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News Credits: 5749 · by **El Duque** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:01 pm

Japanese toy blogger Alfes 2010 has uploaded in-hand images of Takara's recently released MP-09B Black Rodimus, an evil repaint of MP-09 Rodimus Convoy. We've mirrored a few of his images below, the rest can be viewed at the following links: Gallery 1 - Gallery 2 - Gallery 3 - Gallery 4

News Credits: 23 · by **ZenPrime** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 4:09 pm

Had mine sitting in my POL but decided to return it. I'm not sure if it's worth the $225 price tag...

News Credits: 402 · by **Mkall** » Tue Dec 06, 2011 5:27 pm

That's kind of cool, but sadly there's no real place for him in my collection.

by **zephon** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:05 am

Does anyone know if this is a repaint of the first version or the second version of MP Rodimus? :grin:

by **Blackmoon** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 9:32 am

Not really digging the colors.... Maybe if they would have made the whole chest area black with a white flame decal and just made his upper legs white and take the purple highlight off his head and made it all black.

That would've been a cooler look in my opinion.

News Credits: 241 · by **Jelze Bunnycat** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:16 am

zephon wrote:Does anyone know if this is a repaint of the first version or the second version of MP Rodimus?

Later release = later mold.

by **dinogeist** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:43 am

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
zephon wrote:Does anyone know if this is a repaint of the first version or the second version of MP Rodimus?

Later release = later mold.

I kinda wish they would have repainted this in Takara car robot Speedbreaker colors & persona. I view speedbreaker as car robots alternate universion version of hotrod. i envision fireconvoy dying or receiving battle damage & handing the matrix over to speedbreaker. speedbreaker would power up into his prime leader form. sideburn did get a TFCC recolor using the classics 1.0 deluxe rodimus toy mold. might as well go all the way & give the speedbreaker/sideburn character the mp rodimus toy mold via a recolor.

i use to be a fan of black & grey takara repaints. but after a while they just seemed like souless/sparkless drones with dull color schemes. at least for me the regular colors look better than the black recolors. examples: bw2nd lioconvoy regular colors. animated leader sized megatron looks better than the black recolor.

News Credits: 5 · by **zodconvoy** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 11:48 am

I like it but it'd sell better if the older head had a goatee.

Just sayin'.

News Credits: 12 · by **GuyIncognito** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 4:40 pm

Why is he so sad?

News Credits: 3 · by **metaphorge** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 5:12 pm

Seems like an awfully superfluous way to spend over $200. I can appreciate Takara wanting to recoup expensive tooling costs, but this just seems completely unnecessary.

At least Galvatron has two logical colourschemes if they decide to make a Masterpiece out of him.

by **dinogeist** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 6:47 pm

metaphorge wrote:Seems like an awfully superfluous way to spend over $200. I can appreciate Takara wanting to recoup expensive tooling costs, but this just seems completely unnecessary.

At least Galvatron has two logical colourschemes if they decide to make a Masterpiece out of him.

IMHO, G-1 Galvatron has 3 logical color schemes if they decide to make a masterpiece out of him. (1) Toy colors which was used in the marvel TF G-1 comics. (2) Anime colors which was used in the 1986 movie,season 3 & the Takara Japanese headmasters cartoon series. (3) the FFOD Season 3 lava bath translucent orange colors that often get used as CHASE exclusive colors.

News Credits: 3 · by **metaphorge** » Mon Dec 12, 2011 7:09 pm

Tidalwavex wrote:
metaphorge wrote:Seems like an awfully superfluous way to spend over $200. I can appreciate Takara wanting to recoup expensive tooling costs, but this just seems completely unnecessary.

At least Galvatron has two logical colourschemes if they decide to make a Masterpiece out of him.

IMHO, G-1 Galvatron has 3 logical color schemes if they decide to make a masterpiece out of him. (1) Toy colors which was used in the marvel TF G-1 comics. (2) Anime colors which was used in the 1986 movie,season 3 & the Takara Japanese headmasters cartoon series. (3) the FFOD Season 3 lava bath translucent orange colors that often get used as CHASE exclusive colors.

You're right! I hadn't considered "lava Galvatron" as an option.