New Colour Images of Takara Tomy Transformers Masterpiece Dinobot Showing Off Features
Thursday, November 23rd, 2017 8:52AM CST
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This collector's toy is due to come out in July 2018 and the price ranges from $200-250 USD depending on the retailer. Is anyone still on the fence for this toy? Let us know!
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Posted by shajaki on November 23rd, 2017 @ 10:08am CST
I had some nitpics about him (and with how WE are, I'm shocked no one else echoed them) but I gotta say now... I'm completely enamored
Posted by Hydrargyrus on November 23rd, 2017 @ 11:20am CST
Posted by Hydrargyrus on November 23rd, 2017 @ 11:34am CST
MagicDeath wrote:[EDIT] Nevermind
Posted by william-james88 on November 24th, 2017 @ 11:59pm CST
Posted by wilcosu35 on November 25th, 2017 @ 12:17am CST
Posted by william-james88 on November 25th, 2017 @ 12:26am CST
wilcosu35 wrote:Welcome to the club of Future Dinobot Owners, WJ
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on November 29th, 2017 @ 11:56am CST
william-james88 wrote:I did it, I preordered this figure. It was one of those you only live once moments.
He keeps looking way too good not to. I placed my pre-order a bit ago, and each of these new images keeps reminding me I did make a good decision
Posted by shajaki on November 29th, 2017 @ 2:02pm CST
Posted by blackeyedprime on November 30th, 2017 @ 4:28pm CST
Posted by Va'al on November 30th, 2017 @ 11:31pm CST
The bigger news so far, in terms of our interests, comes from images shared by Twitter user 7777_diver, featuring the latest Beast Wars Masterpiece figure in the Takara Tomy stables: MP-41 Dinobot! You can see the grey prototype of the figure in both raptor and robot mode, accompanied by its accessories, and previous Beast Wars figures such as Legends Rhinox and Rattle / Rattrap, MP-32 Beast Convoy / Optimus Primal and MP-34 Cheetus / Cheetor. Check them our mirrored below!
Posted by Immortal Starscream on December 1st, 2017 @ 10:50am CST
Posted by Sabrblade on May 15th, 2018 @ 8:50am CDT
Posted by shajaki on May 15th, 2018 @ 9:25am CDT
Posted by Cobotron on May 15th, 2018 @ 9:35am CDT
I was about to say, because it's made from raptor tail vertebrae, but that's the old toy guy in me talking. Yeah interesting. You can see it's silver on the box right behind him, and I do remember it was super shiny in the show.shajaki wrote:Why is his sword not silver?
Production sample?
Posted by shajaki on May 15th, 2018 @ 9:39am CDT
MmmmmmmCobotron wrote:I was about to say, because it's made from raptor tail vertebrae, but that's the old toy guy in me talking. Yeah interesting. You can see it's silver on the box right behind him, and I do remember it was super shiny in the show.shajaki wrote:Why is his sword not silver?
Production sample?
Thinking back to seeing accessory shots... doesn't he come with two swords?
Posted by shajaki on May 15th, 2018 @ 9:41am CDT
It's not silver there either though...
You can make out the box though a bit, Sure looks silver there!
Posted by Sabrblade on May 15th, 2018 @ 9:47am CDT
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 15th, 2018 @ 3:09pm CDT
The first set of news comes to us from Seibertron himself, where an email from Amazon Japan says that Dinobot has been delayed slightly, from July 31 to August 3, which makes sense seeing as how Dinobot would be released on a Tuesday instead of a Friday if they stuck with the original release date. You can find the quoted email below.
The second piece of news comes to us from Weibo user Samuel 1230, who has a new image of Dinobot, presumably from the Shizuoka Hobby Show, where many new Masterpiece figures made their debut. You can check out the new image, including a slight zoom in on the figure, below.
What do you think of the slight delay? Is it gonna drive you nuts to have to wait a few more days for your Dinobot? Let us know in the comments section below!
