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News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Sat Jun 30, 2018 10:39 pm

It has been a while we had some fun rumours to share with you. This one here is more believeable than most since it comes from the same source that first brought up MPM Ironhide a year ago and it does have characters Hasbro has alluded to in the past (like MPM Starscream). Ok so without further ado, we have from Baidu rumours of the upcoming MPM releases and they are:

MPM 08 Jazz
MPM0 09 Megatron
MPM 10 Starscream

Another user has it as
MPM 08 Megatron
MPM 09 Starscream
MPM l0 Jazz

So of course, the numbers are not the same but the same characters keep coming up. Hasbro had mentioned the possibility of an MPM Starscream in their New York Toy Fair interview.

MPM 07 is presumed to be Bumblebee from the upcoming film.

And of course, this could all turn out to just be untrue, so take it with a grain of salt.

News Credits: 4 · by **Quantum Surge** » Sat Jun 30, 2018 10:58 pm

Jazz may as well be the HA figure without the seats, but with more sleek proportions. I really hope Megatron is his MV1 design since we never had any good version of that appearance. And Starscream...I presume it may be for Bumblebee, but maybe they may do a slightly better version version of the Leader.

News Credits: 10 · by **Terrsolpix** » Sun Jul 01, 2018 12:09 am

Fingers crossed for dotm megs :DANCE:

by **Agent 53** » Sun Jul 01, 2018 1:20 am

I wouldn't be surprised if Meagtron and starscream, at leas these ones, will be the ROTF versions, as presumably they'll be out next year, aka 2019, the 10 year anniversary of the 2009 movie. We can assume that Has/Tak will have something planned for that.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Sun Jul 01, 2018 1:50 am

So far all the Movie Masterpieces have been of the 2007 Movie, including Bumblebee taking the 2008 Camaro Concept. If that trend continues... ho boy for Megatron.

News Credits: 4 · by **Chriphord** » Sun Jul 01, 2018 2:46 am

Well I mean, Optimus had the matrtix come with him, so I'd say it's closer to his RotF model, but your point still stands. Can't say I'd complain about a good looking movie 1 Megs. (Good being subjective because we all know there are MANY differing opinions on the movies.)

by **Ultra Markus** » Sun Jul 01, 2018 5:22 am

ill take the bumblebee from the new movie as it interests me

News Credits: 19 · by **Carnivius_Prime** » Sun Jul 01, 2018 11:45 am

How big and expensive would Starscream have to be to match MPM scale?

Would it be bigger than the Leader class figure they reused as a Masterpiece before the MPM series officially began?

News Credits: 7 · by **TulioDude** » Sun Jul 01, 2018 4:03 pm

Quantum Surge wrote:And Starscream...I presume it may be for Bumblebee, but maybe they may do a slightly better version version of the Leader.

I hope not.I always got the sense the Masterpieces toys were supposed to be the definitive edition of the character.Sharing engineering and ideas is fine,but the masterpieces should push even beyond.

I hope its something more in line with design though of Bumblebee or Barricade than the Movie Masterpiece Optimus Prime.

But I'm excited for all of these!

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Sun Jul 01, 2018 6:36 pm

Yeah, that MPM Optimus didn't really do much in terms if pushing boundaries. It instead showed how easy it is for a good design to have piss poor execution when turned into a physical toy. It's like no one even tried Transforming that fogure once it was finally done.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Sun Jul 01, 2018 8:57 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:So far all the Movie Masterpieces have been of the 2007 Movie, including Bumblebee taking the 2008 Camaro Concept. If that trend continues... ho boy for Megatron.

There was that OSKO VW Bee prototype that we saw a while back that wasn't MP-21 so it's likely Hasbro will be bucking that trend very soon (and maybe had planned on doing so earlier this year before the movie and all figures were pushed back to late fall and winter).

