Additional Transformers Masterpiece Hound Images Now With Breathing Mask

SpaceKaseJase wrote:$118 via Anime-export, if you're patient. Never had issues with them. Just sayin'.

william-james88 wrote:

SpaceKaseJase wrote:$118 via Anime-export, if you're patient. Never had issues with them. Just sayin'.

I had issues with my MP dinobot and they... sent me a new one a few months later, it all worked out well and I recomend them fully.

Their shipping has gone up though.

xMXUx wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

SpaceKaseJase wrote:$118 via Anime-export, if you're patient. Never had issues with them. Just sayin'.

I had issues with my MP dinobot and they... sent me a new one a few months later, it all worked out well and I recomend them fully.

Their shipping has gone up though.

I'm still waiting for them to resolve my account issues so that I can have a $250+ order shipped, but so far the just say they can't help and then ignore my emails... So I'd only recommend them if you're sure you won't be needing to contact them in case something doesn't work out

Wolfman Jake wrote:

Syclone wrote:The price is insane for a figure smaller than Ironhide....who SHOULDN'T be smaller than Ironhide.

Hound is consistently smaller than Ironhide, in the cartoon, in the Sunbow size charts, and now even in the SIEGE line, where Hasbro is paying especially close attention to relative character scale. Hound is the same height as the likes of Prowl and Sideswipe, more or less.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Well, with my recent doll purchases, I have absolutely no rights to complain about the price.

However, I found the MPs to be just NOT fun to play with. I never even bothered to transform MP-36 Megatron. I want my transformers to be quick and fun to transform and MPs have been really annoying to play with recently. Especially the MPMs. So will I buy Hound? It will really depend on video reviews.

SpaceKaseJase wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Well, with my recent doll purchases, I have absolutely no rights to complain about the price.

However, I found the MPs to be just NOT fun to play with. I never even bothered to transform MP-36 Megatron. I want my transformers to be quick and fun to transform and MPs have been really annoying to play with recently. Especially the MPMs. So will I buy Hound? It will really depend on video reviews.

Lol, my MP-36 is still in the box. Kinda scared to open him!

Nathaniel Prime wrote:

SpaceKaseJase wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Well, with my recent doll purchases, I have absolutely no rights to complain about the price.

However, I found the MPs to be just NOT fun to play with. I never even bothered to transform MP-36 Megatron. I want my transformers to be quick and fun to transform and MPs have been really annoying to play with recently. Especially the MPMs. So will I buy Hound? It will really depend on video reviews.

Lol, my MP-36 is still in the box. Kinda scared to open him!

Do you want my opinion? Open him, pose him really nice, transform him a few times, then put him an a nice display. That way, you can properly experience the figure

I like my figures to be complex, time consuming, but fluid and intuitive. I believe MP-36 to be the embodiment of that opinion.

If MP Hound will be the same, then that's great

SpaceKaseJase wrote:

Nathaniel Prime wrote:

SpaceKaseJase wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Well, with my recent doll purchases, I have absolutely no rights to complain about the price.

However, I found the MPs to be just NOT fun to play with. I never even bothered to transform MP-36 Megatron. I want my transformers to be quick and fun to transform and MPs have been really annoying to play with recently. Especially the MPMs. So will I buy Hound? It will really depend on video reviews.

Lol, my MP-36 is still in the box. Kinda scared to open him!

Do you want my opinion? Open him, pose him really nice, transform him a few times, then put him an a nice display. That way, you can properly experience the figure

I like my figures to be complex, time consuming, but fluid and intuitive. I believe MP-36 to be the embodiment of that opinion.

If MP Hound will be the same, then that's great

Wow! You just crystalized my thoughts!

Nathaniel Prime wrote:

SpaceKaseJase wrote:

Nathaniel Prime wrote:

SpaceKaseJase wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:Well, with my recent doll purchases, I have absolutely no rights to complain about the price.

However, I found the MPs to be just NOT fun to play with. I never even bothered to transform MP-36 Megatron. I want my transformers to be quick and fun to transform and MPs have been really annoying to play with recently. Especially the MPMs. So will I buy Hound? It will really depend on video reviews.

Lol, my MP-36 is still in the box. Kinda scared to open him!

