Title:
Megatron 1st Boxed
Description:
Megatron (Voyager Class, 2006)
After years of tanks and jets, Classics Megatron finally found a way to take Megatron back to his root as a transforming gun, complete with a working crosshairs in his scope and a spring-loaded clicking trigger. Described on-package as a "fusion blaster”, Megatron’s gun mode is apparently based on a Nerf N-Strike Maverick blaster, and decked out in a safety-regulation-friendly color scheme consisting of lots of green and purple (in an apparent homage to his old Generation 2 colors), plus bright orange on both the tip of the barrel and the scope. Years later, it would be discovered that, for currently unknown reasons, the bright color of this orange plastic would fade over time, even if not directly exposed to sunlight.
Early official Hasbro photographs, including those appearing on the toy’s packaging, show the gun mode’s trigger and other small parts as being orange, those parts were gray in later stock photography and the final release. They also depict Megatron with noticeably different "eyebrow” paint operations that matched those of the original Megatron toy, consisting of two small black triangles on his gray plastic forehead. The finished toy inverts this, painting most of his forehead black and leaving the triangles unpainted grey.
In a glaring example of poor quality control, the back of the packaging reads "working scope becomes anti-proton pulse canon!"
Classics Megatron was redecoed in Japan as part of the Henkei! Henkei! Transformers line by TakaraTomy.
After years of tanks and jets, Classics Megatron finally found a way to take Megatron back to his root as a transforming gun, complete with a working crosshairs in his scope and a spring-loaded clicking trigger. Described on-package as a "fusion blaster”, Megatron’s gun mode is apparently based on a Nerf N-Strike Maverick blaster, and decked out in a safety-regulation-friendly color scheme consisting of lots of green and purple (in an apparent homage to his old Generation 2 colors), plus bright orange on both the tip of the barrel and the scope. Years later, it would be discovered that, for currently unknown reasons, the bright color of this orange plastic would fade over time, even if not directly exposed to sunlight.
Early official Hasbro photographs, including those appearing on the toy’s packaging, show the gun mode’s trigger and other small parts as being orange, those parts were gray in later stock photography and the final release. They also depict Megatron with noticeably different "eyebrow” paint operations that matched those of the original Megatron toy, consisting of two small black triangles on his gray plastic forehead. The finished toy inverts this, painting most of his forehead black and leaving the triangles unpainted grey.
In a glaring example of poor quality control, the back of the packaging reads "working scope becomes anti-proton pulse canon!"
Classics Megatron was redecoed in Japan as part of the Henkei! Henkei! Transformers line by TakaraTomy.
Theme:
Classics
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
2006
Country:
United States
Release Date:
2006-09-03
Size:
9 in
Series:
Classics
Date Added:
2018-06-08 15:37:52
Date Added:
2018-06-08 15:37:52
