TakaraTomy Transformers Masterpiece MP-10K Convoy BAPE Black Camo Version

Why.






WHY?

*deep breath*
Well, I see two silver linings:
1. I'm getting in on the ground floor. I've got my ear to the ground and I'm ready to hit the streets!
2. I bought the first two BAPE's for completions sake. I greatly appreciate them now, but wasn't excited at the time. This guy though? Sexy. It's very close to the Dead "Sleep Mode" I've wanted from the MP10 mold so desperately.

Here's the most important part from their website (posted in English just to taunt us I'm sure).

There will be a drawing held in BAPE STORE® Harajuku, Shibuya, BAPE KIDS® Harajuku and BAPEXCLUSIVE™ Aoyama at 9:30 AM on Monday, january 2nd for the upcoming Transformers x A BATHING APE® Customers who arrive later than 9:30 will not partake in the drawing, no exceptions.

*Please contact your local BAPE STORE® for more information.

*bapeonline.com does not sell.This item is limited edition in Japan.

Also ￥17,800 +tax (so ￥19,224 or US$164), not that you'd ever be able to buy one at that price without walking into their store and buying one after winning the drawing giving you the chance to do so. There's a reason why these tend to go for between US$500-$900.

Emerje

Oh wow,look. Another repaint.

shajaki wrote:Why.






WHY?

*deep breath*
Well, I see two silver linings:
1. I'm getting in on the ground floor. I've got my ear to the ground and I'm ready to hit the streets!
2. I bought the first two BAPE's for completions sake. I greatly appreciate them now, but wasn't excited at the time. This guy though? Sexy. It's very close to the Dead "Sleep Mode" I've wanted from the MP10 mold so desperately.

Fight it shajaki. Don't let this urge consume you!

Ah yes, the perfect MP-10 release to reenact this:

It's mystifying that these are made in such tiny numbers even one day's labour should allow them to make hundreds more of them.

And to link them to a draw is kinda crazy when they likely have more branches than they have places operating the draws and even winning the draw does not guarantee you get the right to buy a Bape 'Convoy'.

But then Lucky Draw toys are kinda objectionable to me when they are properly coloured toys - it does not matter as much when they are plated toys you can't even Transform.

The real joke is that a lot of the people who do end up with them may sell them on anyway.

It's also annoying that it's the sleep mode colour scheme that would have had a broader interest than just this too. This is a colour scheme (bar the camo stripe) better suited to a Tokyo Toyshow exclusive.

We should have seen this coming after the green and red, because G1 Convoy was released by the same company in all three colors before. This should be the last one.

If the G1 mold versions are any indication, this will be slightly easier to get and slightly cheaper than the red one, which itself was slightly easier to get and slightly cheaper than the green one. The fact that there's an accurate KO on the market for MP-10R and not for 10A might have kept the prices in check though.

Maybe this release will convince the KO guys to run 10A again but with the proper shoulder configuration! I don't like KOs but I'm not so much of a hard liner that I would turn down an almost-as-good one for something on a Lucky Draw level of price/availability.

RAR wrote:The real joke is that a lot of the people who do end up with them may sell them on anyway.

Not on the secondary market. There are very few legit ones for good reason. Most of the time, it's "buy it from Japan from someone that stood in line for it" or you're up the creek.

RAR wrote:It's also annoying that it's the sleep mode colour scheme that would have had a broader interest than just this too. This is a colour scheme (bar the camo stripe) better suited to a Tokyo Toyshow exclusive.

Actually this is grey and black, and if we learned anything from MP-4S it's that if they do a "Sleep" Convoy out of this mold it won't be grey and black. It'll be that ashen red and blue again.

I may be late to tell this but I know SOMEONE who will jump on that Graypetimus no matter what.

COUGH!SajakiCOUGH!

He doesn't go ashen tinted red / blue when he dies he goes gray.

Unless someone has been mucking about the colour balance on the latest Blurays again ?



Just to be clear I am saying that a good portion of the people who queue up will sell the Bape item on as the 2nd market value off as it is guaranteed profit - it's something students tend to do when they have the morning off so I hear.. go pick up the campaign stuff and resell it for cash.

That means the collectors who do get it (including Japanese ones) may have to pay that premium for them - especially as it's a offer that only takes place in two locations.

But now that there is at least a chance of a Bape deco getting KO'd by the Chinese market some might consider it not worth the cost and effort of trying to get the original when it is going to cost you (3rd party) "Combiner Money" or worse.

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:This should be the last one.

Lord I hope so

-Kanrabat- wrote:I may be late to tell this but I know SOMEONE who will jump on that Graypetimus no matter what.

COUGH!SajakiCOUGH!

Oh, and the KO's? They didn't effect the prices of the legit's much at all.

RAR wrote:He doesn't go ashen tinted red / blue when he dies he goes gray.

Unless someone has been mucking about the colour balance on the latest Blurays again ?

Was referring to MP-4S: http://www.seibertron.com/transformers- ... me/3855/1/

shajaki wrote:Oh, and the KO's? They didn't effect the prices of the legit's much at all.

