Winter Wonderfestival 2020 is about to kick off in Japan – and already we’ve got some potentially awesome news. Via long time TFW2005 informant S250, we have some photos of displays at Wonderfest.
The first one shows a group of Season 3 Autobots. Masterpiece Ultra Magnus and Hot Rod are visible, along with Legends Blurr, Siege Springer, and a large, unidentified Arcee toy. The display case also has a large banner of Arcee next to it with the Transformers 2010 logo (Transformers 2010 was the name for Season 3 in Japan in the 1980s). Could this be a hint at a Masterpiece Arcee, coming our way in 2020?
A second image shows a similar large banner featuring Beast Wars Maximal Tigatron – and if you look on the left of the image of Arcee, you can also glimpse a new toy of Tigatron. In our minds, this is solid evidence of a Masterpiece Tigatron coming our way in 2020, potentially reusing the Masterpiece Cheetor mold.
[EDIT: Text on the wall size posters confirms that MP-50 will be Tigatron (Beast Wars), and MP-51 will indeed be Arcee. The poster also announced that preorder for these figures will start in Spring 2020]
What do you think of this news and the potential for two new Masterpiece Transformers this year? And what do you think of the choices of Arcee and Tigatron over more established characters such as Rattrap, Kup, or Galvatron?
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UtahRobotInDisguise
I have a ton of store credit at Amazon, plus some gift cards… might pick her up finally. $99 shipped seems a fair price.
Blingotron
TFSource has it on sale for $134.99 right now.
malware5
Hmm……at 4:51 if this add-on is improved colour-wise I just might purchase this figure…..
It's still readily available at Omegalock anyway, haha!
Wh33ls
Makes sense, that's why there aren't any of his posts, other than other people's quoting him, or more pics.
Thanks for the suggestion.
artimus prime
He deletes them shortly after posting. Life's been happening to him in a bad way lately so updates are few. It's best to follow the thread and wait for attachments notifications. I'm sure he has a reason for deleting the pics so I wouldn't repost them even if I had them.
Liampope
Thread is here…
Heavy/Scratch: – custom face(s) for MP51 Arcee
Unfortunately all the old pics were removed. There are new ones in the first post showing the awesome chest, but they have the standard face. His ridiculously perfect faces were what started it all, so hopefully more new pics of the faces soon.
Wh33ls
Would either of you could post a link or a pic of MC Rap Throne work for comparisons, please?
loof
Lordy, lordy. When I first saw this figure, I hated it with all my heart. Now I will silently cry about not being able to afford such a gorgeous piece.
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Impressive, so how do I order one? The upgrade part that is.
jackisking
I think it's because she's built like the ideal JAV actress. You raise the neckline and it looks likes shes carrying two minibots in her shirt from the side and 3/4 views.
MonsterMash
That looks great.
Sinestro00
I see the same. Looks like she’s wearing a blaster-proof vest. I’ve become accustomed to the slightly-less-than-perfect (to me) chest, and anything else at this point looks unnatural.
HeroicVillain
That looks really good. I should make a Facebook account for Transformers I guess since I don't have an account and he might have more pics.
DirkManus
Why go to the trouble of making a new chest when you aren't going to properly transform the backpack.
daddytron
I love the Han Solo pose you put Azalea into.
4249david
This is much improved on the previous effort.
chchchch
This is not to shit on anyone's hard work, though I think any effort to simply fill in the concave portion of the chest will never look satisfactory to me. The chest juts out too far to the front and to the sides relative to the character model, but it ends up looking balanced to my eye because Takara designed the entire (not super accurate) shape to accommodate it. When that's all filled in there's simply too much material and it looks too bulky IMHO. @MC Rap Throne's effort is the only one that comes close to working for me.
DJofSYN
@Hafiz Zul made an updated version after reading the feedback on the first piece. View attachment 29125121
ShmoopsMcGoo
Wow. Somebody there really didn't get the memo on folk's beef with the original piece. I can see having trouble with colormatch & could forgive that on a homebrew, but to replace a wrong chestpiece with a wrong chestpiece is just head shaking. Why didn't they just make a set of the fake rubber tatas like's Rogue's if they're going to get it wrong. Go big (phrasing!) or go home.