Additional Images of Voyager Megatron from Takara's Chronicle Two-Pack

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The Transformers Galaxy - Hong Kong Fans Group has uploaded a gallery of the Transformers DOTM Voyager Megatron premium repaint that will be featured in Takara's Chronicle two-pack due out later this month. As you can see in the images mirrored below this version features a much more elaborate paint scheme compared to it's Hasbro counterpart, which only had minimal paint applications.

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Re: Additional Images of Voyager Megatron from Takara's Chronicle Two-Pack (1290381)
Posted by Megatron Wolf on September 17th, 2011 @ 12:09am CDT

if hasbros version looked like that id actually think about buying it, well on sale that is

Re: Additional Images of Voyager Megatron from Takara's Chronicle Two-Pack (1290384)
Posted by BeastProwl on September 17th, 2011 @ 12:33am CDT

MY OFFER STILL STANDS!

Re: Additional Images of Voyager Megatron from Takara's Chronicle Two-Pack (1290415)
Posted by BATTOUSAIXD on September 17th, 2011 @ 3:11am CDT

Looks great! But I'm not willing to dish out the cash... I want a leader anyways, and speaking of has anyone heard any more news about leader Megatron that's rumored to be coming out next year?

Re: Additional Images of Voyager Megatron from Takara's Chronicle Two-Pack (1290436)
Posted by xyl360 on September 17th, 2011 @ 6:48am CDT

After seeing the pics, I just couldn't resist. I don't own a DOTM Megs yet (in fact, I only own 3 or for DOTM figs total) but seeing the way this version looks plus the fact that I have never owned a G1 Megs, I just had to get it.

I'll just have to work out how to remove the silly orange plug from G1 Megs' barrel, but that shouldn't be too tough.

Re: Additional Images of Voyager Megatron from Takara's Chronicle Two-Pack (1290454)
Posted by prowl123 on September 17th, 2011 @ 8:19am CDT

Dammit! Now I have to get another OP just for this!

Re: Additional Images of Voyager Megatron from Takara's Chronicle Two-Pack (1290660)
Posted by Bonecrusher27 on September 17th, 2011 @ 10:15pm CDT

yami4ct wrote:Japan and the US have very different Action Figure markets. Where Japan's market is nearly completely made-up of collectors willing to spend more to get nicer looking toys. The US market is made of children and parents who don't care about the minor details, they only care that the price is low. Paint, if you can believe it, is very expensive. Especially when you're talking about the hundreds of thousands of units hasbro is producing. Adding a few small paint apps means adding quite a bit of cost to the entire run. Hasbro could either do two things there. They can either raise the price, which they will not do as it is established the main market for TFs in the US is price sensitive children and parents, or take what might be a fairly significant profit hit. It's likely the paint they give us now is in the sweet spot of enough to make the toys look alright, but still give them a nice profit. As for why they can't do small run collator oriented repaint lines, it's likely the market for that is too small to justify a new production run.

Thanks, that really helped. For ourselves in Singapore, we're so pampered with such a huge influx of Takara stuff, and have so many toy collectors to sustain the market, that I hardly remember sometimes that these toys were meant for KIDS. It's also a surprise sometimes when I see toys which are Lawson's exclusives, Target's exclusives etc, and how people can't find this or that toy, because almost ALL of it gets here and it's not a big deal.

On the other hand, maybe some consolation may be found in the fact that the Hasbro toys are up to half as cheap where you are. By the time they get to us, it's ridiculous. A deluxe costs USD$23, a Voyager USD$44, and Leader USD$88.

Re: Additional Images of Voyager Megatron from Takara's Chronicle Two-Pack (1290689)
Posted by kirbenvost on September 17th, 2011 @ 11:50pm CDT

Huh. I like the silver apps on the chest/grille and head crest, but other than that, still too brown.

Re: Additional Images of Voyager Megatron from Takara's Chronicle Two-Pack (1290739)
Posted by cannonfodder4000 on September 18th, 2011 @ 3:08am CDT

Megatron Wolf wrote:if hasbros version looked like that id actually think about buying it, well on sale that is

Yeah, who cares if the mold's good and it has alot of paint apps! it's still not worth twenty bucks!

:roll:

Re: Additional Images of Voyager Megatron from Takara's Chronicle Two-Pack (1290894)
Posted by Megatronsdemise666 on September 18th, 2011 @ 3:16pm CDT

Autobot032 wrote:Looks fantastic, but screams "GPS"

i dont think you have to worry about that

cause leader class starscream has the same brownish color and he hast had GPS

and why are people complaining about paint apps?

i wonder if they know that a tube of really good paint is like 30$ dollars for one color

and the tube is small

im not sure what paint hasbro and takara use but im pretty sure its expensive

Re: Additional Images of Voyager Megatron from Takara's Chronicle Two-Pack (1290962)
Posted by Swiftknife24 on September 18th, 2011 @ 6:52pm CDT

Autobot032 wrote:Looks fantastic, but screams "GPS"

'GPS'?

