{"id":45367,"date":"2025-09-16T00:00:23","date_gmt":"2025-09-16T04:00:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/?p=45367"},"modified":"2025-09-15T22:37:56","modified_gmt":"2025-09-16T02:37:56","slug":"hearts-of-steel-megatron-addendum","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2025\/09\/hearts-of-steel-megatron-addendum\/","title":{"rendered":"Hearts of Steel Megatron addendum"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From today's review, here are the two potential altmodes for <a href=\"\/yo\/tftl_hos_m.php\">Megatron<\/a>:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tftl_hos_m7.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tftl_hos_m7-300x250.jpg\" title=\"click to embiggen\" width=\"300\" height=\"250\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><!--more-->Here's how the toy could have looked with more Megatron-y colors:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tftl_hos_m8.jpg\" width=\"445\" height=\"295\" alt=\"the same Megatron, but with a grey body and black accents\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>Megatron may not be in any of the comics, but presuming this toy's altmode is correct, we may at least see his inert body: in issue #4, as the Decepticon train races toward its goal, we see a huge artillery cannon mounted on one of the cars.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/09\/tftl_hos_m9.jpg\" width=\"305\" height=\"500\" title=\"Two shots of the same train car\" class=\"aligncenter\"><\/p>\n<p>If you look closely, there are even tank treads stowed behind the train wheels. Is this Megatron, stuck in stasis lock? We can understand why Starscream would choose not to revive him, but why give him a modern altmode instead of just leaving him as whatever prehistoric\/alien creature he already was? For that matter, why keep his body around at all?<\/p>\n<div class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Posts\"><H5>&lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;<\/H5><ul class=\"entry-meta\"><li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers BotBots Arctic Guzzlerush review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2019\/08\/transformers-botbots-arctic-guzzlerush-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers BotBots Arctic Guzzlerush review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Wreck-It Ralph 2: Comfy Princess Belle (Beauty and the Beast) review\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2020\/08\/wreck-it-ralph-2-comfy-princess-belle-beauty-and-the-beast-review\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Wreck-It Ralph 2: Comfy Princess Belle (Beauty and the Beast) review<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Unrustable Bastards\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2016\/10\/unrustable-bastards\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Unrustable Bastards<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers Tuesday shirt\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2007\/07\/transformers-tuesday-shirt\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers Tuesday shirt<\/a><\/li>\n<li class=\"SPOSTARBUST-Related-Post\"><a title=\"Transformers Moonracer addendum\" href=\"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/2018\/03\/transformers-moonracer-addendum\/\" rel=\"bookmark\">Transformers Moonracer addendum<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From today's review, here are the two potential altmodes for Megatron: &lt;i&gt;And now, some more OAFEry:&lt;\/i&gt;Transformers Bumblebee: Studio Series Ironhide addendum BotCon first reveal: Dead End Retro Con Optimus Prime Starscream addendum: Thundercracker and Skywarp Post-apocalyptic Optimus Prime<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,160,200],"tags":[101,14],"class_list":["post-45367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-addendums","category-comics","category-customs","tag-megatron","tag-transformers"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=45367"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":45369,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/45367\/revisions\/45369"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=45367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=45367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.oafe.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=45367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}