Transformers Masterpiece #6 Revealed!

If this is true I can't say I'm surprised.

Poor old Thundercracker hasn't seen much love lately, has he?

MP-03 screamer was more of a Thundercracker colour than what screamer was

True enough. Not that I'm fussed, I recently acquired my first ever Thundercracker.

MP Thundercracker will be a Transformers Convention in Japan exclusive.....

I like Skywarp but the colour scheme looks wrong especially in Plane mode. Why can't they get MP seekers right?

Fender Bender wrote:MP Thundercracker will be a Transformers Convention in Japan exclusive.....

I scooped you by 19 minutes.

Cool!!! I bet they will eventually released Thundercracker.

Good stuff.

2 seakers down, at least 5 more to go, plus black redeco and ghost of starscream...

2 seekers? Are we counting the first as Thundercracker, Starscream, or neither?

Yah, I'm counting the first as a filler background character and fully expect a screamer and thundercracker next.

I expected this would happen eventually. But that's all right though, because Skywarp is my favorite seeker. Rock on.

I think Hasbro are likely to issue Starscream in the desired colours at some point.

Leonardo wrote:I think Hasbro are likely to issue Starscream in the desired colours at some point.

I dunno, with the movie and all, they seem to have lost interest in anything else. And then they have the new line coming out after the movie.

Unfortunately, I think the Classics, Reissues, Alternators are all gonna fall by the wayside. Hopefully Tomy/Takara will not let us down though.

True. We can hope, though, that the movie reignites the spark in some long-dormant fans who will long for more 'classic' Transformers as opposed to the movie versions. This may spur Hasbro into reviving either Classics or Reissues.

Ah if even just to produce the reissues for Ramjet and Thrust that we are sorely missing along with alt. ironhide and ratchet.

Ironhide and Ratchet are oft neglected. This saddens me.

Leonardo wrote:Ironhide and Ratchet are oft neglected. This saddens me.

Yes, wth is up with that. They were MAJOR characters till the movie. OK, so Ironhide was a minivan. Is this just minivan bias?

My MP Prime needs an Ironhide Alt. to call old friend!

Bonger wrote:

Leonardo wrote:Ironhide and Ratchet are oft neglected. This saddens me.

Yes, wth is up with that. They were MAJOR characters till the movie. OK, so Ironhide was a minivan. Is this just minivan bias?

My MP Prime needs an Ironhide Alt. to call old friend!

Dodge Ram Prime was perfect for Ironhide, I thought. It really was a missed opportunity.

and here was me kinda hopin for grimlock..... now that would kick ass.

Leonardo wrote:

Bonger wrote:

Leonardo wrote:Ironhide and Ratchet are oft neglected. This saddens me.

Yes, wth is up with that. They were MAJOR characters till the movie. OK, so Ironhide was a minivan. Is this just minivan bias?

My MP Prime needs an Ironhide Alt. to call old friend!

Dodge Ram Prime was perfect for Ironhide, I thought. It really was a missed opportunity.

Have you seen the Nemesis Prime to Trailbreaker kitbash idea on Reprolabels. I was thinking of attempting that.

I was thinking, they could easily do Ironhide and Ratchet with a Ford SUV.

Bonger wrote:

Leonardo wrote:

Bonger wrote:

Leonardo wrote:Ironhide and Ratchet are oft neglected. This saddens me.

Yes, wth is up with that. They were MAJOR characters till the movie. OK, so Ironhide was a minivan. Is this just minivan bias?

My MP Prime needs an Ironhide Alt. to call old friend!

Dodge Ram Prime was perfect for Ironhide, I thought. It really was a missed opportunity.

Have you seen the Nemesis Prime to Trailbreaker kitbash idea on Reprolabels. I was thinking of attempting that.

I was thinking, they could easily do Ironhide and Ratchet with a Ford SUV.

I haven't seen that, but I'll look into it. A Ford SUV would work for Ratchet and Ironhide, I think.

