In antic­i­pa­tion of the 2009 Toy Fair the lat­est Has­bro Press Release out­lines the Trans­form­ers 2 toy line, due for release along­side the movie. This includes con­fir­ma­tion that Dev­as­ta­tor will be in the movie and is made up of 6 constructicons.

Inter­est­ingly, this con­flicts with the con­cept design we have seen, which clearly shows 7 or even 8 robots com­bin­ing to form Dev­as­ta­tor. It is pos­si­ble that this is an early con­cept and that the design of Dev­as­ta­tor has since changed, some sug­gest the body now has a cen­tral cement mixer ‘drum’ which acts like a suck­ing vor­tex. It’s also entirely pos­si­ble that the toy has just been sim­pli­fied to ease con­struc­tion and lower costs.

..And, long-time fans will be thrilled with one the most pow­er­ful DECEPTICONS, the new TRANSFORMERS MOVIE CONSTRUCTICON DEVASTATOR fig­ure, a mon­strous robot that com­bines six vehi­cles into one giant robot.

TRANSFORMERS MOVIE CONSTRUCTICON DEVASTATOR
(Approx­i­mate retail price: $99.99; Ages 5 & up; Avail­able: August 2009)
The largest and most pow­er­ful foe the AUTOBOTS will encounter in this summer’s TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN is sure to be DEVASTATOR, a mon­strous DECEPTICON robot made up of six sep­a­rate con­struc­tion vehi­cles known as the CONSTRUCTICONS. The TRANSFORMERS MOVIE CONSTRUCTICON DEVASTATOR allows kids to re-create the film’s awe­some action sequences.

TRANSFORMERS MOVIE POWER BOTS
(Approx­i­mate retail price: $22.99; Ages 4 & up; Avail­able: May 30, 2009) Designed to enable easy play for younger fans, TRANSFORMERS MOVIE POWER BOTS are 10-inch robot-only ver­sions of favorite TRANSFORMERS char­ac­ters. These large-scale, chunky action fig­ures include lights, sounds and bat­tle fea­tures. Two new POWER BOTS fig­ures fea­tur­ing robots from TRANSFORMERS: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN will be released in 2009. TRANSFORMERS MOVIE MEGA POWER BOTS (Approx­i­mate retail price: $34.99; Ages 4 & up; Avail­able: August 2009)
Tak­ing POWER BOTS to the next level with a sec­ond mode for “mega” action! Robots include OPTIMUS PRIME and DEVASTATOR. When the DEVASTATOR POWER BOT fig­ure is face down, he appears to be six dif­fer­ent vehi­cles, but when stand­ing upright, he is the mon­strous DECEPTICON, DEVASTATOR.

TRANSFORMERS RPMs DEVASTATOR TRACK SET
(Approx­i­mate retail price: $39.99; Ages 5 & up; Avail­able: August 2009)
Cre­ated specif­i­cally for the new TRANSFORMERS R.P.M.’s line of mini-vehicles, the TRANSFORMERS RPMs DEVASTATOR TRACK SET pro­vides fast, mini-vehicle play within a dynamic track set by lever­ag­ing the iconic bat­tle and high stakes drama found in the new movie. The track will bring DEVASTATOR to life and enable fans to re-enact the cli­mac­tic movie bat­tle between the AUTOBOTS and DEVASTATOR

The lat­est Toy­fare mag­a­zine has some juicy gos­sip bits about Trans­form­ers 2, pri­mar­ily that Dev­as­ta­tor will be up to 120 foot tall and that The Fallen is one of the orig­i­nal 13 Trans­form­ers, the one that went bad — play­ing on the apos­tles theology.

