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*Images and text below from Hasbrotoyshop.com: Prepare to do battle – DECEPTICON style! Get in gear with this awesome figure! Featuring MECH ALIVE GEARING spinning gears in robot mode, this bold-looking bad guy is ready to “dig” in and fight! Convert him to an excavator with a working shovel in vehicle mode! This battle is on – are you ready? Detailed robot-to-vehicle figure features MECH ALIVE GEARING spinning gears in robot mode and a working shovel in excavator mode!
Vehicle Mode: The first details that draw my eye are the rails on the side. The sheer scale they represent compared to an average human being is mind blowing. The control center is designed very much like the real life one down to where the door is, the shape of the windows and the four pieces sticking up on the roof. There are also small cooling units behind the control center. Look carefully at these rectangles and you'll even see small fan turbines inside, which is a level of detail I really appreciate. On the other side you'll find more railings along with a row of barrels and tube/wire detailing. Look in the area in between the two to see more mechanical detail and vents. The shovel in the center is well detailed too. The hinges have round details with circles inside them made up of tiny raised circles, replicating a detail found on the real life RH 400. Lines of cables come out from the base of the arm to the middle on the top. Perhaps the most interesting details are drums inside the arm. These drums are part of the "Mech Alive" feature of this figure. Move the arm up and down and the drums spin, looking very cool. The drums themselves look like layer upon layer of tech detail, and it's not all even either, showing quite a bit of thought went into the sculpting of those pieces. Demolishor is cast in dark red, grey, light grey and translucent purple plastic. The red plastic is used for most of the main body of the vehicle. Light grey plastic is used for the shovel arm and shovel. The windows of the control center are translucent purple. The darker grey can be found on small pieces such as the rails and joints on the figure as well as the inside of the treads. The treads themselves are made of black rubber. The colors work well together and have their basis in real life. One of the color schemes that the RH 400 comes in is a red and light grey scheme (you can see it in the brochure here). Since the movie figures aim towards looking like realistic vehicles, I think it was a cool idea to use an approximation of a real life color scheme for this figure. Paint details for this figure are done in black, light grey, silver and gold. Black is used mostly on the shovel arm. It begins at the shovel, which is mostly black, but then fades towards the arm with a spray op that looks fantastic. Black is also used on the wires on top of the shovel arm and dark dusting is used on the arm itself, giving the figure a nice worn and real life appearance. On the side of the vehicle are warning stripes painted in black as well as a Decepticon symbol on the left side. The drums inside the shovel arm are painted silver, an appropriate color since they represent internal mechanics of the vehicle. Light grey paint is used on the control center and panels on the sides of the vehicle. This grey matches the shovel arm and contrasts nicely against the red plastic. Finally, a bit of gold is used on rectangular panels on the sides of the vehicle. The shovel arm has three points of articulation. It moves at the base, in the middle and where it connects to the shovel. Interestingly, the claws at the end of the shovel are on hinges, but they can barely move up and down. I'm not sure what happened here (a last minute redesign perhaps?) but I'm not counting them. The treads however are definitely a victim of cost cutting and last minute changes. In the photos of the prototype figure on the packaging you can see the treads were made into several distinct parts that linked up. However, they are now just one solid rubber piece. Functionally however I can't say it would have affected much since the treads don't actually roll at all. This is due to the nature of the transformation (more on that below). In that respect the vehicle mode is a bit disappointing, but when weighed against the strength of the sculpt and the neato shovel arm, it's a minor quibble. Transformation to Robot Mode:
Robot Mode: Newly revealed details also include the mechanical bits on his shoulders. Contrary to what the packaging says, the fan inside the shoulder does not turn, they are just sculpted details (but nicely done details). There is a network of wires, machinery and even grilles on each shoulder, continuing his complex appearance from the vehicle mode. The wheel on the top offers some symmetry to the one on the bottom. Just in sculpt alone I really love the design of this figure. It's weird, funky and well detailed. The same colors present in the vehicle mode carry over here with the additon of a gunmetal color on the robot head. Gold, black and silver are found on the machinery details on his shoulders. The eyes are cast in translucent orange which gets a bit lost in the red color of the head but it's a nice color if you use the light piping feature. For the most part, it is very difficult to pose Demolishor at all. He generally rests on his central wheel using his two arms for support. I've been told he can be posed, but after about ten minutes trying to find one pose that didn't require an arm to hold him up somehow, I gave up. I really don't see this as a weakness since it is a good representation of the character as featured in the movie. The good news is, Demolishor does have posability. In total, he has eleven points of articulation. This includes a couple of hinges on his arms that allow you to swing the shoulder section forward a bit so his arms can swing up and down in front of him. If you leave them in their default postion, the arms wind up swinging out to the sides.
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