I used to have this figure. Sold him when I got the Titans Return version (which I then also sold when I got the Kingdom version). Fun fact, this was the first ever Galvatron, since the original toy, made to depict the original character (other Galvatrons being either characters who shared the same name, such as the Beast Wars II character, or alternate universe counterparts such as Energon Galvatron).
Its a cool concept, if only it had been a Voyager, I hope someday transformers will revisit stuff like this, giving earth modes to characters with alien vehicle modes
thank you for actually explaining what was wrong with this lad, ive only ever heard about him by reputation. i still want to believe there’s good in this figure, i love galvatron and im not one to give up on a toy of him.
the guy is the first galvatron to be "himself" and not just a pretender to the trone, or just a powered up megatron, and the concept of update form somewhat works. it's just the downsizing tha killed him
I just got him from a thrift store and although his arm cannon is janky and loose as hell, the rest of him was pretty solid. His tank mode looks amazing though!
I think its the best galvatron figure personally. The paint apps are great and it looks like it was sculpted by angels. The alt mode is my favourite vehicle because my great uncles friends sisters cousins sons teacher used to ride it. The transformation is great for begginers
Galvatron was supposed to be a Voyager, complete with a third mode that roughly resembled his G1 form. This Generations deluxe is what happens when a voyager class toy is forcefully downsized into, well, a deluxe.
Dang, I guess I got really lucky! I got this new back when it came out, played with it a bunch, and it still has a place on my shelf, no pieces ever fall apart or shift, other than the rear backpack things. It's always been a TANK of a toy.
Same here, zero problems with this figure and I quite actually like it’s design. I have a couple sealed since I loved this guy when I originally grabbed it and fiddled with it. Legacy Galvatron is my new go to, but I will always have a special place in my heart for this figure.
honestly I kinda hope this design gets revisited someday, now that they finally figured out Space-cannon Galvatron I feel like they might be able to handle a tank boi
I have this Galvatron. I don't have many problems with it. And it was one of the first Transformers I ever got. And even though I got it new, I never knew it had a walking tank mode.
It’s insane how well the tank mode looks. I love that at a glance you wouldn’t think it’s Galvatron due to its colors. Like it looks like Megatron especially since that’s the “go-to” alt mode for him now. This thing is a weird mess.
Way back in the day, I was at a shop and they had a bunch of Henkei figures. I could only choose one and had a budget, and it was between this and Octane. I really wanted this guy, but I'm so glad I went with Octane!
Many years ago, I found this toy in a local Rite Aid toy section. I used to check on it from time to time as a kid, to see if it was still there. Many years later, as an adult, I came back to the Rite Aid toy section, and found that in all those years, no one had actually bought it. The packaging was damaged and taped back together, and the price had dropped as well. I ended up giving this little one a home, and I never really had any issues with it.
This dude would’ve benefitted so much if it was a voyager or even ultra class considering it was the same time guys like Onslaught and Silverbolt came out.
Great review of a very frustrating toy. Tip for the backpack that makes it a LITTLE more tolerable - If you flip up the panel at the bottom you'll have 2 pegs you can plug the treads onto. They don't hold on super well, but it's better than them flopping around all over the place. Keep up the good work!
I just found this guy at a thrift store for like 5 bucks in a bag of other toys. He had all the parts minus the missile. Although the alt walking tank form isn't great, the regular TANK MODE IS AWESOME. I'm actually thinking about painting him up because the mold for the tank is really well done. I'm actually happy I got him. The joints on mine are solid...it's the arm cannon that just dangles though.
My god! All the issues I have with this figure that I thought were issues I gave it as I was a kid, are actually issues everyone has. Glad I'm not the only one. The transformation is really tough too, especially for young kids. I lost the instructions for like, a year or two until I found them. And I kept him in robot mode for that long. Also didn't know the walking cannon was actually a mode.
God if this thing wasn't plagued by QC issues I would probably enjoy him. I like both modes and the transformation (independent of the floppiness/pieces falling off).