Then make Grimlock #7, at least.

Boo! I want a real Thundercracker!

GetterDragun wrote:Boo! I want a real Thundercracker!

That'd be a huge toy.

that would be ok if it was a bit down the line! not right now!!! I want my Grimlock!! Just imagine an huge T-Rex standing next to MP Prime! well...i can still dream about it.

Looks like they'll have him in the right colors this time. Takara/Tomy has apparently learned from their mistakes with MP Starscream

A Seeker just seemed obvious here.

I'm still expecting a black version, but they used the Prime mold to death with Magnus and the trailer version(I didn't get either, a white Prime alone does not an Ultra Magnus make, and the trailer was just week! take a note from the THS guys, at a fraction of the size, they're whipping you), and Megatron is to new to repaint into Galvatron yet.

I'm hoping Hasbro will reissue StarScream in the proper colors. It's not often they do something right, but here's hoping. Skywarp, should be fine, I doubt they'd make him chrome or something like that. Then all we have to do is hope that we don't get burned on ThunderCracker again.

MP figures cost alot, but for 3 correct colored Seekers, I'd gladly put my current MP-03 back in the box and spend the money.

HOWEVER, I want Has/Tak to know this is not a support of repaints, new molds are much needed.

I certainly hope they never repaint Megatron into Galvatron. That would not look right.

Myself and numerous others when Megatron was first announced wrote:They'll release Megatron which will give them enough time to repaint Starscream into Skywarp and Thundercracker for #6 & #7. Those releases will tie fans over until they develop a new MP mold for #8

Yep ... as a lot of people predicted.

I am so excited about MP-06 being Skywarp. That is wonderful.. I love Skywarp, next to Starscream he is my all time favorite seeker.. i always thought Skywarp's power to Teleport was sweet, and not used as much as it should have been in the series..I kept thinking that during fights he was low on energon and couldn't use his special ability as much, and that if he got a really good dose of fuel he could pop in and out like the flash and kick autobot arse..I also believed, as a kid, that Megatron must have thought that Starscream's Null Ray was more important to give him higher rations of Energon.. and thus Skywarp's teleportation abilities were left untouched..most of the time..so for him it was probably like...hmmmm... use my weapons...or use my energon up on one good teleport..

Any ways I can't wait for him to be released, I just hope they get the darn color right on this one.. and include proper accessories..I feel a Megatron Pistol should replace the Archevil figure, just incase there are those who didn't pick up MP-01-MP04..or they are just Decepticon fans..that would make it convienent...

Has anyone read my bio, It explains why I am called Skywarp-2.. he he.. I like side stories..I just hope that after this release we can get a correct version of Starscream..

Does anyone know if the explaination for the multiple seekers in the G-1 cartoon were explained to be Starscream Clones.. that maybe he was able to clone himself multiple times.. and that may have been an extra power like the Null ray? That would be an excellent way to explain MP-03 as a viable version of Starscream..in terms of color.. If I recall correctly the multiple seekers in the backgground were exactly that color scheme.. grey and dull...

Burn wrote:

Myself and numerous others when Megatron was first announced wrote:They'll release Megatron which will give them enough time to repaint Starscream into Skywarp and Thundercracker for #6 & #7. Those releases will tie fans over until they develop a new MP mold for #8

Yep ... as a lot of people predicted.

Makes sense. So, it's likely that an Autobot will be #8, then.

^^ Not really. So far it's a new mold on every odd numbers (Prime, Screamer, Megs) and Repaints for even (Magnus, Prime, Skywarp).

Following the pattern, A new mold will hopefully be MP-07, while another repaint sits at MP-08. Personally, I think a MP Sixshot would be awesome, but least likely to happen anytime soon. I'm voting for a Magnus Complete Version though.

