Ahh! Ladies and gentlemen there is nothing like a repainted Generation 1 toy to warm the heart. Mega-Octane is a repaint of one of my personal all time favourite generation 1 figures, the Combaticon Onslaught. While Mega-Octane may not have Onslaught's dark and gritty colour scheme he is still a force to be reckoned with.

VEHICLE MODE:
Mega-Octane is the centre point of what has come to be known as a Scramble City combiner group, named after the rare Japanese Generation 1 episode that detailed the origin of Metroplex and involved every single combiner team to that date. He is a large - larger than most - flatbed truck with a huge gun mounted on his back. He's a rather large figure in this mode, easily the length of a mega though without the substance. Aside from the large Decepticon logo on the top of his cab, it and his aft are Khaki green with lighter green and dark brown camouflage details painted down his length, except over his rear legs where he is a flat Khaki colour. On his sides and front and on the turret on his roof are some orange details which look remarkably out of place, but since it's a feature of all the commandoes save for Armourhide it can be forgiven. The two barrels on his turret are flat grey and his windows and grill are black, his wheels are plastic as opposed to the rubber used for the car brothers, Prime and Magnus, but nevertheless they roll fairly well - though the middle wheels don't appear to touch the ground.

Mega-Octanes vehicle mode is an intimidating and powerful match for anything the Autobots can throw at it, as one would expect from the general of the team that forms the awesome Ruination.

TRANSFORMATION (VEHICLE MODE TO BASE MODE):
Start by pulling the bottom of the flatbed down ad separating the halves. fold them to the sides and push them up, then split the cab and fold the sides down to meet the halves of the bottom section. Detach the turret from the top of the truck, turn it around and attach it to Mega-Octane's exposed head. Clip the ramp onto the gap between the legs, at the top where the hole is, then place your Combaticon of choice on the top if you feel like accessorising.

BASE MODE:
Each one of the scramble city combiner generals had a base mode, and all of them were fairly useless. Mega-Octane's, though, seems to fit his style as a flatbed, it fits together fairly well and doesn't look too out of place - after all, Armourhide and Rollbar have to get up there somehow.

Mega-Octane's colours in this mode are pretty much the same, Though more orange and grey come through thanks to the inside of the cab and trailer, and the ramp. He can still roll, so this can still be thought of as a mobile defence platform or artillery. And hey, just because I don't know what it is and it didn't appear in the cartoon doesn't mean I can't think it's cool.

TRANSFORMATION (VEHICLE MODE TO ROBOT MODE):
I decided to describe the transformation from vehicle mode since the base mode conversion is basically 'pull everything out'. So here we go: First, separate the bottom of the vehicle and pull each half down, Fold back the ends with the wheels and stand. Separate the cab and fold down to the sides to form the arms, slide down the switch dealies to expose the hands. Attach the green chest panel to the square hole on his torso, put the ramp in one hand as a shield and his rifle in the other.