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Megatronus' headsculpt alone looks more like a Pokemon. He's interesting enough, but he's an easy pass; primarily, his hollow legs scared me away.

prjkt wrote:Megatronus =/= Megatron

The Fallen's name before it was taken from him was Megatronus

How many more times should we have to repeat that?

-Kanrabat- wrote:

prjkt wrote:Megatronus =/= Megatron

The Fallen's name before it was taken from him was Megatronus

How many more times should we have to repeat that?

The Fallen's full name was Megatronus Prime, shortened to Megatronus. It's the short form that Megatron used as inspiration for his name. And it's no trademark thing at all, as Generations Leader Megatron can attest.

Since I was asked by william-james88 for a couple of better shots of Clash of the Transformers Bumblebee and Optimus Prime, got closeups of the front and back of the packaging of these two






Also regarding Megatronus, watch the season finale of RID if you can, clear things up

It's fine for you to show more pics and all.

BUT Y U NO SHOW PRICES?!

I don't know about anyone else, but I need that legion mini Megatronus in my life.

I just went to the TF wiki and I don't see a legion Megatronus; what gives?

Megatron has a soulpatch? Well at least now he can strum the same three chords on his acoustic guitar

carytheone wrote:I just went to the TF wiki and I don't see a legion Megatronus; what gives?

Be patient: TFWiki is handled by volunteers, so updates are sporadic and the pages aren't entirely up-to-date most of the time.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

carytheone wrote:I just went to the TF wiki and I don't see a legion Megatronus; what gives?

Be patient: TFWiki is handled by volunteers, so updates are sporadic and the pages aren't entirely up-to-date most of the time.

I get that. I was asking (poorly worded) if someone knew what wave he was included with. A little more digging and I found him. Part of a two pack that hasn't made it to the US.

carytheone wrote:

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:

carytheone wrote:I just went to the TF wiki and I don't see a legion Megatronus; what gives?

Be patient: TFWiki is handled by volunteers, so updates are sporadic and the pages aren't entirely up-to-date most of the time.

I get that. I was asking (poorly worded) if someone knew what wave he was included with. A little more digging and I found him. Part of a two pack that hasn't made it to the US.

Yup, looks like Megatronus will only be available in Clash of the Transformers, and not in the main line.

I think the legions figure actually looks better than this.

And to help out Kanrabat: My guess is about $20-25 American dollars. Correct me if I'm wrong!

Yay, it's another big hunk of plastic, OH THE KIDS ARE GONNA LOVE THESE! -_-

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:I think the legions figure actually looks better than this.

And to help out Kanrabat: My guess is about $20-25 American dollars. Correct me if I'm wrong!

That'd be nice, but Mega 5-Step Optimus Prime has an MSRP of US$29.99 so Mega 5-Step Megatronus will probably be a little more than that at TRU pricing. In their defense they are 11" figures, Hasbro could have been a lot more greedy.

Emerje

SillySpringer wrote:Yay, it's another big hunk of plastic, OH THE KIDS ARE GONNA LOVE THESE! -_-

I know that, as a kid, I would never ask for, or allow these disgusting lumps of plastic s@#t near my collection, and would consider it an affront to kids everywhere. As I had a couple of the lever action ones from BW, I AM okay with simple transformations, or auto-transformations, so long as they yield a satisfactory figure... which these are not.

Not to burst any bubbles, but odds are that megatronus is more like 40-50$ cdn

william-james88 wrote:Not to burst any bubbles, but odds are that megatronus is more like 40-50$ cdn

So yet another reason to not get them; man has/tak should just scrub the 1 3 5 easy crap bricks and bring back machine wars styled deluxes, auto morph one way, a simple transformation the other, and they were good figures, not hollow bricks

Hellscream9999 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Yay, it's another big hunk of plastic, OH THE KIDS ARE GONNA LOVE THESE! -_-

I know that, as a kid, I would never ask for, or allow these disgusting lumps of plastic s@#t near my collection, and would consider it an affront to kids everywhere. As I had a couple of the lever action ones from BW, I AM okay with simple transformations, or auto-transformations, so long as they yield a satisfactory figure... which these are not.

You guys had some pretty high standards when you were kids. When I was a kid I didn't care about articulation, I just cared if it was a robot that turned into something. And that's really all that drives most kids these days, too.

