For a deluxe-sized toy, Cannon Blast Megatron's tank mode is... really, really weak. It looks exactly like what it is-- his robot bend over on itself three times. In particular, it's painfully obvious that his treads are his robot legs. The turret and a few tread details on his legs are the only parts about this mode that say it's a tank, honestly. And the turret can't even rotate or move up and down to fire its spring-loaded missile! What's up with that? I understand the need to simplify the transformations of the Fast Action Battlers given who they're aimed at, but they should at least LOOK like what they're supposed to be in both modes. Heck, the Legends version of Megatron's vehicle mode looks better than this robot-yoga alt mode with several noticeable gaps you can see through. The color scheme of gray, silver, and black is prety boring too, though hey, that's Movie Megatron for ya. He DOES have quite a impressive amount of mold detailing, though, with little mechanical alien-esque details covering his form, which is particularly impressive for a Fast Action Battler.
    Megatron's robot mode is definitely what the toy was designed around, but it still has some problems. For starters, the head doesn't stick out far enough from the shoulders-- it looks like it's practically hidden in between his shoulder-shards. (On the plus side, though, having his head slide up out of the chest as you bring his arms forward during transformation is pretty cool.) His arms each also have their own unique problem-- the left one is way too tiny even considering it's Megatron's "gimp" arm, and for some weird unknown reason he can only move his arm forward VERY slightly at the elbow on that arm, though it can rotate all the way backwards. Go figure. His large arm has a cool flip-out sword, but due to some weak "chopping action" this arm will swing downwards and you have to force-ratchet it upwards if you want it to pose it pointing forward or anything, and then force-ratchet it back downwards if you want the chopping motion to look right. That gimmick we really could've done without, Hasbro. Also, the right arm has no elbow articulation to speak of. The legs, though a bit restricted when it comes to side-to-side movememtn, are quite nice-looking though, and the chest looks particularly great painted up in all that shiny silver (though it does make his unpainted gray plastic look all that more dull). As far as overall articluation goes, Megatron can move at the neck (slightly), the shoulders (with the aforementioned ratcheting caveat on his right arm), the left elbow (slightly), the hips, and the knees (slightly). So he's hardly the most posable Transformer, though then again that's not really the focus of the Fast Action Battler line so I'm more forgiving of it here than I would be if this were a mainline toy.
    Cannon Blast Megatron is a pretty weak Fast Action Battler even considering the inherent "simplification" aspect of the line, with a mode that just barely looks like what it's supposed to be and a robot mode that, although it looks good for the most part, has very limited articulation, an annoying gimmick in the right arm, and a chest practically hidden between his shoulder-shards. Not recommended unless you're getting it for a particularly young Megatron fan who simply must have a transformable toy of the Decepticon leader.

Review by Beastbot

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