Last week my son and I saw Transformers One and both really enjoyed it - and not just because I went in with pretty low expectations based on the live action Transformers movies I’ve seen. It legitimately does a great job telling the origin stories of Optimus Prime and Megatron and as someone who grew up in the 80s during the Transformers action figure heyday, it felt new while also staying true to that original IP.

Watching it also reminded me of the original Megatron action figure that transformed into a pretty realistic looking handgun - which not only is less fun to play with than a car, plane, etc. but also seems totally nuts by today’s standards. I mean, look at this.

And judging by how lame the robot version of the toy was as a result of the shape of a gun, they must have really wanted him to be a gun. They eventually dropped the gun part and had him transform into a tank instead.