The Energon Pub

Mon Jan 07, 2013 4:02 pm

Hello, long time visitor of this site and first time poster here!

I apologize if this has been asked before, but I didn't find any topics about it.

Were there ever any third party/aftermarket pieces made for MP-5? Specifically, a smaller fusion cannon and perhaps smaller hip plates?

Personally I love the figure, but this was something I had always wondered.

News Credits: 2 · Tue Jan 08, 2013 12:47 am

The only addon kit for MP-05 that I'm aware of is this one.

Tue Jan 08, 2013 8:57 am

Ahhhh yes, I've seen that one before. Thanks for the response

News Credits: 2 · Tue Jan 08, 2013 10:28 pm

You're welcome

I'm still hopeful that Takara will do a new version of MP Megs in scale with MP-10 and with much better proportions etc. I never could get over how different MP-05 looks from the show model.

Wed Jan 09, 2013 10:22 am

I agree in that I would like an updated Megatron to go with MP-10, but I am afraid that they'll stray from his G1 cartoon alt-mode.

I personally wouldn't be satisfied with a tank Megatron. He must be a gun for me, especially if it's a Masterpiece figure.

What do you think?

News Credits: 2 · Wed Jan 09, 2013 4:09 pm

I'm with you on that, he needs to be a gun (again), just with better proportions. I think they might do one again. The retailers online will just have to do the same thing they always do with the orange plugs inserted into the barrels.

Fri Jan 11, 2013 11:42 pm

I think right now we would have to depend on a Takara release for a gun mold at least in America

Fri Jan 11, 2013 11:42 pm

I think right now we would have to depend on a Takara release for a gun mold at least in America

News Credits: 2 · Sat Jan 12, 2013 12:06 am

samuraiman wrote:I think right now we would have to depend on a Takara release for a gun mold at least in America

Agreed. I can't see Hasbro (or any other US toy company) releasing a realistic looking gunformer and trying to put it on the store shelves in the toys section.

Sat Jan 12, 2013 9:14 am

Yeah, his proportions are a tiny bit wonky, but I do love my MP-5!

And yeah, the only third party accessories I know of for him are the previously mentioned ones which, as you may have noticed from my photos, I have.

That all being said, as much as I do love him, if they made a new one in the new Masterpiece scale, that was still a gun, and that like the MP-10 improved the accuracy of the look of the figure, and that was more sturdy then MP-5, and (since, like MP-5, it would be likely to be a Masterpiece mold that wouldn't be released domestically) the cost to import one wasn't too hideous... well, I'd jump all over that!