Combiner Wars Leader Class Megatron Video Review

Rated X wrote:They sacraficed the iconic shape of megatrons arm cannon to make it a stupid tank barrel. They should have just included a seperate arm cannon and made the tank barrel fold up along his back somehow to emulate G1 Megatrons gun barrel. Then they could have kept it silver. Parts intragration has ruined yet another figure.

noctorro wrote:

Rated X wrote:They sacraficed the iconic shape of megatrons arm cannon to make it a stupid tank barrel. They should have just included a seperate arm cannon and made the tank barrel fold up along his back somehow to emulate G1 Megatrons gun barrel. Then they could have kept it silver. Parts intragration has ruined yet another figure.

Oh my god man,
do you even enjoy life?

frogbat wrote:generations (chug or whateve ryou wanna call it) forms the largest percentage of my collection. However I never did get the previous megatron mainly because I didn't like the alt mode. Now this guy I was a bit sceptical at first. Didn't like his spindly proportions or his gun. But now that i've seen better pix and the video (tho hopefully there'll be a less painful one to watch out soon).

this mother has working rubber tracks... what other tf can claim that? I mean i was thrilled to pieces with bludgeon so this is definitley a step up though they could've still made that cannon a bit better. maybe if it separated in 2.

Anyhow this will definitely lead the chug decepticons into battle.

Metro Prime wrote:That reviewer put him next to just about every MP figure that isn't MP-10.

Seibertron wrote:

Tyrannacon wrote:If you guys want this Megatron as much as I do, I found a place that still has him for pre-order, http://scramblecore.com/products/transformers-generations-megatron. Problem is once you pre-order you can't cancel it. I've never ordered from them before, but I found it when I was on Tumblr and the price isn't bad. 9.50 for shipping for me. So it came to $52.00 altogether.

You can get both Generations Megatrons for $89.99 shipped from Entertainment Earth at http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodi ... NbIPPmjNcY

Tyrannacon wrote:Definitely feeling the hype towards owning this figure!

Seibertron wrote:

Tyrannacon wrote:If you guys want this Megatron as much as I do, I found a place that still has him for pre-order, http://scramblecore.com/products/transformers-generations-megatron. Problem is once you pre-order you can't cancel it. I've never ordered from them before, but I found it when I was on Tumblr and the price isn't bad. 9.50 for shipping for me. So it came to $52.00 altogether.

You can get both Generations Megatrons for $89.99 shipped from Entertainment Earth at http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodi ... NbIPPmjNcY

Yeah, EE has a good deal too! I was going to get from there originally, but I'm on the fence about Armada Megatron. I might pick him up next month though.

william-james88 wrote:

frogbat wrote:generations (chug or whateve ryou wanna call it) forms the largest percentage of my collection. However I never did get the previous megatron mainly because I didn't like the alt mode. Now this guy I was a bit sceptical at first. Didn't like his spindly proportions or his gun. But now that i've seen better pix and the video (tho hopefully there'll be a less painful one to watch out soon).

this mother has working rubber tracks... what other tf can claim that? I mean i was thrilled to pieces with bludgeon so this is definitley a step up though they could've still made that cannon a bit better. maybe if it separated in 2.

Anyhow this will definitely lead the chug decepticons into battle.

Which one? There were a bunch, and I much prefer the one below to lead my decepticons since he kept his gun alt mode albeit in a classics design:

AutobotAlvaron wrote:This is a better Megatron, to me, than many others in a very long time. Including even his spinning turret is brilliant! It looks like the same arm/turret design as Cybertron Scattorshot, which I always thought had a very creative mechanism.

As I've written elsewhere...Overall, I'm really looking forward to this Megatron, which looks better than his CHUG nerf-gun version. He's no Masterpiece, but he's the best HasTak G1-like Megs I've seen in a very long while. Generally, I've felt blah about many of the Megatron toys in the past, which leads me to a comparison of the Megatrons throughout the years...

RID/2000 Megs, though cool, didn't evoke "Megatron" to me, and seemed like a DeathSaurus type of toy/character.

I never cared for Armada Megs' moose antlers, and I love Energon Megs, but he's really G1 Galvatron.

Cybertron Megatron was a wacky-colored Unicron mash-up; the silver "Galvatron" was better.

