Transformers Movie Masterpiece MPM-15 Brawl Revealed

Nice! I shall wait for a HUGE discount sale like I did with Blackout and Bonecrusher.

The figure looks excellent. But it lists 79 transformation steps. I've had several of the movie Brawl/Devastator tank figures over the course of years. The 2007 Deluxe figure. The 2008 Leader figure. The Studio Series Voyager. Because I like a good tank figure, and the movie figure looked pretty neat. However, as time went by, I let go of each one, either selling or giving them away.

And the transformations were the main reason. They were just too fussy, too fiddly, too complicated. The engineering necessary to get the tank figure to turn into the robot figure required too much effort IMO, and I felt it made it so the figures weren't any fun.

Secondly, the robot modes were too encumbered to get decent poses. In most cases, the articulation points were all there, so there was great potential for good posing. But there was so much parts crashing that the poses couldn't actually be achieved.

And while this MP Brawl does look amazing, it also looks as of both those issues would be front and center. So unless I saw it on deep discount, it's most likely a regretful pass.

DeathReviews wrote:The figure looks excellent. But it lists 79 transformation steps. I've had several of the movie Brawl/Devastator tank figures over the course of years. The 2007 Deluxe figure. The 2008 Leader figure. The Studio Series Voyager. Because I like a good tank figure, and the movie figure looked pretty neat. However, as time went by, I let go of each one, either selling or giving them away.

And the transformations were the main reason. They were just too fussy, too fiddly, too complicated. The engineering necessary to get the tank figure to turn into the robot figure required too much effort IMO, and I felt it made it so the figures weren't any fun.

Secondly, the robot modes were too encumbered to get decent poses. In most cases, the articulation points were all there, so there was great potential for good posing. But there was so much parts crashing that the poses couldn't actually be achieved.

And while this MP Brawl does look amazing, it also looks as of both those issues would be front and center. So unless I saw it on deep discount, it's most likely a regretful pass.

Are you me?

Because I did the same with the same reasons.

Even if that MPM Brawl look nice, I doubt I'll ever buy him.

And if Bonecrusher serves as an example, I doubt it will ever go on clearance because of the limited number produced.

Emerje wrote:He'll probably be at the $165 price point at Target like Bonecrusher and Blackout were despite being drastically different sized figures. Not sure how that translates for you.

Emerje

As expected.

So that mean that translate to: "Wait for a sale to buy, and if he's never on sale and disappear, eh..."

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Sam Smith has returned, looks like we have another post from him on the way! Can’t wait, these posts he does are awesome.

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Kinda funny that he's addressing this before they've done a western announcement. I guess that means a Target listing is eminent.

Emerje

Emerje wrote:

EvasionModeBumblebee wrote:Sam Smith has returned, looks like we have another post from him on the way! Can’t wait, these posts he does are awesome.

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Kinda funny that he's addressing this before they've done a western announcement. I guess that means a Target listing is eminent.

Emerje

Well this was a Hasbro announcement and not a Takara one, so I guess they consider it fair game.

I love that like Bonecrusher with his messed up face, Brawl includes the arm severing. I just love that detail so much

Sam Smith’s posts on MPM Brawl are up! We get lots of looks at the scale breakdown, development process, and 3D turnarounds!

We also get some insights on the color scheme, the tank in the film was painted with 3 different house paint colors, and Sam got the exact paint colors to use on the figure!

https://www.instagram.com/king_samlock? ... c3dXgyZmUw

The original is much more thin.

Guess all that tank kibble must go somewhere, even for a MP.

The CG model there is also missing the arm weapons, which bulk him up quite a bit.

I love that Sam does these posts. There’s so much passion that goes into making these figures and it’s really cool to get to see some of that!