Kenner Transformers Movie 2 Megatron RPM's Diecast Car Review

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(More customer reviews)First off, congratulations to Hasbro, it's great to see some Transformers cars come out as die-cast vehicles. Since the cartoons appeared on the screen in the 80s, collectors have wanted to add Transformer vehicles to their collection of other Matchbox, Johnny Lightning, Corgi etc cars from movies. Would also love for Hasbro to release the original 80s Japanamation versions (and the variations in other series throughout the years) as well. At the time of this review the only ones available are all from one of the two non animated Transformer movies.
Megatron of course wasn't a vehicle at all in the original Japanamation series, so the cynic in me does wonder if they had this toy in mind when deciding his design for the movie and that he shouldn't just be a giant gun but instead should be a tank resembling thing. From above Megatron looks really good, unfortunately instead of making the tracks roll on the sides Hasbro decided to add wheels underneath. Now they have done this with their Titanium series with vehicles such as the Tank Indiana Jones and the Last Crusade and the Jawa transport thing from Star Wars. It sort of worked with those because those wheels remain hidden unless you flipped the vehicles over. Of course the whole point of these RPM diecasts is that you do flip them over to see a raised illustration of the transformer in robot mode on the undercarriage. So not only do you see the wheels but they also had to cut out parts of the robot to fit them in. Not only that but the wheels are so big that you can see them sticking out when the vehicle in on display.
There is no scale written on the packaging but I would guess it's 1:55 (1:64 is your standard mass produced Matchbox and Hot Wheel sized car). Megatron is actually slightly smaller in length than most of the other RPMs in this range so there's really not a lot of difference, if you only have 1:64 scaled vehicles in your collection, these Transformers cars won't look out of place.
Like with Optimus and some of the others you can also get Megatron in a two pack as well as this single version. Surprisingly in the stores it is actually cheaper to buy them singly but as they leave the physical stores and are only available online, he may be cheaper to obtain that way, especially if you want the other characters as well. The packaging is great too by the way, if you are a collector who likes to keep your vehicles in their original packaging you can see the entire vehicle, including the undercarriage without opening the blister pack at all.
Another downside and this is for the whole series not just Megatron is the fact that Hasbro chose the cheaper option of making these out of plastic. The plastic makes them a lot less durable than your typical Matchbox and other brands vehicle and considering Transformers fight each other and are involved in a lot of action scenes, you'd think this factor would have come to mind when Hasbro thought about how kids would play with these. Not that I'm too sure how attractive these are too kids when you consider they don't transform at all into robots and you can get key ring sized actual transformers for around the same price on the shelves next to these in the stores. I think these appeal more to people like me who are collectors, which is why it's a little bit silly that they're made out of plastic as that's why a lot of collectors on online forums and places like this are saying they aren't buying these things.
Of course you can't buy Megatron without his arch nemesis Optimus Prime!

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