Movie 1 Megs was a weird monster-faced, space-jet thing, like the Animated version, although the Animated Helicopter Megatron was cool. Movie 2 Tank Megatron was good, except for the stupid gimpy arm, and Movie Tanker Megs was Ok, but never got a decent Leader Mold.

Prime Megatron, like his Movie 1 counterpart, disappointed with a weak space-jet mode again, although his bot mode was Ok too.

WFC/FOC Megatron was good but deserved a Voyager or Leader mold, Titanium Megs was cool, but over-simplified.

We never got an Alternator Megs, a Cadillac concept would have been awesome though. Alternity Megs was Ok, but too small & not widely available like Alternators were.

IDW Megatron is cool, but again he should have been larger, & though I love my MP05, he's lanky, fiddly, delicate, and overly complex.

So this Combiner Wars Megatron is a large(ish), G1-like version that looks more promising than anything else for a very long while. He's not perfect, but he's the best I've seen these many years. Until MP Megatron version 2 comes out, this is my best substitute.

Regimus Prime wrote:Nice. Can't wait to get my hands on him. I love the face sculpt. This is probably on of the best G1 inspired Megatrons we've got ton in years. Lord knows that the movie verse versions were atrocious. Hasbro can have my money for this one twice

SlyTF1 wrote:

Regimus Prime wrote:Nice. Can't wait to get my hands on him. I love the face sculpt. This is probably on of the best G1 inspired Megatrons we've got ton in years. Lord knows that the movie verse versions were atrocious. Hasbro can have my money for this one twice

On the contrary, I didn't. I actually liked the movie versions. I still have to say, though, this one looks better.

Wolfman Jake wrote:The Takara's United version is the best iteration of that Megatron. If this new Megatron were even just ultra sized, he would be a shoe-in for my Classics display.

megatronus wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:The Takara's United version is the best iteration of that Megatron. If this new Megatron were even just ultra sized, he would be a shoe-in for my Classics display.

Well, these new Leaders seem to be a bit smaller than the traditional leader class figure - dare I say, Ultra-sized?

fenrir72 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

megatronus wrote:I don't know about all of you, but my favorite Megatron of the last decade is the recent Takara Legends Megatron w/ Chopshop:




If they had ups-ized this mold/design to a voyager with greater articulation and better proportions (probably possible in a larger size class), I would have been all over it.

Those colors are still very wrong for that mold.

Why?

Cobotron wrote:Looks good in the video. The shin plates that slide down when you flip the foot, are a nice touch. The proportions look fine, and man, is he shiny! Would like to see him next to Classics and CW Prime.

Sabrblade wrote:Are those your pics? The cannon's on backwards and not retracted.

shajaki wrote:BOOM!

CrankyOldTruck wrote:....It's not that I'm being hyper-critical....

remmolacha wrote:Does he combines??

dragons wrote:good video what is wind noise in video allready knew what articluation was by looking at pictures

Wolfman Jake wrote:I don't think the remedy to the scale issue between Leader Megatron and Voyager Classics or CW Prime is to make a smaller Megatron, but to give us a bigger Optimus. I want a supreme size version, scaled so Optimus comes up about a head shorter than Megatron, and put the rest of the plastic budget into a proper Classics trailer. Maybe in another few years?

megatronus wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:I don't think the remedy to the scale issue between Leader Megatron and Voyager Classics or CW Prime is to make a smaller Megatron, but to give us a bigger Optimus. I want a supreme size version, scaled so Optimus comes up about a head shorter than Megatron, and put the rest of the plastic budget into a proper Classics trailer. Maybe in another few years?

I'm of the opposite opinion - I could use a smaller Megatron. Perhaps a large voyager. That makes the most sense given all the deluxe/voyager Generations-style figures we've gotten over the last 10 or so years.

That said, I would like a nice big Generations Optimus, too.

shajaki wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Looks good in the video. The shin plates that slide down when you flip the foot, are a nice touch. The proportions look fine, and man, is he shiny! Would like to see him next to Classics and CW Prime.

BOOM!

It Is Him wrote:Now I wonder if combined mode optimus Maximus or whatever will tower over Megatron. I was hoping they'd stand toe to toe, but that seems unlikely

Nemesis Maximo wrote:I'd like to share something my brother revealed to me; I hope this hasn't been posted already, but I'm too lazy to read the entire backlog of this thread.

