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News Credits: 293 · Sun Dec 18, 2016 11:09 pm

Who wants another exclusive, expensive, incredibly elusive new Masterpiece figure? The creative minds over at A Bathing Ape (or BAPE) have decided to grab the MP-10 Optimus Prime once again for a black/grey tasting of their patented camouflage flavor. Details are sketchy right now, but in the past their Green and Red MP10's were distributed in their stores for a limited time and extremely low numbers, and it's likely to be the case for this rendition. Does this news change your life and break the bank, or not even register on your radar? Log in and let us know below, and stay tuned to Seibertron.com: home for the best Galleries and Conversation around!

News Credits: 293 · Sun Dec 18, 2016 11:29 pm

Why.

WHY?

*deep breath*
Well, I see two silver linings:
1. I'm getting in on the ground floor. I've got my ear to the ground and I'm ready to hit the streets!
2. I bought the first two BAPE's for completions sake. I greatly appreciate them now, but wasn't excited at the time. This guy though? Sexy. It's very close to the Dead "Sleep Mode" I've wanted from the MP10 mold so desperately.

MyFigureCollection.net collection · Mon Dec 19, 2016 4:53 am

Here's the most important part from their website (posted in English just to taunt us I'm sure).

There will be a drawing held in BAPE STORE® Harajuku, Shibuya, BAPE KIDS® Harajuku and BAPEXCLUSIVE™ Aoyama at 9:30 AM on Monday, january 2nd for the upcoming Transformers x A BATHING APE® Customers who arrive later than 9:30 will not partake in the drawing, no exceptions.

*Please contact your local BAPE STORE® for more information.

*bapeonline.com does not sell.This item is limited edition in Japan.

Also ￥17,800 +tax (so ￥19,224 or US$164), not that you'd ever be able to buy one at that price without walking into their store and buying one after winning the drawing giving you the chance to do so. There's a reason why these tend to go for between US$500-$900.

Emerje

News Credits: 1 · Mon Dec 19, 2016 9:03 am

Oh wow,look. Another repaint.

Mon Dec 19, 2016 9:55 am

shajaki wrote:Why.

WHY?

*deep breath*
Well, I see two silver linings:
1. I'm getting in on the ground floor. I've got my ear to the ground and I'm ready to hit the streets!
2. I bought the first two BAPE's for completions sake. I greatly appreciate them now, but wasn't excited at the time. This guy though? Sexy. It's very close to the Dead "Sleep Mode" I've wanted from the MP10 mold so desperately.

Fight it shajaki. Don't let this urge consume you!

News Credits: 462 · Mon Dec 19, 2016 9:57 am

Ah yes, the perfect MP-10 release to reenact this:

News Credits: 11 · Mon Dec 19, 2016 12:32 pm

It's mystifying that these are made in such tiny numbers even one day's labour should allow them to make hundreds more of them.

And to link them to a draw is kinda crazy when they likely have more branches than they have places operating the draws and even winning the draw does not guarantee you get the right to buy a Bape 'Convoy'.

But then Lucky Draw toys are kinda objectionable to me when they are properly coloured toys - it does not matter as much when they are plated toys you can't even Transform.

The real joke is that a lot of the people who do end up with them may sell them on anyway.

It's also annoying that it's the sleep mode colour scheme that would have had a broader interest than just this too. This is a colour scheme (bar the camo stripe) better suited to a Tokyo Toyshow exclusive.

News Credits: 241 · Mon Dec 19, 2016 3:34 pm

We should have seen this coming after the green and red, because G1 Convoy was released by the same company in all three colors before. This should be the last one.

News Credits: 656 · Mon Dec 19, 2016 6:11 pm

If the G1 mold versions are any indication, this will be slightly easier to get and slightly cheaper than the red one, which itself was slightly easier to get and slightly cheaper than the green one. The fact that there's an accurate KO on the market for MP-10R and not for 10A might have kept the prices in check though.

Maybe this release will convince the KO guys to run 10A again but with the proper shoulder configuration! I don't like KOs but I'm not so much of a hard liner that I would turn down an almost-as-good one for something on a Lucky Draw level of price/availability.

RAR wrote:The real joke is that a lot of the people who do end up with them may sell them on anyway.

Not on the secondary market. There are very few legit ones for good reason. Most of the time, it's "buy it from Japan from someone that stood in line for it" or you're up the creek.

RAR wrote:It's also annoying that it's the sleep mode colour scheme that would have had a broader interest than just this too. This is a colour scheme (bar the camo stripe) better suited to a Tokyo Toyshow exclusive.

Actually this is grey and black, and if we learned anything from MP-4S it's that if they do a "Sleep" Convoy out of this mold it won't be grey and black. It'll be that ashen red and blue again.

