SDCC 2017 Preview Night: Transformers Movie Masterpiece MPM-3 Bumblebee #HasbroSDCC
Wednesday, July 19th, 2017 10:51pm CDT
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Posted by whip_it on July 20th, 2017 @ 6:34pm CDT
http://www.toysrus.ca/product/index.jsp ... =134592016
about 70 left, i just checked
Posted by Va'al on August 4th, 2017 @ 8:17am CDT
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Posted by Bumblebee21 on August 4th, 2017 @ 8:24am CDT
Posted by Relic0037 on August 4th, 2017 @ 5:29pm CDT

Posted by Deathsaurus1 on August 4th, 2017 @ 8:47pm CDT
One left at the toysrus in goodyear
Posted by shajaki on August 4th, 2017 @ 9:23pm CDT
I've got two MPM-3's. One bought from eBay hailing from China (I think), the other locally from TRU. Both are quite similar, but with slight differences. Would you consider the TRU one to be Hasbro US/CA, and the other one to be Hasbro Asia? (pics at bottom of post)
The TakaraTomy releases of these new MPM's are very confusing. Neither TT versions are out yet I think. Bee is showing a release date of this month, and Prime being in September. And we don't know what their boxes look like for sure, whether they'll be the same as the others or completely different. We know the figures themselves will be different, but not the boxes.... right?

And yes, I've seen this pic, but I don't believe it's anything more than a mock up, possibly even unofficial.



Posted by User897 on August 4th, 2017 @ 10:04pm CDT
Posted by william-james88 on August 4th, 2017 @ 10:47pm CDT
However, as you mention, it is currently impossible to know if the Hasbro Asia one will be any different from the Takara one since Hasbro Asia has a knack for distributing Takara's same product in Asia. The box will surely be different though, if at least in terms of there needing to be Japanese writing

Does that help at all?
Posted by transformers_va on August 4th, 2017 @ 11:16pm CDT
If you have to decide between MPM-3 and MPM-4, my suggestion would be to go with MPM-3 (and I'm not even particularly fond of Camaro Bumbleebee in the first place lol)
Posted by Emerje on August 4th, 2017 @ 11:48pm CDT
shajaki wrote:Neither TT versions are out yet I think. Bee is showing a release date of this month, and Prime being in September.
Bee came out on July 13th, I've had mine for about a week now. Right now he's figure of the year for me, he's phenomenal.
Prime will probably be out 9/14.
Emerje
Posted by Bumblebee21 on August 5th, 2017 @ 12:20am CDT
Fig difference are the eyes
Posted by Emerje on August 5th, 2017 @ 3:43am CDT
Bumblebee21 wrote:Takara bee is out. Box differences are added Japanese writing
Fig difference are the eyes
Apparently the Hasbro version doesn't have any of the yellow paint over some of the yellow parts.
Normally I hate light pipping, but this is a rare case of it being done super well. There isn't much of an inlet on the back of his head, but it lights his eyes up nice and bright like on MP Shockwave. I only wish the eyes were more blue rather than slightly tinted.
Emerje
Posted by shajaki on August 5th, 2017 @ 10:46am CDT
Yes it does, thanks Willwilliam-james88 wrote:Does that help at all?

Sorry, just to be clear, you have the Japanese TT release of MPM-3? Would you be willing to take some pics of the box? Front back and bottom? I'd really appreciate itEmerje wrote:Bee came out on July 13th, I've had mine for about a week now. Right now he's figure of the year for me, he's phenomenal.shajaki wrote:Neither TT versions are out yet I think. Bee is showing a release date of this month, and Prime being in September.

Posted by Bumblebee21 on August 5th, 2017 @ 10:47am CDT
Posted by RodimalToyota on August 5th, 2017 @ 2:16pm CDT
Posted by Emerje on August 5th, 2017 @ 2:24pm CDT
shajaki wrote:Sorry, just to be clear, you have the Japanese TT release of MPM-3? Would you be willing to take some pics of the box? Front back and bottom? I'd really appreciate itEmerje wrote:Bee came out on July 13th, I've had mine for about a week now. Right now he's figure of the year for me, he's phenomenal.shajaki wrote:Neither TT versions are out yet I think. Bee is showing a release date of this month, and Prime being in September.
Appreciate away!
I should point out that there aren't any stickers on the box and Bee's name is written in Japanese on the front so this isn't a case of them using the Asia box and covering stuff with stickers like we've seen them do in other movie lines.
Emerje
Posted by shajaki on August 6th, 2017 @ 7:17pm CDT
Awesome! Thanks a bunch EmejeEmerje wrote:Appreciate away!
I should point out that there aren't any stickers on the box and Bee's name is written in Japanese on the front so this isn't a case of them using the Asia box and covering stuff with stickers like we've seen them do in other movie lines.

This makes me very happy. It's different enough to easily distinguish between the rest. I was worried bout hunting him out, but this helps a lot

Posted by Autobot Roadburn on August 7th, 2017 @ 1:28am CDT
Posted by william-james88 on August 16th, 2017 @ 12:33pm CDT
But I figured it out and I have now transformed him a few more times and its great. No frustration and nothing annoying about it and everything fits properly. It all tabs in well so I dont have any of the problems in that regard. The only thing I would have liked was them to get the alt mode right and have that extra hood exhaust. I am also not sure if this yellow is correct, but the film was all colour filtered so its not easy to replicate.