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