I'm thinking a show-accurate Ironhide for #8 because they can easily repaint it into Ratchet, and people have been wanting an Ironhide that actually has a head for decades now. Grimlock would have more of a draw, but no real repaint appeal so it could go either way with him. Soundwave is another major contender, but I suspect they'll want to augment the Autobot ranks a bit more before tackling another Decepticon. Ironhide or Grimlock, those are the two most obvious choices, but Bumblebee and Jazz both stand a good chance as well.

As far as waiting years for new figures I doubt that will be the case. They probably have teams designing several new molds at once now that the success of the line has been validated. I mean, it was only about a year or so between Starscream and Megatron, if I recall, and they were clearly designed by two different artists.

With Skywarp, they probably just wanted to use the mold for something that might actually sell. From what I understand Starscream has been their lowest selling Masterpiece, and it's primarily due to the colors. They're probably going to do a few seekers to distance the variations and then release a show-accurate Starscream, kind of like they did with Optimus Prime, then Magnus, then Starscream, then Optimus Prime with Trailer.

That's awesome news.

Am I the only one who disliked the final design for MP Starcream? Those hip kibble bits are just unnecessary.

What's the timeframe on this? +crosses fingers for beginning of next year for wallet and amrrige's sake+

I am so excited about this release! This was the first G1 TF that I bought as a kid. I think I am going to cry. Thanks Tom/Tak!

Emperor Galvatron wrote:[...] and amrrige's sake+

That sounds a bit serious...

Exulted Unicron wrote:MP-03 screamer was more of a Thundercracker colour than what screamer was

MP-03 looks more like Skywarp's and Thundercracker's illegitimate love child.

I can't say this is much of a surprise. I think everyone was expecting a repaint and Skywarp is pretty popular. I'm surprised no one is complaining about it really. It appears that Skywarp will have many of the same issues people complained about with Starscream. If you look closesly at the feet in the picture, they look exactly he same as Starscream's. I don't think Takara can mess with Skywap's color scheme much to make it more realistic, Skywarp has a fairly realistic paint app already.

All this talk reminds me of the customs I have seen and that book you can find on ebay to repaint your Starscream into Thundercracker/Skywarp.

Exulted Unicron wrote:MP-03 screamer was more of a Thundercracker colour than what screamer was

I agree, he looks like he has the Thundercracker paint scheme from Hearts of Steel. Unfortunately he never got used in the series to my knowledge.

Now the big question is will they go for cartoon colouring? I think not. I think they will stick to their guns and go with the more realistic colour scheme theme.

Makes me wonder if they will redesign wings etc for the various seekers. We could see a Thrust type remold.

Satanatron wrote:Cool!!! I bet they will eventually released Thundercracker.

My guess is that an anime accurate Starscream will be released before a Thundercracker, if he gets released at all. They pretty much sold us a Thundercracker without telling us with the first release. Those sneaky little bastards.

That's good news. I love Seekers.

figures. i hope its skywarp.

Oh great. Another repaint. Next will be yet another repaint of the MP 01 Prime into Motormaster or something.

I hope there are subtle differences in the figures, cause I'm tired of seeing repaint after repaint.

First Gen wrote:Oh great. Another repaint. Next will be yet another repaint of the MP 01 Prime into Motormaster or something.

I hope there are subtle differences in the figures, cause I'm tired of seeing repaint after repaint.

Hopefully Takara will never see this so they won't get the idea, if they haven't already, but I am not suprised we haven't seen a Black repaint of MP-01 as Nemesis Convoy. They seem to be in love with him these days.

My heart sunk when I saw the color scheme for MP Starscream. MP Skywarp is looking like an automatic purchase.

I don't commit to buying an entire collection unless at least half the collection appeals to me. I've got MP1 Prime and Megs is on his way. Skywarp may be the linchpin.

Leonardo wrote:

GetterDragun wrote:Boo! I want a real Thundercracker!

That'd be a huge toy.

I wouldn't need shelf space then, just Real Estate.

Awesome..... I think I have to resist this fellow in hopes that we'll see anime Screamer