Megatron is the leader of the rebel Predacons who left to Pre-Earth in search of raw Energon, or at least that's what Megatron wanted the Maximals to think.

Beast Wars Megatron is a fantastic toy and is very well designed and has the ability to bend his knee and elbow joints which makes him very articulate. Beast Wars Megatron was also an early designed figure that means he has the 'Mutant Head' option that other early Beast Wars characters such as Optimus Primal and Dinobot were given. The 'Mutant Head' feature is basically a second head that acts as armor for the first head and in the cartoon show these 'Mutant Heads' were supposed to give the characters extra abilities like scope vision and extra weapon options, however this was dropped during the cartoons production but some of the early toys were left with there 'Mutant Heads' such as Optimus Primal and others.

The right arm for Megatron has his T-rex head act as one of Megatron's hands, this can be used as a blaster which can be filled with water or it can just be used as a crunching weapon. The left arm has the T-rex tail acting as a stabbing weapon that can be thrust forwards by the switch on the elbow area. The T-rex tail sadly cannot come off and Megatron doesn't have a hand that we have seen him use in the show.

The lower leg area also has two launchers with circle shaped missiles now attached to Megatron's legs. These can sometimes get in the way of the character and these were never shown in the cartoon show so they must be toy extras.

T-rex mode is a little difficult to transform at first but after a few attempts you get the hang of how to change the character without to much difficulty. The T-rex is rather big compared to the rest of the Maximal troops but since the figure is a T-rex then the scale compared to the rest of the other Predacons seems to work rather well.

The mouth of the T-rex can open and can use a snapping option or the touch area can be filled with water and used as a squirter against Maximals. The leg missiles can also have the option to be placed outwards and fired and thankfully the circle type missiles fire at a fair range to.

The packaging for Beast Wars Megatron followed the same design package as the rest of the original Beast Wars cast. Megatron came boxed in Beast mode in a tall box and came with his instructions but sadly nothing else, however the Takara version of Megatron did come with a data card as well as his instructions that were more detailed than Hasbro's.