First Look at Crystal Nova Commander Prototype

It's invisible!

Wow.. Looks unique

*(nose) BLEEDS EVERYWHERE*

dear god! that thing is bloody glorious. the only downside is that i can hardly tell where and what it is cause it blends in so well.....


but it sure is pretty.... and awesome.... pretty awesome... yeah... wow
*pulls out a tissue and wipes blood off nose*

I don't often get nosebleeds but I can say one of my devy balls just exploded

Looks beautiful, but isn't being 100% translucent plastic bad for the toy?

they should make it out of real crystal
how pretty would that be

Sweet merciful crap!!

If they made this in a coloured version I would seriously consider paying the exhorbitant amount to get it imported to Australia.

I like it, but a colored version would be BOUGHT and OWNED!!

To me it doesn't make any sense as to why they did a crystal version of something they won't produce. However, that being said I love crystal figures. This one, I have to admit, it very well done.

Honestly, if this mold isn't made in color, clear, or even clear color, then this is the biggest dick tease the fandom has ever experienced.

Prime Evil wrote:Honestly, if this mold isn't made in color, clear, or even clear color, then this is the biggest dick tease the fandom has ever experienced.

Yea, they need to release the mold for sale, or we need to stop giving them free advertising.

STOP TEASING US ALREADY!

Down_Shift wrote:To me it doesn't make any sense as to why they did a crystal version of something they won't produce. However, that being said I love crystal figures. This one, I have to admit, it very well done.

Part of the reason is stated in MC's blog post:

This was used to test material - strength, ridigity, stress test etc and it came out pretty well. As with all types of resin, we had to balance between strength, flexibility and thus had to tinker with the mix ratio of the resin / pigments and the harderer. We also used a different rubber chemical mix for the wheels, to see which was a better fit for future rubberized products.

There are some design changes compared to the two earlier prototypes - primarily more screws, some joint changes. It was a challenge to get Crystal Nova bubble free,but using our internal test processes, this prototype came out quite well.

So it basically looks like it's just a test for clear resin casting as well as other design points. Clear plastic formulas have a higher level of inherent brittleness than other plastic formulas as I understand it so maybe clear resin has a similar issue. Maybe MC wanted to see if they could work out the brittleness issue.

Secondly, this prototype, like the first, is being auctioned to help finance their company so a second prototype made out of clear resin is sure to attract attention for the company and build hype for the auction.

Also, if MC ever mass produces this figure for sale then all the work being done now will lay the foundation for a base mold design.

cool but like many of these may be to high for me

It's cool, but would be made of win in color.

im getting eriateated by these prototype images if there not planning on making figures for us to buy stop giving us pictures they do awsome job it would be surperb if the make enough money to mass produce this guy but its kinad erritating showing us prototype images of what there selling whe theres no more look forward to to buy in he future.........ok now im not making sense i lost i forogt what is was talking.

great work good luck to guys n making money off your prototype be big winner if you make enough money mass produce this figure for us to buy

Counterpunch wrote:

Prime Evil wrote:Honestly, if this mold isn't made in color, clear, or even clear color, then this is the biggest dick tease the fandom has ever experienced.

Yea, they need to release the mold for sale, or we need to stop giving them free advertising.

This.

Very pretty but I can barely tell what I'm looking at.

DevastaTTor wrote:

Counterpunch wrote:

Prime Evil wrote:Honestly, if this mold isn't made in color, clear, or even clear color, then this is the biggest dick tease the fandom has ever experienced.

Yea, they need to release the mold for sale, or we need to stop giving them free advertising.

This.

Agreed!

and let me add.

PAY-THE-HELL-ATTENTION hassssbro!

this THIS THIS is what we want to buy. for god sakes, your a billion dollar company you're telling me you can't make things like this?! but some random people in china can!!?

DevastaTTor wrote:

Counterpunch wrote:

Prime Evil wrote:Honestly, if this mold isn't made in color, clear, or even clear color, then this is the biggest dick tease the fandom has ever experienced.

Yea, they need to release the mold for sale, or we need to stop giving them free advertising.

This.

Then tell me this.. why do magazines like Maxim, FHM and Playboy thrive? What Mastercollector's is doing is much like what the magazines put on their spread. Instead of women that we can't ever get, it's a toy.

I don't see any problem with me posting this.. it's nice to see something like once in awhile.

JediJerseyJoe wrote:this THIS THIS is what we want to buy. for god sakes, your a billion dollar company you're telling me you can't make things like this?! but some random people in china can!!?

You're downplaying all the work that Hasbro has done for Transformers. Hasbro produces over a hundred new molds every year. The team from Mastercollectors still haven't even put even put this together properly. On the topic of Hasbro making this toy, there's too much politics involved for Hasbro to start churning out IDW based Transformers.