Hasbro Transformers Studio Series 86 Deluxe Constructicon Scavenger Action Figure Hasbro, 2025
Day #2,948: December 9, 2025
Constructicon Scavenger Devastator Redux
Transformers Studio Series 86 Deluxe
Item No.: Asst. G0477 No. G0570 Manufacturer:Hasbro Includes:Black Scavenger blaster Action Feature:Transforms from robot to excavator Retail:$24.99 Availability: August 2025 Other: A good arm, an OK robot, a so-so vehicle
While Scrapper was an excellent stand-alone toy and a perfectly fine leg, Constructicon Scavenger is a good arm and admittedly not a great stand-alone toy. I liked hte original as a kid, it had some wacky play features like a drill and a rocket launcher for the combiner fist that actually gave it more play value. As a combiner arm, it fell off a lot. This one has no such toy features, but it hooks on to Devastator's shoulder well and makes a very good arm - and that's why most people will want to buy it.
You're probably going to want this, and it's fine. It's not amazing, but it's a decent deluxe toy - just a little light on features for $25 (and especially the new $28 price.)
Hasbro and Takara-Tomy do a good job cramming joints in a figure withtout making it ugly. The face looks a lot like the cartoon, but not the toy. The toy face had a little more personality, and this guy's mask mouth looks a hair more forgettable. The shoulders aren't too special, with elbows that work and fold-out ands that I don't love. They're purple plastic, painted green - mine were chipped a bit before I even opened the box. I'm not sure why they went this route. They work, but they're not up to the standards the line is normally capable of hitting. The metal parts of the original toy are here as silver painted plastic, with the fold-out shoulder pad as a molded bit on the chest. The detail is good and the Decepticon symbol looks great. Below the waist, he's a little weird with a long, wide, diaper-like crotch element and perfectly normal legs. I'm impressed how the tread integrated thigh swivels, bending knees, and rocker ankles - that's way more than a toy like this needs for transformation or combiner functionality. Also, we're paying for that, otherwise this is a simpler toy.
The vehicle mode exists largely to be part of an arm. There's not a lot of fun here, but you can move the bucket arm and even pop it off. The reason it comes off is to better match the animation model, which drops Hook's crane arm and Scavenger's bucket digger. As a vehicle it matches the general look of the toy and the cartoon, but it doesn't do a lot. You can mount a blaster on it, and also one of the arms doesn't quite fit properly. You have to massage it in place and maybe even shave off a little plastic, lest it pop out. For a combiner, this kind of design flaw can be fatal - here it's merely annoying. It doesn't get in the way of being the limb on your shelf.
The green part rotates nicely, and has to, because it's also the shoulder joint for the combined mode.
As an arm, it's an arm! You add a fist piece from the Hook/Long Haul torso set, and you're off to the races to destruction. It's perfectly engineered for this purpose and gravity did not seem to anger it when holding the big blaster. It's a smaller limb, but it's not like it needs a lot of bulk to do its job. It's a right arm. It'll prepare for devastation and such. The chest wing tabs in to the purple treads just fine, and the whole figure holds together impressively well for a combiner robot that, as a kid, always fell apart on me. It's big, but not too big, and probably will serve as a replacement for the Combiner Wars toy I may no longer need. I can't keep all things in all sizes forever, and this is a good replacement.
If you're on a budget and not completing the set, I wouldn't recommend this as a great place to start. Scrapper is excellent as a stand-alone toy, and Bonecrusher is one that knows that he has an important job to do, that there is no I in Team, that adult diapers are nothing of which to be ashamed. There is nothing about this toy's color or articulation to bag on, as it's functionally precisely what it needs to be. It feels a little less polished, a little less fancy, than other toys at this price point (or in this team) and with good cause. This is one of the two cheap guys. I heartily recommend it as part of the collection, because who doesn't want a nicely sized Devastator with ankle tilts? It's way better than the other toys I've got - at least in terms of "looks better than the cartoon" - but you might be happy with what you already own. If you are, save your money for another toy. This is good, but there's little doubt in my mind that we will, some day, see an even fancier version and you'll want that too.
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