Big Transformers

Arriving just in time for Christmas 2015, where two new big Transformers to add to the collection, stretching what is already a very tight display even further and forcing more toys into storage.

Hasbro and TakaraTomy released Devastator as this years Titan sized figure, designing 6 roughly voyager sized construction vehicles than combine into Devastator and being completely out of scale with the rest of the Combiner Wars combiners. Due to the size of the figure, there are some noticeable cut backs with the figures being very simple for their size as well as being very light and hollow, missing paint applications and even joints that are generally a given for Transformers toys.

TakaraTomy however came to the rescue (once again) with a slightly better take on Devastator, releasing a version that came with more paint applications, additional weapons, additional joints on the figures and the ability to have the choice of two heads. Of course there is always the downside that it generally takes longer to get a TakaraTomy release (in this case, around 4 months longer than the Hasbro version) and there is a small premium price to pay.

In hand, one can forget all about the simple nature of the big guy - he is just so much fun to combine and recreate those sequences from the G1 cartoon and movie and a much needed booster to ranks of Decepticons.

In a surprise move, Hasbro reissued Trypticon in their G1 Platinum Edition series and earlier in the year I decided that I had to add it to the collection. However after paying, I decided that I really couldn't dedicate any display room to the figure and was not keen on storing him away and so ended up selling the figure before it arrived in hand. Amazon however wasn't going to let me get away with that decision and in the lead up to Christmas cut the price of Trypticon down to $102US and with christmas shopping all done, I decided "what the hell" and ordered with the cheapest and slowest postage available.

Less than a week after ordering and a good two weeks before the delivery due date, Trypticon was in hand and ... boy oh boy! As a child, I was lucky enough to get G1 Metroplex as a christmas present and drooled over Trypticon in the catalogue but was never lucky enough to get Trypticon back in the day (and can't actually remember it being for sale in local stores). Now .. to repurchase Encore Metroplex from eBay so the two titans can once again battle it out.