So the genesis of this comic is my buying NewAge Romulus. It’s an unlicensed third party transforming toy of Megatron that’s roughly in scale with mainline Hasbro figures. The packaging for it is even going right up to the edge of aping the box style Hasbro used for Studio Series in 2024!
And quite frankly it’s an amazing figure from an accuracy standpoint in both modes. Transformation is INCREDIBLE, too. I wish it was slightly taller but otherwise it’s pretty great
~and then I found myself sitting at my desk, mucking with it, going “oh wow this is SUPER comfortable to hold and wave around and-”
Anyway it’s at that point I remembered what this turns into. And that the comfort isn’t a feature of the toy so much as a feature of what it turns into.
While it’s not the first gun Megatron I’ve owned, it’s certainly the first one that actually made me go “UM” while holding it.
And I think this experience actually strengthened my support for handgun restrictions.
(Now to resist buying the mold again because I REALLY like the toy styled version they also did as a retool…)