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Some people want Magnus to be all one piece, however: I don't know how the transformation of this KFC toy will be, but I have to believe in order to make that work you need some VERY thin panels that fold into each other to get the legs all the way near the white truck body. It will have to be one sturdy as hell toy (easier said than done), and probably won't be fun to transform at all.

If they can make it work fairly easy more props to them.

Everyone knows Takara MP would be a Truck plus armor, it is a direct homage to the G1 toy. An offical Magnus has to win out here for sure.

I wonder if the transformation will be along the lines of Titanium Magnus...

Well, this may be irreverent:

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

Time to make this classics scale KFC.

Is KFC Ultra Magnus on his way??

Hmm.....

That's not a horrible looking figure. While I do love City Commander, I won't pretend that I wouldn't like my Ultra Magnus to have more posability.

Sodan-1 wrote::-? Hmm.....

That's not a horrible looking figure. While I do love City Commander, I won't pretend that I wouldn't like my Ultra Magnus to have more posability.

Yeah, at present it doesn't look all that different from Titanium UM...

from KFC it's going to be a POS.

I don't know why so many people defend this company. He uses plastics that are no different than crappy KOs

mooncake623 wrote:from KFC it's going to be a POS.

I don't know why so many people defend this company. He uses plastics that are no different than crappy KOs

This 100%.

Why anyone would buy a MP Ultra Magnus that will fall apart within hours of pulling it out of the box when Takara is doing a quality version is beyond me.

I forgot this thing was intended to be MP scale.

Have to agree; what's the point?

Arctorro wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:from KFC it's going to be a POS.

I don't know why so many people defend this company. He uses plastics that are no different than crappy KOs

This 100%.

Why anyone would buy a MP Ultra Magnus that will fall apart within hours of pulling it out of the box when Takara is doing a quality version is beyond me.

^This & This.

Comrades in arms!

megatronus wrote:

Arctorro wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:from KFC it's going to be a POS.

I don't know why so many people defend this company. He uses plastics that are no different than crappy KOs

This 100%.

Why anyone would buy a MP Ultra Magnus that will fall apart within hours of pulling it out of the box when Takara is doing a quality version is beyond me.

^This & This.

Comrades in arms!

All the smaller toys by default use thiner,weaker,lighter plastic

Lets try to give KFC the benefit of the doubt,As some did for PE.

I plan to buy this KFC Ultra Magnus toy. As I like the scale,the Titanium version & the design.

Buyers are not buying the same design set up. The Takara version is a parts former. While the KFC version is not.

If you are worried about this toys QC issues. Before you buy,Watch a few fans reviewing the toy in a you tube video. Most of them give honest opinions.

Tsutsukakushi wrote:

megatronus wrote:

Arctorro wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:from KFC it's going to be a POS.

I don't know why so many people defend this company. He uses plastics that are no different than crappy KOs

This 100%.

Why anyone would buy a MP Ultra Magnus that will fall apart within hours of pulling it out of the box when Takara is doing a quality version is beyond me.

^This & This.

Comrades in arms!

All the smaller toys by default use thiner,weaker,lighter plastic

Lets try to give KFC the benefit of the doubt,As some did for PE.

I plan to buy this KFC Ultra Magnus toy. As I like the scale,the Titanium version & the design.

Buyers are not buying the same design set up. The Takara version is a parts former. While the KFC version is not.

But this thing is ugly as ****... and the same scale as an official MP Ultra Magnus. I bet this thing doesn't even come out.

*EDIT oh wow this site sensors... will adjust my language

mooncake623 wrote:

Tsutsukakushi wrote:

megatronus wrote:

Arctorro wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:from KFC it's going to be a POS.

I don't know why so many people defend this company. He uses plastics that are no different than crappy KOs

This 100%.

Why anyone would buy a MP Ultra Magnus that will fall apart within hours of pulling it out of the box when Takara is doing a quality version is beyond me.

^This & This.

Comrades in arms!

All the smaller toys by default use thiner,weaker,lighter plastic

Lets try to give KFC the benefit of the doubt,As some did for PE.

I plan to buy this KFC Ultra Magnus toy. As I like the scale,the Titanium version & the design.

Buyers are not buying the same design set up. The Takara version is a parts former. While the KFC version is not.

But this thing is ugly as ****... and the same scale as an official MP Ultra Magnus. I bet this thing doesn't even come out.

*EDIT oh wow this site sensors... will adjust my language

Wow, what did you use before, the queen of all swear words? o_O

And to Tsutsukakushi, a company's reputation is a very valid reason to not purchase from them. I sometimes wonder if you are just a shill for some of these 3P companies. I'll never buy another Lexmark printer because of the bad experiences I have had with the two I owned. It doesn't matter if they got better and are really high quality today. I'm not going to risk it again. The same can easily be said for these 3P toy companies.

It's not even MP scale, it's too big to be. The poll ended with people wanting the insanely huge version that's out of scale with the MP line.

The design looks cool, but KFC has this tendency to make products that look really crappy quality wise, they seem to use less paint than Hasbro does.

megatronus wrote:

Arctorro wrote:

mooncake623 wrote:from KFC it's going to be a POS.

I don't know why so many people defend this company. He uses plastics that are no different than crappy KOs

This 100%.

Why anyone would buy a MP Ultra Magnus that will fall apart within hours of pulling it out of the box when Takara is doing a quality version is beyond me.

