Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January

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Ozformers, who first stated that there would be an Amazon exclusive reissue of Combiner Wars Devastator has now announced that it wouldn't see a release until January. It was initially supposed to come out before the year ends.

A "small" update from Hasbro, just days after we broke the news...the reissue Combiner Wars Devastator has been delayed to January (everywhere, not just Australia, so it isn't just us this time).

This was posted on Facebook and we thank fellow Seibertronian Burn for letting us know.

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Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2082283)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on September 29th, 2020 @ 8:44pm CDT

william-james88 wrote:I like trains.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2082328)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on September 30th, 2020 @ 4:45am CDT

If's it's the Combiner Wars reissue, it will be a hard pass from me.
An Unite Wariors reissue, now that I could think about it.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2082330)
Posted by ZeroWolf on September 30th, 2020 @ 4:56am CDT

All signs point to CW

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2082331)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on September 30th, 2020 @ 5:19am CDT

ZeroWolf wrote:All signs point to CW

Argh....

I hated it so I sold mine long ago. But if Takara would pull the rug from under the KO companies feet and make a downsized to standard CW combiner version of their UW set, I'd be all over it.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2082342)
Posted by cruizerdave on September 30th, 2020 @ 10:01am CDT

It's amazing how much better the Unite Warriors version is. Just a few guns and elbows, and you take the set from disappointing to nearly perfect. I mean, what the hell was Hasbro thinking? Voyager sized figures without elbow articulation? A few cents extra for guns?

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2082343)
Posted by Sabrblade on September 30th, 2020 @ 10:07am CDT

cruizerdave wrote:I mean, what the hell was Hasbro thinking?

Keeping to their budget?

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2082344)
Posted by ZeroWolf on September 30th, 2020 @ 10:09am CDT

Plus they probably figured that most collectors would end up sticking Devy on a shelf behind other figures and never touched again. I mean what's the point of the extra stuff if you never use it?

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2082354)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on September 30th, 2020 @ 10:59am CDT

I really didn't like the feel of this Devy. As if it was made out of Tupperware / margarine containers.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2082355)
Posted by o.supreme on September 30th, 2020 @ 11:01am CDT

Hrmm... I've never handled the CW version, but the UW version is solid. Not sure there would be that much of a difference in the quality of plastic?

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2082382)
Posted by Crillan on September 30th, 2020 @ 2:57pm CDT

I really wish they'd reissue Metroplex. I can't find him at retail anywhere

He's the only modern titan I'm missing.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2082383)
Posted by o.supreme on September 30th, 2020 @ 3:14pm CDT

Greetings. I was in the same situation as you until about a year ago. I was actually hoping Hasbro would reissue Metroplex back in 2017 when TR Trypticon came out, but it did not happen. :TAKARATOMY:

has reissued Metroplex twice I believe, and the last time was in 2018. BBTS had them in stock until Feb 2019. Just as I was about to get my tax return and pull the trigger they sold out.

Fortunately an auction came up on eBay a few weeks later, I was able to get a MIB T30 for just about $200. But the TT reissue would have cost me close to $300, so I was glad.

Don't give up, and be patient. It took me a couple of years of looking before I finally was able to get one. Also understand exactly what it is you want. I was willing to pay up to $200 for a loose complete T30, but I was fortunate with what came across my path.

Everyone is different. If I were still missing Metroplex, I'd be willing to settle for a loose complete one for about $250, and a MIB (of either the hasbro or TT version) I'd be willing to pay probably $350. I know they can list for much higher. I'd pursue getting one as best as possible as opposed to waiting until *who knows when* for another release, or a new toy, which I dont think should happen for at least another 10 years.

But believe me, I know there are limits. There are a few items I've resigned to myself that I'll never own because they are next to impossible to obtain (look at my wish list), or even if they were, would probably be more than I am able to pay for them. Hindsight is a pain in the ass. I had the perfect circumstances also. If I had known BC2016 was going to be the last one. I would have taken out a couple new credit cards, got the golden ticket registration, flown my whole family to Louisville, and signed all 4 of us up for the build-a-figure class. But I digress...

