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News Credits: 23 · by **ZenPrime** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:46 pm

There a preorder listing on BBTS for MP-04 arriving in March. I wonder if Takara is making another run or is this just left over stock?

Link:
http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=TAK10608&mode=retail

News Credits: 127 · by **Counterpunch** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 12:51 pm

weird

I grabbed one.

For funsies.

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:05 pm

I went ahead and pre-ordered one, since my MP Prime is kind of makeshift. Took a 20th Anniversary Prime and added aftermarket full length smokestacks and have the JT trailer. Will be nice to have a complete set with box.

News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:11 pm

Agash, only 250 bucks but I can't see me coming into that much free cash by March. It sucks being broke all the time.

News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:17 pm

So I preordered 2. Yep Im a jerk. Im gonna get two, if I can, and sell one on ebay to help offset the costs of them.

Yes Im a jerk, I realize that. But I can't afford this bad boy straight up and i gotta get it.

by **Vegitron** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:20 pm

I hope it's a new run. Maybe Takara saw how successful the following runs of MP-05 went, and decided to try it on Optimus. If so, I would imagine more suppliers offering MP-04 and thus the price coming down a bit.

I remember BBTS was the first to offer Masterpiece Megatron for it's second run back in September. They were still going for $200+ on Ebay. Now the market is flooded with them and they are floating around $100.

Plus I can't imagine BBTS selling MP-04 for ONLY $250 if this was a one-off batch they found somewhere.

ZenPrime wrote:There a preorder listing on BBTS for MP-04 arriving in March. I wonder if Takara is making another run or is this just left over stock?

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:35 pm

First Gen wrote:So I preordered 2. Yep Im a jerk. Im gonna get two, if I can, and sell one on ebay to help offset the costs of them.

Yes Im a jerk, I realize that. But I can't afford this bad boy straight up and i gotta get it.

I don't see anything wrong with that. Collecting TF's is an expensive hobby. Now going into a store a buying their entire stock just to turn a buck, that's being a jerk. Buying one extra and selling at a reasonable price to offset your cost is okay in my book. I did the same thing with the Wal-Mart MP Starscream, in fact is still haven't got around to selling the extra.

News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:39 pm

OptimusPrimeRib wrote:
First Gen wrote:So I preordered 2. Yep Im a jerk. Im gonna get two, if I can, and sell one on ebay to help offset the costs of them.

Yes Im a jerk, I realize that. But I can't afford this bad boy straight up and i gotta get it.

I don't see anything wrong with that. Collecting TF's is an expensive hobby. Now going into a store a buying their entire stock just to turn a buck, that's being a jerk. Buying one extra and selling at a reasonable price to offset your cost is okay in my book. I did the same thing with the Wal-Mart MP Starscream, in fact is still haven't got around to selling the extra.

As I write this my mind churns on how I can avoid a resale of the second Prime for a profit. I hate that. If I can figure a way I'll dump it at cost to the first person with the cash. Or Paypal. :grin:

News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 1:47 pm

Well you have to sell it for at least some profit or the whole exercise is pointless.

News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:16 pm

OptimusPrimeRib wrote:Well you have to sell it for at least some profit or the whole exercise is pointless.

Well, if I can help a TF fan get MP Prime at cost and save them some cash, I think its worth it.

News Credits: 3 · by **coolpop** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:46 pm

Thanks for the heads up ZenPrime. I almost went for a $400 BIN eBay deal (local pick up save on shipping), that seller had about 6 of them up at the same time couple nights ago, and he claimed all of them at least have a corner dinged up. I hesitated and decided to back out, cuz spending $400 on a MP-04 set I would like to get a really nice sealed package. Also it alerted me to question if Takara (or the contracted manufacturing factory itself?) is making more production runs?

Anyway, I placed my pre-order with BBTS too, let's just pray that 1) they are not bootlegs & 2) BBTS will stick with their pre-order price.

Come March! Gimme all you got!

Cheers,
Coolpop

by **Larsgoes2hell** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 2:58 pm

pretty sure BBTS doesn't mess with KO's. they have always been solid to me. though they seem to be slowly bumping up their prices more and more.

and i had to preorder atleast one. but the question is....do i take him out of the box....dun dun dun.

by **Larsgoes2hell** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 3:00 pm

opps double post.

News Credits: 2 · by **Sid Burn** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 5:19 pm

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/prod ... ode=retail

For all of you who are still looking for MP04, BBTS is restocked and taking preorders for $250

not too bad if you missed out the first time.

News Credits: 1 · by **tech348** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:40 pm

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/prod ... ode=retail

Is that a reasonable price? :???:

News Credits: 1014 · by **First Gen** » Fri Feb 15, 2008 11:41 pm

Lowest price you'll ever see it at. I preordered two.

News Credits: 409 · by **Stormrider** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 2:53 am

I think if Takara was making another production run of this, then BBTS would have announced it like they did with MP Megatron.

by **frgtn340** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:46 am

dood....$250 for a convoy mp prime is a steal. I preordered one! Thanks for the post!

by **AlienQuiksilver** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 5:36 am

I gobbled one up. NOM NOM NOM NOM NOM!!

by **Auto Bot** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 7:00 am

The price brings a chill down my spine.

Scary.

News Credits: 2 · by **Sid Burn** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 8:31 am

I cant really remember what I payed for mine when it was originally out but compared to ebay, this is a great price as MP04 always ends at $300-$400+ in auction format.

by **letharcon** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 11:32 am

250$ plus 85$ for shipping. Oh, thank you, Primus, that I've split with my girlfriend...

by **frgtn340** » Sat Feb 16, 2008 3:10 pm

mine was only $16 for shipping, where did you get 85? are you international?

by **letharcon** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 10:56 am

Yep, Czech Republic...

News Credits: 4 · by **capellamusic** » Sun Feb 17, 2008 8:43 pm

Hi everyone,

I've seen on bbts.com and digitaltoys.com that they have pre-orders for Masterpiece MP-4 Optimus Prime with trailer due to be available on March 2008. Does anyone know anything about Takara Tomy making another run on this Masterpiece? I've contacted http://www.hlj.com and tfzone.co.uk and they still don't have info about it. I sure hope there will be a new run for this Masterpiece!

Does anyone know how where to contact Takara Tomy by e-mail or a website form? I'd like to confirm this because if they sell again this one I wanna switch my 20th Anniversary DVD Masterpiece for this one. The ones currently on eBay, etc are too much expensive...

EDIT: I didn't see that there was already a thread about this and my post got moved to this thread. So it seems a bit out of place from everything said before... but I've read all that was said now that I saw it was moved over here. What counts is the intention

. The best price to buy from Portugal is on HobbyLink Japan or tfzone.co.uk, so I hope they'll have it, especially HLJ, it's the cheapest place as they don't scale their prices like bbts... and the shipping cost is real and acceptable.

Take care