How is the US version more "comic accurate"? In Megatron Origin, Megatron
1) Didn't turn into a tank
2) didn't have his fusion cannon when he was a miner
3) had a silver chest.

So you've got a figure out of the USA that wouldn't be "miner megatron" if not for the caution stripes, and a Japanese figure that doesn't pretend to be "miner megatron" but has a color scheme that (other than the stripes) is more accurate anyways ...

Fans are weird.

 

Megs' IDW Cybertronian tank mode has both had the miner stripes and the more traditional deco, so they're both legitimate. I'm excited to get both honestly.

 

OK... Right off the bat, you're wrong about his colours. Megatron was dark grey when he was a miner, the same as the Hasbro version, with light grey limbs. Whilst he didn't have his fusion cannon, he did turn into a cannon-less tank, but regardless, all the Generations toys thus far based on Cybertronian designs have been given Earth alt modes that keep the kibble layout of the comc version (Trailcutter, Bumblebee, Megatron, Tailgate and Swerve).

 

I love the black around the eyes, does wonders.

 

Yuki just twitted some pics...

Twitpic / TFYUKI

 

best tank megatron ever, just wish it had a black tank turrent so it would be a nice arm cannon in robot mode

 

This is an old post, but Megatron does have a dark grey chest (and helmet) with with hazard stripes in Megatron Origin #1, but he gets rid of it after losing his mining job and the riot.

You can get a better look at the design in Chaos Theory (though it's slightly modified from MO, according to Milne):



And he does transform into what's basically a tank without a cannon:

http://markerguru.deviantart.com/art/prewar-megatron-design-253692735

 

Both Takara and Hasbro versions have their pluses and minuses, Megatron looks pretty niftykins in robot mode, but a shiny silver tank gives me the weirds.