Snakas has posted a nice roundup of information contained in issue 131 of Figure King.
Figure King issue 131 went on sale today, 24th December 2008, and contined various images and information on Transformers Masterpiece Grimlock, Transformers Alternity Megatron and Transformers Henkei Cyclonus.In the king figure of the sale today
- The issues included a colour image of Masterpiece Grimlock in robot mode
- The "eye change gimmick" was shown off, where the Grimlocks' eyes chance from red into blue - to switch between "cartoon" and "G1 toy" accuracy.
- The figure has a built in LED in the right robot hand to light up the sword, similar to the Generation Two Laserrods
- When you transform Grimlock from Dinosaur to robot form, the Cybertron symbol (Autobot logo) appears / disappears.
- Images of the Grimlock's new brain machine, and comparisons to teh original toy are shown.
- Images of Alternity Megatron are shown, still uncoloured. The magazines notes the molding changes which have been made to improve Megatron's head.
- Images of Transformers Henkei Cylocnus are shown, going on sale in January. Inferno and Ratchet then follow in February. Images of these two are from the US version.
- The deisn of Nightstick appears to be based more on Fracus than the original nebulan partner of Cyclonus.
- Images of the black and white version of the Micky Mouse Convoy are shown.
- There is an artivle on the 25 years of Transformers development.