Video Review: Hasbro Toys"R"Us Exclusive Masterpiece Soundwave
Wednesday, July 24th, 2013 6:10AM CDT
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chuckdawg1999 wrote:Toy of the year 2013, period.
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Posted by Mindmaster on July 24th, 2013 @ 8:22am CDT
Looks fantastic. Again, my only gripe is that the visor is yellow. I prefer show-accuracy over toy-accuracy. Is there a way to screw the head open, remove the visor, and just paint it red?
Posted by DevastaTTor on July 24th, 2013 @ 11:20am CDT
Posted by Neurie on July 24th, 2013 @ 7:37pm CDT
Posted by Mindmaster on July 24th, 2013 @ 7:39pm CDT
Neurie wrote:wont be out in the UK for ages as we still have MP10 shelf warming
Oh, what I would do to go visit the United Kingdom just to get MP10, if he truly is shelfwarming.
Posted by camzilla51 on July 25th, 2013 @ 3:01am CDT
Posted by Azeemotron on July 25th, 2013 @ 2:51pm CDT
Neurie wrote:wont be out in the UK for ages as we still have MP10 shelf warming
I emailed Toys R Us and they said they have a very large order due in mid-august. Apparently they should be on shelves towards the end of August.
This is awesome but what annoys me is his visor is yellow and not red..
Posted by Bumblevivisector on July 25th, 2013 @ 4:58pm CDT
Well I prefer comic accuracy, and this is how he looked in the UK comics. My greatest hope is that this sells so well as to prompt a beautiful purple repaint. Yes, I'm serious. They could repaint all the cassettes into the Cobalt Sentries, Enemy, and Four-Star knock-off color schemes for the other Frumble and Buzzsaw...or just screw the second Lasersaw repaint and do a second Ravage in green to give us Masterpiece Blackcat!Mindmaster wrote:Looks fantastic. Again, my only gripe is that the visor is yellow. I prefer show-accuracy over toy-accuracy. Is there a way to screw the head open, remove the visor, and just paint it red?
Though I do agree with you in principle that Hasbro's insistence on repainting for toy-accuracy kind of defeats the whole point of Masterpieces going for greater media accuracy. Their trailerless Rodimus Prime ended up not being accurate to much except those 3H comics where he tried to knock Beast Machines out of continuity just like Shokaract's future; a worthwhile cause, but still...
I plan on picking up Takara's Soundwave someday too, since he was my fav in the cartoon, so I want both eye colors. Considering how nuts everyone's going for Hasbro's set, I think its price is going to soar on the secondary market like nothing we've seen before (search ebay for TRU MP Grimlock; this could realistically go for double his price by the end of the year, and I'm still kicking myself for snoozing and losing out on him), so it unnerves me that so many collectors are going to try and mod the eye color, since many attempts are bound to fail and ruin a significant fraction of these guys.
Posted by Mindmaster on July 25th, 2013 @ 5:04pm CDT
Bumblevivisector wrote:Well I prefer comic accuracy, and this is how he looked in the UK comics. My greatest hope is that this sells so well as to prompt a beautiful purple repaint. Yes, I'm serious.Mindmaster wrote:Looks fantastic. Again, my only gripe is that the visor is yellow. I prefer show-accuracy over toy-accuracy. Is there a way to screw the head open, remove the visor, and just paint it red?
Well, we got a redeco of MP Grimlock in his comic colors several years ago. Perhaps one day that would be a possibility.
Posted by chuckdawg1999 on July 26th, 2013 @ 6:23pm CDT
Mindmaster wrote:Bumblevivisector wrote:Well I prefer comic accuracy, and this is how he looked in the UK comics. My greatest hope is that this sells so well as to prompt a beautiful purple repaint. Yes, I'm serious.Mindmaster wrote:Looks fantastic. Again, my only gripe is that the visor is yellow. I prefer show-accuracy over toy-accuracy. Is there a way to screw the head open, remove the visor, and just paint it red?
Well, we got a redeco of MP Grimlock in his comic colors several years ago. Perhaps one day that would be a possibility.
The only repaint I can see coming is Soundblaster