Megatron
(BotCon 2016 Attendee-Only Exclusive)
They finally did it! "Transmetal 3" Megatron here was a proposed exclusive back during the days of 2003-2004 when BotCon was called the Official Transformers Collectors' Convention (OTFCC), but was cancelled when 3H went under. Now, more than a decade later-- and just in time for BotCon itself to be eliminated by Hasbro-- the idea finally sees fruition! It's rather impressive that they were still able to get the RiD Megatron mold 15 years after it was released in the U.S. Since the idea for this was a further evolution on the Transmetal 2 Megatron toy (even though they give him another explanation in the BotCon 2016 comic), Megatron's color scheme and general look hearken back to that TM2 version. He's mostly red, with a "fiery" shade of the color mostly used for his appendages and small connecting appendages, while his lower appendages, wings, and cockpit/nosecone piece are a duller shade of red. I really love the fiery red, and the dull red is a decent color by itself, but although they of course both complement each other nicely, I wish there just a BIT more contrast in between them for a bit more visual interest in the modes where the chrome and/or legs aren't as visible. Speaking of the legs, there is some nice mustard yellow paint detailing on the lower legs, which provides such a nice contrast I wish it was used a bit more on him-- same with the nice orange shade on the innermost third of his wings. (The transparent shade used for the outer two-thirds of each wing is more of yellowish-orange color, which looks nice, but not AS nice as a solid orange would have, in my opinion.) Since this mold has chrome parts, all of the chrome has been made a nice gold color-- though fair warning, there's been reports just days after people received theirs of the gold on the chest cracking (though thankfully mine hasn't really done that yet). Megatron isn't all fiery colors-- hearkening back to his earlier BW forms, he's got some transparent purple on his weapon, dragon feet, kneecaps, and the cockpit windows. There's also a more "normal" shade of purple on Megatron's face, dragon mouths, wheels, and chest. The rest of the purple paint apps look great, but the paint isn't quite thick enough over the gold chrome on his chest, so a bit of the latter can "peak through", unfortunately. The last secondary color on Megs is black, which serves as a nice neutral dark color for the rest of his scheme to contrast against. It's primarily used as "lining" for the shoulders, waist, upper legs, and knees, as well as used on his feet, head, bits of his core body, and weapon. As a minor accent color, Megatron's dragon heads have their teeth painted white, though in an apparent factory error the dragon eyes aren't painted-- which honestly doesn't bother me much, they'd have been red anyways. (A sticker sheet was available at the convention to remedy this, among other things, but they're tiny little stickers, so I didn't bother with them.)
