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by **cramoptimus maximus** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 2:27 pm

I think so...

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 2:41 pm

G1COLLECTOR wrote:I owned him already and sold him along with MP-01. Those 2 guys just stuck out in the MP collection too much to keep. Had to go unless you wanted to display them alone in your collection.

or with beast wars figures...

but hey, i think theyre still worth having. if theres a place for a leader scale thundercracker in my collection, then theres a place for these two.

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 5:22 pm

shajaki wrote:
G1COLLECTOR wrote:I owned him already and sold him along with MP-01. Those 2 guys just stuck out in the MP collection too much to keep. Had to go unless you wanted to display them alone in your collection.
or with beast wars figures...

That's genius! Oh and Sabrblade, you truly are a god of transformers.

Oh and cramoptimus maximus, I now truly doubt you know what a "fact" is, which should scare all your clients if you are indeed a lawyer.

by **VioMeTriX** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 5:28 pm

I blew my MP-05 Megatron up with a qtr stick of dynamite

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 5:29 pm

VioMeTriX wrote:I blew my MP-05 Megatron up with a qtr stick of dynamite

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 5:32 pm

william-james88 wrote:That's genius! Oh and Sabrblade, you truly are a god of transformers.

It's not my title to bear. It's a Seibertron Forums Post Count rank, one that many other have and have had long before I got my own.

Just pointing out to let it be known that I didn't choose it. :PEACE:

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Fri Oct 10, 2014 9:37 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
cramoptimus maximus wrote:Nobody really knows the details and the deadline of this original project, fact. The "twelve days" story is just a story, not fact.

Translated interview with Hisashi Yuki from the Transformers Masterpiece Official Guide:
- I hear the first Masterpiece figure you created was MP-5 Megatron and you hold the fastest development record with it.
Y: That is right. (*laughs) I was not assigned to be in charge of it initially, but due to the circumstance within the company I was unexpectedly handed down the project. The schedule came with it and I was stunned when I realised that I was only given 12 days, about 2 weeks...To make it worse, at the time of my receiving the task, even the product size wasn't decided. (*tears)

cramoptimus maximus wrote:nobody knows the real project opinions of any person remotely close to working on a masterpiece figure.
Hironori Kobayashi interview
Shogo Hasui interview
Hisashi Yuki interview
All translated from the Transformers Masterpiece Ultimate Guide

cramoptimus maximus wrote:Being a masterpiece does not make it a masterpiece statement is just a moronic line sir...
By "masterpiece" (lowercase M), they mean "Being a Masterpiece does not make it perfect or flawless". There is no such thing as a perfect/flawless figure.

cramoptimus maximus wrote:The redeco is going to be awesome, just like king grimlocks!
Not everyone likes chrome, so that statement is an opinion, not fact.

cramoptimus maximus wrote:If u cant afford the figure, dont knock it, just say it like it is... Just say that its too expensive for you, and you cant pay this kind of money for a redeco of megatron, and you would rather save that money for something else!
Lots of folks on this site are able to afford Masterpieces. En masse. So the price really isn't that much of an issue, here.

Given that we now know the behind scenes in this figure's creation, with China being the target market of release( my speculation as China is just nuts over TFS), this is a godsend to our fellow Chinese fans.

The figure may not be perfect (I'm not letting go of mine btw together with MP01), I'll just look at this as glass half full. Maybe we can now start the countdown for MP Megatron version 2 soon to be in scale with MP-10.

by **SpacerAM2** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 8:58 pm

Still looking for pieces to fix mine that i broke 7 years ago. Takara should include extra pieces for these delicate Mps. You can't touch them without breaking something.

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 9:01 pm

SpacerAM2 wrote:Still looking for pieces to fix mine that i broke 7 years ago. Takara should include extra pieces for these delicate Mps. You can't touch them without breaking something.

But then they would have to give you 2 figures in all. Seriously, any piece has a chance of breaking. I broke my Ghost Starscream's arm the second time I transformed him, and yet a bunch of people tell me it's the wings they broke.

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Mon Oct 13, 2014 10:30 pm

william-james88 wrote:
SpacerAM2 wrote:Still looking for pieces to fix mine that i broke 7 years ago. Takara should include extra pieces for these delicate Mps. You can't touch them without breaking something.

But then they would have to give you 2 figures in all. Seriously, any piece has a chance of breaking. I broke my Ghost Starscream's arm the second time I transformed him, and yet a bunch of people tell me it's the wings they broke.

The defunct Yamato through a certain website provided replacement shoulders for their 1/60 Valkyries a few years back. Too bad they folded up. Don't know if Arcadia is just as generous.

by **Peridot** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:33 pm

If the upcoming Leader Megatron doesn't fit with MP-10, I'm either going to buy this or *shudder* wait for an MP Megs 2.0.

