Video Review - Takara Tomy Transformers Masterpiece MP-20 Wheeljack

Noideaforaname wrote:I'm not crazy about making every bot with a faceplate have a "real" face underneath -- or rather the implication that there's a certain "normal" for Transformers and anything that doesn't fit NEEDS an explanation -- but this is fun! A neat little hidden detail and an Animated homage. A shame, though, about the giant hole in his head...

-Kanrabat- wrote:I wonder... what face would be behind THIS mask?

A speaker mouth? Not surprising alright.

In this video, shows wheeljack amazingly good, a must have!

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Noideaforaname wrote:I'm not crazy about making every bot with a faceplate have a "real" face underneath -- or rather the implication that there's a certain "normal" for Transformers and anything that doesn't fit NEEDS an explanation -- but this is fun! A neat little hidden detail and an Animated homage. A shame, though, about the giant hole in his head...

-Kanrabat- wrote:I wonder... what face would be behind THIS mask?

Sabrblade wrote:

Woah, did you guys deliver!

I recall it correctly, even Frank Springer rendered Soundwave in one panel during their "reactivation" with a mouth in Marvel Comic's "More than Meets the Eye #1" then suddenly in the next panel............with a mouth plate. Go figure.

But in Jose Delbo's case, he might have mistook the curved beak like pattern in the original Soundwave toy's mouth plate as a mouth. he did the same with the Seekers having only one "ear"

fenrir72 wrote:

MarkNL wrote:

What does that icon mean? Pardon my ignorance.

You on your phone? Because it shows as a weird icon on phones indeed, I just checked it.
On the PC it shows Live Action Movie Optimus with the text "GIVE ME YOUR FACE".

The net is trolling me for some reason... Sorry for the confusion.

It's a weird addition. I'm not seeing anything Animated-ish out of it, either.

fenrir72 wrote:

megatronus wrote:It's cool to see how much Takara has been stepping it up. The MP line is going strong!

Now how about some more G1 Decepticons?

Megatron=check
Seekers=check
Cassettes=check
Soundwave=check
Exhaust=check

Next in line? G1 season 1......Redesigned Megatron, Reflector, Shockwave, Insecticons, Coneheads, Dezaras?

Now that the cat's out of the bag, do you think Exhaust will also sport a hidden face?

Oh yes, kudos to HasTak for Soundwave and the cassettes. But we still need a new Megatron and an MP11-style Skywarp before we can check off those boxes, IMHO.

Really hoping for those next, followed by Reflector, Shockwave, and the Coneheads. How about a Coneheads 3-pack?

I'm surprisingly excited by Exhaust, too, but I'm more eager to round out the '84-'85 cast. I dunno if he'll have a face... He kinda already has one, no? His mask is more alien-face-like than the other masked characters, methinks.

Coptur wrote:Hope someone has the soundwave/soundblaster to show off his face

Looking at mine, I raised his head and shined a flashlight into the open gap underneath his chin to see if there's anything in there, and it appears to just be an empty space behind his faceplate, one that simply exists to allow room for neck when his head is positioned to look downward. The reason for this seems to be that his head is simply engineered differently from Wheeljack's head.

Since when was Wheeljack old? (Besides DOTM!)

For those of you who ordered this at BBTS, it's processing.