Site sponsor BigBadToyStore has listed a pre-order for the iGear PP05P Patrol Specialist. This release, limited to 500 pieces, features a new deco, pistol, and headsculpt. Unlike the previous Specialist releases, Patrol Specialist does not include an enormous amount of accessories, which some of you might actually appreciate.
Our experts on the TFW2005 boards are suggesting that this figure may be based on the Off Road Patrol Micromaster Tote.
Patrol Specialist is expected to arrive around April 2013.
Please note that this is a third-party product not produced or endorsed by Hasbro or Takara.
Hicks_Royel
… Yo.
Scaleface
If we need more decos, I have some suggestions.
I'm wanting to see iGear make The Cybertronian Mechhunter and Iron Lantern.
Oh, MMC, please see about making Wonder One and Hawkfembot. Toyworld can make Superprime, but I don't know who can make Night Prowler or Speed Jazz.
Scaleface
More to the point, was there anyone who got this FOR TOTE and not to serve as Ironhide?
DogFriedRice
Pointless if you got a Weapons specialist. They would of did well to change the deco even a little.
Kenchanayoh
Did anyone get this?
CZ Hazard
Tote / PP05P Patrol Specialist
A potential master of improvised sciences, he is at his best when he is up against the wall in a tight situation. Once, when he was trapped in distant wastelands on his home planet, he managed to jury rig a fuel converter that took what little energy he had left and made it last for twelve days, until he made it back to civilization. Since then, he’s had an idea in the back of his head for a massive power saving endeavor which he refers to as “the great downsizing”, which he thinks could save as much as 95% of the power output of the average RoBot.
Life is what happens when you’re making plans though, and as such he hasn’t had the time or inclination to put the appropriate time into the project. He prefers to spend the majority of his time on Patrol with other members of an off-road quartet, pretending to protect the perimeters of important RoBot outposts while just goofing off with his friends. When something does kick off, his ability to improvise a way out of a sticky situation comes in very handy, as well as when it comes to answering to superiors, and explaining just how it was his team let their guard down long enough to be attacked.
Medical Specialist has noted on several occasions that, if Patrol Specialist could focus his abilities on a project he could do pretty much anything, but as a textbook procrastinator he leaves things until the last moment, and almost needs a gun to his head before he can find motivation. Medical Specialist registered this as the first documented case of ADC/HDC (Attention Deficit Circuit, Hyperactive Disorder Current).
DogFriedRice
Completely the opposite. It would help 3p companies schedule their releases. If they know what Hasbro are planning they can plan accordingly. Release the characters Hasbro aren't planning to make.
Scaleface
Either or both would be nice.
CZ Hazard
I can post it up, I'm due a day of photographing Transformers tomorrow. Photo or just plain text?
Scaleface
No one has a box bio for Patrol Specialist yet?
ferrari35
I dont think it would squash it most third party groups dont go in for MP stuff only two I know that have was I gear and fans toys(I got all the seekers and quakewave)I dont count the mini warriors as MP and stoped getting them after I gear forced getting two packs to shift repaints(also the lastest ones fugleybee and cliff faced are so ugly so was an easy pass)
grymg
Same here, that's why I'm holding out at the moment. Otherwise my $100 bill is waiting.
Wouldn't it be great if over the weekend for their special announcement Takara shows a 5 year schedule of which MP's they will be working on? It would squash 3rd party activity because everyone would just be waiting for the official Takara releases.
TigerBlade
Kenchanayoh
I have a strange feeling that mp Ironhide will be announced soon…
Hicks_Royel
Ceerad
http://paxcybertron.files.wordpress.com/2012/08/group-shot.jpg
cjranck
Does anyone have any pics of this guy next to other Masterpiece scale figures? I searched the forum but couldn't find any next to say MP-10 or Sideswipe, or even the seekers.
Ceerad
In stock at BBTS
PP05P Patrol Specialist Exclusive (LE 500) – Third Party Transforming Toys & Accessories iGear
MetalicGrunt
Have PP05P in hand… we'll see all the changes later after I get home from work
EDIT: Yellow Stripe Remains Front Grill still chrome – 4 Heads 1 pistol
grymg
I noticed chimingmung has PP05P on their site, seems to be in stock. Does this mean BBTS is getting their orders in soon?
I still may hold off a bit until Takara makes their "major announcement" on June 15 just to make sure they are not releasing an MP Ironhide this year.