I just noticed that AAT's price at ShowZ dropped to $250. Thanks for the competition though it is still very high.

 

That is way higher quality than what was posted with the other pictures. Can you go back to the source and get the rest of the photos in this same quality?

 

Well let's see because I kinda stumble into it accidentally. Let's hope google translate doesn't do anything funky with the site

 

I got that picture from Baidu Tieba. It was provided by someone there when people were guessing how the tank looked like. The guy didn't provide any other pictures.

 

Well this is what I found
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Turns out if you clicked the image it's gonna redirect you to higher quality images
Edit: Turns out there a hard caps on how big the image is. Everything over 2048 pixel gonna be resized to that limit

 

Thanks!

 

So might not be the right thread for it but a scouring around in the tieba forum
I found never seen images of most likely ET Megatron render (by the designer themself probably?)
Source: 【图片】纯探亲性质重游此吧。纯分享哦【变形金刚玩具吧】_百度贴吧

Accompanying text:
话说平时诳贴吧突然有一天被首页推送了2家油罐威，心里感慨着，呀！终于有厂做了，然后突然兴起把放在电脑一个角落的远古油罐威施工数据挖了出来。反正现在都不碰这个圈子了，就当纯分享发一下吧。申明一下，数据不卖，打印也不卖，也没打算生产（漂泊在外的不知在谁手上的那份我就不保证了）。无意对线2家厂。涉及敏感问题我只能回答：你猜
(Can the native speaker help translate it?)

Machine
translation (Might not be 100% accurate):
By the way, it is usually ridiculous that one day I was pushed to the homepage of two oil tanks, and I was emotional, ah! Finally, a factory did it, and then suddenly arose and dug out the construction data of the ancient oil tank Wei placed in a corner of the computer. Anyway, I don't touch this circle anymore, just post it as a pure sharing. To make a statement, the data is not sold, the print is not sold, and there is no plan to produce it (I don't guarantee the copy that is in the hands of the drifting ones). No intention to line 2 factories. When it comes to sensitive issues, I can only answer: Guess



My best guess is yep ET Megatron is dead.

 

So I was right, ET was Weijang all along and went silent because of the raid. Rip. Yet another design taken away from us by Disney.

 

And from the ashes, the Phoenix rises.

 

I just talked to UT to confirm that fingers of both hand's are moveable,and they said not only that but the right hand can be stretched(not sure what that means).

 

I don't know where did u draw this conclusion that ET was Weijiang. The poster "巴闭BU" clearly said it was Dreamfactory, so Dreamfactory == ET.

 

Maybe spread out the fingers?

 

This looks like the best design, sigh …

 

Idk, that post says “wei” and the ET Megatron had the same background as the reveal for Scorpion Optimus, which turned out to be WJ. They also went silent during the WJ raid and haven’t made a sound since.

 

Really wish they had some better description between the "original" and "battle damaged" versions. I assume it is deco... But what would be the point of that? This design is always, rusted out and battle damaged. Would be nice to know the final price point too...

 

No final price yet. But some Taobao sellers mentioned:
less than 1190 rmb for battle damage version;
less than 966 rmb for regular version.

I guess the prices will decrease further as AAT dropped their price.

 

I am still not sure about this guy. For some reason, I can't get past those terrible shoulders.

 

"oil tank Wei"
Here "wei" is the sound of Megatron name in Chinese.

 

This seems the be the year of DOTM MEGATRON! Excited to see another take on him, the Robot mode looks way more accurate to the movie model, and well the Vehicle mod is nice but just seeing those phillips screws holding the front grill guard on makes me very nervous about transformation. Honestly if they could combine the robot mode of UT and make the vehicle mod like AAT's vehicle mold, then Im sold.

 

Just have to wait for the better pictures coming soon. These were probably rushed out to catch AAT off guard and they just didn’t care whether it’s a good angle or not.