Armada Megatron: Thew's Awesome Transformers Reviews 264

A sharp squint at Armada Megatron and his Legacy Evolution grandson.

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[Spatu]

As an Armada kid who’s now firmly in the age range that’s prime for nostalgia bait, I’m loving all these new figures. I know Megs isn’t nearly as featured as the original, but just having a modern figure of possibly my favorite Megatron design that can pose and look great with Legacy Armada Optimus fulfills my needs. It makes me go “oh, this is what the G1 and Beast Wars kids feel”

[ExtraRamDraws]

Fun fact: my 3D modelling & rendering teacher at university was one of the modellers for the infamously hard PS2 Transformers game, so you've got him to thank for that!

[KatlikeRider]

as a TF fan who grew up with Armada but only joined the fanbase during the "unicron trilogy sucks" era, seeing Armada make a comeback and it's figures being praised for what they were, warts and all, is really refreshing

[manjackson]

Apparently the little twiddly lever on the Armada toy is for when you bring the tank turret around the front in robot mode, it's supposed to make it spin.

[zamiyaFlow]

Perfect showcase of how Armada were toys you played with at your mate's house, and Legacy are poseable statuettes you have on a shelf and stroke your beard while contemplating

[Turnip]

As a "bitter old G1 fan" who was an adult who bought Armada toys with my adult man money a part of me can't help but love the new Armada Megs BECAUSE it strips out all the play features that annoyed me at the time. That said the older wiser me can totally recognize the appeal of the missing play features and how that makes the toy less in certain ways.

[ValTek_Armory]

As a kid, the gimmicks were fun, but nowadays I'm fine with having the better articulation on a new figure of a character I love. Different strokes, and all that.

[gmdexcillion]

as someone who was excited for legacy megs i gotta tell you that the plastic quality on this guy is not to be overlooked
idk what it is but the materials on him are just pure hand candy and as a result i can't stop taking him off my shelf to fiddle with them
same with the new armada prime actually it's weird
point is they feel great and they make my unicron trilogy loving heart happy

[RegalRoyalWasTaken]

The Legacy Megs figure made me so friggin happy tbh. Like yeah, losing some of the gimmicks bites, but I grew up with the original toy and having another one of him that can pose better just... gives me an unprecedented joy.

Plus the transformation is rad because I didn't need the instructions. Muscle memory from the first toy carried me through. I felt like a kid again.

[bradensmith]

Having the Armada for Tank mode and the Legacy for Robot mode seems like a great display option.

[THANATOS-PRIME]

I had transformers around me since I was about three, but the Armada Megatron held a special place in my heart, because he was the first one I could convert with no problems at all. He was a gift from my grandfather, and for the longest time he was one of my favorite figures.

I actually dug him up a couple of years ago and gave him to one of my best friends before he moved out of state.

[Matsonius]

Things I don't lower my headphone volume on:
1. Thew's intro
2. Thew's transformation speed-ups
3. Thew's outro

[soundblasterreviews]

6:50 I think that cavity is just for the claw itself when the compartment's closed. The claw grabbing Mini-Cons is the point, not dragging them into its storage hole.

[HORRIOR]

I feel like Thew has trapped himself into being forced to add the Monthly Megatron intro for whenever he reviews a new Megatron toy from now on.

[isaacsussman]

I think the reason the update lacking the features is more of a bummer than it is in most Generations style toys is that its not actually normal for Chug to remove things. We usually get accessories or new versions of gimmicks just changed to fit the modern designs. The sideswipe mold still has an accessory that looks like his spring missle, Skytread doesnt have springs but still can do the duocon thing, primal has his wrist guns and multiple gorilla stances, even Armada starscream can pull his thrusters foreward and has the starsabre molded to look like minicons. But Legacy Megatron doesnt come with the knife, the spring bits are articulated but flimsy, they totally coulda had the cage thing. Most generations toys have whats necessary to at least emulate the original visually and this one cant even give us a Leader 1. This Megatron is what i think people who absolutely dispise Generations think the whole line is.

[tonyjackson]

I think Hasbro was going with two goals with Legacy Armada Megs, make him look anime accurate, which they nailed, and give the guy KNEES. I get his missing the bells and whistles, but I had the original when he came out.

Much like you I loved the chonk, all the gimmicks, and thought he was indeed one of the best of the Armada boys. However, just off RiD, and that Gigatron mold that could almost do yoga, no knee joints was noticeably frustrating. The added poseability really ups the Legacy for me. However, agreed on one thing, he should have, for Leader class...had Leader-1 and at least one port to plug him on, especially if it was the neat hideaway cavity in his tread shoulder where the minicons guns just peek out unobtrusively.

[Black_Knight]

The tiny little crank on his hip is supposed to rotate the turret for "super mode". And the larger shin clamp thing can fit nightbeat in motorcycle mode, and thats about it.

[leftygurl]

in no small part i love legacy megs because he looks and feels like he did in the show, the minicon stuff is fun but i am satisfied with what this one offers, and that’s a really solid action figure of a rad design from my childhood.

[Kalhiki]

I don't have really any Armada figures (Demolisher I think is the only one I have), but I gotta appreciate how much they were engineered to be toys. Big, chunky, with lots of cool features. Articulation's been sacrificed, but I can't say it's really missed when there are so many other cool things to play with on the figure.

[garretthooton]

The music crank on the side of 02 Aramda Megs is yet another play focused gimmick that I'm surprised they didn't make minicon activated. When you flip his tank turret around onto his chest it is supposed to spin when the crank is used.