Man from UNCLE fans were finding this toy quite familiar when it was first released!

That's a marvel of engineering for its time... Wow.

I love the look of transformers stickers. The silver backing goes so well with the prints.

Those were the days You can keep your Pokemon these were toys

Initially I thought that removing the stickers and cleaning one of these would decrease its worth, or value. I did a general search online to see if that were the case but I could not find anything about that. I am inspired to clean and restore my G1 guys. Thank you again for the great video.

To be fair, the toy predates the character...

Amazing work as always, Dave!

I like watching people plays with the G1 Megatron or fixing them one of these days I hope to get one

Made him look like new Dave! Congratulations 😁👍. I am in the camp that believes Megatron should have always been a TANK!!!😁😁😁.

This is a very nice restoration of G1 Megatron. It looks brand new!

Awesome video man. I just recently aquired one if these. Ive been surching the internet looking for videos on him. Couldnt find what I needed. You were right on time brother. Thank you for what you do.

I genuinely forgot Megatron had a rub-sign when I restored mine years and years ago.

Those transformers really use a lot of stickers for old toys.

With the whole history behind Transformers I don't mind how "Megatron" looks like. It is what it is.

Awesome!!! Restored mine about 6 months ago, great vid!!

Very cool🎉 I just bought one. Thanks for the video.

Nice project as usual!

Wow. Fantastic job.

Excellent job!

I think you’re too harsh on the G1 Megatron toy. I never had one but when my friend got one at his birthday party I was in awe. I still am.....

REAL MEGATRON! Yay!

In 1988, i found Megatron at a local thrift store called Bethel Bible Village. Very on the nose. He was $3.50 and came with the scope. I eventually got all the accessories.Toy Polloi got me thinking. Could I get it to fire? This channel has taught me a lot and it worked out. WD-40 kills stickers and the residue. I can send you some as a thank you.

I restored my megatron last yr. Top of gun broke off so I drilled. Used lego clipped down an drilled. Glued in an reused original screw to reattach. 👍🍻👍

Thanks for showing how to take his chest plate off. Mines a little loose so now I know how to tighten it.

Many transformers in year 84 did not have the rub symbol. After a certain point it was standard. Getting wave 1 G1 with rub signs can be actually difficult with some of them, like Mirage, Sunstreaker, and Wheeljack given where its placed.

James Bond's Walther P38 lives again! Nice job, TP!

never heard Megatron being referred as Lovely before!

Thanks Dave🙂 Take care

You repair G1 Transformers? Fantastic!

Megaton is such an amazing toy 😃

I've got a rather battered Soundwave, so looking forward to your video to see if there's anything I can do to restore him! Great content as always

Wow! I had that sight in my toy box as a kid for the longest time and I had no idea what it was for. I don't know how or where we got it because we didn't own a megatron toy.

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Great video as always Dave Megatron was also a personal favorite of mine specially the toy version please keep up the great videos and stay safe.

I would have totally donated a sight if I knew you needed one. I have a broken G1 megs in a box somewhere and it would have been a good donar. Love the vids

Hey Dave, Seeing you often need to open toys for repair you might want a isesamo tool. These are designed to work at seams to loosen up clips, they are quite thin yet durable and have pointed and rounded ends for any type of seam. I know them from BigClive.com where he calls them "Spudggers" and Clive takes electronics apart with his, so on toys possible uses are limitless.

"Toy matching the cartoon" You know the toys were first right?!?!?!?!

Dave, sorry to be ‘that guy’ but you mentioned that the Megs toy didn’t do the cartoon version justice. But surely you’re aware that the toy dates back to 1974. The cartoon version was an interpretation of it. If anything, the cartoon over-sold the toy! Anyway, I love G1 Megs. I got him for Xmas circa 1986 and still have him... he’s still looking pretty tight!

I'm excited to see how you'll fix g1 soundwave's chest door, i hear they break super easily

I wish I could find a video on if it’s possible to repair the chest piece that swivels. It’s only connected by a small plastic piece that connects to the trigger.

The animation model was based on a prototype that looked fairly different to the final release.

They probably could have found a better balance between the original toy and the later cartoon appearance had they not ceased his "bad gun" transformation. Imagine that would have looked less like an actual gun and a better half way appearance with the robot state.

today I learned how my G1 megatron broke

I would play with this toy in gun form. When the toy was in robot form it felt very fragile

My brother still has his, must get him to dig it out

Nice Video. Could you please make one on how to make a repro of Shredder's cape and Master Splinter clothing?

Excellent video as usual. I was at my local retro toy store last week to buy a Powermaster Optimus Prime and talking to the store owner about its condition and he said "As a vintage collector we just embrace the wabi sabi nature of toys." I asked if he was a fan of yours and he said of course. Even out here in rural South Carolina in the US we're still big fans of you.

