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News Credits: 409 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:19 am

More colored images of Alternity Megatron, this time on the Japanese Manga Shop, Rakuten. These pictures reveal his alt mode in color. This figure is a 1:32 scale model of a Nissan Fairlady Z and features die-cast metal parts. Megatron comes in two colored versions – Silver and Monterey Blue.

Unfortunately, the Alternity line is suffering more set backs. Just like Alternity Convoy, Megatron has been delayed. According to Rakuten and e-Hobby, the release date has been pushed back to May.

Silver

Monterey Blue

News Credits: 4 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:22 am

I'm soooo getting him !!!!

News Credits: 217 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:24 am

I am ridiculously excited about these guys. They look like Binaltech, but done right.

Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:12 am

Totaly digging the Ninja look! Not that I want all my TF's to look ninja though.

News Credits: 4 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:24 am

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.

News Credits: 88 · Aug. 7 - Aug. 12, 2012

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I hope that thing stuck to the back of Megatron's head is removable :grin:

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News Credits: 8 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 9:49 am

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 =P~

News Credits: 12 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:35 am

The silver one is awesome, but the blue just isn't Megatron. What were they thinking? If they wanted to do an alternate color for Megatron, it should have been black or maybe purple.

News Credits: 9 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:37 am

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

News Credits: 1 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:42 am

Looks awesome! :grin:

News Credits: 5 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:44 am

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.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 10:54 am

GuyIncognito wrote:If they wanted to do an alternate color for Megatron, it should have been black or maybe purple.

Agreed on both counts. 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. Both of the versions pictured make for a bad-ass Samurai look but the all blue look would definitely have gone better with Prime. (Predominatly red for Prime, with blue and silver accents would be even better if they could do it without his alt. mode looking horrid, but I'm something of a traditionalist)

News Credits: 3 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:01 am

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?

News Credits: 5 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:04 am

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?

News Credits: 5 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:15 am

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

hel... prime has more firepower then him! :-?

News Credits: 9 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:18 am

The Blue paint is likely due to a request from Nissan to have a production model version.

Similar to what happened in Binaltech.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:23 am

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?

News Credits: 1 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:28 am

I'm really debating this line. I do have silver Megs and Red OP on preorder. I'm not sure about the price though and the delays are getting annoying. At the same time, I don't want to cancel them and decide later on that I want them and then have to pay even more for them in a secondary market. :-(

News Credits: 88 · Aug. 7 - Aug. 12, 2012

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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News Credits: 5 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 11:57 am

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.

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Here's a picture on tf2005, that was linked on a prior news article. It shows Alternity Convoy next to some other Convoys... he seems to stand right up to the bottom of Classics/Henkei Convoy's chest windows.

http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/attachment.php?do=fullview&attachmentid=11383

News Credits: 4 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 12:05 pm

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

News Credits: 3 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 4:19 pm

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?

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

...Here's a picture on tf2005, that was linked on a prior news article. It shows Alternity Convoy next to some other Convoys...

Wow, now I'm even more impressed.

News Credits: 409 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 4:40 pm

Megaplex

News Credits: 2 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 6:17 pm

I said it before and ill say it again.
I want this with Prowls head, he is the fairlady Z transformer afterall.
both G1 police white or animated ninja black would be fine.

A car version of Megatron with swords and no guns doesn't feel right to me.

News Credits: 198 · Thu Feb 05, 2009 8:56 pm

I can't believe I'm about to post this.... but I may actually be considering getting the gray version. It's growing on me.

Yet another example of Seibertron.com's evil powers of persuasion.