Description and Official Images of Transformers Movie Masterpiece MPM-06 Ironhide

Better.

Interesting news, this is not an exclusive!?!

He looks a bit better when not doubling over in pain. Severe lack of paint on him though. Those dull gray rotors are... Ew. I know he's got a disfiguring scar across his right eye, but it really doesn't come across on the toy. Looks more like he was left in the sun too long. Kind of wish they'd just given him his concept art head instead.

This might be enough to replace my customized leader Ironhide figure from dotm. The overall accuracy over gimmicks make this look much nicer and the cannons look good to. Truck mode suffers a lot from the cannons though it seems with how the cannons attach. Still seems that under-carriage will be the same regardless but hopefully not as bad as dotm.

I hope those cannons detach. Otherwise he now looks pretty okay in my book, we'll
have to wait and see.

william-james88 wrote:Interesting news, this is not an exclusive!?!

They're probably going under the assumption that toys r us won't be around by the time this guy drops. Or they're just hoping to make more money off of it. Either way it's good news for fans.

steals_your_goats wrote:

william-james88 wrote:Interesting news, this is not an exclusive!?!

They're probably going under the assumption that toys r us won't be around by the time this guy drops. Or they're just hoping to make more money off of it. Either way it's good news for fans.

TRU's future is pretty uncertain for sure, so they're probably avoiding making claims that may hurt them should the worst come to pass. Plus, it prevents sudden uncertainty that would make any fan's hair stand upright.

I'm sold. Pics show a prototype with a rush-job on the painting (prob to get ready for the exhibition). Finished product will look much better.

Gripes: lack of visible shoulder articulation (not to say there isn't any, just none that I can see with the wheel in the way); bumper-toes (bot kibble in alt mode); jaw movement looks muppet-like

Plusses: real close to cg model, esp the guns; cannons look removable (not sure though); clever use of door panel hinge integrated with cannon in bot mode; metal feet for stability; apparently, there is a grill gimmick that splits the GMC in half in bot mode, but remains a single piece in alt mode; little/no back kibble (alt mode parts fit in well with bot mode).

My poor wallet!

So it looks like his shoulder joints allow outward and backwards motion but not forwards. Wow, that's a piss-poor effort.

No matter how many times I look at that 'face' on Ironhide (or Ratchet, or many of the others), I'm never sure exactly what it is I'm supposed to be seeing. It's like Ironhide has the power to make every photo of his face go out of focus on purpose. I've never been a big fan of the bayverse look, especially with the toys. For all the detail and complexity, they still somehow convey the impression that the designers gave up half way through the design process.

Hopefully those absolutely miniscule hip joints will be able to support his frickin tree trucks called legs

Michael Bay and his bayverse toys get no more money from me...

It looks like on the close up shots of his arms that those door panels on his forearms have disappeared. Have they been photo-shopped out? Or am I missing something?

DeathReviews wrote: It's like Ironhide has the power to make every photo of his face go out of focus on purpose.

butcher31 wrote:It looks like on the close up shots of his arms that those door panels on his forearms have disappeared. Have they been photo-shopped out? Or am I missing something?

Looks like it, you can see part of the door at the back of his arm near his elbow, but the part that should be at his hand is missing, probably to make it easier to see the hand.

His shoulders being on his back is very hard for me to overlook, it's a terrible place for his arms to stick out of. I'm fine with them being angled backwards, but this is too far. But I guess he doesn't need to do much more than point his big guns so maybe it isn't that bad. Really need to mull this one over.

Emerje

Hard to say by pictures looks like canons may be detachable in truck mode

Ah now these pictures look MUCH better. I like it a hell of a lot now!

Va'al wrote:

I wanted to wait to comment until we got a better Ironhide than that in the display images, and this is so good. I am thrilled for this, and a dream of having the 2007 movie cast in MP form is coming true!! It's also nice to see they are planning to go farther with the MPM line.

