I recently heard that Transformers g1 Megatrom can never be made intona gun ever again. Why is this? What are some other toys that cannot be made anymore today? I heard lawn darts are illegal to even sell or play with.

>>11441302 (OP)
For one, Megatron being a gun in the first place was more a matter of circumstance than them commiting to Megatron needing to be a gun. They were looking for a toy around the same size as Battle Convoy/Optimus, with similar accessories that would make it about the same price point and sized box as Optimus.
Gun laws since the 80's require a colorful tip on toy guns- but most major toy companies opt not to reproduce realistic fun, or use realistic gun colors, because it's bad optics if a toy is tied to an accident where a kid is shot for playing with the gun or threatening to use it as a weapon. allegedly the laws got even stricter so it's harder now to even leave it just the tip as the colorful part.
While they could make another gun Megatron, it'd need to be even more colorful for Hasbro to consider it Saleable- like this 2016 release which is the last Hasbro gun Megatron release.
Takara has to deal with no such laws in Japan- however they generally opt to make any gun Megatrons they have collector's toys.
Basically, it's more important to Hasbro that Megatron be a silver robot than him being a gun.

>>11441330
I dont think ive ever seen this red one before

>>11441302 (OP)
Who needs to transform into a gun when you can transform into a hand. Then you can pick up a gun.

>>11441333
It was an online exclusive, and since most people would consider the prior colors better, it didn't sell much it seems. It's slightly rare these days.

>>11441330
You know...I don't hate this, especially in that color scheme. A little black or gold paint on the orange nozzles, and I'd be fine with him. Maybe not as a Megatron, but as his own character.

>>11441376
Flawless logic right there.

>>11441330
>be America
>yes we’ll sell assault rifles to teenagers
>no you can’t have a grey toy gun

>>11442041
If you’re fucking around with a real gun and get shot, at the very least the threat is justified.
If a kid gets shot for a fake gun, it’s a tragedy and no kid’s toy company wants to be connected to a toy gun that got a kid shot.

>arm8k>11441330
I had the regular version, i really enjoyed that line.X

>>11441302 (OP)
Tank is a better Alt Mode for Megatron.

>>11442050
Maybe if a cop can’t tell that this is a toy he shouldn’t be a cop or have a gun license

>>11442050
Seriously I can’t believe you’re disagreeing with be you’re brainwashed and stupid as fuck
80% chance of being some chuds bot farm ai
https://youtube.com/shorts/nRM7yffnltI?si=

>>11442076
Remember that autistic guy who was shot because the cop thought a G1 Menasor was a gun?

>>11442076
How close do you think a cop would look before deciding to shoot? The whole point of a gun is to shoot someone who is far away.
Do they get right up to it and inspect it with a magnifying class in your imagination?

>>11442088
https://youtu.be/9BcbXhIcA30?si
Yeah lol he had zero remorse too although I didn’t know it was menasor

>>11442095
Not entertaining a fags bot

>>11442076
Looks like a real gun from the thumbnail. A cop could be even further away and also the person holding it could be moving it around .You fucking retard

>>11442101
Buy some glasses, you savage brown.

>>11442480
Five hours and the best you could come up with is "brown", not beating the retard accusations.
Here I'll save you some time, say, "I was picking up my kids from school rather than wasting time online" or something, imply your life is better when it's really not.

>>11441330
I remember walking into a toy shop in the 00s seeing that version and laughing at how the whole body is just enclosed within the gun shape.

No ingenuity, no creativity, just a huge hanging kibble clam-shell.

>>11442088
>>11442096
it was apparently not a Motormaster toy, but another toy truck, but its funnier to think it was a TF.

>>11442079
type that again slowly and in non-schizo.

>>11442597
The asymmetric transformation of the body is pretty neat though.

>>11442597
>>11442613
Yeah, the kibble enclosure is how some states have further rules about toy guns needing see-through parts. Then again Classics was a line where they were making it up as they wenti n the design phase... Optimus was originally planned as a Deluxe with a trailer included at Voyager price, and then they just said "no trailer" and upscaled his design.

>>11442076
A toy company isn't there to decide how competent the police are or aren't. Ultimately they just don't want to be connected on an incident where dead kids are involved, being a kid's toy company and all.
Story about a kid who gets shot with a transformers Megatron toy on the news? Not something a business wants in headlines.

>>11442076
>>11442655
People are dumb.

I had a toy battle axe in the 90s that had mirror-chrome surface with high-reflection.
The nosy neighbors ran out and thought I had I real one I was chasing my friends with.
As realizing it was a toy, they left me with a "keep that in the house or else..."

Gods knows they would've called the cops if I had a Nerf gun, etc

>>11442041
The more you know:
In America, 95+% of violent crime committed with firearms are ones the culprit did not obtain legally.
It's only suicides and accidental discharges that a mostly done with legal firearms

>>11442731
This post brought to you by the NRA

>>11442731
Do you mean to tell me that fatigue levels at ath caused us to not be able to have these toys

>>11442076
Here's the thing about guns. The movie "The quick in the dead" isn't just a catch movie title. You just flat out DON'T have a second to process if the gun is a toy or not. People will get shot before they even reach for their toy.