This Galvatron is a great idea... in theory. Megatron is constantly a tank nowadays, so a Galvatron that is also a tank, make sense; more so when the original is already mobile artillery with treads. Since we now have a great G1 Galvatron, I would like to see them basically remake this Galvatron, at a voyager scale like he was originally planned as. (But as Animated Shockwave came out around the same time, they didn't want two gray voyager scale tanks sitting next to each other)
Strange Fact That The Instruction Model Didn't Even Mention... Was That He IS A TripleChanger To A Degree, in-That His Cannon Mode IS Present? If You Think/Assume He's REALLY Complicated, Then Try ANY Of Hundreds Released Since DOTM & Even Some SIEGE/Kingdom & StudioSeries Ones...WHY?
Ironically, on my figure, it was the fusion cannon arm that came off. And that arm isn't on a ball joint, which means I must've had to really finagle it off when I was a kid. Only figured out how to reattach it recently.
A repaint and remold of Earthrise Megatron could be a good revisit of this toy. A New head, new chest, new cannon, plus maybe a "shield" that covers the arms/ tank turret that resembles the more rounded turret of Gen Galvatron. 🤔
So for the longest time as a kid I had the lower leg of this guy, holding onto it for years in hope that the transformer that it went to would show up, never did, and only a year or two ago I found out which transformer it went to
That he was a tank makes me wonder if maybe this was a concept for a Galvatron upgrade to the G2 Tank Megatron especially considering that the Classics Deluxe Megs was G2 Tank Megs, AND that I do recall that on a TFWiki article, Simon Furman was quoted as saying that had the Marvel G2 comics continued, Galvatron would've eventually returned... Not sure about the "GALV", but the "25" is definitely because at the time it came out, it was just in time for the 25th anniversary of The Transformers franchise...which kinda doesn't make sense considering that Galvy didn't pop up until 1986 (making that figure's release too late for the Movie's 20th anniversary in 2006, but also too early for the Movie's 25th anniversary in 2011). 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️ Besides, a lot of the design concepts for the abandoned third mode went to Animated Shockwave's crane mode for his Longarm form. And yes, this figure absosmurfinlutely should've been a Voyager. How so? Even with JUST the Deluxe class Universe/Reveal the Shield Targetmaster Cyclonus and the Generations or Titans Return Scourge, the Titans Return Galvatron simply scales better and looks better. (Not counting Kingdom Galvy, cuz that's clearly meant to go with Kingdom Cyclonus & SS86-5 Scourge)
I was buying a bunch of old Cybertron figures off someone and they were selling them for very cheap because they were duplicates in their collection so I thought I would buy some more stuff off them. Yeah I saw this guy and thought, "yeah a Galvatron figure, never had one of those before and its a Universe figure so it must be good!" Glad I only paid like $7-10 dollars for him. Only upside I've been able to think about him is that he's the same size as SS Hot Rod so you can do some stuff with those two if you want.
I've heard bad things about this toy like the back pack not tabbing in and on my copy i cant see this issue nor the arm falling off like yours? this seems like a mileage may vary situation as mine only suffers from the cannon arm shifting some when fiddling with him, and i have it as my definitive galvatron on my shelf with the legacy playing 2nd fiddle just for his looks
Never knew there were so many problems people had with this figure. Mine has been just wonderful all this time, but I use the Legacy Galvatron as my new main Galvatron. I love this Universe version though.
Jeez, this level of floppiness and disassembly never happened to my copies of universe galvatron. I say "copies" because I got a takara repaint of him a few years ago. Yes I know I am insane. EDIT: also forgot to mention this but the little backpack flaps actually DO havesomething to plug into. there's small tabs on the bottom of the hinged panels that plug into a hole thing on both sides. You can also flip up the "tank legs" to give him his shoulder pylons, though they're jutting from his back which is inaccurate, it still looks good.
Glad im not the only one who noticed the miss transformation of the backpack, and also agreed mine is generally sturdy as well mine the left arm ocassionally pops off but thats really only if im trying to transform him quickly and man-handling him like a f*ckwit
@@TatsuChi The biggest issue I have with this figure is how back-heavy it is. If it's in a neutral stance on a shelf even the slightest breeze is gonna make it just topple over backwards unless you kinda mess around with it, at least on the ones I own. Seriously though, the head not clipping into place on the one in this video makes me wonder exactly what the heck happened. Is it a defect? did the pegs get warped or worn down somehow? Reminds me of how thrilling 30 Blitzwing had the shoulders that wouldn't clip in on a lot of copies, but a bit less widespread I guess. My copy of that Blitzwing figure unfortunately got both the shoulder defect AND the head exploding one, though I didn't realize it had that until like a good few years after I got it and the head began doing the split at a corner of it. Weirdly it stays together fine unless you actively pull it apart.