^This & This.

Comrades in arms!

Tsutsukakushi wrote:All the smaller toys by default use thiner,weaker,lighter plastic

Tell that to the PE, TW and FP headmasters. They are all smaller than the KFC cassettes and much better quality.

Tsutsukakushi wrote:Lets try to give KFC the benefit of the doubt,As some did for PE.

We've done that multiple times and gotten burned every single time, have you every bought one of their products?

Tsutsukakushi wrote:I plan to buy this KFC Ultra Magnus toy. As I like the scale,the Titanium version & the design.

Hope you've got plenty of money to burn then.

Tsutsukakushi wrote:Buyers are not buying the same design set up. The Takara version is a parts former. While the KFC version is not.

The Takara version will be G1 accurate and superb quality while this version will not.


Not sure why I asked you a question seeing as I wont see the reply unless someone quotes you!

Dead Metal wrote:It's not even MP scale, it's too big to be. The poll ended with people wanting the insanely huge version that's out of scale with the MP line.

The design looks cool, but KFC has this tendency to make products that look really crappy quality wise, they seem to use less paint than Hasbro does.

I didn't know he was changed to be much bigger, that makes this even more pointless!

They'd need to apply some paint before they could really be a contender in that race

I have bought MULTIPLE products from Fansproject (6), Perfect Effect (3), iGear (3), Toyworld (3), knockoffs of Fansproject (2), a knockoff of Master Mind Creations (1), and knockoffs of Takara (1). I even have CMs products (3). I will gladly provide my honest opinions on all of them, with the pros and cons of each, as well as a list of what they are, if anyone is curious. None of them scared me off of future products.

I have bought 1 and only 1 product from KFC. It was the two tiny little add-on missiles/guns for Fall of Cybertron Ultra Magnus. They cost a whopping $20, and are the cheapest piece of Transformers-related merchandise I have ever bought. The plastic is terrible, and the design makes it virtually impossible to actually assemble and disassemble as intended. If you do, the cheap plastic makes it virtually impossible not to break it.
If they can't get something that small and simple right, how am I supposed to trust them for something like this?

Every product a company makes affects its reputation. Every single one. Heck, that's the whole point of trademark law: if you work hard to put out a quality product, your reputation reaps the benefits.

While I like the cgi render, I'm not giving this figure a dime until I see reviews of the final product.

As much as people hate on KFC, none of their stuff actually broke on me. I really like the stuff I bought from them (which is limited to tapes; didn't pick up their Perceptor).

At MP scale this holds no interest for me.

Arctorro wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:It's not even MP scale, it's too big to be. The poll ended with people wanting the insanely huge version that's out of scale with the MP line.

The design looks cool, but KFC has this tendency to make products that look really crappy quality wise, they seem to use less paint than Hasbro does.

I didn't know he was changed to be much bigger, that makes this even more pointless!

They'd need to apply some paint before they could really be a contender in that race

Seriously, they had two options:

• robot in scale with MP 10, being about two heads taller, but the alt-mode being smaller than the MP 10 cab
• alt-mode in scale with MP 10, but with a huge robot-mode that's taller than MP 01

Option two won because it would have looked weird to have a truck next to MP10 that's smaller than it is, because we're apparently all in this hobby to collect cars and trucks and don't give a toss about robots.
I bet you this is going to sell terribly, because it's going to be much more expensive than the Takara version that comes out sometime this year, which will satisfy the alt-mode fetishists and the minority of robot fans equally.

I kinda wanted this to be leader scale. As I wanted it more for classics & less for MP. I wanted it to be Leader scale so it could be a Competing scale with other Leader toys from Rid,AEC,Movie,TFA,TFP-BH,2014 30th Leader scale toys.

If KFC's purpose for this toy was to compete with HasTak's MP TF toys. Then I support the increased voted on scale. This toy should be much bigger in bot mode compared to MP-10,As it has armor. If the price is not insane,I'll try to buy it.


After that Brick DOTM Ultimate Optimus toy. I Have lost faith in HasTak. tacked on armor on a Leader scale toy seems like a uphill battle. It'll be hard to make this thing look good & be well articulated. The Takara Price for this will be well over $300.

Hasbro trying to sell this at USA TRU stores won't be a easy task. The size & price might make TRU USA say,no thanks.

Dead Metal wrote:Seriously, they had two options:

• robot in scale with MP 10, being about two heads taller, but the alt-mode being smaller than the MP 10 cab
• alt-mode in scale with MP 10, but with a huge robot-mode that's taller than MP 01

Option two won because it would have looked weird to have a truck next to MP10 that's smaller than it is, because we're apparently all in this hobby to collect cars and trucks and don't give a toss about robots.
I bet you this is going to sell terribly, because it's going to be much more expensive than the Takara version that comes out sometime this year, which will satisfy the alt-mode fetishists and the minority of robot fans equally.

Ok, please excuse me while I go to my default response...

Personally I'd prefer the robot mode to scale, but I also couldn't live with the undersized alt mode. Neither of those options will lead to a Masterpiece figure

While we didn't know exactly when it was going to happen, we knew MP Ultra Magnus was on his way. The designer hinted that MP-10 has elements required to make UM work, you only make that extra effort for one reason. If the KFC people have any brains at all they will scrap this one

Arctorro wrote:Not sure why I asked you a question seeing as I wont see the reply unless someone quotes you!

Frenemies!