The Energon Pub

News Credits: 1 · Tue Apr 19, 2022 2:20 pm

Cybertron Metroplex looks great. While losing the Cyber Key gimmick is a shame, it's still a fantastic figure in my eyes. And the "worker mode" is interesting.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Apr 19, 2022 2:24 pm

bluecatcinema wrote:And the "worker mode" is interesting.

Pretty close to the original, too.

News Credits: 12 · Tue Apr 19, 2022 2:30 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
bluecatcinema wrote:And the "worker mode" is interesting.
Pretty close to the original, too.

Wew, that's a spicy callout. :-D

Anyway, one thing I think is cool is that the worker mode is quite different from the standard robot, especially compared to the OG toy. Also reminds me a bit of Engels from Nier: Automata with the bucketwheel arm...

Tue Apr 19, 2022 2:31 pm

Looks like a cool figure. I wonder if we can fanmode a city mode somehow out of him. Those modes are always my major reason for getting the Titans.
I'm thinking the Galactic Odyssey set with Ironworks would look pretty cool set up next to this.

News Credits: 30 · Tue Apr 19, 2022 2:35 pm

Nope. Nope, the more I look at this Legacy Metroplex, the uglier it gets.

No shame to those who DO like it though. My not liking it just means more of him for the rest of you...

Tue Apr 19, 2022 2:43 pm

For that price I will just stick with my Megalo Convoy. I just don't think it looks all that good.

News Credits: 19 · Tue Apr 19, 2022 2:47 pm

For that price I'd want working treads but hey, cant have the price rise with out lacking complexity

News Credits: 14 · Tue Apr 19, 2022 3:01 pm

Am I the only one that likes this guy. He;'s got some really nice improvements over the original like ankle title and hide-away hands, but otherwise provides a very accurate representation of the cartoon character.

I think its great. I may just bit the bullet and get him.

The missing cyber key and minion is kind of sad, the new weapon gimmick almost makes up for it. Not that the key did much anyway on the original. It juts split open the saw wheel and engaged the little red light. (no sounds).

Not having it, does not really detract form the overall figure in any way.

Guess I'll have to dig out my Cyb Metroplex from storage for a photo session with the new version.

Also, for those saying its good he's very tall, the original toy was always taller than everybody in full robot mode. Heck he was taller than Primus for Primus sake. Even though he was only Leader Class.

While Menasor was Ultra Class.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Apr 19, 2022 3:05 pm

The general vibe I feeling from most of the detractors, here, is that he bears the name "Metroplex".

He can always be referred to by his original name: Megalo Convoy! 8-)

News Credits: 14 · Tue Apr 19, 2022 3:16 pm

Sabrblade wrote:The general vibe I feeling from most of the detractors, here, is that he bears the name "Metroplex".

He can always be referred to by his original name: Megalo Convoy!

I agree. To avoid further confusion, Megalo Convoy he is.

Tue Apr 19, 2022 3:49 pm

No attachment to the character, but happy for all who are excited for this.

The alt mode reminds me of the vehicles in a seemingly little known cartoon from the 80s called Jayce and the Wheeled Warriors. Anyone else remember this?

News Credits: 3 · Tue Apr 19, 2022 4:17 pm

Looking at some of the stock photos, I noticed that he can actually open his mouth. When's the last time they bothered doing that for a 'human' face on a non-masterpiece figure? Have they ever done it? The only one I can think of is Haslab unicron, and I'm lumping him in with masterpiece for this given his price.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Apr 19, 2022 4:24 pm

alekese wrote:Looking at some of the stock photos, I noticed that he can actually open his mouth. When's the last time they bothered doing that for a 'human' face on a non-masterpiece figure? Have they ever done it? The only one I can think of is Haslab unicron, and I'm lumping him in with masterpiece for this given his price.

Off the top of my head, all three Leader class molds in Animated, and the Leader class Starscream mold from the 2010 Movie line, could open their mouths with each of their electronic speaking gimmicks.

News Credits: 462 · Tue Apr 19, 2022 4:40 pm

Y'all know what's especially odd about this figure's lack of Mini-Con ports?

That Legacy Prime Bulkhead--a character who never used Mini-Cons as far as Hasbro's concerned--does have Mini-Con ports of his own.

News Credits: 54 · Tue Apr 19, 2022 4:45 pm

Sabrblade wrote:The general vibe I feeling from most of the detractors, here, is that he bears the name "Metroplex".

He can always be referred to by his original name: Megalo Convoy!

Why not Metroflex instead

News Credits: 14 · Tue Apr 19, 2022 4:50 pm

Interestingly enough they gave him shoulder guns instead of the infamously losable shoulder spikes.