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お客様にご予約いただいている以下の商品の発売日が変更されたため、お届け予定日を変更いたしましたのでお知らせいたします。
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"トランスフォーマー マスターピース MP-41 ダイノボット (ビーストウォーズ)"
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Posted by shajaki on May 15th, 2018 @ 3:38pm CDT
Posted by Emerje on May 15th, 2018 @ 4:07pm CDT
It's also hard to tell how much of that darkness is from reflection in the display shots. It does have the brown tint in most stock photos so it's more likely this was a miss guided attempt to blend the reflectiveness from the cartoon and the flesh tones from the figure for whatever reason.
Emerje
Posted by megamanfan on May 15th, 2018 @ 5:34pm CDT
Emerje wrote:I wonder if the sword color is another case of them using the wrong source images?
It's also hard to tell how much of that darkness is from reflection in the display shots. It does have the brown tint in most stock photos so it's more likely this was a miss guided attempt to blend the reflectiveness from the cartoon and the flesh tones from the figure for whatever reason.
Emerje
i mean, it's silver on the boxart behind it, so i'll assume it's a mistake.
Posted by Grahf_ on May 15th, 2018 @ 6:07pm CDT
Posted by william-james88 on May 15th, 2018 @ 6:25pm CDT
Alpha Weltall wrote:Changing the release date is somewhat problematic for me. I have him preordered from Amiami and I set all my item to ship together. So having him move from July to August means a whole month longer to wait. That's not even what I have problem with, it's the other figures I have preordered for that month that's the problem. Putting Dinobot on August's bill means a much larger one for that month since I have three Figmas and Bring Arts Fei preordered for then as well. I'm just moving money from one month to the next but it's annoying when you already factored in how much you have to spend on figures each month and this moves a rather large price to a month that is already packed. I could also ship him by himself but then I'd lose out on shipping costs.
You probably will have to ship him by himself since (while it might have changed since I last shopped there) they only combine shipping for items coming out the same month. Unlike hLJ and Anime Export, they dont do pile of loot.
Posted by Sabrblade on May 15th, 2018 @ 10:27pm CDT
It's probably still just a test shot at this point, so the sword itself is one that has yet to be painted silver.megamanfan wrote:Emerje wrote:I wonder if the sword color is another case of them using the wrong source images?
It's also hard to tell how much of that darkness is from reflection in the display shots. It does have the brown tint in most stock photos so it's more likely this was a miss guided attempt to blend the reflectiveness from the cartoon and the flesh tones from the figure for whatever reason.
Emerje
i mean, it's silver on the boxart behind it, so i'll assume it's a mistake.
Posted by william-james88 on May 15th, 2018 @ 10:31pm CDT
Glad that got dealt with though, I am sure this will be fine as well. My biggest pet peeve at the moment is how much the raptor mode is not uniform or fully connected. We see a bunch or robot bits tearing at the seams.
Posted by Emerje on May 15th, 2018 @ 11:48pm CDT
Alpha Weltall wrote:Changing the release date is somewhat problematic for me. I have him preordered from Amiami and I set all my item to ship together. So having him move from July to August means a whole month longer to wait. That's not even what I have problem with, it's the other figures I have preordered for that month that's the problem. Putting Dinobot on August's bill means a much larger one for that month since I have three Figmas and Bring Arts Fei preordered for then as well. I'm just moving money from one month to the next but it's annoying when you already factored in how much you have to spend on figures each month and this moves a rather large price to a month that is already packed. I could also ship him by himself but then I'd lose out on shipping costs.
They aren't entirely unreasonable at AmiAmi, you can always explain the very short delay of only a few days pushing it from July to August and see if they'd be willing to manually add it to your July order. They're very flexible with their policies, I've gotten them to cancel items even though it's against their policy and back in December I forgot to pay for an item because I thought I had added it to my combined December order but somehow missed it and they didn't close my account like they say they will. So the worst thing they can do is say no.
