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News Credits: 9 · Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:34 am

found this auction on Ebay and I didnt know it was rare as hell but I guess it is

http://cgi.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&Item=250234692505&Category=4696&_trksid=p3907.m29

at the time of post its going for over 2,000 dollars

seller also has 2 other Protectobots prototypes and a Japanese LioKaiser giftset

http://search.ebay.com/_W0QQsassZmarrine_vs_hydralisk

News Credits: 1 · Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:12 pm

Rare is an understatement. I've seen boxed pics of the other unreleased G2 Stunticons, but never knew they ever made Motormaster(though I should have guessed cause the box showed G2 Menosaur).

Anyway, this will fetch quite a high price, considering that the other unreleased G2 Protectobots and other Stunticons averaged around $2500 a piece if I remember right.

News Credits: 14 · Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:23 pm

Nothing there screams Authentic G2 version, it could very well be a weirdly colored knockoff.

Anyway to actually know for sure this is an unreleased G2 version?

Ohh and anybody think Takara will decide to release the Stunticons in their Encore line? It would be awesome if they did.

News Credits: 5 · Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:26 pm

Damn.

That's one fugly painted TF. G2 Menasor would be a rainbow!

News Credits: 9 · Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:29 pm

well it does have the G2 decepticon sigil behind the trailer with the words Decepticon and Ive never seen a KO with the words Decepticon or Autobot on them

News Credits: 32 · Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:49 pm

It's both beautiful and hidious at the same time. They need to release the gestalts in Encore.

News Credits: 14 · Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:58 pm

UltraPrimal wrote:It's both beautiful and hidious at the same time. They need to release the gestalts in Encore.

QFT. We really need Encore Gestatls. And Encore Stunticon/Menasor Giftset would be awesome.
And judging by the prices of current encores like Metroplex it should be more that 60 or 70.

News Credits: 1014 · Wed Apr 09, 2008 12:58 pm

Even Tfuinfo.com doesn't mention this version of MM. All the "G2" figures released were in wild colors, so thats no suprise. It does lend to hint where the idea for Nemesis Prime may have came from though, or the infamous Galvatron Prime.

You can see the tfuinfo.com bio on MM here:

http://www.tfu.info/1986/Decepticon/Motormaster/motormaster.htm

BTW, I'd F & C this for you but Im new to the news crew and dont have all permissions yet.

Wed Apr 09, 2008 1:02 pm

Two gee for a garish neon redeco of Motormaster???

Hmmm, that gives me an idea...

Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:50 pm

looks somewhat ko-ish to me. particularly when u consider the source of the toy... 2K for that MotorMaster blows my mind completely.

News Credits: 2 · Wed Apr 09, 2008 4:54 pm

I can hardly believe something that hideous is that expensive. The lengths to which collectors will go...

News Credits: 9 · Wed Apr 09, 2008 5:51 pm

Personally not my taste. G2 colour schemes never did anything for me except hurt my eyes. It burns! It burns! :sad:

Wed Apr 09, 2008 6:24 pm

I'm inclinded to believe this is genuine if for no other reason than there were rumours these were made and no one in the fandom has ever owned one.

It stands to reason that sooner or later one would surface somewhere, and if it is true, imagine the guy who found it. Knowing what its worth can you imagine your excitement.

Must agree that this is a god-damn hideous colour scheme and you have to look at it for what it is, an ugly lump of plastic that someone is going to spend an inhuman amount of money on.

I'd like to bid on this but have rent, food, holidays and other things that I'm sure would suffer if i did....

News Credits: 9 · Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:27 pm

Front paged and credited thanks again Tigertracks

News Credits: 7 · Wed Apr 09, 2008 7:31 pm

Who ever thought that color scheme was a good idea should have his/her eyeballs removed from there head washed with bleach and then replaced. Because that is the most god awful color I have ever seen for toy bar none.

Wed Apr 09, 2008 8:41 pm

oh my word... 2.8K and counting... i cant believe this!!!

i still stick to my guns that somethings fishy about it. After spending 20 years unattended to in a warehouse in china, the thing still looks good as new. definitely something is up.

the people who are bidding for it certainly aren't risk averse or risk neutral, lol....

News Credits: 9 · Wed Apr 09, 2008 9:25 pm

neutralstate wrote:oh my word... 2.8K and counting... i cant believe this!!!

i still stick to my guns that somethings fishy about it. After spending 20 years unattended to in a warehouse in china, the thing still looks good as new. definitely something is up.

the people who are bidding for it certainly aren't risk averse or risk neutral, lol....

