• This is the not so good thing happen to the character of megatron.

• Just happened upon this thread... i really dig this new Megatron, sure he's a truck, but that makes for an awesome dichotomy between him and OP... also, the cloak thingy is a neat gimmick, and it fits, the wikipedia page on the film (credibility pending) states that Megatron here will not be the big baddie. Shockwave is, so if Megatron comes back as a sort of defeated "former glory" baddie seeking revenge i like this whole shamed or shunned motif he's got going :) 

•  Completely indifferent at this point. Unless word-of-mouth and professional reviews tell me that this is the greatest movie ever made, there's about a 0% chance that I'll watch this. 

• rickicker: Bandai has never made Transformers. The Japanese side of Transformers was/is handled by Takara, who have never been as financially sound (or as successful with) Transformers as Hasbro was. Case in point: In 2006, after a series of failures and financial difficulties, they merged with arch-rival Tomy to form TakaraTomy. Outside of Japan, the company is simply known as Tomy.

• LOL, that is the best. Very observant.

• you're forgetting that mass shifting is FUCKING STUPID as is having a bad guy WHO IS FUCKING STATIONARY. the cube is their Ark of the Covenant, of course it transforms, its magic.

• id like less earth if thats possible. But I know a Transformers movie without humans is not gonna happen.Why give fans what they want?

• I know I've been told to keep my "Venomous Hatred" bottled up, I tried to be a good boy, but this asshole deserves it. Anybody agree with me? Abraxas, Doctor Smashy, I will unleash it if it's alright with you.

• That is not hypocrisy. You can despise something and support it without being a hypocrite. What she can't do is tell others not to support it or that supporting it is bad while she actually supports it. She cannot hold others to a standard that she does not actually have or adhere to. Justification is an important element of hypocrisy as well. Often, people who are called hypocrites are merely those who fail to live up to their standards. Hypocrisy is a charge that is often misunderstood.

• Frank Welker didn't voice Megatron in WFC, Fred Tatasciore did. Welker DOES voice Megs in Transformers: Prime however.

• AAAAAAAAAARRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGHHHHHHH!!!!

• wha?

• Onslaught http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onslaught_%28Transformers%29

• "Giant robots fighting each other! How hard is it to understand the god damn concept? We don't need humans that no one cares about (yes Beef, no one cares about you). All we need are giant robots fighting period the end. " A-fucking-MEN. p.s. Always buy age appropriate toys. Hasbro does a good job of marking the age range/difficulty levels of the transformer toys.

• I'm mostly a lurker but every once in awhile a topic gives me the posting bug.

• *props*

• Yes. But he was his own distinct character. Not just a Black clone or 'evil prime'.

• Sprays suck my fucking cock fan boy in your face. Tron. Still sucking. Yeah for digital Lebowski. Can't wait for the thrill coaster @ Di$ney.

• I'd recheck the index if I were you. They've got record returns and highs.

• Nope just pointing out a double standard. The Emperor has no clothes. And Tron still sucks. Pretty visuals. Plot still hot dog shit.

• I, personally have no prob with WFC or Prime Megatrons voice. I like the new interpretation. All I was saying is it is different because, and Welker has fully admitted to, no longer being able to do G1 Megatron anymore. His vocal chords can't handle the strain.

• Yes but it's not the same voice. he can't do the high pitched yet raspy G1 megatron voice.

• You don't have to rub our noses in it...

• To me, it looks kinda like he's a GTA missile launcher, which would make sense to have a cover over it for secrecy. Perhaps this is how certain characters get launched to the moon?

• Here's a thought: the new Megatron design looks rather like (I've forgotten his name) the leader of the Combaticons! A semi-truck hauling around a giant cannon. Maybe this is genius? Megatron becomes the leader of the Combaticons for T3? That makes a huge amount of sense to me, and would be awesome. So, yeah, probably not going to happen.

• I just don't see the point in doing movie adaptations of a book/comic book/cult carton if you don't care about the source material. Same goes for a lot of what Hollywood is doing. Now please bring Unicron and make it stop.

• Just as a point of reference, Frank Welker didn't have any speaking parts in War for Cybertron. Despite the two clainms posted above, Megatron was voiced by Fred Tatasciore (and Soundwave was voiced by Isaac C. Singleton Jr).

• It's like Gundam slept with Sepiroth...

• I'm really kinda surprised they haven't just made him into a big artillery piece--like an M65 "atomic annie," or the Gustav Gun, or a big Russian TEL, or something.

• Because TF: Prime Megatron sounds like old man Freddy from Scooby Doo trying to do a scary voice.

• This.

