The Thirteen Megatronus The Fallen Not, it turns out, Thee Stallion Transformers Age of the Primes Leader Class Item No.: Asst. G0471 No. G0486 Manufacturer: Hasbro Includes: Requiem Blaster, Spark Fuser, Missile Pod, 4 flames, shoulder cannon, machete Action Feature: Converts from robot to tank Retail: $54.99 $59.99 Availability: March 2025 Other: He's Fire
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Based more or less on his earliest comic appearance from 2003, The Thirteen Megatronus The Fallen was a new character that has survived Dreamwave, IDW, and Skybound. And movies. And cartoons. Video games. Guide books. He's distinctive, combining elements like Baron Karza's fave plate with a wrist cannon and oh yes - fire.

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You may or may not view the character as a multiversal singularity, meaning there's only one of him that pops across dimensions. He was the main baddie of the 2009 Revenge of the Fallen but looked very differently. The Requiem Blaster is based on the tolerable Power of the Primes cartoon, while the robot himself is pure Dreamwave-era weirdness. A Dreamwave-inspired The War Within toy was made as part of a short-lived Titanium Series, but it was small, and those were kind of cruddy. I skipped it. That's why this is an exciting figure.

A hair shorter than Grimlock, this figure is chunky but not puffy. He has jointed fingers and an amount of articulation that's typical for modern robot toys of his size with tilting ankles, swivel wrists (with ball joints!), and strong joints that don't sag under his many accessories. I feel like he could be a little bigger, but he towers over the Thirteen that aren't Star Convoy Optimus Prime. He looks powerful, and will tower over a lot of your other figures.

He has a lot of orange bits that look like barely-constrained literal fire threatening to burst forth from within, and if that wasn't obvious Hasbro included four plastic pieces of actual fire to mount on his arms and shoulders. He also has a Spark Extractor (shades of Robots in Disguise 2015), a machete (I admit I don't know why this is here), and a missile pod you can mount on his shoulder. Oh, and a cannon for a shoulder too. And the Requiem Blaster can be mounted, Megatron-style, on his arm. It's a good slate of gear.

If you look at the original Pat Lee art, you'll see he has a little cannon hanging off his left forearm. This figure can do that - there's a jointed peg on it, so you have a lot of options of how you want to display this figure. That sketch had a different head, so I'm curious if Hasbro built in a variant to do a "prototype" version of the character. I don't know that I'd pay $55 for another one, but you can see that it is possible.

You'll want the instructions to transform him. There's a lot to move around, and the tank mode is more of a wadded up robot than an actual tank. It's very obvious that the arms become the turret, and the feet hang off the back with visible toes. Hasbro did a good job making a perfect robot figure of The Fallen that fans probably can't complain about, and the cost was a tank mode that is has the basic shape of the tank with wheels and a rotating turret. It's just not very tank-y, but you do have tread and some spikes. There's a bare minimum of what you need for an acceptable tank toy, and Hasbro has delivered it here. I don't think this is a toy you'll be transforming much, as it's a much better robot than tank.

All accessories mount nicely on the tank. The extractor and machete connect, the cannon fits in to the turret, and the fire mounts nicely.

As the first not-tiny not-metal and weird version of The Fallen from some mix of the G1 continuities, you'll probably want this. I've been wanting a toy like this for over 20 years and at $55 I think it is a good one. I don't expect anyone to make a better transforming one that looks like the comic books, so go head and pick this one up. If you hated Tarn you'll hate this, but the whole "great robot figure, acceptable tank" thing is sort of normal these days.

If you're a fan who read the short-lived Dreamwave comics, you already bought one of these. You probably weren't disappointed either. Go give yourself a treat, and go buy one.

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