JediTricks wrote:http://tfu.info/2006/Decepticon/ClassicsMegatron/robotmode.jpg He's not exactly G1-accurate, after all. All they had to do was integrate the look of the gun onto that Megatron figure instead of making it a shell, they just went the easy route with the design instead.
No, he's not entirely G1-accurate, but then none of the Classics/Universe figures are. They all deviate from the original toy design and the animated models in some way. Classics Megatron looks more like the G1 animated model than the original toy, with deviations from that design thanks to the way the pistol looks.
What we get with the shell is a nice, clean pistol mode not filled with seams, which I find preferable to the alternative. Look at the jumble of parts that make up Classics Megatron before the shell parts are folded down to cover them. Now picture that jumble of parts with pistol components molded into them. You get a pistol that has cracks and seams all over it, and a Megatron figure with lots of odd lumps all over the arms, legs and torso. I like what we got.
The original figure avoided that, but it uses a pistol with a narrow barrel and wide chamber so that the barrel can be folded back out of the way. We still end up with short arms and long legs with a trigger that gets in the way. I like the figure, but I think it would have been impossible to adapt the original design and still follow modern safety restrictions.
