If yoru worried just ask them if they say they are and they're not Buyer protection has you covered.

 

Which is why I pulled the trigger on a MP-10 and MP-11 set for $500 shipped from Asia. I thought is was a decent(not great)deal and haven't looked back since.

 

I finally scored one and he is great. Love it.

 

What's the most you would pay for MP-11 shipped?

Also can those that have him tell what the numbers are stamped on the bottom of the box? I'm looking at one and want to make sure they match showing me it's the official TakTom release

 

Here's hoping that Hasbro brings this to the U.S. for domestic release

 

Question.....

When I display Starscream in robot mode, I don't move the big red intakes on his shoulders. I always thought they were supposed to stay static. They don't move on the G1 toy. They don't move on the Classics toy. They never moved in the animation.

So why do people move them forward in robot mode? I think it looks throws off the balance to his look. I am not understanding this....anyone?

 

They're drawn in the forward position in the animation. They never actual show it being like that, but you can tell they are. The from of the intakes are drawn straight up with the back of them drawn in more of a curved fashion than a straight piece like the toy does, but I believe that's the three intention of the design.

 

Yup, the animation has them curving forward. Pretty hard to do that with the toy, so the tilt forward is the compromise.

 

But in the cartoon the intakes don't move forward. They are straight up and down on the front, but the back side has a curve.

I think it looks really weird to push them forward cause it loses the 90 degree angle. The intakes look...well....crooked.

The intakes standing straight up from his shoulders has always been an important part of Starscream's look to me. I think it definitely looks "off" to not have them straight. But hey, to each his own!

 

That straight-up-and-down is exactly the look the tilted forward intakes are replicating. The robot-mode front edge is at an angle in jet mode, but you tilt them forward to make that front edge straight up and down - 90 degrees to his shoulders - in robot mode. They're just not curved on the back, since that's the straight, top edge in jet mode and real-world physics restricts something the cartoon could fudge.



They didn't move on the original toy - not tilting them forward makes MP Scream more toy-accurate if that's what you prefer. Tilting them forward makes it more cartoon-accurate... generally, depending on how much the animation staff had been drinking that day.



>AM<

 

Thanks for the side by sides! I see it now!

I guess I'm just too acclimated to the original toy and prefer that look.

But like I said, to each his own! At least now I kinda "get" why they move in the first place!

Was this the case on the MP-3 mold as well? I don't have that one.

 

Yes.


>AM<

 

wow. this is news to me

 

same here. it was a ridiculous price but i've been eyeing it too long. this probably means that the news that there will be a rerelease will be on tomorrows front page.

 

Real F-15 intakes move the same way, it was possibly the inspiration for some early drawings/animations, and that could be why they did it.



Watch this, 45 secs in: F-15C Start - YouTube

 

Every time this thread gets necro'd I get mad at myself for not buying this toy when I had the chance.

 

Its not the intake that moves, its just a flap at the top front of the intake that moves.

 

It's the front three feet or so of the intake (the entire angled/slanted part)----it is EXACTLY like the MP mold does. I just can't find any video from the side of them in motion. Plenty of static pics though.

 

Same here. I really hope either this or the white deco version of the original MP-3 Screamer (don't have much of a preference which) gets KO'd by the people who did the Sideswipe KO, or that we get another American release of MP Starscream (not a repaint as a different character, but Starscream himself).

 

There will be a reissue. Next year April.