Tons of canceled TF test shots making rounds on-line
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Tons of canceled TF test shots making rounds on-line
Tons of canceled TF test shots making rounds on-line via either ebay or facebook or overseas sites,etc..
ROTF Voyager Megatron gift set toy that got canceled. http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... set/27598/
Hasbro had series plans to release re-issue gun-megatron in the states,even to the effect of giving the toy this radical color scheme. http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-new ... es-177762/
G-2 Protectobots. http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-new ... es-177760/
Personally,It would have been awesome to have the option to buy all/some of this. G-2 Gun-megatron looks so badly colored that it would have been a must buy to get as often times bad is good. It would have been cool to have the option of getting a ROTF Voyager megatron in CGI Movie colors. I probably would have bought the G-2 Protectobots in 1994 as I was a G-2 toy line completist at the time. Sadly money issues & the Reissues forced me to sell all my G-2 toys,so now I have nothing from the G-2 toy line.
ROTF Voyager Megatron gift set toy that got canceled. http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... set/27598/
Hasbro had series plans to release re-issue gun-megatron in the states,even to the effect of giving the toy this radical color scheme. http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-new ... es-177762/
G-2 Protectobots. http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-new ... es-177760/
Personally,It would have been awesome to have the option to buy all/some of this. G-2 Gun-megatron looks so badly colored that it would have been a must buy to get as often times bad is good. It would have been cool to have the option of getting a ROTF Voyager megatron in CGI Movie colors. I probably would have bought the G-2 Protectobots in 1994 as I was a G-2 toy line completist at the time. Sadly money issues & the Reissues forced me to sell all my G-2 toys,so now I have nothing from the G-2 toy line.
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Re: Tons of canceled TF test shots making rounds on-line
These have all been interesting to see, particularly G1 Megatron. I seem to remember one of the Hasbro questions calling it a "lava" color scheme or something like that. It's actually pretty tasteful for what it is, even though it's not G1 Megatron at all.
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I vaguely recall mentions of a "lava bath megatron" toy... did Megatron ever take a bath in lava in G1 and end up glowing neon?andersonh1 wrote:These have all been interesting to see, particularly G1 Megatron. I seem to remember one of the Hasbro questions calling it a "lava" color scheme or something like that. It's actually pretty tasteful for what it is, even though it's not G1 Megatron at all.
Re: Tons of canceled TF test shots making rounds on-line
I think the closest was either the electrum bath in "the Golden Lagoon" or the time all the Decepticons fell into lava at the end of "Heavy Metal War".Almighty Unicron wrote:I vaguely recall mentions of a "lava bath megatron" toy... did Megatron ever take a bath in lava in G1 and end up glowing neon?andersonh1 wrote:These have all been interesting to see, particularly G1 Megatron. I seem to remember one of the Hasbro questions calling it a "lava" color scheme or something like that. It's actually pretty tasteful for what it is, even though it's not G1 Megatron at all.
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Re: Tons of canceled TF test shots making rounds on-line
Many on-line TF fans are calling this color scheme the Generation 2 Hero megatron toy colors scheme.andersonh1 wrote:These have all been interesting to see, particularly G1 Megatron. I seem to remember one of the Hasbro questions calling it a "lava" color scheme or something like that. It's actually pretty tasteful for what it is, even though it's not G1 Megatron at all.
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Re: Tons of canceled TF test shots making rounds on-line
Wow, those are all really... zzzzzz zzzzz zzzzz zzzzzz
eh, wha? I nodded off? Right.
Why even bother painting the upper part of Megs vac-metalized blue when silver/gray with all that orange would have looked fine?
eh, wha? I nodded off? Right.
Why even bother painting the upper part of Megs vac-metalized blue when silver/gray with all that orange would have looked fine?
See, that one's a camcorder, that one's a camera, that one's a phone, and they're doing "Speak no evil, See no evil, Hear no evil", get it?
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Blue is another colour that isn't typically used in real guns. I assume it was an attempt to make it further obvious that it's a toy.Why even bother painting the upper part of Megs vac-metalized blue when silver/gray with all that orange would have looked fine?
In any case, even the blue wasn't enough to stop it, so the grey wouldn't have helped.
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I totally read that in Farnsworth voice.JediTricks wrote:Wow, those are all really... zzzzzz zzzzz zzzzz zzzzzz
eh, wha? I nodded off? Right.
Why even bother painting the upper part of Megs vac-metalized blue when silver/gray with all that orange would have looked fine?
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Darker blue isn't uncommon on guns, older guns have the steel "blue" when it ages. They should have gone with red or yellow for the other part, just go whole hog away from "this is a gun". Still, gray would have been no different legally, so it's all about Hasbro lawyers fearing personal injury lawsuits, not government trouble. Also, the majority of the orange wouldn't be showing in the hand, only the barrel which needs a plug to be legal anyway.Onslaught Six wrote:Blue is another colour that isn't typically used in real guns. I assume it was an attempt to make it further obvious that it's a toy.Why even bother painting the upper part of Megs vac-metalized blue when silver/gray with all that orange would have looked fine?
In any case, even the blue wasn't enough to stop it, so the grey wouldn't have helped.
You're welcome.Shockwave wrote:I totally read that in Farnsworth voice.JediTricks wrote:Wow, those are all really... zzzzzz zzzzz zzzzz zzzzzz
eh, wha? I nodded off? Right.
Why even bother painting the upper part of Megs vac-metalized blue when silver/gray with all that orange would have looked fine?
See, that one's a camcorder, that one's a camera, that one's a phone, and they're doing "Speak no evil, See no evil, Hear no evil", get it?
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I think retailers might have different rules in different states, and Hasbro has to appeal to all of them, or something.