Alternity Megatron Update

More delays! It seems that this line is forever doomed to have an ever changing release date.

I do like the new shot of Megatron however.

the blue is completely unbearably God-awful, no way in hades i'm buying that one. As for the Silver Samurai Alternity Megatron(I like that name) I officially have a woody. The color scheme and the armor layout would be enough for me. But add dual swords, flip out daggers, die-cast parts and a totally rad alt. mode. I MUST OWN

They look nifty, but i just have a problem with the front wheels staying in place like that. It looks lazy.

The blue vaguely reminds me of Reverse Convoy from the RobotMasters toy line... but that's the only historical connection I can think of for that version of Megatron.

I'm wondering if Takara got too ambitious with this toy line... it seems like it's plagued by delays. Perhaps trying to incorporate die casting and binaltech-level transformation and articulation in that small of a size is a bit more than the engineering can handle.

forgotten wrote:the blue is completely unbearably God-awful, no way in hades i'm buying that one. As for the Silver Samurai Alternity Megatron(I like that name) I officially have a woody. The color scheme and the armor layout would be enough for me. But add dual swords, flip out daggers, die-cast parts and a totally rad alt. mode. I MUST OWN

With the exception of the woody, I agree completely.

emeraldbeacon wrote:...Perhaps trying to incorporate die casting and binaltech-level transformation and articulation in that small of a size is a bit more than the engineering can handle.

What do you mean? How small are these things?

meh.. looks nice but, stil.. no gun, no buy.

hel... prime has more firepower then him!

Sledge wrote:

T-Macksimus wrote:Actually, I think a suitable mix of predominantly black with silver and purple in the right places for accent would have made an awsome alternate color scheme from the all silver model.

You want him repainted into Skywarp?

No, I definitely dont want a Samaruai Skywarp made out of this cool figure. Just a few accentend spots to break up the solid black motif.
Comparatively, Skywarp wouldn't have "accents", he'd have big "racing stripes". The only thing that would steer me away from an all purple choice, as was also suggested, is that that scheme is more associated with Shockwave and I think would detract from the Samaruai/Ninja feel that this figure has. "Soften" the bad-ass edge that this figure seems to come across as having.
Of course, it's Megatron! He can take whatever color scheme he wants and who is going to say jack about it, right?

Serpent O - R wrote:

forgotten wrote:the blue is completely unbearably God-awful, no way in hades i'm buying that one. As for the Silver Samurai Alternity Megatron(I like that name) I officially have a woody. The color scheme and the armor layout would be enough for me. But add dual swords, flip out daggers, die-cast parts and a totally rad alt. mode. I MUST OWN

With the exception of the woody, I agree completely.

emeraldbeacon wrote:...Perhaps trying to incorporate die casting and binaltech-level transformation and articulation in that small of a size is a bit more than the engineering can handle.

What do you mean? How small are these things?

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These will be smaller than Alternators/Binaltech but bigger than a deluxe size...


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emeraldbeacon wrote:

DavidT wrote:

Serpent O - R wrote:

emeraldbeacon wrote:...Perhaps trying to incorporate die casting and binaltech-level transformation and articulation in that small of a size is a bit more than the engineering can handle.

What do you mean? How small are these things?

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These will be smaller than Alternators/Binaltech but bigger than a deluxe size...

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Actually, I think I've seen them next to Movie-Bumblebee (deluxe concept Camero), and they looked about the same size... not sure where I saw that picture, though, so I can't back up that statement.

I got the picture


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you beat me with the link

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