The Energon Pub

News Credits: 462 · Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:13 am

I for one am glad they went with opaque plastic for Heavyweight. I own the Rainbow Shield Arms Microns and those things are very delicate with their translucent plastic. I sometimes worry I might break them with the slightest firm grip or an accidental fall off the table. I'd much prefer not having to worry about Heavyweight shattering into a million pieces, so I'll take his opaque plastic.

News Credits: 33 · Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:20 am

I meant to post the following comment in this thread and dumped it in the gallery thread instead. Whoops -

Thinking about it more - Megatron is an excellent Botcon figure - a limited edition recolour of a mold that was never even released in the 'States. It really doesn't get much more exclusive than that, save for actually doing an entirely new figure.

News Credits: 123 · Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:22 am

gothsaurus wrote:I wonder if Hasbro pushes them away from colors in their contract, so they don't compete with the bots on the shelf at all... Hmmm.

I dunno. Even if the contract does stipulate color use, I doubt it's because the Club competes with Hasbro product (in a traditional sense, anyway).

Wed Apr 22, 2015 10:32 am

agreed there. Those are two quite different audiences... and being only about 2000 toys, quite a small selenium-slice of the palladium-pie.

Wed Apr 22, 2015 11:18 am

Ok, so this figure is called Megatron, but to me it in vehicle mode at least looks closer to a previously aborted botcon figure who was reimagined with a botcon animated figure.. Toxitron!

News Credits: 2 · Wed Apr 22, 2015 11:51 am

Of this set the only one I will try to get is Megatron. Really like his look but not sure I will like the ebay prices hehe.

News Credits: 462 · Wed Apr 22, 2015 11:37 pm

rickdraco wrote:Ok, so this figure is called Megatron, but to me it in vehicle mode at least looks closer to a previously aborted botcon figure who was reimagined with a botcon animated figure.. Toxitron!

The original Toxitron was to have been in the Universe (2003) line.

News Credits: 462 · Thu Apr 23, 2015 1:12 am

Jesse Wittenrich's words on the Megatron figure (note that the "gallery" he refers to is Ryan's Megatron gallery):

He is a very nice dull olive green - the comic preview overdoes it significantly, and the lighting in videos makes it look darker than it actually is. That gallery though captures it almost exactly.

Boombox can be handheld, plug into the top of Megatron's forearm, the side of the forearm, or yes on the shoulder or back. Depending on where you like Megatron's fusion cannon to sit. And of course Megatron's hands rotate into his forearms so that Heavyweight can be a hand-replacement weapon just like the Energon Mace in G1.

The figure was always envisioned as a Movie-inspired Classics/Generations toy, which means the G1 face was central to the entire idea. Of course then a few of the movie design's flourishes were added to the classic bucket head look to tie further into that inspiration as well as to tie into the few random spikes on the Breakdown body. This is a toy that movie viewers who were interested in a semi-truck Megatron but don't collect movie toys can add among their G1-inspired toys and have him not look out of place. After all there's no shortage of Movie Megatron toys out there, so it was never the intent to try to recreate that look entirely.

Fiction-wise, he's from a universe with events similar to what happened in the movies... Only he of course doesn't die. And we get a Rodimus Prime, and an Optimus who stays dead. That doesn't mean he has to have the movie aesthetic since, well, again it's a universe that simply mirrors the events.

Also:

Those running to the toy chests, do remember that the actual truck used for Megatron in the movie and the Hasbro toy color scheme are fairly dissimilar. So much so that when Takara Tomy had a chance to color correct the Voyager for the "Chronicle" release, they went all-out altering everything about the beige and gray.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Apr 23, 2015 1:42 am

I really like it, but he doesn't even have a trace of blue on him. I'm kind of disappointed after packrat, battletrap, and nebulon.

News Credits: 1 · Thu Apr 23, 2015 4:47 am

gothsaurus wrote: quite a small selenium-slice of the palladium-pie.

This quote is my favorite by far :grin:

Thu Apr 23, 2015 9:39 am

And it just dawned on me... It's very cool that we have a Megatron toy when Frank Welker is coming to the con. I just connected those to facts.

(cut me some slack, I've been a bit distracted lately.)

I wonder if we can let Mr. Welker sign a toy ... or if it has to be a specific photo or illustration or such.

News Credits: 10 · Thu Apr 23, 2015 12:42 pm

Jesse Wittenrich wrote:He is a very nice dull olive green...

I'm not sure I would have ever seen such a phrase. I love it, but that's because my dad had a 1972 Chevelle that I might describe in the exact same way. :lol:

Thu Apr 23, 2015 4:43 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
rickdraco wrote:Ok, so this figure is called Megatron, but to me it in vehicle mode at least looks closer to a previously aborted botcon figure who was reimagined with a botcon animated figure.. Toxitron!
The original Toxitron was to have been in the Universe (2003) line.

Ahh, ok. A simple error on my part. I still think this guy looks to homage him!!

News Credits: 293 · Thu Apr 23, 2015 8:08 pm

You've no doubt seen the video reveal and Seibertron's own Exclusive Gallery, but just in case you're late to the party have a look at Botcon's official shots of 2015 box set figure "The Boss" Megatron! He's utilizing the never before released Transformers Prime Silas Breakdown mold, and comes packing microns Scalpel, Boombox and Heavyweight. Keep scrolling to see the images, and stay tuned to Seibertron.com for all your Transformers News!