Don't give up searching for your Metroplex, be diligent and patient, and hopefully you can score one.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2082700)
Posted by partholon on October 3rd, 2020 @ 3:59pm CDT

i paid a STUPID amount for a san dieago comicon metroplex (the one with the phil jiminez art)as the fig in even its basic set never got a release in ireland and i never thought there'd be a re release.

que the two that happened !

but i had the disposable at the time so im not that upset really

hold out , ya may get it again in few years or so.

i recently dropped the hammer on an encore fort max that big bad toy store got back in recently. ive wanted that lad since i was 16 but thought id lost the chance. he's STILL pricey but ALOT cheaper than the alternatives ive had available up to now (seriously im talking 700+ euro range from other sources PRE postage ! )

in a way im glad Devy has been postponed. covid is fking things RIGHT up economy wise so i cant justify him now till things get better on the financial front. but AFTER the crimbo bonus?

suddenly he's alot more affordable.

i dunno though. ive been using the toy lines lately to fill out all the missing characters i couldnt get back in the g1 days and ive already got g1 devy. right now the main attraction is ive got all the other titans so he's bascially all i need for a complete set.

i probably will. i said i wouldnt get scorponok for the same reason, then he ACTUALLY hit stores in my country so was too cheap to pass up (as well as the whole "scaling with fort max" thing)

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2082701)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on October 3rd, 2020 @ 4:28pm CDT

I'm pretty sure G1 Fortmax will scale well with ER Scorponok. But CW/UW Devastator don't scale with anyone.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2082705)
Posted by ZeroWolf on October 3rd, 2020 @ 5:11pm CDT

-Kanrabat- wrote:I'm pretty sure G1 Fortmax will scale well with ER Scorponok. But CW/UW Devastator don't scale with anyone.

Correction, devy scales with Omega Supreme, as it should.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2082707)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on October 3rd, 2020 @ 5:20pm CDT

ZeroWolf wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:I'm pretty sure G1 Fortmax will scale well with ER Scorponok. But CW/UW Devastator don't scale with anyone.

Correction, devy scales with Omega Supreme, as it should.

Oh? Is that his "official rival"?

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2082711)
Posted by ZeroWolf on October 3rd, 2020 @ 6:00pm CDT

Yup, more or less thanks to that G1 episode Secret of Omega Supreme

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2082712)
Posted by Emerje on October 3rd, 2020 @ 6:42pm CDT

ZeroWolf wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:I'm pretty sure G1 Fortmax will scale well with ER Scorponok. But CW/UW Devastator don't scale with anyone.

Correction, devy scales with Omega Supreme, as it should.

Plus he doesn't look too out of place on an MP shelf.

Emerje

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2082715)
Posted by o.supreme on October 3rd, 2020 @ 7:55pm CDT

ZeroWolf wrote:Yup, more or less thanks to that G1 episode Secret of Omega Supreme

Ahhh my favorite episode. It's cheesy, fun, and has a great ( albeit brief) battle between Omega and Dev. Also the B story in San Francisco was cool also as someone who grew up in the area.

This was my catharsis. Ever since Dev trashed the Dinobots in Heavy Metal War, I had seen Omega in the 85 catalogue, and truly hoped he would be the Autobots answer to a powerful bot. I was not disappointed

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2104012)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 7th, 2021 @ 10:56pm CDT

FINALLY! A pic of the of the unproduced Combiner Wars Devastator pretools as the Build Team!

https://twitter.com/Pete_Sinclair04/status/1390727125121081346

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2104015)
Posted by o.supreme on May 7th, 2021 @ 11:48pm CDT

Hey....that is pretty cool. The CR/RiD build team is 4 members, who are the other 2?

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2104016)
Posted by Emerje on May 8th, 2021 @ 12:26am CDT

o.supreme wrote:Hey....that is pretty cool. The CR/RiD build team is 4 members, who are the other 2?

