Fans Hobby MB-16A Machine Eagle(Machine Wars Optimus)

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  1. Calabask

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    Speaking as a person who owns the SG version of this mold and Godbomber, they are fan/fucking/tastic pieces.
     
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    The mouth plate is the worst part, though, and will never leave the tray if I get it. You don’t put a mouth plate on Machine Wars Optimus.

    Though I may have to skip this, sadly. I looked up the price and it’s $200 before shipping. That’s a lot, so I looked up reviews of Thunder Clash and while it’s nice, it’s huge. So huge the sculpt looks almost cheap and simplified. If it weren’t going to cost me well over $300 after shipping and conversion I’d be more willing to bite, but that’s kind of unjustifiable for such a simplified figure. I was shocked to see the cab is the same size as MP-10.

    I really hate our shitty dollar. :( 

    I mean, they do that all the time these days.

    Unless you’re referring to the actual Machine Wars toys from... 23 years ago?
     
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    Exactly!! I plan to use the Thunderclash face for the smaller robot and the Prime looking one for the larger, since it’s a form he didn’t have before.

    I’m still a bit bitter at TFCC for not just doing a complete Machine Wars set for that Botcon. As much as I love Obsidian and Strika, they could have been TFSS or something else. They had a chance at giving us a complete set of updated Machine Wars toys and dropped the ball. Maybe more people would have liked it had it actually been all Machine Wars.

    Megatron from Skyquake
    Optimus from Prime Ultra Magnus (which apparently was planned)
    Hubcap from Hoist (Which was also planned for a TFSS figure apparently.)
    Prowl from Mirage
    Soundwave from Cybertron Red Alert
     
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    A creative remold of this would make a great Potp Rodimus.
     
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    SPLIT LIP Be strong enough to be gentle

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    It'd make a fantastic "New Rodimus" homage.

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    Waaaaant.
     
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  8. SPLIT LIP

    SPLIT LIP Be strong enough to be gentle

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    Fucking gorgeous. If I could change anything, I'd make the combined mode feet the same dark green to better correlate to the original toy's olive green details. The colours blend fantastically with this mould.

    I hope we get robot mode pics of the final colours soon.
     
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    If you mean the individual robot mode they were shared on the last page (post quoted below), I don't know why they are in a spoiler button. Combined mode will probably be available tomorrow, if not the next day for sure the way they are releasing pics.

     
  10. mikeszekely

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    Yeah, I wouldn't mind a little more of the olive color. I think it'd be nice if they painted the bottom of the combined mode's feet white, too, so the trailer "door" is white like the original's.
     
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  12. SPLIT LIP

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    Yeah, exactly those! That is really weird that they’re spoiler’d but whatever.

    I like the final sculpts on the mouthplates. Still never going to use them, but it’s nice that they have more detail than the previous printed ones.
     
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    Sorry about that. I put them in a spoiler tag because there were a lot of pictures and I didn't want to take a lot of space in the page.
     
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    That makes sense. Maybe put 1 picture outside for people just scrolling through looking for pictures with a note about there being more in the spoiler tag.
     
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    My only question is why they didnt fix the anus in the cab, otherwise stellar application of the mold. Even I am tempted and I never liked that when the original was out.
     
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    What anal shortcoming are you referring to?
     
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    Τhe original molds windscreen looked like an anus with that 'matrix'? In there :D 
     
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    Ah. Yeah, that detail doesn’t make much sense on a MW Optimus.
     
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    Did it for Thunderclash?