News Credits: 25 · Thu Apr 23, 2015 8:35 pm

The back part uh, really doesn't work as a tank.

Thu Apr 23, 2015 9:35 pm

After being treated to full galleries of the actual figures (that were taken with official permission, I might add) whats the point of even showing these photoshopped images ?

News Credits: 4 · Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:01 pm

Because Botcon says so, probably.

News Credits: 293 · Thu Apr 23, 2015 10:05 pm

Rated X wrote:After being treated to full galleries of the actual figures (that were taken with official permission, I might add) whats the point of even showing these photoshopped images ?

I think they'd be appreciative of our coverage for one thing. Other sites will news it. Maybe some viewers haven't seen our gallery (and can thus find it via this newest article). Aaaaand... because we news'd the other official reveals.

>:oP

News Credits: 4880 · Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:29 pm

Am I the only one who doesnt get it? The Megatron toy looks fine but I don't know what it is or who it is. Which Megatron is this? I thought the Botcon toys were all about giving us toys we couldnt get elsewhere or a reimagining of sorts (like the Beast Wars set or the Animated set) in a unifying theme. This line just looks random. Especially the Megatron since we already have several classics/generations Megs (legends, deluxes, voyager and leader now) in both Tanks, Guns and a Stealth Bomber. And we already have a voyager DOTM Megatron toy that is obviously more screen accurate. We also already have a Megatron who is a combination of movie verse and G1 in the form of Prime Megatron (also in many scales). So I am wondering, is this just the representation of characters from a comic they will write? So like toys of fan fiction?

I really hope I am not coming off as a complete noob but I just dont see what going on with these toys here. I would love to get my hands on that breakdown mold though, but it will pretty much cost the same as hunting down a version of the takara one.

News Credits: 5 · Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:40 pm

It makes no sense... it's completely random and not anything anybody wanted. Definitely some people will think it's cool, but it works better as a custom and not a $60 exclusive wasting a new head. It's crap

News Credits: 462 · Thu Apr 23, 2015 11:58 pm

See what's in bold text:

Sabrblade wrote:Jesse Wittenrich's words on the Megatron figure (note that the "gallery" he refers to is Ryan's Megatron gallery):
He is a very nice dull olive green - the comic preview overdoes it significantly, and the lighting in videos makes it look darker than it actually is. That gallery though captures it almost exactly.

Boombox can be handheld, plug into the top of Megatron's forearm, the side of the forearm, or yes on the shoulder or back. Depending on where you like Megatron's fusion cannon to sit. And of course Megatron's hands rotate into his forearms so that Heavyweight can be a hand-replacement weapon just like the Energon Mace in G1.

The figure was always envisioned as a Movie-inspired Classics/Generations toy, which means the G1 face was central to the entire idea. Of course then a few of the movie design's flourishes were added to the classic bucket head look to tie further into that inspiration as well as to tie into the few random spikes on the Breakdown body. This is a toy that movie viewers who were interested in a semi-truck Megatron but don't collect movie toys can add among their G1-inspired toys and have him not look out of place. After all there's no shortage of Movie Megatron toys out there, so it was never the intent to try to recreate that look entirely.

Fiction-wise, he's from a universe with events similar to what happened in the movies... Only he of course doesn't die. And we get a Rodimus Prime, and an Optimus who stays dead. That doesn't mean he has to have the movie aesthetic since, well, again it's a universe that simply mirrors the events.

Also:
Those running to the toy chests, do remember that the actual truck used for Megatron in the movie and the Hasbro toy color scheme are fairly dissimilar. So much so that when Takara Tomy had a chance to color correct the Voyager for the "Chronicle" release, they went all-out altering everything about the beige and gray.

News Credits: 5 · Fri Apr 24, 2015 12:11 am

We know what he's meant to be. It's not hard to see what they were going for... the question was why.

News Credits: 4880 · Fri Apr 24, 2015 12:11 am

Thanks Sabr. It really sounds like fan fiction to me though, and a toy based on it. The only place I would put that toy on a shelf would be next to RTS Lugnut, which is oddly specific and the only place I can see it fit. But even then, this is a classics reinterpretation of a movie toy. That's never happened before right? Or do we just call that the Prime line ?

Actually, come to think of it, this could work facing off against Hasbro's Evasion Mode Optimus Prime, who is a cross between a movie toy and a classics reinterpretation of the movie aesthetic.

News Credits: 462 · Fri Apr 24, 2015 12:20 am

There's also Frank Welker's coming to BotCon, so it's likely they wanted to do some kind of Megatron toy to honor his appearance. And it helps that Welker voiced DOTM Megatron in some non-film DOTM media.

News Credits: 4880 · Fri Apr 24, 2015 12:26 am

Sabrblade wrote:There's also Frank Welker's coming to BotCon, so it's likely they wanted to do some kind of Megatron toy to honor his appearance. And it helps that Welker voiced DOTM Megatron in some non-film DOTM media.

They could have made an update to Prime's Megatron instead. With a better alt mode, or what he would have looked it he took on an earth vehicle instead, giving people a decent Prime Megatron toy. I would have much preferred that. Welker is better known for voicing that Megatron than the movie related media.