Awesome figure. I bought the Seige one hoping to replace the Universe version, but ended up putting it back into my line up because the Seige one just wasn’t as good.
Yeah, I really did like this era. Lots of characters with lots of variety. Good size and good price point. THAT SAID. I really hated how difficult it was to transform almost anything. I get that we now have much improved detail and (sometimes) articulation, but the pay off is so many joints and points of movement that it's less a transformation and more of a jigsaw puzzle that just flops around, and random, janky extra bits that just hang off the back. I have this Galvatron, I tried transforming it once, got halfway through, and gave up. He's been a tank on my shelf for 14 years.
I always switch the legs around so the tank treads are on the same side, rather than that weird half here and half there. Like standing alone, yeah he's not that good. But alongside Universe Cyclonus and Scourge (Botcon or Generations), he looks really good as it's a nice display
The color swapping is such a weird aspect of this toy. It almost seems like the intent was for Galvatron to turn into a perfectly ordinary Earth tank... that is if it weren't for the bright orange laser barrel. Maybe that would have been disguised better if this figure had been larger, but at this scale and with that sci-fi barrel, he really should have been redesign as a futuristic cyber tank and kept more of his character defining purple visible.
Got mine second hand off of TFSource. Its chest is still tight, the left arm does come off sometimes, but the backpack parts come off all the time. But i wanted one, to see what it was like even thought i knew it wasn't a very good figure.
I will give this guy another bit of love. Really great face sculpt. It's just sad soooo much is problematic. I agree with the majority of TF fans, it's obvious this guy was supposed to have a third mode, and designed with a Voyager size in mind.
Hated this guy as a kid and he sat at the bottom of a bin in pieces for many many years. After having enough time to figure him out in the current, I actually quite like it now, one of my favorites.
I have this galvatron (the repaint that comes with titanium Rodimus anyway) and I like it very much. It's not good but it's still fun to mess with for me personally.
I have both the Henkei and this version. If I don't give them away, I will use them as drones in their alt mode for my Titan size Decepticons. They are horribly outmatched now by the Kingdom/Legacy Galvatron. I even got the ManiaKing figure by UniqueToys to better represent him in my CHUG collection because this one was is just so bad but he was the only option at one time.
haa, the pre-revival age, with it's mismatches of form, idea and concepts this galvatron did't do much, and suffered horribly the downsizing, but it gave us back galvatron as a full fledged charather!
the worst part is that... it's an awesome design??? the earth tank with g1 Galvatron accurate robot, the shoulder turret etc... it's amazing??? but WHY IS IT THAT SMALL AND TERRIBLY BUILT???? would have been my go to Galvatron for sure
I too have this guy. Honestly despit his flaws ive always enjoyed the figure just for its insane complexity at this size and the rather nifty tank mode. That being said its patently obvious to me at least that Cyclonus is just the best of the Unicronian decepticons.
That is a nice tank mode. I never cared for handgun Megatron or alien cannon Galvatron. Why wouldn't they take more useful vehicle modes. Galvatron may not go into someone's hand, but he's still a stationary cannon.
I just dug mine out. After along time i got the new legacy Galvatron. Anyway, this little guy kept breaking apart as i turned him from tank to robot! 😂 I don't remember it being this bad.
I thought this guy was absolutely dope when I was growing up, but his arm and back kibble falling off made me so sad. Also various bits in both modes don't like plugging in.
Iirc that was a leftover from the initial concept of uni 2.0/classics galvatron that Originally conceptualized as being in the voyager or ultra scale (somewhere around that size range) and would've been a callback to the original alt mode of g1 galvatron. Though plans changed and we ended up with the deluxe class version
If this was a voyager with all the joints fixed to not flop or fall apart and, if they added more such as slightly bigger, longer thighs, bigger chest, proper ankle joints, and fillers for the bottom of the leg and forearms while getting rid of the dumb 3rd transformation gimmick then I could get behind this figure.