I have some swampland in Florida that these bidders might be interested in :grin:

Wed Apr 09, 2008 11:45 pm

Wow, near 3k now? Geez, I think I have a few thousand dollars hidden in my mattress. Let me bid on that..................not.

Thu Apr 10, 2008 4:58 am

shortround wrote:Who ever thought that color scheme was a good idea should have his/her eyeballs removed from there head washed with bleach and then replaced. Because that is the most god awful color I have ever seen for toy bar none.

It was the 90s, if a toy wasn't garishly neon, then it wasn't good enough. Most of the G2 recolors were hideous. G.I.Joe didn't fair any better during this time either.

While I agree that the price tag is insane, if this is indeed real, then someone will get their hands on a piece of near mythology. But then, it is a prototype, and the back of the cards for the rest of the G2 Stunts show a motormaster was made.

Thu Apr 10, 2008 9:38 am

Wow, MostorMaster is drunk on AllSpark Power...

Thu Apr 10, 2008 8:52 pm

Loki120 wrote:
shortround wrote:Who ever thought that color scheme was a good idea should have his/her eyeballs removed from there head washed with bleach and then replaced. Because that is the most god awful color I have ever seen for toy bar none.

It was the 90s, if a toy wasn't garishly neon, then it wasn't good enough. Most of the G2 recolors were hideous. G.I.Joe didn't fair any better during this time either.

While I agree that the price tag is insane, if this is indeed real, then someone will get their hands on a piece of near mythology. But then, it is a prototype, and the back of the cards for the rest of the G2 Stunts show a motormaster was made.

I agree that this is bordering on mythology here, but remember the publicity shots showed one in vehicle and one in robot mode and editing techniques were alot tougher all those years ago, where there is one there is liable to be another.

IF this is genuine and IF this was found in the warehouse where the rest were shipped it could lend some clues as to where when and who owns the other prototype, you never know we could be seeing a national treasure movie in the making here

The search for motormaster....

As for the comments this is in too good a condition to be real, I worked for a famous cosmetics company years ago who used to bottle Giorgio fragrances, years after the contract ended we kept coming across the odd box of perfumes that got stacked on a the wrong shelf etc by someone who was out to finish his shift.

At $80 per bottle and with 100+ in a box these finds were uncommon but by no means unheard of, and the person who found it was allowed to buy it (as the contract ended we couldn't do anything else with it) at a $10 a bottle, so these kinds of finds all depend on how the luck of who was stacking stuff in the warehouse at the time.

I'd guess that whoever did the G2 stuff didn't really see a Green neon lorry as being that important to keep track off after it was used for some photos.

I'm guessing this thing is liable to top the $6000 mark giving the current insane bidding, would that make this the most single expensive and sought after TF ever???

Fri Apr 11, 2008 7:19 am

'not sure anyone else noticed but some of the metal features have oxidation. This would mean it's been sitting around for some time, and I highly doubt someone would put the time and effort into spending a decade or so aging a knock-off of an unproduced toy.

Are the colors really that terrible? It looks like the King of All Cosmos went on a Royal Rainbow bender, but I like the blue and I don't mind the purple. The green is overkill, but I'd rather have some outlandish neon color than some of the drab olives, tans, browns, and grays Hasbro likes putting on toys nowadays.
In those colors, I wouldn't pay for a Motormaster toy seeing as how he's so small, but I'd definitely pay for an Optimus Prime or an Ultra Magnus (who I think has one of the worst color schemes of all TF's, at least compared to the original Diaclone version).

News Credits: 3 · Fri Apr 11, 2008 9:31 am

I've seen worse schemes in G2 (Combaticons anybody?). It looks like the reverse of G2 Ramjet's colors. Does anyone have the pic of G2 Menasor combined? I think it was on the back of the carded G2 stunticons that were released at one of the Botcons a long time ago.

EDIT: it was G2 Breakdown at the 1994 Botcon.

http://www.tfu.info/1994/Decepticon/Breakdown/breakdown.htm

Sat Apr 12, 2008 2:23 pm

Over $4.5K now.... wow, someone wants it badly.

Tue Apr 15, 2008 7:36 pm

Megatron's Lapdog wrote:Over $4.5K now.... wow, someone wants it badly.

Now at $6000 with a little under 2 hours to go, I'm keeping an eye on this as I think we can see this going to stupid levels.

As an after thought, be funny if after spending all this money it gets damaged during shipping and he comes missing an arm etc...or am i just plain mean? :twisted: