Takara Tomy Masterpiece MP-44 Convoy/Optimus Prime Ver. 3

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  1. chchchch, Aug 17, 2019
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    My wife and I just watched a documentary about Queen...I reserve "I Want to Break Free" for MP Galvatron and his relationship with Unicron ;) 
     
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  2. [Wing_Saber-X], Aug 17, 2019
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    Haha good one!
    When Unicron gets destroyed.. this absolute beast of a Queen song must also be very apt: ;) 
     
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  3. chchchch, Aug 17, 2019
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    Ha, I knew there had to be at least one other apt one!
     
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  4. [Wing_Saber-X], Aug 17, 2019
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    Lol. But of course! :D 
     
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  5. oku, Aug 17, 2019
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    Made by one of the better factory from China

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  6. [Wing_Saber-X], Aug 17, 2019
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    Oh boy... Im not confident they will get the QC up to par
     
  7. Digger, Aug 17, 2019
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  8. oku, Aug 17, 2019
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    Manufacturer info.
     
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  9. [Wing_Saber-X], Aug 17, 2019
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    It means where MP44 will be made and by which China factory. It also means that the first batches of MP44 will have questionable QC.
     
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  10. DashCourageous, Aug 17, 2019
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    There's always room for MP-10!
     
  11. Shin Densetsu, Aug 17, 2019
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    May explain the price increase as it costs less to produce in Vietnam yet this one is being produced in China.
     
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  12. oku, Aug 17, 2019
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    I don't understand why greedy Takara didn't just make it in Vietnam. Literally no one is going to change their mind over this :crazy: 
     
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    If it was going to be the same factory that produced MPM-04, we dodged a huge bullet
     
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  14. e prime, Aug 17, 2019
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    It shouldn’t be too bad. Hopefully.
     
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  16. tonewheelz, Aug 17, 2019
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    Can someone enlighten me about what the cause for concern is? What QC issues? I’m new to collecting these figures. Is there a known issue with manufacturing facilities in China vs Vietnam?
     
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  17. mrmcscuffles, Aug 18, 2019
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    Lol! I was going to keep it but all it was going to do was sit in storage. So I decided to find it a happy home.

    MP-10 was a great version but I am going for the cartoon look for my collection
     
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  18. BIOMEC, Aug 18, 2019
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    I think China has more experience making these things than Vietnam.
     
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  19. Georgii10235, Aug 18, 2019
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    Whelp, going to have to undersell my POTP Predaking more than I already have. No-one's interested in it and I still have a fair bit of MP-44 to cover. Less than two weeks now wow. Hope I make the first-run, selfish but, you know, I've been needing some self-gratification lately...

    Suffice to say that I would gladly pay more for MP-44 to be produced by the better Chinese manufacturer rather than one of the Vietnamese manufacturers. Not that the Vietnamese-made MPs are necessarily bad, but the Chinese ones are usually better on the QC and paint from what I know.
     
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  20. God Orion, Aug 18, 2019
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    What is so different about the TE-01 head?

    Isn’t it actually better if it’s made in China? Not saying more expensive is better but China should have better QC, don’t you think?
     
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