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I'm totally enamored with that paint scheme. I'm about to pull the trigger and grab one but before i do i'm curious if anybody has one and is it as amazing in person as it looks in pictures?

I can wrangle one up at a decent enough deal so it won't be too bad of a hit on the wallet. But i thought i'd just ask around and see what the general consensus is with the QC and whatnot.

No pics but some say it uses the updated molds.

I'm surprised by the lack of attention that guy got after it's release.

Yeah......it appears that he's not a very popular release with most folks.

I reckon it's the egregious price tag that turns everybody off. Which is very understandable. Plus he's not too loveable as a character either.

But he looks damn good!

I bought him for Christmas (well, my wife did). I gave a brief review of the figure as well as pics in this thread:

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=83287&p=1329580#p1329580

monstergrotusque wrote:Yeah......it appears that he's not a very popular release with most folks.

I reckon it's the egregious price tag that turns everybody off. Which is very understandable. Plus he's not too loveable as a character either.

But he looks damn good!

Or it could be nobody cares because he serves no purpose beyond looking kinda cool. If it were a $12 deluxe, sure, but for over two bills, you need to have more purpose than just looking neat. That's why I got rid if Black Convoy. He looks pretty sweet, which is why I originally bought him, but he just didn't serve any real purpose...and took up a lot of space. Kinda feeling the same about MP Ghost Starscream, too. He at least has a bit more purpose, but I question if it's enough to warrant the space he takes up...I already know the answer is no, but unfortunately I can't get back anywhere near what I paid for him.

I call him, Mp Garthimus Knight! He's the evil twin of Mp Rodimus Prime.

Kibble wrote:
Or it could be nobody cares because he serves no purpose beyond looking kinda cool. If it were a $12 deluxe, sure, but for over two bills, you need to have more purpose than just looking neat. That's why I got rid if Black Convoy. He looks pretty sweet, which is why I originally bought him, but he just didn't serve any real purpose...and took up a lot of space. Kinda feeling the same about MP Ghost Starscream, too. He at least has a bit more purpose, but I question if it's enough to warrant the space he takes up...I already know the answer is no, but unfortunately I can't get back anywhere near what I paid for him.

Agreed.....i'm over it. If he was a deluxe i'd buy the hell outta that figure.

Thanx for saving me 200 bucks dude.

RhA wrote:I'm surprised by the lack of attention that guy got after it's release.

Kibble wrote:

monstergrotusque wrote:Yeah......it appears that he's not a very popular release with most folks.

I reckon it's the egregious price tag that turns everybody off. Which is very understandable. Plus he's not too loveable as a character either.

But he looks damn good!

Or it could be nobody cares because he serves no purpose beyond looking kinda cool. If it were a $12 deluxe, sure, but for over two bills, you need to have more purpose than just looking neat. That's why I got rid if Black Convoy. He looks pretty sweet, which is why I originally bought him, but he just didn't serve any real purpose...and took up a lot of space. Kinda feeling the same about MP Ghost Starscream, too. He at least has a bit more purpose, but I question if it's enough to warrant the space he takes up...I already know the answer is no, but unfortunately I can't get back anywhere near what I paid for him.

I don't mind a black colored TF toy,as long as it has a decent persona & not just their to be a 1/2 of a 1-D Persona. I kinda like some of my TF toys with fleshed out 3-D persona's.

I use to love black repaints but got tired extremly quickly of the very bland black & grey colors applied to the mold. I sold off all my black colored recolors at a convention I go to & i'm often a dealer in my state.

Personally,A black colored repaint should look better than the original first colors & not worse. IMHO,MP Rodimus Prime in his first colors clearly looks better than the black+grey+blue repaint.

IMHO,If your a Rodimus Prime fan & you've only got $200 bucks to buy one colored version. IMHO,Your gonna want the colored version that matches the 1986 TF Movie/season 3.

Masterpiece Black Rodimus: the G2 Ramjet For the New Millenium.... (and why do so many evil Transformers prominently display teal coloration, anyway?)

I might buy one for like $30 if it gets blown out eventually, it doesn't seem to be very popular.