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News Credits: 11 · by **kirbenvost** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 12:25 pm

*sniffs, wipes tear from eye*

He's beautiful.

by **EagleTron** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 12:30 pm

Bowspearer wrote:
rpetras wrote:
Bowspearer wrote:The wait isn't even remotely close to being over. For most of us who are importing, the delay with Bluestreak means we'll be waiting another month on top of Prowl's release for him to be shipped. It's getting beyond exciting to the point of being annoying and frustrating. Why can't TakaraTomy announce a realistic schedule to begin with instead of pushing back every second Masterpiece release?

At this point though it's no longer a gift horse in the mouth. The marketing machine stopped being that when Hasui kept hyping the figure up this month when it had become delayed and most of us were anticipating it. The last couple of teasers have been more like what happens when someone carries a joke too far and people start getting ticked off by it.

Yeah, I know what you mean now. Thats like I tell you that I made a new magic trick but I don't show you it for a entire year or so and that whole time I'm telling you all about it and showing you the props and equipment but then I delay showing you the trick, after a while the intended spectators are going to be saying shut up about it already, lol.

by **merphul** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 1:12 pm

lol, his hands do look close to the size of his head and it's a shame Prowl wasn't a female autobot cuz with that kind of forward depth on the chest... hot damn!

all kidding aside, he looks awesome and I don't mind the delay in hopes that they were fine tuning or making fixes in the production process. Honestly the wait between first reveal and release of these figures run so long (I think it's been about a year since the first non-silhouette shot was released), that I just ignore release dates until TFS tells me my order was shipped. It's kind of a shame that he's so chesty, but even the masterpieces look better from some angles than others.

That shot on one leg makes me think the weight distribution and strength of the joints on this guy should be superb.

News Credits: 650 · by **ScottyP** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 1:36 pm

He's moved to "Order Stop" status on HLJ. Expecting that shipping notice aaaany time now :grin:

News Credits: 11 · by **kirbenvost** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 2:38 pm

ScottyP wrote:He's moved to "Order Stop" status on HLJ. Expecting that shipping notice aaaany time now

Pretty sure it's been Order Stop for quite some time now. They can only take so many preorders. But the release is very soon, so it should be any day now, like you said.

Edit: Derp, spoke too soon, just got the payment request now.

Now for the long, agonizing wait for Streak to be released.

News Credits: 461 · by **mooncake623** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 2:54 pm

just paid for my prowl at HLJ.. not to ship him!

News Credits: 461 · by **mooncake623** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 2:57 pm

And shipped!!!

News Credits: 23 · by **ZenPrime** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 3:10 pm

paid for mine on HLJ as well waiting for Streak to be in stock before I ship...

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 3:17 pm

I got my notice Prowl was sitting in my Private Warehouse @ HLJ.

He moved in there with the Optimus Prime/Bumblebee pack ... and Metroplex.

Combine that with Blitzwing and Springer, that's gonna be a big box.

News Credits: 650 · by **ScottyP** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 4:07 pm

I turned off private warehouse for this one. Too excited. The $13 shipping is worth it.

News Credits: 409 · by **Stormrider** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 4:49 pm

Can't wait for the figure. Looks great.

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 6:25 pm

To paraphrase transwiki.........prickishness to the MP level lol!

News Credits: 372 · by **Cyberpath** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 7:29 pm

Shipped!

News Credits: 10 · by **Arctorro** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 9:21 pm

He is sitting in my warehouse, and now the wait for streak starts

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Sep 26, 2013 9:26 pm

Arctorro wrote:He is sitting in my warehouse, and now the wait for streak starts

I accidentally read that as "and now waiting for street sharks." :oops:

News Credits: 10 · by **Arctorro** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 1:34 am

Sabrblade wrote:
Arctorro wrote:He is sitting in my warehouse, and now the wait for streak starts
I accidentally read that as "and now waiting for street sharks."

I've forever rereading stuff because of that, though they are never that funny

by **Bowspearer** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 2:16 am

Screw it, I caved. Turns out EMS is so cheap with combined shipping that I'm only up for around $15 or $16 with both Streaks I have on order anyway.

News Credits: 372 · by **Cyberpath** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:23 am

New photos from the designer:

Apparently an old concept sketch of Prowl:

News Credits: 9 · by **Mykltron** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 6:11 am

These new pics make me want him even more.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 7:37 am

Cyberpath wrote:Apparently an old concept sketch of Prowl:

I would so love a toy of that. It's so garish and so retro. A whole line of concepts! Now that's a concept!

News Credits: 372 · by **Cyberpath** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 8:35 am

Burn wrote:I would so love a toy of that. It's so garish and so retro. A whole line of concepts! Now that's a concept!

Kind of reminds me of a hammerhead shark.

Btw, one of the photos above is an homage to the G1 boxart.

by **Bowspearer** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 4:01 pm

Burn wrote:
Cyberpath wrote:Apparently an old concept sketch of Prowl:

I would so love a toy of that. It's so garish and so retro. A whole line of concepts! Now that's a concept!

There were a few interesting Diaclone and Microchange concepts we never saw- like Battle Convoy's shoulder Cannon, Megatron's add-ons turning into a buggy and MC-22. Something really has to be said for the designs of the late 70s and early 80s.

News Credits: 409 · by **Stormrider** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 5:38 pm

Bowspearer wrote:
Burn wrote:
Cyberpath wrote:Apparently an old concept sketch of Prowl:

I would so love a toy of that. It's so garish and so retro. A whole line of concepts! Now that's a concept!

There were a few interesting Diaclone and Microchange concepts we never saw- like Battle Convoy's shoulder Cannon, Megatron's add-ons turning into a buggy and MC-22. Something really has to be said for the designs of the late 70s and early 80s.

I would like to see how Megatron turned into a buggy

by **Bowspearer** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 7:03 pm

From page 22 of Transformers Generations:

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Fri Sep 27, 2013 7:14 pm

Bowspearer wrote:From page 22 of Transformers Generations:

Powermaster Optimus Prime
Scramble City-style dinosaur combiner
Arcee redeco of Chromedome
New Rodimus
Some version of Predaking

The rest I don't recognize.