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Operation Combination Crush-Bull,
Micromaster Collection Crush-Bull,
Micromaster Collection Destron Crush-Bull
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Universe Bonecrusher
Review
Crush-Bull is a tracked bulldozer - the only tracked vehicle in the Sixbuilder team. He's the team's equivalent of Bonecrusher in the original Constructicons, but unlike Bonecrusher he forms the back of the combined mode not the left arm. Crush-Bull's green colour - shared with Mixing - isn't too far from the original Constructicon green. His moulded tracks conceal small wheel that enable him to roll along. The shovel at the front raises & lowers.
TF:Pull the front half of the vehicle forward & up to form the body. Stand on the rear of the vehicle then fold back the shovel, fold up the head and fold out the arms
Crush-Bull's robot mode has the standard Micromaster articulation.
Fold Crash Bull's head down, then bend his knees back 90 degree and his waist back about 30 degrees. Peg him onto the waist - he fits perfectly in the cut-out section - with the shovel going into the small of Sixbuilder's back.
Crush-Bull was sold in Japan in 1992 in the Operation Combination TF-01 Sixbuilder set.
Crush-Bull returns in 2003 as toy number 1 in the Micromaster Collection release of SixBuilder where he's packed with the waist & upper legs of Sixbuilder.
Like many of the toys in this set Crush-Bull gets a repaint, but his is a relatively minor one swapping green for a more aqua blue green. The general theme of this Sixbuilder repaint is a homage to Build King/Landfill so you'd think Crush-Bull should be orange like Build Boy/Wedge. However since he's not the component that forms the centre of the chest (that's Gran Arm, who is coloured orange) a different colour is used. Since Crush-Bull shares his main colour with Mixing, and there's no concrete mixer in Build King, there's no reason why they couldn't both have been orange.
Crush-Bull's Destron chase repaint *finally* puts him in colours resembling the G1 Constructicons. The green used here for most parts - the legs are black - is a brighter shade than that used on the original Constructicons, while purple is used for the tracks, windows & Decepticon symbol. Chase Destron Sixbuilder pieces were packed between 1 and 2 piece per box of 12 Sixbuilder pieces - 2 complete sets in each. However due to the Constructicon homage this chase set was in demand more than the others for a long time. Destron Crush-Bull comes with the chase version of the waist & legs that his Cybertron counterpart has.
The Universe release of Sixbuilder was something of a surprise. For a long while it was thought that Takara exclusives couldn't be released in the west.... Then the Energon command Ravage repaint came out, almost exactly the same as the Takara version. Devastator isn't quite the same a Micromaster Collection Sixbuilder: the green is flatter, closer the green of the original Constructicons, there's more paint applications and here the shovel for Bonecrusher - the correct G1 name is used - is moulded in black plastic. Unfortunately Bonecrusher's Decepticon symbol is upside down in robot mode. Like Destron Crush-Bull, Bonecrusher comes with the waist & upper legs piece of the combined robot which is this time moulded in green like the gun. Why both aren't cast purple like the original waist & gun I'm not sure !
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