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I AM MEGATRON!

I finally have it in my hot little hands; the toy that required me to jump through more hoops than a circus tiger to legally own. I now have my very own MP-05 Masterpiece Megatron! A quick recap of the process involved, especially for those of you who I’m sure are now very jealous (not):

  • Join the Megatron Club ($10 annual fee)
  • Apply for a P638 gun collector’s license from the NSW Police Firearms registry
  • Apply for a B709 import permit from the same

I didn’t know about the B709, so when I got back from Hong Kong customs confiscated it while I organised the necessary paperwork. Annoyingly, they had scant regard for it being a collector’s item – they plastered the box with sticky tape and ripped it off roughly, and manhandled the box, leaving a few dinged edges and dented corners. Oh well, I wasn’t collecting the Masterpiece series MISB anyway.

Here are a few choice pictures, with the rest over at Flickr (by the way, I do this because I have a bandwidth limit on my hosting plan and I don’t want it to be used up hosting [often very large] pictures):

In gun mode

In gun mode

Standing pose

Standing pose

Face off between Optimus and Megatron

Face off between Optimus and Megatron

The things we do for love

Here it is, boys and girls – a gun permit allowing me to legally own Masterpiece Megatron (MP-05) which arrived in today’s mail. You can now truthfully say that I’m certifiably something (what that something is depends largely on how you feel about geeks and collecting things). In order to get the permit, I had to:

  • Be a member of a legally registered club, that being the Megatron Club Inc.
  • Demonstrate why it is a necessary part of my collection
  • Detail how I will store the item to prevent unauthorised access
  • Submit a P638 Application for a Prohibited Weapon Permit, and provide certified copies of 100pts worth of ID

Fortunately, the fee is waived for collectors.

Gun permit

All this for a toy!?

Now all I have to do is to find one to buy when I’m in Hong Kong. I can also look forward to being stopped by customs as I re-enter the country after spending 8 tortuous hours on a plane…

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