News Credits: 101 · Mon Dec 19, 2016 6:31 pm

I may be late to tell this but I know SOMEONE who will jump on that Graypetimus no matter what.

COUGH!SajakiCOUGH! :lol:

News Credits: 11 · Mon Dec 19, 2016 7:57 pm

He doesn't go ashen tinted red / blue when he dies he goes gray.

Unless someone has been mucking about the colour balance on the latest Blurays again ?

Just to be clear I am saying that a good portion of the people who queue up will sell the Bape item on as the 2nd market value off as it is guaranteed profit - it's something students tend to do when they have the morning off so I hear.. go pick up the campaign stuff and resell it for cash.

That means the collectors who do get it (including Japanese ones) may have to pay that premium for them - especially as it's a offer that only takes place in two locations.

But now that there is at least a chance of a Bape deco getting KO'd by the Chinese market some might consider it not worth the cost and effort of trying to get the original when it is going to cost you (3rd party) "Combiner Money" or worse.

News Credits: 293 · Mon Dec 19, 2016 9:32 pm

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:This should be the last one.

Lord I hope so #-o

-Kanrabat- wrote:I may be late to tell this but I know SOMEONE who will jump on that Graypetimus no matter what.

COUGH!SajakiCOUGH!

News Credits: 293 · Mon Dec 19, 2016 9:33 pm

Oh, and the KO's? They didn't effect the prices of the legit's much at all.

News Credits: 656 · Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:40 pm

RAR wrote:He doesn't go ashen tinted red / blue when he dies he goes gray.

Unless someone has been mucking about the colour balance on the latest Blurays again ?

Was referring to MP-4S: http://www.seibertron.com/transformers- ... me/3855/1/

News Credits: 656 · Mon Dec 19, 2016 10:44 pm

shajaki wrote:Oh, and the KO's? They didn't effect the prices of the legit's much at all.

They did on the red one! I think mine was sub-$500 shortly after it came out and it was the cheapest by a country mile. Had one minor scratch and the seller decided to just be rid of it. Outside of that, they quickly got up to around $700-$800 and sat around there for awhile until the KO hit. Now it's pretty easy to jump on eBay and get a legit MP-10R around $450-$550.

News Credits: 293 · Mon Dec 19, 2016 11:02 pm

ScottyP wrote:
shajaki wrote:Oh, and the KO's? They didn't effect the prices of the legit's much at all.
They did on the red one! I think mine was sub-$500 shortly after it came out and it was the cheapest by a country mile. Had one minor scratch and the seller decided to just be rid of it. Outside of that, they quickly got up to around $700-$800 and sat around there for awhile until the KO hit. Now it's pretty easy to jump on eBay and get a legit MP-10R around $450-$550.

You're probably right. Once the hunt was over I stopped paying attention to such things.

News Credits: 293 · Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:08 pm

With maybe the fastest solicit-to-release MP ever, the (hopefully) final BAPE MP-10 has hit the streets. The Transformers Masterpiece MP-10K Convoy BAPE Black Camo Version was released today, exclusively to A Bathing Ape stores in Japan, and upon tradition he is once again in extremely limited numbers. Some of the lucky recipients snapped some pics for your viewing pleasure which you can see below (with minimal scrolling effort!). Log in and let us know what this means to you, and stay tuned to Seibertron.com: home for the best Galleries and Conversation around!

News Credits: 402 · Updated Oct 21, 2022

Go, go, Convoy Rangers!

News Credits: 293 · Mon Jan 02, 2017 11:53 pm

News Credits: 462 · Tue Jan 03, 2017 12:25 am

Kinda funny that they've chosen to parse "Blackcamo" as one word.

Tue Jan 03, 2017 1:26 am

Is that meant to be dead prime?

News Credits: 462 · Tue Jan 03, 2017 1:31 am

MGrotusque wrote:Is that meant to be dead prime?

Dead Prime didn't wear camo. :-P

Tue Jan 03, 2017 10:47 am

At this rate, MP-10 will have more redecoes than classics Optimus Prime.

News Credits: 656 · Tue Jan 03, 2017 11:09 am

Got one secured for well under $400. I'll take that and call it a win. Hooray for friends and YJ proxy services

News Credits: 4877 · Tue Jan 03, 2017 11:48 am

MGrotusque wrote:Is that meant to be dead prime?

No, just an homage to a redeco of g1 prime which had grey camo

Also, if anyone wants it, here it is for $450 and free shipping!

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... ion/37039/

And in case people didnt know, here they all are, we had many years to make that convoy rangers joke:

And I just thought of soemthing. Shajaki, would you be up for a top 5 best MP 10 issues?