Do you want my opinion? Open him, pose him really nice, transform him a few times, then put him an a nice display. That way, you can properly experience the figure

I like my figures to be complex, time consuming, but fluid and intuitive. I believe MP-36 to be the embodiment of that opinion.

If MP Hound will be the same, then that's great

Wow! You just crystalized my thoughts!

Glad to help!

I have an extremely unpopular opinion in that I hate keeping a figure boxed honestly. Keeping it boxed is no different to me than looking at a photo of it.

That's why I immediately open the box to get to the figure. Let me feel the creation and praise those who have brought it to me, and enjoy it for times to come.

I will keep the box (especially those with lovely artwork, like Siege), but that's about it.

I hope others see where I am coming from, because I would love for them to properly enjoy that new MP Hound

-Kanrabat- wrote:

xMXUx wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

SpaceKaseJase wrote:$118 via Anime-export, if you're patient. Never had issues with them. Just sayin'.

I had issues with my MP dinobot and they... sent me a new one a few months later, it all worked out well and I recomend them fully.

Their shipping has gone up though.

I'm still waiting for them to resolve my account issues so that I can have a $250+ order shipped, but so far the just say they can't help and then ignore my emails... So I'd only recommend them if you're sure you won't be needing to contact them in case something doesn't work out

In that case, you should Paypal claim the **** out of them. I do hope you are within the delays.

a convertible top for vehicle mode that can also attach to robot mode as a shield or backpack

xMXUx wrote:Unfortunately it's way too late for that, since you have to put in your preorder months ahaead of the release. So by the time a figure releases, all the paypal and credit card protection programms are no longer inside the time frame to launch a claim

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:MP-47 Hound

Release date: December 2019

Indemand Toys: £129.99

The Link

(The same as MP Blackarachnia, so expect to see a paralleled price of £109.99 from Kapow Toys, in the next couple days)

Syclone wrote:Just an aside, but, man, Alternators was such a great line. I really like the cartoon accuracy of the Hound bit mode, but Alternators didn't need to be tied to such things and produced some really great figures.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Syclone wrote:Just an aside, but, man, Alternators was such a great line. I really like the cartoon accuracy of the Hound bit mode, but Alternators didn't need to be tied to such things and produced some really great figures.

For me too, My Alternator Hound is my default MP. Plus a fellow Seibertronian (who disappeared some years ago) made me a personal 3D printed upgrade kit. It's not perfect, but it now have his shoulder hologram canon, his big gun, and his jerry can. All usable in all modes! Plus I applied the repros. I'll never get rid of that Hound.

Hellscream9999 wrote:I feel like revisiting the alternators line with some new designs and transformation techniques could yield a really nice budget masterpiece line

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:I feel like revisiting the alternators line with some new designs and transformation techniques could yield a really nice budget masterpiece line

"Budget"? In these days and age, I wouldn't be surprised if those new and improved Alternators would cost the same as leader class figures. Still, by MP modern standards, those could be "budget MPs".

william-james88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:I feel like revisiting the alternators line with some new designs and transformation techniques could yield a really nice budget masterpiece line

"Budget"? In these days and age, I wouldn't be surprised if those new and improved Alternators would cost the same as leader class figures. Still, by MP modern standards, those could be "budget MPs".

Arent the human alliance figures an evolutuon of that concept but brought to the movie line?

Hellscream9999 wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:I feel like revisiting the alternators line with some new designs and transformation techniques could yield a really nice budget masterpiece line

"Budget"? In these days and age, I wouldn't be surprised if those new and improved Alternators would cost the same as leader class figures. Still, by MP modern standards, those could be "budget MPs".

Arent the human alliance figures an evolutuon of that concept but brought to the movie line?

yeah, so something like that, only with more of a 'classics' look

00Stargrave00 wrote:Yeah I love his cloth shield it must be layered with trythillium or something

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:It is sad that he was the original POV character for the pilot episodes. Only to be thrown under the bus for the lesser Bumblebee.

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:It is sad that he was the original POV character for the pilot episodes. Only to be thrown under the bus for the lesser Bumblebee.

Nathaniel Prime wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:It is sad that he was the original POV character for the pilot episodes. Only to be thrown under the bus for the lesser Bumblebee.

