Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
DecepticonFinishline wrote:Please please please come with mutated-bat-mask-thing!
Sabrblade wrote:To reiterate some of the previous notions given by this issue of Hyper Hobby, in case anyone missed them, the figure is MP-31, will have four robot faces and three beast faces, the swords are too big to store inside his body but can instead be stored on his back somehow, and the height of the figure is 19cm or roughly 7.5 inches, making it about a head taller than Generations Rhinox.
Sometime this year.Deathsaurus1 wrote:Best prediction on a release date?
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
frogbat wrote:im kinda digging him. It's not my main area of collecting (g1) but i loved the show and have a few of the generations BW figures. I have more connection with this than with star sabre and though I wish there to be more more g1 MP output, I don't see this as taker branching fully into BW. I just hope that they do a megatron too. I don't like having a character without his counterpart
CaptainMagic wrote:I love that head transformation. I always liked action figures that could flip their heads around like that, and it seems delightfully 90s to me (although that's probably just because that's when I paid attention to action figures).
william-james88 wrote:frogbat wrote:im kinda digging him. It's not my main area of collecting (g1) but i loved the show and have a few of the generations BW figures. I have more connection with this than with star sabre and though I wish there to be more more g1 MP output, I don't see this as taker branching fully into BW. I just hope that they do a megatron too. I don't like having a character without his counterpart
This isnt first for the MP line. Starsabr doesnt have a counterpart and wasnt part of the Sunbow cartoon we got. We call it G1, but its another era entirely that has it's own name Victory.
And plus, they had both Roadrage and Exhaust which are not original G1 characters either. The MP line was never about a particular era of transformers and its been loosey goosey in what it includes.
william-james88 wrote:CaptainMagic wrote:I love that head transformation. I always liked action figures that could flip their heads around like that, and it seems delightfully 90s to me (although that's probably just because that's when I paid attention to action figures).
Sabrblade wrote:Sometime this year.Deathsaurus1 wrote:Best prediction on a release date?
CaptainMagic wrote:
Yes, that. Those toys fascinated me as a kid. I would spend forever just flipping the heads around because it was so weird looking. I seem to remember a friend of mine had a bunch of Power Rangers ones that he would get mad at me for leaving with all of their heads stuck half-way flipped.
william-james88 wrote:CaptainMagic wrote:
Yes, that. Those toys fascinated me as a kid. I would spend forever just flipping the heads around because it was so weird looking. I seem to remember a friend of mine had a bunch of Power Rangers ones that he would get mad at me for leaving with all of their heads stuck half-way flipped.
I really hope no one gets too peeved off that I am going off tangent about changing heads but this si a story I thought I would have no place to tell again (and that I just remembered). As a kid, my favourite toys were the ones that had a cool gimmick. Beast Wars toys going from beasts to robots was the best thing ever and that was always what I asked for on christmas and my birthday. I did spot this box once at toysrus and the bottom really impressed me:
It looked like he could change heads and turn from a power ranger into a T-Rex So I asked my mom to read to make sure that's what it was. She read the marking below and confirmed that yeah, this guy should at least change his head into a T-Rex. I had transformers, so I knew you could do cool stuff with changing heads and modes but I didnt see how you could do it with such a humanoid toy. So we asked the clerk and I was hopeful. The clerk didnt know, so they decided to look into it with me and we opened the box together to see if the toy could indeed turn from a power ranger into a T-Rex like the box indicated at the bottom. It was full of suspense and I remember it well. When everything was removed I turned the toy around to see what kind fo mechanism this ingenius toy must have only to realize he had nothing going on. There was no gimick, it was just the red ranger.
What crappy misleading boxart. I never made the mistake again of even thinking of buying a power ranger toy and just stuck to Beast Wars
But seriously, what kind of souless company would have such awesome misleading boxart. Maybe they thought no one would beleive it could turn into a T-Rex, but it wasnt obvious to me (I was 9), my mom or the TRU clerks.
Not technically... ask Sabreblade.Microraptor wrote:Umm....you guys do realize BW is G1 right?
Microraptor wrote:Umm....you guys do realize BW is G1 right?
Insurgent wrote:Microraptor wrote:Umm....you guys do realize BW is G1 right?
No. No it's not. G1 ended in 91/92, when G2 started. Beast Wars is part of the Beast Era. It's like Transformers: The Next Generation. Saying it's G1 is like saying Picard is the same as Kirk. Same continuity, but different times/eras.
Leonardo wrote:Take your lips off my pipe!
MR Optimus Prime wrote:MAJOR robot parts on the gorilla mode feet, no sword storage, the beast mode head doesn't become the chest, and less weapons. I am sorry but this is a step back words from the original figure. I would rather they have taken the BW Primal and just cosmetically updated that, hidden all the slight robot parts, and taken out the beating cheat gimmick, then call it a day.
Ballistic90 wrote:I want this thing so much. I was hoping mt wife or i would have been making more money by the time this came that i could afford to splurge, but no such luck. I've always wanted the original Optimus Primal ape figure as a child. I had the bat one.
*sigh* My son will always come first though. Kids be expensive.
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