All are valid reasons as to why the original Megatron is sometimes slightly, sometimes very, maligned. The proportions are bad, the trigger is suggestively placed for what one would hope to be an otherwise asexual robot, it bears little to no resemblance to the model that appeared in the cartoon, and it’s notoriously fragile. Megatron’s robot mode is infamous for being… well, lame. It’s probably just as well – given the overall fragility of the toy, even in gun mode, it would have never have lasted. Of course, my mother would never let me have toy guns of any kind (except water pistols), so I never owned a Megatron in my childhood. While it would be safe to assume that the decision to kill off the character and replace him with the much more kid-friendly Galvatron was purely economical and only to market new toys, the fact is that no realistic handgun Transformers have been designed for the international market since 1983 (as of the time of this review, a Masterpiece edition Megatron, an oversized Walther-P38, is being planned for a Japan-only release in the spring of 2007). Hasbro only managed to market the original Megatron toy for a short while. The U.S., however, is a completely different matter. I can’t profess to be entirely knowledgeable, but I believe Takara’s decision to make transforming handguns was made easier with the fact that civilians aren’t permitted ownership of firearms in Japan. In Megatron’s case, however, the item chosen to be made into a toy robot was a very dangerous instrument. The Takara #6 reissue Megatron includes everything.
The Hasbro release had the scope, stock, and silencer, but not the internal spring for firing pellets. *The original Takara Transformers release of Megatron only included the scope and the spring mechanism for the pellets. Transforming wasn’t enough: they had to do as much as they could to pass for authentic scale model cars and household items. That combination of real-item traits carried over to the toy is what really makes Megatron a good representative sample of the early Diaclone and Microman: Microchange lines of toys. A complete version (really only available as the Takara #6 reissue) includes a scope, stock, silencer, and the spring mechanism required to fire tiny pellets*. Being a realistic handgun has become somewhat of a liability, though…īack in the days before the Columbine High School shootings, and even the much-closer-to-home-for-me school shootings of Paducah, Kentucky (roughly a 25 minute drive from my home), toy guns weren’t so ominous.Įven though the world would eventually change into a place that realistic toy guns are no longer appropriate, the attention to detail in the old design is still quite amazing. This is mostly because of the cool animation model used in the cartoon, but the toy has its positives as well. We're ranking these figures as if they were all in the same graded mint sealed in the original box condition, but collectibility sometimes outstrips value in the rankings (thanks to for the images of most of these toys.What’s now a relic of yesteryear, the original Megatron still ranks highly for many fans. We're only counting figures that were officially released into stores in the United States (no mail-away items, no special tie-in products, like the Optimus Prime Pepsi edition). We're going to count down the 15 most expensive collectible Transformers toys. Now over 30 years later, the original line of Transformers toys in the United States (the "Generation 1" line, as it has been retroactively titled) are some of the most collectible toys in existence. RELATED: Pop-Eyed: The 15 Most Exclusive (And Expensive) Comic Book Funko Pops
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The concept became Transformers, which launched an iconic animated TV series to go along with the toy line (and a Marvel comic book, of course). Takara had two lines of toys, Diaclone and Microchange, and Hasbro hired Marvel Comics to come up with a way to combine both lines of toys into one cohesive concept. The Transformers line of toys from Hasbro that debuted in 1984 is one of the most successful toy franchises in the history of toys and yet, it only began after a failed attempt by the Japanese company Takara to bring the same basic toys to the market in the United States in the early 1980s.
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