New Images of Takara Transformers Masterpiece MP 41 Dinobot Showing Transformation, Weapon Storage and More

Emerje wrote:
Step four, hit with a rubber mallet.

MagicDeath wrote:[EDIT] Nevermind

wilcosu35 wrote:Welcome to the club of Future Dinobot Owners, WJ

william-james88 wrote:I did it, I preordered this figure. It was one of those you only live once moments.

shajaki wrote:Why is his sword not silver?

Cobotron wrote:

shajaki wrote:Why is his sword not silver?

I was about to say, because it's made from raptor tail vertebrae, but that's the old toy guy in me talking. Yeah interesting. You can see it's silver on the box right behind him, and I do remember it was super shiny in the show.

Production sample?

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Emerje wrote:I wonder if the sword color is another case of them using the wrong source images?



It's also hard to tell how much of that darkness is from reflection in the display shots. It does have the brown tint in most stock photos so it's more likely this was a miss guided attempt to blend the reflectiveness from the cartoon and the flesh tones from the figure for whatever reason.

Emerje

Alpha Weltall wrote:Changing the release date is somewhat problematic for me. I have him preordered from Amiami and I set all my item to ship together. So having him move from July to August means a whole month longer to wait. That's not even what I have problem with, it's the other figures I have preordered for that month that's the problem. Putting Dinobot on August's bill means a much larger one for that month since I have three Figmas and Bring Arts Fei preordered for then as well. I'm just moving money from one month to the next but it's annoying when you already factored in how much you have to spend on figures each month and this moves a rather large price to a month that is already packed. I could also ship him by himself but then I'd lose out on shipping costs.

megamanfan wrote:

Emerje wrote:I wonder if the sword color is another case of them using the wrong source images?



It's also hard to tell how much of that darkness is from reflection in the display shots. It does have the brown tint in most stock photos so it's more likely this was a miss guided attempt to blend the reflectiveness from the cartoon and the flesh tones from the figure for whatever reason.

Emerje

i mean, it's silver on the boxart behind it, so i'll assume it's a mistake.

Alpha Weltall wrote:Changing the release date is somewhat problematic for me. I have him preordered from Amiami and I set all my item to ship together. So having him move from July to August means a whole month longer to wait. That's not even what I have problem with, it's the other figures I have preordered for that month that's the problem. Putting Dinobot on August's bill means a much larger one for that month since I have three Figmas and Bring Arts Fei preordered for then as well. I'm just moving money from one month to the next but it's annoying when you already factored in how much you have to spend on figures each month and this moves a rather large price to a month that is already packed. I could also ship him by himself but then I'd lose out on shipping costs.

Emerje wrote:They aren't entirely unreasonable at AmiAmi, you can always explain the very short delay of only a few days pushing it from July to August and see if they'd be willing to manually add it to your July order. They're very flexible with their policies, I've gotten them to cancel items even though it's against their policy and back in December I forgot to pay for an item because I thought I had added it to my combined December order but somehow missed it and they didn't close my account like they say they will. So the worst thing they can do is say no.

Back to the sword, can anyone think of another issue like this that lasted this long but was changed at release? I can't.

Emerje

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:So if the release date has been pushed back, will that have a knock on effect on Shadow Panther? Given he is should still be on track for release at the end of August?

Alpha Weltall wrote:Amiami is a pain in the ass to use and their customer service sucks but they're usually the cheapest. Problems don't normally arise often so it's not that bad a trade off dealing with people who don't care about your problems if you can get your items cheaper.

Emerje wrote:Looks like the slightly tinted sword is here to stay.

Emerje

Overcracker wrote:

Emerje wrote:Looks like the slightly tinted sword is here to stay.

Emerje

Looks pretty much silver chrome to me in several shots.

But chrome has a tendency to reflect things so from most angles its reflecting either the yellow back light or Dinobot himself, giving it a slightly tinted color.

In person it should be perfectly silver.

Epsilon Delta wrote:If Dinobot's eyes don't shoot lasers it will be a very bad missed opportunity.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Epsilon Delta wrote:If Dinobot's eyes don't shoot lasers it will be a very bad missed opportunity.

There is an attachment confirmed

Odd he doesn't seem to come with any Battle Damaged parts