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News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 1:30 am

https://twitter.com/TF_pr/status/545427471206580225

More UM goodness!

And his weight

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:39 am

Thanks to fellow Seibertron.com user fenrir72's tip, we have mirrored below some new images of the upcoming Takara Tomy Transformers Masterpiece MP-22 Ultra Magnus, from the official Twitter PR account. It's going to be a heavy hitter, this one, weighing in at almost 1 kg (for reference, MP-10 without the trailer is just above 400 grams), and you can see the diecast that makes it so - check it out!

News Credits: 1 · by **RhA** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:43 am

If only I had the cash for this guy.

News Credits: 388 · by **Bounti76** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:55 am

So a little over 2 pounds.....

News Credits: 1 · by **RhA** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 4:58 am

Bounti76 wrote:So a little over 2 pounds.....

Almost a kilo. :WHISTLE:

News Credits: 388 · by **Bounti76** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 5:38 am

RhA wrote:
Bounti76 wrote:So a little over 2 pounds.....

Almost a kilo.

Which is just over 2 pounds. >:oP

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 6:41 am

Bounti76 wrote:
RhA wrote:
Bounti76 wrote:So a little over 2 pounds.....

Almost a kilo.

Which is just over 2 pounds.

Either way.....he's heavy.

News Credits: 1 · by **RhA** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 7:07 am

Bounti76 wrote:
RhA wrote:
Bounti76 wrote:So a little over 2 pounds.....

Almost a kilo.

Which is just over 2 pounds.

Crazy US measurements. :michaelbay:

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 8:26 am

Based on the proto pics, his feet are die-cast. Good for the base balance but paint chipping nightmare in the future.

News Credits: 119 · by **megatronus** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 9:56 am

I'm sure the diecast in the body is strategically placed, but I'm always wary of it. Diecast in the feet is great - it helps ground the figure. But the diecast in the body has the potential to really put him off balance... hopefully those hip joints are hella tight.

News Credits: 459 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 11:52 am

Didn't MP-1 weigh, like, 5 pounds? Or did I just weigh him wrong on the bathroom scale?

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 11:59 am

Sabrblade wrote:Didn't MP-1 weigh, like, 5 pounds? Or did I just weigh him wrong on the bathroom scale?

Shipping weight, that's what I have too. :-?

News Credits: 653 · by **ScottyP** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 12:03 pm

Sabrblade wrote:Didn't MP-1 weigh, like, 5 pounds? Or did I just weigh him wrong on the bathroom scale?

He's a heavy dude, that's for sure. Shockingly heavy when you pick it up after messing with the other MP molds.

News Credits: 1235 · by **LOST Cybertronian** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 1:25 pm

Bounti76 wrote:
RhA wrote:
Bounti76 wrote:So a little over 2 pounds.....

Almost a kilo.

Which is just over 2 pounds.

News Credits: 26 · by **MaverickPrime** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 1:31 pm

Man, that thing is a behemoth!

RhA wrote:
Bounti76 wrote:
RhA wrote:
Bounti76 wrote:So a little over 2 pounds.....

Almost a kilo.

Which is just over 2 pounds.

Crazy US measurements.

US is the only country that still uses the english system, isn't it? I think not even England uses it anymore...come on guys, decimal units are easier to remember, please drop it, as an engineering student, having two different units systems and one being so arbitrary sucks

News Credits: 12 · by **Evil Eye** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 1:39 pm

Yeah. For slag's sake, Yanks, convert to the goddamn metric system already.

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 1:43 pm

by **HBGoo1984** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 1:46 pm

I don't see this released by Hasbro in the States anytime soon. not even if they make a smaller version.

News Credits: 119 · by **megatronus** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 2:11 pm

For what it's worth, the metric system is also arbitrary, just in a different way.

News Credits: 1235 · by **LOST Cybertronian** » Thu Dec 18, 2014 3:03 pm

HBGoo1984 wrote:I don't see this released by Hasbro in the States anytime soon. not even if they make a smaller version.

This guy is prime for a Hasbro release.

by **Crystiallic** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 12:36 am

megatronus wrote:For what it's worth, the metric system is also arbitrary, just in a different way.

It's really not about whether it's arbitrary based, it's really about the weird conversion factors. How much inches being a yard still puzzles me till this very day (yet I hear them two together in every football game). Same goes foot and mile, Oz and Pint, fl. Oz and gallon etc etc.

by **Crystiallic** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 12:38 am

LOST Cybertronian wrote:
HBGoo1984 wrote:I don't see this released by Hasbro in the States anytime soon. not even if they make a smaller version.

This guy is prime for a Hasbro release.

I believe UM is getting a hasbro release, but as the way it went for Prowl, I doubt the price difference will be worth the wait and/or the potential quality issues.

News Credits: 119 · by **megatronus** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 1:07 am

Crystiallic wrote:
LOST Cybertronian wrote:
HBGoo1984 wrote:I don't see this released by Hasbro in the States anytime soon. not even if they make a smaller version.

This guy is prime for a Hasbro release.

I believe UM is getting a hasbro release, but as the way it went for Prowl, I doubt the price difference will be worth the wait and/or the potential quality issues.

Were there quality issues with Hasbro's MP Prowl? I hadn't heard anything to that effect, so I'm curious.

News Credits: 372 · by **Cyberpath** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 1:47 am

More pix from TF_pr.

一体型完全変形の実現が、今回のMPウルトラマグナスの大きな特徴ですが、キャブ部分は裏スイッチで取り外しも可能です。またビークルモードのフロント部分の色がG1トイと違う？と気になっていた皆様。今回は設定画を忠実に再現しているんです！

News Credits: 8 · by **Flashwave** » Fri Dec 19, 2014 2:45 am

The more I see this mold, the less I like it, between the thin looking shin plates just hovering there, the skidplate covering his skidplate, and the 100% G1 accurate but does not look like a trailer trailer is making me reach for my RID1.0 Magns for my Autocarrier duties. and PRID Mags for simple play value. A shame, I liked thismold at first and wanted a Titanium Magns since, well, Titanims Magnus, bt this isn't doing what I hoped so I wait for Star Saber.