Bayverse Renders are Creeping into the Rise of the Beasts Toyline with these New Toy Sightings

Isn’t that the same one step Megatron that was oddly included in AOE’s line? That mold is really getting its moneys worth.

primal still looking like a brick. i would really like a nice looking toy for this movie version of him.

The Transformers Rise of the Beasts Transforming masks were some of the first products we saw for the line last year. They've been sitting in US warehouses for a year now practically, and they have finally come to American shelves. The Optimus Primal and Bumblebee masks were found in Meijer in Michigan for 34.99 USD, by ziltama who posted them on the TFW2005 boards. Let us know if you'll go for these at that price. The repackaged Smash and Change Optimus Prime was also found at the same location.

Got another weird one, this looks to be a repack of an evergreen Megatron with a render of a new Megatron design on the box, maybe based on the rumored BB model that wasn't in the final movie?



While I don't like the helmet, I think the face and body design (at least what we can see) is actually pretty cool looking. He has some Bayverse Megatron vibes with those cheekbone pieces!

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Got another weird one, this looks to be a repack of an evergreen Megatron with a render of a new Megatron design on the box, maybe based on the rumored BB model that wasn't in the final movie?

ROTB Megatron.JPG

While I don't like the helmet, I think the face and body design (at least what we can see) is actually pretty cool looking. He has some Bayverse Megatron vibes with those cheekbone pieces!

Yep, it's the Authentics Titan Changer.



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mech_dh wrote:honestly, I can tell that Primal is a remold of the Kingdom figure.

Err, no, they share zero parts. It's a new mold. This line doesn't reuse Kingdom molds.

This is pretty cool. We've known for a long time that Travis Knight had planned a scene in the beginning of Bumblebee where Megatron would show up, but that was scrapped since Hasbro still wanted to hold onto the Bayverse continuity. And we knew a design for Megatron within this more G1 setting existed, since we had a Tiny Turbo changer toy released of that design. Yet we never actually saw a render or concept art for that Megatron. Well, we have one now. The Rise of the Beasts Titan Changers were found in Mexico yesterday and while the figures are all figures we saw before released under Generations/Authentics, their box art shows their latest renders. For Megatron, we finally get to see that render of the form he would have had in the Bumblebee movie.

So just to reitrate, this is a design Hasbro has had for the past 4 years and this is our very first time seeing it properly. We have had listings for a Movie 6 Megatron figure in the Studio Series line, and that refers to the Bumblebee film. That upcoming figure could be based on this design. We'll see.

This is the thing about corporate stubbornness that continually baffles me. According to this, they 'scrapped' an appearance of this CGI Megatron, which is obviously superior, because they wanted to 'hold on to the Bayverse continuity'?

Why? The Bayverse 'continuity' was a jumbled, incomprehensible mish-mash that started out with promise but very quickly derailed and lurched aimlessly from film to film, with each one seeming like it wanted to 'start over' and forget what happened before. Their treatment of Megatron was just one example.

In movie 1, Megatron's design was one of the things I liked the least, because it just wasn't Megatron. It was a cross between Lord of the Rings Sauron, a pile of used Brillo, and, I donno, some kind of vampire? It was like even the designers couldn't make up their minds.

They seemed to recognize this and totally revamped him for Movie 2, which was a quiet acknowledgement that they screwed up the Movie 1 design. But it obviously didn't work, because in Movie 3, they totally revamped him AGAIN. Then again in Movie4 as that goofy T-1000 Galvatron. Then yet again in Movie 5. There was no consistency.

Same with his portrayal as the villain. In each movie, he would show up, only to get clobbered by Optimus within 20 seconds. I never felt he was any kind of threat in Bayverse, because he was always so easily beaten. It was like he was merely a secondary villain in each plot, a nuisance to be batted quickly aside so Optimus could deal with the primary antagonist, whether it was the Fallen, Sentinel Prime, Lockdown, whatever. Megatron was never given proper tribute in Bayverse as Optimus Prime's arch enemy.

So when it's said that Hasbro wanted to 'hold onto the Bayverse continuity', that sounds like a pretty silly reason because there was nothing contiguous to hold on to. With Optimus Prime in Bayverse, they adjusted his appearance in each movie, but he had all the same basic elements, both in the alt modes and robot modes.

So - I'm all FOR brooming the Bayverse 'continuity' (such as it is) and rebooting Megatron into this more accurate CGI representation. Sure, we'd lose what the Bayverse has previously 'established' for him. But frankly? That's no big loss.