Lol I bought this toy when it was first released (we hadn't had a new version of G1 Galvatron since G1 Galvatron, so I really felt I HAD to get it 😅) and yeah, it sucked straight out of the box. 😆 maybe it would have been better in a larger size category, (as originally planned) but only slightly.
OK, so I never had this toy, and I know that it’s bad. But when you set it down at the very beginning and the arm fell off, all I could do was audibly say the word “oh.“
when I got this toy when I was a kid, it felt apart so easily to the point where I just threw it away, even as like a 10 year old kid I knew it was trash
I think this swapped budgets with the obviously oversized Hot House/Powerglide. That should've been deluxe and this needed the ultra budget. Universe Galvatron LOOKS nice but obviously they cheaped out on him.
I got him because i couldn't find a good galvatron that wouldn't destroy my wallet. It's a nice update but that lef arm is annoying. I used some blue tack to make the joint stiffer. As for the pack? Eeeeeh it could've been more solid. Good figure though
I think I'm one of the the lucky few that has very little issues with this figure. Only problem I've had was the legs popping off in mid rotation and the turrent arm falling off when shifting. But I still enjoy it and have to agree that it's great in concept but poor execution
I hated this toy so much as a kid I took it back to Target and got a refund. I just ordered another copy though since Legacy Armada Megatron is coming out and we all know what Megatron does to him in the Dreamwave comics with the star saber where he shoves it into Galvatrons chest and defeats him. I fitting display for a crappy Galvatron. I will admit I do love the tank mode at least and the robot mode has grown on me over the years but as you said it falls apart.
As a guy who got this as a kid, that sigh at the beginning reached my soul and the arm falling off made me feel heard haha
So I wasn't the only one who had issues with this figure. I was little so I thought I broke it. So he was finnicky the while time
Mine's on the right arm and the left arm's elbow hinges is loosen.
You just like me
Dude, I just got this and man, the arm cannon makes me sad. LOL. Everything else was solid though.
I felt bad for this galvatron toy because the design and tank mode looks awesome
I used to have this figure. Sold him when I got the Titans Return version (which I then also sold when I got the Kingdom version). Fun fact, this was the first ever Galvatron, since the original toy, made to depict the original character (other Galvatrons being either characters who shared the same name, such as the Beast Wars II character, or alternate universe counterparts such as Energon Galvatron).
If I made an overpowered Predacon OC based on Beast Wars 2nd?? he would punch a hole in G1 Galvatron's stomach like in those Mortal Kombat games XD
I remember getting that toy for free and still feeling ripped off.
You got it for FREE
HOW IS THAT A RIPPOFF
@@TravTrevTV Sarcasm - the use of irony to mock or convey contempt.
I mean it's could have been better if they didn't gave it a deluxe treatment
Its a cool concept, if only it had been a Voyager, I hope someday transformers will revisit stuff like this, giving earth modes to characters with alien vehicle modes
He'd definitely pick an artillery vehicle, like those high caliber tanks with the limited cannon mobility that kingdom slammer have
thank you for actually explaining what was wrong with this lad, ive only ever heard about him by reputation. i still want to believe there’s good in this figure, i love galvatron and im not one to give up on a toy of him.
the guy is the first galvatron to be "himself" and not just a pretender to the trone, or just a powered up megatron, and the concept of update form somewhat works. it's just the downsizing tha killed him
same hear i heard that it was overly complex and didn't hold together well glad to see that's the case
I just got him from a thrift store and although his arm cannon is janky and loose as hell, the rest of him was pretty solid. His tank mode looks amazing though!
I think its the best galvatron figure personally. The paint apps are great and it looks like it was sculpted by angels. The alt mode is my favourite vehicle because my great uncles friends sisters cousins sons teacher used to ride it. The transformation is great for begginers
I had that galvatron only to complete my universe cyclonus and scourge combo, easily the worst out of the three
Galvatron was supposed to be a Voyager, complete with a third mode that roughly resembled his G1 form. This Generations deluxe is what happens when a voyager class toy is forcefully downsized into, well, a deluxe.