Global Positioning System...?

Re: Additional Images of Voyager Megatron from Takara's Chronicle Two-Pack (1291132)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on September 19th, 2011 @ 10:44am CDT

Swiftknife24 wrote:
Autobot032 wrote:Looks fantastic, but screams "GPS"

'GPS'?

Global Positioning System...?

Gold Plastic Syndrome. It's a rather nasty affliction contracted by toys using metallic plastics, especially light gold or bronze colors. Basically it makes the toy crumble when you even breathe on it. It's especially prevalent in later G1 into G2 toys, but cases have been found well into RiD.

I wouldn't worry about that with current toys however, as Hasbro has tweaked the plastic formula ever since the problem became known, and there haven't been cases since Armada (Super Base Optimus Prime suffers from a design flaw, not GPS).

Re: Additional Images of Voyager Megatron from Takara's Chronicle Two-Pack (1291220)
Posted by Swiftknife24 on September 19th, 2011 @ 4:32pm CDT

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Swiftknife24 wrote:
Autobot032 wrote:Looks fantastic, but screams "GPS"

'GPS'?

Global Positioning System...?

Gold Plastic Syndrome. It's a rather nasty affliction contracted by toys using metallic plastics, especially light gold or bronze colors. Basically it makes the toy crumble when you even breathe on it. It's especially prevalent in later G1 into G2 toys, but cases have been found well into RiD.

I wouldn't worry about that with current toys however, as Hasbro has tweaked the plastic formula ever since the problem became known, and there haven't been cases since Armada (Super Base Optimus Prime suffers from a design flaw, not GPS).

Ahh thanks! I think I know what you mean; my Beast Wars 'metallic' Rampage suffered from peeling...

Re: Additional Images of Voyager Megatron from Takara's Chronicle Two-Pack (1291521)
Posted by Jelze Bunnycat on September 20th, 2011 @ 2:01pm CDT

Swiftknife24 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Swiftknife24 wrote:
Autobot032 wrote:Looks fantastic, but screams "GPS"

'GPS'?

Global Positioning System...?

Gold Plastic Syndrome. It's a rather nasty affliction contracted by toys using metallic plastics, especially light gold or bronze colors. Basically it makes the toy crumble when you even breathe on it. It's especially prevalent in later G1 into G2 toys, but cases have been found well into RiD.

I wouldn't worry about that with current toys however, as Hasbro has tweaked the plastic formula ever since the problem became known, and there haven't been cases since Armada (Super Base Optimus Prime suffers from a design flaw, not GPS).

Ahh thanks! I think I know what you mean; my Beast Wars 'metallic' Rampage suffered from peeling...

That's chrome flaking, another unrelated problem. Transmetals and some Beast Machines toys have been given chromed parts, but the paint on it doesn't stick without the proper primer.
With GPS it's the plastic itself that's the problem, to be exact the metallic flakes that prevent it from properly bonding. Because of that, it breaks like a warm piece of chocolate, instead of snapping like regular plastics do.

Re: Additional Images of Voyager Megatron from Takara's Chronicle Two-Pack (1291527)
Posted by Swiftknife24 on September 20th, 2011 @ 2:20pm CDT

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Swiftknife24 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Swiftknife24 wrote:
Autobot032 wrote:Looks fantastic, but screams "GPS"

'GPS'?

Global Positioning System...?

Gold Plastic Syndrome. It's a rather nasty affliction contracted by toys using metallic plastics, especially light gold or bronze colors. Basically it makes the toy crumble when you even breathe on it. It's especially prevalent in later G1 into G2 toys, but cases have been found well into RiD.

I wouldn't worry about that with current toys however, as Hasbro has tweaked the plastic formula ever since the problem became known, and there haven't been cases since Armada (Super Base Optimus Prime suffers from a design flaw, not GPS).

Ahh thanks! I think I know what you mean; my Beast Wars 'metallic' Rampage suffered from peeling...

That's chrome flaking, another unrelated problem. Transmetals and some Beast Machines toys have been given chromed parts, but the paint on it doesn't stick without the proper primer.
With GPS it's the plastic itself that's the problem, to be exact the metallic flakes that prevent it from properly bonding. Because of that, it breaks like a warm piece of chocolate, instead of snapping like regular plastics do.