New Masterpiece might be a ROTF Leader Class Repaint!

chopperbyrne

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/new-transformers-masterpiece-movie-edition-starscream/19088/

Yes, there have been some repaints in the MP line before, but they were repaints of a new MP mold and made sense.

Rereleasing a toy from last year as a MP is both lazy and money grabbing.

For shame Takara Tomy

Galvasean

If that's true it' the laziest thing I've ever heard. A new low for HasTak

MarkHall

I find this hard to believe. There is a standard to MP and not one of the movie leaders matches.

chopperbyrne

chopperbyrne wrote: »

Rereleasing a toy from last year as a MP is both lazy and money grabbing.
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They have been doing it for years .

Actually i heard of a masterpiece rodimus at the end of the year .

DualBladez

Deleted User wrote: »

Actually i heard of a masterpiece rodimus at the end of the year .

interesting

Galvasean

not_xanthor wrote: »

Yes, it does smack of cynicism on the part of Takara, especially when the packaging art circulating shows the tattoos don't look any different from Hasbro's version,

Not least in that they will charge Masterpiece price for what was supposed to be a Leader class.

Galvasean

not_xanthor wrote: »

That said, it still *feels* like it was originally intended as a mainline mold, there's a sort of 'chunkiness' or 'robustness' to a lot of it that i haven't found in the MP line.

I'd put that down to the main lines being intended for kids (aswell as collectors) and need to be that bit more durable.

Galvasean

not_xanthor wrote: »

Indeed. I wonder how many five year olds got MP Skywarp for Xmas.... and how many of them are still intact.

I can only imagine. "Oh look a big Transformer and not too expensive..."

chopperbyrne

I got MP Skywarp cheap from Argos.

Still MISB as I'm undecided about keeping it or finishing the set of Seekers.

chopperbyrne

Not interested in the coneheads. Not even a toy collector at all. MP Skywarp is the only one I have, but it'd be a shame to have Skywarp and not Thundercracker and Starscream.

JohnMc1

[QUOTE=not_xanthor;66713504
but it's still amusing to see people get their panties in a twist because their precious G1-centric line might be 'defiled' by a movie design.[/QUOTE]

Actually this seems to be a seperate Masterpiece line. Masterpiece Movie Starscream has a different designation than the others [ie. Masterpiece Prime was MP-01, Movie Starscream will be MP-M01]

I haven't really collected any of the Masterpieces [I have Prime and thats it] so adding Movie Screamer is definitely not my "panties in a twist"