Tokyo Toy Show Images: Takara Tomy MP-12G G2 Sideswipe Revealed

Called it.

Wait.. No green and red accents? Not G2 enough.
No, I don't want your spiked wheels.

Those surely aren't the final colors, the weapons are just plain test-shot-grey. I'm not sure what the spikey bits are all about, but I dig the SMG and the... ENGINE GUN (Axelerators, yay). LOVE IT. Now, go get the colors right so you can SHUT UP AND TAKE MY MONEY.

Deruji wrote:One of the tweets mentions that MP20 might be a car license and then later that there might be a possible vote from different Convoys

MP20はライセンスが大変だった車種らしいです

新たなMPはジンライ、ビクトリーセイバー、ダイアトラス、ゴリラコンボイ、ライオコンボイ、ビッグコンボイ、スーパーファイヤーコンボイ、マイ伝ダコンボイ、グランドコンボイ、ギャラクシーコンボイの中から投票で決めるらしい((((；ﾟДﾟ)))))))

The List:

Ginrai, Victory Saber, Dai Atlas, Gorilla Convoy (Optimus Primal I guess), Lio Convoy, Big Convoy, Superfire Convoy, Micron Convoy, Grand Convoy, Galaxy Convoy


Sorry, don't know the US names well enough to place the exact toys

Deruji wrote:The List:

Ginrai, Victory Saber, Dai Atlas, Gorilla Convoy (Optimus Primal I guess), Lio Convoy, Big Convoy, Superfire Convoy, Micron Convoy, Grand Convoy, Galaxy Convoy


Sorry, don't know the US names well enough to place the exact toys

That would be:

Powermaster Optimus, Victory Saber, Dai Atlas, Optimus Primal, Lio Convoy/Leo Prime, Big Convoy, RID Optimus, Armada Optimus, Energon Optimus and Cybertron Optimus.

El Duque wrote:

• Fort Max (G1)
• God Ginrai/Powermaster Prime (G1)
• Star Saber (Transformers: Victory)
• Dai Atlas (Transformers: Zone)
• Optimus Primal (Beast Wars)
• Lio Convoy (Beast Wars II)
• Big Convoy (Beast Wars Neo)
• Fire Convoy (Car Robots)
• Optimus Prime (Armada)
• Optimus Prime (Energon)
• Galaxy Convoy (Galaxy Force)

Damn, all are cool choices, but I would rather have more G1 characters.. And not... another prime.

Though, Star saber or Galaxy Convoy would be sweet.

I could go for a masterpiece Primal for sure. Beast Wars is what got me back into Transformers.

Wow, that is crazy!! can you imagine trying to transform a masterpiece fort max? you'd have to use a pipe wrench to turn his joints!

Well, that's just Prime! And every other supreme Autobot leader.

Noideaforaname wrote:Well, that's just Prime! And every other supreme Autobot leader.

pretty much!

Now that I think about it, perhaps what they're really looking for is a possible alternate direction or way to branch out for the MP line, but they want to play it safe and see what the interest levels would be and what the most popular lines would be for them to go with. G1 is expensive since there are licensing issues galore. None of the other lines have that problem, so if they started doing any series other than season 1 of G1, no more royalties to car makers and thus higher profits.

I could get behind this idea, but I don't want them to abandon season 1 of G1 just yet.

Friggin' Primes...

I really hope MP-20 gets to be G1 Galvatron. They could do him in show colors first, then do MP-20M (or some other appropriate code) for the toy/Marvel-accurate Galvatron II. Maybe make him bluish-gray to reflect how he was rendered in the original comics.

Hell, the G1 figure is pretty close to MP scale to begin with. If I can take my beat-up old G1 Galvatron and figure out how it could be done all on my own, TakaraTomy's engineers really ought to be up to the task.

In short... MP-20 G1 Galvatron or GTFO, TakaraTomy!