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Megatron - Titanium - Figure

Seems no Transformer line is truly complete without the 2 main figures. There is always an Optimus Prime leading the Autobots. Inevitably, there also seems to be a Megatron leading the Decepticons. This also holds true for the Titanium line. When the War Within design was unveiled for Prime, there was mass hope that there would also be a WW Megatron. For now, this does not seem to be the case. Instead, we have a different type of Megatron altogether.

Alt Mode

It is said that this Megatron is from a GI Joe comic. I have yet to figure out WHICH GI Joe comic line they are referring to. If anyone knows what it is, by all means let me know!! His alt mode is a tank, which looks somewhat like his G2 offering. The figure has a silver turret, with mostly black and purple colors on the body. The tank itself is blocky, but has some nice details. Such details include rubber treads (that aren't rotating, although he does have plastic rollers), the embossed M on the front end and the twin cannons on his turret. The smaller cannon has 360 degree rotatability but no angle ability. Meanwhile, the main cannon has vertical ability, but the turret does not rotate so it is always facing front. It loses some playability due to that. Also note the Autobot kill stamps on either side of the turret. There are a total of 5 between the 2 sides.

Megatron has his own base which includes the Decepticon insignia. This insignia can be removed if so desired. Megatron's transformation is not very difficult. However, be careful as this seems to be a fragile figure.

Robot Mode

I try to be bias with my reviews and feel that for the most part, I succeed at that. However, my contempt for this figure is too much. Whomever designed this figure should be fired and barred from making any kind of toy in the future! First, the robot mode is one of the worst looking Megatrons in years. The main cannon on his right shoulder looks like an afterthought and takes away from the aesthetics of the figure. But the design is what really suffers. The die-cast pieces on his shoulders make his arms sag badly. Combine this with extremely loose elbow joints and his arms are floppy. You can't pose them period. The knees are very stiff and have limited range. The hips are perhaps the worst feature. The legs can snap off extremely easy due to a tiny hinge that clips on. This tiny clip shouldn't have been expected to hold the heavy die-cast legs together. The hips themselves are on a ball joint and can be moved, but trying to get leg poses without seperating the hips and/or breaking the legs loose is like pulling skin off your teeth.

I'm sure if someone gave more thought to the execution of the joints this would have been an adequate figure. But as it stands, I couldn't recommend this figure to anyone.

ReviewerMichael Henry  
DateJuly 27th 2006  
Score (3 out of 10)  
Reads13433
LinkMegatron Pics  


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Posted by JaredimusPrime on 2007-08-31 21:52:32
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Protoman''s right. It''s not THAT great a figure. Oh, yea, and it''s from transformers vs. gijoe.

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Posted by GARRETPRIME on 2007-01-22 17:17:06
My Score:
cool to display in box

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Posted by mrmulligan on 2006-10-04 23:26:38
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I don''t mind the look, and can tell by the helmet that this megs is Marvel. It is very much like the early marvel look as far as the head goes, so that increases the vote for me. I refuse to open it out of fear.

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Posted by Protoman on 2006-08-13 22:24:31
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I''ll tell ya, this toy looks GREAT in the box. Megatron is posed all badass, but sadly that''s all do to the fact that he is TIED down in a good looking pose, a pose might I add that can''t be possible out of the box (hips are detached in the box). It''s not THAT great a toy. Very floppy, robot mode can''t look cool anymore, tank mode ain''t too bad if you manage to get to it without disconnecting a limb or two. In the end, go to Target, get 2 of them for 5 bucks if, open one and keep it in tank mode, leave the other in the box mint looking cool in robot mode. Crazy? You damn right.

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Posted by jsnwelch on 2006-08-12 21:17:08
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and i did not give him a full score, i forgot to rate it, so here is my rating

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Posted by jsnwelch on 2006-08-12 21:15:38
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not only does mine FLY apart if i even enter the room, but it wasnt even assembled in th box, he was placed in the wire ties one limb at a time, and im not even joking.

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Posted by openwound on 2006-08-05 16:11:54
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I think this was the first figure that Don Figueroa designed for Hasbro. Guess the idea on paper was actually better than the actual execution.

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Posted by spradlinb on 2006-08-04 09:02:54
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I went ahead and purchased Megs along with Prime at my local Target, but only because they had the pricing mixed up and I got them for $5 each... and with Megs, that price is still almost too much. One leg was detached when I opened the box, and by the time I had the figure un-twisty-tied he had also lost both arms. Putting him back together he just has a terribly transformation compared to Prime. I quickly changed him to tank and then back into robot mode and just set him on the shelf, where he will forever stay. It will definitely be really hard to beat this figure for crappyness in any other Titanium release.

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Posted by joseph_quick on 2006-08-02 22:34:19
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Joint looseness aside, has anyone tried to pop the pin out of the cannon and turn it around? I imagine it would botch the transformation. But if you left him in robot mode, you could fold the cannon back and have it hang hunder the arm pointing forward toward the hand. I feel like this would be more attractive than the way it is mounted on his shoulder out of the box.