Tim For­mas sur­mised the article:

- Images of ROTF toys for Leader class Opti­mus Prime, Pre­view Bum­ble­bee, Pre­view Sound­wave, and the Voy­ager Class Starscream fig­ure.
– Lorenzo believes the time­frame of ROTF is about one year after Movie #1.
– When asked about the chal­lenge of cre­at­ing Dev­as­ta­tor on screen, Lorenzo men­tions that Bay had the chal­lenge in the first movie of hav­ing 30 foot robots. In the sec­ond movie, Bay has the chal­lenge of hav­ing a robot almost four times that. Expect Dev­as­ta­tor to be 100 to 120 feet tall in the movie.
– Archer said he couldn’t give away the plot point, but there’s a rea­son that Sound­wave is designed the way he is for the movie. Has­bro had a more basic toy need. So, the two were blended together.
– Toy launch date con­firmed as May 30th. A few weeks before, Bum­ble­bee and Sound­wave will be released.
– Char­ac­ters men­tioned in the ini­tial wave are “Side­swipe, Side­ways, Bull­dozer, Voy­ager and many oth­ers”. Promise of more off-screen char­ac­ters.
– Robot Heroes will have bet­ter artic­u­la­tion
– Bum­ble­bee hel­met has voice mixer
– Bum­ble­bee con­vert­ing pulse can­non
– Big ticket deluxe item for the year is still “top-secret“
– Grav­ity Bots are geared towards younger kids. Con­vert auto­mat­i­cally when you pick them up.
– A Megan Fox Human Alliance fig­ure is on Archer’s “wish list”.
– The Fallen’s ori­gin con­firmed: He is one of the orig­i­nal 13 Trans­form­ers. Lorenzo said to think of the 13 as “apos­tles”. The Fallen is the one who turns and is the rea­son Trans­form­ers split into Auto­bots and Decepticons.

To show the size of Dev­as­ta­tor to scale against Opti­mus (28ft tall) and humans Gauge001 cre­ated this:

Para­mount Pic­tures has moved the release of Trans­form­ers 2 two days ear­lier, from June 26th 2009 to June 24th. No rea­son as to why has been given, whether inter­na­tional releases will also change is not clear.

Oh wow, wasn’t expect­ing this to land on the doorstep today! Here we have it the FULLY com­bined Dev­as­ta­tor. Click the image for a higher res­o­lu­tion more detailed ver­sion. From the text that sur­rounds the image we can see what makes up the con­stituent parts of this beast, and it’s face is incred­i­bly beast-like:

Right Leg: Dump Truck
Left Arm: Crane
Left Leg: Bull­dozer
Torso: Exca­va­tor (this is the Terex Rh400 we’ve seen in the trailer)
Right Arm: The name isn’t vis­i­ble but guess­ing from the pic­ture I’d say a Load­ing vehi­cle (see details fur­ther down)

There’s also a ‘Mixer’ in there some­where and another vehi­cle form­ing the rear, with pos­si­bly another vehi­cle on the sheet that has been obscured by the char­ac­ter. The body com­bines to end up very Gorilla like, with hands that reach the floor and a head that sticks out the front, almost like King Kong.

This matches ear­lier reports:

Right Leg: Dump Truck
Left Leg: Bull­dozer
Right Arm: Wheel Loader
Left Arm: Truss Crane [no robot mode on this one],
Right Shoul­der: Exca­va­tor
Left Shoul­der: Artic­u­lated Dump Truck
Head: Cement Mixer

For com­par­i­son: Con­struc­ti­con Terex RH400 Toy Review | Trailer and Images

The Fallen’s con­cept builds on the char­ac­ter we’ve seen in the toy gal­leries. This is much more skinny, evil and alien look­ing. No flames on this one, maybe he ‘sparks up’ — he looks like he can do a whole lot of damage!

Com­par­i­son: Toy Images | Poster

Source: ACToys​.net

Indi­vid­ual Con­struc­ti­con Alt Modes

The world’s largest exca­va­tor (Terex RH400) which forms the Torso and most likely as its right leg, the world’s largest truck the Cater­pil­lar 797B:

Although as the leg is green it may also be the Hitachi Euclid R280:

To match this, the left leg prob­a­bly needs to be the world’s largest bull­dozer, I orig­i­nally thought this would be the Komatsu D575 (image) which is the largest pro­duc­tion bull­dozer but the tracks on that are not tri­an­gu­lar like they are in the con­cept image. This led me to the Acco Cus­tom built bull­dozer, the tracks on this per­fectly match the left foot:

The name of the right arm is obscured from vision, but given the raised bucket it looks a lot like a Load­ing vehi­cle, the largest of which is the Cater­pil­lar 994D. It could be any one of the large Load­ing vehi­cles, here is another, the Le Tourneau L-2350:

The left arm, the crane, looks like the Dragline exca­va­tor vari­ety — for all that machin­ery we can see in the con­cept it needs to be more than just a stan­dard crane. I haven’t man­aged to find a yel­low one:

The head looks like a drill but I can­not find a vehi­cle to match it.

