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Assuming financial barriers are not an issue, which of the two is better, Hegemon or WFC Megatron (any deco)?

I don't agree with the premise that one needs to be better than the other; they accomplish very, very different things.

I've owned several Hegemon figures, but sold them all due to what I considered poor QC. Those were all from the initial run; I've been told that subsequent runs held up better. What I can say from my experience is that Hegemon is an awesome figure, at least in theory, and serves a G1-esque purpose. His transformation is finicky and frustrating, but you get a gun, so.

WFC Megatron is great - relatively simple, beautifully Cybertronian, and very accurate to his game character model. But he's a deluxe. If he and WFC Optimus were voyager-sized, they would absolutely be my Classics faction leaders.

Yup, the two aren't really directly comparable. Hegemon is over Voyager size, whereas WFC Megs is a Deluxe (a chunky one though, despite not being too tall) and they're very different designs for the character. I don't have Hegemon but he is quite poseable and the alt mode seems good enough. Transformation appears to be quite fiddly and at the end of the day he's over a hundred dollars. The WFC Megatron should be able to be picked up for around $20-30 or there are some rarer variations if you fancy a different paintjob on him. He's got some good articulation and is quite accurate to the game.

I like my leader characters to be tall; a head taller than their subordinates. But in the case of WFC Megatron, he actually scales very well with the other WFC/FOC Generations figures, especially among the Decepticons, who are all a bit shorter than he is, with only Soundwave comparable in height. He is very accurate to his in-game model, and I like his transformation far more than that of Hegemon.

But he looks out of place with the other CHUG figures and their Earth modes. I don't display him there. If the majority of your characters on your "Classics" shelf have Earth-based alt modes, then I think Hegemon is the better choice.

If I could, I'd have both.

Unfortunately Hegemon is illegal to own here in Australia due to our gun laws

WFC Megs by a mile! and I have Hegemon.

mooncake623 wrote:WFC Megs by a mile! and I have Hegemon.

So this ^

I've got Hegemon and I also have every single variant/version of the WfC Megatron mold. If Voyager size is not a requirement and neither is G1 cartoon accuracy and you're just looking for straight up which is the superior figure all around, then Has/Tak wins by miles. It's one of my favorite molds of all time and if they ever release any new variants/versions of that mold in different colors, I'll own them as well (so far the best are the 2 Takara versions, both of which have paint jobs and plastic colors that will make you cry because of just how epic they look compared to their drab Hasbro counterparts).

xyl360 wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:WFC Megs by a mile! and I have Hegemon.

So this ^

I've got Hegemon and I also have every single variant/version of the WfC Megatron mold. If Voyager size is not a requirement and neither is G1 cartoon accuracy and you're just looking for straight up which is the superior figure all around, then Has/Tak wins by miles. It's one of my favorite molds of all time and if they ever release any new variants/versions of that mold in different colors, I'll own them as well (so far the best are the 2 Takara versions, both of which have paint jobs and plastic colors that will make you cry because of just how epic they look compared to their drab Hasbro counterparts).

YES - I have both the United & Darkside versions of WFC Megatron, and they are GLORIOUS.

I've thought about picking up the regular Hasbro Generations version again (I sold the couple I had last year), but that white, though game accurate, doesn't quite do it for me. Gunmetal & Black, all the way!

megatronus wrote:

xyl360 wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:WFC Megs by a mile! and I have Hegemon.

So this ^

I've got Hegemon and I also have every single variant/version of the WfC Megatron mold. If Voyager size is not a requirement and neither is G1 cartoon accuracy and you're just looking for straight up which is the superior figure all around, then Has/Tak wins by miles. It's one of my favorite molds of all time and if they ever release any new variants/versions of that mold in different colors, I'll own them as well (so far the best are the 2 Takara versions, both of which have paint jobs and plastic colors that will make you cry because of just how epic they look compared to their drab Hasbro counterparts).

YES - I have both the United & Darkside versions of WFC Megatron, and they are GLORIOUS.

I've thought about picking up the regular Hasbro Generations version again (I sold the couple I had last year), but that white, though game accurate, doesn't quite do it for me. Gunmetal & Black, all the way!

Dude, it all depends on how much you did or didn't mess with the default brightness of your display settings/the game's graphics settings. The darker/more metallic tones on the United version ARE more game accurate if you leave everything set to its dark defaults (I know cuz' I paused the game once and just sat there staring at Megatron's back and comparing it to how that toy looked in hand with a huge grin on my face ). Plus, that metallic red on his arms (and the metallic purple on the Darkside version for that matter) is just amazing. It's like liquid metal blood.

xyl360 wrote:Plus, that metallic red on his arms (and the metallic purple on the Darkside version for that matter) is just amazing. It's like liquid metal blood.

[Laughs Maniacally]

Alex Jones wrote:Assuming financial barriers are not an issue, which of the two is better, Hegemon or WFC Megatron (any deco)?

HEGEMOOOOOOOOOOON!

megatronus wrote:I don't agree with the premise that one needs to be better than the other; they accomplish very, very different things.

I've owned several Hegemon figures, but sold them all due to what I considered poor QC. Those were all from the initial run; I've been told that subsequent runs held up better. What I can say from my experience is that Hegemon is an awesome figure, at least in theory, and serves a G1-esque purpose. His transformation is finicky and frustrating, but you get a gun, so.

WFC Megatron is great - relatively simple, beautifully Cybertronian, and very accurate to his game character model. But he's a deluxe. If he and WFC Optimus were voyager-sized, they would absolutely be my Classics faction leaders.

Even if WFC Prime has a cybertronian mode and not an Earth mode?

Between those 2 I'd say WFC Megs hands down, as I have little to no love for a full on G1 Megatron design to begin with, let alone a fiddly-a** 3P toy that uses said design.