The Energon Pub

That Dery was just too advanced for his time. Despite all this years, you sure will appreciate the intricacies of the design.

hermmm...perhaps i should post this else where but if u do not lock classic/henkei galvy right shoulder/turret,that will give wider poseability...n can also mistranform him into a better looking(i guess) tripod cannon mode...perhaps i'll post pic in the other forum

I can't give Dery too much credit for Galvy's transformation. His upper arms flatten out to become the legs on the cannon. And Scourge's transformation require some morphing in his wings.

Anyhow, it's true that the colors changed during development. You can see some remnants of grey Galvy in his alt. mode in the movie as it's grey and not purple. If that bums you out, just look to the TV show where it's purple.

Gauntlet101010 wrote:I can't give Dery too much credit for Galvy's transformation. His upper arms flatten out to become the legs on the cannon. And Scourge's transformation require some morphing in his wings.

To be honest, thats not much of a liberty to take. Having the arms do a level of morphing is forgivable - imagine how G1 would look if all the characters just looked like the toys!

The only thing they really did "wrong" with G1 Galvatron was having that sound and light show - if the chest was empty - a great deal of the legs could have been stored there, giving us a much more cartoon accurate space-howlitzer. And we can't blame Dery for that, really.

SN95 Cobra R wrote:The Uni Galvatron head was awesome and the transformation was very creative and well thought out but the bot mode was "meh". Ive never seen a robot mode that arms and legs just don't seem to look like a part of the whole like that toy.

the Universe Galvatron head design is nice, but the size of it is a bit of a shame. Yes, Hot Rod has a pea-head too, but I think Protector armour will sort that. Galvy stands next to Cyclonus with his giant noggin, and seems very limited. The rest of his proportions are a bit wonky as well. The Voyager class complexity of the original design is likey the reason it's all messed up as a Deluxe sized toy.

G1 Galvatron was actually pretty cool at the time. Pretty far from screen-accurate, but then if they hadn't swapped the colours around he'd be no farther off than many others of his era, and a lot closer than some.

I'm not sure there's really an easy way to save the current version of the character. I can't see an add-on kit working well with either mode. Upscaling from a KO company would seem like a good idea, but the only ones I've seen have simplified the design, probably to avoid having a thousand different parts that won't ever stay together.

If there's a new one coming, I'm going to hope it's a Voyager, or big Deluxe so he can stand with Cyclonus and Scourge and look like their leader.

Amelie wrote:

Gauntlet101010 wrote:I can't give Dery too much credit for Galvy's transformation. His upper arms flatten out to become the legs on the cannon. And Scourge's transformation require some morphing in his wings.

To be honest, thats not much of a liberty to take. Having the arms do a level of morphing is forgivable - imagine how G1 would look if all the characters just looked like the toys!

The only thing they really did "wrong" with G1 Galvatron was having that sound and light show - if the chest was empty - a great deal of the legs could have been stored there, giving us a much more cartoon accurate space-howlitzer. And we can't blame Dery for that, really.

I'm more of a critic about Galvy's animation model than his toy. I rather like his toy.

As for the animation model, we have flattened out arms, disappearing legs, and a torso that goes form bulky to cylindrical (although that's not really Dery's fault as his model was changed after he was done with it). Jazitoys had an interesting take on it and I'd like to see what HasTak could do with an MP.

I love my purple G1 Galvatron...but, if they make a Masterpiece Galvatron I will be all over it like Decepticons on Charr.

It wouldn't surprise me at all if we got a new Classics Galvatron next year.

The Legend wrote:

norwichchris wrote:The old Galvatron had the wrong paint and the reissue was pink?! (Its not purple!!)

It's not pink, I have one. I suggest turning the contrast on your TV up until it matches.

It's a pinkish/reddish purple, not a bluish purple as it was originally in the cartoon. I too would like to see them do a reissue of Galvatron with the proper purple.

Amelie wrote:I've always personally felt that G1 Galvatron is the best of the non-Diaclone 1986 line. He has excellent articulation for his time, a well sculpted face and he works well in all three modes.

The fact he doesn't really look like the cartoon isn't even a valid complaint, in my opinion - people love the Hotrod, Kup, Blurr, Scourge and Cyclonus toys, and they're just as screen innaccurate as Galvatron. Galvatrons only real problem is that it seems to be fashionable to complain about it.

I'm not really too fussed about the fact the toy is grey. One because I grew up with the Marvel UK comics, and two because the toys were never always the same colour anyways.

Also, I prefered the original head sculpt over the "improved" Takara version.

Watch there be a Bayverse Galvatron, and suddenly he'll jump upwards on everyone's favorite list. Because we're not supposed to live in the past or like older things, you know.

I agree i want eithe:

A new masterpiece Galvatron toy either purple/Grey or a universe version that remains true to the original.

It would also be very interesting if they attempted to have a skeletal megatron figure with parts that allow you to make either Galvatron or megatron (fully transformable) similar to the anakin with Darth vader armour etc...