Thanks to Hasbro and Paramount’s generosity, we have an all-new Studio Series deluxe figure to review from the new Transformers One movie: MEGATRON.
(Fair warning: I haven’t seen the movie yet, so I don’t know the context of the character beyond the trailers, and will try to judge the figure on his own merits.)
Packaging:
Standard windowless Studio Series packaging with a cardboard display stand. The figure is tall enough that straight on, his head is partly covered by the front window frame.
Robot Mode:
Nice articulation, Megatron does everything a modern deluxe figure can do plus wrist swivel and double-hinged elbows. Head can’t look down at all, looks up on transformation hinge. Not a fan of the ball jointed shoulders and hips, but they work. Lots of range of motion. Sculpting and paint are very nice. Some hollowness but not terrible. Yeah, he’s leggy, but Cybertronians can be leggy, why not? His leg length seems to be dictated by the length of his feet for transformation, as much as anything.
Really liking the accessories, the fusion cannon technically isn’t shown in the instructions attaching to the backpack in the alternate config that way but it has no dedicated storage space and clearly is designed with the specific peg length for the classic look. The fusion cannon isn’t hollow at all, that’s fantastic! All the rest of the accessories have some hollowness. Technically, if you plug the fusion cannon into the silver and black pistol, everything can be held on the backpack.
Vehicle Mode:
Transformation is interesting, but the instructions using dark purple over light purple thus it’s really hard to see what orientation things are supposed to be to lock into place, so once you know where it all goes, it’s easier to avoid those instructions altogether. Very solid when everything’s finally tabbed together (except the turret which is just attached via 5mm peg so it can be removed), but it takes getting everything situated in place fully to get that solidness – the back of the legs into the bottom of the feet is most tricky.
For an H-tank, this is pretty neat and atypical, but it’s still just a good disguise for an H-tank. No wheels. Some gappiness and hollowness around, especially the back. The turret can rotate about 30 degrees to either side before hitting the body, and it can elevate but go too far and it reveals the robot head. The robot head for some reason cannot be rotated around to hide face down without modding the figure, it’s specifically designed that way. Loving the giant cannon though, looks great with a lot of presence.
Overall: B
Thanks to Hasbro and Paramount, who provided this review sample to us for free.