Devastatingly small Devastator

Seven robots make up this pretty neat looking piece of devastation! Sadly this character does not come with the wrecking 'balls' that were shown in the movie but they do make them as a custom piece! The articulation is severely limited to just arm movement and some head movement. But it's the new Devastator at a very affordable price of $35, the bad thing is that he is a Wal-Mart Exclusive, I dunno why but Hasbro really likes Wal-Mart and likes giving them exclusives! This figure is very detailed and looks like it sorta stepped out of the movie with its hunched back and down-syndrome face. The eyes are a vibrant creepy green that seems to say 'I'm gonna eat your soul' or 'I'm sucking up all your sand and there's nothing you can do about it!' 

Left Arm High Tower:

High Tower is a crane not really all that much I can say about him he has good paint apps in yellow and gun metal grey with a grey Decepticon badge on his left side. He does have a little articulation with his hook being able to swing, his treads however are just molded plastic with small plastic wheels inserted in! His robot mode makes him look slightly retarded or like that one zombie that you blew its legs off and its crawling to get you! He has stumpy T-Rex arms a weird face and almost no robot body at all! in replacement of his hook he has a claw that sorta dangles off his butt. This is one of the least impressive of the Devastator set.

Right Arm Scrapper:

Scrapper is a front end loader and one of the tallest of the Devastator set when in robot mode. No I don't know the actual size but I do know that he probably stands about 2.5inches tall compared to the 2inch characters of the rest of the line. He posses the same colors as High Tower but this time he has some blueish grey on the window, all the details are great on this figure he had 4 points of articulation being arms and legs. I would say he is my favorite of the Devastator set. Only cause he is tall and looks relatively menacing.

Left Leg Rampage:

Rampage is a bulldozer in his vehicle mode he has cast in treads with wheels underneath. Still the same colors as High Tower and Scrapper. This is another of the set that I was not too pleased with because he has no legs, although in the movie he didn't have legs either he was just one big pogo stick like robot always 'boinging' around. If you listen closely you can even hear that sound in the movie, sorta made me snicker!

Right Leg Long Haul:

Long Haul is pretty fucking awesome he is a large green dump truck! He actually looks like his voyager class counter part with the sunken in head, shoulder pads and folded in hands. This is one impressive figure his transformation is pretty basic and simple. and he looks good in both modes. In robot mode there is a little more grey added to the green so he kinda stands out well! And the face that he is the only green 'former of the bunch kinda helps him out too!

Mid Torso Overload:

I have no idea what exactly Overload is supposed to be but according to Wiki he is an articulated dump truck...I'm going out on a limb here and gonna guess that is a diesel cab with a dump truck trailer...I dunno! He is red and well pretty much red, he does have some grey on the wheels 4 of which are rotatable and two which are stationary and don't really move much! He also has some black where his cab is. This robot looks like Rob Liefield drew him but in reverse with a huge torso and stumpy little legs, or maybe he is the gorilla of the Devastator set. He also has this giant hook arm hanging out the top of him, looks a little weird but oh well!


Upper Torso Demolisher:

Demolisher is probably the biggest disappointment of the Devastator set. He is a huge back ho cast in red, white and grey. His boom or shovel swings out but that is pretty much it. His robot mode is just completely and utterly retarded just like in the movie. He is designed to roll on what used to be his treads in robot mode because Michael Bay thought it was 'neat' looking. Fuck you Bay!, this looks like someone pooped the design. The only way to get it to balance out is by spreading the arms and making sure they hold him in place he only stands up for a few seconds and then falls over! LAMEST LEGENDS YET!

Head Mixmaster: 

Mixmaster is a cement truck like he is supposed to be and he looks great. I know he is not the flat nosed mixer that he was in G1 but you can't always keep them the same and honestly like this mode better. He is grey with some green, black, silver and light purple on the windows. His robot mode really is not that impressive but it works. He kinda looks like he is a scarecrow posted to keep robot crows from eating robot corn. 

Well there you have it another review by me Revren. Next I dunno who I'm gonna review but I think I have an idea...see ya next time my three faithful readers and until next time keep those comments coming!

Emerald City Comic Con

As a few of you know from some of my posts on facebook, this last weekend I went to Seattle for Emerald City Comic Con which was held on Saturday and Sunday! There were over 20,000 people in attendance. This convention was huge, at least 4 times bigger than Portland's Comic Show. My friends Mark, Sean and Pete also went all thanks to Mark and his generosity with the tickets and hotel room purchases! Thank you very much Mark!


While I was there I got some awesome swag or as I like to call them sometimes Shineys! Along with all the goodies that I got for free while at the convention. Here's the stuff I got to keep as memory but didn't get pictures of...
I got to see Leonard Nimoy while my friend Sean actually got his autograph
I saw Stan 'the Man' Lee but sadly no autograph cause it was sixty stones to get that
Lou Ferrigno is huge
Geoff Johns is cute and from what I heard from other fans super friendly

And some of the fans really need to stop bitching about anything and everything because it is not needed, those people are there for your entertainment and are only human if someone is not at their designated spot they might be in the toilet or getting something to eat, give them a chance.