Emerje

by **ZeldaTheSwordsman** » Mon Jul 02, 2018 3:04 am

I'm not sure you could push boundaries too much farther in toy form with Optimus' original movieverse design, aside from the splitting tires (and adding an additional point of articulation to the struts the paldrons are on, if they don't move at the base end). Because some of it goes into the same territory as Bumblebee's @#$%ing license plate - bending and unbending during transformation in a way that can't be replicated on a toy. Like, his "ribs" are formed from his truck grille, his paldrons are formed from the sides of his cab where the doors are like on the toy but they hinglessly bend into a different shape...

I would hope for a proper MPM Starscream toy of his 2007-2011 design, instead of just the redeco of the HFTD Leader mold. That's a decent mold to be sure, but it's not perfect. Most notably, it doesn't have his engines end up on his back like they do on the actual movie design. And since you frequently see Starscream using those engines for robot-mode flight... Yeah.

And I definitely hope that Megatron's first-movie design is the first of his on the docket for the MPM treatment just so that we can get some good looks at his altmode and his weapons!

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Mon Jul 02, 2018 9:29 am

Quantum Surge wrote:Jazz may as well be the HA figure without the seats, but with more sleek proportions. I really hope Megatron is his MV1 design since we never had any good version of that appearance. And Starscream...I presume it may be for Bumblebee, but maybe they may do a slightly better version version of the Leader.

They could certainly use the design template for his engineering, but the molding would require a complete reworking and downscaling to get him right. It would be a good opportunity to fix some of the hiccups on the transformation.

I'm seriously looking forward to how they approach Megatron. Each of his iterations has been a really cool piece of design work.

News Credits: 1 · by **fruityrobo** » Mon Jul 02, 2018 1:19 pm

my only wish is to see prototype images so i could determine for myself whether to get excited or not.

GIVE ME PICTURES

by **ciano** » Fri Jul 06, 2018 4:55 pm

Masterpiece Jazz better have splitting-in-half action is all I'm saying

News Credits: 4838 · by **william-james88** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:11 am

While we have had a rumour of Transformers MPM 10 Starsrcream for almost TWO years now, we now have an actual listing and release date.

The listing, among many others, was posted on Loopaza Mega Store's Facebook page. It will be coming out in September 2020 and the price is 20000 Yen (so around $180 USD) but remember that retail prices in Japan are usually at 20-30% less than the SRP, reflecting the usual US price.

The other listings are for upcoming Studio Series figures and all the Walmart Netflix series exclusives. So Japan will be getting these too, and they do not seem to be exclusives there so international fans who do not have Walmarts could possibly order from Amazon Japan or other Japanese outlets to get these.

News Credits: 25 · by **Ironhidensh** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 8:17 am

Hell **** yes!

by **Saminus9000** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 9:29 am

The rumor behind Starscream dates all the way back to October 2017 before barricade was even revealed.

News Credits: 100 · by **-Kanrabat-** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 12:24 pm

YES!

MPM Starscream at last!
I expected him to be as pricey as Megatron because he'll surely be as big.
This MOFO will be sure to be preordered.

News Credits: 61 · by **EvasionModeBumblebee** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 12:52 pm

Awesome! I can’t wait to see what it looks like, and with a September release date we should be seeing it pretty soon!

What accessories do you all think it’ll include?

by **ZeldaTheSwordsman** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 1:00 pm

The launcher and the saw, presumably.

I wonder if they'll fix the numbering now that they have real MP versions of both Bumblebee and Starscream

News Credits: 7 · by **TulioDude** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 1:04 pm

Great news!

News Credits: 20 · by **Tuned Agent** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 1:54 pm

Exciting! I'm looking forward to seeing how this stacks up to the RotF leader. From everything I've heard, that figure was fantastic.

by **ZeldaTheSwordsman** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 2:11 pm

Tuned Agent wrote:Exciting! I'm looking forward to seeing how this stacks up to the RotF leader. From everything I've heard, that figure was fantastic.

It is, even when headless

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Fri Mar 20, 2020 2:13 pm

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:I wonder if they'll fix the numbering now that they have real MP versions of both Bumblebee and Starscream

I don't see them changing the numbering, despite the 2010 Battle Ops and Leader having "replacements" now. They didn't for the G1 line, right?

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