Also showed my sister the story, as she loves movie Ironhide over most everything else, even if she isn't really a TF fan. She said she wants one too. Thank goodness this is going up on HTS, makes it much more likely I won't need to place a TFsource pre-order

This thing looks so terrible, for a 'masterpiece' to have so limited arm articulation it may as well not be there is an honest crime

D-Maximus_Prime wrote:

Va'al wrote:

I wanted to wait to comment until we got a better Ironhide than that in the display images, and this is so good. I am thrilled for this, and a dream of having the 2007 movie cast in MP form is coming true!! It's also nice to see they are planning to go farther with the MPM line.

Also showed my sister the story, as she loves movie Ironhide over most everything else, even if she isn't really a TF fan. She said she wants one too. Thank goodness this is going up on HTS, makes it much more likely I won't need to place a TFsource pre-order

I've looked at this photo so many times in the past day. After feeling very disappointed with the first few photos with the mistransformation I'm so relieved the figure actually looks great when done properly. Movie Ironhide is one of my all time fave Transformer designs ever (ironic since G1 Ironhide is one of my least, he's so boring and bricky) and while most of his toys have been good there's often been something that annoys me about them (the Voyagers often have fiddly chest bits, the Leader is far too big, the Deluxe too small). Ok the price is the issue with this one being a Masterpiece so it's going on my list of TFs I will buy if I ever start getting some proper money like winning the lottery or something. I wonder who's next? If autobot then probably Ratchet (Jazz another possibility but I would be surprised if he comes before Ratchet), if Decepticon... hm... Not sure...Megatron?

Carnivius_Prime wrote: I wonder who's next?

The latest rumours indicate that Starscream is next.

Carnivius_Prime wrote:I've looked at this photo so many times in the past day. After feeling very disappointed with the first few photos with the mistransformation I'm so relieved the figure actually looks great when done properly. Movie Ironhide is one of my all time fave Transformer designs ever (ironic since G1 Ironhide is one of my least, he's so boring and bricky) and while most of his toys have been good there's often been something that annoys me about them (the Voyagers often have fiddly chest bits, the Leader is far too big, the Deluxe too small). Ok the price is the issue with this one being a Masterpiece so it's going on my list of TFs I will buy if I ever start getting some proper money like winning the lottery or something. I wonder who's next? If autobot then probably Ratchet (Jazz another possibility but I would be surprised if he comes before Ratchet), if Decepticon... hm... Not sure...Megatron?

I agree, I spent some time last night checking out the images closely. Is he perfect? No. Does he look to have some issues, yes. But it still looks the part, and the fact that they got the bot mode that close to the CG model is awesome. I will agree that Prime needed some extra work, but Bee was great and I have high hopes for Barricade. I am loving the movie MPs and the ideas behind them a lot, despite my criticisms.

As for future MPs, I really don't know if they'd do Jazz or Ratchet next, but it would be funny if a movie MP Jazz came out before a G1 MP Jazz and I really am interested to see how Ratchet will come out. I also look forward to an eventual Sideswipe, he was my favorite movie Autobot (and funny enough, my 2nd/3rd favorite G1 guy).

As for cons, I think they are gonna go the MP36 route and wait out doing a good proper Megatron for a bit, probably stick to the guys who went more than 1 movie, like Starscream. I'm really hoping for a MP Bonecrusher though, love that guy.

Also, as a final note for this post: I actually like the head. And I find it kind of funny that all the new movie MPs have some sort of facial moving feature: the masks or the mouths.

I'm digging it. I get some of the complaints, the toes showing in vehicle mode are a little annoying, and hopefully the cannons are removable, but overall it's a huge improvement over any of the movie voyagers, and its a better scale than the DotM leader (and you don't need to buy proper cannons from a 3rd party, LOL). I'll wait for a price confirmation, but unless the price is insane I'll definitely pick it up, and FINALLY replace my movie 1 voyager.

Also thanks to Hobbymizer administrator Stanley Cheung, we have some equally nice, clean, high-definition shots of the latest reveal from the Hasbro - Takara Tomy collaboration on the Transformers Movie Masterpiece live, with MPM-6 Ironhide - which you can check out below!