Re: Voyager Silverbolt, with the fact that Superion's antennae are made of soft plastic, and with how they fold down when SB is in robot mode, they are certainly in an odd place.

Silverbolt has nipples.

Granted, they're a bit lower than his actual pecs, but now that my bro pointed that out to me, I can't pick up SB without chuckling.

SkyWarpt wrote:

Nemesis Maximo wrote:I'd like to share something my brother revealed to me; I hope this hasn't been posted already, but I'm too lazy to read the entire backlog of this thread.

Re: Voyager Silverbolt, with the fact that Superion's antennae are made of soft plastic, and with how they fold down when SB is in robot mode, they are certainly in an odd place.

Silverbolt has nipples.

Granted, they're a bit lower than his actual pecs, but now that my bro pointed that out to me, I can't pick up SB without chuckling.

Eew...they are all droopy

Shockwave7 wrote:This is a small instance that I was able to observe directly over this very weekend. But I'm sure that it is widespread, and it is therefore something that Hasbro should take note of.

Several Combiner Wars figures turned up at our local wal-mart this week. The Legion figures and Voyager figures from Wave1. This included 2 Silverbolt voyager figures, and 3 Optimus Prime voyager figures. I quickly snagged the two Bombshell figures and a Powerglide. But I had no interest in Silverbolt or Optimus (since I am waiting for the Stunticons to collect Menasor instead). I left all the other figures on the shelf.

That was Friday evening, when the figures were first put out. I checked Wal-mart again late on Sunday, just to see if they had put out any of the Deluxe figures (since I am on the hunt for Dragstrip). Almost all of the Legion figures were gone. All of the Silverbolt figures were gone.

But NONE (count it - NONE) of the Optimus Prime figures had been sold. Not a one. And I predict that the OP figures will move very slowly, if they move at all. Why is this? Because the market for Optimus figures has been well and very thoroughly saturated. There are tons of Optimus figures out there, and everybody who wanted an Optimus figure already has one.

I would add parenthetically that Bumblebee should be included here. He may not be in the CW line (yet), but Hasbro has clotted the market with enough Bumblebee figures, repaints, retools and remolds to sink an aircraft carrier. There's a reason why the Bumblebee figures and Optimus figures are usually the last ones to be sold, and it's because Hasbro has relied too heavily on them to the point where the casual buyer just doesn't WANT them anymore. A normal buyer going into the store, and seeing a whole mess of new Bumblebee and Optimus figures isn't going to go all doe-eyed and sigh, 'At last! MORE of these figures for me to buy!' They're going to shake their heads and wince, and say, 'Oh great. More of THESE figures. Like I haven't got enough already?'

It's an easy choice to leave these on the shelf for the newer figures that we DON'T have yet. Sure, there are people who are aficionados, and who will buy any Bee or Optimus figure that Hasbro waves under their nose. But not enough of them to merit the colossal number of the same characters they are constantly cranking out.

So pay attention here, Hasbro. It's a phenomenon that you ought to take note of very seriously. I observed it directly, and experienced it directly. Has anyone else?

shajaki wrote:

Cobotron wrote:Looks good in the video. The shin plates that slide down when you flip the foot, are a nice touch. The proportions look fine, and man, is he shiny! Would like to see him next to Classics and CW Prime.

BOOM!

Cobotron wrote:Are the "masses" we are speaking of children? Must be. Just imagine a 7 year old boy getting his first Transformer for the first time. You think he wants Dragstrip, or the heroic leader of the Autobots? Hasbro spends plenty of money on market research. They know what they are doing.

I personally have a pretty strict "don't over Prime" rule. But, I have been doing this for almost 20 years. That being said, I will have CW Prime because I have been dreaming of a OP who could combine since I was a 7 year old boy. (well more like 10)

The dagblasted Voyagers still haven't landed in my town yet.

william-james88 wrote:
I hear you, but we also thought that there were always way too many Autobots available per Decepticon (both Bumblebee and Optimus being autobots helps that) and yet every fan poll thus far has resulted in the masses asking for more autobots. I think in your case, the collectors got the silverbolts but the masses will eventually buy those optimuses. I still remember the week before Christmas when I went to toysrus and saw all the parents stripping the shelves of the smash and change optimus which until that point had been shelfwarming. I really think what you mentioned is more a case of two portions of the market and their buying tendencies rather than Optimus being less of a selling point than he used to be.

There's a reason he can't stay dead.