The Energon Pub

[Hellscream9999]

Still, I gues Primal isn't ever going to be mooning on my shelf.

This is my motto for the season.

Anyways: It's a hominid turning into a hominid. Not a lot of options for the back legs without shell-forming. And if there's noise about butt-tires, there will definitely be noise about shell-forming.

Not if it's done intelligently (i.e. not like MP 28 ) the only issue is where to store the panelsvand how to maintain articulation - as that was obviously a design priority (thankfully)

[william-james88]

It would be interesting if they do multiple bw mp's if thy do stick to a congruent scale, b/c megs was much bigger in both modes as compared to primal

Really? Is there any evidence to that? Because in robot mode, they looked to be about the same size. They are the same height in Beast Mode too, its just that Megs has a very long tail.

I do know for a fact that the show designers made Primal to be the same size as Megatron inorder to reference the King Kong vs Godzilla fight.

[william-james88]

YES!!!! Robot legs are covered!

Turns out that was quite the tricky angle afterall.

[Insurgent]

Indeed it was. Eee, it's like those photographers picked the best angle to take shots from. The nerve of them.


You know, now I'm tempted to take a picture of all my BW guys mooning the camera.

[Hellscream9999]

It would be interesting if they do multiple bw mp's if thy do stick to a congruent scale, b/c megs was much bigger in both modes as compared to primal

Really? Is there any evidence to that? Because in robot mode, they looked to be about the same size. They are the same height in Beast Mode too, its just that Megs has a very long tail.

I do know for a fact that the show designers made Primal to be the same size as Megatron inorder to reference the King Kong vs Godzilla fight.

Not the best, but it shows that he is substantially bigger than o/p

But I found these, they're pretty interesting:

[Glarryg]

I'm not sure about this one; is that a licensed alt. mode?



Glarryg

[william-james88]

Number confirmed! MP-31

Posted on twitter by Autobase Aichi from Hyper Hobby Magazine:

Masterpiece gorilla Convoy 2 pages, has been featured finely using uncolored prototype. Although similar prototype at the end of January Figure King had been introduced, here it is also introduced various gimmick like quite in detail, interviews with the development team has also been little published. Number Listings prototype photos 20 sheets . This time, the think that the first appearance information, numbering of gorilla convoy "MP-31" and the points are stated as, height of the robot mode is about 19 ​​centimeters and I think that that has been described as. Release Date, the price remains undecided. For gimmick, because the sword comes with a size to fit the animation becomes large, it can be installed on the back, but storage of the body's impossible. Gorilla face is the expression replacement formula Nanoha previously reported, but the robot mode facial expression also replaced normally, cry, smile, four types of photo of mask has been published. In the middle of deformation photo There is also a single, gorilla face is housed in the back, gorilla belly It is written to be a robot chest. According to the development team interview, fur gorilla without molding, it is written to be such as to reproduce the texture to the Tsurutto surface such as CG.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

I'm sort of hoping he is MP Bee sized so it's a bit more realistic compared to the rest of the guys. But I wouldn't mind a large Boss Monkey either

*edit: about 8 inches tall. So how tall was Bumblebee?

[Hellscream9999]

I'm sort of hoping he is MP Bee sized so it's a bit more realistic compared to the rest of the guys. But I wouldn't mind a large Boss Monkey either

*edit: about 8 inches tall. So how tall was Bumblebee?

About deluxe size

No, mp primal has to be at least mp datsun sized, it would give them the breathing room they need to make more of the cast.

[Ironhidensh]

Maybe I'm mistaken, but the article says it is about19'm tall I'm robot mode.

[Hellscream9999]

Maybe I'm mistaken, but the article says it is about19'm tall I'm robot mode.

Yeah, you're right, 19cm, so whatever that translates to in form of scale

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Maybe I'm mistaken, but the article says it is about19'm tall I'm robot mode.

19cm is about 8 inches tall, and am I confused in saying that is about the size of voyagers now? If so, that's not too bad a scale.

[Cobotron]

That sounds like a great size to me.
I have OG Primal right here on my desk and he measures about 8.5 inches tall. The MP Datsun stands about 6.5 in robot mode. The average Voyager is around 7 in.

It seems he will scale well with the previous Gen Rhinox and Rattrap.

[william-james88]

Maybe I'm mistaken, but the article says it is about19'm tall I'm robot mode.

19 cm, yes, which is between 7-8 inches. So Voyager sized.