Dang, I guess I got really lucky! I got this new back when it came out, played with it a bunch, and it still has a place on my shelf, no pieces ever fall apart or shift, other than the rear backpack things. It's always been a TANK of a toy.
Same here, zero problems with this figure and I quite actually like it’s design. I have a couple sealed since I loved this guy when I originally grabbed it and fiddled with it. Legacy Galvatron is my new go to, but I will always have a special place in my heart for this figure.
honestly I kinda hope this design gets revisited someday, now that they finally figured out Space-cannon Galvatron I feel like they might be able to handle a tank boi
I have this Galvatron. I don't have many problems with it. And it was one of the first Transformers I ever got. And even though I got it new, I never knew it had a walking tank mode.
It’s insane how well the tank mode looks. I love that at a glance you wouldn’t think it’s Galvatron due to its colors. Like it looks like Megatron especially since that’s the “go-to” alt mode for him now. This thing is a weird mess.
I just got one of these at a consignment sale. I like it overall, but it's pretty much stuck in tank mode. So there's that.
Way back in the day, I was at a shop and they had a bunch of Henkei figures. I could only choose one and had a budget, and it was between this and Octane. I really wanted this guy, but I'm so glad I went with Octane!
4:59 dude became asian for a second😂
Many years ago, I found this toy in a local Rite Aid toy section. I used to check on it from time to time as a kid, to see if it was still there. Many years later, as an adult, I came back to the Rite Aid toy section, and found that in all those years, no one had actually bought it. The packaging was damaged and taped back together, and the price had dropped as well. I ended up giving this little one a home, and I never really had any issues with it.
This dude would’ve benefitted so much if it was a voyager or even ultra class considering it was the same time guys like Onslaught and Silverbolt came out.
With things like this, we gotta appreciate the modern updates, in this case, the kingdom/legacy one
Even before knowing the history of this toy, I always thought he looked like a rough draft for a better figure.
I got mine as a gift for losing a tooth when I was younger, so I’m super nostalgic for the figure. He’s my stand-in for IDW Galvatron, for now.
A third party should really go ahead and give this design/mold the size it needed to work
Great review of a very frustrating toy. Tip for the backpack that makes it a LITTLE more tolerable - If you flip up the panel at the bottom you'll have 2 pegs you can plug the treads onto. They don't hold on super well, but it's better than them flopping around all over the place. Keep up the good work!
I just found this guy at a thrift store for like 5 bucks in a bag of other toys. He had all the parts minus the missile. Although the alt walking tank form isn't great, the regular TANK MODE IS AWESOME. I'm actually thinking about painting him up because the mold for the tank is really well done. I'm actually happy I got him. The joints on mine are solid...it's the arm cannon that just dangles though.
My god! All the issues I have with this figure that I thought were issues I gave it as I was a kid, are actually issues everyone has. Glad I'm not the only one.
The transformation is really tough too, especially for young kids. I lost the instructions for like, a year or two until I found them. And I kept him in robot mode for that long. Also didn't know the walking cannon was actually a mode.
“Walking leg tank thing mode”
- That Toy Guy
God if this thing wasn't plagued by QC issues I would probably enjoy him. I like both modes and the transformation (independent of the floppiness/pieces falling off).
This Galvatron is a great idea... in theory. Megatron is constantly a tank nowadays, so a Galvatron that is also a tank, make sense; more so when the original is already mobile artillery with treads. Since we now have a great G1 Galvatron, I would like to see them basically remake this Galvatron, at a voyager scale like he was originally planned as. (But as Animated Shockwave came out around the same time, they didn't want two gray voyager scale tanks sitting next to each other)
Strange Fact That The
Instruction Model Didn't
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If You Think/Assume He's
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The walking tank reminds me of the Boston Dynamics dog robot if it had a giant cannon on it’s back
That walking tank mode looks like you ordered one of those Boston Dynamics robots on Wish.
Ironically, on my figure, it was the fusion cannon arm that came off. And that arm isn't on a ball joint, which means I must've had to really finagle it off when I was a kid. Only figured out how to reattach it recently.