• Didn't read any other comments but my only thought is: F%ck this sh$t. Seriously. All I'm seeing is another version of Megatron that my 5 year old will want that is gonna lead to hours of frustration to transform one way or the other. Beyond that, f%ck Bay. I know its been said before but I'll say it as clear as day: Giant robots fighting each other! How hard is it to understand the god damn concept? We don't need humans that no one cares about (yes Beef, no one cares about you). All we need are giant robots fighting period the end. The saddest part of it all is that I will still watch this damn movie and hold out hope that it won't suck. I just won't be surprised when my hopes are crushed like the first two times.

• I don't think there are enough words to describe how fugly I find that figure. But then again it's based on the movie designs which have continued to be atrocious. I wash my hands of it all.

• Not a good bet. Hasn't happened with a movie Megatron toy yet. At least this one has some potential though. :P

• Masterpiece Megatron has to be the greatest thing to come out of Tomy/ Takara.... I was worried it was busted in the photo but upon closer inspection, its just midtransformation.

• -sprays troll-be-gone around the room-

• Five bucks says the toy looks better than the actual movie version of Megatron.

• I didn't get a TF3 Trailer. The IMAX here doesn't show crap.

• Seconded.

• They're trying to bait me by giving him an arm cannon... obviously a nod to G1... ... it isn't working. I'm not going to see this until the reviews convince me otherwise.

• What the hell is with the eyes. Why is one bigger then the other or is he doing a whole smell what the rock is cooking thing. Besides for that not too bad.

• My childhood hates you

• Slag spoutin' skuxxoid! Take your Gobots and leave!

• not as much as Bandai when they were handling the toys for the Japanese version.

• with the belt and everything, i think Megs is a shoe in for the next Guilty Gear game. move over, Sol Badguy! there's a new over-belting badass in town! XD

• and your attempt to piss us off.

• damn nerdling, GET OFF MY CYBERLAWN!! -waves cyberstick-

• Are any of you guys expecting some sort of cape-gets-stuck-on-something-and-Megs-falls type thing, or is that just me??? Why a cape anyway.....??? Ugh, whatever, I'm done trying to make sense of this madness. If it weren't for my morbid curiosity about Shockwave I would be skipping this abomination entirely.

• I don't wanna be an ass, but there's just no graceful way to say it. So... You do know that professing to despise it while admitting you're still going to see it doesn't just make you part of the problem, but a hypocrite as well, right?

• The cape reminds me of General Grievous. That could be good (as in Clone Wars Grievous) or, more likely, bad (as in Revenge of the Sith Grievous). We can always hope for CG Clone Wars Grievous as a middle-ground, I guess. "Frank Welker is too old and his vocals can't do Megatron anymore." He did Megs perfectly fine in the game, and Transformers: Prime. Welker's quite possibly the most versatile and effective voice actor working today. Sure, he's a lot older and more grizzled than he was in the 1980s, but you said yourself this isn't G1, so why not imagine this Megs is older and more grizzled?

• Well technically Motormaster was just a black big-rig oil tanker, he wasn't an evil clone of Ops like Nem or Scourge were.

• It makes far more sense than a shrinking gun.

• Ah, Rob? Fun fact: There is *not* a worse giant robot series they could be ripping off. Gundam Wing is an abomination.

• Megatron traveling in subterfuge doesn't strike me as the character I've known, yes he would send his minions in disguise but he would never bother with it himself. When he hit the scene you knew he was there. With Megatron strength and destruction were more important. Even an alien type laser weapon would feel better because when Megatron transformed it was for power. Although I would rather see Megatron as a weapon of some sort, (tank, cannon, exc.) this doesn't bug me. What Bay will do to the characters personality will bug me!

• Sprig is all over this thing...

• No, it's just a law of nature that your children like things you think are s#!T. Therefore, more movie toys get sold to/for children.

• have to admit that megagtron was a tank last time that other then looking like a bad version of the fallen in robot mode. him as a trunk looks interesting. plus love the wings

• Yeah they broke with that realism bull**** with a quickness. The way they chided the unrealistic portrayals from the G1 cartoons and in the first movie there was all manner of Mass-shifting. Bay and company can kiss the Dark Side of my moon.

• Heh. His cover works as a cape. You'd think it might get stuck somehow.

• F***ETY-F***-F***! Curse You Ben Procter,curse you to the Pit! Aw slag Rob,the Bayformers have totally ripped off what you guys from Toyfare Magazine did with General Grievous back in 2005! =O All he's missing is a black stovepipe hat and a thin handlebar mustache to twirl.

• Better.

• Scale change worked alright for that cube. And Sam could still carry it fine.

• Motormaster.

• Mad max rallies. Third world countries. Hell most of rural America.

• More parents less Shia and Tuttorro. And NO Dempsy. At all. Ever.

• Clearly movie Megatron's head. And the coloring is all wrong for Magnus and just right for movie Megs.

• Despite the actual movies, I've always liked the toys made for them. I like the look of this Megatron, and I think I might add it to my army of Megatrons. Hell, buying the toys and playing with them is just as good as actually watching the movies.

