Queasy
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- Aug 24, 2001
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Originally posted by: zinfamous
Originally posted by: jdini76
Originally posted by: JackBurton
Great movie. Just watched it last night. However, ummm, Megatron was never a jet fighter. What the hell was that about?
I like that it's not available on Blu-Ray too.
On Cybertron (their home planet) all the transformers have a secondary flying craft mode of some sort. When they landed on Earth they changed their appearance to look like Earth machines to blend in. In this movie, Megatron crash landed and was instantly frozen. He never had an opportunity to change his appearance. Therefore, he stayed in his cybertron form which included an alien fighter craft he also was seen transforming into a cannon.
oh i remember that. they wanted to make newer toys, so they thought up a new plotline to "explain it," many years later........
Actually, in Megatron's case, they changed his form from the Walther P38 gun to a canon and later a tank and other forms because of laws regarding toy guns. Toy guns had to have special features like an orange tip on the muzzle which didn't really look all that great on the leader of the Decepticons.
Hasbro recently released the Transformers Voyager Classic Megatron which is more like an homage to the original but looks nothing like a real gun....and still has an orange tip.