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News Credits: 462 · Wed Feb 03, 2016 3:31 pm

To reiterate some of the previous notions given by this issue of Hyper Hobby, in case anyone missed them, the figure is MP-31, will have four robot faces and three beast faces, the swords are too big to store inside his body but can instead be stored on his back somehow, and the height of the figure is 19cm or roughly 7.5 inches, making it about a head taller than Generations Rhinox.

News Credits: 14 · Wed Feb 03, 2016 3:31 pm

Please please please come with mutated-bat-mask-thing!

News Credits: 1646 · Wed Feb 03, 2016 3:32 pm

DecepticonFinishline wrote:Please please please come with mutated-bat-mask-thing!

I'm pretty sure it was said that it would not come with the mutant head.

News Credits: 15 · Wed Feb 03, 2016 3:38 pm

MP31?! And here I thought they were going to be their own range, similar to the Bayverse "MPs" that came out a few years ago.

Wed Feb 03, 2016 3:39 pm

im kinda digging him. It's not my main area of collecting (g1) but i loved the show and have a few of the generations BW figures. I have more connection with this than with star sabre and though I wish there to be more more g1 MP output, I don't see this as taker branching fully into BW. I just hope that they do a megatron too. I don't like having a character without his counterpart

News Credits: 1646 · Wed Feb 03, 2016 3:40 pm

Sabrblade wrote:To reiterate some of the previous notions given by this issue of Hyper Hobby, in case anyone missed them, the figure is MP-31, will have four robot faces and three beast faces, the swords are too big to store inside his body but can instead be stored on his back somehow, and the height of the figure is 19cm or roughly 7.5 inches, making it about a head taller than Generations Rhinox.

Thanks for the roundup Sabr! I updated the news story with all this information

News Credits: 1 · Wed Feb 03, 2016 3:50 pm

Best prediction on a release date?

News Credits: 462 · Wed Feb 03, 2016 4:07 pm

Deathsaurus1 wrote:Best prediction on a release date?

Sometime this year.

News Credits: 293 · Wed Feb 03, 2016 4:24 pm

Those swords look wiiiicked 8-)

News Credits: 4877 · Wed Feb 03, 2016 4:36 pm

frogbat wrote:im kinda digging him. It's not my main area of collecting (g1) but i loved the show and have a few of the generations BW figures. I have more connection with this than with star sabre and though I wish there to be more more g1 MP output, I don't see this as taker branching fully into BW. I just hope that they do a megatron too. I don't like having a character without his counterpart

This isnt first for the MP line. Starsabr doesnt have a counterpart and wasnt part of the Sunbow cartoon we got. We call it G1, but its another era entirely that has it's own name Victory.
And plus, they had both Roadrage and Exhaust which are not original G1 characters either. The MP line was never about a particular era of transformers and its been loosey goosey in what it includes.

Wed Feb 03, 2016 5:07 pm

I love that head transformation. I always liked action figures that could flip their heads around like that, and it seems delightfully 90s to me (although that's probably just because that's when I paid attention to action figures).

The only problem is the smiling faces. They look accurate enough, but they're CREEPY. Like, worry where he is in the middle of the night kind of creepy. If I ever got him, and I really want him, I would absolutely hide him in random places with those smiles and wait for people to notice.

News Credits: 4877 · Wed Feb 03, 2016 5:11 pm

CaptainMagic wrote:I love that head transformation. I always liked action figures that could flip their heads around like that, and it seems delightfully 90s to me (although that's probably just because that's when I paid attention to action figures).

Wed Feb 03, 2016 5:11 pm

william-james88 wrote:
frogbat wrote:im kinda digging him. It's not my main area of collecting (g1) but i loved the show and have a few of the generations BW figures. I have more connection with this than with star sabre and though I wish there to be more more g1 MP output, I don't see this as taker branching fully into BW. I just hope that they do a megatron too. I don't like having a character without his counterpart

This isnt first for the MP line. Starsabr doesnt have a counterpart and wasnt part of the Sunbow cartoon we got. We call it G1, but its another era entirely that has it's own name Victory.
And plus, they had both Roadrage and Exhaust which are not original G1 characters either. The MP line was never about a particular era of transformers and its been loosey goosey in what it includes.

Umm....you guys do realize BW is G1 right?

