Megatron

I may have been disappointed with the Super Shogun Optimus Prime, but once I had him, there was pretty much no way I would turn down a jumbo of his arch nemesis, Megatron. If Optimus Prime was a dud at $350, how would Megatron fair at $395? Let’s take a look.

The packaging is the now very familiar Super Shogun style. Shipping box (not shown), outer box and inner box. It’s becoming a real hassle trying to find a place for the excessive packaging on all these modern jumbos and Megatron is the biggest culprit of the bunch, literally. His box is HUGE.

The toy is one of the bulkiest and heaviest jumbos you’ll ever see.The sculpt is very blocky and chunky.

The face has minimal paint details and the decepticon logo is printed onto the chest.

The toy comes with a sticker sheet that includes two optional waist stickers, as well as 4 other detail stickers. Two of these were obviously intended to go on the waist, but the other two didn’t have any particular placement indicated so I just stuck mine on the back of the shoulders. It seemed as good a place as any but I wouldn’t be at all surprised if I’m wrong and they were intended to go somewhere else. But like Prime, this guy didn’t come with any instructions.

I chose to apply the one above, with the name in Japanese, but below you can see the alternate one.

When I first saw images of this toy, I was a bit concerned because of the placement of the cannon on the arm. With it outstretched to the right, the toy had an awful asymmetrical look to it and I was worried that it would just be stuck that way. Fortunately, it is articulated and you can turn it to the front.

Both fists are individully articulated, too.

The left fist can be launched using the square button on the top of the arm.

There is a little gap that can be seen at the wrist which is a little annoying, but not a huge deal. It just looks a bit messy.

Beyond that, the toy has the typical jumbo articulation. Head turns, arms raise and lower, legs swivel at the knees.

Much like the blaster that comes with Optimus Prime, I wish that the cannon on Megatron’s arm fired something. There’s even two molded parts on it that look like they want to be buttons to be pressed but are not. To be honest though, after how disappointed I was in Prime, I’m actually just pretty glad that I don’t have anything major to complain about this time around. The worst issue is that the left arm on mine tends to bump the chest when you try to raise it.

This isn’t an issue on the right arm so I’m not sure what’s up with that. It can still be raised if you just angle it slightly.

In summary, this doesn’t suck. I would even suggest that it was the best jumbo that Super 7 had made up until this point and in my opinion their next release, Mechagodzilla, was even better. So hopefully things are trending in the right direction. It’s still a lot of money for what you get, but unfortunately with prices of vintage jumbos being what they are, I think many of us are just sort of conditioned to accept that at this point. It is what it is and you’re mileage may vary.