Million Publishing Generations 2015 Book Pre-Orders

Thanks for the heads up; just put in my preorder.

Are these books cheaper if you pre-order them ?
or the same price regardless ?

Generally same price, unless somebody does a combo deal with the (unnanounced) exclusive toy.
In truth, you can probably get them cheaper on down the line.
I just enjoy having them in hand asap, often to my wallets' detriment.

The HeroX Twitter account has announced, confirmed and revealed that Guido Guidi - IDW Publishing Transformers artist - will be supplying the art for the cover of the Generations 2015 book from Million Publishing. And then they chose to show the cover directly, in all its G1-esque cartoon style. Check it out mirrored below!

Cool artwork! It has a very 1984-85 G1 Marvel feel to it. Are there any pics of the content?

Looks pretty nice #RumbleIsRed&FrenzyIsBlue

These books are really great. I wish I could read Japanese, there's so much text with all the awesome imagery of both production product and concept art that I feel like I only get half the experience. Even then, the ones I've picked up have been well worth it. Need to backtrack and get some of the other years' books!

AutobotAlvaron wrote:Cool artwork! It has a very 1984-85 G1 Marvel feel to it.

Yeah, it's like if the Marvel comics attempted to draw the art style of the cartoon. It's like a great blend between the two.

I guess you could try that mobile phone ap that allows the translation of documents or signs in real time... but if you can then save the results easily I have no idea.

I have yet to be able to find a website that does the same thing with uploaded photos unfortunately.

Guidi's the best.

Wake me up when the exclusive is revealed

The Million Publishing Generations 2015 Book is now out and while one of the cool features is that it contains an order sheet to mail order exclusive Japanese Transformers toys, it also has a lot of cool content all on its own. TFW2005 member Monari now has this book and took a bunch of pictures of it with his phone. Below you will see the behind the scenes process for Generations / Unite Warriors Devastator, such as sketches and early gray models along with final photos which fellow Seibertronian Cyberpath was kind enough to provide the images they were homaging (such as commercials and G1 box art).

Below you will also find a whole bunch of photos of the upcoming MP Hot Rod and Schockwave complete with their transformation and a comic featuring both of them (and a black Rodimus).

Enjoy!

A black tracks, black hot rod, and etc was in the comic....
....I sense some fantastic repaints masterpiece coming up....

Comic looks neat can't wait to see a translated one

Starsaber468 wrote:A black tracks, black hot rod, and etc was in the comic....
....I sense some fantastic repaints masterpiece coming up....

These aren't Masterpieces. These are the G1 molds in the black decos that the molds have had before. Notice how they're drawn toy-accurately compared to how MP Hot Rodimus seen in this comic is drawn show-accurately.

Still not liking Hot Rod much. Something bugs me about his proportions and the overly flat chest.



Shockwave is one of the few 'Masterpiece' figures that has really interested me but still not sure about purchasing due to high expense and the usual quality control issues with these figures.

Nice homage. But does kinda make me wish his grey parts were chrome like on the comic.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:




Nice homage. But does kinda make me wish his grey parts were chrome like on the comic.

I agree except the chrome. The henkai figures I got years ago which chrom just flaked away and this is a takara MP I'm getting

Sabrblade wrote:

Starsaber468 wrote:A black tracks, black hot rod, and etc was in the comic....
....I sense some fantastic repaints masterpiece coming up....

These aren't Masterpieces. These are the G1 molds in the black decos that the molds have had before. Notice how they're drawn toy-accurately compared to how MP Hot Rodimus seen in this comic is drawn show-accurately.

We don't need reprints of hot rod frist rosin us master piece figure is ok not greatest

Randomhero wrote:I agree except the chrome. The henkai figures I got years ago which chrom just flaked away and this is a takara MP I'm getting

Ah ok. I had RotF Buster Prime and the chrome stayed perfectly intact all the time I had it (before selling cos bills). Either way this is a pretty cool figure.

For Hotrod, the inclusion of the "whopper" IS the deal breaker!

Randomhero wrote:

Carnivius_Prime wrote:




Nice homage. But does kinda make me wish his grey parts were chrome like on the comic.

I agree except the chrome. The henkai figures I got years ago which chrom just flaked away and this is a takara MP I'm getting

The chrome would flake given the slack when you retract his leg parts.

I think I'll just get the book if ToyArena happens to have it

Carnivius_Prime wrote:Still not liking Hot Rod much. Something bugs me about his proportions and the overly flat chest.

This is not the Hot Rod we were looking for! Flat chest, huge backpack. Ugh. Nice face sculpt, but that's about the only thing that appeals to me about it.

So I finally shipped my "loot" from HLJ this past week, which arrived yesterday. I was really looking forward to this new book. These Million Publishing Transformers books are absolutely amazing. And yet, I was extremely underwhelmed by this edition. Normally, I learn something from these books, but I don't think I learned anything new about older Transformers this time around. The book also lacked the very handy comparisons of the Takara Tomy product alongside an inset of the Hasbro product, which has always been helpful with identifying variants that I might have missed or wasn't aware of. This book seemed "rushed" to me compared to previous issues. Anyone else underwhelmed by this particular issue over previous ones?

Seibertron wrote:So I finally shipped my "loot" from HLJ this past week, which arrived yesterday. I was really looking forward to this new book. These Million Publishing Transformers books are absolutely amazing. And yet, I was extremely underwhelmed by this edition. Normally, I learn something from these books, but I don't think I learned anything new about older Transformers this time around. The book also lacked the very handy comparisons of the Takara Tomy product alongside an inset of the Hasbro product, which has always been helpful with identifying variants that I might have missed or wasn't aware of. This book seemed "rushed" to me compared to previous issues. Anyone else underwhelmed by this particular issue over previous ones?

I wonder if it has anything to do with Million Publishing re-branding to Hero X? Thought I'd heard that had caused delay/rushing with this book to get it out but of course, I can't find a source on that anymore.

I want to see a scanlation of that comic