As long as it’s not as thick. Don’t want easily chipping globs of paint like the official. at that point I’d take bare plastic easily.
I think I’d only be into this if it’s got sweet paint, I feel that’s most of what MP44 brings to the table. Otherwise I’m good with TE
With the prototype having clear crotch pieces, I’m kinda hoping the yellow bits on the waist are clear yellow instead of solid yellow parts.
Meh, it’s a KO so the red starting to turn yellow would just mean it’s halfway to that lebron orange repaint that was made & also KO’d (even OS’d KO’d). Or dare I say full yellow gets us to a Kobe repaint... What, too soon?
Hopefully the KO will utilize superior plastic quality and use more metal reinforcement in stress-prone areas. The current plastic that TT is using is much too prone to stress and cracking, and thus unsuitable for a figure with this level of complexity. It shouldn't be too difficult to out-do the original.
Looks like the faux fuel tanks, a random panel on the lower legs and the smokestacks are going to be die cast on this. I'm sure they were all just plastic on the official. Not sure I see the need for that other than "because heft". I'm also not big on the style of Autobot logo they've used. Would prefer it was the same as the official or not at all so we can choose a label to put on ourselves. There's also a molded space for a logo on the other shoulder as well. I really dislike moulded spaces for logos as they almost never match up with repro labels or ocean decals. Just leave it as a flat surface so we can decide what to do with it. The eyes and crotch detailing are clear, I wonder if they'll be painted on the final figure, or coloured clear like MP10. Maybe light up eyes? (if so I'd paint over them immediately). Hopefully they tighten up all the floppiness and spacing between the ratchets. And fix the knees. I wouldn't turn my nose up at this if they wanted to offer some extra alternate face sculpts either. I'll keep an eye on this for sure but there's already a few "improvements" that I don't like.
Whelp, THATS a no brainer. I already have an absurd amount of Optimus Prime's, why would I not get one that's being heralded as the greatest of them all by many of the people who bought it? Bring on Hound!
Hell, for that price, just get this for the knee and shoulder replacement joints, and swap them out on your Takara MP-44. Yikes, that is the saddest thing I have ever typed on twf2005. Jeez Takara.
Will there be a trailer? How/When will it ship given the pandemic in China? Will there be workers available to KO this into reality? This must really bite TT in the butt if the fakers can improve the knees. P.S. My MP44 still has excellent knees but that seems to be the primary issue against him aside from the paint chips.
Outside of the improvements, there's no confirmation that a trailer will be included. However it may be multiple versions like we saw with KO-MP10/KO-MP-10B So the options may include: -Cab only -Trailer only -Cab + Trailer Who knows, maybe when they KO MP-44B gets released they'll offer a matching trailer option like they did with KO MP-10B.