News Credits: 119 · by **megatronus** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:38 pm

Metro Prime wrote:If the upcoming Leader Megatron doesn't fit with MP-10, I'm either going to buy this or *shudder* wait for an MP Megs 2.0.

But this MP05 reissue definitely doesn't go with MP-10...

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:43 pm

megatronus wrote:
Metro Prime wrote:If the upcoming Leader Megatron doesn't fit with MP-10, I'm either going to buy this or *shudder* wait for an MP Megs 2.0.

But this MP05 reissue definitely doesn't go with MP-10...

And if Leader Jetfire is any indication, Leader Megatron's gonna be a couple inches shorter than MP-10.

News Credits: 12 · by **GuyIncognito** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 12:59 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
megatronus wrote:
Metro Prime wrote:If the upcoming Leader Megatron doesn't fit with MP-10, I'm either going to buy this or *shudder* wait for an MP Megs 2.0.

But this MP05 reissue definitely doesn't go with MP-10...
And if Leader Jetfire is any indication, Leader Megatron's gonna be a couple inches shorter than MP-10.

Leader Jetfire is like half an inch shorter than MP-10, not a couple inches. And Leaders and MPs are different lines, so of course they don't scale together.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Wed Oct 15, 2014 1:12 pm

GuyIncognito wrote:Leader Jetfire is like half an inch shorter than MP-10, not a couple inches.

Ah, whoops. Guess the size comparison pics I saw threw me for a loop. :oops:

News Credits: 3 · by **Samsonator** » Thu Oct 16, 2014 12:50 am

Ah, MP-05, back again, I see...
I never was the biggest fan of the proportions of this guy, nor how lopsided he tended to feel with his cannon attached, though there were a few poses I found that made him stand solid.
I got Megs on the first run, so mine does have the tarnished metal on his feet, but aside from that I've had no problems with flimsy parts or anything falling off/breaking. He even survived no less than three swan-dives from the top of a rather high shelf in years gone by.

All in all, I'm glad I got one when I did, but this re-release simply should not happen, especially not if they're chroming him a-la G1. There are nice "machined metal" details molded into his gun parts (chest, arms, etc.) that probably won't even show up after a chrome job. Also, as someone who paid $120 for this toy back when it came out, I shudder seeing a $199 price tag on it. It's simply not good enough to warrant that kinda price. I know I said I had no real issues with mine (tarnished die-cast aside) but I also understand I'm in the minority here. A toy that, for many, has been a hassle, with engineering issues and bits breaking off should not be asking such a high price.

I will be watching this from afar, safe in the knowledge that I've got one, apparently one of the few good ones.

by **Peridot** » Fri Oct 17, 2014 1:04 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
megatronus wrote:
Metro Prime wrote:If the upcoming Leader Megatron doesn't fit with MP-10, I'm either going to buy this or *shudder* wait for an MP Megs 2.0.

But this MP05 reissue definitely doesn't go with MP-10...
And if Leader Jetfire is any indication, Leader Megatron's gonna be a couple inches shorter than MP-10.

I'm perfectly fine with Megatron being taller than Optimus. It's just that the original MP-05 was too flimsy and unbalanced to display.
Generations Jetfire is about a head shorter than MP-10, as someone already pointed out. About the same height as MP Starscream, actually. Plus, most of his plastic budget went into the extra weapons, so it's not unreasonable to think Generations Megatron might be taller.

News Credits: 15 · by **Ravage XK** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 7:47 am

The reissue is going to be shiny gold not silver, according to Kapow Toys facebook post.

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 8:00 am

Ravage XK wrote:The reissue is going to be shiny gold not silver, according to Kapow Toys facebook post.

Gold?!

News Credits: 1 · by **RhA** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 8:03 am

Sabrblade wrote:
Ravage XK wrote:The reissue is going to be shiny gold not silver, according to Kapow Toys facebook post.
Gold?!

It will hurt your eyes as well as your wallet.

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 8:04 am

Gold Digger Megatron.

News Credits: 15 · by **Ravage XK** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 8:04 am

Yes, gold.

And I quote

Kapow Toys wrote:Oh dear, it would appear the new reissue of MP05 Masterpiece Megatron is in fact gold in colour

.

News Credits: 6188 · by **Va'al** » Tue Oct 21, 2014 9:05 am

Courtesy of site sponsor Kapow! Toys and fellow Seibertron.com user Ravage XK who brought it to our attention, we have an update on the Takara Tomy Reissue of MP-05 Megatron. It appears the figure will feature a gold deco, rather than metal or silver, as shown in the mirrored image below - does this affect the likeliness of your purchase? Is it an incentive? Discuss it in the Energon Pub!