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[Nathaniel Prime]

Huh, guess I should have posted where I found these photos yesterday. Ah well. Anyway, I wish I could afford this, because it looks awesome.

On an unrelated side note, I am willing to trade my complete CW Ultra Magnus for a Hasbro Masterpiece Bluestreak. I just want one MP figure, and I guess Bluestreak might be the closest value to what I can trade for. PM me if you're interested.

[Randomhero]

Huh, guess I should have posted where I found these photos yesterday. Ah well. Anyway, I wish I could afford this, because it looks awesome.

On an unrelated side note, I am willing to trade my complete CW Ultra Magnus for a Hasbro Masterpiece Bluestreak. I just want one MP figure, and I guess Bluestreak might be the closest value to what I can trade for. PM me if you're interested.

Get a MP bumblebee. Most sites have him under $50 now and the G2 one is even cheaper and he’s worth it. I sold mine and regret it but I’m planning on getting the G2 one to stand next to my original G2 Bee I’ve miraculously lugged around for 26 years and stayed with me through 4 moves.

[Nathaniel Prime]

Huh, guess I should have posted where I found these photos yesterday. Ah well. Anyway, I wish I could afford this, because it looks awesome.

On an unrelated side note, I am willing to trade my complete CW Ultra Magnus for a Hasbro Masterpiece Bluestreak. I just want one MP figure, and I guess Bluestreak might be the closest value to what I can trade for. PM me if you're interested.

Get a MP bumblebee. Most sites have him under $50 now and the G2 one is even cheaper and he’s worth it. I sold mine and regret it but I’m planning on getting the G2 one to stand next to my original G2 Bee I’ve miraculously lugged around for 26 years and stayed with me through 4 moves.

That is a good idea, I like it. The G2 version is pretty lovely. Unfortunately though, I am in a kind of position where I cannot spend money on one, so right now, I can only trade. Your suggestion us really good though, thanks for sharing

[Randomhero]

Huh, guess I should have posted where I found these photos yesterday. Ah well. Anyway, I wish I could afford this, because it looks awesome.

On an unrelated side note, I am willing to trade my complete CW Ultra Magnus for a Hasbro Masterpiece Bluestreak. I just want one MP figure, and I guess Bluestreak might be the closest value to what I can trade for. PM me if you're interested.

Get a MP bumblebee. Most sites have him under $50 now and the G2 one is even cheaper and he’s worth it. I sold mine and regret it but I’m planning on getting the G2 one to stand next to my original G2 Bee I’ve miraculously lugged around for 26 years and stayed with me through 4 moves.

That is a good idea, I like it. The G2 version is pretty lovely. Unfortunately though, I am in a kind of position where I cannot spend money on one, so right now, I can only trade. Your suggestion us really good though, thanks for sharing

Hope someone is willing to help ya. I don’t have any MPs. I got out of that game when I realized they were just collecting dust on a shelf. Best of luck to ya though!

[william-james88]

Nathaniel, for your best odds just write a post in our Buy Sell Trade forum.

[ilikerobits]

You can post pic after pic after pic ... you can show me all the accessories ... you can do whatever you want - I STILL CAN'T AFFORD IT, and there is no amount of "convincing" or "asking me if I'm still on the fence about it" that is going to change the fact that it's out of my price range.

[william-james88]

You can post pic after pic after pic ... you can show me all the accessories ... you can do whatever you want - I STILL CAN'T AFFORD IT, and there is no amount of "convincing" or "asking me if I'm still on the fence about it" that is going to change the fact that it's out of my price range.

Same for me. But I dont actually like it enough anyway. That bare bones deco in alt mode (especially with the trailer) is a rather big turn off.

[Ultra Markus]

the cab isnt cartoon accurate enough

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[ZeroWolf]

the cab isnt cartoon accurate enough

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Well they need to keep something back to sell the version 4...

[-Kanrabat-]

You can post pic after pic after pic ... you can show me all the accessories ... you can do whatever you want - I STILL CAN'T AFFORD IT, and there is no amount of "convincing" or "asking me if I'm still on the fence about it" that is going to change the fact that it's out of my price range.

Same for me. But I dont actually like it enough anyway. That bare bones deco in alt mode (especially with the trailer) is a rather big turn off.