Now on to some of my goodies that I got while there:

Scruffy Puppies books one and two. The author of these books was very friendly and cute. The art is fantastic I have at this point not read the stories but will by tomorrow night. And then I will let you know how good it is. I did flip through the first book and really liked the art Brent Trembath is really very talented. Book two's art is okay I guess but you can tell its not Brent's work. Here are the books:

Brent also has his own site for the books: http://www.scruffypuppies.com/ check it out!


On Sunday(yesterday) I went back to the convention, why not, I had a two day pass, there was a free table with some DC comics swag for grabs and people milling around so I poked my head in and wanted to see what was on there. In the process some grumpy bitch looked at me and said 'you know there is a line of people wanting to grab this stuff, why don't you go to the end of it' to which I replied, 'this is swag and its free just grab what you want and STFU there is no need for a line when everyone can get something!' She did not like that but didn't say anything when I kept grabbing what I wanted. What I got there were four hero buttons, Superman, Batman Wonder Woman and the Flash along with a DC Direct catalog for their 2010 collectibles:

the DC Direct catalog can be seen atop this post!

Now on to my Shineys, my toys:

Scareglow: Not many of you know who he is but he was one of my favorite He-Man characters when I was a kid. His original bio said he was Skeletor's skeleton ripped out of his body but now he is an Eternian Ghost Here's his Bio:

Real Name: Karak Nul™

In life, Nul was a shifty bounty hunter who spent years attempting to break into Castle Grayskull®, obsessed with the countless legends that it contained the power to be Master of the Universe. In death, he was cursed and banished into the dimension of Infinita, forever chained to his past crimes. He was brought back to Eternia® by a magical spell of light cast by Skeletor  to locate the most evil warriors in the five dimensions. Provided with a Scythe of Doom, Nul agreed to join forces with Skeletor and quickly became known as Scareglow™, thanks to his ability to burst forth and freeze his enemies with fright. 

Scareglow has 19 Points of Articulation: ball jointed head, ball jointed shoulders, swivel biceps, hinge elbows, swivel wrists, mid torso hinge, swivel waist, ball jointed hips, swivel thighs, hinge knees and hinged ankles. He also glows in the dark. He comes with a heavy duty purple cape, his scythe of doom, a mace with the tip to look like Castle Greyskull and inside of it is a key for something I have no knowledge what it is for.

Stealth Operations Suit AKA War Machine (sorta) from Iron Man 1 Wal Mart Exclusive:

Slower, but more heavily armored than the Iron Man armor, the Stealth Operations Suit boasts a much broader array of weapons, from repulsor rays to rocket launchers. Jim Rhodes pilots it on missions too sensitive for the high profile Iron Man to tackle. 

Yeah I know I stole the bio from another site but you know what it was the same bio on the back of the card too so suck it! Anyway this is pretty much War Machine even though it doesn't have the name. With the Silver and Black color scheme and the gatling gun on one shoulder and the rocket launcher on the other this toy is War Machine. The silver and grey go together really well and are set off with just a little bit of blue for his chest blast and his eyes. Over all it looks really nice: S.O.S. WM has 28 points of Articulation ball jointed head, ball jointed shoulders, swivel biceps, double hinged elbows, hinged wrists with a swivel, hinged torso, ball jointed hips, swivel thighs, double jointed knees, ball jointed feet with a swivel ankle, and two slide brackets for his attachable weapons. he also came with two attachments for his wrists to mimic his wrist mounted guns.

 

And last but certainly not least 

IM2 War Machine: 

Holy shit is this character awesome looking and he only stands 4.5 inches tall. He is your typical silver and grey/black with red for his chest piece and his eyes he also has two arm cannons that are not removable and then two shoulder mounted gatling guns one is a huge launcher with two different 'missiles' to fit in the barrel and the other is a smaller one with no place for a missile. War Machine has 24 Points of Articulation:  ball jointed head, ball jointed shoulders, ball jointed elbows, swivel wrists, mid torso hinge. double ball jointed hips, swivel thighs, hinge knees and hinged ankles. In addition he also has swivel brackets for his guns that have ball joint attachments for the guns to rest on for a full variety of positions to shoot. 

Again if you would like me to go more indepth with any of these reviews I will be most glad to but you gotta let me know with a comment! 

Before Comic Con!

I know I haven't updated in a while but I have been busy with school and haven't had the money to buy much in the way of toys these past few months but here is what I have gotten in that short amount of time before ECCC! If you want me to do any reviews on any of these characters pleaser comment and lemme know what ones you want and I will do it for you my readers.

3&3/4 inch Iron Monger from the IM2 figure line:

3&3/34 inch Stealth Iron Man from the IM2 figure line:

3&3/4 inch Mark II from the IM2 figure line:

3&3/4 inch War Machine from the IM2 figure line:

Mini Mate Cosmic Power Silver Surfer and Swordsman(Thunderbolts):

Mini Mates Molecule Man and Julia Carpenter Spider-Woman: