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News Credits: 119 · by **daimchoc** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:11 am

Pre-orders:

TFS - Cubex - Old Timer Series 01 - Engineer Huff
RK - Cubex - Ancestor Rebuilder Series 01 - Engineer Huff. Preorder. Available in December 2013. - Week 44, 28th October 2013 - Just Listed Items
BBTS - Cubex Old Timer Series 01 - Huff - Third Party Transforming Toys & Accessories Cubex

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:47 am

THIS IS HOW YOU DO A PRODUCT ANNOUNCEMENT!

No silhouettes of in-progress sketches. No pictures of only part of a figure. No heavily pixilated picture.

Just some straight-up product shots of the (what I'm assuming) near-completed prototype.

Still, I don't collect MP figs, so this doesn't do much for me, but it's still a better reveal than many other companies offerings.

News Credits: 119 · by **daimchoc** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 10:49 am

More pictures here:

http://wbxia.com/u/2830944510

and

http://www.hk-tf.com/discuz/upload/view ... a=page%3D1

News Credits: 461 · by **mooncake623** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 12:14 pm

daimchoc wrote:More pictures her:

Huffer is a girl?... lol

also it looks huge, doesn't look to be in-scale with the new MP Line

EDIT: Never mind looks to be in scale

by **Rated X** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 12:50 pm

I like it. I dont give a damn about MP scale. However if he is the same height as Hench/Cogz, he will be replacing the midget sized Rager on my classics shelf. You cant win with scale, but this is a serious improvement over Rager. Bring on the Pipes retool.

by **necr0blivion** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 2:03 pm

I wish the cab would sit a little lower in robot mode, but otherwise I'm very excited about this. This Huffer looks great!

News Credits: 10 · by **Arctorro** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 6:53 pm

Looks great! So that is MP scale then? Looks like it is quite a bit bigger than iGear's not-so-mini bots. If so, I'll be passing in favour of the eventual Takara release.

News Credits: 409 · by **Stormrider** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 7:25 pm

Love the design and the size is perfect for MP figures. His head is just at below MP Sideswipes chest. The design and transformation looks very similar to MP Huffer prototype that was shown with MP10.

by **FortMacs** » Thu Jul 11, 2013 9:22 pm

looks real nice. have to wait and see a price before I decide if ill try and get one.

by **NOS** » Fri Jul 12, 2013 11:30 pm

Interesting that there aren't any pics of it standing up on its own. Have a feeling it's too back heavy to support itself.

News Credits: 767 · by **Dead Metal** » Sat Jul 13, 2013 5:53 am

mooncake623 wrote:
daimchoc wrote:More pictures her:

Huffer is a girl?... lol

also it looks huge, doesn't look to be in-scale with the new MP Line

EDIT: Never mind looks to be in scale

Those are two different ones, the one the topic is about and the XTransbots version at the bottom (I wonder what XTransbots knocked off since I don't remember any other company making one before).

This looks kinda cool, but there is something off about it, mostly the head could be better.

News Credits: 372 · by **Cyberpath** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 10:52 am

Looks pretty good so far!

by **Wh33l Jck** » Sun Jul 14, 2013 10:32 pm

I don't know how to feel about this. I would imagine every season one character is on the table for Takara to do.

I do like 3rd party stuff, but I just really hope that 3rd parties doing MP's does not deter Takara from doing the same characters. No offense to Quakwave or the 2 Huffer designs, but Takara can do better IMHO.

I like vehicle-mode of Cubex and robot-mode of X-transbots.

I'm wary of X-transbots though....the quality of their Powerglide is suspect, and their Ironhide and Ratchet were supposed to come out almost a year ago. Its almost worse than Igears delay, but no one is paying much attention.

News Credits: 119 · by **daimchoc** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 7:28 pm

News Credits: 409 · by **Stormrider** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 10:31 pm

I can't put my finger on it, but he doesn't look like Huffer. Maybe it's his head and facial expression.

News Credits: 10 · by **Arctorro** » Mon Jul 15, 2013 10:36 pm

He is looking better in these pics, very show accurate. Not sure why they are doing a comparison with a non-MP figure though...

Stormrider wrote:I can't put my finger on it, but he doesn't look like Huffer. Maybe it's his head and facial expression.

His head is a bit different, but otherwise he is Huffer.

by **tmk9883** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 2:42 pm

Glad to see more masterpiece scale figures, but Ill wait to see a video review before I pull the trigger. In all the pics he looks back heavy and is leaning forward to stand up.

by **NTESHFT** » Tue Jul 16, 2013 5:45 pm

Preordering as soon as it becomes available...

News Credits: 409 · by **Stormrider** » Wed Jul 17, 2013 7:44 pm

I like the alt mode design.

News Credits: 119 · by **daimchoc** » Sat Oct 19, 2013 10:32 pm

News Credits: 10 · by **Arctorro** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 6:34 am

Not sure why no one posted these pics here...

Even though I know Takara will be doing their own version at some point he is hard to resist!

News Credits: 372 · by **Cyberpath** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 7:05 am

Very impressive. Fits with the Masterpiece style. And I like how he's short in robot mode yet bigger as a truck.

News Credits: 33 · by **Genocide G2.0** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 7:46 am

X transbots is still wining between these two characters imo , the only thing i like better on this one so far is that the shins have no wheels hanging off them .

News Credits: 14 · by **robotmel** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 2:27 pm

Yep, this image confirms this figure is not actually Masterpiece in scale but large Deluxe/Voyager at best.
Do I really need to point out the scale difference between a car and a large truck/rig?
:lol:

Im not knocking Cubex and their take on Huffer as it offers a great alternative to having two similar looking figures which portray Huffer and (X-Transbots) Pipes.

News Credits: 1 · by **rpetras** » Sun Oct 20, 2013 3:21 pm

The MP line has been trying to keep to 'toon scale, and this would be about right for Huffer.

I like the engineering on the other Huffer better, but this fits as more of a G1 homage due to the alt mode being spot on to the G1 toy and toon.

I'm in wait and see mode on these guys.