Care of Loopaza Mega Store on Facebook, we can share with you some scans from this month’s Figure King magazine. It’s a slow month on the Transformers front, with MP-38 Masterpiece Convoy (Supreme Commander Version) / Optimus Primal toy version getting the lion’s share of one page, and the Legends LG-EX Headmasters on the other. Both have some nice high resolution images for your enjoyment, including a look at a backpack accessory storage for MP-38 – aka “so that’s what the peg on MP-32 was for”.
In other news, Transformers Asia has also announced that they will be offering their usual bonus accessory for the Asian release of MP-38 Optimus Primal. The text of the update says little more than “get this special premium accessory” with a giant question mark over a bunch of bananas. It’s possible they’re saying the bananas are the accessory, but it is also possible that the actual accessory will be revealed later and the bananas are a red herring. Watch this space and we’ll update you with the answer.
Paco Grande
I was originally not interested in this figure but when Lio Convoy was announced I bought 38 to go with him. I’m glad I did. They look fantastic together.
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madpanda
If anybody is still looking for this, CDJapan has it for 6600 yen = $58.57 USD. 2 LEFT!
Transformers Masterpiece MP-38 Convoy (Beast Wars) Densetsu no Soushireikan Ver. comes with Collectible
I bought it for 5900 yen after shipping and CDjapan points. Didn't even want it, but too good of a price to pass up.
2003 Megatron
So does this come with a banana that is the matrix?
Inikalord
Mandarake. He's second-hand but Japanese collectors tend to be some of the more careful collectors from experience. I've bought figures that were supposedly opened but the contents inside were practically brand new.
There's a few of MP38 on there right now for 7000 yen each. Sometimes dips to 6500 but 5500 is the first I've seen it go that low.
Thundershot
Where'd you find him for 5500 yen? I thought Amazon had a good price on him…
Xaxis
I just got my MP-38 on Saturday and wow, he looks amazing! The matte black finish is very nice in person.
Unfortunately, mine had no weapons rack in the box. Bummer because that's one thing I was really looking forward to. I've emailed HLJ to see if they might have a spare they can send me.
If anyone on here has one they're willing to part with, please send me a PM.
janeDoe001
Is… is that a crate of bananas that's included in that package?! That's adorable!!!
jD001
Inikalord
Just put in an order for 5500 yen for him, which makes me wonder if he's shelfwarming. I've never seen the original MP dip past 7500 yen, even on the secondary market.
GeoKaiser
Dammit, Takara gave me two face shield up faces in my box and no lip face. Anyone get two lip faces and wanna trade?
warhide
some Primallll loooooooveeee
Verno
At this stage, I think there's a 99% chance that this is how I'll roll too.
Darkstone
As awesome as a BW Grimlock might look – Dinobot is probably huge and expensive, so paying that price twice isn't something I look forward to, and the other problem I have is where to put it? I don't have a free cube in my cabinet and I don't think Grimlock would fit in well with the show characters.
So I rather just buy what easily fits together and have each mold be unique. Aside from Tigatron maybe but let's not get into that discussion again
Verno
I'll be waiting to get a look at Lazorbeak, Buzz Saw and Grimlock before I make a final decision. Though I'm leaning towards just the show characters myself.
Darkstone
The mutant head inspired face is great, but man the BWII deco looks awful on this mold.
I still wish they would’ve used Primal’s original toy colors as a template for a completely new character instead, like they do it with the Diaclone inspired MP’s.
But hey, at least this made me skip the first repaint very easily and cemented my decision to only buy actual show characters and ignore the rest.
Verno
Delicious!
Sracsose
Dude, you're a genius! I had tried hitting the head and seeing if the "light piping" lit up, and it doesn't unless you flip the head around. They must have planned for the mask from the beginning to have a feature that only lights up the side that is facing forward, right? It looks sick!
Unlit eyes in full light.
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Eyes lit in full light
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Backlit only
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No floodlights and looking amazing
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Booster Gold
Heh, like I said I hope they do one just for you crazy people I think it's the already muddy colour scheme of brown, magenta, dark green and black combined with the blinding almost neon yellow that puts me off.
Rakzo
The best part about the Universe deco is that it can easily be repurposed as a Predacon. In fact, I'm counting on Takara to make it that way if they release MP-38 on those colours.