The designers at Devil Saviour frighten me. What kind of madmen are they, designing stuff like this? It’s impressive to the point that I can’t believe human beings designed it.
My guess is that they were ALL originally going to be as complex as Split, but after seeing the backlash that figure received for its insanely over-engineered complexity and frustrating conversion process, they decided to tone down their designs for the other Constructicons in their line. Giant Axe, Compressor and Sweeping are actually perfect examples, as the first two are based off of the Legends RoTF Scavenger and Overload, and Sweeping visibly shares engineering with the Studio Series Rampage/Skipjack mold. Hell, even their Hightower was based off of Hasbro's. As happy as I am that Devil Savior seems to be listening to community feedback, I can't help but feel like their engineering process lost something when they decided to simplify their designs. The first time I saw Split being transformed in a video, I was blown away at the complexity and detail, the way it looked in its various modes, and the fact that it was the first RoTF Devastator head I had seen that had proper neck articulation (I don't count the Legends class one). This was before I learned how pissed off people were with the figure itself though, so take that with a grain of salt. That's not to say I dislike what DS is doing now. Their Constructicons still look amazing, and even the unoriginal molds have a few tweaks and upgrades here and there that improve the figures in all modes. I just feel like the newer molds aren't as creative as Split was, and I think that if they manage to find a middle ground between the complexity of Split and the user-friendliness of their later releases, they would be high contenders in the Third Party marketplace. Until then, though, they're still doing great work, and I wish them all the best with Scrapper and any potential future projects.
@@dracosodozir7607 I have found none of them so far to be all that similar to the Studio Series figures, other than being based on the same underlying designs. If you look at the older unpainted prototype combiner pictures, their designs look the same as the ones that they ultimately produced.
@@lynnesauer6008 I believe "Skipjack" is the Hasbro name for the yellow bulldozer that forms the leg of Devastator. For copyright reasons 3rd party companies like Devil Saviour cannot use the same name for a character that Hasbro used.
Vehicle to Robot: Oh that’s some neat engineering.
Robot to Leg: W H A T
I WISH they made a red one for rampage lovers 😩
I don't believe they did. But Hasbro did.
The designers at Devil Saviour frighten me. What kind of madmen are they, designing stuff like this? It’s impressive to the point that I can’t believe human beings designed it.
They already sold their soul to be able to perform this black magic
Some other groups make stuff more complex and genius than this. It seems the devil has been making many deals lately.
Horrible design !
Meet Skipjack from the movie: Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen. Released in June 24th, 2009. Rated P.G.
I'm waiting for you to combine them All.
Me too!
Can't wait for Scrapper to finish this beast. Why did they make Split/Mixmaster such a disaster yet make the rest of these guys relatively easy?
He was a quadruple changer.
@@peolesdru I guess that's true. Still, love the look of them all.
My guess is that they were ALL originally going to be as complex as Split, but after seeing the backlash that figure received for its insanely over-engineered complexity and frustrating conversion process, they decided to tone down their designs for the other Constructicons in their line. Giant Axe, Compressor and Sweeping are actually perfect examples, as the first two are based off of the Legends RoTF Scavenger and Overload, and Sweeping visibly shares engineering with the Studio Series Rampage/Skipjack mold. Hell, even their Hightower was based off of Hasbro's.
As happy as I am that Devil Savior seems to be listening to community feedback, I can't help but feel like their engineering process lost something when they decided to simplify their designs. The first time I saw Split being transformed in a video, I was blown away at the complexity and detail, the way it looked in its various modes, and the fact that it was the first RoTF Devastator head I had seen that had proper neck articulation (I don't count the Legends class one). This was before I learned how pissed off people were with the figure itself though, so take that with a grain of salt.
That's not to say I dislike what DS is doing now. Their Constructicons still look amazing, and even the unoriginal molds have a few tweaks and upgrades here and there that improve the figures in all modes. I just feel like the newer molds aren't as creative as Split was, and I think that if they manage to find a middle ground between the complexity of Split and the user-friendliness of their later releases, they would be high contenders in the Third Party marketplace. Until then, though, they're still doing great work, and I wish them all the best with Scrapper and any potential future projects.
@@dracosodozir7607 I have found none of them so far to be all that similar to the Studio Series figures, other than being based on the same underlying designs. If you look at the older unpainted prototype combiner pictures, their designs look the same as the ones that they ultimately produced.
Too complicated
the transformation makes this a popformer, and i don't like popformers. also, his ds name's skipjack. where'd you get ''sweeping''?
From the box.
@@peolesdru ewkay why did devil savior give him two names?
@@lynnesauer6008 I believe "Skipjack" is the Hasbro name for the yellow bulldozer that forms the leg of Devastator. For copyright reasons 3rd party companies like Devil Saviour cannot use the same name for a character that Hasbro used.
@@peolesdru ooohhh. I looked at this figure on Google images again. His ds name IS swepping
ooohhh. I looked at this figure on Google images again. His ds name IS swepping
Thats freaking hideous, a pox on Michael Bay, a pox I say.