iGear MP01 / 01L Trailer
Tuesday, May 3rd, 2011 11:21AM CDT
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Posted by Dead Metal on May 3rd, 2011 @ 11:30am CDT
This comes far too late, had this been released a few weeks ago I would have bought it, but now that I know of MP-10 Prime I'll be getting that instead. This is about half of what that will cost plus it comes with loads of sweet stuff.
Money's tight at the moment anyway.
Posted by El Duque on May 3rd, 2011 @ 11:39am CDT
Dead Metal wrote:Wasn't this supposed to be longer and closer to the THS 02 trailer?
This comes far too late, had this been released a few weeks ago I would have bought it, but now that I know of MP-10 Prime I'll be getting that instead. This is about half of what that will cost plus it comes with loads of sweet stuff.
Money's tight at the moment anyway.
They must have scrapped that one, because this one is clearly based on the MP-04 trailer.
Posted by Dead Metal on May 3rd, 2011 @ 11:48am CDT
El Duque wrote:Dead Metal wrote:Wasn't this supposed to be longer and closer to the THS 02 trailer?
This comes far too late, had this been released a few weeks ago I would have bought it, but now that I know of MP-10 Prime I'll be getting that instead. This is about half of what that will cost plus it comes with loads of sweet stuff.
Money's tight at the moment anyway.
They must have scrapped that one, because this one is clearly based on the MP-04 trailer.
Yup, just look at the 2 year old prototype pics here:
http://tfsource.com/products/view/product_id/849/
Lazy i-Gear, lazy.
Posted by gothsaurus on May 3rd, 2011 @ 12:42pm CDT
Posted by JRFitzpatrick7 on May 3rd, 2011 @ 1:16pm CDT
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on May 3rd, 2011 @ 1:32pm CDT
iGear should just admit defeat with their upsize version. There's no reason to buy it.
Posted by Mindmaster on May 3rd, 2011 @ 1:50pm CDT
Posted by Blackstreak on May 3rd, 2011 @ 1:56pm CDT
I got this one confused w/ MP-10 which hasn't been shown yet. I'm still wishing they came out w/ something that we haven't seen for this series whether official or 3rd party.
Posted by rpetras on May 3rd, 2011 @ 1:59pm CDT
gothsaurus wrote:I read in the "fine print" that they're still working on the up-sized trailer. This one's apparently made by some company OTHER than iGear... guessing for the USA market that couldn't snag the official trailer.
I didn't see that, but I'm curious about it because I've had the upsized trailer on order at BBTS for quite some time now.
I'm wondering if this will fill that order or not.
Posted by kirbenvost on May 3rd, 2011 @ 2:18pm CDT
Posted by rpetras on May 3rd, 2011 @ 8:04pm CDT
kirbenvost wrote:If this was maybe...$70 I might bite, but yeah, like everyone else said, not worth it with the new MP-10 coming out...
Well, that depends a lot on your situation.
If you have a trailer-less Prime, and didn't want to pay for the cab in the MP-04 set just to get him with a trailer, like I didn't, having someone release just the trailer is pretty nice.
If they would put out a black trailer too, to match the MP-01B, I'd get in on this set, as I prefer the size of this to the larger version. But even more, I want my trailers for MP-01 and MP-01B to match.
As far as MP-10, he is going to be completely rescaled, and is also showing up at $250!
$100 is a heck of a lot less to have a complete Optimus Prime, and at the larger size.
Posted by GetRightRobot on May 3rd, 2011 @ 8:12pm CDT
Posted by Requiem Prime on May 4th, 2011 @ 8:16am CDT
Posted by Dead Metal on May 4th, 2011 @ 9:07am CDT
Original MP trailer on the left, TF04 on the right.
This trailer that was supposed to be function wise based on THS 02 Optimus Prime's trailer and larger than the actual MP trailer has now been cancelled, the reason given was "time and cost", well KOing something is cheaper after all.
You can click here to see iGear's original announcement on their facebook page.
Also we cross our fingers that those of you who've already paid their TF04 pre-order get their money back.
Posted by Dead Metal on May 4th, 2011 @ 9:13am CDT
Why put work and effort into something if you can just KO something instead.
Posted by rpetras on May 4th, 2011 @ 12:15pm CDT
I have an upscaled G1 trailer that I bought many, many years ago, which is fine for prime at the moment.
I'd definitely upgrade to this style though, but I'm only interested if I can match one for MP-01B