Hasbro Asia Transformers Masterpiece MP-11SW Skywarp Comparison Images

shajaki wrote:SW makes TC look less premium, what with his silver paint out-doing the grey plastic.

Sabrblade wrote:One Seeker per company:

Starscream - TakaraTomy
Thundercracker - Hasbro
Skywarp - Hasbro Asia

It's a global collection.

shajaki wrote:SW makes TC look less premium, what with his silver paint out-doing the grey plastic.

megatronus wrote:Is the SS pictured Takara's, or Hasbro Asia's?

megatronus wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:

megatronus wrote:All I have to say is:

The hard choice is figuring out whether to put in an order now, or wait and hope it goes on sale at some point...

This won't be going on sale, the other Asia exclusive MPs have only gone up in price since their release. On top of that, this is Skywarp based on the more show accurate version of the mold.

Yeah, I somehow managed to miss this until yesterday, so I bit and pre-ordered it from RK, cheaper than any other place I found it at, 210 dollars including shipping. I feel really, really sad and dirty that this cost me more before shipping than MP Ultra Magnus did including shipping.

At least I have a full set of Seekers now, and won't have to get one till the Coneheads finally show up.

Huh? The Hasbro Asia MP reissues so far are Starscream and OP, both of which are still widely available. SS in particular has been on sale a bunch of times.

Skywarp is a special case, and 'hardcore' collectors like most of us here consider him a necessity, but I'm not sure we're representative of the market here, especially with the prohibitive price point.

Dead Metal wrote:Don't forget Grimlock, Grimlock in his sweet ass box.
SS went on sale? Hm, so I misjudged these then, must just be bias due to how high the initial import costs are. I should check ebay more often then, the last time I checked out the Asia MP reissues, they where still at their 220 price point.

Sabrblade wrote:

megatronus wrote:Is the SS pictured Takara's, or Hasbro Asia's?

The differences between the Japanese and Asian versions of MP-11 are so subtle from a distance that it's too difficult to tell from these pics.

Seibertron wrote:Ok, now that we've redone these 3 Seekers ... can we please have Thrust, Ramjet and Dirge finally? It's been almost 9 years since the original Masterpiece Starscream was released. It's time to finally do these guys!

Seibertron wrote:Ok, now that we've redone these 3 Seekers ... can we please have Thrust, Ramjet and Dirge finally? It's been almost 9 years since the original Masterpiece Starscream was released. It's time to finally do these guys!

shajaki wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Ok, now that we've redone these 3 Seekers ... can we please have Thrust, Ramjet and Dirge finally? It's been almost 9 years since the original Masterpiece Starscream was released. It's time to finally do these guys!

especially since the MP line has become so one sided, and the coneheads would just be retools. sounds like a no-brainer to me.

Bounti76 wrote:

shajaki wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Ok, now that we've redone these 3 Seekers ... can we please have Thrust, Ramjet and Dirge finally? It's been almost 9 years since the original Masterpiece Starscream was released. It's time to finally do these guys!

especially since the MP line has become so one sided, and the coneheads would just be retools. sounds like a no-brainer to me.

The Coneheads would have to be pretty significant retools, though, since the center portion of their torso would end up becoming their heads.

shajaki wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:

shajaki wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Ok, now that we've redone these 3 Seekers ... can we please have Thrust, Ramjet and Dirge finally? It's been almost 9 years since the original Masterpiece Starscream was released. It's time to finally do these guys!

especially since the MP line has become so one sided, and the coneheads would just be retools. sounds like a no-brainer to me.

The Coneheads would have to be pretty significant retools, though, since the center portion of their torso would end up becoming their heads.

bro, youre harshing my buzz

Seibertron wrote:

shajaki wrote:

Bounti76 wrote:

shajaki wrote:

Seibertron wrote:Ok, now that we've redone these 3 Seekers ... can we please have Thrust, Ramjet and Dirge finally? It's been almost 9 years since the original Masterpiece Starscream was released. It's time to finally do these guys!

especially since the MP line has become so one sided, and the coneheads would just be retools. sounds like a no-brainer to me.

The Coneheads would have to be pretty significant retools, though, since the center portion of their torso would end up becoming their heads.

bro, youre harshing my buzz

If 3rd party I gear can do it I have faith that takara can do it.

K2vox wrote:I wish they kept SW's eyes yellow, and some ankle tilts would have REALLY helped that mold out a lot.

megatronus wrote:I'd love to see the Coneheads, too, but I'm aching for official Shockwave and Megatron figures. It's odd we haven't heard about what's happening post Star Saber - usually we have, what, 6 months notice before a new MP is released? So hopefully the next reveal is a big one.

megatronus wrote:

Dead Metal wrote:Don't forget Grimlock, Grimlock in his sweet ass box.
SS went on sale? Hm, so I misjudged these then, must just be bias due to how high the initial import costs are. I should check ebay more often then, the last time I checked out the Asia MP reissues, they where still at their 220 price point.

Didn't realize Grimlock was a Hasbro Asia reissue... interesting. But yea, even more so then. I have an order with TFsource with Hasbro Asia SS & Grimlock on there for $175 each. When TFSource or BBTS has their next Botcon or whatever type sale happens, you can count on those guys being discounted. Hope SW goes the same way... Though I'll probably put in an order in the next week out of weakness.