Scoop for the Scrapper body and Quickmix for the Mixmaster body.

Emerje

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2104022)
Posted by ZeroWolf on May 8th, 2021 @ 3:37am CDT

I wonder how they would have looked combined :-?

While the colour scheme on the original toys didn't turn put that bad due to their method of combining, Devy is a while different ball game.

Did anyone ever do a mock up on photo shop of what Devy would have looked like?

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2104028)
Posted by o.supreme on May 8th, 2021 @ 9:56am CDT

Nice, I'd definitely have got it, if it were a reality. As for the colors, yeah it might be a little odd looking like the original Diaclone Construction robots, but if it had a new Buildking/Landfill head, and maybe the double targetmasters for the other 2, that would be a pretty neat reuse.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2104030)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 8th, 2021 @ 10:11am CDT

ZeroWolf wrote:Did anyone ever do a mock up on photo shop of what Devy would have looked like?

I know a guy who did some fanmade digibashes back in 2019 (using the old toy heads since the pretooled heads were only just now revealed).

Quickmix:

Wedge:

Hightower:

Scoop:

Grimlock (likely would have been renamed):

Heavy Load:

Landfill (Version 1.0, new head based on the original)

G1 Landfill (individual component, just for fun, no new head):

Landfill (Version 2.0, uses the G1 Landfill component instead of Heavy Load, head based on G1 Landfill):

Landfill (Version 1.5, retains the Devastator head since no new combiner head was pretooled, adds some more green to the chest wings, this one best resembles what we would have most likely gotten)

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2104032)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on May 8th, 2021 @ 10:17am CDT

I could totally see that Landfill being a thing in Generations Select by Takara. Use the UW as a base, then retool everything to give their unique heads and style, fill up some empty spaces, add much colors and painted details, then sell the whole thing as a 300$US set.

I wouldn't buy it, but I bet many would.

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As for the original vanilla Combiner Wars Devastator, I find the undersized knock-off to be far, far superior. It have the exact same feel as the original, but the fact that it's in the "right" size make it feel way better in hand. Plus the joints of that thing are so solid, the combiner keep his pose even when you pick him up and shake him around! The price is way better too.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2104039)
Posted by o.supreme on May 8th, 2021 @ 11:21am CDT

I definitely would ;)^

. I would miss the fun of Buildking/Landfill's unique ability to Transform in 3 different modes, but the idea presented here is pretty neat. Also as I mentioned previously if the 2 Autobot Targetmasters had their 2 partners that would be icing on the cake.

There is so much potential left in not only the several combiners that still have yet to receive modern upgrades, but also concepts that never were realized ( like the concept art of the Autobot Dinosaur combiner from Masterforce). I'm fully serious in that, if TT decided just to release 2 previously unreleased Combiners per calendar year, just with slight retooling, or straight up repainting they have enough material for 5 years at least. The main Hasbro line could go in all sorts of weird directions and I wouldn't care as long as I just got my 2 combiners per year, with a guaranty that eventually we would get them all, I'd be satisfied.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2104044)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 8th, 2021 @ 11:45am CDT

Close ups of the Quickmix and Scoop heads:

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2104045)
Posted by ZeroWolf on May 8th, 2021 @ 11:51am CDT

Thanks for posting that Sabrblade! It looks better then i thought it would.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2104055)
Posted by Overcracker on May 8th, 2021 @ 4:54pm CDT

If they found a way to make 4 combine like the original team did that would be awesome.

My Landfill is in storage, but damn if it doesn't make me want to go and pull him out.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2104057)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 8th, 2021 @ 6:42pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:FINALLY! A pic of the of the unproduced Combiner Wars Devastator pretools as the Build Team!

https://twitter.com/Pete_Sinclair04/status/1390727125121081346

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2104119)
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 10th, 2021 @ 7:48pm CDT

Man, that concept would have been awesome to see fully realized.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2104136)
Posted by Sabrblade on May 10th, 2021 @ 11:07pm CDT

The main reason it didn't happen is because Hasbro offered the head pretools to Fun Pub to let them release it instead of Hasbro. But, a Titan class box set was too expensive for Fun Pub to feasibly release for BotCon. As pricy as BotCon registration packages had become over the years, this set would have cost about $400 at the starting price before all of the other expenses would have been added to the package on top of the box set, which would have made the total final cost per package an ungodly ridiculous amount.

