In 2000 I wrote "BM Megs: Yes he is small. But it's a great toy, plenty of detail, nice punching/dragon head moving gimmick. Possibly worth the Mega size - I can never tell if an item is good value since it's been so long since I sent the stuff in exchange for it.... I do like this though.... "
Beast Machines Megatron is packed in a Mega sized box. He's short enough that he can be packaged standing up in Dragon mode albeit with the legs & neck bent. His legs bend at the ankle, knee and hip. The tail bends and turns near it's base, and bends again shortly after. The neck turns at it's base then bends twice before turning at the head which features an opening jaw. Finally he has ball jointed shoulders and bending elbows. The wings here are huge great sheets of grey plastic - dreadful looking and hardly shaped like Dragon wings at all which is a huge disappointment as the rest of the dragon mode is quite good. If small.
TF: Fold the arms out to the sides. Fold the body complete with head and tail up and out. Turn 90 degrees clockwise so the dragon head is on your right and the tail is on your left. Fold back onto the body. Bring the beast hips together. Fold the arms up and slot under the body. Fold the head up from the body.
The beast arms as lower body look odd but otherwise this is a very good attempt at rendering the Megatron Dragon down two size classes. The head is more like what Megatron is in BM rather than BW. Both arms turn & bend at the shoulder, the tail arms has a bicep joint, both bend at the elbow and the beast head arm turns at the base of the head which forms an opening hand, the tail folds back from the other arm to reveal a hole in a black clenched fist. Legs as peg dragon mode. He's still got the annoying huge wing things but they sit lower on the toy in this mode and look better. They also fold round the toy to create the "Megatron in Shower Curtain" look seen in the show.
Onto the points I wanted to make
1) This toy is far too small a toy for Mega. With better proportioned wings he'd have easily fitted into a deluxe sized card bubble and been hailed as a great deluxe toy.
2) Why is this toy out at all ? Why not just rerelease the TM2 Ultra in a new box to give the Beast Machines ultras a head start ? On the only occasions that Megatron does TF in Beast Machines he's identifiably still the TM2 Dragon. Doesn't make sense.
Decent dragon minus the wings. OK robot. Very poor value for money size wise