I much prefer a well made Voyager over a crappy overpriced Leader any day. How often have you purchased a Leader Class movie toy and thought, "Gee, that was totally well worth the $99 RRP!" (even if you bought it on sale, remember that the general asking price is $99). I got TF1 Optimus Prime, ROTF Optimus Prime and ROTF Megatron Leaders all at discount - which I'm glad for, but other Leaders I got at full price. And I cannot think of one Movie Leader which I would consider well worth shelling close to a hundred bucks for (the Optimus Primes come closest).

Is Voyager DotM Megatron worth $50? Debatable, but in terms of dollar value, I feel that I'm getting more bang for my buck than for a Leader. Put it this way - compare this toy to TF1 and ROTF Leader Megatron, and keep in mind that its RRP is approx. half the RRP of the Leaders. Yeah.

The problem with all the movie Leaders is that Hasbro insists on giving them big, heavy and chunky electronic sound gimmicks (which in the case of Sentinel Prime, makes him a tricky sucker to balance!) - and of course the engineering of the toy is compromised, but ya gotta pay more for the electronics. While the engineering of Leader would definitely be above that of a Voyager, I'd say relative to the size and price, Voyagers can be better designed. The ONLY reason I didn't get Voyager TF1 Megatron and got the Leader was because of the non-removable ice kibble. And with ROTF I became a victim of my own spoiler-avoidance as I didn't realise there was going to be a Voyager, so when I saw the Leader figure, esp. on sale, I grabbed it straight away. Had I known I probably would've waited for the Voyager.

So I'm perfectly happy with the Voyager, and if they did release a Leader, I would be skeptical of its quality/value relative to the Voyager. But hey... HasTak are getting better with their designs in DotM... so who knows.

kaiden: That pic of Megs doing the "martial arts mastah" moves looks more like "Fabio's Dance of Lust." <Spanish.Flea> And there's something I would say about Megs holding Spike there... but it's too norti to post (yeah yeah, I'm a sick puppy )