just did a quick digibash (i don't want my boss to catch me goofing off!).

all i have to say is... amazing. megatron as a gun rocks, even if it is a nerf-looking one. at least it's not like the oozinator.

i haven't been overly enthused about most of the recent TF lines (like, i HAVE to have all of them! enthused) and mostly stick to just binaltech/alternators... but these are just awesome and i have to get them all.

 

Megatron looks pretty nice given the realistic limitations put on making a toy gun. Still, I think the green on the wings could have been done less prominantly as it's really throwing off the whole bot mode for me right now. Actually, the wings are throwing me off... has been since the black and white picks, but I like him. Looks great, but not what I was expecting.  

I won't comment on the others as I did that in the other thread. It's interesting that they slightly reposed Hot Rod (Rodimus... for god sakes just throw Autobot infront of it just like you do every other G1 name) and Starscream... the toys don't look any different to me though. Still look pretty good.

Hey, Dark Magnus, are you actually being picky about a toy?

 

Just noticed this...

Starscream's jet cannopy is upside-down on his robot chest relative to every other incarnation of G1 Starscream. In other words, the part of the cockpit closest to the nose cone points up, not down. Interesting.

And while Hotrod remains my second favorite (behind the newly-revealed Megatron), it looks like he has no knees. I hope I'm wrong, but I don't see a knee joint there.

 

Megs = BADASS.

 

It's weird, but I like Megatron.

I really like it.

 

Looks like instead of folding down, Starscream's jet nose rotates 180 degrees and pushes straight down into the body (which is I guess why it's sunk in) and then the nose folds back revealing the head.

 

color me shocked

there's not as much outrage on the colors as i had thought there'd be  


personally they're a bit meh to me, but i can understand them being restricted

 

Don't like Megatron's colors at all. That purple needs to go. And not too fond of him being a shell former. Never liked them at all.

A quick "what could have been"

 

i think cuz, aside from the green (damn, that Purple above looks so much better!) he's kind of got a "MegGalvatron" scheme going on, which i sure like  

 

eep that translucent green on the inside being so visible in bot mode is kind of icky... otherwise Megatron is pretty damn cool

kind of silly that they have to safety tip even something like that, but thems the rules

 

Wow it looks like two completely different head molds on the TFClub site... nice find Vang!

 

Finally saw these things and overall they're pretty good, none of them really totally blow me away but for the price I didn't expect them too.

Biggest dissapointment is Hot rod, were it not for the spoiler with the concept sketch I wouldn't be able to say this but I am so I will.

What I liked best about the concept was that it didn't have wheels on the legs which was true to the animation model as well as being a unique and interesting transformation mechanism.

This also has really weak looking arms, seriously I'd expect to see arms like that on a minicon.

Astrotrain is cool, no complaints here, Starscream is very cool but I am totally perplexed by the peoiple who think this is better then the MP version.
Prime I don't really like all that much, techincally it's good and yes the gun is lovely but the figures look just dosen't appeal to me.

Megs is pure awesomness and the biggest surprise so far, I had readied myself for a dissapointemnt with him but it was not to be. Good colours, great scuplt, cool looking gun and brilliantly fun looking transformation.
A real winner.  

I'm intending to just buy a case (you London boys down with that?) so I'll get them all anyway but those are my opinions.

Now I am most looking forward to Grimlock and Sky/Jet fire, whichever one it is. Jetfire has to be awesome or I will sulk for an hour or so.

 

Oh god, a NERF colored Megatron...Oh well, better than nothing. Everything else looks badass. But Hot Rod being called Rodimus...no. But I DIG Starscream.

 

That green is horrible on megatron but it'll be cool to have a toy gun to play with at the desk.

 

He is purple because purple is the decepticon color, I am guessing that is why they chose purple for him. I don't know about the green though...

 

Aside from the green on Megatron's 'wings', I think he looks absolutely amazing! The colours are bright enough(safety standards, y'know) but not too bright. They retain their dark purplish Decepticon look. His head sculpt looks great and the whole robot mode has a very 'Megatron' feel to it - not to mention that arm cannon is awesome!

Looks like the Decepticons out-cool the Autobots in this new series, just like they do every time!!!  

 

This is just amazing, I could care less about the colors being use. Just seeing megatron as a gun again and with a sweet robot mode on top of that i am very happy. I'm loving this Classics line, no other line can even compare to it.

 

By far, Screamer and Hot Rod I think are the closest to their original designs. When I saw Megatron's color scheme, I thought of Armada Tidal Wave, US scheme.

I'm mixed on Megs, but I believe his pros outweigh the cons.