Wed Feb 03, 2016 5:18 pm

william-james88 wrote:
CaptainMagic wrote:I love that head transformation. I always liked action figures that could flip their heads around like that, and it seems delightfully 90s to me (although that's probably just because that's when I paid attention to action figures).

Yes, that. Those toys fascinated me as a kid. I would spend forever just flipping the heads around because it was so weird looking. I seem to remember a friend of mine had a bunch of Power Rangers ones that he would get mad at me for leaving with all of their heads stuck half-way flipped.

News Credits: 1 · Wed Feb 03, 2016 5:24 pm

Sabrblade wrote:
Deathsaurus1 wrote:Best prediction on a release date?
Sometime this year.

Lol I hope.

News Credits: 4877 · Wed Feb 03, 2016 5:32 pm

CaptainMagic wrote:
Yes, that. Those toys fascinated me as a kid. I would spend forever just flipping the heads around because it was so weird looking. I seem to remember a friend of mine had a bunch of Power Rangers ones that he would get mad at me for leaving with all of their heads stuck half-way flipped.

I really hope no one gets too peeved off that I am going off tangent about changing heads but this si a story I thought I would have no place to tell again (and that I just remembered). As a kid, my favourite toys were the ones that had a cool gimmick. Beast Wars toys going from beasts to robots was the best thing ever and that was always what I asked for on christmas and my birthday. I did spot this box once at toysrus and the bottom really impressed me:

It looked like he could change heads and turn from a power ranger into a T-Rex :michaelbay:

So I asked my mom to read to make sure that's what it was. She read the marking below and confirmed that yeah, this guy should at least change his head into a T-Rex. I had transformers, so I knew you could do cool stuff with changing heads and modes but I didnt see how you could do it with such a humanoid toy. So we asked the clerk and I was hopeful. The clerk didnt know, so they decided to look into it with me and we opened the box together to see if the toy could indeed turn from a power ranger into a T-Rex like the box indicated at the bottom. It was full of suspense and I remember it well. When everything was removed I turned the toy around to see what kind fo mechanism this ingenius toy must have only to realize he had nothing going on. There was no gimick, it was just the red ranger.

What crappy misleading boxart. I never made the mistake again of even thinking of buying a power ranger toy and just stuck to Beast Wars :lol:

But seriously, what kind of souless company would have such awesome misleading boxart. Maybe they thought no one would beleive it could turn into a T-Rex, but it wasnt obvious to me (I was 9), my mom or the TRU clerks.

Wed Feb 03, 2016 5:58 pm

william-james88 wrote:
CaptainMagic wrote:
Yes, that. Those toys fascinated me as a kid. I would spend forever just flipping the heads around because it was so weird looking. I seem to remember a friend of mine had a bunch of Power Rangers ones that he would get mad at me for leaving with all of their heads stuck half-way flipped.

I really hope no one gets too peeved off that I am going off tangent about changing heads but this si a story I thought I would have no place to tell again (and that I just remembered). As a kid, my favourite toys were the ones that had a cool gimmick. Beast Wars toys going from beasts to robots was the best thing ever and that was always what I asked for on christmas and my birthday. I did spot this box once at toysrus and the bottom really impressed me:

It looked like he could change heads and turn from a power ranger into a T-Rex So I asked my mom to read to make sure that's what it was. She read the marking below and confirmed that yeah, this guy should at least change his head into a T-Rex. I had transformers, so I knew you could do cool stuff with changing heads and modes but I didnt see how you could do it with such a humanoid toy. So we asked the clerk and I was hopeful. The clerk didnt know, so they decided to look into it with me and we opened the box together to see if the toy could indeed turn from a power ranger into a T-Rex like the box indicated at the bottom. It was full of suspense and I remember it well. When everything was removed I turned the toy around to see what kind fo mechanism this ingenius toy must have only to realize he had nothing going on. There was no gimick, it was just the red ranger.
What crappy misleading boxart. I never made the mistake again of even thinking of buying a power ranger toy and just stuck to Beast Wars

But seriously, what kind of souless company would have such awesome misleading boxart. Maybe they thought no one would beleive it could turn into a T-Rex, but it wasnt obvious to me (I was 9), my mom or the TRU clerks.

