Megalligator

Megalligator is Predacon from the Generation 1 continuity family.

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Megalligator is a clone of Megatron. To introduce the traits of of organic life to the next generation of Transformers, Straxus performed experiments that created a new, hybrid form of Cybertronian, with Megalligator being a result.

Fellow experiment Convobat believes Megalligator to be his only friend.

He is also known as D-6.

Fiction

Beast Wars: Uprising

Megalligator was on the Predacon team in the fateful final match of the Games, which was interrupted by Lio Convoy's assassination of Supersonic and call for an uprising against the Builders. Broken Windshields

Ask Vector Prime

Vector Prime clarified that while in many realities the original Megatron or the Predacon Megatron took on alligator forms, in realities such as Primax 209.0 Gamma, Megalligator was his own individual. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/05/18

Toys

Beast Wars

It appears to be a harmless Earth creature!

• Optimus Primal VS Megatron (Basic 2-pack, 1996)
  • Japanese ID number: VS-6
  • Accessories: Gun/tail

Beast Wars Megatron was repurposed as Megalligator.

The initial version of Beast Wars Megatron transformes into a green alligator. The toy is a retool of Iguanus with new alligator and robot heads, and no frill. The screw hole for the frill bracket remains. Both toys were released at roughly the same time.

Whether this toy can be considered the Beast Wars Megatron character as seen in the primary fiction is a matter of debate. Released before the beginning of the animated series, which established Megatron as a separate entity from Generation 1 Megatron, the accompanying profiles and mini-comic seem to assume that the Beast Wars are a progression of the same characters from the Autobot/Decepticon war. Whether the animated series's retcon affected this set of toys is probably a matter of personal preference. It can be interpreted as representing one of the more interesting micro-continuities.

More recently, the Beast Wars Sourcebook has asserted that, in IDW's version of Beast Wars continuity, Megatron's alligator body was suggested by the Darksyde's computer as a potential alternate mode, but he rejected it in favor of the more powerful T-Rex, without ever actually reformatting into it. Thus, this micro-continuity posits alligator mode Megatron as an essentially theoretical alternate form that never actually came to be. Suuure.

This mold was additionally used to make the purple-recolored Megaligator (who may or may not be a separate character to either Megatron or Generation 1 Megatron), and the Iguanus version was used for Crazybolt. It was also proposed for Albitron.

• More information on Megatron (alligator) at TFU.info

Legends

• Convobat (Deluxe, 2016)
  • ID number: LGEX

Available with the e-HOBBY exclusive Legends Convobat, this Headmaster of Megaligator is a redeco of Nucleon. As a Headmaster, Megaligator can turn into a head compatible with any Deluxe-or-larger Titans Return or Legends Headmaster figure, although he is intended for use with LG22 Skull's transtector, to which he is color-matched. Megaligator can also pinch Convobat's partner drone Ape-X Arms, riding its gorilla mode or combining with it to form a jet.

Notes

• Megalligator is named after "Megaligator", the Japanese release of Beast Wars alligator Megatron, whose purple redeco was definitively identified as Generation 1 Megatron.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Megaligator (メガリゲーター Megarigētā)