To our surprise, the official Honda Twitter have just revealed our first images of the gray prototype of the new Transformers Masterpiece Skids.
Skids’ first sketches were revealed in December 2020 and now we have a clear look at the robot and the alt mode of the latest installment in the Masterpiece G1 collection. Some fans may notice that the Honda City Turbo alt mode is realistic and robot mode seems to be not cartoon-accurate inspired as the latest Masterpiece releases. The Tweet says that these images were published today in the Figure King Magazine No.277, so we may see some more images in the following hours.
Check out the new images after the break and then join to the ongoing discussion on the 2005 Board!
Max Rawhide
That's my hope as well.
Of those, Show.Z has made an agreement with their shipping agency and as a result tax is paid up front and thus cheaper. The same applies for for example Aliexpress. So those are save for import taxes: you pay them up front and thus you only pay the taxes.
It's the handling fee that has me worried. With lowered value VAT will be minimal and I don't mind paying that (I don't mind paying taxes at all, because I also benefit a lot from all kind of regulations that tax payers pay for). I excpect taxes to be a few euro, five at most. But that handling fee is steep, 12-15 euro's. And that's an additional 17-20 euro I have to pay and that brings it close to local prices for Skids.
But between hoping the quality on it is good and hoping I won't got torn a new one by customs, does tarnish the looking forward to adding the first MP to the collection in years.
Liampope
Both Arcee and TC have been about as close to QC slam dunks as you can reasonably expect, and as any other company achieves, so hopefully Skids is under control.
Liampope
AE, NY, Showz etc typically mark value around 1500 JPY, so any VAT should be peanuts anyway, unless you get hit with a fixed 'handling fee' for the pleasure.
I'm not in UK anymore, but in Norway they follow EU rules and nothing has changed for me. Stuff from the above just comes straight in.
I haven't seen many, if any, reports on here that anything has really changed in practice.
4249david
UK adopted those same rules on 1st Jan (the EU was supposed to do it then, too, but delayed it due to covid).
The fact we persevered with 1st January means most folks blame Brexit for the changes, when in fact it was an EU idea that we kept post-Brexit. The irony of that isn't lost on me…
Of course, what UK customs do in practice, and what each individual EU country does in practice, could be vastly different. But the import vat rules are identical.
Because of the value, AE don't have to charge you up front. If they mark it down below the customs threshold, then they should do, but that's a different issue. As such, nothing changes…if customs duty is due, they'll get you for import vat at the same time. If they snag you at all of course!
Edit: thought I was in Thundercracker thread for some reason… the value of Skids means they should charge import vat up front. Therefore you should get caught at customs if AE don't do that. But then again you might sail through…
Max Rawhide
Doesn't work for the EU though. In the past this was enough, but since July 1st EU regulation is that every item, regardless of value, is taxed. So even at a lower value they charge VAT which of course come with additional costs. A good 20 euro or so will likely be added in taxes, which means that getting it from a local shop might've been cheaper.
True about Arcee. But Optimus had issues with his knees and Starscream had numerous possible issues. I do hope that Skids being a more simple deisgn without that hyper articulation, might be more sturdy.
Liampope
There's been several releases since Hound, including a carbot – Arcee, and none have had Hound's problems. So I'm optimistic for Skids. Hopefully Honda is all over their back too.
deathsheadII
anime export still mark everything down enough i was worried about mp52 coming into the uk but sailed through
Max Rawhide
Yes…and no.
Yes, because it's the first carbot and first G1 MP I've bought in years. I don't care about hyper articulation or sunbow accuracy, so the last couple haven't been for me: last one I added to the collection was Ironhide, although I also have a Ratchet and Shockwave still MISB: Shockwave because Shockwave and Marvel, Ratchet because Marvel, and neither are really how I want them to be.
No, because I do keep up with the releases since, and the quality reports have not been great. Worst of course Hound, the previous carbot.
(I also worry about getting seriously hit by taxes since the EU has changed the rules: now everything gets taxed, and I question if AE has made arrangements for this.)
JazzAlert13
Yeah with the G1 figures being relatively faithful, and the changes being positive for the most part (like Huffer), I am nothing but confident that it will turn out great. I’ll for sure be picking up that, Burn Out and if Crosscut or Reboost is indeed one of the red card exclusives him too.
gdg104198
Same I had the figure as a kid and was bummed he never featured heavily in the show because he just looked cool. I was pretty happy when IDW used him heavily. Can’t wait to see him Legacy next year.
Sy-Rein
I’m looking forward Skids. I’ve always liked him for his unique toy. And I have come to find the character more interesting via the comics over the past number of years (this includes finally reading the entire G1 series only a few years ago).
betsuni
Nope, not excited at all.
Yes, this is sarcasm given my avatar.
Can't wait to put him on display next to the two G1 toys. I bought the recent rerelease to open up and have a pristine copy next to my well played with original.
deathsheadII
yeah looking forward to rhis one!
Gamerlingual
I’m glad it’s not the full toon look. I like variety in my collection. I like toon, but it’s not always needed.
Grimlock_13
Hell yes I’m excited. I haven’t been this excited for a Masterpiece in a really long time.
Arie
Definitely. He may not be completely cartoon accurate, but good enough to warrant a place in my collection.
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JazzAlert13
Oh yeah!!! Big time! Skids is one of my favourite transformers so this is real nice : ) : )
Gamerlingual
Anyone else excited for this release like me?
JazzAlert13
Oh just the toy tbh. Some characters (like Jazz or Starscream) I like because of there characters and others I just like for design reasons. Skids falls into the latter category. I’ve never read a transformers comic, though I’ve been meaning to start up the idw comics.