TakaraTomy Transformers Masterpiece MP-27 Ironhide Proto-Type In Hand

Man.... still with those awkward proportions and big gap behind his waist. He and Ratchet may be the first MPs I pass up since 2009.

I wonder if he's mistransformable to his g1 toy form

durroth wrote:I wonder if he's mistransformable to his g1 toy form

If I had I had dollar everyone someone said this I would not need no job

Amelie wrote:Looks like the design decision to give it the "toy" head poking through the window (which, I might add - I think looks awful has caused a lot of other sacrifices to be made in the design process. The front of the van was completely filled in anyway, so it feels like the volume could have been used a lot more intelligently.

After Grimlock and Rodimus Prime, you'd think they'd have learnt not to sacrifice the overall final figure for the sake of a crap gimmick.

The head is nearly behind his waist, even. The more I look - the worse it gets. At least the face sculpt is tasty.

This toy has replaced Megatron as my 'worst' Masterpiece figure.

But for me, Ratchet actually looks pretty sexy not gonna lie.

Amelie wrote:This toy has replaced Megatron as my 'worst' Masterpiece figure.

Yikes! I don't think he's nearly that bad. You can tell they at least tried to make him cartoon accurate in the face, arms, pelvis, and legs. It's the middle where they screwed up. That's the exact opposite of MP Megatron where the only good thing about him is his mid/upper torso. Pretty sure Ironhide wont suffer from permanent tarnishing either.

Emerje

Design ascetics aside, the one question that is nagging at me is; Whose filthy gross-ass mug is that, and why is it in the picture, and when was it last washed, and what the hell is that brown crude: coffee, tea, hot chocolate, poop?



Nasty!

spiderbob007 wrote:Design ascetics aside, the one question that is nagging at me is; Whose filthy gross-ass mug is that, and why is it in the picture, and when was it last washed, and what the hell is that brown crude: coffee, tea, hot chocolate, poop?



Nasty!

Oh my gosh you're right! I never look at what's in the background for some reason. So gross.

Emerje wrote:

Amelie wrote:

Emerje wrote:Yikes! I don't think he's nearly that bad. You can tell they at least tried to make him cartoon accurate in the face, arms, pelvis, and legs. It's the middle where they screwed up. That's the exact opposite of MP Megatron where the only good thing about him is his mid/upper torso. Pretty sure Ironhide wont suffer from permanent tarnishing either.

Emerje

Megatron has the excuse that his alt-mode was a limiting factor in his robot mode effectiveness. Plus he was designed in mere days.

Why do people bring up that he was designed in less than two weeks like that makes it OK? That makes him rushed garbage! Like it or not he's still an official retail Masterpiece figure and should be judged and compared accordingly. Plus we've seen considerably better and smaller Megatrons from third parties for a while now so the shape of the gun mode really doesn't matter much. Saying it's a "limiting factor" is the same as saying they can't make a better one and they most certainly can (and eventually will).

Emerje

Not giving him (TT) a free pass but try doing a project yourself with a 2 week deadline. Compare that with a years worth with what was with Star Saber. Same engineer.

Could TT made a better Megatron? Given then and now, of course. But then, the engineers/designers are only human.

Emerje wrote:

fenrir72 wrote:Not giving him (TT) a free pass but try doing a project yourself with a 2 week deadline.

But he DIDN'T do the project himself. He designed it himself, but he wasn't the one that set the time tables and pushed an inferior product out the door. Takara could have realized they were being unreasonable and given the project more time, but they didn't. We waited nearly three years for the MP-03 mold to be released after MP-01, there was no need to push Megatron only six months after
Starscream, especially when we wouldn't see the next new mold, Grimlock, for two more years.

Why are we suddenly making excuses?

Emerje

Not an excuse but more on empathy with the engineer. If you know JP culture, a nail that stands out gets it in the head and put in his "place" by a hammer.

An analogy, Xbox360 was released despite the engineers being wary on how the circuit board used environmental friendly solders, this is said to be the cause of the RROD. They warned the suits but still the corporate slugs had the last say...release the product like yesterday! Even if you want to stand by your idealistic principles, real life politics trumps over the former......as in do you still want a job tomorrow?

I take it you haven't had the "man" from upstairs breathe on your neck to deliver a product like "yesterday"? Corporate, medical or political environments.........they are all the same kimosabe.

You need to choose your battles wisely.

Don't ask me why, but that not great quality video in a language I don't know, FOR SOME reason makes me feel good about this figure.