The Energon Pub

[Valandar]

I had in my head an idea for a story where different worlds had been brought to life by "Primus", "The Allspark", or what have you, and certain concepts remained ingrained in their collective consciousnesses - like the idea of the type of being an 'Optimus Prime' and a 'Megatron' is. All the different worlds have transforming robots, but the application on each world is different.

In this concept, 'Cybertron' is basically like 'Earth' - a term for what the planet is made of, not originally intended as a planetary name, that BECOMES a planetary name. One world has the Cyb/Galaxy Force / Classics aesthetic; one is beastformers from BW and the beastlines of Cyb/GF; one is the Animated aesthetic; and one is the Movie aesthetic. Of these, the Animated are the most 'human' in their outlook, and the Movie the most 'alien'.

The idea of two different Megatrons actually vaguely makes sort of sense in this concept if Megatron is taken as a title, the way Prime is.

[Dreadwinglord]

So, give him a new background all of a sudden they're new pics, huh? Hm , I still love this figure anyway

[Covenant]

Or an old robot who needs a cane to walk.

Or hick robots that are inbred and stupid lookin'.

Or a little kid robot that talks in rhyme. Or a junkyard robot that talks in TV show sound bites. Or an old robot that won't stop talking about how things were "back in my day."

People need to stop complaining about this kind of stuff. Yeah, it's stupid as hell. But it's stupid as hell in exactly the same way G1 Transformers was, in case you forgot how lame it could be sometimes. You remember Grimlock dressed as a waiter serving drinks, right?

So......the "the old stuff had stupidity people loathe, so its okay for the new stuff to have dumb crap too" mentality is the line to be towed? I'd have thought cutting out the stupidity would have been the better option, rather than first badmouthing the old material then using the items badmouthed to justify the new stupid crap.

Guess it's just me.

[lowman_x]

That looks to be the simplest transformation of a leader class I've ever seen. What? You bend him in half and move his massively oversized arm around to his back. It's more like a damn FAB. Or one of those TF: Animated figures that you press the bumper and the back of the vehicle pops up to show you a facade of the character.

And it's not white, it's over-exposed. The person taking the shot has used too much flash.

I'm also hearin' a lot of people saying that they're only going to buy him once he goes on sale for $20. I wish!! Over here we're lucky if leader class figures reach less than $50 when they go to the "sales" tables. RRP over here is anywhere between $70-100 (depending on where you buy them from). Hasbro Australia likes to gouge us.

[Nickolai]

What, his head wasn't visible enough the first time around?

They Bay-ified Armada Megatron, for Cybertron's sake.

[Autoclot]

this is sweet! love the white armor

Megatron? Yes... That's what they used to call me. Megatron the Grey. That was my name. I am Megatron the White. And I come back to you now at the turn of the tide.


Couldn't resist

[wilbot3000]

The tank mode is alright. Robot mode? The sinister megagimp. Stupid arm design. From part 1 to part 2 megatron continues to look giant metal snow man(not so sinister). Fans project should put out a transforming rudolph with an led nose light. Then they could find lost lonely toys a home together. By the way the color massively sucks also.

[Counterpunch]

All I see is gimp arm.

Yeeeeeeeeeeep.

[syphonn]

It's better than the first movie figure, but as others have stated, I can't get past the gimp arm and the "crotch head"