EB Games to get Masterpiece MP-44 Optimus Prime Ver 3 in Canada

If you have a Platinum membership, you usually get 10% off the price. The old lady's membership finally comes in handy! Yes!
Hopefully, by the time this comes out, the price will drop to a more realistic level...

Not sure if it's an option for Canada, but Amazon JP is the best option for the US.

william-james88 wrote:

nycPrime wrote:Not sure if it's an option for Canada, but Amazon JP is the best option for the US.

Its an option and the best one. We do of course have to pay an extra 50$ more than the US for duty.

Yeah but $50 when it comes to Masterpiece is pretty negligible right?

Then again I did just get MPM-05 because it was $50 cheaper than normal...

With all of the talk about Prime's truck mode and if it's realistic (which by definition doesn't mean real or even real-referenced) or not, nobody seemed to look at a more obvious reference point:



There are a lot of similarities in the colors and how they're laid out and not only found on the cartoon model (unpainted grab bars and wipers), but also has the same unrealistic over sized rivets (real rivets are much smaller, even on MP-10 and MPM-4). And think about it, MPs so far have striven for two types of accuracy: cartoon or toy, so when an alt mode can't be based on something in the real world then they're either going to go for cartoon or toy accuracy. I look at MP-44's alt mode as a cross between the G1 toy and the cartoon and think they did a pretty good job of it.

As for the fuel tanks, yeah, they aren't great and covered with a lot of stuff, but they were square on MP-10 as well. In both cases it was a compromise for the bot mode that I don't think it hurts the truck mode any.

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Another MP Convoy/Prime, this time a little more cartoon-accurate. I wonder if they’re going to make one that’s accurate to his original G1 toy next like they did with Megatron.

That illusion would maybe work if this was a streamlined/semi-streamlined truck like the Classics Voyager. But since it's not, since it's the plain old G1 unshrouded block, it fails. Especially with the mess of the bed visible. And it's an attempted illusion that wouldn't be necessary if the legs weren't stupidly overengineered.

I think they ought to go back to adding what the cartoon added without subtracting what it had to leave out. To me, the including the visual dumbing-down (especially in not only the deco but the molding as well) makes him no more a masterpiece than a junked vintage Optimus with worn and missing stickers would be. No matter how involved the engineering is. In fact, the more overly complicated the engineering the less of a Masterpiece he is. I think they should stick to adding enough complexity to capture accuracy on key points (like the square forearms in Optimus' case) as needed while maintaining enough simplicity to feel like the G1 transformation in spirit as much as possible.

Speculation is that the legs store all 6 wheels, and that the red bit is the cab wheel wells. Seems feasible, knowing the origami that was MP36.

Cyberpath wrote:

I forget who it was that was saying the truck mode was not at all like the cartoon, but yeah I see it now. And thats odd, so they change the truck mode details but retain the minimalist cartoon colouring.

william-james88 wrote:

Cyberpath wrote:

I forget who it was that was saying the truck mode was not at all like the cartoon, but yeah I see it now. And thats odd, so they change the truck mode details but retain the minimalist cartoon colouring.

How about now?






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You know... I'm starting to wonder that since G1 Prime never had his make identified, if TakaraTomy actually sought out a license for a lookalike truck for this release

Nah...