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My Brother went shopping last month, with my money! He came back with the titanium G1 Ultra Magnus and WW Megatron, cos he didn’t like the Megatron he gave it to me.
Now I’m making this revue cos you demanded it.
Note this is my first Toy revue ever.

G1 Ultra Magnus:

Bot-mode:





Well at first sight he looks real cool, just like someone stated before Magnalishus!
Take a closer look at it and something starts to look odd.
His head is to far in front, wile his arms are to far to the back!


The detailing on him is quite good, but the colors are so not cartoon acurat!
His head, smokestacks, hands and guns are made out of rubber.
His front half chest and the inner bits of his legs are made of diecast.
The rest is made of… you guest it plastic ; ).
His chest opens for no real meaning, it’s just a nice reminder of the Movie.



His joints aren’t floppy, except for the crappie ballpoints that connect his arms with the body.
These will pop out when you use to much force, meaning that is your trying to transform him to fast they’ll pop of.
His Leg joints are very stiff, and allow his legs to rise up to 90°, which is useless. Why?
Magnus has got no knees, his knee joints bend into the wrong direction, that’s to enable the transformation.


Transformation:
It’s quite simple, bend his knees to the front, clap his arms of his body, lift the cab of his back, connect it and finished.
(yes no Prime that combines with a trailer!)



Alt-mode:

Very disappointing when you look at it in person, the back which is made out of his fat feet won’t rely hold together properly. The cab won’t stay in place and when you move it, it’ll try to transform back.
No place to hide his hand gun.



Overall it’s a nice idea to have him without being a Prime repaint. But he could have been better. I recommend him cos he’s a Magnus mold without a Prime, but get him at sale, cos he’s not worth the Alternators price tag!
We can just hope Hasbro will make a better version, cos this is just doesn’t pay justice to Magnus.
This is a Toy only completists and Magnus fans will like.

2 out of 5 Stars.



WW Megatron:

Bot-mode:



At first sight cool, at second sight bad-ass!
Beautiful detailing, super paint aps and a arsenal of peacemakers


Good tight joints this thing is build like a tank. His arms are quite puny and not as poesable as those of Magnus, but at least they stay attached to him!
His Fusion canon is real puny compared to other Megatrons, it’s connectable to the arm but looks better as a handgun.
His torso and inner legs are made of die cast. His head guns and shield are made of rubber.




Transformation:

Very simple, push his legs in, clap his arms into his shoulders, clap his big shoulder canon to the back, release his chest and turn it by 180°, lay it on the ground, attach his gun with the shield and stick it on his head finished.

Alt-mode:


Looks real odd and kind of disappointing. But still more bad-ass than Magnus.


Overall it’s a cool toy with an amazing paint job! The little articulation makes his possibility to be put into battle scenes very limited. But he still looks bad-ass by just standing there.

I highly recommend him, and he is truly build like a tank, cos I got into an argument with my brother in which he was chucked against a wall. He survived without a scratch and is still in one pice!
This is a toy everyone would like.

4 stars out of 5.

And the winner is...

Now one intrested to post a coment?

I like it, two nice reviews and the winner is... part at the end was a nice touch as well. Before I'd read this review I'd been thinking of getting Magnus, but looking at your pictures has put me off him until I find him cheap. I've also been convinced to hunt for the Megatron.

Optimus Frimal wrote:I like it, two nice reviews and the winner is... part at the end was a nice touch as well. Before I'd read this review I'd been thinking of getting Magnus, but looking at your pictures has put me off him until I find him cheap. I've also been convinced to hunt for the Megatron.

Thanks for the coment and liking my revue.
And yes WWMegatron is a must have. Just standing there he looks so real bad-ass.

I feel another problem with Magnus is the limitation Tittanium figs have to the 6 inch size. He should be much taller.

Lapse Of Reason wrote:I feel another problem with Magnus is the limitation Tittanium figs have to the 6 inch size. He should be much taller.

Yes he shuld.

Not a bad review. I found that I enjoyed Magnus more then Megatron, only because they botched the look of Megatron. Good job none the less.