A repaint and remold of Earthrise Megatron could be a good revisit of this toy. A New head, new chest, new cannon, plus maybe a "shield" that covers the arms/ tank turret that resembles the more rounded turret of Gen Galvatron. 🤔
This video made me buy the figure last week, just arrived today and I’ve fixed the loose joints! All it takes is nail polish! EASY!
0:05 that timing was perfect
So for the longest time as a kid I had the lower leg of this guy, holding onto it for years in hope that the transformer that it went to would show up, never did, and only a year or two ago I found out which transformer it went to
That he was a tank makes me wonder if maybe this was a concept for a Galvatron upgrade to the G2 Tank Megatron especially considering that the Classics Deluxe Megs was G2 Tank Megs, AND that I do recall that on a TFWiki article, Simon Furman was quoted as saying that had the Marvel G2 comics continued, Galvatron would've eventually returned...
Not sure about the "GALV", but the "25" is definitely because at the time it came out, it was just in time for the 25th anniversary of The Transformers franchise...which kinda doesn't make sense considering that Galvy didn't pop up until 1986 (making that figure's release too late for the Movie's 20th anniversary in 2006, but also too early for the Movie's 25th anniversary in 2011). 🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️🤷🏽♂️
Besides, a lot of the design concepts for the abandoned third mode went to Animated Shockwave's crane mode for his Longarm form. And yes, this figure absosmurfinlutely should've been a Voyager. How so? Even with JUST the Deluxe class Universe/Reveal the Shield Targetmaster Cyclonus and the Generations or Titans Return Scourge, the Titans Return Galvatron simply scales better and looks better. (Not counting Kingdom Galvy, cuz that's clearly meant to go with Kingdom Cyclonus & SS86-5 Scourge)
I was buying a bunch of old Cybertron figures off someone and they were selling them for very cheap because they were duplicates in their collection so I thought I would buy some more stuff off them. Yeah I saw this guy and thought, "yeah a Galvatron figure, never had one of those before and its a Universe figure so it must be good!" Glad I only paid like $7-10 dollars for him. Only upside I've been able to think about him is that he's the same size as SS Hot Rod so you can do some stuff with those two if you want.
I've heard bad things about this toy like the back pack not tabbing in and on my copy i cant see this issue nor the arm falling off like yours? this seems like a mileage may vary situation as mine only suffers from the cannon arm shifting some when fiddling with him, and i have it as my definitive galvatron on my shelf with the legacy playing 2nd fiddle just for his looks
Never knew there were so many problems people had with this figure. Mine has been just wonderful all this time, but I use the Legacy Galvatron as my new main Galvatron. I love this Universe version though.
6:21 Oh that's what those things are for on the threads.
Jeez, this level of floppiness and disassembly never happened to my copies of universe galvatron. I say "copies" because I got a takara repaint of him a few years ago. Yes I know I am insane.
EDIT: also forgot to mention this but the little backpack flaps actually DO havesomething to plug into. there's small tabs on the bottom of the hinged panels that plug into a hole thing on both sides. You can also flip up the "tank legs" to give him his shoulder pylons, though they're jutting from his back which is inaccurate, it still looks good.
Glad im not the only one who noticed the miss transformation of the backpack, and also agreed mine is generally sturdy as well mine the left arm ocassionally pops off but thats really only if im trying to transform him quickly and man-handling him like a f*ckwit
@@TatsuChi The biggest issue I have with this figure is how back-heavy it is. If it's in a neutral stance on a shelf even the slightest breeze is gonna make it just topple over backwards unless you kinda mess around with it, at least on the ones I own.
Seriously though, the head not clipping into place on the one in this video makes me wonder exactly what the heck happened. Is it a defect? did the pegs get warped or worn down somehow? Reminds me of how thrilling 30 Blitzwing had the shoulders that wouldn't clip in on a lot of copies, but a bit less widespread I guess. My copy of that Blitzwing figure unfortunately got both the shoulder defect AND the head exploding one, though I didn't realize it had that until like a good few years after I got it and the head began doing the split at a corner of it. Weirdly it stays together fine unless you actively pull it apart.
