The Energon Pub

[megatronus]

Just got my Second Run MP Sideswipe in, and his paint, while OK, seems to have a handful of tiny blemishes. I'll try and post pics later, but I wanted to see if other people had the same experience.

I had a First Run MP-12 that had one larger blemish, but was not so noticeable. Maybe I was just lucky (some people had major horror stories), but I would almost prefer that over many little issues scattered across the figure.

What do y'all think?

[Cyberpath]

I got my MP Sideswipe from Captured Prey today! That was fast. It was great to finally remove the eBay alert for him (Never miss an original Masterpiece release, guys!)

He's a handsome robot, some of the photos of him in robot-mode online don't do him justice in my opinion.

The paint on mine looks nice:

Except they messed up half of the spoiler, it looks dirty which is a little disappointing:

Looks like they also got a wee bit silver on the edge of the eye. Would have been cool if they had coloured the eyes baby-blue like the Datsun Autobots and Hasbro's MP-10.

Yay, I finally have an MP Sideswipe!

[megatronus]

Thanks for the reply! Good to know my issues aren't universal; somewhat disheartening to know that they haven't been able to streamline the QC on paint.

Also, I agree that they should have taken this chance to improve and tweak the mold. To your point, I do wish they would have given Sideswipe baby blue eyes to match the Datsun Brothers and TRU/YOTH Prime. I think they should have also modified the hand so that he could grip his rifle more securely.

Oh well.

[ScottyP]

Anything with that much paint is going to be hit or miss. One dust particle can cause blemishes that aren't likely to be caught during mass production.