According to a story in tomorrow’s edition of Canadian newspaper The Globe and Mail, the Canadian International Trade Tribunal has reversed its ban on imports of Takara’s Masterpiece Megatron. The figure, with his Generation One-updated Walther P-38 pistol mode, had been turned away at the border since its release under an Ottawa law prohibiting replica firearms.
But an RCMP forensics expert, after measuring the 30% size difference between Megatron’s gun mode and his real-life counterpart, determined the Transformer was much too big to qualify as a replica firearm, so the Canadian ban on replicas does not apply. Good news for Canadian fans!
thygriever
i dunno… i think it still pretty much resembles a real gun.. even if bigger. I can understand the ban. And he actually transforms into a gun shape so saying that prohibiting wood wouldnt make sense unless it was a wooden toy made to transform into a Walther lol
Sidecutter
I know. That was the same reason I had to go through hell and high water with my first shipment because supplier didn't want to risk getting in trouble shipping them to the US.
Doesn't mean it makes any sense though.
Motor_Master
I wonder how long it took the Customs agents to transform MP Megs into Gun mode. Man I would love to be a fly on the wall for that one.
"Well sir it took us a week but we finally rearranged that robot into it's Walther P-38 mode…"
StarFire_MK2
Me neither.
lars573
Because replica firearms can still get person holding it killed. Me I'm NEVER taking any G1 or G1-esque Megs out in public. Not in his box, not anywhere. If I have to move then they will go into another box or my canvas TRU bag. And no one will see them, far too risky.
We didn't as it had been fuly inspected before by CBSA and declared a toy. That is until BBTS started shipping then with a "It turns into a giant ass gun peoples!!" note with him. Then the problems started.
optimusprime42
canadian customs… i'm sorry sir your not allowed in canada
megatron what do you know who i am
well sir we don't allow firearms… megatron oh so unwise
NeilJam
I ordered from A3U to avoid having a plug stuck in the end. Turns out many were easily removed anyway but I didn't want to take a chance on it having a plug that was permanent.
Collectors in Australia also had issues importing Megatron due to gun replica laws there.
Ktulu
The guy that was fighting them over it is one of my Youtube friends and they really really gave him a hard time so I'm glad that in the end it was worth it for him
airfox
Also A3U shipments to Canada don't go through customs.
A3U shipments received from China do go through customs … wonder how they got their stock.
-airfox
Nocturn
This.
Emperor Zarak
Now if only our US regulators realized that then we wouldn't need the yellow plug…
Mixmaster
Some replicas can be converted into working firearms.
SmokescreenWRX
Again, common sense prevails.
HUZZAH!
General Tekno
Yeah… I mean, why would you rob a store with an MP Megs?
If you can afford one of those, odds are you don't NEED the cash that badly.
Peaugh
I don't get the "replica" ban in the first place. I mean, okay, someone might use it to try and hold some one up, or rob a store, but even if they were never caught for it, wouldn't you generally rather have someone running around with a "gun" that couldn't kill people, as opposed to one that could?
CripNite
Geez, I've had mine for months, bought from a canadian retailer unmodified and didn't know I wasn't supposed to have it.
Foster
A3U didn't put a note in the package that all but exclaimed "I AM A REPLICA FIREARM! CONFISCATE ME!"
General Tekno
But see, the thing that's REALLY odd about all this is that most Canadians had NO problem getting him.
I mean, look at all the orders A3U filled for instance.