Allegiances: Decepticons
Price: $30 (U.S.)
Overall Rating: 6.4

(NOTE: Because this set is a repaint, this is not a full-blown review. This mainly covers any changes made to the set's molds and their color schemes, and merely compares them to the RotF Legends class Constructicons. For a review on the toys themselves, read the review of the RotF Legends class Constructicons here.)
 

Decepticon Overload

Size: Legend
Difficulty of Transformation: Very Easy
Color Scheme: Light lime green, dark gray, and some dark purple, light red, and light muddy brown
Individual Rating: 7.9
 

Hightower

Size: Legend
Difficulty of Transformation: Very Easy
Color Scheme: Light lime green, dark gray, and some dark purple, light red, and light muddy brown
Individual Rating: 5.3
 

Long Haul

Size: Legend
Difficulty of Transformation: Very Easy
Color Scheme: Light lime green and some dark gray, dark purple, light red, and light muddy brown
Individual Rating: 7.6
 

Mixmaster

Size: Legend
Difficulty of Transformation: Very Easy
Color Scheme: Light lime green and some dark gray, dark purple, light red, and light muddy brown
Individual Rating: 4.4
 

Rampage

Size: Legend
Difficulty of Transformation: Very Easy
Color Scheme: Light lime green, dark gray, and some dark purple, light red, and light muddy brown
Individual Rating: 4.9
 

Scavenger

Size: Legend
Difficulty of Transformation: Very Easy
Color Scheme: Light lime green, dark gray, chalky off-white, and some light red
Individual Rating: 6.1
 

Scrapper

Size: Legend
Difficulty of Transformation: Very Easy
Color Scheme: Light lime green and some dark gray, dark purple, light red, and light muddy brown
Individual Rating: 8.2
 

Constructicon Devastator (Gestalt Form)

Difficulty of Transformation: Hard
Individual Rating: 6.8

    Considering that all of the Constructicons' colors are so similar in this version, I felt it more efficient to review them all together, instead of just repeating roughly the same comments on every one. Just like G1, this redeco of the RotF Legends Constructicons incorporates a light lime green as the main color, with dark gray being the main secondary color on most of the 'Cons. The dark gray serves as a decent darker color to offset the green... but there's barely any of the purple also used in the G1 color scheme, which is really unfortunate as it not only looked GREAT against the green, but also made them look considerably more visually appealing. With the purple only being used on the windows, it really isn't "present" enough to serve as a main or secondary color here. There's a bit of brown "dirt" paint wash on most of the Constructicons, but it's fairly minimal and although it doesn't outright clash, it also doesn't lend much to the color scheme. On a call-out to a more specific figure, Scavenger in this set still has his white paint apps, which really needed to go for this version, given how light the shade of green plastic behind them already is. They're both bright colors, and thus don't contrast well enough. I will say that the red used for the optics of the various robots-- as little as it is used-- looks very nice against the green.
    No mold changes have been made to Autobot Alliance "G1 Colors" Constructicon Devastator.
    The idea behind a "G1 colored" Legends Devastator set was a good one, given how it would make the combined mode look more cohesive and not so obviously a mish-mash of different 'bots, but in practice it falls flat, mainly due to the lack of any substantial amount of purple to offset all that light green. Instead, he ends up rather blah and boring-looking. Some of the individual 'Cons look slightly better, but overall I'd definitely recommend the original release of this gifset instead, although the original is a fair bit harder to get.

Reviews by Beastbot

(Note: All pictures in this review are taken from Hasbro, via TFW2005.)

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