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Frankly, I rather liked the MP-05 Megatron. I heard a lot of people say how they didn't like the skinny legs or the gigantic cannon. But personally, I just felt these things were merely the realism of the figure. I thought aesthetically he was engineered rather well

I always thought the design on the G1 cartoon was WAY off. He seemed too bulky in the cartoon to be able to transform into a gun.

I would say how ever that there are only a few small things I would change in the MP-05, and they are merely cosmetic

1. Somehow lighten the fusion cannon
while I don't mind the size of it, it weighed too much for the figure to stand properly without some sort of support.

2. Pay attention to color scheme.
Megatron's elbows were red, not black. His hands were just black, not silver and black.

3. The feet look nothing like his feet in the show.
Is he wearing Chinese sandals? Even though they added to the pose ability of the figure, they just look way off in comparison to who they were in the cartoon.

If Takara is going to do a new MP mold for Megs, I wouldn't mind a smaller version of the MP-05 if they fixed these issues (and the frailty issues others complain of).

One idea they could try (and this would help Takara and Hasbro get around the whole VW licensing issue on Bumblebee too) is to create the figure so that it transforms into the character's Cybertronian alt mode. As long as the character's robot mode looked like he did in the G1 cartoon, I don't think a lot of collectors would mind the different alt mode. Besides, we never saw Megatron's Cybertronian alt mode before the Ark crashed on Earth, so this would leave engineers open to ANY alt mode option that would allow us to have Megatron's robot mode as we remember him.

Concentrate on the Bot-mode make the alt-mode an afterthought.

Dead Metal wrote:Concentrate on the Bot-mode make the alt-mode an afterthought.

I agree.

I assume they might go for a gun. The gun mode doesn't need to be a walther. Striving for that accuracy can hold back the toy.

Screamfleet wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:Concentrate on the Bot-mode make the alt-mode an afterthought.

I agree.

I assume they might go for a gun. The gun mode doesn't need to be a walther. Striving for that accuracy can hold back the toy.

I disagree. Megs is a hard design to translate into an accurate toy, but A) there's a challenge and B) MP would not be a MP if it weren't perfect to look at.

So we can't actually use mass-shifting, so the size is always going to be off, but then again, MP Convoy would be very expensive if he's to scale with his screen counterpart. Indeed, look at Hegemon, the proportions CAN work on that design. So why can't an official MP with more funding do better?

I agree that MP05 was a good looking toy, but ultimately we can do better.

Hegemon does it right. I doubt Toyworld have the years of experience making Transformers toys, or the amounts of money that Hasbro and/or TakaraTomy could put into designing an MP Megatron. And yet.


Hegemon is NOT perfect, but dammit if it doesn't look close enough.

craggy wrote:Hegemon does it right. I doubt Toyworld have the years of experience making Transformers toys, or the amounts of money that Hasbro and/or TakaraTomy could put into designing an MP Megatron. And yet.


Hegemon is NOT perfect, but dammit if it doesn't look close enough.

IMO, they screwed up the legs / gunhandle. Just looks wrong in both modes. It's just further proof that G1 Megatron truly is evil. No one can get it right.

RhA wrote:

craggy wrote:Hegemon does it right. I doubt Toyworld have the years of experience making Transformers toys, or the amounts of money that Hasbro and/or TakaraTomy could put into designing an MP Megatron. And yet.


Hegemon is NOT perfect, but dammit if it doesn't look close enough.

IMO, they screwed up the legs / gunhandle. Just looks wrong in both modes. It's just further proof that G1 Megatron truly is evil. No one can get it right.

"screwed up" is rather strong, but I get what you mean. I prefer the Classics/Henkei styling for the feet/boots. The gun handle doesn't look too bad though.

what if they went with the tank over the gun alt mode?

ps id rather have a mp dinobot!

Hegemons only failing that I can see is the pistol grip is wrong. If Takara were to go a similar route with a new MP while making the altmode accurate, the legs wouldn't suffer for it. And I've never like any Megatron's feet. Not G1, not Masterpiece, not Classics. I'm holding out judgement on Hegemon until I actually have one. Ultimately, I trust Takara to make the next Megatron better than the last.