So, I suppose those troll threads that a certain someone spammed the board with when '86 Megatron's pics were finally leaked had one benefit: they made me aware of a Megatron toy I didn't previously know existed. I wasn't collecting yet around the time Classics came out, and while I was aware of Classics Megatron (and the more Megatron-y colored Takara version) from pics I'd seen years later, I had no idea the mold had been released in red as well. While I had always wanted a gun Megatron (my first - and last - Megs was the G2 "Megatron Rules!" purple one; after that, I got all the Beast Wars Megatrons, who are a separate character entirely, and didn't get another incarnation of the G1 guy again until Siege decades later), I had no real interest in the Classics mold because of the stupid Nerf gun colors , and didn't have enough of an attachment to the silver color scheme to bother chasing down the Takara variant, but seeing the red version posted in that thread caught my eye. After learning he was from an exclusive 2-pack, I tracked it down.
The box was neat, and while I wanted to keep it, I was disappointed to find upon lifting the front flap that there was mold growing inside (all the white specks you see covering it in the picture) despite it having still been sealed in its plastic sleeve (which, admittedly, wasn't exactly air-tight). Fortunately, no mold got inside the box, though I wiped down both figures just in case.