Down_Shift wrote:Not a bad review. I found that I enjoyed Magnus more then Megatron, only because they botched the look of Megatron. Good job none the less.

Thanks maybe I'll make more (as if Germany will ever get somthing befor the US again )

Dead Metal, you've transformed UM wrong to Alt mode. His lower leg section slide down and click into place.

AS for his no knees thing, simply unscrew the upper leg section and reverse them so that the slimmer part that is at first on the front is now on the back side. It works splendidly!


Yes, the arm joints are a lil loose, but put a layer of white paint on em and they'll be sorted.

Also, I see the lack of gun hiding place as a good thing. I liked the way G1 toys didn't have these places.

The cab section on my UM stays in place fine. Maybe the post just needs to be tighter?

A QC issue if you ask me.

EDIT: I forgot to say great review! Plenty of splendid pics, all in focus and at lots of different angles, allowing a much better view of the whole figure. Well done, and keep doing em!

With the changes I've said about UM, he really is one of the best Tits. He looks excellent next to Rodimus, and the colouring is splendid.

Thanks for the pics and review, I love to have any and all info I can on a figure that I am thinking of buying. The WW Prime/Megs 2 pack will be mine.

I just got Titanium G1 Magnus yesterday...my only complaints are, yes i wish i could get the same quality figure just a lil taller and i wish he had come with the Matrix or something to go in his opening chest compartment

Lord Crump wrote:Dead Metal, you've transformed UM wrong to Alt mode. His lower leg section slide down and click into place.

AS for his no knees thing, simply unscrew the upper leg section and reverse them so that the slimmer part that is at first on the front is now on the back side. It works splendidly!


Yes, the arm joints are a lil loose, but put a layer of white paint on em and they'll be sorted.

Also, I see the lack of gun hiding place as a good thing. I liked the way G1 toys didn't have these places.

The cab section on my UM stays in place fine. Maybe the post just needs to be tighter?

A QC issue if you ask me.

EDIT: I forgot to say great review! Plenty of splendid pics, all in focus and at lots of different angles, allowing a much better view of the whole figure. Well done, and keep doing em!

With the changes I've said about UM, he really is one of the best Tits. He looks excellent next to Rodimus, and the colouring is splendid.

Thank you all very much for your friendly coments.
And as to your altering tips, thanks now I can convince my brother of making this guy purfect.

As for the mistransforming , I'm so ashamed of myself.
But I was hurring this and had my brother truving a wobly just cos his camera kiked the buked.

And as for revues, I enjoied mking this one I'll make some more. I just need the figs to do so.

I wonder has anyone made a revue of MP Megs?

I am probably one of the few who never liked the way G1 Magnus looked. I like the repaints, probably the only one who does, but I do. I don't care for this Magnus either. He has more articulation that the original big guy, but he just doesn't look right to me.

Megatron...

I really want this one, but only because I never had a Megatron. Again, I'm probably the only one who never cared for any of his alt modes. That's probably why he's such an angry character; he feels short-changed. The seekeers got cool plane modes, and he got a Walther P38 mode. Then he got other modes in later series which I really can't find myself liking, except for maybe the Cybertron one. In the Titanium one, he seems to basically just lie down, and presto! Tank mode, and that's kind of a bummer too. He looks great in robot mode though. But your right, his arm cannon is too small, and doesn't seem to want to stay right in his arm looking at the pictures above.

Jup, the altmodes of these two realy suck. But who knows maybe we get beter versions of them in the future?

Dead Metal wrote:Jup, the altmodes of these two realy suck. But who knows maybe we get beter versions of them in the future?

WWI Magnus is better, at least to me. Haven't gotten him yet though.

I hope we see a better Megatron, yes.

Sportimus Prime wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:Jup, the altmodes of these two realy suck. But who knows maybe we get beter versions of them in the future?

WWI Magnus is better, at least to me. Haven't gotten him yet though.

I hope we see a better Megatron, yes.

Voiger! That would be my wish!

Dead Metal wrote:No place to hide his hand gun.

Leave the chest piece down in truck mode and the gun handle should fit in the hole in it.

Rodentus Prime wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:No place to hide his hand gun.

