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News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 7:33 pm

The closest Fuso great fire engine images I could find. One looks a lot like Hotspot.

by **Ultra Markus** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 8:30 pm

what ever happened to the MP Hound rumor :???:

News Credits: 3 · by **DedicatedGhostArt** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 8:32 pm

Ultra Markus wrote:what ever happened to the MP Hound rumor

Wasn't it a hoax?

News Credits: 1642 · by **D-Maximal_Primal** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 8:45 pm

SillySpringer wrote:
Ultra Markus wrote:what ever happened to the MP Hound rumor

Wasn't it a hoax?

Yes, as was MP Astrotrain and Arcee :MAXIMAL:

News Credits: 251 · by **Mindmaster** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 8:57 pm

D-Maximus_Primal wrote:
SillySpringer wrote:
Ultra Markus wrote:what ever happened to the MP Hound rumor

Wasn't it a hoax?

Yes, as was MP Astrotrain and Arcee

I'd rather have Hound than Inferno, honestly...

News Credits: 3 · by **DedicatedGhostArt** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 9:25 pm

Mindmaster wrote:
D-Maximus_Primal wrote:
SillySpringer wrote:
Ultra Markus wrote:what ever happened to the MP Hound rumor

Wasn't it a hoax?

Yes, as was MP Astrotrain and Arcee

I'd rather have Hound than Inferno, honestly...

Same-ish.

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Wed Apr 20, 2016 10:17 pm

News Credits: 650 · by **ScottyP** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 6:30 am

Ultra Markus wrote:what ever happened to the MP Hound rumor

It's not dead! There are things they want to do that depend on licensing deals and all the timing/etc around those ;)^

News Credits: 25 · by **Ironhidensh** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 6:34 am

ScottyP wrote:
Ultra Markus wrote:what ever happened to the MP Hound rumor
It's not dead! There are things they want to do that depend on licensing deals and all the timing/etc around those

Honestly, I'd be much happier if they just dropped the real car alt mode, made it a cartoon style car, and dint have to bother with a license.

News Credits: 1 · by **Gallifreyan Autobot** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 7:52 am

We have MP Hound. Its called Alternators Hound

actually, half the MP figures people want can be found within Alternators

News Credits: 293 · by **shajaki** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 8:53 am

Well.

News Credits: 25 · by **Ironhidensh** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 9:20 am

Autobot tap out wrote:We have MP Hound. Its called Alternators Hound

actually, half the MP figures people want can be found within Alternators

Masterpiece demands a higher standard than Alternators. They were great figures for their time but have been surpassed.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 2:15 pm

Ironhidensh wrote:
Autobot tap out wrote:We have MP Hound. Its called Alternators Hound

actually, half the MP figures people want can be found within Alternators

Masterpiece demands a higher standard than Alternators. They were great figures for their time but have been surpassed.

Agreed. Alternators still take up a good chunk of my shelf space (I'm only missing five), but they're no Masterpieces. They blended fairly well with the earliest MPs like Optimus Prime and Starscream, but they were left far behind when MP-10 came around.

I'm sure we'll have our MP Hound if we just wait. Hasbro has had a good relationship with their parent company, Fiat Chrysler, so they shouldn't have too much trouble making one from a license perspective. From a design perspective he might be a little tricky being such an open vehicle, doesn't give a lot of places to hide parts and still look cartoon accurate.

Emerje

News Credits: 456 · by **Sabrblade** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 2:34 pm

While no MP, Alternators Hound is an exceptionally good figure, especially when compared to the other figures of that line. It's the one Alternator I would constantly play with, transforming it back and forth with ease and making it pull off some really dynamic poses. I even fan-moded a Gerwalk Mode out of it. It really is the most fun Alternator figure I've ever handled, and I've handled quite a fair number of that line's molds. Such a joyously great figure all around.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 2:54 pm

Sabrblade wrote:While no MP, Alternators Hound is an exceptionally good figure, especially when compared to the other figures of that line. It's the one Alternator I would constantly play with, transforming it back and forth with ease and making it pull off some really dynamic poses. I even fan-moded a Gerwalk Mode out of it. It really is the most fun Alternator figure I've ever handled, and I've handled quite a fair number of that line's molds. Such a joyously great figure all around.

This is true, he was a great figure and they did a pretty good job with his proportions and hiding the rollbar. He's no substitute for a proper MP Hound, but he's definitely a great figure in his own right (as were Swindle and Rollbar by association).

