Takara-Tomy has added Masterpiece Ramjet back on to the Takara-Tomy mall site. Originally, Masterpiece Ramjet went up a month ago in October but quickly came down again. Today, Takara-Tomy officially (re)opened preorders for this Masterpiece on the Takara-Tomy Mall site. Masterpiece Ramjet is now officially due for a release in late March 2016. Some of the images accompanying the listing have been touched up, showing the nose of the jet mode fully closed up, and a slight variation on the pilot figure’s coloring.
Read on for the full (translated) text of the email announcing Masterpiece Ramjet, courtesy of TFW2005 member MP Collector.
★ TAKARATOMY_MALL MAIL NEWS [deliver TF information!] 2015/11/27
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Always Tomy official shopping site “Tomy Mall”
We use, Thank you very much.
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This e-mail is ※, at Tomy Mall
We have been delivering mail news to the member-like part, which is hope.
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★ ☆ Tomy Mall Limited 2000 ☆ ★
“MP-11NR Ramjet” finally appeared!
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When the information disclosure withdrawn, it was apologize for the inconvenience to customers.
Again apologize.
\Sorry to keep you waiting!!/
“The Transformers,” it was active in the
One of the new Jetron members, Ramjet comes to the Masterpiece series!
◆ reservation period: November 30, 2015 (Monday) noon 12:00 – December 8 (Tuesday) 13:00
↓↓ in detail from here! ↓↓
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Sam
Seems like a good price, alright. Even if we get V3 Seekers somewhere down the line, there's no certainty that they'll be remoulded into the Coneheads. So if you want these characters, this is probably your best chance at them.
Gamerlingual
Finally pulled the plug. $105 for MISB. If he has floppiness or shoulder problems, I'll be able to tell Takara since I'm in Tokyo. Patience is a virtue. Damn good price but based on QC, it's prolly appropriately priced for what I got him for.
Gamerlingual
Sorry to bump this up. But after seeing how I might buy Dirge, it might make sense to collect all cone heads. But how’s your copy holding so far? Is the price still a murder? Or is it under $110?
Gamerlingual
If he's available for $125 I'll bite. But maybe wishful thinking
Kranix_OZ
I really couldn't say, I didnt have that issue but It certainly seemed that plenty of people did.
Personally I really liked Ramjet, he is actually one of my favourite MP. I am happy I bought him.
Gamerlingual
And thanks guys. As buttzilla stated, at his premium price, it's a tough choice.
Gamerlingual
How problematic are the shoulder issues? Is it a plague? Cheapest I've seen him is $160. Sad
Kranix_OZ
Yes, I haven't noticed any issues at all with mine. Mine was well priced but I am in Australia, I can understand the hesitation if you're having to pay big $
Afterburner
My official Ramjet is definitely not floppy. Thrust is definitely floppier but nothing to the point where he doesn't hold a pose. Ramjet is just rather stiff really.
Also, while I have nothing against KO's capitalizing on a market when the official companies fail to, and the quality of these KO's has been very good, in the Conehead case they are not as accurate as the TakaraTomy releases. Which like most MP releases are not near as problem-plagued as all the drama would leave you to believe. Still, TakaraTomy can and needs to do better. Their releases have been inconsistent quality wise, and that just doesn't cut it in a premium line.
ButtZilla
Gamerlingual
Are the legs on yours fine? Problem is his asking price is huge.
Kranix_OZ
I surprised to hear that some Ramjets are floppy? My figure is actually quite stiff. However my Thrust does have some mid section floppiness.
Sammael
Move KO discussion to the 3P forum?
Gamerlingual
I just got the Yes Model Dirge figure in. My god it is awesome. I wonder if I should still get the other coneheads in any capacity. I didn't have a big attachment to the like the F-15 seekers. Blue is my favorite color, so Dirge checks this perfectly. I got Skywarp, Starscream (Ghost flavor and MP11 Long Life Design), and Thundercracker as Takara plus Acidstorm and Sunstorm as Hasbro masterpieces.
One of my friends just showed me his Ramjet. God that thing is shaky. But the seekers seem fine to be with no shaky parts except my Takara Ghost Starscream.
Too many choices, but not enough space. I may just get Bitstream Yes Model and then can it for all the seeker molds. What to do, what to do?
ElekTriC
Takara
ButtZilla
Looks with Floppiness and bad QC:
Performance QC and money worth with tons of accessories:
Take your pick!
You can probably grab both YM Thrust and Ramjet for one Takara Ramjet price wise.
Gamerlingual
Does anyone recommend I buy this or the yes model conehead? Not sure if it's technically a direct KO but seeing how much QC this transformer has suffered I'm not sure which way to go since I dk prefer first party. Thoughts?
Arie
Thank you. Seems like mine is assembled correctly.
xdmisato
Here you go.