Planet Steel Express has shared a small gallery of final product images for Mastermind Creations’ upcoming entry in their Reformatted line. R-35 Magna is the bottom half of who we fans know as Sky Lynx! Commander Modesty is shown here in showing off the quadrupeds poseability. Also shown, that was previously not revealed, is a gold head or gold accessory to replicate the Generation 1 toy version of the character. This very large, very exciting piece is due for release in October with the top half of the character (Inventa) to be released later on.
You can check out the images and join the discussion after the jump.
Zentropy
I’m far more partial to IF’s IDW-styled figures as well. I like some of the Iron Samurai ones, but I’m very selective. When I think of “Iron Factory”, however, I don’t think of IFIS specifically. It’s more of an offshoot.
Super Mecha Dad
Iron factory is very hit-or-miss for me. I love love love their Maximus Ambus and their Bruticus combiner, but I'm very lukewarm on their samurai series stuff.
Newage Jetfire (EX/Macross version) and Omega Supreme are two of my absolute favorite figures of last year, and I could see one in their style being rougly voyager sized (and suitably expensive)
Zentropy
Ideally I’d want a slightly stylized Iron Factory version. Something about MMC and IF designs strike the same note for my collector taste. I love Newage figures but they tend to be a bit too G1-literal, and for the most part I find that MST is just too slavishly Sunbow with their designs. IF gives me MMC vibes, NA is more like early-mid Takara Tomy Masterpiece, and MST like modern MP. At least, from my perspective.
AliceBreckwith
I have him with my Masterpiece collection, and really I don't think he's out of place at all. Sure, he's not slavishly toon accurate, but I also don't want to waste Haslab Unicron level space on Sky Lynx.
Snaku
I'm not a fan of giant Skylynx personally. I like how the earthrise version scales to the other wfc figures and I would want a downscale of mmc to be similarly sized compared to other legends figures. Or, better yet, I'd want MST or Newage to make one.
Mechman42
Technically speaking the MMC set itself could be considered Legends-scaled, depending on what episode you’re sourcing from.
Though I do understand that you meant you want a sky lynx the size of the CW voyager except good.
Zentropy
Third Party Legends. As in Iron Factory, Newage, Magic Square. Core-class figures that don’t look and feel like fast-food kids’ meal toys.
Super Mecha Dad
third party logistics?
like a skylynx in DHL colors?
Zentropy
I’m not a fan of the character (at all), but if someone made a 3PL version of this MMC design, I think I would almost certainly buy it.
Super Mecha Dad
BBTS still has his magnificence for $175 with $4 shipping today
I'd link it but for whatever reason my work computer triggers BBTS's cloudflare protection.
werewolfspice
If anybody in the states is looking for Magna and Inventa, I'm getting rid of mine. PM me, let's see if we can make a deal!
TD Prime
MMC Magna Inventa £200 plus P and P. For more details, please check out this thread.
TD Primes UK sales thread
lilcarus
nice pics and i absolutely love these figs. space chicken is a cornerstone of my legends collection.
neurotictim
At the request of a good friend, I spent some time today with our friend The Magnificent and got some glamour shots. Using Jetfire's included mini bots made this fun.
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I wouldn't say this anywhere else because I don't want it misconstrued as a genuine or serious complaint, but this big fella was a real PITA today to get the tail assembly back together into shuttle mode. Realized there is a slot & tab on either side that I'd never noticed before.
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So that's a fun new thing lol. Must have accidentally managed to slot things together correctly the last few times I've transformed him.
RSMasterpiecefan
Does anyone know a good flight stand for this guy? I have one coming from Bombusbee.
neurotictim
You might be surprised to hear I get that often. Been my handle since around 2000, so yeah.
As for the alt mode not tabbing in, I had a few false starts and had to get a little heavy handed especially around the shuttle exhaust cones to get everything to come together nicely.
Red2
I picked up a second hand Inventa super cheap.
He's in alt mode now and nothing stays tabbed in. I remember I didn't get him upon release for maybe that reason? Did they improve that with the toon colored version?
@neurotictim's pic above looks like they did. (By the way, I read that handle as neuro-tick-tim. Random.)
artimus prime
You can try Bad Mother Tattoos & Customs. They make waterslide decals for action figures. They already make a set of silver decals for transformers. You could message them about a gold set.
lilcarus
while they aren't really my style. the toyhax sticker sets for MMC skylynx are really nice. the gold foil windows add a real touch of elegance to an amazing fig.
David Hingtgen
The Combiner ones are fairly good sized:
Combiner Wars SkyLynx
(though that is a fair amount of $ if that's the only but you'll use)
Not sure how they compare to the G1 set though, been a LONG time since I saw a G1 in-person.