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Posted 28 October 2018 - 08:41 AM
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#1349
Posted 28 October 2018 - 09:55 AM
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#1350
Posted 28 October 2018 - 10:01 AM
Ah, that angle on Long Haul makes his thighs look bett-
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#1351
Posted 28 October 2018 - 10:05 AM
First glimpse of Devastator:
http://www.tfw2005.c...-model.1162660/
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Very nice! Hope he gets a red face.
#1352
Posted 28 October 2018 - 10:07 AM
AAAAAAAAAHHHHHHH!!
And conveniently Blackout's there for scale.
#1354
Posted 28 October 2018 - 10:40 AM
Scrapmetal is based on this pre-Scrapper concept art, which I see has been at the top of his wiki article for years for... some reason.
There's no reason for anyone to believe this, but literally just yesterday I was looking at that page and thinking "why the hell is there some random unrelated no-particular-Constructicon art at the top of Scrapmetal's page? I sure hope this doesn't lead to that Scrapmetal toy being based on it".
I mean, there are worse things than him not having the same robot mode as Scrapper, for sure. But man that's some sloppy and irresponsible wiki-ing.
EDIT: Oh yeah, in non-grousing news, holy shit the Constructicons and especially Devastator look great! That Rampage makes me so happy, and this means a giant Scavenger, which hopefully means a giant Demolishor to go with him.
Also, rumors are always true.
Edited by LV!, 28 October 2018 - 10:41 AM.
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#1355
Posted 28 October 2018 - 10:45 AM
My image scaling here isn't perfect, but it looks like Devy is big enough to eat Legion figures!
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#1356
Posted 28 October 2018 - 10:47 AM
Well, it's not like Scrapmetal/"Ze Little One" exactly had a consistent and unambiguous presentation on screen...Scrapmetal is based on this pre-Scrapper concept art, which I see has been at the top of his wiki article for years for... some reason.
There's no reason for anyone to believe this, but literally just yesterday I was looking at that page and thinking "why the hell is there some random unrelated no-particular-Constructicon art at the top of Scrapmetal's page? I sure hope this doesn't lead to that Scrapmetal toy being based on it".
I mean, there are worse things than him not having the same robot mode as Scrapper, for sure. But man that's some sloppy and irresponsible wiki-ing.
EDIT: Oh yeah, in non-grousing news, holy shit the Constructicons and especially Devastator look great! That Rampage makes me so happy, and this means a giant Scavenger, which hopefully means a giant Demolishor to go with him.
Also, rumors are always true.
Hell, his entire name and identity are based on an old Hasbro Q&A response from nine years ago. So calling foul on Hasbro not being accurate to a very vague onscreen appearance is kinda pedantic.
Reading the notes on Scrapper and Scrapmetal's pages explains the situation somewhat:
In the scene where the Constructicons revive Megatron, an aerial shot of the Constructicons in vehicle form shows a Decepticon with a front load shovel alternate mode and body type similar to Scrapper. However Hasbro do not consider ze little one Scrapper, based on their comment that Demolishor, Rampage, Mixmaster and Long Haul received figures first because they had more screentime. Additionally, a latter shot showed a Volvo excavator in place of the front loader. So, Scrapper was not killed by his fellow Constructicons. He's still considered dead from aerial bombardment, though.
The bot who was killed and used to rebuild Megatron (i.e. "Ze Little One"), was given the name Scrapmetal.
The on-screen identity of Scrapmetal is a bit on the fraught side. In the flyover shot of the barge on which the four Constructicons sit, a red bulldozer (Rampage), a concrete mixer (Mixmaster), a dump truck (Long Haul) and a yellow front-end loader are visible. The yellow front-end loader is the alternate mode of the Constructicon Scrapper, and Scrapmetal's robot mode appears to be the same as Scrapper's. As such, the temptation to just consider this a Scrapper unit is great... except that, after the flyover shot, the yellow loader disappears, and is replaced with a yellow Volvo excavator, clearly marked with a large Decepticon insignia. Meanwhile, Hasbro have said Scrapmetal turns into a bulldozer.[1] For the purposes of reducing headaches, we're assuming that the excavator is the "correct" vehicle mode, and that it just happens to transform into a robot mode that resembles Scrapper... even though it's not him.
Seriously. We aren't even entirely sure who exactly "Ze Little One" is, what his alternate mode is supposed to be and what his robot mode looks like. Literally the only reason we don't just consider him Scrapper (or a lookalike) is because "Hasbro said so" many years ago. Arguing that we're inaccurate for using a version of Scrapper to depict this established-by-Hasbro-mandate being and then being surprised because Hasbro is basing a toy named after this one-off reply to a question from an old marketing collaboration on this "sorta-Scrapper" is... I don't even know what to call this.
Edited by Nevermore, 28 October 2018 - 11:00 AM.

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#1360
Posted 28 October 2018 - 11:11 AM
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