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Postby Maz » Tue Jan 19, 2016 5:52 pm

The battle has been joined proper, with 3rd party companies left, right and centre putting out figures to fill gaps in Masterpiece collections. BadCube had already released Huff, Brawny, Backland, Wardog and the Evil Bug Corps, but Sunsurge is arguably their most ambitious stab at a slice of the MP market so far. For some time competing with Omnigonix’s Spinout (don’t get me started on that name), Sunsurge has comprehensively won the race to be the first MP-style release to homage the unforgettably yellow, self-adoring, other half of the most famous set of Cybertronian twins, Lamborghini Countach LP500S Super Tuning. To say that Sunsurge has been well received by collectors is an understatement. Everywhere you look, people are raving about what a great job BadCube have done and how it is comprehensively their best figure to date. I’m now ready to give my own opinion on that.

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Re: Sunstruck - TFSource Article

Postby ScottyP » Thu Jan 21, 2016 9:57 am

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I think this toy looks like an MP in vehicle mode, but robot mode is nowhere close. The legs are too segmented once posed, the collar has something I can't quite put my hands on that I don't like, and the shoulder to torso connection just has too big of a gap and it doesn't appear it can do the MP-10 method of hiding it.

Not that there are many other options, but I'm taking the "wait for a better version" road on this (and many others) right now. 3P MP has to be near perfect for me to take a chance on it - these become quickly disposable when official versions get announced.
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Re: Sunstruck - TFSource Article

Postby alexison » Fri Jan 22, 2016 10:49 am

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ScottyP wrote:I think this toy looks like an MP in vehicle mode, but robot mode is nowhere close. The legs are too segmented once posed, the collar has something I can't quite put my hands on that I don't like, and the shoulder to torso connection just has too big of a gap and it doesn't appear it can do the MP-10 method of hiding it.

Not that there are many other options, but I'm taking the "wait for a better version" road on this (and many others) right now. 3P MP has to be near perfect for me to take a chance on it - these become quickly disposable when official versions get announced.


I agree. I think both offerings look really nice in car mode but neither looks like an MP in robot mode. Bad cubes looks like a fun toy but doesn't nail the aesthetic. The other company's isn't even close.
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Re: Sunstruck - TFSource Article

Postby Andrius » Fri Jan 22, 2016 4:12 pm

Agreed. It looks like a fun toy, but definitely doesn't have the right aesthetic in bot mode to be considered an MP. It also seems a no-brainer that Takara will put out a Sunstreaker in the near future, and I'd be shocked it theirs isn't much nicer. Alt mode sure is sharp, though.
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