They did on the red one! I think mine was sub-$500 shortly after it came out and it was the cheapest by a country mile. Had one minor scratch and the seller decided to just be rid of it. Outside of that, they quickly got up to around $700-$800 and sat around there for awhile until the KO hit. Now it's pretty easy to jump on eBay and get a legit MP-10R around $450-$550.

ScottyP wrote:

shajaki wrote:Oh, and the KO's? They didn't effect the prices of the legit's much at all.

They did on the red one! I think mine was sub-$500 shortly after it came out and it was the cheapest by a country mile. Had one minor scratch and the seller decided to just be rid of it. Outside of that, they quickly got up to around $700-$800 and sat around there for awhile until the KO hit. Now it's pretty easy to jump on eBay and get a legit MP-10R around $450-$550.

You're probably right. Once the hunt was over I stopped paying attention to such things.

With maybe the fastest solicit-to-release MP ever, the (hopefully) final BAPE MP-10 has hit the streets. The Transformers Masterpiece MP-10K Convoy BAPE Black Camo Version was released today, exclusively to A Bathing Ape stores in Japan, and upon tradition he is once again in extremely limited numbers. Some of the lucky recipients snapped some pics for your viewing pleasure which you can see below (with minimal scrolling effort!). Log in and let us know what this means to you, and stay tuned to Seibertron.com: home for the best Galleries and Conversation around!

Go, go, Convoy Rangers!

Kinda funny that they've chosen to parse "Blackcamo" as one word.

Is that meant to be dead prime?

MGrotusque wrote:Is that meant to be dead prime?

Dead Prime didn't wear camo.

At this rate, MP-10 will have more redecoes than classics Optimus Prime.

Got one secured for well under $400. I'll take that and call it a win. Hooray for friends and YJ proxy services

MGrotusque wrote:Is that meant to be dead prime?

No, just an homage to a redeco of g1 prime which had grey camo



Also, if anyone wants it, here it is for $450 and free shipping!

http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/ ... ion/37039/

And in case people didnt know, here they all are, we had many years to make that convoy rangers joke:







And I just thought of soemthing. Shajaki, would you be up for a top 5 best MP 10 issues?

Ha! Maybe. But I'm still waiting on a few more. Like Diablue, Ultra Whitemus, Dead (Sleep Mode), Movie Battle Damage, G2, or hell even a MP10+.

You just never know, but I bet they're far from done with him.

shajaki wrote:Ha! Maybe. But I'm still waiting on a few more. Like Diablue, Ultra Whitemus, Dead (Sleep Mode), Movie Battle Damage, G2, or hell even a MP10+.

You just never know, but I bet they're far from done with him.

A G2 version would be great as long as they do the missile launcher and battery pack. What I really want is a Fire Guts Ginrai version.

Microraptor wrote:

shajaki wrote:Ha! Maybe. But I'm still waiting on a few more. Like Diablue, Ultra Whitemus, Dead (Sleep Mode), Movie Battle Damage, G2, or hell even a MP10+.

You just never know, but I bet they're far from done with him.

A G2 version would be great as long as they do the missile launcher and battery pack. What I really want is a Fire Guts Ginrai version.

They should probably make a MP Super Ginrai first, since a Fire Guts version of this mold would instead be just "Fire Guts Convoy" instead.

They had the mold out for the MP-10 re-re-re-re-release or whatever, so SG and Gray BAPE have happened. I'd wager 10+ happens if 14+ had decent sales, which we'll probably never know of for certain unless they were good enough for them to brag about. Outside of that, I can maybe see a Magnus cab, but I think it gets retired sooner rather than later and they move on to MP Optimus 3.0. You know it's gonna happen one day, just look at how many MGs Bandai has done of the RX-78 and other lead suits. Flagship characters just get upgrades every so often, needed or not.

ScottyP wrote:They had the mold out for the MP-10 re-re-re-re-release or whatever, so SG and Gray BAPE have happened. I'd wager 10+ happens if 14+ had decent sales, which we'll probably never know of for certain unless they were good enough for them to brag about. Outside of that, I can maybe see a Magnus cab, but I think it gets retired sooner rather than later and they move on to MP Optimus 3.0. You know it's gonna happen one day, just look at how many MGs Bandai has done of the RX-78 and other lead suits. Flagship characters just get upgrades every so often, needed or not.

Most of the major venues have already been exhausted, and a white one would be obsolete with MP Ultra Magnus. Hell, with MP Delta Magnus, even a Diaclone blue one would be... less than ideal. Unless we're going the Magna Convoy route...

JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:Most of the major venues have already been exhausted, and a white one would be obsolete with MP Ultra Magnus. Hell, with MP Delta Magnus, even a Diaclone blue one would be... less than ideal. Unless we're going the Magna Convoy route...

How... on earth.. does MP Magnus and Powered Convoy make those MP10 Variants obsolete? The cabs that come with those figures are empty husks, only worth a damn for the alt modes. If they made them I bet people would proudly pose them beside their respective powered counterparts. Like so:

I could see them skipping such a release on the account of them being basically substitute Ultra Magnuses (or whatever the plural is), until the fully armored toys were released. I'm looking at you too, Generations. What would you rather have: an "incomplete" homage to a (negligible) feature that was never shown, or the whole package as shown on TV?