The shots were taken at the private press event during the Hong Kong Toys and Games Fair 2018, as first reported here, and include the figure in robot and vehicle mode, plus comparisons with the Bumblebee Movie Masterpiece toy, and close-ups from a number of angles in both robot and vehicle modes. You can compare the photos below with the official images we received from Hasbro here!

The more I see of him, the more I like him. He's not perfect but he looks good, and the fact he's essentially Voyager sized is nice too.

KVO Prime wrote:Michael Bay and his bayverse toys get no more money from me...

And why are you here?

DeathReviews wrote:No matter how many times I look at that 'face' on Ironhide (or Ratchet, or many of the others), I'm never sure exactly what it is I'm supposed to be seeing. It's like Ironhide has the power to make every photo of his face go out of focus on purpose. I've never been a big fan of the bayverse look, especially with the toys. For all the detail and complexity, they still somehow convey the impression that the designers gave up half way through the design process.

to me he looks like a robot pig wearing a helmet winking

DeathReviews wrote:No matter how many times I look at that 'face' on Ironhide (or Ratchet, or many of the others), I'm never sure exactly what it is I'm supposed to be seeing.

If you remove the last three sentences, I would have mistaken you for talking about...whatever these are supposed to be.

Seriously, you would not think twice about this figure if you have the leader class one. Leader ironhide makes this mpm ironhide, looks like a waste of money. I️ prob won’t even buy it fir a voyager price. Sheeshhh. Get this garbage out of here. Stop calling it a masterpiece.

@quantum surge. It’s called a transformer (from the 80s). And it was retailed for about $8.00, not like mom at minimum st $100.

President-prime wrote:Seriously, you would not think twice about this figure if you have the leader class one. Leader ironhide makes this mpm ironhide, looks like a waste of money. I️ prob won’t even buy it fir a voyager price. Sheeshhh. Get this garbage out of here. Stop calling it a masterpiece.

But DOTM Leader Class Ironhide looks like absolute trash.

PrymeStriker wrote:

President-prime wrote:Seriously, you would not think twice about this figure if you have the leader class one. Leader ironhide makes this mpm ironhide, looks like a waste of money. I️ prob won’t even buy it fir a voyager price. Sheeshhh. Get this garbage out of here. Stop calling it a masterpiece.

But DOTM Leader Class Ironhide looks like absolute trash.

I find DOTM Leader Ironhide frustrating, and I looked forward to him the most at the time. The weapons are too puny, the hip's ratchet joints aren't like other ratchet joints on Leader figures, the feet make it hard to stand on, and most copies have a joint at the neck; it's glued in place.

I've the Leader Class Ironhide from RTF: the ultimate Ironhide in my opinion.

I hate the cannons to stay clearly visible on the arms, specially in the alt mode: the leader class ROTF could retract them in the forearms and eject even in the alt mode.

ROTF toy line was the best ever for Movie series... maybe too difficult for kids to convert but they were all masterpieces.

My sister owns the DotM Leader Ironhide, and I've messed around with it some, and I can agree that while the mold is good, this looks better. The colors are off on the leader, I don' really like how the arms work with them being so big and the cannons flipping out, and the legs are difficult in bot mode. He's good, but he needed to be smaller. And I am satisfied with how this guy is going to turn out

@Prymstriker. Leader dotm looks awesome. Personally, I️ think that’s one of the best looking toy in the series. Looks badass. Sorry I️ like my toys bulky and intimidating.

President-prime wrote:@Prymstriker. Leader dotm looks awesome. Personally, I️ think that’s one of the best looking toy in the series. Looks badass. Sorry I️ like my toys bulky and intimidating.

Yeah, no. His colors are way off, too much ugly factory blue, the weapons are small and look like they were molded in Minecraft, he's far too long proportionally making him look way thinner than his onscreen counterpart...basically everything everyone else complained about above. This looks far more screen accurate, it's not even comparable.

Here's a comparison with the MPM and the DOTM leader next to the CGI model. I think this Ironhide MPM looks freaking incredible, can't wait to get it.

