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[Kibble]

I don't get it. Technically, its a bogus repaint as the "blue" portions of the body are supposed to be black, but comics back them commonly used blue to show the darker color as shading hadn't been introduced yet.

By this token, Superman had blue hair for most of his original run.

I put this repaint on par with some of the movie toy repaints...can anyone say Desert Dirty Ratchet? Only difference is this MF'er will cost you $250! And I thought $150 was pushing it...

[SJ21]

The box is cool, but I don't like the paint color of the figure inside. I like the price on this guy even less. I don't even use the accessories that came with MP Grimlock. I surely don't need a crow for an extra $100.

[Gauntlet101010]

Is anyone actually planning to get this figure??

As repaints go I don't think it's too bad. I'm just peeved that they decided to save the crown for some overpriced exclucive.

[Mach]

Toy images of King Grimlock:

http://touhas.blog95.fc2.com/blog-entry-854.html

Courtesy of Jap blogger: 桃破

[Blurrz]

We get another look at the second rendition of Masterpiece Grimlock - MP-08X King Grimlock. Japanese blogger 桃破 acquired the figure and has taken a couple images of the masterpiece out of it's box prison. Check them out below.





The original source can be found here.

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[UltraPrimal]

NO! Must not buy same figure twice just because it has a new hat. Must resist! Damn you Takara!

[kirbenvost]

NO! Must not buy same figure twice just because it has a new hat. Must resist! Damn you Takara!

I don't know why, but that made me lol like crazy.

[Heckfire]

NO! Must not buy same figure twice just because it has a new hat. Must resist! Damn you Takara!

It's Malibu Stacey all over again!

I love that last pic..."Why you Grimlock serve mar-tee-nee? Us Grimlocks KINGS, not waiters! See, hat say so!"

[Flux Convoy]

King Grimlock is king fail.

[Seibertron]

I buy everything that Hasbro pumps out and just about everything mainstream that Takara pumps out. I haven't been buying the extremely over priced exclusives like the clear Mirage and ghost Starscream nor the Movie Skids/Mudflap inspired repaints of G1 Skids / "G1" Crosscut. Some of these exclusives are just nuts price wise lately. I'll pay up to $60 for an exclusive Japanese deluxe class figure, but any more than that is crazy ... even in BotCon exclusive terms it's crazy.

I know percentage wise, this version of Grimlock is a "better" deal, but for $250, I'd rather have about a dozen other G1 Japanese figures that I don't own yet rather than an improperly colored Grimlock. The box is awesome ... to me they got greedy on this one. I would've bought it again for $140 but considering that I have always said that Grimlock was overpriced when I bought him for $140, I'm stickin' to my guns on this one and not spending an additional $100 on a poorly repainted figure, no matter how awesome the crown and box are.

I'm hoping that this figure and some of the other recent Takara exclusives will become blowouts at BBTS at some point.