Yeah, it's just a little odd that so much has been cut from what would've likely been much better toys, especially major characters. Real shame.Yeah, this line so far reeks of cost-cutting devices cutting itself off at the knees, Hasbro has some apologizing to do, economy woes or no. As for Demolishor's hinged treads, only pics I've seen from Hasbro had rubber and it looked like dookie.
As for Demmy, I thought much the same, but look reeeal closely next time you see one in package. There're hinges on the stock photos' treads.
A lot of the Constructicons look like terrible toys without the combination, no friggin' way Demolishor is worth the now-inflated Mega price without anything more to the toy, and Rampage follows suit in the Deluxe bracket.
Hmm, as mentioned, I don't have one on hand to fiddle with. It seemed to me that the exhaust pipe chunk was hinged so it could point forward in robot mode as a missile rack rather than stick up skyward as a mortar. Annoying without a set of stock images to refer to, I get the feeling they'll be the real helper this time around, as the instructions are mostly useless.There's no more than 3mm of travel, that's an expense to tool separately that I don't think they'd drop in for "looked kinda neat if you used your imagination".
Speaking of, it pays to look reeeeeally closely at the lineart for the completed robot mode. They often show a correctly transformed robot, despite not showing the correct series of steps to get to it (Or back).
The plastic too, I miss the nifty metallic flake blue.Yeah, the paint looks super flat to me, very plasticky and boring.