The other reason it didn't happen is because Fun Pub thought for sure that Hasbro would do it themselves, having produced the pretooled heads after all. Yet, to everyone's surprise, Hasbro did not do it. Nor Takara.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2104284)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on May 12th, 2021 @ 1:26pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:The main reason it didn't happen is because Hasbro offered the head pretools to Fun Pub to let them release it instead of Hasbro. But, a Titan class box set was too expensive for Fun Pub to feasibly release for BotCon. As pricy as BotCon registration packages had become over the years, this set would have cost about $400 at the starting price before all of the other expenses would have been added to the package on top of the box set, which would have made the total final cost per package an ungodly ridiculous amount.

The other reason it didn't happen is because Fun Pub thought for sure that Hasbro would do it themselves, having produced the pretooled heads after all. Yet, to everyone's surprise, Hasbro did not do it. Nor Takara.

I can still see TakaraTomy do them before Hasbro as the fan and collectors' market in Japan is more suitable for such releases. Even then, it's a big risk without a proper incentive aside from having the CR Build Team available again... plus two unknown characters (the Double Targetmasters were never released in Japan nor did they have that big a role in the comics except for Devie Scoop).

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2164357)
Posted by MeGrimlock78 on June 29th, 2023 @ 4:03pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:
ZeroWolf wrote:Did anyone ever do a mock up on photo shop of what Devy would have looked like?
I know a guy who did some fanmade digibashes back in 2019 (using the old toy heads since the pretooled heads were only just now revealed).

Quickmix:

Wedge:

Hightower:

Scoop:

Grimlock (likely would have been renamed):

Heavy Load:

Landfill (Version 1.0, new head based on the original)

G1 Landfill (individual component, just for fun, no new head):

Landfill (Version 2.0, uses the G1 Landfill component instead of Heavy Load, head based on G1 Landfill):

Landfill (Version 1.5, retains the Devastator head since no new combiner head was pretooled, adds some more green to the chest wings, this one best resembles what we would have most likely gotten)

I know this is super old, but I JUST learned about the pretooled heads. I would totally buy a Landfill repaint. Generation Selects please!

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2164358)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on June 29th, 2023 @ 5:11pm CDT

MeGrimlock78 wrote:I know this is super old, but I JUST learned about the pretooled heads. I would totally buy a Landfill repaint. Generation Selects please!

HOLY NECROMANCY!

But still, that's one obvious Select repaint that could be done easily by :TAKARATOMY:

.

So why won't they?

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2164367)
Posted by MeGrimlock78 on June 29th, 2023 @ 7:25pm CDT

-Kanrabat- wrote:
But still, that's one obvious Select repaint that could be done easily by .

So why won't they?

Maybe it's not "won't," and is just "haven't yet." I mean, we are getting Tow-Line and more than likely Sideburn thanks to the wonder of Legacy...

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2164368)
Posted by Sabrblade on June 29th, 2023 @ 8:01pm CDT

MeGrimlock78 wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:
But still, that's one obvious Select repaint that could be done easily by .

So why won't they?

Maybe it's not "won't," and is just "haven't yet." I mean, we are getting Tow-Line and more than likely Sideburn thanks to the wonder of Legacy...

Yes, but Tow-Line is made from a recent mold released this year. Same with the potential Side Burn. Combiner Wars Devastator is from 2015, eight years ago. The furthest back that Hasbro has gone to use any mold for Selects or whatnot has been 2019's Siege line, a mere four years ago.

