Death's Head
13-10-11, 07:47 AM
As a youngster, when I clapped eyes on the Micromaster Combiners, I thought ‘well they’re not proper combiners – they don’t form a big robot’ and pondered that it would be pretty cool to have Micromasters that formed a gestalt. Unbeknown to me at the time, a mere two years later on the otherside of the world, this very thing came to fruition as part of Japan’s Operation : Combination line of 1992. The west would have a longer wait to own these combining Micromasters. They became available on import in 2002 as part of the Micromaster Collection, a series of reissues of the four Micromaster Combiners released in their ‘normal’ colours and then as a chase variant. Hasbro then released some of them as part of the Universe line in 2004 albeit as store exclusives. All four were subsequently re-released as part of the Energon linethat same year with some getting a further repaint and reuse for 2006s Cybertron line.
And so; Bonecrusher. In common with all the combiner Micromasters packaged for Western consumption, the toy featured no bio leaving it unclear whether this was the original Bonecrusher in a new form, or indeed the same as Universe Bonecrusher (!). The toy comes packed with an accessory that allows it to combine with the other Constructicons to form Devastator. Bonecrusher himself is a great little toy, featuring a nicely detailed bulldozer as an alt mode. It is a little loud, rendered as it is in a slightly luminous shade of Apple Green. It rolls along nicely enough and the plough can be raised and lowered offering a degree of functionality.
The robot mode is, as with all Micromasters, a quick switch involving a simple conversion that serves to give you a decent looking robot mode. There’s a nice face sculpt and a pleasingly blocky old- school feel to the toy which made a refreshing change. Articulation is pretty minimal, with movement at the arms. The legs can move at the knee thanks to the transformation, but he can’t really be posed as such. He forms the back to this version of Devastator which simply involves folding the vehicle mode in half and clamping it to the lower torso. A nicely detailed figure and one that , like the original Constructicons (and indeed the larger deluxe Universe ones) is capable of serving as figure in his own right, rather than being compromised to form the part of a larger figure, as with the Scramble City figures.
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And so; Bonecrusher. In common with all the combiner Micromasters packaged for Western consumption, the toy featured no bio leaving it unclear whether this was the original Bonecrusher in a new form, or indeed the same as Universe Bonecrusher (!). The toy comes packed with an accessory that allows it to combine with the other Constructicons to form Devastator. Bonecrusher himself is a great little toy, featuring a nicely detailed bulldozer as an alt mode. It is a little loud, rendered as it is in a slightly luminous shade of Apple Green. It rolls along nicely enough and the plough can be raised and lowered offering a degree of functionality.
The robot mode is, as with all Micromasters, a quick switch involving a simple conversion that serves to give you a decent looking robot mode. There’s a nice face sculpt and a pleasingly blocky old- school feel to the toy which made a refreshing change. Articulation is pretty minimal, with movement at the arms. The legs can move at the knee thanks to the transformation, but he can’t really be posed as such. He forms the back to this version of Devastator which simply involves folding the vehicle mode in half and clamping it to the lower torso. A nicely detailed figure and one that , like the original Constructicons (and indeed the larger deluxe Universe ones) is capable of serving as figure in his own right, rather than being compromised to form the part of a larger figure, as with the Scramble City figures.
989990