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Takara Tomy Masterpiece MP-12 Sideswipe to receive Australian Release

Transformers News: Takara Tomy Masterpiece MP-12 Sideswipe to receive Australian Release

Thursday, June 11th, 2015 4:21PM CDT

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Goktimus Prime of the OzFormer forums has revealed his latest translation job for Hasbro Australia, Masterpiece Sideswipe.

GoktimusPrime via OzFormers wrote:Another translation job which Hasbro has asked me to do and I am now authorised to divulge is MP12 Sideswipe. I don't know about price or number of units.


From past releases he will most likely be a Toys "R" Us Australia exclusive and be around the $100AU mark.

Sideswipe joins the TakaraTomy Masterpiece ranks of Star Saber, Ultra Magnus, Bumblebee, Wheeljack, G2 Bumblebee and Bluestreak to be released exclusively in Australia through Toys "R" Us.
Credit(s): GoktimusPrime of OzFormers

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Re: Takara Tomy Masterpiece MP-12 Sideswipe to receive Australian Release (1698836)
Posted by william-james88 on June 15th, 2015 @ 3:29pm CDT
GoktimusPrime from Ozformers is the translator for the upcoming Australian release of MP 12 Sideswipe. He has revealed some images of his translation process, which some may find interesting.

Enjoy:

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Re: Takara Tomy Masterpiece MP-12 Sideswipe to receive Australian Release (1698849)
Posted by Optimum Supreme on June 15th, 2015 @ 3:56pm CDT
I can't see the word bonnet without automatically adding "bee in your" to it.
Re: Takara Tomy Masterpiece MP-12 Sideswipe to receive Australian Release (1698910)
Posted by LegendaryAntiHero on June 15th, 2015 @ 6:10pm CDT
That's kewl. Really kewl
Re: Takara Tomy Masterpiece MP-12 Sideswipe to receive Australian Release (1698944)
Posted by william-james88 on June 15th, 2015 @ 7:44pm CDT
LegendaryAntiHero wrote:That's kewl. Really kewl


Glad you think so too. When I found this I couldnt wait to share it with all of you! I love raw behind the scenes stuff.
Re: Takara Tomy Masterpiece MP-12 Sideswipe to receive Australian Release (1698954)
Posted by jay5 on June 15th, 2015 @ 8:09pm CDT
Exciting! Please let us know how the paint matching and quality is on it, as it will probably be a good indicator of what to expect from the Asian re-release of MP-12 in September. Common issues with the current MP-12 in North America include the doors and other black plastic parts that are covered with red paint don't match the red paint on the non-black-base parts (this issue is seen in almost every clear side shot or video review of MP-12), and some have actual (small) quality issues like drips, streaks or bubbles on the paint on the roof or edges of panels. If TT has improved their QC, it will likely be evident in this release.
Re: Takara Tomy Masterpiece MP-12 Sideswipe to receive Australian Release (1698985)
Posted by william-james88 on June 15th, 2015 @ 10:09pm CDT
jay5 wrote:Exciting! Please let us know how the paint matching and quality is on it, as it will probably be a good indicator of what to expect from the Asian re-release of MP-12 in September. Common issues with the current MP-12 in North America include the doors and other black plastic parts that are covered with red paint don't match the red paint on the non-black-base parts (this issue is seen in almost every clear side shot or video review of MP-12), and some have actual (small) quality issues like drips, streaks or bubbles on the paint on the roof or edges of panels. If TT has improved their QC, it will likely be evident in this release.


Sorry if the post was confusing, but this is for the australian release. So we wont know of the paint ameliorations until that version comes out. Also, MP-12 still hasnt come to north america (MP 05, MP 12, Wheeljack, Ultra Magnus and Bumblebee are all molds that have yet to get an american release). Any presence of MP 12 in north america is an import of the Takara Release from Japan.

There was one extra release though for the TF Expo and it is the latest release of the figure before this upcoming one. You can read a review here to know how the paint apps on that one was.
Re: Takara Tomy Masterpiece MP-12 Sideswipe to receive Australian Release (1698991)
Posted by jay5 on June 15th, 2015 @ 10:26pm CDT
william-james88 wrote:
jay5 wrote:Exciting! Please let us know how the paint matching and quality is on it, as it will probably be a good indicator of what to expect from the Asian re-release of MP-12 in September. Common issues with the current MP-12 in North America include the doors and other black plastic parts that are covered with red paint don't match the red paint on the non-black-base parts (this issue is seen in almost every clear side shot or video review of MP-12), and some have actual (small) quality issues like drips, streaks or bubbles on the paint on the roof or edges of panels. If TT has improved their QC, it will likely be evident in this release.


Sorry if the post was confusing, but this is for the australian release. So we wont know of the paint ameliorations until that version comes out. Also, MP-12 still hasnt come to north america (MP 05, MP 12, Wheeljack, Ultra Magnus and Bumblebee are all molds that have yet to get an american release). Any presence of MP 12 in north america is an import of the Takara Release from Japan.

There was one extra release though for the TF Expo and it is the latest release of the figure before this upcoming one. You can read a review here to know how the paint apps on that one was.

Sorry for the confusion. I know this is for the AU release. But unless the AU release is leftover inventory from the first round of Takara MP-12 release, it's newer production, and therefore should be more indicative of what we'll see on the Takara re-release of MP-12.
You are correct though regarding North America. I was thinking of the MP-12s that have been imported to NA. My bad =)
Re: Takara Tomy Masterpiece MP-12 Sideswipe to receive Australian Release (1698999)
Posted by william-james88 on June 15th, 2015 @ 10:45pm CDT
jay5 wrote:Sorry for the confusion. I know this is for the AU release. But unless the AU release is leftover inventory from the first round of Takara MP-12 release, it's newer production, and therefore should be more indicative of what we'll see on the Takara re-release of MP-12.
You are correct though regarding North America. I was thinking of the MP-12s that have been imported to NA. My bad =)


It's all good :) And now I get what you mean. Yeah, this AU release could be indicative of the Japan rerelease. But as I said, they did release this toy again at the TF expo as an exclusive (it didnt have the autobot tampo) and thats the one I own. The paint was quite good on it, from what I can tell.

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