That's a big IF it goes on clearance. You better hope Hasbro gets on this, because I can assure you there will be no clearance price on the Takara version.

Fall can't get here soon enough. This toy looks perfect.

 

Real F-15s also don't have flip-down nose cones or arms that pop out. Starscream's an advanced alien robot. He can move anything he wants.
 

 

I see zero chance of catching this on clearance, UNLESS Hasbro releases him in the States. I remember thinking I'd catch MP-01 on clearance, ha! did I get burned.

 

To carefully make every single other gimmick/opening panel on the jet-mode 100% accurate to the real thing, then to bring in vectoring nozzles, strikes me as very strange.

 

For those of you who are interested in the dimensions, there was a pic leaked with rough measurements.
Jet mode will be 320mm long, while robot mode will be around 230 mm tall.
That's about a 1/60 scale to a true F15.
That doesn't keep him in scale with the 1/24 MP Prime, but it's still sexy.

I for one would love to see the final base as a Decepticon Glyph... maybe Unicron.Com will come up with something.

 

1/60 scale, huh? That's pretty cool. I'd be worried if he was in scale, he'd have ended up being as big as Super-Starscream!

 

i really like this screamer but unfortunately i will be saving for all the classics including three screamer repaint/bashes. i guess my 20th prime will stand alone

 

It could just be nessacary for the transformation and/or foot articulation.

Whatever, I'm not bothered, thsi toy looks amazing allready.

 

i really don't htink he's adding "vectoring nozzles" to an F-15 ~ i think he just mounted them on a ball joint for foot related articulation.

and doesn't the F-15 model with the retractable front Canards have some manner of thrust vectoring?

 

It did, but it didn't have retractable canards. They stayed there. They could be removed, but not retracted.

 

It'd be cool if they could pull a Bandai and make the stand capable of supporting him in robot mode so that he looks like he's hovering.

 

Actually I think they're rather permanently mounted now. And the vectoring nozzles were an all-new nozzle design, not simply standard nozzles changed to be vectoring. And regardless, the seekers aren't that type of F-15. (It's a two-seater, for starters)

As for foot articulation---I still think that the toy has 2 completely different sets of nozzles for robot and jet mode that swap around for transformation--so there's no need for the jet-mode nozzle to be articulated for robot-mode posing.

 

So, were the sales of the MP01 brisk enough in the states to expect this will come stateside?