[D-Maximal_Primal]

That sounds like a great size to me.
I have OG Primal right here on my desk and he measures about 8.5 inches tall. The MP Datsun stands about 6.5 in robot mode. The average Voyager is around 7 in.

It seems he will scale well with the previous Gen Rhinox and Rattrap.

Scaling with Rhinox and Rattrap

[william-james88]

That sounds like a great size to me.
I have OG Primal right here on my desk and he measures about 8.5 inches tall. The MP Datsun stands about 6.5 in robot mode. The average Voyager is around 7 in.

It seems he will scale well with the previous Gen Rhinox and Rattrap.

Scaling with Rhinox and Rattrap

Well not really. Rhinox is taller than Opimus



So its not a perfect scale, but its ok, not as great s this though:

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Bah! Will! had to show the scale.
Oh well, the leader generally should be larger no?

[william-james88]

Bah! Will! had to show the scale.
Oh well, the leader generally should be larger no?

Yes, the 8 year old me was always ok with that logic. Hence why it was fine that the Ultra Primal was bigger than Rhinox.

But this just shows that this toy is indeed in a league of his own for the moment. It's not a classics, its a freaken MP!!!

[D-Maximal_Primal]

Bah! Will! had to show the scale.
Oh well, the leader generally should be larger no?

Yes, the 8 year old me was always ok with that logic. Hence why it was fine that the Ultra Primal was bigger than Rhinox.

But this just shows that this toy is indeed in a league of his own for the moment. It's not a classics, its a freaken MP!!!

I'm actually a wee bit sad though. I really want a masterpiece Trailbreaker, but if they are starting up Beast Wars masterpiece, that chance is suddenly looking like it may take a long time

[shajaki]

31 eh? I'm surprised it's not going it's own route, like MP-BW01 or something.

[RevTibe]

I'm actually a wee bit sad though. I really want a masterpiece Trailbreaker, but if they are starting up Beast Wars masterpiece, that chance is suddenly looking like it may take a long time

Chance HasTak stop milking G1 nostalgia: 0. I wouldn't worry. Seems like Masterpieces are being produced more quickly now - glad some of the effort's getting spread out to other series!

[D-Maximal_Primal]

I'm actually a wee bit sad though. I really want a masterpiece Trailbreaker, but if they are starting up Beast Wars masterpiece, that chance is suddenly looking like it may take a long time

Chance HasTak stop milking G1 nostalgia: 0. I wouldn't worry. Seems like Masterpieces are being produced more quickly now - glad some of the effort's getting spread out to other series!

Oh I'm glad they are too! I love that Beast Wars is getting masterpiece now. May even be a bit cheaper since there is no vehicle mode licencing stuff too.

[RevTibe]

I'm actually a wee bit sad though. I really want a masterpiece Trailbreaker, but if they are starting up Beast Wars masterpiece, that chance is suddenly looking like it may take a long time

Chance HasTak stop milking G1 nostalgia: 0. I wouldn't worry. Seems like Masterpieces are being produced more quickly now - glad some of the effort's getting spread out to other series!

Oh I'm glad they are too! I love that Beast Wars is getting masterpiece now. May even be a bit cheaper since there is no vehicle mode licencing stuff too.

Yeah, wonder how much that contributed to the cost - couldn't've been easy to have Volkswagen finally sign on to a "war toy", after all. At least we haven't figured out how to patent gorillas yet.

[william-james88]

I really want a masterpiece Trailbreaker, but if they are starting up Beast Wars masterpiece, that chance is suddenly looking like it may take a long time

Do you have a G1 trailbreaker? If not, try to get the encore, he was a shooting fist gimick.

[william-james88]

I'm actually a wee bit sad though. I really want a masterpiece Trailbreaker, but if they are starting up Beast Wars masterpiece, that chance is suddenly looking like it may take a long time

Chance HasTak stop milking G1 nostalgia: 0. I wouldn't worry. Seems like Masterpieces are being produced more quickly now - glad some of the effort's getting spread out to other series!

Oh I'm glad they are too! I love that Beast Wars is getting masterpiece now. May even be a bit cheaper since there is no vehicle mode licencing stuff too.

You know, this licensing thing always sounds odd to me. Of course, there is a cost somewhere, but look at AOE. Toys with licenses from Bugatti and Lambourghini were selling for the same price as the toy of transforming triceratops.