Takara Tomy Transformers Masterpiece Line Awarded Long Life Design Award 2016

Posted by Va'al Oct 28, 2016 at 5:19am CDT 45,818 views

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Fellow Seibertronian Cyberpath has spotted a new tweet from TF_pr, proudly tootin their own horn as the Takara Tomy Transformers Masterpiece toy line has been awarded the Long Life Design 2016 prize, by Japanese Good Design Award (more info on it here)! The official press release includes a history of the 2003 MP-1 Optimus Prime figure, some more info on the transition from G1 to Masterpiece, a plug for MP32 Optimus Primal, a spotlight on designer Hironoshi Kobayashi, and more. Check it out here!

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Re: Takara Tomy Transformers Masterpiece Line Awarded Long Life Design Award 2016 (view post)

Comment by steve2275 Oct 28, 2016

way ta go

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Comment by Alpha Dominus Oct 28, 2016

Congrats to the design team at Takara Tomy! The standards they established have helped set the bar for official and third party to live up to. (Now if they could just figure out a way to satiate the fans evenly with those darn color schemes.)

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Comment by galvatron00 Oct 28, 2016

That's pretty cool!! Why does it say "Bump of Chicken" in the first page of the .PDF though?! WHO IS THE BUMP OF CHICKEN MP?! :lol:

I'm also a fan of the thread name change. Good jorb ;)^

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Comment by Bumblebee21 Oct 28, 2016

itscramtastic wrote:That's pretty cool!! Why does it say "Bump of Chicken" in the first page of the .PDF though?! WHO IS THE BUMP OF CHICKEN MP?!

I'm also a fan of the thread name change. Good jorb

which one of em is a chicken

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Comment by datguy86 Oct 28, 2016

Bumblebee21 wrote:
itscramtastic wrote:That's pretty cool!! Why does it say "Bump of Chicken" in the first page of the .PDF though?! WHO IS THE BUMP OF CHICKEN MP?!

I'm also a fan of the thread name change. Good jorb

which one of em is a chicken

Bump of Chicken is a Japanese band. They did music for Final Fantasy Type-0, and the legal dispute over regional use of it is one of the reasons North America didn't see a version until the PS4/Xbone release.

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Comment by galvatron00 Oct 28, 2016

datguy86 wrote:
Bumblebee21 wrote:
itscramtastic wrote:That's pretty cool!! Why does it say "Bump of Chicken" in the first page of the .PDF though?! WHO IS THE BUMP OF CHICKEN MP?!

I'm also a fan of the thread name change. Good jorb
which one of em is a chicken
Bump of Chicken is a Japanese band. They did music for Final Fantasy Type-0, and the legal dispute over regional use of it is one of the reasons North America didn't see a version until the PS4/Xbone release.

Thank you for dat clarification guy ;)^

I just thought it was a random crazy translation thing, and I'm still not sure why it's in the article that I can't read otherwise :lol:

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Comment by datguy86 Oct 28, 2016

itscramtastic wrote:
datguy86 wrote:
Bumblebee21 wrote:
itscramtastic wrote:That's pretty cool!! Why does it say "Bump of Chicken" in the first page of the .PDF though?! WHO IS THE BUMP OF CHICKEN MP?!

I'm also a fan of the thread name change. Good jorb
which one of em is a chicken
Bump of Chicken is a Japanese band. They did music for Final Fantasy Type-0, and the legal dispute over regional use of it is one of the reasons North America didn't see a version until the PS4/Xbone release.
Thank you for dat clarification guy I just thought it was a random crazy translation thing, and I'm still not sure why it's in the article that I can't read otherwise

I love puns! Thank you.

Looks like the band are fans of the Transformer brand, and are either presenting the award or performing during the show. My Japanese is terrible, though; so please take with a grain of salt.

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Comment by padfoo Oct 28, 2016

Way to go, totally deserving!

Re: Takara Tomy Transformers Masterpiece Line Awarded Long Life Design Award 2016 (view post)

Comment by Cyberpath Oct 30, 2016

Where was this little trick when they were creating MP Starscream (or almost any other Starscream figure)? :shock:

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Comment by Kurona Oct 30, 2016

Cyberpath wrote:Where was this little trick when they were creating MP Starscream (or almost any other Starscream figure)?

And I adore how they were still able to make a Titan Master cockpit fit in there. It's really good design and engineering.

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Comment by Cyberpath Mar 22, 2017

The remaining Autobots (up to Rebirth/Headmasters); felt like seeing who's left. Naturally not everyone will be made.

I would guess that Jazz is probably the most wanted?

I don't think I have space for more, but an MP Hoist would sure go well with MP Grapple and UW Devastator.

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Comment by Bumblebee21 Mar 22, 2017

didnt even know this thread existed

but on the tfw threads tcracker has listed off some intresting things coming
he said that theres an mp galvatron coming
mp-39 is dinobot
mp-40 is supposed to be jazz or hound
and the supposeded big g1 character coming is gonna be someone out of left field
thats all for now.
take these as rumors :-$

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Comment by Sabrblade Mar 22, 2017

We do at least know for sure that Dinobot is coming (finally!).

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Comment by steals_your_goats Mar 22, 2017

I heard that an MP Jetfire is in the works

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Comment by Bumblebee21 Mar 22, 2017

steals_your_goats wrote:I heard that an MP Jetfire is in the works

he does seem out of left field so maybe the rumor will be true

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Comment by Ironhidensh Mar 22, 2017

steals_your_goats wrote:I heard that an MP Jetfire is in the works

You might just be hearing about the coming Fanstoys Phenix.

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Comment by Bumblebee21 Mar 22, 2017

Ironhidensh wrote:
steals_your_goats wrote:I heard that an MP Jetfire is in the works

You might just be hearing about the coming Fanstoys Phenix.

also in the second pic cyberpath posted theres a pic of hauler

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Comment by Jelze Bunnycat Mar 22, 2017

Ironhidensh wrote:
steals_your_goats wrote:I heard that an MP Jetfire is in the works

You might just be hearing about the coming Fanstoys Phenix.

An MP Jetfire could go one of two ways:

1) Bandai will have a hissy-fit and stop its development.
2) It will be based on the cartoon Skyfire design

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Comment by Sabrblade Mar 22, 2017

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:
Ironhidensh wrote:
steals_your_goats wrote:I heard that an MP Jetfire is in the works

You might just be hearing about the coming Fanstoys Phenix.

An MP Jetfire could go one of two ways:

1) Bandai will have a hissy-fit and stop its development.
2) It will be based on the cartoon Skyfire design

Why wouldn't it automatically be Option 2?

And wouldn't it be Harmony Gold, rather than Bandai, who'd throw the hissy fit since it was Harmony Gold who threw it the last few?

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Comment by Emerje Mar 22, 2017

Cyberpath wrote:The remaining Autobots (up to Rebirth/Headmasters); felt like seeing who's left. Naturally not everyone will be made.

What's Grimlock doing in there? Granted, we do need a new one that fits the modern MP scale better.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:An MP Jetfire could go one of two ways:

1) Bandai will have a hissy-fit and stop its development.
2) It will be based on the cartoon Skyfire design

Considering the current design trend towards cartoon likenesses, Skyfire seems like a safe bet. I would be more than happy to buy a Skyfire that stood at the upper heights of the MP sizes like Star Saber.

Emerje

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