It’s almost here. The teaser trailer shall be air­ing on Feb­ru­ary 1st, specif­i­cally in the third quar­ter, a few min­utes in. The full length trailer will also appear on Feb­ru­ary 13th, appear­ing on the inter­net one week later, although I am sure some leaked ver­sions will make their way around before then.

In the words of Michael Bay:

So,

The Super Bowl spot is com­ing Sun­day in the third Quar­ter (few min­utes into the quar­ter slot). The spot will be online a few min­utes after that — The full length teaser trailer will only be on Fri­day the Thir­teenth. It will not hit the inter­net until a week later. The Teaser really only teases stuff — I’m hold­ing so much stuff back from the final trail­ers because I per­son­ally hate going to movies where you have seen it all.

Tell me what you think,

Michael

TFW2005 forum mem­ber streetfield1 was at the open­ing of the Trans­form­ers UK Toy Fair and has reported back with some juicy gos­sip. Beward, MOVIE SPOILERS below:

– Dev­as­ta­tor will be around about 2 feet tall and built like a gorilla.
– The Human Alliance Bum­ble­bee that we have been see­ing recently will be the first release in his range.
– No toys of the Fallen at present.
– There will be new Robot Repli­cas of Iron­hide, Ratchet and Starscream.
– More infor­ma­tion on the RPM — Robot Pow­ered Machines — line. The cars are “Hot Wheels style” and are mainly Auto­bots, with their robot modes embossed on the bot­tom. The race­track has tracks all over the place, and instead of the cen­tral “moun­tain” you some­times see on these tracks, you’ve got Dev­as­ta­tor!
– There will be a radio con­trolled Opti­mus Prime truck with Peter Cullen sound­clips.
– The tank mode Mega­tron toy (which ver­sion is not spec­i­fied) was on dis­play, although nobody was avail­able to com­ment on whether or not he is in the film.

Some footage, fea­tur­ing ani­mat­ics, was also shown. If you do not want to be spoiled, look away now!

- Dev­as­ta­tor is… dev­as­tat­ing! The mix­ing drum in his chest becomes a mas­sive tur­bine grinder. It cre­ates a tur­bine effect, suck­ing every­thing in Devastator’s path up, and spit­ting it out of his back.
– Wheelie is effec­tively con­firmed as a remote con­trolled car, in line with other rumors we have heard recently.
– Legions of Decep­ti­con drones, resem­bling Frenzy, will cause car­nage in the Witwicky house­hold.
– Sam fights for his life on top of a car against Pre­tender Alice.
– Cap­tain Lennox also gets to see some seri­ous action against the Decep­ti­cons, with full heli­copter backup.

Seib­ertron have posted an image of a Nascar die cast model donned up in M&Ms / Trans­form­ers ROTF para­pher­na­lia, found on bud­dys­toys it is rumored to be Nascar dri­ver Kyle Busch’s vehi­cle — set to appear at the Infi­neon Race­way come June 21st in the Toyota/Save Mart 350 to pro­mote TF2. No robot mode though

Autobotic9 over at Seib​ertron​.com has pro­vided some bet­ter shots of the new Con­struc­ti­con toy via HK-TF:

He’s a voy­ager shovel. His shovel splits into two arms, one tread goes behind his head, and the other one he rolls around on. This is a fact.

This con­firms that the alt mode is a Terex RH400, as spec­u­lated by TLAMB, “the world’s largest earth mover”. They also point out that on the leaked call sheet for Trans­form­ers 2 a trans­former char­ac­ter was described as a ‘Con­struc­ti­con Earth Mover’.