The Energon Pub

I don't really know how the whole 3rd party thing works. I don't know how they learn what the fans want, but this is an official request to anyone that might be on the inside.

I think it's fairly safe to say that FansProject is one of the biggest names in 3rd party Transformers toys, now. I love that the combiners got upgrades. The Nemesis/Magnus/Optimus Trailers were great. And the Protector armor is pretty good too. The problem I have with this is that the Autobots are getting so much love, I feel like my 3rd party shelf is greatly weighed towards one faction. I want to get upgrades for both leaders of the Decepticons.

I've actually put a little bit of thought into this... I understand that neither Megatron or Galvatron have any trailers or anything of the sort that represent anything in G1. However, I think that there could be some sort of upgrade for Classics Galvatron to give him a more G1 accurate alt mode, and a better, more posable, Voyager-ish sized, robot mode. And, as for Classics Megatron, I couldn't think of much, but I thought of a "Dino-King" type of add-on where he has parts that resemble the skeleton of a Tyrannosaurus, paying some homage to his Beast Wars incarnation. Either that, or something that would made his alt mode look more like a rifle and become armor for him in robot mode.

Personally I would be more than willing to pay for an upgrade on my Decepticon leaders. I will admit, though, that my idea for Megatron is pretty stupid. If anyone else has an add-on idea for Classics Megatron, I'd love to hear it.

I'm just tired of Autobots getting all the love, and I'm pretty sure I'm not the only one.

Classics/Henkai Megatron could get some sort of cannon that splits apart to form a stock and barrel for his gun mode. Classics Prime has two trailers, and the Gears Of War II set gives him a sweet gun with LEDs.

The new Ninja/Kingbat set gives him a sword/trident, but he needs more!

I agree. Especially since I can't help but give all my Perfect Effect Weapons to Nemesis/Magnus. To go along with my skeleton "Dino-King" idea, it could turn him into a Triple Changer: Ridiculous Dino-themes-gun, Dinosaur, and Robot. Just a passing thought. It feels very possible considering his Transformation is so similar to Beast Wars Megatron.

Sorry. I'm rambling.

That's the thing really, aside from his mace, laser pistol and beam sword (and bigger sword if you want to go Diaclone) there's very little that would do to upgrade Megatron, in any series really.

Galvatron had even fewer accessories, and I would wait for the new Galvatron mold that's in early development to hit the store shelves because adding upgrades to the current classics one is like adding sparkles to poop.

Mkall wrote:...the new Galvatron mold that's in early development.

The what now?

Details!

zodconvoy wrote:

Mkall wrote:...the new Galvatron mold that's in early development.

The what now?

Details!

I have no more other than that. It is apparently ONLY in early resin testing, so it'll be a while, if it's not scrapped entirely.

I agree as well but there is no help for classics Galvatron at all. What ive been thinking about is a up grade for classics megatron, it will be just like g1 with the stock and slilencer that form a BFG. Then glavatron would have to be a all new mold (Fansproject, igear,Pe do you hear me)if its not done by next year(2012) then hopefully i will would have started my own 3rd party by then and those are top projects after my prodies (transformable shapes for kitbashing) oh yeah does anyone know how to upload pic's? it keeps saying that the pics are too big (i've even put them in a zip file and it still doesnt work,help me obwon kenobi your my only hope.

I don't, honestly, see what is all that awful about the Classics Galvatron. I think it has just as much potential as Classics Hot Rod did, and they did something great with that. I mean, hell, if they could just give it the ability to stand up straight I'd be satisfied.

When I post pics, I don't upload them here. I first upload them onto an image host like photobucket (an account takes not 5 minutes to set up) then link them to the post by copying the url then book ending it with [ img ] and [ /img ] without the spaces obviously. That should get you posting pics in no time.

Hm, with fansproject's potential, I'd rather just see new and more accurate/better scaled figures.
If they were good enough, it'd probably convince me to buy things besides movie toys, not sure about everyone else though.

The current classics Megatrons/Galvatron just sorta...don't impress me, if I start making a neo G1 collection, I want the Megatron to be perfect, ya know?

Classics Galvatron isn't as bad as everyone makes him out to be. But he isn't exactly figure of the year either; I think it's more disappointment than anything that makes people hate the guy so.

Kinda like Galvatron's portrayal in the cartoon, actually.

Anyhow, it's be nice to have some sort of armor upgrade for Galvatron .... but I don't see how it'd be possible. The torso and waist are tiny. Rodimus suffers a bit from the "monkey limb" sundrome of having too long arms and too long legs, but Galvatron would suffer from it even more since his toy already has very long limbs. However, it'd be nice to see a Warbots version of the guy.

If Hasbro is making a new one that's wonderful. Galvatron's one of my favorite Decepticons.

Forget third party upgrades for Megatron and Galvatron; I want to see a third party do Super Megatron and Ultra Megatron from Battlestars (I wouldn't cry if someone knocked out a less-bricklike Star Convoy, though I suppose Galaxy Convoy can stand in for this in a pinch....)

Oh! Woah! I did not know those existed! Those are absolutely beautiful!!!

I would love to have those, but I think I'd still prefer it in add-on form. I love add-ons.

IMHO, 3rd party guys would do well to stick to comic of TV only characters such as Super Megatron. There's a few of these guy I wouldn't mind owning.

Well, I do agree with Mkall in there's not much you can do with Megatron, but I still do want a sword, blaster, mace and stock/barrel combo that can be transformed into a cannon.

Mkall wrote: the new Galvatron mold that's in early development

Come again?

Edit: Never mind, I kept reading.