Fansproject "Menasor" Megathread

Added a bunch of pics because I hate MEGATHREADS!

I would just like to say "told you so!".

Let's talk FP Menasor.





What I know so far:

- $50 a piece starting in November for the limbs ($80 for Motormaster)
Possibly $100 2 packs for the limbs?
CAR CRASH! So much for the two packs?

- Figures will release on a schedule of one every month or two (similar to Hercules).
Two packs would change this.

- Menasor should be completed by May
I'd be impressed if this still happens

- Motormaster will be voyager size with a trailer. Hands, feet, and accessories will store in the trailer.

- 11.5" tall in combined mode

- Deadend seems to be inspired by the Ferarri FXX. I saw grey and painted proto photos. Seems odd to me since he was a Porsche in G1

- Dragstrip seems to be based on the Lamborghini PML-F Formula 1 Concept. This is based on what I could see from the phone photos.



MY EDIT

I added a few more of my own pictures:








Added per request of the poster








Called it!












Car Crash!


STAFF EDIT:

More pictures here:
First look at Fansproject Menasor, Insecticon Repaints, Assaulter - Transformers News - TFW2005
TFcon 2012 Third Party Panel Coverage - Transformers News - TFW2005

Do you mean Motormaster will be voyager size?
Looks great so far, although I'd have to see limb modes before I start drooling

Am I the only one not feeling not-Wildrider's alt-mode? I'm gonna buy Menasor but I was hoping for a newer Ferrari like the F430 or the Berlinetta

Originally Posted by TheDemonDzko The Gurren Lagann approach. Take life? Ordinary plain life. Drill a hole through that bitch, and trancend the heavens.

apparently not- breakdown and not-wildrider are based on 2 different Lamborghini models.

Well, it's a fictional car, so I agree. But if the other 3 limbs are good, and if Motormaster himself is a classic semi-trailer, I'll live with it.

Still---why a real Lambo and a fake Lambo, instead of a real Lambo and a real Ferrari, like they originally were?

Anyways---anyone else think not-Breakdown's gun looks like G1 Menasor/Motormaster's gun?

I really like the car modes on these guys. The fact that they are concepts and not real cars doesn't bother me. It even makes them a little bit more cool. Robot modes also look great, until you look at them from behind. The kibble there is a little worse than Maketoys Giant's. That combined with the fact that they use add-on parts from the trailer to combine downgrades this Menasor for me. I'll still buy and enjoy it, it'll still be a great looking combiner with good indivisual modes, but I wonder if any of the third paty designers can really step up and make a perfect transformation combiner. FoC Bruticus may not look anywhere near as good as this, but it at least shows that Takara and Hasbro are looking to make a fully self contained combiner. Good lord, typing that out really makes me relize how much I want a Masterpiece combiner.

I'd rather have a partsforming combiner like FP Bruticus than a self-integrated combiner like FOC Bruticus...
On a side note: what's with that hole/port on Wildrider's crotch?

I think having integrated parts in a combiner is overrated. Especially if it makes the combined mode looks as trashy as FoC Bruticus.

Hahaha oh wow

inb4 all the jokes and innuendos

I agree, my point is I want to see the next step up in engineering and have a perfect transformation combiner that looks truely great in all modes. It's possible, in fact Studio Halfeye has already done some stuff years ago and the Bandai's Soul of Chogokin line has some impressive stuff too (they just have one less mode than a Transformers combiner teams have, usually a robot/vehicle and combined mode). It feels like we are on the verge of seeing a masterpiece level combiner, the companies involved just have to believe in it.

Both bots shown so far have that hexagonal hole/port. If I had to guess I would say it has something to do with how they combine in gestalt mode.

For the parts forming/no parts forming debate.





I will take parts forming please.