Here, let me show you something that will blow your mind:



That is the DX Shurikenjin from Shuriken Sentai Ninninger from Japan, it sells for ¥8,984 (about US$73) and is only articulated at the shoulders, and there is literally just a smaller robot sitting in its chest with a funny hat on. It's easily the most ridiculous thing I've seen come out of Super Sentai and that's coming right off a series about trains. It's not a very good looking figure by most accounts, and yet it has been one of the top 5 best selling toys in Japan since February! And that's all toys including girls and collectables. MP Star Saber beat it for one week (1st place) and Legends Leader Megatron a few weeks ago (3rd place), but otherwise this thing has been dominating the toy sales in Japan for about four months now. It was the number three best selling toy for March and number four for April and May.

Kids don't care about articulation, they barely care about looks, they only care about if it's fun or not. I know when I was a kid I'd definitely want the giant 11 inch figure that turned into a tank no matter how simple the transformation was.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Yay, it's another big hunk of plastic, OH THE KIDS ARE GONNA LOVE THESE! -_-

I know that, as a kid, I would never ask for, or allow these disgusting lumps of plastic s@#t near my collection, and would consider it an affront to kids everywhere. As I had a couple of the lever action ones from BW, I AM okay with simple transformations, or auto-transformations, so long as they yield a satisfactory figure... which these are not.

You guys had some pretty high standards when you were kids. When I was a kid I didn't care about articulation, I just cared if it was a robot that turned into something. And that's really all that drives most kids these days, too.

Here, let me show you something that will blow your mind:

05.jpg

That is the DX Shurikenjin from Shuriken Sentai Ninninger from Japan, it sells for ¥8,984 (about US$73) and is only articulated at the shoulders, and there is literally just a smaller robot sitting in its chest with a funny hat on. It's easily the most ridiculous thing I've seen come out of Super Sentai and that's coming right off a series about trains. It's not a very good looking figure by most accounts, and yet it has been one of the top 5 best selling toys in Japan since February! And that's all toys including girls and collectables. MP Star Saber beat it for one week (1st place) and Legends Leader Megatron a few weeks ago (3rd place), but otherwise this thing has been dominating the toy sales in Japan for about four months now. It was the number three best selling toy for March and number four for April and May.

Kids don't care about articulation, they barely care about looks, they only care about if it's fun or not. I know when I was a kid I'd definitely want the giant 11 inch figure that turned into a tank no matter how simple the transformation was.

Emerje

I've long since known about megazords and their aposeable ilk (even if they don't even bother with transforming now). I always figured that kids wanted them b/c they looked cool, or b/c they related to them via a fiction. Now, maybe I was spoiled, growing up with BW and such, you can only go so far with that as it dropped off after rid2000 with armada; but these easy-crap things shelfwarm so hard in the cities 'round me, I always wondered if it was b/c they yielded such unsatisfactory robot modes - when compared to any other action figure they just look like garbage; my point remains that they can do simple figures, that are still good.

th... that turret turns around right? please tell me it is not stuck like that. If it's stuck like that, then yeah, it's kind of terrible. If the turret rotates, it's pretty obvious the instructions have the whole turret ass backwards for some reason.

Emerje wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Yay, it's another big hunk of plastic, OH THE KIDS ARE GONNA LOVE THESE! -_-

I know that, as a kid, I would never ask for, or allow these disgusting lumps of plastic s@#t near my collection, and would consider it an affront to kids everywhere. As I had a couple of the lever action ones from BW, I AM okay with simple transformations, or auto-transformations, so long as they yield a satisfactory figure... which these are not.

You guys had some pretty high standards when you were kids. When I was a kid I didn't care about articulation, I just cared if it was a robot that turned into something. And that's really all that drives most kids these days, too.

Here, let me show you something that will blow your mind:

05.jpg

That is the DX Shurikenjin from Shuriken Sentai Ninninger from Japan, it sells for ¥8,984 (about US$73) and is only articulated at the shoulders, and there is literally just a smaller robot sitting in its chest with a funny hat on. It's easily the most ridiculous thing I've seen come out of Super Sentai and that's coming right off a series about trains. It's not a very good looking figure by most accounts, and yet it has been one of the top 5 best selling toys in Japan since February! And that's all toys including girls and collectables. MP Star Saber beat it for one week (1st place) and Legends Leader Megatron a few weeks ago (3rd place), but otherwise this thing has been dominating the toy sales in Japan for about four months now. It was the number three best selling toy for March and number four for April and May.

Kids don't care about articulation, they barely care about looks, they only care about if it's fun or not. I know when I was a kid I'd definitely want the giant 11 inch figure that turned into a tank no matter how simple the transformation was.