Appart the price, my main reason to skip on this is that I already have both MP-01 and MP-10. So that MP Optimus 3.0 is getting redundant. I may have triple-dipped if he was the same price as MP-10. But 600 freaking dollars? Oh HELL no. That money would go for a Dollfie Dream instead. Because at least, that's a thing I don't already have.

[AllNewSuperRobot]

Well I just saw that In Demand toys are sold out of their MP-44 Prime pre-orders, at £320... Outrageous. I know it could be perceived as hypocritical of me to decry the price meanwhile paying £230 for MP Beast Wars Megatron. The main difference is there is no other BW Megatron figures in the line to choose from. Plus I know he is the biggest figure in BW Season One, so the ceiling in terms of price. But the Prime fetish has certainly reached its apex here.

Besides, how can MP-44 be the most cartoon accurate ever? He isn't Grey...

[-Kanrabat-]

Besides, how can MP-44 be the most cartoon accurate ever? He isn't Grey...

Dunno about the grey but, but the real issue is the ginormous backpack. I find this unforgivable.

[AllNewSuperRobot]

Besides, how can MP-44 be the most cartoon accurate ever? He isn't Grey...

Dunno about the grey but, but the real issue is the ginormous backpack. I find this unforgivable.

Slightly off topic, but that was my issue with MP-40 Hot Rodimus. When I transformed him, I was expecting one more concertina fold on his torso to close him up.

[william-james88]

Well I just saw that In Demand toys are sold out of their MP-44 Prime pre-orders, at £320... Outrageous. I know it could be perceived as hypocritical of me to decry the price meanwhile paying £230 for MP Beast Wars Megatron. The main difference is there is no other BW Megatron figures in the line to choose from.

I thought the main difference was 100 pounds

[AllNewSuperRobot]

Well I just saw that In Demand toys are sold out of their MP-44 Prime pre-orders, at £320... Outrageous. I know it could be perceived as hypocritical of me to decry the price meanwhile paying £230 for MP Beast Wars Megatron. The main difference is there is no other BW Megatron figures in the line to choose from.

I thought the main difference was 100 pounds

[Cyberpath]

EDIT: Phone pix removed. Scans available: takara-tomy-transformers-masterpiece-mp-44-optimus-prime-3-0-discussion-thread-p2006667.php#p2006667

[Ironhidensh]

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[Seibertron]

Besides, how can MP-44 be the most cartoon accurate ever? He isn't Grey...

Dunno about the grey but, but the real issue is the ginormous backpack. I find this unforgivable.

Slightly off topic, but that was my issue with MP-40 Hot Rodimus. When I transformed him, I was expecting one more concertina fold on his torso to close him up.

Not to mention the red pieces on the back of his shoulders that shouldn't be there that stand out like sore thumbs in front of his yellow back shield crest thingee.

[Cyberpath]

Scans by Loopaza from the new Figure King mag:

Jetpack fits on trailer like in "Prime Target" and on Sideswipe's back like in MTMtE 3.

A bunch of different set-ups for the trailer.

Plus a drawer for some of his accessories, including the alternative heads.



SOURCE: https://www.facebook.com/loopaza/

[-Kanrabat-]

A drawer in the trailer for the accessories. Eh, pretty clever and nice!

[blackeyedprime]

Gold lagoon Takara Legends Soundwave release too, think thats first time I've seen that.

[Cyberpath]

Truck mode:


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[starfish]

Hitch section looks a bit messy, but not as bad as I first thought. I suppose that’s the trade-off... do you want a hitch section that’s neat but way too high (like MP10 and those 3rd party ones), or messy and low?

[-Kanrabat-]

This much "hollow mess" is pretty forgivable considering that usually, it's way emptier than that on a real truck.

[william-james88]

We are still getting new images from the Winter Wonder Festival taking place in Japan right now. While the new reveals are getting all the attention, other toys we know are coming but aren't out yet were also present. Like the very divisive Masterpiece MP-44 Optimus Prime Ver 3.0. We had images of the back of the vehicle in colour, which is something we had not seen yet. Grey model images showed the back of the cab as a mess of parts but you will let us know if it looks more uniform in colour.

This toy will be coming out in the US and Japan at the same time later this year for around $440 USD. Hasbro's release will be identical in every way, including Prime speaking Japanese, but it will have a slip cover with english on it so that it can be distributed in the US. You can get a look at a previous slip cover here to get a sense of what that will look like.

These images come from Gamerlingual and @N_A_M_E_.