Here is a custom Megatron i'm working on for my TF LE decepticon version. The one in the game is lame as shit. Bugs me everytime I look at it. So i'm in the process of taking the entire thing out (leaving the cannon). Going to light up his eyes and have his arm move up and down , instead of that lame half body one, that is worshiping the player god. I'll keep everyone posted on the update. Here is a picture of the toy I started with, and custom painted and altered to look more badass as megatron should.

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So this is what i'm starting with. Major alterations are going to be done, but everything will be reversible.

Here's the lame beginning toy.

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Well I have it so I can take it off if I want. But the hermit robe, I thought was pretty badass in the 3rd movie. (which is the best of all 3). Otherwise he looks to much like every other robot.

absolutely it was. The sentinal prime story line, it's loosely adapted from the actual TV series. The story is more solid and has less loopholes than the other 2. The battle scenes were a little farther back so you could almost see what's going on. Not like the 1 and 2 where everything was so close up, all you saw was gears moving. Plus you didn't have those terrible gheto duo robots. Least Wheelie and Brain were cute and entertaining. They were well done. Plus, the chic in the 3rd movie, acts a hell of a lot better than megan fox.

The all spark story line is terrible. making robots out of everything from a touch is a weak ass story line. Having the TF's be able to change into anything they touch is weak ass in itself. They did that kind of crap much less than the other 2. That's why it's the best out of the 3. None of them are fantastic, but 3 is the best of the 3 shit piles.

btw, you can stream this on netflix.

paint job is completely done now. LED installed and starting the process of installing it.

Plus, Shockwave was badass, but I wish they would have let Him do the ass kicking instead of the giant Cybertron mining drill. Shockwave was the badest of the bad in the comics and the TV series. He should have been the primary ass kicker here too (which he was but didn't get his own hands dirty).

looks better without what?

I could. I'll put in a full description. LED's are in place. I'll be mounting it in the game tonight or tomorrow. Trying to get the cannon to move with the toy somehow. Still in the works.

hey now. I hate the movies just as much as any real TF Gen 1 fan. But....... 3 did have a feel and story taken from the Gen 1 cartoon series. Remember the episodes where megatron got the mayor to believe the decepticons were good, and autobots were bad. Had the world send the autobots off the planet and rerouted them into the sun? The Sentinal prime story, was very similar to that. Had much less of them changing forms from rubbing against anything that was remotely mechanical. Vast improvement over 1 and 2. But a huge improvement over shit, is just elite shit. But at least they are progressing. But this game is awesome. If it was Gen 1, it would be phenomenal!

ok, worked on this project hardcore last night. Ran into some snags. First off, after taking that plastic piece off that does a U under megatron, I found out, that the metal bracket is fully behind that piece as well as what holds and supports the cannon bracket. So I took everything out. Fabricated a new metal bracket that can support the cannon yet free up that right side. (nice to have spare metal guides laying around in piles). I wired up the LED eyes, and test ran it. Looks great. You can see the wire laying on the playfield yet, as I don't want to hook it up until it's ready to stay in. Custom made the plastic base for the new megatron to stand on. Should be fairly easy to connect the arm into the mech that's back there to make his arm move up and down. I have him leaning over the cannon, and working on making a cover to completely cover the coil bracket and look like part of the cannon.

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Not sure if I should keep the "airball" fix plastic in or out. I didn't really care for how much surface area it blocked before.

I'm working on that as well. It's not hard to sneak a pair of wires in there, and surface mount a red LED to the end of the plunger unit. I"ll work on that after I get the cannon cover finished. trying to make it so it's low profile so it doesn't block the upper lanes. That's a main concern of mine.

and haul it up those stairs? Yea, that would happen. Besides, they already have a TF there.

Megatron is done. Took some video footage of it in action. Have to upload it to youtube first.

Here is the video.

I have some before footage of what it looked like before, for those that havn't seen the LE's in action.

there is no way I can do kits for these. Between the custom modifications to megatron himself, the paint job, custom made plastics and custom metal brackets. It would take me so much time and energy to make a kit, it would cost $400 at least. Doesn't seem like a viable option unfortunately. Plus, the installation is so complex, most people would get fed up trying to install it.

Well, i'm looking at the other characters, and optimus and ironhide are passable in their current state. Starscream, looks cheap and like crap. So he might be the next one I do. Which should be very easy, as he only needs a paintjob and straps down.

As far as the red lights in the scoop, those are the opto lights, so that's original. You just see it more because the airball deflector is off. The red flasher on the side is also standard, but you see it more because the plastic that was in that spot. Blocks a bunch of the light.

you can see them in the video. I didn't take pictures of them out when I was making them. 2 custom plastics, then I used some of the original plastics to do that triangle grid thingy.

kits are impossible to do. for those who have been PMing me.

No step by step. It was a lot of customizing and adjusting. Was a PIA just to get it to work out. Trying to take pictures and explain everything would have been too much of an undertaking.

As for starscream, he would be easy to do, as I would just give him a custom paint job. But he seems oversized, so i'd like to find a slightly smaller and more detailed version of him.

here's some still pics for those that don't want to watch the video.

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btw, this game is still for sale. Now has color changing speaker grills.

Current price is $6500. Price subject to increase in the future. But till the end of the month, this price stands.