Transformers Cybertron Metroplex (Megalo Convoy) Gallery

News Credits: 1 · Tue Apr 19, 2022 5:07 pm

For THAT price, I can easily pass on that.

News Credits: 22 · Tue Apr 19, 2022 5:21 pm

That pose just screams Texas Chainsaw Metroplex. :lol:

Tue Apr 19, 2022 5:58 pm

The price hikes are because of upstream factors making production more expensive for HasTak. That's going to hit the class that requires the biggest molds and uses the most plastic significantly harder than it hits the others.

Surprisingly faithful. IMO he's the first UT update in 14 years to have some real effort and substance put into him.

Yeah, I'm not counting any of the ones we've had since this mold. Aside from size troubles... Most are just headswaps, T30 Armada Starscream was too ephemeral, and Galaxy Upgrade Optimus suffers from not being a dedicated mold, just a way of capitalizing more on the Ultra Magnus mold (so no arm sockets, and no flying fire truck).

This new Cybertron Metroplex, on the other hand... And most of his deviations have good purpose (like making the work mode more interesting than just a "low clearance" thing).

He's not perfect, mind you. Sparkdrinker needs some 3P help IMO (new bucket wheel, extended shovel arm pieces because it seems like the shovel is shorted in reach compared to the original toy), and to be truly Gigantionian he needs Mini-Con hardpoints (I swear, if the 3P chuckleheads don't get on that they've lost their right to exist).
But he's still impressive, and he's actually larger than the original by enough that he's at least somewhat in show-scale with regular Cybertron toys. And, inaccuracies aside, his version of Sparkdrinker is thus better-sized to replicate this:
[youtube]https://youtu.be/Be5gGMoBX80?t=528[/youtube]

I'm honestly tempted because of that. But it would cut down on what else I could get, and I'm not sure how many more Titans I can make space for in my room... Hmmmm.

Overcracker wrote:
Sabrblade wrote:The general vibe I feeling from most of the detractors, here, is that he bears the name "Metroplex".

He can always be referred to by his original name: Megalo Convoy!

I agree. To avoid further confusion, Megalo Convoy he is.

Or we could just deal with the name-sharing instead of lowering ourselves to Jafanboyism, and the detractors could stop being manchildren over it given name reuse over different incarnations has been going on for how many years now? And in this guy's case, Cybertron Metroplex was even clearly designed as a G1 Metroplex homage.

News Credits: 12 · Tue Apr 19, 2022 6:20 pm

I mean, the character is originally Japanese, so technically "Megalo Convoy" is the proper name. (Side note, the wiki should really refer to Japanese-original characters by their Japanese names first and foremost, with the localized name put in the "foreign names" field, given that the Japanese version of, say, Car Robots is the original, with RID being a localized derivative work.)

Personally I quite like "Megaloplex" for an alt name for him, as it combines the two and distinguishes him from the G1 citybot. Though personally I'm not too bothered as I'm far more attached to "Giant Scottish builder who turns into a bucketwheel excavator" than "Big but otherwise unremarkable guy who appeared mostly in not very well animated episodes of an already poorly drawn cartoon".

News Credits: 2 · Tue Apr 19, 2022 6:41 pm

Wow, I'm extremely conflicted. On one hand, our updated Megalo Convoy here looks fantastic and has a fascinating alt mode. On the other... is all of it worth $200? I haven't gotten a titan since Predaking, and God knows how disappointing that was. Probably going to pass, except in the case of a sale.

:SG-CONS:

Tue Apr 19, 2022 7:04 pm

As a Cybertron fan, I am 100% down for this guy! He looks fantastic!

I'm slightly disappointed that he doesn't include a minicon (especially since every other non-combiner Titan came with a mini-dude), but I will wait and see if little Drill Bit ends up getting released elsewhere. I wouldn't mind a redeco of Countdown or something.

In regards to the name, this is the first Metroplex I knew, so the name applies here just as legitimately as it does the G1 character. If he needs some sort of qualifier, then he is Scottish Metroplex. MacMetroplex.

News Credits: 7 · Tue Apr 19, 2022 7:05 pm

I agree with ZeldaTheSwordman and Whifflefire,in that he should be still be called Metroplex,it is normal characters changing appearances between series.

Tue Apr 19, 2022 7:10 pm

PrymeStriker wrote:He's chopped up Beast Wars Inferno on the box art!

That box art is hilarious! :lol:

Everytime I see it now...I think of this as the Cybertronian equivalent of some guy outside using his weed-eater to trim the yard. Poor Kickback and Inferno...just happen to be collateral cyber-garden damage.