Leave the chest piece down in truck mode and the gun handle should fit in the hole in it.

Tried that, dosn't fit.

it's weird that everyone is complaining about G1 magnus, but he is not that bad...no bad at all.

Rodimus has a gaping hole in his chest that just gets on my nerves.

Dead Metal wrote:

Lord Crump wrote:Dead Metal, you've transformed UM wrong to Alt mode. His lower leg section slide down and click into place.

AS for his no knees thing, simply unscrew the upper leg section and reverse them so that the slimmer part that is at first on the front is now on the back side. It works splendidly!


Yes, the arm joints are a lil loose, but put a layer of white paint on em and they'll be sorted.

Also, I see the lack of gun hiding place as a good thing. I liked the way G1 toys didn't have these places.

The cab section on my UM stays in place fine. Maybe the post just needs to be tighter?

A QC issue if you ask me.

EDIT: I forgot to say great review! Plenty of splendid pics, all in focus and at lots of different angles, allowing a much better view of the whole figure. Well done, and keep doing em!

With the changes I've said about UM, he really is one of the best Tits. He looks excellent next to Rodimus, and the colouring is splendid.

Thank you all very much for your friendly coments.
And as to your altering tips, thanks now I can convince my brother of making this guy purfect.

As for the mistransforming , I'm so ashamed of myself.
But I was hurring this and had my brother truving a wobly just cos his camera kiked the buked.

And as for revues, I enjoied mking this one I'll make some more. I just need the figs to do so.

I wonder has anyone made a revue of MP Megs?

Glad I could be helpful. It's always nice to help others enjoy transformers more. I think there's a few MP-05 reviews. But that matters not! Write the review, and I shall read it!


They could quite easily take the Titanium UM mould, scale it up to Masterpiece size, and edit it a bit so that it's perfect; use ratchets joints rather than ball joints for shoulder joints, put these ratchet joints on a slider so that the arms can be slid forward to be more in line with the rest of the body, things like that. I'd buy it!

Pretty pic heavy, but still a good review. Since I did want to have a War Within Collection, I thought of continuing with Megatron, and yah, probably a good idea too.

The Master Blaster wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:

Lord Crump wrote:Dead Metal, you've transformed UM wrong to Alt mode. His lower leg section slide down and click into place.

AS for his no knees thing, simply unscrew the upper leg section and reverse them so that the slimmer part that is at first on the front is now on the back side. It works splendidly!


Yes, the arm joints are a lil loose, but put a layer of white paint on em and they'll be sorted.

Also, I see the lack of gun hiding place as a good thing. I liked the way G1 toys didn't have these places.

The cab section on my UM stays in place fine. Maybe the post just needs to be tighter?

A QC issue if you ask me.

EDIT: I forgot to say great review! Plenty of splendid pics, all in focus and at lots of different angles, allowing a much better view of the whole figure. Well done, and keep doing em!

With the changes I've said about UM, he really is one of the best Tits. He looks excellent next to Rodimus, and the colouring is splendid.

Thank you all very much for your friendly coments.
And as to your altering tips, thanks now I can convince my brother of making this guy purfect.

As for the mistransforming , I'm so ashamed of myself.
But I was hurring this and had my brother truving a wobly just cos his camera kiked the buked.

And as for revues, I enjoied mking this one I'll make some more. I just need the figs to do so.

I wonder has anyone made a revue of MP Megs?

Glad I could be helpful. It's always nice to help others enjoy transformers more. I think there's a few MP-05 reviews. But that matters not! Write the review, and I shall read it!


They could quite easily take the Titanium UM mould, scale it up to Masterpiece size, and edit it a bit so that it's perfect; use ratchets joints rather than ball joints for shoulder joints, put these ratchet joints on a slider so that the arms can be slid forward to be more in line with the rest of the body, things like that. I'd buy it!

I'd buy that too.
And I'll be starting my revue of MP5 now! But post it tomorow, cos it's getting late now (and call me aretared but it tok me 1/2 houre transforming him, I havn't transformed him since!).
Maybe I'll make it a duble bill again, but which toy shuld I use as the secend one?