The Energon Pub

Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:27 am

MP Skywarp, what a beautiful figure. Long time in coming, but to me, well worth the wait.

Now onto the review.

ARRIVAL:
I got the figure from Action HQ, and mine was insured. I thought it would take a long time to arrive, but he arrived sooner than I expected. He was packed well, no breaking or damage to the box.

CONDITION:
I opened up his box, and took a look. He was in extemely good shape and had no broken bits. Everything was were it was supposed to be.

MATERIALS:
I could tell he was probably made of a differant plastic. For one thing, he is actually shinier than MP Starscream. His plastic has tiny sparkly bits that you can see. Not just the black parts, but the purple and silver parts too. His face is more metallic. He also appears sturdier too. I accidently snapped off the fin things on his wings because I folded them the wrong way, but I was able to put them back on with no sign of stress marks.

STICKERS:
He has almost the same kinds of stickers as MP Starscream, only his stripes are purple and white. He has Kremzeek (pink) the three Cybertron jet stickers like MP-03 has, and some others rthat are slightly differant. I wish they were clear and not opaque, as they show up on the black too much for my tastes.

TRANSFORMATION: He transforms just like MP Starscream.

OVERALL: He is a good figure. I recommend him.
9/10, the one point loss because of the opaque stickers.

News Credits: 5 · Wed Sep 12, 2007 10:46 am

Don't suppose you could take a picture of him next to MP Prime? I've seen a picture of him next to MP Megs where he looked too small to be in scale.

News Credits: 11 · Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:03 am

The MP seekers are not in scale if you put it in terms of Alt modes (well, Megatron never will be in scale with anything), but in the cartoon weren't they generally shorter than Prime & Megs in robot mode?

News Credits: 1093 · Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:06 am

If you guys are looking for pictures you need look no further than my sig.

Yours AK

Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:47 am

I don't have a camera to take pictures, but if you look on AK's thread, he has them.

I forgot to mention that how I "dressed up" my Skywarp was that I put on the stickers that made him look like a real jet, plus the wing stripes. I have seen the pictures of real F-15s, and that was the look I went with.

If you saw him in real life, he would look almost no differant then any other F-15, except maybe for the darker coloring and the stripes. But the stripes could be taken as a decoration, as you might think, for a possible air show. As you get close though, you start to wonder why the hairs on the back of your neck start to rise, and then you notice: Those typical markings on him are not normal. What looks like a US symbol with the star inside the circle from far away has a stylized face, more particularly the one used by Decepticons. And you see the Decepticon equivelents for the others too. A cruel deception, as when you get close enough to spot the fake, you are already too close to get away. You foolishly shout "Decepticon!" and the thing transforms, along with the other two jets that you hadn't noticed were "fakes."

Wed Sep 12, 2007 11:53 am

Alex Kingdom wrote:If you guys are looking for pictures you need look no further than my sig.

Yours AK

Agreed, AK's gallery was very helpful to me. Especially the shots of the sticker sheet since I don't have MP-03.

News Credits: 5 · Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:06 pm

kirbenvost wrote:The MP seekers are not in scale if you put it in terms of Alt modes (well, Megatron never will be in scale with anything), but in the cartoon weren't they generally shorter than Prime & Megs in robot mode?

Nope.

Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:13 pm

Sledge wrote:

bow chicka wow-wow

News Credits: 1093 · Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:15 pm

Sledge wrote:
kirbenvost wrote:The MP seekers are not in scale if you put it in terms of Alt modes (well, Megatron never will be in scale with anything), but in the cartoon weren't they generally shorter than Prime & Megs in robot mode?
Nope.

Well that's hardly far I think you'll find scale and continuity were quite alien concept to the guys drawing, animating and writing G1.

Yours AK

News Credits: 5 · Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:18 pm

Then you shouldn't have any problems finding an image where Megs or Prime clearly tower over the seekers.

News Credits: 1093 · Wed Sep 12, 2007 12:58 pm

Sledge wrote:Then you shouldn't have any problems finding an image where Megs or Prime clearly tower over the seekers.

Lets see:

And that's just from the first two episodes of G1, I'm sure there are plenty of examples featuring Prime to but I don't have the time or inclination bother looking.

Yours AK