That would fit with their established pattern of doing "origin" characters for this line. First episode and pre-Transformers for G1, first season for Beast Wars, first movie for Bayverse. MP-28 and MPM-7 could be the odd outliers who get made because they're stars or central characters in their particular stories.

 

Dunno if we'll ever get a proper masterpiece combiner, but I could possibly see more additions to the victory lineup to go with star saber. Maybe not a full on Liokaiser or Road Caesar, but maybe something like a Deathsaurus. Possibly reaching there though.

 

I'm pretty sure those improvements only came with TT reissues. I don't think Hasbro Asia have made improvements to reissues before, this is actually thier first release of the mould as they skipped it first time round. Still the battery issue wasn't widespread so you'll probably get lucky in that respect  

 

The remolded weren’t totally necessary. But the Dinobot things are sort of QC problems. I’m still hoping for better QC fixes  

 

Well I mean they’ve gone to make season two stuff. But yeah that works. I don’t really care if they stop MPMs. Cause they started getting lame.

 

Of course if you do find improvements you need to let us know  

 

Possibly I’ll have it in 24 hours. Naturally I’ll report in here  

 

Wicked.

 

Figure king is due out soon isn't it?

 

Scans were posted today for Bandai reveals.

 

Wicked.

 

Scans are in and nothing new except as far as I know we’ve never seen a rear view of MP-46 in official shots. Looks like no backpack at all which is incredible.

Best looking back on any MP ever? Maybe?

 

Inferno

 

I have to say, despite the beast mode looking a bit dodgy, the robot mode on Blackarachnia is absolutely stunning.

Good call. I’d have to stand them side-by-side, but I think he’s probably the mark to beat.

 

If we’re talking exclusively back Ratchet had a great one.

 

Inferno and Grapple are my favourite mould (hence my Avatar) and they do have incredibly well engineered and clean backs. So good call on that!

 

As characters Inferno and Grapple hold no interest to me at all, they're both boring c-listers with no personality...plus the overly toon look isn't my bag..however having quite recently handled both and I gotta say as figures they are real works of art. They look spot on, are not compromised by alt-mode or articulation and are ingenious with how they deal with the ladder/crane arm. I almost found myself wanting one or both of them just becuase they appear to embody what TT can achieve with the right balance between all elements rather than a bias towards one or another.

Blackarachnia's robot mode looks fantastic from all angles, TT have been knocking the Beast Wars robot modes out of the park, without exception they've been outstanding..BA continues this trend..maybe improved upon it as she appears to be pure perfection! It really helps makes up for the less than stellar beast mode.

 

Think their backsides kind of spoiled people as to what TT could do, but I think they're the only "newer" bots without butterfly shoulders and have little mass displacement.

 

Just quoting you for relevance;
My theory is that they're going to do TfTm designs, and any subsequent repaints they can. Maybe a couple things from RoTF, like sexy cars (so Sideswipe), and maybe the Fallen and Jetfire for combining with Prime (Gives big reason to reissue him). Anything else, I'll be shocked.

Speaking of shock... As for Shockwave, with his nonexistent alt mode, that didn't stop a retail release, I doubt it would stop an MPM, should it get that far.

 

Hey now! Dino,Crosshairs and Drift have "sexy" car alt modes