Fans Hobby MB-17 Meg-Tyranno (Armada Megatron)

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  1. Nova Maximus

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    Able to surpass Beast Machines animation by light years.
     
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    I can’t wait for this guy, he’s beautiful. I just want to see the optional horns now since it’s what I’ll be using on my copy.

    Really happy with how Leader-1 has turned out and seems like they’ve been able to do more with him than they could have done with Sparkplug. I would still like to see an add on kit for Naval Commander for an optional cartoon style head rather than the bendy prime toy design and then Mini-Con Overrun as a secondary blaster for him.
     
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    Well I am gonna pull an ebay and display him with NO horns
     
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    It was so hard to find one complete when I was looking for a nostalgia copy, and now I have the one I really wanted I see them 100% complete in truckloads. The only thing wrong with mine is the battery compartment is ruined from battery acid so no electronics for me.
     
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    I lost the horns, Leader-1, the left leg's panels, the missiles, and I think one of the arm flaps before mine just outright broke. So I'm happy to get this guy back
     
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    That sucks, Leader-1 is probably one of the best Mini-Cons imo. It’s nice to get this design for both Megatron and him in MP scale though, it has been a long time coming.
     
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    there is something off, with these(unicron Trilogy) torsos it's like they design the toy, step back and think, not Anime enough, then add an extra piece/section of torso.
     
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    Well they were anime, so.. not entirely wrong?
     
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    Right. Not to mention the toys came first so technically they had the challenge of turning plastic mostly static toys into functioning models for the cartoon.

    I would also put it down to the fact that Fans Hobby always twist a design but some things just don’t work, especially if you’re doing MP scale figures. It also most likely adds some extra articulation, fingers crossed for an ab crunch a bit more noticeable than Naval Commander. I’m still impressed they even bothered to give him one since all his wacky wahoo super mode transformation stuff is made up of his waist and leg area.
     
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    He does indeed have an ab-crunch. And the chest is nearly 1:1 with the cartoon minus the slidy Decepticon badge, the main difference is that they changed the abdomen to have a more squared out look he had sometimes rather than the toy spine look he had other times
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    I’m kinda glad they’ve altered the chest, it’ll make it easier to get a Decepticon label on there. It wouldn’t feel right just having them on the shoulders.
     
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  15. Nova Maximus

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    Constantly seeing more updates makes part of me wish that FH just waited till 1-2 months before revealing this stuff like some other companies do.

    But than the other part of me remembers that FH listens to feedback and that Megatron originally looked and scaled like this
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    And yeah, waiting may be painful but it is worth it.
     
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    I’m so happy with the scale of everything here it’s fantastic. I wish they kept the turret design of the white prototype however. It was more cartoon accurate than the one we have now, surely the LED gimmick didn’t interfere.
     
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    Gzstg Autobot Historian, Armada Dub Defender

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    Thus far I've resisted the Armada OP (the initial QC issues definitely helped in that regard) but there's NO WAY I'm NOT getting this.
     
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    What if it goes the same way though?
     
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    Than places will either hold off orders until the 2nd batch and/or FH will provide replacement parts.

    And the main way it goes the same way would be if every single thing about NC's release all 100% happened again, and with FH themselves saying they've gone through measures to ensure it won't (which is already paying off cause they 2 releases after NC have been QC issue free and one was even pushed back 2 weeks cause they found an issue) it's very pretty unlikely.
     
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