The company in question caught up with you eventually, Will (just, PR wasn't dinosaurs by then...)

I am loving Boss Monkey. I'm not one to be 'snobby' but this does feel like a 'Masterpiece' This is what MP toys were before TT confused it for a near main line of toys! There is so much detail and work gone into this. And it shows. Ironhide, Magnus, Hot Rod2.0...they seem so flat and belted out.

I wish the MP line was 1-2 GOOD new molds a year, maximum, again.

Shame about the robo legs at the back...but this guy has achieved so much else.

News Credits: 293 · Wed Feb 03, 2016 6:41 pm

Microraptor wrote:Umm....you guys do realize BW is G1 right?

Not technically... ask Sabreblade.

News Credits: 2 · Wed Feb 03, 2016 7:11 pm

Microraptor wrote:Umm....you guys do realize BW is G1 right?

No. No it's not. G1 ended in 91/92, when G2 started. Beast Wars is part of the Beast Era. It's like Transformers: The Next Generation. Saying it's G1 is like saying Picard is the same as Kirk. Same continuity, but different times/eras.

News Credits: 60 · Wed Feb 03, 2016 7:13 pm

I don't like battery powered gimmicks and not too in to BW but I AM getting this mechahominid :BOWDOWN:

News Credits: 3 · Wed Feb 03, 2016 8:33 pm

MAJOR robot parts on the gorilla mode feet, no sword storage, the beast mode head doesn't become the chest, and less weapons. I am sorry but this is a step back words from the original figure. I would rather they have taken the BW Primal and just cosmetically updated that, hidden all the slight robot parts, and taken out the beating cheat gimmick, then call it a day.

News Credits: 25 · Wed Feb 03, 2016 8:58 pm

Insurgent wrote:
Microraptor wrote:Umm....you guys do realize BW is G1 right?

No. No it's not. G1 ended in 91/92, when G2 started. Beast Wars is part of the Beast Era. It's like Transformers: The Next Generation. Saying it's G1 is like saying Picard is the same as Kirk. Same continuity, but different times/eras.

This is probably the simplest, yet best explanation I've ever seen on this subject. And I've seen and given many.

I raise a cold beer to you, sir!

News Credits: 4877 · Wed Feb 03, 2016 9:00 pm

MR Optimus Prime wrote:MAJOR robot parts on the gorilla mode feet, no sword storage, the beast mode head doesn't become the chest, and less weapons. I am sorry but this is a step back words from the original figure. I would rather they have taken the BW Primal and just cosmetically updated that, hidden all the slight robot parts, and taken out the beating cheat gimmick, then call it a day.

But they already did that with the telemocha one so there is no point in doing it again for the MP. You can still buy it right here and be done for the day http://www.ebay.ca/itm/Transformers-Leg ... SwBahVR1K0 (its cheaper too and scales with Gen Rhinox!)

So since we already have what you want, they decided to give us something totally new.

- The Beast mode can now stand up like he did the majority of the time.
- The Gorilla head is of a MUCH better proportion and actually looks like the show model unlike any previous incarnation.
- He has wrist pistols in both hands and they dont flip out leaving his forearms looking like they just exploded.
- More articulation everywhere! (especially the wrists/hands)
- Both the mouth and faceplate for robot
- Better proportions in robot mode
- A totally new transformation scheme to make up for the better beast mode proportions
- Less robot mode showing in beast mode, and none of those big empty lines cutting across the beast chest.

This is a step up in almost everyway and he will look more show accurate in both modes than ever before. That is what MP is all about!

Wed Feb 03, 2016 9:05 pm

I want this thing so much. I was hoping mt wife or i would have been making more money by the time this came that i could afford to splurge, but no such luck. I've always wanted the original Optimus Primal ape figure as a child. I had the bat one.

*sigh* My son will always come first though. Kids be expensive.

News Credits: 4877 · Wed Feb 03, 2016 9:09 pm

Ballistic90 wrote:I want this thing so much. I was hoping mt wife or i would have been making more money by the time this came that i could afford to splurge, but no such luck. I've always wanted the original Optimus Primal ape figure as a child. I had the bat one.

*sigh* My son will always come first though. Kids be expensive.

If you are planning on having more than one, go with cloth diapers, they save you a nice little sum of money! That's how I can still afford to buy these toys