Emerje

I think the thing that confuses me the most about this, besides what the hell the theme of the individual giant robots is supposed to be, is how the wolf is such a completely unnecessary part of the megazord. It's not even its own individual limb, it has to combine with the rear of the train zord that forms the rest of the waist and legs. And what is that the torso turns into a dump truck? Yes it is. It is a dump truck. what the hell. We have a ninja, a wolf, a dragon, a dump truck and a train? who was in charge of the mecha for this? I don't even. I just don't even. It's like they got drunk and threw darts at a board full of "things that could be mecha"

durroth wrote:

Emerje wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:

SillySpringer wrote:Yay, it's another big hunk of plastic, OH THE KIDS ARE GONNA LOVE THESE! -_-

I know that, as a kid, I would never ask for, or allow these disgusting lumps of plastic s@#t near my collection, and would consider it an affront to kids everywhere. As I had a couple of the lever action ones from BW, I AM okay with simple transformations, or auto-transformations, so long as they yield a satisfactory figure... which these are not.

You guys had some pretty high standards when you were kids. When I was a kid I didn't care about articulation, I just cared if it was a robot that turned into something. And that's really all that drives most kids these days, too.

Here, let me show you something that will blow your mind:

05.jpg

That is the DX Shurikenjin from Shuriken Sentai Ninninger from Japan, it sells for ¥8,984 (about US$73) and is only articulated at the shoulders, and there is literally just a smaller robot sitting in its chest with a funny hat on. It's easily the most ridiculous thing I've seen come out of Super Sentai and that's coming right off a series about trains. It's not a very good looking figure by most accounts, and yet it has been one of the top 5 best selling toys in Japan since February! And that's all toys including girls and collectables. MP Star Saber beat it for one week (1st place) and Legends Leader Megatron a few weeks ago (3rd place), but otherwise this thing has been dominating the toy sales in Japan for about four months now. It was the number three best selling toy for March and number four for April and May.

Kids don't care about articulation, they barely care about looks, they only care about if it's fun or not. I know when I was a kid I'd definitely want the giant 11 inch figure that turned into a tank no matter how simple the transformation was.

Emerje

I think the thing that confuses me the most about this, besides what the hell the theme of the individual giant robots is supposed to be, is how the wolf is such a completely unnecessary part of the megazord. It's not even its own individual limb, it has to combine with the rear of the train zord that forms the rest of the waist and legs. And what is that the torso turns into a dump truck? Yes it is. It is a dump truck. what the hell. We have a ninja, a wolf, a dragon, a dump truck and a train? who was in charge of the mecha for this? I don't even. I just don't even. It's like they got drunk and threw darts at a board full of "things that could be mecha"

Yes, I believe super sentai (or whatever) has officailly, now and forever, jumped the shark. They are partsforming, theme-less, gibberish. But because its 'super sentai' people in japan and wherever will continue to support it.

To prevent this thread from going off-topic:

Seibetron Henshin! Tokusatsu Thread

durroth wrote:th... that turret turns around right? please tell me it is not stuck like that. If it's stuck like that, then yeah, it's kind of terrible. If the turret rotates, it's pretty obvious the instructions have the whole turret ass backwards for some reason.

It does rotate for the transformation, look at the Instruction on the back of the box. However, it's locked in place in vehicle mode by pressing it down.

Ultra gimmicky bricktastic G1 Star Convoy say hi.







And yes, it's awesome.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Ultra gimmicky bricktastic G1 Star Convoy say hi.




And yes, it's awesome.

Perhaps, and, while I admit that base mode has a certain '80's japanese obtuse charm to it; it will never have a place in my collection (unless it was a gift from someone)




But seriously people, that base mode is hilarious

Hellscream9999 wrote:Yes, I believe super sentai (or whatever) has officailly, now and forever, jumped the shark. They are partsforming, theme-less, gibberish. But because its 'super sentai' people in japan and wherever will continue to support it.

And yet this figure has still been in the top five best sellers since Februray. The point is (because I didn't post it to talk about Super Sentai) that...

Hellscream9999 wrote:I always figured that kids wanted them b/c they looked cool, or b/c they related to them via a fiction.

... just as easily applies to Transformers. Megatronus does look cool; he's a big, black and purple robot that turns into a tank and he's currently active in the cartoon. Why wouldn't a kid want it? Because it isn't super articulated? You just said looks and relatability were enough to make something a top seller. Around me the 3-Steps sell as well as any Combiner Wars figures so I'll continue to believe that kids will just buy what they like regardless of how bendy it is.

Emerje