Seibertron wrote:Ok, now that we've redone these 3 Seekers ... can we please have Thrust, Ramjet and Dirge finally? It's been almost 9 years since the original Masterpiece Starscream was released. It's time to finally do these guys!

megatronus wrote:

K2vox wrote:I wish they kept SW's eyes yellow, and some ankle tilts would have REALLY helped that mold out a lot.

I thought the new ones did have ankle tilts? Or am I not remembering correctly? And if not, at least the new ones can stand with some sense of balance...

I'd love to see the Coneheads, too, but I'm aching for official Shockwave and Megatron figures. It's odd we haven't heard about what's happening post Star Saber - usually we have, what, 6 months notice before a new MP is released? So hopefully the next reveal is a big one.

Wolfman Jake wrote:It still baffles me that Takara would produce a "Masterpiece" Skywarp with those weird shoulder, wrist, and "pectoral" pin stripes, making him far less screen accurate, especially now that the Masterpiece line is catering to that preference more than ever before. I know that's how it ended up for the Hasbro Asia market release a few years ago, but as this is being released only in Takara Tomy's home market, Japan, you'd think they could make a few changes to the paint apps? That's really all it would take.

Sabrblade wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:It still baffles me that Takara would produce a "Masterpiece" Skywarp with those weird shoulder, wrist, and "pectoral" pin stripes, making him far less screen accurate, especially now that the Masterpiece line is catering to that preference more than ever before. I know that's how it ended up for the Hasbro Asia market release a few years ago, but as this is being released only in Takara Tomy's home market, Japan, you'd think they could make a few changes to the paint apps? That's really all it would take.

Think of this as like Takara's release of Hasbro's MP Acid Storm. A straight reissue for the main Japanese market of a foreign market figure.

Otherwise, Takara's release of Acid Storm ought to have been recolored as, well... this:

Wolfman Jake wrote:Acid Storm is quite a D-List character, though. Skywarp is an established A-lister, part of an iconic trio of characters. It's annoying that he doesn't "match" his mold-mates Starscream and Thundercracker. Heck, Takara's Sunstorm does a better job of conforming to the "seeker trio" paint scheme. That's just weird.

Sabrblade wrote:

Wolfman Jake wrote:Acid Storm is quite a D-List character, though. Skywarp is an established A-lister, part of an iconic trio of characters. It's annoying that he doesn't "match" his mold-mates Starscream and Thundercracker. Heck, Takara's Sunstorm does a better job of conforming to the "seeker trio" paint scheme. That's just weird.

Takara's Sunstorm is a good example to bring up since, cartoon-wise, he's just as obscure in the show as Acid Storm was (arguably even moreso since Sunstorm was only seen in one shot of the one episode he showed up in, while Acid Storm got more screentime with multiple shots in the episode he appeared in) and yet received a deco that was very beholden to his single onscreen appearance:


Sunstorm may be more known in external media, but strictly speaking of the cartoon, he's even lower tier than Acid Storm, Nova Storm, and Ion Storm.

SeventhSage wrote:That's it. I'm moving to Japan.

The Good:
- Black painted biceps and knees are now black plastic
- Chest fans are considerably darker
- Joints are really nice and tight (unlike Thrust and his wobbly waist), though this isn’t any better than the original
- Heel spurs, and jet exhausts are darker

The Bad:
- Torso area behind his biceps is no longer painted silver, just silver plastic
- Bottom of shoulder pylons are considerably darker

The Indifferent:
- Purple is much warmer purple
- Symbols are lighter
- Chest missiles are darker
- Silver feet detail is darker
- Buttocks is black plastic
- Yellow wing paint is lighter and does not extend past molded detail
- Window is lighter but less clear

So really nice. I do like the old purple better, though this purple is similar to what was on the Henkei (not exactly the same). The biceps and knees being cast in black rather than painted is a definite improvement. As they are kind of distracting on the original. The lack of paint on the chest section is disappointing.

So it’s a matter of how much the change in purple bothers you (if it does at all) and how much the lack of paint (good for the biceps & knees, bad for the torso section) matter to you.

Looking at them from here, the black plastic biceps and darker chest fans are winning me over right now. You can’t lose with either of them. The ideal for me would be the 2016 version with the 2014 purple and painted chest part.

In all the pics the China 2014 version is on the left, the Japanese 2016 on the right.

Randy

william-james88 wrote:How do you completionists feel?

Sabrblade wrote:Oh wow. I didn't expect to see Randy's comparison posted here. I'd forgotten he'd done it, tbh.

william-james88 wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:Oh wow. I didn't expect to see Randy's comparison posted here. I'd forgotten he'd done it, tbh.

Hes a member of ours too and no one elsehad done such a comparison.

shajaki wrote:Huh. Do I need to buy another MP11SW?
Also, was this aimed at me?

william-james88 wrote:How do you completionists feel?

Luckily, I prefer everything on the original. But I don't know if my neurosis can let this slide....

BW Megatron wrote:All I have is the Hasbro MP-3 mold Walmart exclusive and I'm fine with it.