used to buying and have fully formed and detailed vehicle and robot mode. Or do we want to be able to make Devastator? The answer of course is we want both.
Hasbro has really done a disservice to the consumer this time around. First of all if you do buy the Voyager class Scavenger, Mixmaster, Long Haul, Rampage, Hightower, and Scrapper. There is not mention on the box that it will not become a part of Devastator. How many disappointing kids on Birthdays and Christmas will there be this year? Those that take the time to track down each individual figure only to find they don’t join to make Devastator decepticon.

So the bottom line… do you spend $100 to have the fully Devastator? For most kids the answer will be yes. But you may want to drop a hint about the vehicles it comes with don’t transform for playing with separately.

Thanks for reading this devastator review! This has been an original review written by raretransformers.com.

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