I thought I was the only one thinking that!

Agreed on him being underrated, he was such a great character in those first few episodes.

I don't think we have had confirmation yet, but is Hound a fully licensed Jeep? I don't think I've seen the a logo or badge of any kind on him. Knowing Takara, they've done unlicensed alt modes for the MP line before (why haven't they done that with Jazz is beyond me though).

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:I think they ultimately settled on Bumblebee as the kid-appeal character because of price. Bumblebee, being at the lowest price point, would be much easier for a kid to save up their allowance or beg their parents for.

william-james88 wrote:

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Hellscream9999 wrote:I feel like revisiting the alternators line with some new designs and transformation techniques could yield a really nice budget masterpiece line

"Budget"? In these days and age, I wouldn't be surprised if those new and improved Alternators would cost the same as leader class figures. Still, by MP modern standards, those could be "budget MPs".

Arent the human alliance figures an evolutuon of that concept but brought to the movie line?

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:I think they ultimately settled on Bumblebee as the kid-appeal character because of price. Bumblebee, being at the lowest price point, would be much easier for a kid to save up their allowance or beg their parents for.

sol magnus wrote:

Nathaniel Prime wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:It is sad that he was the original POV character for the pilot episodes. Only to be thrown under the bus for the lesser Bumblebee.

I thought I was the only one thinking that!

Agreed on him being underrated, he was such a great character in those first few episodes.

I don't think we have had confirmation yet, but is Hound a fully licensed Jeep? I don't think I've seen the a logo or badge of any kind on him. Knowing Takara, they've done unlicensed alt modes for the MP line before (why haven't they done that with Jazz is beyond me though).

Even though Porsche is owned by Volkswagen, the licensing rights are retained by Porsche, and for whatever reason, they've not agreed to allow their use for Jazz.

Nathaniel Prime wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

Nathaniel Prime wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:It is sad that he was the original POV character for the pilot episodes. Only to be thrown under the bus for the lesser Bumblebee.

I thought I was the only one thinking that!

Agreed on him being underrated, he was such a great character in those first few episodes.

I don't think we have had confirmation yet, but is Hound a fully licensed Jeep? I don't think I've seen the a logo or badge of any kind on him. Knowing Takara, they've done unlicensed alt modes for the MP line before (why haven't they done that with Jazz is beyond me though).

Even though Porsche is owned by Volkswagen, the licensing rights are retained by Porsche, and for whatever reason, they've not agreed to allow their use for Jazz.

Wait, so even if the vehicle mode isn't licensed, Porsche will forbid the release of an MP Jazz? I thought Takara would be off the hook if Porshe allows 3P to create otherwise perfect replicas of their cars

william-james88 wrote:

Nathaniel Prime wrote:

sol magnus wrote:

Nathaniel Prime wrote:

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:It is sad that he was the original POV character for the pilot episodes. Only to be thrown under the bus for the lesser Bumblebee.

I thought I was the only one thinking that!

Agreed on him being underrated, he was such a great character in those first few episodes.

I don't think we have had confirmation yet, but is Hound a fully licensed Jeep? I don't think I've seen the a logo or badge of any kind on him. Knowing Takara, they've done unlicensed alt modes for the MP line before (why haven't they done that with Jazz is beyond me though).

Even though Porsche is owned by Volkswagen, the licensing rights are retained by Porsche, and for whatever reason, they've not agreed to allow their use for Jazz.

Wait, so even if the vehicle mode isn't licensed, Porsche will forbid the release of an MP Jazz? I thought Takara would be off the hook if Porshe allows 3P to create otherwise perfect replicas of their cars

If Takara wants to make an alt mode thst looks exactly like G1 jazz, it needs a license or else they will get sued. Porshe does not allow 3p companies, they simply have not sued them yet.

ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:Regarding Hound himself, I'm pretty sure he's licensed - otherwise he wouldn't be allowed to duplicate the distinctive Jeep headlights, grille, etc. And he has the Willys "W" on the winch or engine block or whatever it is that sticks out of his front.

Brokebot wrote:Dangit. Here I was all grateful that I was going to save money this year because Takara-bro wasn't putting anything on the shelves I wanted, and then they pull this one.

*sigh* Good-bye, $160.