Is there a way to repair the top barrel if it has broken off?

The toys were released before the show

To be honest i had no problem with this Megatron toy i love it kf you want a little more accurate flip his barrel on his side to the top a little so it dont break

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Dam, you actually put the small decepticon stickers on top of other stickers. That just seems strange to me. =/ Great job with the fix as well. =)

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Do you find the chrome pens "go off" I find with time they don't give the same chrome finish and get dull? Didn't megatron come with a sword ?

Can you use chrome pen on this figure effectively

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It's not that they could have done better with the toy but they could have altered the cartoon character to be worse if they wanted it to be like the toy. The toy existed well before the name "transformers" or "megatron" was invented.

Folks always talk about loose joints, but the vintage figures I get are always too tight. Case in point: the pins where the "shoulders" fold out are metal but the right "shoulder" does not want to move. How do you loosen tight joints? Does soapy water help?

I now have one, the silver paint is a little scuffed on the head crest! - you have any idea what type of paint would be used to touch it up??

I have the version of G1 Megatron with rivets instead of screws on the knees. Any ideas on how to tighten them?

Great job as always!! I'm really impressed! I have only one question, Dave.. Which kind of silver you use to fix the weapon? Looks like a gundam marker.. Can you tell me where can I find it? Thanks an regards from Italy! Ps: I'm really sorry for my English, but I hope you can understand me..

I finally got a complete G1 Megatron. it's as bad as I remember him being as a kid. I love having the figure, but like you didn't care for it as a child. It was way too fragile, and the friend of mine who had one broke the legs off the tabs almost immediately! Any tips on tightening the legs? My new one is great, but if I stand him the legs slide back into the bottom through gravity.

I actually have two Megatron figures but it's from to Beast Wars Arrow I have him in his T-Rex form and I have him in his Dragon form that's the transmetals 2

Megatron back to full magnificence! Great job as ever, Dave! I never liked the robot mode of the toy either. I used him primarily in gun form as a kid, which is probably why the outer stickers/decals were more worn. I vividly remember putting that one sticker on incorrectly and being really irritated at myself. I didn't want to risk damaging it so I just left it. I'm just happy that you fixed him all up and only needed to find his scope. I have no idea where that was lost but I never used that silly chrome "gun" either. Can't wait to see how his right hand man Soundwave turns out😉. Awesome work!👍

Use Blue Thread locker if they come loose again

Great repair!! May want to add a disclaimer not to take off the shielding for the Encore, KO, or Japanese versions; it will destroy the functioning firing mechanism.

I really wish Transformers g1 stuff wasnt the one to be so expensive like even kenner star wars is cheap nowadays compared to the g1 figs

If you got disappointments about Megatron… I’ve got 1 word (actually a couple) to counter that. Them being Ironhide/Ratchet. With the cartoon, they took HUGE liberties, & I’m kind of in the camp that the cartoon ruined the series. Fun little toys (Ironhide/Ratchet), but they didn’t look like the animation characters AT ALL. At least with Megatron, you’d at least tell that it’s him. You could say they same with Bumblebee. I remember showing the toy G1 (not the chromed G2) to a couple friends a couple times, & they kept thinking that it was Goldbug & not Bee. When the show started it borrowed heavily from the Marvel comic, & as time progressed; became it’s own thing. Which I’m ‘cool’ with, but with what I felt was poor writing, the interest in the series wained. Heavily. I didn’t mind so much that Prime got killed… I thought that it sucked as a kid… but hey… it’s a war & people die? Right? But it was the direction & writing that they took after the killed the series. If they stayed a little more true to original series, I have a feeling that it would’ve been a series like Star Trek where it would have been an almost decade long running series. But it ran into a problem like modern Star Wars. They went too far from the source material, upset a lot of the fans, & it came back to bite them on the butt. I had G1 Megatron as a kid, & I liked the toy. The only thing that I didn’t like about him his arms/shoulders were too easy to break. But when it comes matching the toy to the cartoon model, I can’t think of ANY OF THE CHARACTERS that actually looked like the toy/show. They were close enough where you could tell who was who, but I can’t think of anyone that was spot on. So you gotta take that aspect of it with a grain of salt.

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In complete gun form, it's obvious that it is the gun from the great 1960's show, 'The Man From U. N. C. L. E.' I had one when I was a kid. I was put off Transformers, because of the disparity in scale of the figures. Were they the same scale, Optimus Prime would simply drive over Megatron. Game over, man. Game over. Good restore, though. Nice one.

They may be reissues but I have a G1 Optimus Prime, Soundwave, Jazz, Starscream, Powermaster Prime, an original Stunticon Dead End, Micro Master Bumblebee; NEVER owned G1 Megatron or Grimlock

Technically the show isn't a very good likeness to the toy since the toy came first. :P

Last time I found that Megatron figure in complete it went for almost $800

Hello,I was given some Action Force vehicles recently by somebody who thought they were Action Man,which I collect but to be honest Action Force is not my thing,might need a clean up etc but they’re yours if you want?

