A new image of a possible Masterpiece Cliffjumper prototype is surfacing over the internet. This time we have a look at a color test shot of the robot mode of this rumored new Masterpiece figure.
We had previously seen some images of the prototype of this rumored Masterpiece Cliffjumper toy which seems to be a retool of the Masterpiece MP-45 Bumblebee 2.0. We have now a look at a possible colored sample in robot mode. We can spot a new face compared to the one we had seen before and big Autobot insignia on his chest, but we also notice the figure is a bit mistransformed.
Update: More images showing a more correct transformation and more angles of the figure via Baidu user 和蔼可亲
Keep in mind that we haven’t heard any official information about this mold, so stay tuned with TFW2005 for more updates. Now click on the bar to see the new image attached on this news post and then join to the ongoing discussion on the 2005 Boards!
SunSwipe5
Takara Rep: Masterpiece Cliffjumper?
Who is Cliffjumper? What is Cliffjumper? Why is Cliffjumper? Oh, pay no attention to the prototype behind the curtain.
The rest of us: Umm, dude. We already know about MP CJ, we've seen the prototype in many non-official pictures. You can stop denying the existance of a Masterpiece we know is coming.
Seriously though, I still think they are deliberately waiting until much closer to ROTB to reveal the first of the long awaited Porsche Masterpieces.
AnonymousDwell
It's gonna turn out to be an elaborate sting operation using the smallest and most cost effectively believable test shot to entice and then capture leakers, that only the high ups at TT know about, and isn't ever planned for an official release.
J/K.
Gamerlingual
Crazy is about right
4249david
Okay, the rep not seeing MP Cliffjumper is either RoTB NDA level subterfuge, or something crazy is going on!
Goldprime
These are mine. And yes they are indeed factory test shots. Only cliff HAS NOT been officially announced nor any official pictures released.
Liampope
I'm not sure we do. Private collectors get a hold of prototypes/test shots. So this could just be a collector that has both a skids and Cliffjumper test shot.
I mean it's obvious this is Takara anyway, but not because of this pic.
hardreturn
If anyone has a lead on where to purchase on of those green test shots please lmk
darkeros
With this photo At least We know this is Takara Clifjumper now not someones custom or third party one
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Fafnir72
I used to look for IH and Ratchet's head and Prime's Matrix back then.
Fafnir72
1st world problems!
All quiet now.
They either have no intention or will get it regardless but only in for the dopamine rush! Just take a look at the furai Windblade thread.
Abigail Barajas
I dont get why people are so up in arms about the backpack or feet. It's not that big of a deal, like bruh
Afterburner
This line has always been chasing the anime. TakaraTomy and their market have always been chasing the anime. If you want to argue that the toy Cliffjumper looked better than the anime because the anime looked so terrible, I'm not sure you've really looked at toy Cliffjumper…the argument makes no sense in the first place. Then we end up with "Cliffjumper should look like some cool stylized picture of him in my head," but that's not what MP is and it would divide fans much more than the current approach since no two people would even share the same vision. Plus we have plenty of new lines all the time for such re-imaginings anyway.
What drives the MP line are the fascinating pieces of magic where wheels disappear, ladders and cranes vanish, and weapons appear out of nowhere – all within a non-partsforming figure. You won't have that if you aren't driving towards the anime. Skids is very nice, but he's definitely lacking vs something like Sunstreaker, Grapple, Hound, or Trailbreaker. I don't think the MP line would sustain itself if it was only more expensive Generations figures. It must continue to look like fiction, in this case the anime or comics. That's what gives it purpose. It gives the designers a very rewarding challenge.
Arie
This!
I always imagined that my toys looked like the cartoon. Including the scale as in the cartoon. I never understood as a child why the toys didn't look more like the cartoon. And now we have just that; Transformers which look like the cartoon, in the correct scale. Seriously a dream come true for me. Loads of youth sentiment.
jackisking
Seeing how close the mainline is coming close to these Porshe altmodes, there wouldnt be a holdup if this didnt require a license . As mentioned before, either there is some specifications for the license that hasn't kicked in yet or its some other project they want to release in sequence with this, that they're having trouble finishing up.
AnonymousDwell
OCDChad
I wouldn't say that, it's just what you liked. Like when I think of Soundwave, the cartoon voice is the first thing that comes to mind.
FD3S
Vitriol aside, it's always genuinely interesting to see where people stand on the accuracy thing. Some want figures that strive to be 100% accurate to the G1 cartoon, fully embracing the day to day on-screen concessions made to the model sheets as the necessities they were.* Others prefer the hybrid aesthetic, wanting the figures to reflect not only the cartoon but also the toys and comics that spurred their fandom way back when. And others still are just sick of G1 entirely
I guess it all depends where/when you got bit by the bug! I myself was a G2 kid who would rewatch a copy of TF:TM religiously once the reruns stopped airing, so I was very firmly in the first category until I got some hands on Rhino DVD sets and realized for the first time what I remembered seeing on-screen when I was six or seven and what was actually on-screen were two very different things, to say nothing to the vast quality difference between the G1 show and The Movie that I'd seen so much more of. But then again, that's just my experience.
*With the possible exception of MP Skids, I don't recall seeing a whole lotta people clamoring for 1:1 screen accuracy with him.
franpincho
The toys of course were great because that's all we had as kids. It still bugged me that most of them didn't look anything like the cartoon, so in my mind, it simply was not possible.
Fast forward 30 years and I'm getting what I always, always wanted.
Nightrain
I must be weird then because I sure didn’t. The toys themselves were the draw to me, not the cartoon. Otherwise I would’ve stopped buying them in 1987.
stevej
Man, I've been in this hobby for such a long time now I'm actually feeling nostalgic for MP-03, green colour and all!