Emerje

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 6:41 pm

Am I the only one who finds it funny that the offer for the early bird pricing on the 3p MP Inferno has just been extended? :lol:

News Credits: 4835 · by **william-james88** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 6:44 pm

Ironhidensh wrote:
Autobot tap out wrote:We have MP Hound. Its called Alternators Hound

actually, half the MP figures people want can be found within Alternators

Masterpiece demands a higher standard than Alternators. They were great figures for their time but have been surpassed.

I dont feel Tracks was surpassed. While MP Tracks does look way more cartoon accurate, that mold brings on a whole bunch of new problems that the alternators version didnt have.

by **Desslok2201** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 6:45 pm

I love the Alternators, but having the legit G1 alt mode in MP is worth more to me. Tracks was decent, but he wasn't a Stingray in the Alternators line

News Credits: 226 · by **Burn** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 7:20 pm

william-james88 wrote:Am I the only one who finds it funny that the offer for the early bird pricing on the 3p MP Inferno has just been extended?

Please keep 3P related posts in the 3P forums.

News Credits: 3 · by **DedicatedGhostArt** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 7:28 pm

Burn wrote:
william-james88 wrote:Am I the only one who finds it funny that the offer for the early bird pricing on the 3p MP Inferno has just been extended?

Please keep 3P related posts in the 3P forums.

It's related to MP Inferno. His point was that they seem to be keeping the dropped price probably because of the recent MP Inferno teaser.

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 7:45 pm

Hound is a Mitsubishi Jeep iirc. Datsun/Nissan for the Prowl mold and IH mold. Lancia for the WJ and Exh. Lambo for Lambor etc. VW/Porsche for BB and hopefully CJ and Jazz. Still no Mitsubishi vehicles yet unless Hound and Inferno will come in the same timed release due to licensing?

News Credits: 3 · by **DedicatedGhostArt** » Thu Apr 21, 2016 8:09 pm

fenrir72 wrote:Hound is a Mitsubishi Jeep iirc. Datsun/Nissan for the Prowl mold and IH mold. Lancia for the WJ and Exh. Lambo for Lambor etc. VW/Porsche for BB and hopefully CJ and Jazz. Still no Mitsubishi vehicles yet unless Hound and Inferno will come in the same timed release due to licensing?

I am hoping Jazz is a new and bigger MP than the BB mold to be more accurate, though, since I am not getting many MPs anyhow, a deluxe sized Jazz would be better for me. Jazz should be a new mold though than Bee and Cliff since they look so different and transform so differently.

Also, I would really want to also get an MP Glyph along with Cliffjumper. Those two I like more than BB.

News Credits: 60 · by **fenrir72** » Fri Apr 22, 2016 8:53 am

SillySpringer wrote:
fenrir72 wrote:Hound is a Mitsubishi Jeep iirc. Datsun/Nissan for the Prowl mold and IH mold. Lancia for the WJ and Exh. Lambo for Lambor etc. VW/Porsche for BB and hopefully CJ and Jazz. Still no Mitsubishi vehicles yet unless Hound and Inferno will come in the same timed release due to licensing?

I am hoping Jazz is a new and bigger MP than the BB mold to be more accurate, though, since I am not getting many MPs anyhow, a deluxe sized Jazz would be better for me. Jazz should be a new mold though than Bee and Cliff since they look so different and transform so differently.

Also, I would really want to also get an MP Glyph along with Cliffjumper. Those two I like more than BB.

You misunderstood my post on Jazz etc. If the license is/was secured, Jazz will be the size of the other cars. CJ would probably be a proportioned Porsche but in BB scale. That I'm sure of. What I meant was the license. There is still no Mitsubishi licensed cars for the MP line.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · by **Emerje** » Sun Apr 24, 2016 3:02 am

fenrir72 wrote:There is still no Mitsubishi licensed cars for the MP line.

Doing a little reading around those Mitsubishi Jeep J59s were made under license from Jeep and are Frankensteined from official Jeep parts of the time. Mitsubishi stopped making Jeeps in 1998 and seem to have replaced it with an SUV line. If the Jeep license and image defaulted back to Jeep we should be just fine since Hasbro seems to have maintained a good relationship with them and their parent companies over the years. Fail that, I doubt it would be a hard license for Takara Tomy to get from a fellow Japanese company.

Emerje