Dave, I'm afraid you and many TF fans are under a bit of a misconception. The G1 toy line actually precedes the comics and the cartoon series. The toys are NOT based on the cartoon, but rather it's the other way around! The comics and cartoon developed looks based on the figures in the original toy designs! Marvel actually had to use the toys to develop the looks of the bots in their comic book series. All of the artists working on those books received the actual toys as reference, and I actually have six of those reference toys in my personal collection because two of my teachers from the Joe Kubert School, Jose Delbo and Kim DeMulder, worked on the comics, and they told me that was the deal, and Kim gave me his original toys. My Optimus Prime, Megatron, Starscream, Soundwave, Jazz and Bubblebee are the figures used as reference by Kim when he inked the comics. The toys debuted at Toyfare in early '84, then Marvel did the comics, and the cartoon was the last to debut. It's not fair to blame the toys for looking different than the cartoon. The toys were done first, but the animated are responsible for the changes to the designs. Imagine trying to animate the look of the toys in an animated series! Yikes! They simplified their looks, and gave them slightly more human faces and statures in the cartoon series, which was a wise move. Nice video! The G1 Megatron's head and his floppy legs and weird arms will never satisfy fans of the cartoon series. How could it? The cartoon series redesigned him to look much more streamline and cool-looking.

To be fair the cartoon doesn't do the toy justice. Certainly they could have made some changes to the diaclone line so the toy would match the cartoon better. I think the idea, however, was to create a cartoon series, like MOTU, to sell an existing toy line.

Nicely done. was never a fan of the toy, but I can see, from a collector's POV, it's a great resto advice vid.

wow, a real G1 Megatron without snapped arms, how the hell did the kid manage that?!?!?!

He actually looks more badass with his leg hinges flexed forward like that

I just got my first Megatron in very nice condition except for the stickers. Do you have any recommendations for removing the original decals on the chrome parts? There’s no chrome wear, so I’m afraid to even touch it! I use the fingernail method for all of my other Transformers, but have never attempted it on chromed parts. Thank you for your channel-I love it, and you’ve given me the confidence to tear into my other Transformers!

I need a right arm for my megatron. It’s haunted me for years... anyone know anyone? Haha

8bit guy tends to use wd40 to get stickers off... lets it sit and the come off

megatron the og target master

I wish that the prototype version (what the original comic design was based on) was released.

I got that figure for Christmas when I was a kid, The leg snapped off it after only having it a few months.

I know it's nerding out, but the Barrel of the Gun belongs on his back. Also, I agree, the toy isn't nearly as great as the carton, but the Masterpiece looks decent, also, that Megatron might be the pre-rub version.

Change all the decals don’t be lazy, it will look better

When I was a kid I also didn't like the Megatron toy so I never asked for it. It looked SO ugly and he looked so awesome in the cartoons! I had Shockwave and he kind of became the defacto leader for my Decepticon forces because he looked awesome compared to the cartoon. I also had a strong dislike for the Ratchet and Iron Hide toys...yuck, lol !

I always wanted megatron too untill i got one, all be it missing the barrel and p38 side arm, no black add on parts, next to the og g1 toys he looks rather pathetic

Biggest problem with old Bucket Head here* is he wasn't designed off the cartoon rather he was designed for the show based off the toy. The original Megatron started life as Diaclone D-16, Hasbro when partnering with Takara chose that for their villain leader and the animation team simply gave him a better look which they managed in spades. Megatron alongside Robotnik (Satam) and Megabyte of Reboot are some of my all-time favorite cartoon villains, the only thing I can't forgive Megatron for is creating that abomination of Electricity Kreemzek (Don't care about the spelling, I hate that blasted thing.) Because of a personal reason I detest unkillable electric critters like that. But otherwise great character. *sorry I am a Transformers fan big time and his classic head was a bucket helmet we all know this. It isn't a attack on how great a villain he was/is just being silly. Transformers Prime combined the best of his classic and made him outright scary, while also giving him a great redemption too. Frank Welker is and always will be awesome in the role. David Kaye is great at BW era Megs too.

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This particular Megatron was the worst. I wanted it so bad. And then a friend got one. And then I didn't want one anymore. It looks nothing like the cartoon. Though, the gun transformation was still cool.

I hate two things about G1 Megatron - his legs and gun barrel sticking on the side.

The Megatron figure suffers from leg problems the legs get flimsy

The most disipointing transformer it looks like office stationery

Don't suppose you would be willing to sell that one you were just fixing?

I was slightly old for transformers but i always thought the Megatron figure was rubbish.

Yeah, love/hate is being to kind. I've never liked that version. Just not very cool!