First Image of Transformers MP-56 Trailbreaker

I gotta say, that's quite impressive. I never liked the Trailbreaker design with the very heavy kibble arrangement but the cartoon smoothed it out and now this MP recreated that look.

My concern here is that if this is genuine, it will make the spacing of releases for MPG Trainbots even further apart. Many of us thought we would here something about the 3rd release mid-late April. There has been nothing as of yet.

Not a huge G1 Masterpiece collector, but that looks slick. They've nailed the MP line.

Now if only they could put the same care and budget into the MPM line

Someone's gonna get fired: The "5月11日解禁" part in red pasted over the image says it's not to be shown until May 11th.

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:Someone's gonna get fired: The "5月11日解禁" part in red pasted over the image says it's not to be shown until May 11th.

It's 5 days. Unless Takara had a special event planned just for the reveal, it's probably not a terminable offense.

As for the figure, it's definitely based on TB from the opening of season 1. He looked wider in the actual episodes.

william-james88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:If it's a 7k yen MP like Skids and Reboost

More like Hound maybe? Overengineered and overpriced?

If that's the case, I'm out.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:If it's a 7k yen MP like Skids and Reboost

More like Hound maybe? Overengineered and overpriced?

If that's the case, I'm out.

I think size will have more to do with it than anything. A City is a small car and this is a truck, his bot mode should be the same size as Ironhide, Ratchet, Inferno and Grapple. Hoist is the same height, but his silhouette is quite different, not sure how they'll handle that.



Trailbreaker is third to the right of Prime on the top row, Hoist is in the middle of the fourth row between Grapple and Blaster.

So far this figure looks fantastic, interesting that he comes with spare heads (or halves of his head) instead of just extra faces.

Emerje

optimeow wrote:Or maybe Hasbro is like, “No alcohol brand associations with toys!” (Just like WB and guns) -_-

Hasbro ain't got nuthin' to do with these G1 MPs. It's all Takara's doing.

Much like how, if they actually cared that much about the licensing excuse. Takara would have pumped out the non-license designs to fill the void ala MP Insecticons, Dinobots etc

Fans will probably be happy since Takara is going all out for Trailbreaker. The full reveal shows us all the accessories he comes with which are all done to recreate scenes from the G1 show, like the multi nozzle hand, the satellite dish and even an interchangeable grill to have a more toon look. He comes with 3 faces and effects parts as well. You can see all of that in the screencaps below of the reveal video which was mirrored by Cybertron 21 on Youtube. The toy is over the 20 K Yen mark, so not at all like the cheap price point Skids had. However, with the Japanese retail standard of selling locally at less than MSRP along with a very big currency exchange advantage, American fans could pay anywhere between 135-160 before shipping when all is said and done. But first you will see online listings of the 160-170 range from domestic importers which are sure to be in our upcoming sponsor posts.

Let us know what you think about the figure!