More In-Hand Images - Transformers Generations Combiner Wars Leader Megatron

This guy looks awesome. I think I may have my Classics Megatron...

Definitely one of the best Megatrons I've seen in years, althro with that cannon it looks like he is trying to compensate for something.

Break wrote:Definitely one of the best Megatrons I've seen in years, althro with that cannon it looks like he is trying to compensate for something.

It can be collapsed in to shorten it.

Crud! I wish I knew how Motormaster and the Legends got out so early. I can't cancel my pre-order from Robot Kingdom so I'm stuck waiting. Then again Murphy's Law, I order them then they come in stock at RK.

Delta Magnus wrote:This guy looks awesome. I think I may have my Classics Megatron...

Agreed. I'm stoked he comes with some stickers. Especially the swirly ones.

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.

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.

His actual fusion cannon, as demonstrated by Takara photographers, is located on the other end of the cannon. Just flip it around, and you're golden.

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Crud! I wish I knew how Motormaster and the Legends got out so early. I can't cancel my pre-order from Robot Kingdom so I'm stuck waiting. Then again Murphy's Law, I order them then they come in stock at RK.

Entertainment Earth is where I got them from.

I also have them on order from Robot Kingdom and at BBTS. My solution nowadays is basically to order cases from everyone and sell off the extras when I get them via the Seibertron.com store. That way I get them from wherever they come into first. I'm done with retail hunting. It's much easier to just buy cases everywhere, especially now that I've got two little ones and am photographing the boxes anyways for the Seibertron.com galleries.

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.

The person who took these pics mistransformed the cannon. This is the right way:

The new Megatron figure is amazing! Yeah a voyager class would have been perfect but then I'm reminded of Cybertron Megatron (aka Galvatron). I think his face sculpt is perfectly menacing and I just hope the Takara version has less red.

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.

william-james88 wrote:

Arctorro wrote:

shajaki wrote:i think.... i.. REALLY like him.
he has no place in my collection, as he doesnt fit with generations or MP, but i dont care. hes just cool, and looks fun.

I'm starting to think the same about him, but unless BBTS breaks up more cases, there is little chance of men buying him.

But would women still buy him?

Damn auto correct! First time I use my tablet to post in ages and that happens

Arctorro wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Arctorro wrote:

shajaki wrote:i think.... i.. REALLY like him.
he has no place in my collection, as he doesnt fit with generations or MP, but i dont care. hes just cool, and looks fun.

I'm starting to think the same about him, but unless BBTS breaks up more cases, there is little chance of men buying him.

But would women still buy him?

Damn auto correct! First time I use my tablet to post in ages and that happens

Can't speak for all of us, but this will be bought on sight as soon as it gets to my neck of the woods.

finally an offical new megatron toy thats spot on in looks to his G1 robot self at least the closest i have seen, not including masterpiece

Mean looking maderfarker! (In a good bad@ss kind of way) 10 out of 10! He does have some serious compensation issue though.

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

Seibertron wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Crud! I wish I knew how Motormaster and the Legends got out so early. I can't cancel my pre-order from Robot Kingdom so I'm stuck waiting. Then again Murphy's Law, I order them then they come in stock at RK.

Entertainment Earth is where I got them from.

I also have them on order from Robot Kingdom and at BBTS. My solution nowadays is basically to order cases from everyone and sell off the extras when I get them via the Seibertron.com store. That way I get them from wherever they come into first. I'm done with retail hunting. It's much easier to just buy cases everywhere, especially now that I've got two little ones and am photographing the boxes anyways for the Seibertron.com galleries.

I'm in the same delema as Chuck. The wave 1 has shown up in retail here but I have already paid for dragstrip and have the other stunticons on preorder so its a toss up whether I should just cancel my preorder and wait till wave 2 comes into retail or just wait the preorder out as we might not end up getting wave 2 here in New Zealand

Seibertron wrote:

chuckdawg1999 wrote:Crud! I wish I knew how Motormaster and the Legends got out so early. I can't cancel my pre-order from Robot Kingdom so I'm stuck waiting. Then again Murphy's Law, I order them then they come in stock at RK.

Entertainment Earth is where I got them from.

