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Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Burn wrote:Let it be known, I murdered Amelie.
Accidentally.
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.
Cobotron wrote:Hey! You seemed to have attracted a wild Megatronus. They're hard to find, but boy are they fun when you catch one!
The original Toxitron was to have been in the Universe (2003) line.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!
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
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.
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.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
gothsaurus wrote: quite a small selenium-slice of the palladium-pie.
Jesse Wittenrich wrote:He is a very nice dull olive green...
william-james88 wrote:Also be weary of hope in this hobby. Hope is just undiscovered disappointment.
Agamemnon, barebacked rider of flying robo-dragon, and not often constipated either...My nephew wrote:Bacon is meat candy.
Sabrblade wrote:The original Toxitron was to have been in the Universe (2003) line.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!
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.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 ?
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.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
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.
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