New Transformers Masterpiece Beast Wars Cheetor Images in Figure King Magazine

Ironhidensh wrote:I'm starting to get a very bad parts forming feeling on the Beast head / robot chest of this figure.

I'm pretty sure it won't be a parts-former, TT's clever like that, but I understand you're anxiety, I too am hoping it turns out perfectly

Remember when we posted a tiny low res image of TakaraTomy Transformers Masterpiece Beast Wars Cheetor from Figure King Magazine? Well now we can show you a proper pic! He apparently has multiple cat faces leading people to wonder what "Inferno Ladder Magic" awaits us because he clearly has a different cat head in his robot mode. See what conclusions you can come to by checking out the pic below, and stay tuned to Seibertron.com: home for the best Galleries and Conversation around!





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his beast mode has whiskers! Nice.

shajaki wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:

shajaki wrote:Sorry Sabre, I'm with Whitemest (welcome BTW!) on this. I understand fully that Primal would be the first. But the only one I'd have felt ok with being released next if it wasn't going to be Dinobot, is Megatron. He's a big enough deal that he should easily trump Cheetor.

Cheetor's a yellow kid appeal character who was the target audience's gateway character. Even though Dinobot had a more meaningful role from an objective narrative standpoint, an argument could be made for Cheetor being a more subjectively popular character with the show's target audience of children back in the day.

And that target audience from back in the day are adults now. And this is a line geared towards adult collectors.

Two things we should keep in mind; firstly, this is being produced from a Japanese perspective, and the English-speaking fan favorites might not line up perfectly with what Takara's primary market wants.

Secondly, Beast Wars was released in Japan in this order; Beast Wars season 1, the two BW animes, then Beast BW seasons 2 and 3 (as "Beast Wars: Metals"). By that time interest in Beast Wars had started to wane, and a lot of the big stuff that cemented Dinobot as a fan favorite happened in season 2.

Ironhidensh wrote:If its a case like Primes two grills, I'll be okay, but if its part swapping on a MP, this will be an easy pass.

Judging from factors such as the robot chest's ears not having earholes like the beast head's ears do, and the slightly more inflated nature of the chest-head, my best guess would be that the robot mode beast head covers the actual beast mode head. (That, and if Takara was embracing part swapping for BW masterpieces, we probably would have seen clip on bits to cover Primal's visible robo-kibble in beast mode.)

Sabrblade wrote:

RevTibe wrote:(Personally, I'm more into the cast's appearances after the relevant characters got their Transmetal forms, but c'est la vie.)

*shrug* Most of the original Transmetal toys for the characters who became Transmetals in the show were already the stuff of near perfection anyway. ;)

If anything, I'd like a TM Rattrap whose beast mode kibble backpack could rotate 180 degrees to have the wheels behind his robot mode rat head shoulders. And maybe just reissues of TM Primal, TM Cheetor, and TM Tarantulas with more show-accurate decos (like their Japanese toys) and new headsculpts with more show-accuracy and (in the cases of Primal and Cheetor) less "Ninja Turtle snarling".

Hey, I can dream :P Although they're visually very accurate, Transformers engineering has really advanced in the past two decades - would be a shame to see the Transmetals cursed by their own show accuracy to never receive updates.

TM Rattrap's actually the one I've thought about the most (currently customizing one). One of the weaknesses of the mold is how a significant portion of the rat's butt is a hollow brick - open that up, add some basic compression to the arms/legs, and we can stuff Rattrap's robot bits more efficiently into the rat mode. This would clean up his messy undercarriage, but could also lead to a larger robot mode in relation to his rat mode, meaning the rat head pauldrons would be closer to the show's shrunken proportions.

That, and Rattrap needs half a dozen more accessories :P Have the wheels pop off as shields, his gun, explosive charges, spare gun or two from the Coming of the Fuzors showdown...

william-james88 wrote:

RevTibe wrote:

Ironhidensh wrote:If its a case like Primes two grills, I'll be okay, but if its part swapping on a MP, this will be an easy pass.

Judging from factors such as the robot chest's ears not having earholes like the beast head's ears do, and the slightly more inflated nature of the chest-head, my best guess would be that the robot mode beast head covers the actual beast mode head. (That, and if Takara was embracing part swapping for BW masterpieces, we probably would have seen clip on bits to cover Primal's visible robo-kibble in beast mode.)

Yeah, I am pretty sure there is no parts swapping and that the robot mode beast head is incorporated in the toy. because we saw all the accessories and a fake cheetah head wasnt one of them, so thus it must be integrated.

Speaking of fake beast heads for chests, I really feel that is the only way to do dinobot properly, what do you guys think? Man, i just want an MP Dinobot so bad.

I feel it'd be the best way to do a lot of them, Rattrap and Waspinator included. When the beast mode heads formed the chest, in the cartoon they tended to look a lot more flattened down than could possibly be replicated in plastic form. If the Beast Wars MP line continues, I'd personally expect to see a lot of faux beast mode chests.

I think it might be easier to name which characters would be able to use the actual beast head instead of a fake one robot mode.

Besides Primal, of course.

Sabrblade wrote:I think it might be easier to name which characters would be able to use the actual beast head instead of a fake one robot mode.

Besides Primal, of course.

Megatron, Terrorsaur, Scorponok, maybe Rhinox.
Dunno about Tarantulas.

So basically one definite yes, two maybes and two guys which are probably the last ones people want from an MP Beast Wars line.

Starsaber468 wrote:Did anyone see the offical photos of super ginrai? Cause suprised theres not much talk about it

Why would we be talking about Super Ginrai in the Masterpiece Cheetor thread?

Can't compete with getting these scans before the guys in Asia do, but here are some higher resolution scans for those interested:

http://www.allspark.com/2016/06/ultra-h ... ers-scans/