Following up from our earlier report from the Singapore Toy, Game and Comic Convention, we now have a selection of images of Transformers related products on display at the show. Thanks to Planet Iacon and Butterfly Effect TF Photobox we have new looks at the following items:
- Flame Toys Drift
- LG-EX God Ginrai Exclusive
- MP-12+ Lambor
- Legends LG-50 Sixshot
M Alex
This actually is a pet peeve of mine. I think the helmet and face are out of proportion, the face is set to deep in, and, as you wrote… It's not Sideswipe. I got really excited when I heard that they were doing a new take on MP-12, and was very underwhelmed when I saw that they didn't alter the face.
Crim
Well, good to see nothing has been improved, deco wise, with Sideswipe so no point in me getting one, unlike with Red Alert.
John TheDestroyer
Its incredible how outdated mp Sideswipe is. Its still really good, but next to Sunstreaker it just looks boring.
snoopcow
Red alert is pearlescent like a pearl.
malware5
Damn straight! Don't let Botfan hear you say that.
Sam
You mean the great almighty Hasui wasn't perfect? SACRILEGE
malware5
Wow, how did TT get it so wrong? Look at the face on the right, so well done, a young compassionate warrior's look to it, look at the face on the left, look how off the shape of the eyes are, and that chin, which G1 cartoon was the person who designed it watching, it's not a bad face it's just not Sideswipe.
XXLMagnus
See, this is what happens when you off-load the "obsolete" model too quickly … they pull this bait and switch nonsense …
ChromeMagnus
Oh well. Maybe the ++ version will have it.
Murasame
I went back a few pages to the previous pictures of MP12+ and he had black wheels there.
Sam
Definitely hard to tell from the lighting either way. I don't have Red +, but does his grey actually look as light as in a photo like this:
Or is that a bit washed out?
Either way as long as it more or less matches Sunstreaker's black/grey than that's cool with me
We all know we're gonna be posing those two together
Less than four months now!
jackisking
Yes that's what I want, and what I'll keep my fingers crossed we will be getting. Anything else would be disappointing.
Dean ML
You guys are right. It was late and I was tired I do hope his black is more like Megatron's very very dark grey. It kinda did in some shots…
Sam
I dunno, I think in the original shots his black parts were still black:
His head looks pretty black in that last photo. And definitely darker than his tyres. It could be a difference like between the black on MP-21 and MP-21G (which is very subtle), we probably won't know until we have him in hand. I'd be happy for his hands to match the original MP-12, then I can swap the hands over, since I doubt he'll be able to hold his gun properly.
As you can see from my other photos, he's always had grey wheels. As he did in robot mode in the cartoon:
Yeah like you, I'd prefer an off-white face
and I imagine since he has one in the official images it will be off-white on the final product.
The overall red paint coverage looks great, though. I think he looks very nice here:
His eyes are popping very well.
HolyCulture
For me white face, gray wheels, and super blue windows are the reason I signed up for this. If they do a silver face….. I'll just trust that they know what they're doing. Red Alert + was hawt hawt hawt. So they wouldn't screw around with the second + release I'm positive. Especially when it's so easy for so many people to shrug this off as unnecessary.
Murasame
Does he have grey wheels now?
I might cancel that now.
edit:
The blue windows seem also brighter than before. I don't really like it that much anymore.
Sam
Silver face maybe because it's a painted test shot. One of the last public test shots we saw of MP-21 had blue headlights.
Looks like the elbow joints and hip joints are white plastic, which is great. Don't want paint rub there.
Gonna be hard to wait til the end of December to ship him out with Sunstreaker, he looks so good.
HolyCulture
Yes. The animation model. That's why I'm confused about the silver face.
ACMagnus
Hasbro never announced, nor implied that Sideswipe was getting a US release. This is all Takara, along the lines of what they did with Red Alert. Just a deco to emulate the animation models of the cartoon.
HolyCulture
I preordered this figure explicitly because of the face. What is going on here? Hopefully this is the Hasbro release or something.