For my first Masterpiece she did surprise me quite a bit. All throughout the transformation... well, here are some quotes.
"Bloody hell that is genius"
"Wait that tabs in ther-- how did they design that?!"
"I love her. I love her. I'm in love."
Not a transformation I'd do time and time again, but it is incredibly intelligent and from what I've heard I can only assume other MPs are even
more clever. She was very interesting.
Transformation aside... the moment I got her out the box I was in love. The car mode is absolutely beautiful; a stunning paint job alongside a fantastic shape that I could stare at for hours.
Flight mode? Cleverly integrated, really dumb and really freaking cool. Everything I want out of Transformers.
Robot mode... iiiiis where a few problems lie. I don't wanna go ahead and say they're actual flaws because they could just be my copy or, more likely, my inexperience with MPs and reading the instructions badly causing such things.
-The chest doesn't tab in well to the arm joints. Every time I try to position her arms the chest just kept falling out.
-I can't find a place for her head to tab in, so it feels a bit bizarre when I pose her and her head on a stick just goes all around the place.
-The back feels really empty due to the car back being so far... back. Back back back. But seriously it does feel a bit disconnected.
Overall though? She looks STUNNING. They done a fantastic job giving her a feminine appearance without going the route of she-must-be-dainty-and-tiny; no, she looks like a stone-cold badass who you really don't wanna cross. Yet at the same time she also feels like a very kind and delicate bot - a bit like a Superhero; something similarly achieved with Optimus' appearance imo. I dunno. She just feels so amazing and exudes so much character.
Talking of Optimus, I'm also happily surprised to find that she scales head-to-head with Classics Voyager Optimus. So though I have no other MPs, she finds a place in my random Autobots display very easily.
Which is nice, because now I don't feel the need to track down a Classics Road Rage (ie SG Tracks) that would cost me a fortune. It's funny when the Masterpiece is cheaper than the CHUG. Besides... badass like this fits Voyager better
She also goes well with Victorion.
My girls <3
Oh yeah, also got this guy.
Partly because it's a Sunstorm one can actually afford, and also because he scales with combiners.
What could have been if RiD didn't kill off Sunstorm ;-;
. I didn't really want him. Hell, I've been collecting MP's since MP1 and I skipped MP4 because I didn't want him even back then. On top of that, he is freakin expensive. But I nabbed this fella from another nice local for only 300 CAD. The absolute lowest he'd be online is 400 CAD, so I'ma call this a win. I think the next most difficult MP on the list will be MP4S 
