iGear Opens Up Preorder For MGT-06 Nightbird

Thursday, April 28th, 2011 10:34PM CDT

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I-Gear has published the pre-order page for the latest product they will be distributing: MGT-06 Night-Bird. As the title says it's based on Nightbird, the one-off female Ninja robot that showed up in the G1 Season 2 episode "Enter the Nightbird".
As the title suggests this is designed and produced by the same person/people behind the MGT-01 Arcee figure.
You can preorder Nightbird for $99 which includes free shipping, somewhat of a new trend i-Gear has going on with their newer releases. You can click the following image to get to the pre-order page.

Credit(s): iGear Toys

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Re: iGear Opens Up Preorder For MGT-06 Nightbird (1214855)
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on April 28th, 2011 @ 10:36pm CDT

Over $100 for a non transforming figure!? No thank you. I'll just let Impossible Toys handle giving me a Nightbird for bad romance fanfic scenarios with Megatron.

Re: iGear Opens Up Preorder For MGT-06 Nightbird (1214856)
Posted by rpetras on April 28th, 2011 @ 10:39pm CDT

I like it, but WOW is that pricey!

I have the ImpossibleToys Nightbird, which is pretty weak, but is also 1/3 the price.

Re: iGear Opens Up Preorder For MGT-06 Nightbird (1214868)
Posted by robofreak on April 28th, 2011 @ 11:31pm CDT

Does nothing for me.

Seriously, why are these guys still in business?

For less than that I can buy Warcry and Flameblast and get more enjoyment out of them.

Re: iGear Opens Up Preorder For MGT-06 Nightbird (1214881)
Posted by LOST Cybertronian on April 29th, 2011 @ 12:17am CDT

Igear literally just dropped the preorder price to $99. Just got the email.

Re: iGear Opens Up Preorder For MGT-06 Nightbird (1214887)
Posted by Rated X on April 29th, 2011 @ 12:39am CDT

I like it. But what Im seeing here is 40 bucks. Not 100. Although this is the most accurate version yet, I-Gear came a little to late. I already got the other 2 versions. Now if they wanna release the Sharkticons, Alicons, or Alpha Trion, I drop some money their way.

Re: iGear Opens Up Preorder For MGT-06 Nightbird (1215017)
Posted by gothsaurus on April 29th, 2011 @ 9:40am CDT

Yeah, I can understand $100 for a custom transforming figure... but not for a custom "GI Joe" figure. I wish the price were considerably lower, because I love the sculpt.

Re: iGear Opens Up Preorder For MGT-06 Nightbird (1215018)
Posted by gothsaurus on April 29th, 2011 @ 9:40am CDT

Yeah, I can understand $100 for a custom transforming figure... but not for a custom "GI Joe" figure. I wish the price were considerably lower, because I love the sculpt.

Re: iGear Opens Up Preorder For MGT-06 Nightbird (1215028)
Posted by Prime Evil on April 29th, 2011 @ 9:54am CDT

I'd buy that for a dollar!! :twisted:

Re: iGear Opens Up Preorder For MGT-06 Nightbird (1215048)
Posted by Mkall on April 29th, 2011 @ 11:03am CDT

Whatever happened to the other MGT figures? -01 was Arcee, -02 was going to be Firestar, but that hasn't been seen since the lynch mob that formed after her prototype was revealed.

I would've paid money for those. Pass on this though. Big time.

Re: iGear Opens Up Preorder For MGT-06 Nightbird (1215054)
Posted by alexison on April 29th, 2011 @ 11:19am CDT

Mkall wrote:Whatever happened to the other MGT figures? -01 was Arcee, -02 was going to be Firestar, but that hasn't been seen since the lynch mob that formed after her prototype was revealed.

I would've paid money for those. Pass on this though. Big time.

Agreed. Bring on the Fembots.

Re: iGear Opens Up Preorder For MGT-06 Nightbird (1215056)
Posted by Requiem Prime on April 29th, 2011 @ 11:22am CDT

robofreak wrote:Does nothing for me.

Seriously, why are these guys still in business?

For less than that I can buy Warcry and Flameblast and get more enjoyment out of them.

Most of their stuff costs north of $100. They don't have to sell many to get their investment back.

Re: iGear Opens Up Preorder For MGT-06 Nightbird (1215223)
Posted by RK_Striker_JK_5 on April 29th, 2011 @ 5:01pm CDT

Re: iGear Opens Up Preorder For MGT-06 Nightbird (1215240)
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on April 29th, 2011 @ 5:41pm CDT

amcgrath929 wrote:
Mkall wrote:Whatever happened to the other MGT figures? -01 was Arcee, -02 was going to be Firestar, but that hasn't been seen since the lynch mob that formed after her prototype was revealed.

I would've paid money for those. Pass on this though. Big time.

Agreed. Bring on the Fembots.

After some plastic surgury. Remember how her face looked melted?

Re: iGear Opens Up Preorder For MGT-06 Nightbird (1215257)
Posted by Mkall on April 29th, 2011 @ 7:07pm CDT

Gauntlet101010 wrote:
amcgrath929 wrote:
Mkall wrote:Whatever happened to the other MGT figures? -01 was Arcee, -02 was going to be Firestar, but that hasn't been seen since the lynch mob that formed after her prototype was revealed.

I would've paid money for those. Pass on this though. Big time.

Agreed. Bring on the Fembots.

After some plastic surgury. Remember how her face looked melted?

It was a prototype, so I can forgive the face (for now), but the whole fig needed to be reworked from what I remember. It was a horrible-looking backpack-former from what I recall.

Edit: Yup, I recalled correctly.

Re: iGear Opens Up Preorder For MGT-06 Nightbird (1215258)
Posted by Gauntlet101010 on April 29th, 2011 @ 7:10pm CDT

Considering the G1 design I could live with the backpack. But not the candle head. I hope some of this time was spent working on that because it would be cool to have some more fembots. Although ... at $150 a pop (including shipping here), I dunno if I'll bite.

Re: iGear Opens Up Preorder For MGT-06 Nightbird (1215343)
Posted by Kibble on April 30th, 2011 @ 1:37am CDT

Out of desperation for a Classics Arcee and major disappointment with the news of "Generations" Arcee being Prime Arcee, I ordered iGear Arcee. It's a really nice looking figure, but honestly not at all "worth" the money. So $100 for a non-transforming figure...not a chance. They really need to up their game big time to be charging these prices for deluxe figs.

Re: iGear Opens Up Preorder For MGT-06 Nightbird (1215621)
Posted by alexison on April 30th, 2011 @ 10:30pm CDT

Mkall wrote:
Gauntlet101010 wrote:
amcgrath929 wrote:
Mkall wrote:Whatever happened to the other MGT figures? -01 was Arcee, -02 was going to be Firestar, but that hasn't been seen since the lynch mob that formed after her prototype was revealed.

I would've paid money for those. Pass on this though. Big time.

Agreed. Bring on the Fembots.

After some plastic surgury. Remember how her face looked melted?

It was a prototype, so I can forgive the face (for now), but the whole fig needed to be reworked from what I remember. It was a horrible-looking backpack-former from what I recall.

Edit: Yup, I recalled correctly.

I find it hard to believe the same company that made the Arcee put together the head sculpt on that Firestar. I'm not quite buying that one yet..

Re: iGear Opens Up Preorder For MGT-06 Nightbird (1219755)
Posted by MegaHammerTron on May 10th, 2011 @ 5:55am CDT

I'm surprised that no other characters in other versions of TG used the name Nighbird.

That is a nice looking toy.