I also have them on order from Robot Kingdom and at BBTS. My solution nowadays is basically to order cases from everyone and sell off the extras when I get them via the Seibertron.com store. That way I get them from wherever they come into first. I'm done with retail hunting. It's much easier to just buy cases everywhere, especially now that I've got two little ones and am photographing the boxes anyways for the Seibertron.com galleries.

I discovered Robot kingdom at the end of the year when Wave 1 CW hit so I grabbed those just to get them to review. I pre-ordered wave 2 with them beginning of January, then they got delayed. Can't cancel them now so I hope they come soon.

Ok, now, that looks badass.

This figure is SO bought on sight.

I can hardly wait to get this figure in my paws. I've got it and the Armada retool preordered together from TFSource. I hope they come in this month as scheduled. Stuff has a way of ending up at TFSource several weeks later than other online retailers.

As for the legs, I don't think they look all that "spindly." G1 Megatron, toy or cartoon model, didn't have beefy legs, or arms for that matter. I think part of what makes the legs look too skinny for some is that his arms are THICK. Megatron's got GUNS.

Look! He has decals of his G1 chest hairs!

This is f***in awesome... in so many ways this is better then the G1 toy and while the masterpiece figure was by far one of the worst versions (physics wise) this figure belongs in the top 5

Sabrblade wrote:Look! He has decals of his G1 chest hairs!

Looking at some close up shots of Megatron's chest, I can't figure out where those stickers actually fit, without covering up already existing sculpted and painted detail. Also, where does that "grill" sticker go?

Motormaster defenitely look better than Optimus Prime. Also, that little scout cars is too ! However, the scout car just parking itself onto the combined mode chest... It's just lazy and stupid. Why don't the car have a proper 3rd mode, an "armor mode" like the PCC minicon or even the CW scouts that change into a gun as a bonus mode?

Wolfman Jake wrote:Looking at some close up shots of Megatron's chest, I can't figure out where those stickers actually fit, without covering up already existing sculpted and painted detail.

I was wondering this too. I think those stickers are smaller than the picture alludes. Look how tiny the insignia actually is on the toy.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Motormaster defenitely look better than Optimus Prime. Also, that little scout cars is too ! However, the scout car just parking itself onto the combined mode chest... It's just lazy and stupid. Why don't the car have a proper 3rd mode, an "armor mode" like the PCC minicon or even the CW scouts that change into a gun as a bonus mode?

You could argue that pegging the ax sideways enhances the experience. Personally I think the chest closed looks closer to that G1 drone

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Look! He has decals of his G1 chest hairs!

Looking at some close up shots of Megatron's chest, I can't figure out where those stickers actually fit, without covering up already existing sculpted and painted detail. Also, where does that "grill" sticker go?

it looks like the same sticker that went on the scope barrell/arm cannon on the g1 toy but there is only one the g1 toy had two

Who needs in hand images when you can go watch a VIDEO REVIEW of this piece of G1 beauty?!?! But seriously a youtuber by the name of Mohd Hafiz has posted a review of Leader Class Combiner Wars Megatron. Copy this link https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=LridhafpzD0 to see old Buckethead himself, boy this toy is going to be sweeet!

Hey hypothetically, if Han Solo and Decepticon Blackjack ever met, do you think Han would get angry and say his iconic line "Never Tell Me the Odds"? Anyways i think Blackjack looks good and fits in well with the stunticon crew (also, the fact that his character calculates the odds of everything and can bet on anything is so awesome)

Va'al wrote:From the same source as yesterday's news story on Transformers Generations Combiner Wars Leader Megatron, we're happy to report a new selection of in-hand images of the bucket-head himself - including shots of both tank and robot mode, articulation close-ups, comparisons, poses and the sticker sheet featuring Decepticon, Autobot and chest pattern for all your Megatron wishes. Check them out below!

Saw another review. So the turret can be shortened. And the position of the canon is reversed. Aside from that, oooooooooooooooooh can't wait for May 2015! And does functional treads...........! They managed to implement it for the leader scale.....AWESOME!

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?

-Kanrabat- wrote:Motormaster defenitely look better than Optimus Prime. Also, that little scout cars is too ! However, the scout car just parking itself onto the combined mode chest... It's just lazy and stupid. Why don't the car have a proper 3rd mode, an "armor mode" like the PCC minicon or even the CW scouts that change into a gun as a bonus mode?