Back to the sword, can anyone think of another issue like this that lasted this long but was changed at release? I can't.
Emerje
Posted by RacerCheetor on May 16th, 2018 @ 5:46am CDT
http://www.taghobby.com/archives/264294
Posted by shajaki on May 16th, 2018 @ 7:44am CDT
Mmmm... experiences vary then. I found Amiami to be extremely unhelpful. I don't buy from them anymore because of it.Emerje wrote:They aren't entirely unreasonable at AmiAmi, you can always explain the very short delay of only a few days pushing it from July to August and see if they'd be willing to manually add it to your July order. They're very flexible with their policies, I've gotten them to cancel items even though it's against their policy and back in December I forgot to pay for an item because I thought I had added it to my combined December order but somehow missed it and they didn't close my account like they say they will. So the worst thing they can do is say no.
Back to the sword, can anyone think of another issue like this that lasted this long but was changed at release? I can't.
Emerje
Posted by AllNewSuperRobot on May 16th, 2018 @ 10:56am CDT
Posted by D-Maximal_Primal on May 16th, 2018 @ 5:31pm CDT
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:So if the release date has been pushed back, will that have a knock on effect on Shadow Panther? Given he is should still be on track for release at the end of August?
The delay was only 3 days, from the last day of July on a Tuesday to the first Friday of May, I wouldn't think that would affect too many things
Posted by Grahf_ on May 16th, 2018 @ 8:37pm CDT
The problem I'm having is with needing to re-budget the money from one month to the next. July's order without Dinobot is a lot less than August's order without Dinobot. Having to move a $200 figure from one month to the next is just annoying and could cause slight problems. Nothing major, it's just a nuisance and I like each month's bill to not exceed a certain amount so that it doesn't become a monetary strain. Like some have said, Amiami isn't the most helpful with things though. They screwed me over with an order during the hurricane in Florida last year when I didn't have power for over a week and they gave zero fucks.
As suggested, I could ask them to add it back to July since it will only be moved a few days into August but going by the fact that they couldn't care less about a natural disaster, I doubt they'd care about my budgetary complaints. That and the other figures I have preordered for July will most likely come out in the middle of the month. So it'll be more like asking them to wait for several weeks instead of the few days even if they would've had to wait that long had Dinobot not gotten pushed back anyway.
Amiami is a pain in the ass to use and their customer service sucks but they're usually the cheapest. Problems don't normally arise often so it's not that bad a trade off dealing with people who don't care about your problems if you can get your items cheaper.
Posted by william-james88 on May 16th, 2018 @ 8:59pm CDT
Alpha Weltall wrote:Amiami is a pain in the ass to use and their customer service sucks but they're usually the cheapest. Problems don't normally arise often so it's not that bad a trade off dealing with people who don't care about your problems if you can get your items cheaper.
Amiami isnt the cheapest since they always incorporate the domestic tax into the price. Which really sucks since tax should not be imposed on international sellers, but they do it anyway. I have switched to anime export a long time ago. 5% cheaper and you can stack for months on end.
Posted by Emerje on May 17th, 2018 @ 3:00am CDT
Emerje
Posted by william-james88 on June 10th, 2018 @ 2:22pm CDT
Images come from the following twitter users:
@monochrome_TF
@myktmht
@Aotsuki0110m
Posted by Carnivius_Prime on June 10th, 2018 @ 2:31pm CDT
Posted by Emerje on June 10th, 2018 @ 2:57pm CDT
Emerje
Posted by Overcracker on June 10th, 2018 @ 3:05pm CDT
Emerje wrote:Looks like the slightly tinted sword is here to stay.
Emerje
Looks pretty much silver chrome to me in several shots.
But chrome has a tendency to reflect things so from most angles its reflecting either the yellow back light or Dinobot himself, giving it a slightly tinted color.
