Third Party company Zeta Toys, via their Facebook account, have uploaded images of the gray prototype of their Zeta EX-15/16/17 (Masterpiece Scale Seekers).
3P collectors may recognize that this is in fact the previously seen Toyworld Masterpiece Seeker mold we had seen while back in 2016 but it was never released. Zeta Toys will finally release this interesting Starscream/Thundercracker/Skywarp alternative for the Masterpiece scale for those who don’t look for the cartoon-accuracy design of recent releases.
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AlphaBass
I am considering selling my Robot Hero Seekers for these, but the RH ones are kinda rare, so……..not sure what to do?
I really enjoy the RH ones because they look like how Seeker jets should look in real life, but scale wise they're a good bit taller than Megatron, so………
StrangeAeons
i think these will replace my MP11 seekers nicely, now i cant wait for September/October
Sup3hobo
For the price of the seeker trio set that's not too shabby. Transformation doesn't look overly convoluted, plenty of locking tabs in both modes, and hey look sculpted detail! If the build quality is good on these I might have to cave. I'm still tempted to see what the MP 3.0 brings to the table.
TransformerFanatic
It has a waste swivel. That makes its articulation superior to Takara 3.0.
Not saying these will be superior overall, but they're certainly more advanced than mp11 in terms of articulation. They also have double jointed elbows IIRC. They'll probably be superior to mp52 in terms of articulation.
pilot00
^This right here. Id replace all six of them but…
Also not a fan of how the nosecone sits on the airplane mode and I would prefer a bit of a better sculpt on the face and feet but I could live with those….
RyanCharlie
Toyworld/Zeta have always done their own scale and given no fucks about whatever the "actual" MP scale is.
Memph99Q4Ev
Not necessarily toon accuracy, character accuracy mostly. The elongated torso, the height, and the face (to be fair, faces are notoriously hard to nail, and this is a prototype). I compare it to MP11 because they're both stylized and have similar body proportions. That's not neccessary a bad thing, as I still like MP11 for what it is, it's just dated. Kinda feels like some of that datedness transferred over to this fig.
Scurv
These guys should be head to head with almost every version of MP Megatron.
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Scurv
Yyyyeeeeah it's studio Ox inspired so it was never aiming for cartoon accuracy.
Memph99Q4Ev
Yyyyeeeeah, so, I try to see the positive with most bots even if I don't care for them, buuuut, this is basically MP11 with less accuracy. I kinda already have this bot. Maybe if this had come out 10+ years ago, like before WalMart Skywarp earlier.
nemesisconvoy
PRE-ORDERED!!!!!!!!!!
MINDVVIPE
Yeah its really yes model version i have. Works well enough for now. But yeah, I'd say these zeta ones are currently the top of the list of best mp seekers in my books. Everything else is way too toon and boring af RE detailing.
Conran
Yeah, it varied between them but they were all a product of their time issues wise. The ko's later on though in some cases had a few improvements over the base releases, it's been a long time since I owned him but I used to have a Yes model Thindercracker that was nice. Official coneheads especially were a mess across the board being floppy and things not fitting and in Thrusts case specifically the torso refusing to sit right, at over £130 they were insulting.
MasterScale
September, according to TCP
ZetaToys EX-15 RED SPIDER, EX-16 THUNDERMAKER, and EX-17 SKY GILL Set of 3
MINDVVIPE
Gotcha. I have one of the KO screamers and dig him, but yeah there are definitely flaws. I heard the official versions and coneheads had some qc issues.
Conran
The old seeker and conehead moulds, the earlier releases were janky and I assume mould degradation helped make the coneheads the absolute messes they were at release.
MINDVVIPE
The only bummer I see is that we don't have a tall enough MP shockwave as I always reckoned shockwave should be taller/bigger than SS.
Do you mean the brand new official seeker mold or the older ones? I do like the mold just before the brand new ones coming out, but I agree these are still better in most ways.
Scourgatron
$84.99 a figure.
Conran
Still solid and I've screwed with all three fairly constantly. More fun to handle than MT Screamer and they make the craptastic official ones look like ko's.