@@Sleesus im glad i skipped that version of Blitz and missed that horror show then lol
this would have been a great tank Megatron design as well with the turret as the arm
insert vid of this figure getting tea bagged by Legacy Galvatron here
Huh.. And all this time owning the figure I always thought the bits on his back were just for aesthetic purposes. Learned something new~
If you want to feel better
Universe hound is pretty cool and comes with ravage
Awesome figure. I bought the Seige one hoping to replace the Universe version, but ended up putting it back into my line up because the Seige one just wasn’t as good.
Yeah, I really did like this era. Lots of characters with lots of variety. Good size and good price point. THAT SAID. I really hated how difficult it was to transform almost anything. I get that we now have much improved detail and (sometimes) articulation, but the pay off is so many joints and points of movement that it's less a transformation and more of a jigsaw puzzle that just flops around, and random, janky extra bits that just hang off the back. I have this Galvatron, I tried transforming it once, got halfway through, and gave up. He's been a tank on my shelf for 14 years.
I always switch the legs around so the tank treads are on the same side, rather than that weird half here and half there. Like standing alone, yeah he's not that good. But alongside Universe Cyclonus and Scourge (Botcon or Generations), he looks really good as it's a nice display
The color swapping is such a weird aspect of this toy. It almost seems like the intent was for Galvatron to turn into a perfectly ordinary Earth tank... that is if it weren't for the bright orange laser barrel.
Maybe that would have been disguised better if this figure had been larger, but at this scale and with that sci-fi barrel, he really should have been redesign as a futuristic cyber tank and kept more of his character defining purple visible.
Got mine second hand off of TFSource. Its chest is still tight, the left arm does come off sometimes, but the backpack parts come off all the time. But i wanted one, to see what it was like even thought i knew it wasn't a very good figure.
I will give this guy another bit of love. Really great face sculpt. It's just sad soooo much is problematic. I agree with the majority of TF fans, it's obvious this guy was supposed to have a third mode, and designed with a Voyager size in mind.
Hated this guy as a kid and he sat at the bottom of a bin in pieces for many many years. After having enough time to figure him out in the current, I actually quite like it now, one of my favorites.
I have this galvatron (the repaint that comes with titanium Rodimus anyway) and I like it very much. It's not good but it's still fun to mess with for me personally.
Because of the grey they used and the shape of his right arm when I saw him in robot mode I honestly thought he turned into a boat.
This is unfortunately the closest thing we will ever get to an IDW Earth mode Galvatron
I have both the Henkei and this version. If I don't give them away, I will use them as drones in their alt mode for my Titan size Decepticons. They are horribly outmatched now by the Kingdom/Legacy Galvatron. I even got the ManiaKing figure by UniqueToys to better represent him in my CHUG collection because this one was is just so bad but he was the only option at one time.
haa, the pre-revival age, with it's mismatches of form, idea and concepts
this galvatron did't do much, and suffered horribly the downsizing, but it gave us back galvatron as a full fledged charather!
the worst part is that... it's an awesome design??? the earth tank with g1 Galvatron accurate robot, the shoulder turret etc... it's amazing??? but WHY IS IT THAT SMALL AND TERRIBLY BUILT???? would have been my go to Galvatron for sure
I too have this guy. Honestly despit his flaws ive always enjoyed the figure just for its insane complexity at this size and the rather nifty tank mode. That being said its patently obvious to me at least that Cyclonus is just the best of the Unicronian decepticons.
I wonder if an upscale would save this figure lmao
Everytime I try to find this toy. I always have to find the arm and legs. It's never completely together
That is a nice tank mode. I never cared for handgun Megatron or alien cannon Galvatron. Why wouldn't they take more useful vehicle modes. Galvatron may not go into someone's hand, but he's still a stationary cannon.
if a 3rd party company we to upscale him to voyager fix his tolerances and make him more poseable i think he would make an amazing toy
The arm on mine was a bit loose but never fell off, now the mushroom pegs in the thighs, constanstly fell apart
I kept waiting on some 4th party bunch upscaling and improving this guy. Seems like so much missed potential.
if this was voyager and had an m1 abrams alt mode, this would be a condentor for the best galvatron figure imo
this galvatron looks so cool but the quality. COME ON also dang this hits
with all these cybertron and cybertron adjacent reviews, any chance we'll see sideways? super curious what you think of him
I was gonna say titans return galvatron was similar to this but holy hell this thing is unspeakable
If this guys is more stable and everything works perfectly this might be one of the best galvatron toys (ko companies im looking at you)
I didn’t even know there was a walking mode.
