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News Credits: 1 · by **SentinelPrime878** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 8:51 pm

I was wondering if anyone could tell me if a Super Megatron or Ultra Megatron figure from the Return of Convoy/Battlestars toy line was ever produced and released? Also from this toy line who was Dark Nova and Star Giant? Were these figures ever produced and released?

I know a few were made, Star Convoy,Grandus,and Skygarry.

by **Uniprimus** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 9:13 pm

Are you Tramp?

News Credits: 1 · by **sto_vo_kor_2000** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 10:38 pm

As far as I know nether Megatron in your question were ever made by Takara.There are a few fan-made figures of them out there thou.The other 2 on your list I cant answer for.

News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Thu Oct 18, 2007 11:04 pm

Only Star Convoy was ever made of the characters fromt hat line that people would actually care about.

I think Takara missed a fortune forgetting all those sweet characters when they were doing RMs and the PVC line.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:26 am

As for Dark Nova, he was a Unicron-like being (round and evil) who first resurrected Optimus Prime, turning him evil. He also resurrected Galvatron (absent from Masterforce on) and changed him into an upgraded Super Megatron, and later in Ultra Megatron. In a last-ditch effort he even combined with Megatron into Star Giant.

These links will give more info. All are from Prime Saber's homepage:

Dark Nova
Super Megatron
Ultra Megatron
Star Giant

On a side note, the original draft had Unicron instead of Dark Nova. They should have kept Unicron in. :MAD:

News Credits: 150 · by **GetterDragun** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 7:21 am

Gauntlet101010 wrote:Only Star Convoy was ever made of the characters fromt hat line that people would actually care about.

I think Takara missed a fortune forgetting all those sweet characters when they were doing RMs and the PVC line.

Huh? Grandus and Sky Garry were made as well.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 7:22 am

GetterDragun wrote:
Gauntlet101010 wrote:Only Star Convoy was ever made of the characters fromt hat line that people would actually care about.

I think Takara missed a fortune forgetting all those sweet characters when they were doing RMs and the PVC line.

Huh? Grandus and Sky Garry were made as well.

But nobody cares about them

News Credits: 1 · by **sto_vo_kor_2000** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 3:39 pm

GetterDragun wrote:
Gauntlet101010 wrote:Only Star Convoy was ever made of the characters fromt hat line that people would actually care about.

I think Takara missed a fortune forgetting all those sweet characters when they were doing RMs and the PVC line.

Huh? Grandus and Sky Garry were made as well.

He did say::::"that people would actually care about."

I for one would have prefered Megatron to ether of the ones you mention.

by **Autovolt127** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 5:08 pm

I foun d classics Megatron as a homage to Super Megatron just not in colour.

News Credits: 32 · by **UltraPrimal** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:31 pm

Titanium Megatron is kind of similar to Ultra Megatron.

News Credits: 1 · by **sto_vo_kor_2000** » Fri Oct 19, 2007 9:41 pm

UltraPrimal wrote:Titanium Megatron is kind of similar to Ultra Megatron.

Witch one??????

News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:54 am

It's a side effect of being based off G1 Megs.

Unicron was never involved. I know the pictures sort of look like that, but ... it's an old Japanese trick. Dark Nova was probably described as "unicron like" so they just drew Unicron. You'll notice that he's always in shadow and never clearly defined. This is proably because they hadn't settled on a design yet. Even Star Giant's character sketch differes from the one sctually shown in the TF flyer.

Edit: I just went over it and there's no mention of Unicron anywhere in the text. ユニクロン - there's the kanji for it. Maybe I missed it, but it really doesn't look like that's supposed to be Unicron. Although he might be related to him.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 10:59 am

Gauntlet101010 wrote:It's a side effect of being based off G1 Megs.

Unicron was never involved. I know the pictures sort of look like that, but ... it's an old Japanese trick. Dark Nova was probably described as "unicron like" so they just drew Unicron. You'll notice that he's always in shadow and never clearly defined. This is proably because they hadn't settled on a design yet. Even Star Giant's character sketch differes from the one sctually shown in the TF flyer.

Edit: I just went over it and there's no mention of Unicron anywhere in the text. ユニクロン - there's the kanji for it. Maybe I missed it, but it really doesn't look like that's supposed to be Unicron. Although he might be related to him.

Look for the early Battlestar catalog images. You'll be able to see a shadowed form in the background.

News Credits: 1 · by **Gauntlet101010** » Sat Oct 20, 2007 1:06 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Gauntlet101010 wrote:It's a side effect of being based off G1 Megs.

Unicron was never involved. I know the pictures sort of look like that, but ... it's an old Japanese trick. Dark Nova was probably described as "unicron like" so they just drew Unicron. You'll notice that he's always in shadow and never clearly defined. This is proably because they hadn't settled on a design yet. Even Star Giant's character sketch differes from the one sctually shown in the TF flyer.

Edit: I just went over it and there's no mention of Unicron anywhere in the text. ユニクロン - there's the kanji for it. Maybe I missed it, but it really doesn't look like that's supposed to be Unicron. Although he might be related to him.

Look for the early Battlestar catalog images. You'll be able to see a shadowed form in the background.

Yes, I know, I'm saying that isn't Unicron. If you look at that catalogue you won't find the name Unicron anywhere (and I supplied the kanji for you). Unless I glossed over it.

I'm sayign that Dark Nova was probably described as being LIKE Unicron, so they drew Unicron with plenty of shadows in order to cover their tracks. This isn't really something unique to Battlestars. Early BW2 art has a shadowed Galvatron ... this was also probably due to his colors being in question.