Magic Square MS-01 Light of Freedom (Optimus Prime)

Discussion in 'Transformers 3rd Party Discussion' started by Cheem The Rup, Jun 9, 2018.

  1. Ottertron

    Ottertron Moon-faced assassin of joy

    Joined:
    Apr 4, 2017
    Posts:
    10,823
    News Credits:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    277
    Location:
    Manchester, UK
    Likes:
    +46,863
    Oh flipping heck, now I need to get a Despotron as well!
     
    • Like Like x 1
  2. rob_charb

    rob_charb Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Oct 8, 2007
    Posts:
    6,020
    News Credits:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    337
    Likes:
    +4,741
    Yes. Yes, you do.
     
    • Like Like x 1
  3. er4smiths

    er4smiths MP Grimlock v2.0

    Joined:
    Mar 20, 2008
    Posts:
    2,183
    News Credits:
    7
    Trophy Points:
    312
    Likes:
    +4,423
    Got one for you
     
    • Like Like x 3
  4. Ottertron

    Ottertron Moon-faced assassin of joy

    Joined:
    Apr 4, 2017
    Posts:
    10,823
    News Credits:
    1
    Trophy Points:
    277
    Location:
    Manchester, UK
    Likes:
    +46,863
    Hahahahaha, you enabling swine!! Good job I’m both in the UK AND broke ;-)
     
    • Like Like x 1
  5. lilmac

    lilmac Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 29, 2013
    Posts:
    678
    Trophy Points:
    207
    Likes:
    +618
    Ebay:
    That’s what I wanted to hear.
     
    • Like Like x 1
  6. PurpleAndBlackSmokeStacks

    PurpleAndBlackSmokeStacks Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Oct 2, 2018
    Posts:
    1,950
    Trophy Points:
    197
    Location:
    MA
    Likes:
    +4,825
    This seems like a pretty great figure. If I did not already own an MP-10 figure that was a solid representation of Prime, I would have ordered this already. This looks so good in robot mode, but it is also like an evolution of MP-10, refined, not redefined. The truck mode appears almost worse than MP-10, imo, and if not worse, it is not an improvement. If TE-01 was not coming out, things would be different, but their offering truly gives you something unique, something different.
     
  7. Scowly Prowl

    Scowly Prowl Still calculating variables...

    Joined:
    Sep 24, 2017
    Posts:
    4,610
    Trophy Points:
    222
    Likes:
    +3,839
    Huh. I'm glad I looked. This guy isn't half bad.
     
    • Like Like x 1
  8. Manflis

    Manflis Active Member

    Joined:
    Jun 14, 2018
    Posts:
    33
    Trophy Points:
    42
    Likes:
    +20
    I hope they make their MP Datsun bros. We need a new G1 Prowl
     
    • Like Like x 3
  9. amja99

    amja99 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jan 3, 2018
    Posts:
    594
    Trophy Points:
    172
    Likes:
    +1,337
    Anyone have a side by side photo of MS-01 & MPP-10?
     
  10. lilmac

    lilmac Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Mar 29, 2013
    Posts:
    678
    Trophy Points:
    207
    Likes:
    +618
    Ebay:
    Anyone with this figure in hand think that removing the gray stripe is possible? Make it more toon accurate.
     
  11. Scypris

    Scypris Fire in another hole!

    Joined:
    Aug 21, 2011
    Posts:
    2,815
    News Credits:
    4
    Trophy Points:
    262
    Likes:
    +3,019
    Still waiting on mine. Its been in LA for five days now. Usually when it hits the US, its faster but whatever.
     
    • Like Like x 1
  12. DataLore

    DataLore Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Dec 31, 2018
    Posts:
    196
    Trophy Points:
    67
    Likes:
    +211
    Stripe appeared here and there in the toon.

    [​IMG]
     
    • Like Like x 6
  13. nomolos

    nomolos Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 6, 2008
    Posts:
    2,328
    Trophy Points:
    312
    Likes:
    +2,698
    That is probably the only shot of him where the stripe is there in alt mode. Overwhelmingly he appeared without it.
     
  14. Mr.Deflok

    Mr.Deflok Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jul 26, 2006
    Posts:
    4,454
    News Credits:
    10
    Trophy Points:
    312
    Likes:
    +8,215
    • Like Like x 2
  15. mikeszekely

    mikeszekely Not Pessimus Prime

    Joined:
    Apr 13, 2016
    Posts:
    7,928
    Trophy Points:
    247
    Likes:
    +15,630
    Ebay:
    I hear ya. I pre-ordered from ShowZ because it seems like the people who but Chinese get theirs first, but I'm still waiting on mine and it seems like everyone else is getting theirs.

    Tracking has it at the local Fed Ex hub, though. If it's coming Fed Ex maybe it'll come later today. If it's Smartpost maybe Monday.
     
  16. DragonKnight71

    DragonKnight71 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Jun 27, 2015
    Posts:
    718
    Trophy Points:
    172
    Likes:
    +574
    It doesn't matter that much, but, in the comics (from the 80's, I have all of them still) he has that stripe, at least sometimes. Issue 1 & 2 I don't see it, but issue 3 has it, and other times as well. A screenshot from issue 3:
    20190112_154524.jpg

    TO be fair, esp. color wise, the comics were probably even more inaccurate at times than the cartoon.
     
    • Like Like x 3
  17. edgecrusher

    edgecrusher "She wanted nothin', and I delivered." TFW2005 Supporter

    Joined:
    Jun 17, 2015
    Posts:
    15,980
    News Credits:
    2
    Trophy Points:
    332
    Location:
    Valley of the Sun
    Likes:
    +23,768
    The MS one seems to be the best of three options but I think OP is one character where going more toon, if that's what these three think they're doing with these designs, doesn't do anything for me, particularly with all the compromises that seem to come with it. MP-10 stays for now unless future in-hand experience with MS convinces me otherwise. Maybe FT or XTB will tackle OP one day and do it definitively.
     
  18. TigerBlade

    TigerBlade Prepare for extermination

    Joined:
    Apr 7, 2011
    Posts:
    31,480
    News Credits:
    3
    Trophy Points:
    362
    Likes:
    +38,152
    Facebook:
    FT and XTB would most likely look more like MP44/TE.
     
  19. Bugste81

    Bugste81 Ste

    Joined:
    Feb 28, 2015
    Posts:
    2,631
    Trophy Points:
    222
    Location:
    Manchester UK
    Likes:
    +21,995
    _DSC1409.jpg Capture.JPG I really like the hidden pistons in the knees. _DSC1406.jpg
     
    • Like Like x 13
  20. Jtotheiso187

    Jtotheiso187 Well-Known Member

    Joined:
    Feb 4, 2012
    Posts:
    1,673
    Trophy Points:
    232
    Likes:
    +1,689
    So this guy being all plastic, does he feel light?