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Am I the only one not feeling dino mode on Slag? The middle looks too thick and the back too skinny. Legs too short, and the piping looks cheap and wrongly matched with the colors on the rest. Looks kind of turd shapped... doesn't have the powerful smooth lines of MP-08.

Thanks. Just checked on this thing this morning. Love that spicy 50 dollar price

That's not a good deal! I got my Angel bird for $180 Came with the clear fan racer - like new

As slow as tigertrack sold it's not selling out to anybody haha, and hell if it does they will just print more.

Cancelled. Not enough of a change from the first MP Bluestreak to justify another 50-60 bucks and space in my cabinet. Getting really easy to cancel MP's lately.

Still trying to get rid of those quarters. haha

I use those too for my hulk. Got my diecast Iron man and my MK1 on top of them, so they def can hold some weight.

This looks pretty silly and pointless. Might be fun to watch though haha.

Never saw a cm toy I wanted to buy. And don't say small companies can't compete, just put out a good product. Sentinel is small but they have, in my opinion, put out the best robot toys so far this year. Also their toys sell fast and have a good reputation for quality. Make a good product and the cash will follow. Survival of the chogokinininest.

So these will be slightly larger than the tapes? I wonder if they will make spikes annoying girlfriend.

Dem clown shoes. Looks decent though.

Yeah, nothing interesting coming out for me unless they announce a VF-1 Re-issue, which it doesn't look like they will do. I gave up on frontier and I'm not getting the 19. I wish they'd do the super parts they promised though.

Nice. Looks big haha

Apparently sentinel has their hand in this release. It's all sold out too.

Interview with Shogo Hasui on Masterpiece - tell us about how you first came to know about Transformers. H: As I grew up with Microman and Diaclone, I was rather put off initially when Transformers started in Japan. But thanks to the cartoon, my friends had started to be very enthusiastic about the series and that made me interested. I had Air Rider (Air Raid) and Brawl bought for me then, and they are my first Transformers. I must have been into military characters. - What did you like about Transformers? H: I have to credit solid characterizations. It was also appealing that both sides were cool. My friends and I used to get together bringing all our Transformers to play battle. It was very impressive to see (the toys) lined up. That impression is still with me, and when I developed Masterpiece I had in mind that the figures should be enjoyed lined up together. - It was also fascinating that Destron/Decepticon looked tougher. H: They were military weapons (while Cybertrons/Autobots were) civilian vehicles, so the difference in their firepowers was quite apparent. With that much disadvantage, Cybertron still won the battles with their wits and courage. I think the twist in the story was good. - Wheeljack was an important character in Cybertron's resource department. H: I believe Transformers always need Wheeljack and Satrscream. Wheeljack invents something, and Starscream betrays - without them the story doesn't go on, and I think it makes (the story) interesting. - A character like Wheeljack doesn't usually become a marketable product. H: He certainly is not a typical heroic character. Bow-legged, and compared to other good looking guys he is more like a middle-aged man. Though once his comrades are in danger, he never considers his own safety. I watched the cartoon again and noticed he rescues Bumble(bee) many times. He and Bumble are especially warm-hearted among Cybertrons. - We get an impression Masterpiece Wheeljack became reality relatively early. H: He was one of the candidates to be MP-20. But at the stage of collecting the resource for the real vehicles and considering transformation processes, Wheeljack's was quite complicated and I thought of putting him off. (*laughs) - Is he that challenging? H: The proportions of his robot mode are very different in the toy and the cartoon. His hips are buried underneath the body, and since his shoulder tires aren't drawn in the cartoon, I couldn't allocate the area around the rear tires to the arms. I had to find shoulder blocks and hip blocks from different areas. If I gave him actual hips, most of the car became the body and the legs, leaving no room for the head and the arms. Because of that, I nearly gave up. But once I came up with the idea of the storage space for the head, I thought I could do it. I crammed a lot in the head and hip structures and when you have the actual figure I am sure you will be surprised. - Did you not make the ear parts clear or with light gimmick? H: The (developer) team members couldn't reach agreement on that, but I was against the light up gimmick. If the gimmick is included it will lose the neck articulations, and it is hard to express the blue/silver colour change as well. - Is the Magnet Cannon on the shoulder detachable? H: It can be attached to the vehicle roof and hand-held weapons can be stored under the car. The wings on the back stay on during transformation. I wanted to keep the essence of G1 toy as much as possible. - Any hardship to obtain vehicle licence? H: Actually, thanks to Tomica brand, we can negotiate with many car manufacturers such as Fiat. This is a great result of merger (of Takara and Tomy). I had a Lancia Stratos Tomica when I was little. The style and colour scheme is very unique and hard to forget. It was my favourite but as I was young, I don't think I remembered the name. - Any difficulties you came across while re-creating the body colours? H: In the cartoon, he doesn't have the actual vehicle's colours on account of animation drawing. I thought over very hard if a Masterpiece should be true to the cartoon, or if it should be considered that the colours were simply omitted (in the cartoon) and make it true to the real car. Considering the fact that we actually obtained the licence, I reached the conclusion that the Alitalia colour scheme has to be re-created. Though I arranged the chest area a bit as the robot mode chest is very characteristic. - Until Wheeljack, the characters were selected based on variations, but he appears to be a single use for now? H: It was possible because the production number per figure is larger now compared to when Lambor was produced. Smokescreen could have new parts. The series is still new and we are still at the stage of going up one step at the time. If Wheeljack is successful, I believe we can choose from wider selection of characters in the future. In fact, when we started this "real car" series, we intended to make the first three to be something that would amaze even the "super car" fans. I wanted this series to be appealing to the fans of super car era. - What about the future plans? H: This is the third vehicle, so the next one might be more unique. Personally, I think there are certain pair or rival characters in Transformers. I hope such combinations (of figures) can be developed together. Also, I prefer Destrons and want more of them. If I have an opportunity to develop Masterpiece figures again, I hope to be working on a steady growing series and have more choices of characters such as combiners. I am looking forward to seeing the future development of the series, please lend us your support.

Hah. Rather have this than a Bandai valk. Much more unique! I wonder how many they made?

PO is up! Gotta add to the cart, make your account, pay with paypal.

http://reddblog.com/2014/03/arnold-schwarzenegger-talks-new-terminator-script-production-details-revealed/

Embed that crap yo

I like nightmares. God, I hope they make a bike!

Looks like 1000 toys are planning an indra too.

Sweet misfits song. Gonna have to check this out.

I'm not crazy about the Godzilla design. It smacks of bad studio collaberation, which sucks because the toys will be lame, but the treatment looks serious and badass

It seems to have a lot more paint apps than the average bandai.. or are those stickers?