Other than that I feel it looks a bit better pointing straight up. The shoulders on mine are not quite that limp, but his elbows are just as useless.

And seriously, swallow your pride and go back and change it to read "un-bias". It just makes you look uneducated as it is.

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Posted by J_Man on 2006-08-01 15:30:40
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I finally saw this one today in store. I just couldn''t bring myself to pay money for it. I like the G.I.Joe tie in, but it''s an ugly figure. No matter how I look at it, it''s ugly. Maybe if the tank was suppose to be a Cybertron tank and went even a little more "sce looking" it might have helped? I don''t know, but I do know that I''m going to save my money and buy something else.

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Posted by blitzwing on 2006-07-31 14:46:31
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The Autobot symbols are "kill stamps". They denote (supposedly) how many Autobots he has personally destroyed. 5 kill stamps, 5 crushed Autobots. The kill stamp motif was something that was used during WWII by both forces. Usually, the pilots stamped the opposing side''s faction on their plane as a count of how many enemy aircraft they shot down.

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Posted by alphawave on 2006-07-31 07:48:47
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in tank mode, y does he have autobot symbols?

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Posted by blitzwing on 2006-07-30 19:12:12
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Researched it, and it''s not the same Megs. Been doing some research and the closest I cam was Targetmaster Quake as to design. Only difference is that Quake didn''t have the shoulder mounted cannon. The transformation is strikingly similar though.

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Posted by blitzwing on 2006-07-29 14:56:15
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I''ll have to research that, darkknightinaz. Perhaps that is the link between this figure and some continuum. But why use such an obscure continuum that most likely few people remember (let alone even read)?

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Posted by darkknightinaz on 2006-07-29 14:17:41
My Score:
Megatron appeared as a tank in the Marvel GI Joe series, around issue 140, I believe, in the lead-in to the Marvel G2 Transformers Series. The coloring & transformation is somewhat off here, though... Unless this is intended to be from the Jae Lee TF/GI Joe; I can''t recall all of the alt modes in that seriesand don''t have a copy on-hand to compare with.

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Posted by AutobotX23 on 2006-07-29 03:06:02
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I was a little dissaointed. Them might as well just made him non-Transformable. I pray they d better with Jetfire and Thundercracker.

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Posted by beefkr10z on 2006-07-28 19:38:53
My Score:
oh, and a revised score for my opinion below...

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Posted by beefkr10z on 2006-07-28 17:25:10
My Score:
hit with a capital "S"

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Posted by Warrior_From_The_Sky on 2006-07-28 15:34:36
My Score:
i''m pretty sure i could fix the loose arm problem, but, if there is a big problem with the legs, i don''t know, i''ll need to buy this guy, and see if i need to return him.

i only give 3 stars till i can see first hand if this toy really sucks ot not.

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Posted by blitzwing on 2006-07-28 15:25:44
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In the first TF/GIJ series from Devil''s Due, he retained his Walther P38 alt mode. He wasn''t featured in the 2nd minseries and he was just a head in the current series. So far as I know, he never did transform to his Alt mode in the DreamWave TF/GIJ take. As for the grammer, you are right Smeg. I did mean unbias. And as for the apostrophe thing, it''s a thread issue. The apostrophes come out like quotations.

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Posted by Smeg on 2006-07-28 15:06:22
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"Well, since we are being grammar police, you are using quotes as apostrophes. Making occasional use of the "shift" key should aid you in avoiding this problem in the future."

No I''m not. It''s an error with the TFormers script. Try it. And I''m not trying to be a grammar Nazi here, but what was written not only failed to get the point across (or indeed to make syntactical sense), it gives the opposite impression of what was intended. I''m just being helpful. You''re being a bit of an ass.

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Posted by Santatron on 2006-07-28 14:59:04
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Well, since we are being grammar police, you are using quotes as apostrophes. Making occasional use of the "shift" key should aid you in avoiding this problem in the future.

"Let he who is without sin cast the first stone."

As for the figure, it was a big mistake not just making War Within Megatron. D-Fig goes to all the effort to make a workable design FOR them and they pass it up for this mockery. The exposed wrist ball-joints are a particular eyesore. Nice colorscheme for a die cast Megatron toy, but the face looks unfinished and stark.

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Posted by DarthServo on 2006-07-28 14:23:54
My Score:
Not too fond of his face.

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Posted by Smeg on 2006-07-28 13:25:30
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I try to be bias with my reviews

The word you''re looking for is unbiased. "Bias" is a noun, and without the un- prefix, you''re going to have the opposite meaning of what you intend.

As for the source, isn''t it from the Devil''s Due G.I. Joe/Transformers crossover? I haven''t read it myself, but that was my understanding.

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Posted by Doogles on 2006-07-27 22:10:55
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I''m going to disagree as far as how he looks. I love that robot mode (if only it were a little less stiff). However, I agree completely that someone should''ve put some thought in making him pose-able. Optimus falls apart but at least you can get him to stand up. ;)

And those Autobot insignias on his tank kind of throw me off...

  



   
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