In person it should be perfectly silver.
Posted by Evil Eye on June 10th, 2018 @ 3:18pm CDT
MP BW Megatron on the other hand, I might have to get. Partly because he looks so goddamn good and partly because it's BW Megatron.
Posted by Emerje on June 10th, 2018 @ 3:25pm CDT
Overcracker wrote:Emerje wrote:Looks like the slightly tinted sword is here to stay.
Emerje
Looks pretty much silver chrome to me in several shots.
But chrome has a tendency to reflect things so from most angles its reflecting either the yellow back light or Dinobot himself, giving it a slightly tinted color.
In person it should be perfectly silver.
I'm specifically looking at pics like these where the sword guard has a slightly brownish color to it where it isn't reflecting the green lights.
That's not too far off from the most recent pics we saw.
Emerje
Posted by AllNewSuperRobot on June 10th, 2018 @ 3:32pm CDT
Posted by Epsilon Delta on June 10th, 2018 @ 3:37pm CDT
Posted by AllNewSuperRobot on June 10th, 2018 @ 3:39pm CDT
Epsilon Delta wrote:If Dinobot's eyes don't shoot lasers it will be a very bad missed opportunity.
There is an attachment confirmed
Odd he doesn't seem to come with any Battle Damaged parts
Posted by Epsilon Delta on June 10th, 2018 @ 3:42pm CDT
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Epsilon Delta wrote:If Dinobot's eyes don't shoot lasers it will be a very bad missed opportunity.
There is an attachment confirmed
Odd he doesn't seem to come with any Battle Damaged parts
It would be awesome if he came with the big guns and bullets that he used every so often. MP Megatron and MP Prime come with accessories galore. Send some love to Dinobot.
Posted by AllNewSuperRobot on June 10th, 2018 @ 3:44pm CDT
Maybe MP Rattrap will have it?
Posted by Epsilon Delta on June 10th, 2018 @ 3:46pm CDT
Posted by Emerje on June 10th, 2018 @ 3:50pm CDT
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:Epsilon Delta wrote:If Dinobot's eyes don't shoot lasers it will be a very bad missed opportunity.
There is an attachment confirmed
Odd he doesn't seem to come with any Battle Damaged parts
Not sure why he would. Unless I'm forgetting something the only MP currently with battle damage parts is MP-36 Megatron.
Emerje
Posted by AllNewSuperRobot on June 10th, 2018 @ 3:58pm CDT
Emerje wrote:Not sure why he would. Unless I'm forgetting something the only MP currently with battle damage parts is MP-36 Megatron.
Emerje
It is his most iconic story (considered by some the most heroic death in all Transformers) and he had no other forms in the show IE a one and done figure. As extras go, you would have thought as they gave him the Golden Disk, they would have given you more props to reenact his final scene.
Posted by Epsilon Delta on June 10th, 2018 @ 4:15pm CDT
Posted by Emerje on June 10th, 2018 @ 4:23pm CDT
Emerje
Posted by AllNewSuperRobot on June 10th, 2018 @ 4:29pm CDT
Epsilon Delta wrote:The laser eyes are awesome and, for me, unexpected. Glad they are doing these so well. It does surprise me however that Dinobot and the rest of the Beast Wars are getting the MP treatment before THE Dinobots. Grimlock needs his buddies.
MP Grimlock has been on his own for nearly ten years. In the general MP thread, I've made no secret of the fact I think HasTak's cherry picked MP releases make no sense.
HasTak: "Upset there is only one of five Masterpiece Dinobots? Don't worry, have Another Prime"
Emerje wrote:Maybe so, but do you really want this figure to be even more complicated and possibly effect its stability just to add some battle damage from one scene? I doubt its worth it.
Emerje
An extra face and detachable chest panel would suffice, without adversely affect the figure's stability. I mean the only reason I could see them not adding it is if they plan to make another Dinobot figure. Which seems unlikely.