{"id":42789,"date":"2024-09-03T00:00:44","date_gmt":"2024-09-03T04:00:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=42789"},"modified":"2024-08-29T19:30:50","modified_gmt":"2024-08-29T23:30:50","slug":"soon-forget-marauder-megatron","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2024\/09\/soon-forget-marauder-megatron\/","title":{"rendered":"Soon Forget: Marauder Megatron"},"content":{"rendered":"

This is the latest in a series (of indefinite length and regularity) of blog posts memorializing cancelled toys. Our figure today is Hasbro's Transformers Animated<\/i> Marauder Megatron.<\/p>\n

It's publicly known that Transformers Animated<\/i> Season 4<\/a> would have seen Megatron escaping from prison<\/a> and setting up shop on Earth, and that he would have recruited Blackarachnia<\/a> to give him a triple-changer upgrade, a choice which would have led to him beginning to experience mental issues much like Blitzwing's<\/a>. <\/p>\n

Well, because it takes extra time to design a triple-changer, work got started on Megatron early. So while Optimus Prime's Season 4 look<\/a> had only reached the design stages, Megatron had already been fully sculpted, even reaching the resin hardcopy stage!<\/p>\n

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As is usual with Animated<\/i> stuff, there are a lot of old references in the design: the grille over his mouth (in addition to giving him a Hannibal Lecter<\/a> feel) is from Beast Machines<\/i>, while the general blocky shape of the head is from the Japanese-only Return of Convoy<\/i>. While all the fan art of Marauder Megatron has depicted him in the usual gray colorscheme, apparently Derrick J. Wyatt personally imagined him with a more Galvatron-ish blue and purple look:<\/p>\n

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If you compare the images of Marauder Megatron's approved altmodes to Emiliano Santalucia's early designs for Bumblebee<\/i> Concept Art Megatron's, the parallels between the two are undeniable.<\/p>\n

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So in a way, this new movie toy<\/a> is secretly an (extremely) untooned Animated<\/i> figure.<\/p>\n

<i>And now, some more OAFEry:<\/i><\/H5>