The thing about this retooled set is that Hasbro gave the new tooling to Fun Pub so that they could release it as a potential BotCon or Club exclusive. Fun Pub didn't release it because doing an exclusive Titan set would have been way too expensive to be financially viable for Fun Pub; they never would have gotten their money's worth out of it. Plus, the folks at Fun Pub were so sure that Hasbro would eventually release it themselves, and were quite baffled that Hasbro ultimately didn't.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2164371)
Posted by MeGrimlock78 on June 29th, 2023 @ 8:15pm CDT

All true...I was just thinking now that we're getting RID characters, it makes way more sense to release a new (even repainted) Landfill.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2164385)
Posted by King Kuuga on June 30th, 2023 @ 8:43am CDT

I don't see there being enough demand for a titan class Landfill that isn't even screen accurate to justify the manufacturing cost.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2164386)
Posted by -Kanrabat- on June 30th, 2023 @ 9:18am CDT

King Kuuga wrote:I don't see there being enough demand for a titan class Landfill that isn't even screen accurate to justify the manufacturing cost.

But there is no excuse for a G2 yellow and purple version for not having been done yet.

They just have to take the superior Takara version and make it yellow and purple.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2164389)
Posted by King Kuuga on June 30th, 2023 @ 10:38am CDT

-Kanrabat- wrote:
King Kuuga wrote:I don't see there being enough demand for a titan class Landfill that isn't even screen accurate to justify the manufacturing cost.

But there is no excuse for a G2 yellow and purple version for not having been done yet.

They just have to take the superior Takara version and make it yellow and purple.

This I agree with wholeheartedly, and it surprises me that it's never happened.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2164391)
Posted by Sabrblade on June 30th, 2023 @ 11:02am CDT

King Kuuga wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:
King Kuuga wrote:I don't see there being enough demand for a titan class Landfill that isn't even screen accurate to justify the manufacturing cost.

But there is no excuse for a G2 yellow and purple version for not having been done yet.

They just have to take the superior Takara version and make it yellow and purple.

This I agree with wholeheartedly, and it surprises me that it's never happened.

Rumor has it that the SDCC shiny chrome version was originally going to be a G2 yellow version, but it was changed to the chrome version because some higher-up(s) felt the G2 version would be too obscure and wanted the more mainstream green colors for the SDCC exclusive, since most SDCC exclusives were/are meant to have more mass appeal than most other exclusives.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2164405)
Posted by MeGrimlock78 on June 30th, 2023 @ 7:21pm CDT

Sabrblade wrote:
King Kuuga wrote:
-Kanrabat- wrote:
King Kuuga wrote:I don't see there being enough demand for a titan class Landfill that isn't even screen accurate to justify the manufacturing cost.

But there is no excuse for a G2 yellow and purple version for not having been done yet.

They just have to take the superior Takara version and make it yellow and purple.

This I agree with wholeheartedly, and it surprises me that it's never happened.
Rumor has it that the SDCC shiny chrome version was originally going to be a G2 yellow version, but it was changed to the chrome version because some higher-up(s) felt the G2 version would be too obscure and wanted the more mainstream green colors for the SDCC exclusive, since most SDCC exclusives were/are meant to have more mass appeal than most other exclusives.

That makes sense...the part about the SDCC version originally being planned as yellow I mean. Since G2 Devy was only in a toy, the visor-less face makes perfect sense for that release.

Re: Transformers Combiner Wars Devastator Reissue Delayed to January (2172096)
Posted by JAMIAE12 on October 14th, 2023 @ 12:19pm CDT

Devastator from the Combiner Wars series is truly a sight to behold, and it's no wonder it deserves its own dedicated thread. I remember the excitement of unboxing one of these giants myself. If you're a fan of Transformers, you'd be thrilled to explore the big toy store in New York, where I stumbled upon an incredible assortment of Transformers figures and collectibles. Among them, Devastator stands out as a masterpiece. If you're looking to add more Transformers goodness to your collection, check out largerthanlifetoys.com for an even wider selection of these iconic robots in disguise.

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