I just dug mine out. After along time i got the new legacy Galvatron. Anyway, this little guy kept breaking apart as i turned him from tank to robot! 😂 I don't remember it being this bad.
I thought this guy was absolutely dope when I was growing up, but his arm and back kibble falling off made me so sad. Also various bits in both modes don't like plugging in.
You said it has left over walk mode from the bigger version, what is said bigger version?
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Iirc that was a leftover from the initial concept of uni 2.0/classics galvatron that Originally conceptualized as being in the voyager or ultra scale (somewhere around that size range) and would've been a callback to the original alt mode of g1 galvatron. Though plans changed and we ended up with the deluxe class version
If this was a voyager with all the joints fixed to not flop or fall apart and, if they added more such as slightly bigger, longer thighs, bigger chest, proper ankle joints, and fillers for the bottom of the leg and forearms while getting rid of the dumb 3rd transformation gimmick then I could get behind this figure.
My first transformers toy back in 2010
4:59 “stoopid” (Steven he edition)
Lol I bought this toy when it was first released (we hadn't had a new version of G1 Galvatron since G1 Galvatron, so I really felt I HAD to get it 😅) and yeah, it sucked straight out of the box. 😆 maybe it would have been better in a larger size category, (as originally planned) but only slightly.
I remember buying this figure in a convention, and it was flimsy as hell.
OK, so I never had this toy, and I know that it’s bad. But when you set it down at the very beginning and the arm fell off, all I could do was audibly say the word “oh.“
when I got this toy when I was a kid, it felt apart so easily to the point where I just threw it away, even as like a 10 year old kid I knew it was trash
I have a similar issue. I’ve got a really shitty ROTF ironhide, so I just leave it in that awesome truck mode.
yeah, this is one of the guys who made me quit collecting my first go round. Him and the first MP Megatron.
This was the first galv toy i had would love to have one again ps the right arm on mine completely broke off like the ball joint snapped clean off
wow that tank mode is quite surprising.
I feel like there should have been a 3rd-party upscale of this.
I present to you, the leader of the decepticons.
I think this swapped budgets with the obviously oversized Hot House/Powerglide. That should've been deluxe and this needed the ultra budget. Universe Galvatron LOOKS nice but obviously they cheaped out on him.
I will say, this design should be brought back like Galaxy Upgrade Optimus
heard a rumor that after the review you called baltmatrix for the hammer and he sent you one
galvatron was never seen after the review
Really wish a ko upscaled version existed
I got him because i couldn't find a good galvatron that wouldn't destroy my wallet. It's a nice update but that lef arm is annoying.
I used some blue tack to make the joint stiffer. As for the pack? Eeeeeh it could've been more solid.
Good figure though
I got this figure as a kid and couldn’t even transform him once, and I still can’t because he’s missing pieces and limbs
wish a 3p company would take this, upscale it, and fix the issues
I think I'm one of the the lucky few that has very little issues with this figure. Only problem I've had was the legs popping off in mid rotation and the turrent arm falling off when shifting. But I still enjoy it and have to agree that it's great in concept but poor execution
I will die on the hill that he was meant to be a voyager
Dude, you should review generations Darkmount (Straxus), it's a great deluxe tank.
im all for a modern update on this guy
If this was a voyager it would be so good, but the deluxe restraints...
I hated this toy so much as a kid I took it back to Target and got a refund. I just ordered another copy though since Legacy Armada Megatron is coming out and we all know what Megatron does to him in the Dreamwave comics with the star saber where he shoves it into Galvatrons chest and defeats him. I fitting display for a crappy Galvatron. I will admit I do love the tank mode at least and the robot mode has grown on me over the years but as you said it falls apart.
The concept was good and the design was awesome. Too bad hasbro may concentrated more in the design, than in the actual estability of the figure.