MP-43 Beast Wars Megatron

Discussion in 'Transformers News and Rumors' started by Knightsword, May 9, 2018.

  1. Star Saber

    Star Saber Cybertron 5th Commander

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    Wow Beast Megatron is huge! He looks like a fantastic toy - but sadly with so many other great toys on the horizon, I need to be budgeting properly. Whoever manages to get him though, great for them!
     
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  2. b ri de s hea d

    b ri de s hea d Remember the Lobster Called Gimlet?

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    huh? do people actually think beast wars alt forms are for disguise?

    have you never seen the show? the only reason they have alternate forms based on local creatures is because of the energon radiation. otherwise they would have just stayed cybertronian

    if ya don’t believe me just watch the first episode, or ask the dude who said the same thing a few pages back

    tangentially i would like to add, that ‘robots in disguise’ isn’t actually the best tagline for transformers- because it is only on earth where those alternate modes are actually for disguise. in beast wars the forms are to protect againt radiation, & back on cybertron alt forms are for utility. think of the mining vehicle megatron used to turn into, or prowls police car form. obviously these are not disguises, they are to mine & chase down criminals respectively.
     
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    I watched the show and read the memo. And yeah, it's because Hasbro said (in Picard's voice): "Make it so".
     
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    :duel 
    Let's be "real". Transformers can't choose an alt mode they can't first scan.

    Let's be REALLY REAL.
    The Transformers didn't choose cars/trucks/planes/tanks/rockets or weapons for Alt Modes…



    TAKARA DID!

    Hasbro gave them names and a story… The SAME way they did with Beast Wars. :bay 
     
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    Nah Primus did ;) 

    If you can choose your own alt forms, why would you choose alt modes like Gorilla, Rhinox, etc. Everyone would be choosing to get the most powerful alt modes. Heck, everyone would choose to be ..... Saitama, One Punch Man.
     
  6. b ri de s hea d

    b ri de s hea d Remember the Lobster Called Gimlet?

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    yeah, but being that reductive is just silly

    it’s like saying that professor X was crippled because the marvel staff wanted that visual image, & not because of magneto. sure overall decision about fiction shape the story, but that doesn’t mean that there are no in story reasons for things happening.

    hasbro wanted beasts, marvel wanted the leader of the x men in a wheelchair- but that doesn’t mean there aren’t good in story reasons for these things happening
     
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    While I don't disagree with you, and while a distant 2nd, disguise WAS a part of, at least the Maximal's reconnaissance.
    They were explorers. And in multiple scenes, Maximals are shown blending in with the planet's other lifeforms, be it not to frighten them, or to hide from the Predacons.
     
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    Like the powerful Voltswagon Beetle.
    Or the ALMIGHTY, OMNIPOTENT Sony Walkman.
    :lolol 
     
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  9. b ri de s hea d

    b ri de s hea d Remember the Lobster Called Gimlet?

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    it was only the two catbots who tried if i recall correctly? with the big cat being muuuuchhh better at it

    but yeah, a lil but of sneakiness going down
     
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    Correct mostly...the maximals chose based on disguise/blending in, the Predicons went for 'powerful' or 'dangerous' animals instead...not to mention the ambient energon overload issues.

    Again of course they didn't...cos they are not real. No Transformers has ever chosen to do anything...the question posed was in the context of the fiction.
     
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    b ri de s hea d Remember the Lobster Called Gimlet?

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    you know, if the transformers choice of alt modes had anything to do with intelligence- feel like perceptor & megatron & are the dumbest robots out there- & bots like blitzwing, albert einstein

    :eek: 
     
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    Darn, the next few days will feel super slow.
     
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    Just freeze yourself.
     
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    Pretty A good one Imo
     
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    Nah, I'll just brush my teeth more often.
     
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    Don't know if someone already replied but that is a cover for a screw-hole.
     
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    grindcore138 TIME TO DELIVER A PIZZA BALL!

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    The size of this lad... Looks like I'm gonna need a riser or three for MP-36 to be able to actually loom large over my Beast Wars MPs.
     
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