Official Takara Tomy Transformers Masterpiece MP-17 Prowl and MP-18 Bluestreak Product Pages

These MP figures look awesome,, too bad I'm not collecting MP at the moment...maybe some day I will

Cyberpath wrote:I don't understand, did they mean that the current Masterpiece scale started with Rodimus Prime, or that they are working to improve Rodimus to fit better with the new toys?

I am pretty sure it means that the current scale started with Rodimus.

Can someone point me to this Rodimus reference? I don't see it anywhere...

I don't think they're actually referring to the scale of Rodimus, but rather "the new unified scale for MPs post-Rodimus", which is MP-10.

This should be a reference to alt modes as the robot modes for earlier MP's (excluding MP-1 and MP-5)such as grimlock and the seekers are of a good relative size(although depending on which comic/cartoon episode you're reading, you can argue that grim should be a good chunk bigger than OP). Mind you this should refer only to the autobot vehicle alt modes as all those vehicles are more or less on the same scale. As a T-rex grimlock should ostensibly be a good chunk bigger, and the seekers/soundwave and friends obviously are madly out of scale for their alt modes, although I find their robot forms scale pretty well. But giving allowances for rodimus being a alien space car, he is the first vehicle of the scale that the autobot MP's seem to have followed since.

guarayakha wrote:I don't think they're actually referring to the scale of Rodimus, but rather "the new unified scale for MPs post-Rodimus", which is MP-10.

It is funny to read their Google translated version. It does sound strange because of it. The translation is saying in scale starting with Rodimus. The second statement is saying that Prowl can fit inside MP10. There are two run on sentences missing punctuation in between.

Emerje wrote:

merphul wrote:But giving allowances for rodimus being a alien space car,

He isn't an "alien space car", he's an Earth Winnebago from the far off future of 2005. If he was a space car he wouldn't have wheels, everyone knows that.

Many of the WFC/FOC TFs have wheels.

Takara Tomy designer Shogo Hasui has tweeted out a couple of images comparing the soon to be released Transformers Masterpiece MP-17 Prowl to his original G1 figure. Check out the images mirrored below. The wait is almost over, MP-17 Prowl should release at the end of this month!

Mp Prowl looks alrit as always. I can't wait see a Mp Prowl vs Mp Sideswipe video comparison to see which figure is better.