Galvatron makes his debut in the 86' Transformers animated movie... and anyone who is atleast 10 yrs of age at that time was blown away when Megatron morphs into Galvatron . In a way, he would have been considered a quasi spawn of Unicron.. since Unicron did gave him his new form and name, not to mention... the morphing of the Seekers n Insecticons into Cyclonus and Scouge with his Sweeps. Though i have no idea whatever happened to Cyclonus' armada hehehe i guess that must have been a fluke. Anyhow... thanks to the introduction of Galvatron into the Transformers mythos... almost all reincarnation of a TF series comes with a Megatron that eventually morphs into a more powerful Galvatron. However... G1 is the only series where Galvatron gains a new look and form.. all the other TF series just repaints a Megatron figure and pass him off as a Galvatron.
E-Hobby G1 Reissue Galvatron
G1 Galvatron made a come back in 2006 and I think it's safe to say that all the fanbois r not expecting this at all. No one was expecting Galvatron to be the next candidate to be reissued by Takara. Especially when there are many figures from season 1 n 2 of the US TF series that never quite made it as a reissued figure... Wheeljack, Sunstreaker, Mirage and Reflector to name a few.
Takara did a real number on us with the reissue of Galvy... they decided to go ahead n make a regular mass market version of Galvy in anime accurate colors.. and cleverly made this grey G1 toy accurate version as an E-Hobby Exclusive. To me it's kind of a bitter sweet ordeal.. it's sweet that they r making a purple anime accurate Galvy..but at the same time..it would mean that i would have to get both version since it just doesn't feel G1-ish with a new purple Galvy instead of the vintage colored Galvy that we have come to recognize n know as original G1 Galvy ;p
This E-Hobby Galvy comes with extra kibbles.. that being a small diecast Matrix figure with a short chain. I'm very impressed with the use of real die cast metal instead of a chromed piece as the Matrix. The main difference of it between the mass produced n the E-Hobby version is it's color. The E-Hobby version's Matrix is green in color... perhaps represented as the fabled Decepticon Matrix of Leadership.
Well.. anyway u cut it... I'm happy to have both pieces. There's no better treat than to have a brand new toy that was made 20++ years ago that u've always wanted but could never afford as a kid heheh... Don't get me wrong..i'm all for vintage... But reissues are way way cheaper than having to fork out RM250 onwards for a loose vintage figure.. But with the now fickle minded TakaraTomy.. we can never be sure what's coming up next. I don see why both Hasbro n TakaraTomy couldn't reissue the whole G1 line.. there is clearly a market for it... instead they hide behind the excuse of the original molds have either been destroyed or missing.. C'mon..if China can make perfect knock-offs out of these so called "Lost" molds... y can't the original company do it? :P
Cheers!!!
N_M
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