MP-36 Megatron Shown Off in Transformers Generations 2017, Includes G1 Comic By Furman, Guidi

sol magnus wrote:

Agamemnon wrote:Thanks for the pics, Cyberpath! The angles they are choosing really hide just how far off-center that gun barrel is on the back, don't they... I'm afraid that it is the thing (well, in addition to the price) that has me eventually canceling my pre-order...

They haven't hid any angles. There are early pictures of Megatron at 90 degree angles from the front, back and side. Just go deeper into the thread.

fenrir72 wrote:Was the gun barrel really meant to be centered anyway?

Yeah, I didn't mean that the gun barrel was centered (or should be) on Meg's body. For this particular MP Release, it appears to be further off center than what looks good. Let me see if I can find the pics.

MP-36

MP-05

Transformers Masterpiece Megatron (MP-05) Gallery
Animated G1 (Still from the Movie)

(Plus this cool GIF I ran across!!)


I guess that MP-05 is pretty far off center too. From the animation models, to my eye, the barrel should be right about half-way point between head and shoulder. MP-36 has the barrel pretty much just above the shoulder.

I was just commenting that the nice pictures Cyberpath posted make Megs look really good, but the picture angles hide just how far off-center the gun barrel is on the back.... And that bugs me (the so much off-center gun barrel, not the pic angles).

Guido wrote:Also, the G1 comic is written by Simon Furman (with art by me)

It'd be complete madness to hire anyone else for the art other than you, good sir

There are two comics in this book. One by the dynamic duo of Simon Furman and Guido Guidi, and another by the major Japanese Transformers throwback duo of Masumi Kaneda and Ban Magami (the guys who did all of the original Japanese G1 manga from 1985-1992).

wow complete with the gun on the box. it even has a stock and the silencer

Looks like a fan mock-up to me.

That painting is AMAZING. Love how, stylistically, it hearkens back to the Japanese catalog art of old.

And Primal riding Leo is about as awesome as it gets!

Guido wrote:Also, the G1 comic is written by Simon Furman (with art by me)

The7thParallel wrote:Looks like a fan mock-up to me.

Thought the same thing...
It could be legit, but obviously this isn't printed... If this is the real deal, it's just an electronic version.
Just looks a bit too sharp with the focus.
At the same time, this wouldn't be all that difficult to piece together in Ps.

MegaDump wrote:Well there wont be any plausible deniability regarding the alt. mode when trying to sneak that mother through customs.

Pray that the customs examiner is not bereft of common sense.

nycPrime wrote:

MegaDump wrote:Well there wont be any plausible deniability regarding the alt. mode when trying to sneak that mother through customs.

LOL. I had preordered mine through A-E after it was mentioned that they'd insert the orange plug free of charge. I was still debating if I wanted them to go that route, and was leaning against it since a few folks including Seiberton mentioned that they never had issues importing without the plug. But after seeing that box, I'm pretty sure I'm going to have them insert it.

mp-05 had a pic of the gun on his box.
x-transbots cares. they put no gun images on the box and they pre-inserted orange caps at the factory so people could keep him mib.