New Magazine Images of Takara Masterpiece MP 28 Hot Rodimus (Hot Rod) Undercarriage Shot

Not a clean looking undercarriage?

Definitely a different looking undercarriage for sure

Wow, this is Gobot worthy. Yep, 1983 Gobot worthy.

Rick wrote:Wow, this is Gobot worthy. Yep, 1983 Gobot worthy.

I get you can design a better one?

With an undercarriage like that he's a total pass for me. A good look undercarriage is what makes or breaks a figure for me.
/sarcasm

I guess I sboukdnt say it's a total pass. When the KOs sbow up.on eBay, I'll probally pick up one of those.

That kind of thing doesn't bother me, so this has still got my interest. Actually on reflection it looks like his G1 toy undercarriage! So if anything that's a plus, right?

Now bring on the springer and arcee masterpieces.

While I did post that shot that compares other undercarriage, I totally get why this is a different case (and wrote so above). I have no problem with how this part looks, it makes perfect sense (I also dont care about how the RID figures look like under). And I am super surprised that this is what people might get bugged about when there is much worse.

Take a look at this and tell me if you see what I see:



These pics portray a really small waist which makes the robot look really weird when posed. And that I find is the biggest detractment of an MP figure. These figures are made to recreate the G1 show/movie look as close as possible so these are the figures that we'd use to recreate classic scenes and poses. And that huge upper body atop that tiny waist just doesnt work when posing him in any way aside from standing straight. No pose using the waist swivel seems to work so far. It looks bad, really really bad . I will be waiting for reviews and Seibertron's gallery to see if this can be salvaged.

Also, what is up with the orange flap and the red chest here, are they telling us that they are 2 different pieces, I dont get it.

Ravage XK wrote:Well, like most other Masterpiece collectors I display my transformers facing the wall in bot mode and alt mode figures with their wheels in the air so this would ruin my display....I don't know what else to do but not buy it.

I agree with those thoughts as well. My knee jerk response when looking at these new pictures was, where is his waist? I don't care for the thin joint these pictures make the figure appear to have. Hopefully it won't be a QC problem as well. The undercarriage thing doesn't bother me in the slightest but the waist definitely does.