>>11442597
That's where you need imagination. As a kid I liked the big clamshells because they were wings, like Energon Galvatron

Does America not have cap guns?
Things like this are pretty common where I'm from and I don't see much difference between this and a transformer.

>>11442849
We do - see that nozzle? That's what we have on ours, too. But Americans have an itchy trigger finger and a 'shoot first, ask questions later' mindset. See >>11442101 and >>11442752 - if an American cop catches a glimpse of a toy gun (or anything that can be misconstrued as a gun) in their hands, they're going to use lethal force first before confirming whether or not there was an actual threat to themselves. Has to doesn't want their toys tied to any deaths caused by paranoid policemen, so rather than take any chances, they've opted to avoid any potential for tragedy by just not making Megatron a gun at all.

>>11442805
That's literally what they're supposed to be in robot mode - says so right on the box, which is also why is bio mentions him "soaring through the sky". They're shitty wings, but they're wings all the same.

Why are Americans so paranoid and shoot each other? No wonder theyre starting wars in the middle East and killing innocent Palestinians.

>>11442597
Classics era toys were pretty rubbish in general

>>11441376
Should come paired with Shockwave, and he uses the gun against the autobots.

>>11442076
So, it's like 1990-ish or so. Jocko homos from school with connections were following me home through the woods of PA, even bumping my back bumper, trying to make me go off the road. The intention was to get home before me, so they could steal my DAD'S guns, so they could go out and be dumb little wigger gangsters. I swerved in a way that put THEM off the road. I got home, RAN inside to the 2nd floor... ...and here's where I did something potentially retarded... ...I had an option before me of a loaded Ruger... or G1 Megatron, already transformed.
I chose Megatron.
I yanked the window open, hung partially out holding him, the dicks pull up in my driveway, start getting out. One finally SEES me, taps the others... and they all pile back in the car and vamoose.
...At school on Monday, one of the faggots comes up all cautious like he had some kind of life-changing epiphany and said, "So like... the other day...", "YEAH, the day yo cocksuckers tried to fucking KILL me?", "We weren't trying to kill you... really...", "And?", "You... yo weren't like, actually going to shoot any of us... were you?".
I gave him a look like I'd just heard the stupidest thing in my entire fucking life, patted him on the shoulder with an evil smile and walked away.
... ... ...Megatron saved my life.
...I'm not sure WHY I grabbed him instead. I think maybe because I know they're just asshole kids at this point in their lives... but really, I think I did it JUST because it was too "funny" not to. Which is retarded, but I'm still laughing like 3 decades later.

On a side note, the toy industry REFUSES to use the word "gun" for human-sized handweapons. They refer to them as "blasters" that are sold in the "blaster" or "boy's roleplay" aisle.

>>11447611
About ten years ago I saw a "hunting rifle" toy in a toy store. It was an electronic double barreled shotgun with reasonably realistic sounds, and you had to break it open to reload and that made sounds too.

It was probably one of the raddest toy guns I'd seen in ages.

>>11448162
Those are still extremely common, you just won't see them in target or walmart. They're often at outdoor stores, tractor supply, etc. In Texas you can find them at grocery stores.

>>11442749
No
Lying media did
They didn't like that gun violence was on the rise, cause drug use was on the rise, they thought it was learned behavior and thought that making guns not be seen as fun would keep people from getting them as adults

But gun violence in the US has always been in conjunction with other crime (or suicide)
Fix the crime issue and you fix the gun issue. There are countries with plenty of guns that don't have gun violence
Cause they don't have the same crime.

But the anti gun lobby has a looooot more money than the nra does.

Not that the nra doesn't try to lobby. They're just bad at it cause they don't actually care about gun owners, they care about gun manufacturers

But that's a whole DIFFERENT argument

>>11442947
holy shit taste

>>11448217
What, are you saying Classics Sunstreaker was actually good?

>>11448352
Or Ratchet and Ironhide. lol. BUT... buut... As a kid, I'd have taken the shiny chrome, high parts counts, rocket launchers, great alt mode of a Ratchet or Ironhide over the ASS "movie" figures like Springer, Wheelie, or the later Pretenders, Micromasters... The old Diaclone/MicroChange molds were STILL better than all the post-movie trash. Looked like Playskool shit.

>>11448352
1. that's a universe toy, not a classics toy
2. yes universe sunstreaker is better than most nu-transformers

>>11449539
Classics doesn't mean G1 stupid, it means this >>11449603
And that's Classics, not Universe, Universe was the line before Classics and that was just redecos of older toys

>>11449611
The name Universe was reused again for the Classics style toys in 2008-2010 or so.

>>11449603
CHUG toys are generally amazing compared to newer stuff of the same characters. The only ones I remember being disappointments were Ironhide and Tankor/Octane

>>11441330
So does that actually transform or does he sort of turtle into a gun shaped shell?

>>11442041
The rabid anti gun crowd will attack the only targets they can much more often. Like banning toy guns from kids since they can wrap that in a saving lives, for the children excuse.

>>11442076
I..is this a real P.38 with 3D printed plastic parts glued to it?