• If it's not Tron of FanFic related he's only half-heartedly into it. I actually wonder what the advertising payout for a site like TR is like. I'd like a career change ;p

• Predated by Motormaster. The original Decepticon big rig.

• Nerds never do. IE : anything George Lucas did after 1983.

• Its not the sound of his voice. Its the way he talks, he has less personality.

• I said the same thing about Tron but you guys are still wanking to it.

• Remember: robot mode in G1 that was where the trigger was. Megs was always packing...

• Look at their stock, it's through the roof. That and they just bought their own damned cable channel. Also in bed with Disney. I'd say Hasbro's pretty robust at the moment.

• uh what, no Welker voiced Megs in War for Cybertron, and I think in the new cartoon

• That, and the plot.

• Frank Welker is too old and his vocals can't do Megatron anymore. They hired Hugo Weaving to a new interpretation. And G1 ENDED 20 YEARS AGO! Get over it.

• The original transformed into a gun. That would be ridiculous in the movie due to the size change required. Changing into something else makes sense, whether its a truck or a tank. Besides, we've already seen with Bumble Bee that they can change into what ever the hell they want to. They may need to scan it first, but that's all.

• :snort: yeah that's Megs after the last holiday party.

• Good - Like the idea of Megatron kinda-sorta-not-quite impersonating OP. There's potential, there, in a rather G1-sort of way... Bad - ...although it's not as if Bay, Orci and Kurtzman will actually use it as a plot device (waaaay too subtle for them). Also Bad - besides, you'd have to be really dense not to spot that Prime's always been blue and red, while this guy's in Megatron's usual colours. Oh, wait - it's LeBeef - dense doesn't even start to describe... Really, insultingly dumb - Thing is, if there has to be an 'evil Prime doppelganger' plot, why the frak does it have to be Megatron, and not, say, NEMESIS FREAKIN' PRIME, who's whole schtick is BEING AN EVIL DOPPELGANGER OF OPTIMUS PRIME. Who's not even grey, but BLACK. And PURE BADASS. And thus perfect for a movie. Nope - let's go with Truck-Megs instead - MUCH better. Like how the Nuclear Man was SOOO much better as an antagonist in Superman IV than, say, Bizarro... <face-desk at Warp speed>

• What are you talking about? Cement trucks have them along there sides. As does my truck, from running over those smart cars, along its side.

• I'm a bit of a negative nancy here, but that may likely be due to their having more movie figures in stock compared to Universe.

• Awww, Pinecone-tron brought his blanky! :D

• I watched the first one and never looked back.

• The places I shop seem to go through the Universe (classic-inspired) toys a lot faster than the ugly movie toys. I can only imagine how well the movie toys would have sold if they had better designs.

• I have never seen a tanker truck with a wheel on the side of the tank. this is.... odd.

• What bothers me is that Megatron had to scan this to acquire this form. That's the rule of Transformers. Where the hell does one find a truck that looks like this?

• Why does it have to Spike? Can't it be Buster?

• No doubt the movie will be a seize inducing, green screen-a-thon pile of crap but I'm always amazed at the design/engineering involved in making these toys. It would take me 10 lifetimes to figure out how to make even the most basic of G1 Transformer toys, but these new ones always amaze me. They should be handing out the million dollar salaries to the toy engineers, not Shia LaBarf or the skank pretending to be his girlfriend.

• i think it looks decent. nice to see that the character is gonna be actually in hiding. im pretty curious to see what this movie looks like. just glad theres gonna be no robot balls in this one and for the love of god less of the parents. and i know im going out on a limb but id like to hear the name Spike at least once in all of the movies. but i know im pushing it there.

• Just.. Why? Just why? I despise this new design, but then again, what a surprise, they're screwing with one of my favourite characters. -Ragequits- p.s. still going to see the movie, probably opening day.

• Capes make EVERYTHING cool! Even ROBOTS!

• Is there any possibility that this is an unpainted proto and could be another bot? Ultra magnus perhaps?

• Ahh, I still think Noxious Prime is a more fitting name.

• His name was Scourge (in the Robots in Disguise series), there's also been other evil Optimuses all called "Nemisis Prime", that have just been black repaints.

• It's been rumored for months that Megs was going to be that Road Warrior-esque truck that was seen on set with the Wreckers, though not confirmed. And other, better pics of this same figure popped up on a couple certain toy forums several days ago, including pics of it transformed correctly (neither of which these photos show - the "cape" also has a hood for his widdle head). Overall, I've got to you fail you for your homework on this one, Rob.

• Wasn't there an evil Optimus Prime that was an oil tanker truck anyway? Noxious Prime or something?

• Not bad looking... still not gonna see the movie.

• Yeah, the only bad part about Tron Legacy was that stupid Transformers 3 trailer.

• Glad I'm not the only perv that noticed that first thing

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