|
Closest thing we have had to a G1 Megatron aside from the Masterpice. Very nice figure.
I loved the robot-mode's look from the packaging and I decided I would keep him in that most of the time.I'm pretty happy with the figure but a couple of things get on my nerves:-- You can't move the arms or legs without 'em making a 'click-clack' sound. I worked around this by not pulling the head out completly from its compartment and just pointing the head upwards a bit, so that the neck is covered and he's still facing straight.Other than these quibbles, I think it's a great toy. finally, Megatron back as a gun.
Difficult to get the correct posture.- When you remove the head from the chest compartment, the head sticks out a little too much, showing a 'neck', between the head and the ball-joint. Of course, I wish the colorings were different and I saw pictures of the Takara variant of the same toy and it's a lot more true to Megatron. It has a very ugly effect on Megatron, since he doesn't have a neck.
I was so excited when I caught sight of this toy in the local toy store. This is the first TF toy I've got (and I have Classics, Cybertron & Movie lines) that makes noises as you try to pose it.- The position of the legs is such that Megatron is either standing with his chest 'puffed out' and looking up at the sky, or is stooping. I'm planning of doing a re-paint.
I've never been a fan of the tank, dinosaur, drag racer, alien jet, etc, etc modes that they've come up for the Decepticon leader but the gun transformation from G1 is what Megatron is best suited for.Course, this gun mode looks pretty kiddish, but I didn't intend to keep him in gun mode anyway. The slightest movement does not come silently.
It really is a marvalous feat of toy engineering. When I first saw it I couldn't see how the gun and robot modes were one and the same. Highly recommended. One of the best of the classic's line. I think my favorite thing about this toy is how it transforms.
Not diggin' it. "Beast Wars". This is the 1st new "GUN" Megatron I've ever seen. (Galvatron doesn't count)The Transformers "Classic Deluxe" is the greatest thing to happen to Transformers for a long time.
The gun mode clicks fine and the telescope (or viewfinder) is pretty cool, too. Perhaps because it's a bad guy and bad weeds are hard to kill. It's also very durable as it has been lent to my son's friends and has come back unscathed.
After school, he would be come back with the toy in robot mode and hand it to me to transform it back. It takes a lot of 3D visualization to figure out how to transform this thing. We bought this for our 6 year old son and it greatly improved father-son bonding as he couldn't figure out how to get it back to pistol mode on his own.
I sat a table of four adults and they couldn't figure it out either. OK, the wings are everything but aerodinamic, but then again, it's just a toy and a recommendable one. He took comfort in the fact that his mother couldn't figure it out either.
Therein lies the educational value.
|
