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Day 131: Megatron and Leader-1

Armada Megatron is a hard one to plan for. Just as soon as you've got a layout sketched out, you discover you've not left enough headroom -- those horns and especially those treaded shoulders take up a lot of room! Megatron, Decepticon leader, turns into a Cybertronian tank, with a new look that is quite distinct from his earlier incarnations. He is packed with a Mini-Con partner named Leader-1 -- which feels a bit like Hasbro flexing their ownership of that name's trademark ever since they acquired Tonka and their Go-Bots catalog. Leader-1 was the leader of the good guy Go-Bots, but here he's a Mini-Con buggy with twin top mounted cannons. 

I may skip the Galavatron incarnation of Armada Megatron since it's a simple redeco without any new molding. In Japan, this upgraded Megatron had a similarly redecoed Leader-1; in the US, Galvatron's Mini-Con was renamed Clench. 



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