The little car was attached 'as is' on our buddy Menasor back in 1985, so he's accurate in that sense. Consider yourself lucky he has a robot mode this time. Respect your geewun, young punk!

That YouTube review I think has vindicated the "spindly" legs of this Megatron a bit. Seeing the figure in motion, moved around into various poses, the insides of Megatron's legs have a LOT more texture and width than the still pictures might have you believe. There are lots of spots where the plating from the outside of the tank and some other sculpted details bulk out the legs a bit on the insides. Plus, it helps to pose him with his legs slightly angled out instead of straight forward. The arms still look a little too big, which I think could have been rectified if they had engineered the panels that fold up to reveal his fists to sit flush against the plastic of the forearm instead of sticking out a good centimeter or so.

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.

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.

I know, I kept waiting at the end of the video for him to at least put him next to CW Prime, but all we got was MP's and a third party figure. We know he at least had Silverbolt. That could have given us some idea of how he scales with the newer Voyager figures.

You've seen the in-hand images, we reported on those here, well now you can see Combiner Wars Leader Class Megatron in a video review showing off all of his features, details and of course, the transformation scheme.

Fellow Seibertronian, MenaSuperion, posted the video review link to share with us and now we're sharing it with you!

MenaSuperion wrote:Who needs in hand images when you can go watch a VIDEO REVIEW of this piece of G1 beauty?!?! But seriously a youtuber by the name of Mohd Hafiz has posted a review of Leader Class Combiner Wars Megatron. Copy this link https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LridhafpzD0 to see old Buckethead himself, boy this toy is going to be sweeet!

Is he "sweet"? Watch the embed below to find out, then join the discussion on the forums and tell us what you think. Will you be buying him? Will he be ruling over your Decepticons? Join in and tell us!



Keep your optics tuned to Seibertron.com for the latest in news and updates, plus the best galleries around!

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

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.

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?

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

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?

If X doesn't gripe, well, it ain't just natural.

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:

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

If I am correct, this megatron is actually a lil shorter Than mp -10.

I love the look of this megatron, but not to be used as a stand in mp megatron though.
If they were to have made the arms a lil slimmer, it would look more balanced.That's my only gripe with this megatron right now

Definitely feeling some hype towards owning this figure. I just hope it comes soon for us all that ordered.

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 after BBTS sold out, but I'm on the fence about Armada Megatron. I might pick him up next month though when I have a little bit more money.

The only thing I don't like about the new Megatron is the tiny weeny on his chest. Right above, there's a huge square indent who would be the perfect spot for a big, normal sized . Let's hope the tampograph would be easely erasable. There's even the sticker sheet included so it's all good.

Appart that tiny gripe, that megatron just ooze perfection! When I see him in store, even at a 60$+tx price, I'll buy him on sight!

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.

BBTS has them both still available for preorder too, for the same price as EE. That's where I get most of my stuff because of their POL feature, and the fact that they are just over the St. Croix river from me so I get stuff uber fast..

And no, I don't work for them, but I did stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night... (Let's see, any more product placement/advertising I can do? )

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:

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.

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.

I'm impressed. Finally a great looking G1 Megatron after three decades. He's never had an actual quality toy as far as I'm concerned but this one has an imposing size and proportions, transforms into an appropiate vehicle (one of the best things about G2 was making Megs a tank, basically a big gun that can transport itself) and even has a well done face and expression too. The best previous one for me was the Classics one but only in robot form and oooonly with the stupid 'wings' cut off (and the alt mode being based on a Nerf gun was laughable). The alt mode here is up there with RotF Bludgeon's in the quality tank mode area and having real working tracks gives it an advantage.

I've mostly skipped over a lot of Transformers the past couple years (bar a few AoE ones like Evasion Prime, Voyager Grimlock and the more recent Bumblebee, I just prefer the more complex realistic movie stuff over simplistic blocky cartoon TFs) and Combiner Wars just wasn't doing anything for me at all (nor was Hasbro's constant and annoying habit of having characters on opposite factions sharing molds) but this one I am tempted in buying.

I don't say it often but nice job on this one Hasbro/Takara.