You can spend $100 on the thing. I’m cool. I️ like my toys leader class.

President-prime wrote:You can spend $100 on the thing. I’m cool. I️ like my toys leader class.

Nah, I'm not gonna dump $100 on a design I'm not even that crazy about. I'm just saying this is screen accurate and DOTM Leader Ironhide is a miserable piece of work.

I think he looks awesome, but yeah I also agree with the opinion that is he really not up to Masterpiece standards. But in the defense of the figure, it can't be easy making a CGI design into a plastic model that has to also transform. I do wish that the feet was hidden on vehicle mode, that would be my biggest gripe with the figure, that and the cannons...I really hope they are removable.

Some of the criticisms of this masterpiece are mind boggling. The only criticism should be the height as he should be much taller compared to bumblebee. Whether hastak made a mess of the scale of Ironhide or Bee and barricade remains to be seen especially considering that mpm Prime is pretty much leader sized so bee and barricade should've been deluxe sized.

I can't understand the opinion that the leader is better. It's not. I'm a huge fan of Ironhide and although the leader is a great scale in truck and bot mode that's where the superiority stops. The arm canons are terrible that are saved by a third party company. The blue on him is inaccurate as is the mouth plate that never appeared in the movies. The leader simply has many limitations whereas this does not.

I will buy the Hasbro and takara version because I think takara will fill in some smaller paint details like his chin cylinders being black iirc.

For everyone wondering what Ironhide's head is based on it's based on a bull face wearing a cowboy hat.

Yeah, I don't get where this love for the leader is coming from. He's too thin, his cannons are too small, he has gimmicks that don't make any sense like that stupid faceplate, and he's out of scale with the other figures from the movie lines (WAY too tall, although he might work with something like the Human Alliance figures that are also bigger).



He looks better with the FWI-2 3rd party cannons you could get, but that doesn't fix all his other problems, or those blue legs. He shouldn't be as tall as OP and Megatron.

This looks like a much more screen-accurate release, and it's in-scale with RotF Leader OP and the MPM OP. We don't have a price-point yet, but Leader Ironhide is going for $80 used on Ebay at this point anyway (WITHOUT the 3rd part stuff), I doubt it will be THAT expensive.

Robot Kingdom seems to be the first site offering a preorder for Transformers Movie Masterpiece MPM-6 Ironhide. We do get new details from this listing including a more specific release date and a price.

The release date given is July 1st, 2018. This does fit with the Fall release given by Hasbro since Hasbro usually refers to when we would see a product on the shelves. Robot Kingdom has the toy at $109, but as the title of this article states, this clues us in more on the price point, and is not necessarily the price the toy will be on shelves in America.

This is the same price MPM Optimus Prime goes for on the same site, meaning that MPM Ironhide would probably be sold at the same $100 price Optimus Prime was at Toysrus. Unlike previous MPM releases, Ironhide has not been said to be retailer exclusive and will also be available on Hasbro Toy Shop.

If only the weapons detached for truck mode.

That's why I'm stickin' with my Leader 'Hide and the Fans Want It cannons.

Good lord, I hope that's the wrong price. I was expecting $70-$80 dollar range at worst. He's a little taller than MPM Bumblebee and a fair bit smaller than MPM Prime, no way he's worth the same price as Prime is.

What Ironhide lacks in height he makes up for in girth thanks to his thick legs and wide shoulders. I'm not surprised he might cost the same as Prime.

Emerje

Unlike Bee and Barricade, this is a guy where I am going to wait for him to come to HTS. HTS will probably actually sell him for the $100 mark instead of the $140ish mark online stores will (RK included once you include the high shipping). Bee and Barricade are OK since I will probably never see them in stores and I don't mind the extra $20 too much, more like $15 after taxes if I saw them in stores. I wasn't planning to spend $140 on Optimus, but then I found him in TRU for $100, so I lept. Good call that I didn't pay $140.

Point it, this time HTS will be my go to gal. And with as thick as he is, he probably is about Prime's heft

When it comes to his price vs Prime's, its important to remember that girth counts as much as length.