Via Magic Square Toys Webio account we have our first images of their new Magic Square MS-02B Dark Lord (Masterpiece Scale Nemesis Prime 2.0).
As you should expect, this is the inevitable black redeco of Magic Square MS-02 Light Of Peace (Optimus Prime 2.0). The figure comes with the same accessories as the original release plus an extra head. Besides Magic Square images, Weibo user 垃圾80二号机 has shared some inhand images showing off the great poseability of this mold.
See the new images after the jump and then sound off on the 2005 Boards!
Kalivon
Yes. There should be a screw for you to tighten behind his thigh. Lift up the butt plate. It should be there. Same issue on my copy.
Primeconvoy1
Started posing and putting my MS-02EX through the paces. I think it looks incredible!
My only nitpick so far is the soft ratchets for the side to side thigh articulation. There's very little resistance when moving the legs sideways up and down. Has anybody else experienced this, and is there a simple fix to this?
Appreciate any insight.
bruhimus prime
I feel exactly the same way. It's a real shame nobody's made a cartoon Optimus with chrome thighs. I thought for sure Fans Toys would be the ones to do it, with their affinity for chrome on their figures, but I guess not. I suppose it could be difficult to put chrome on that big of an area with that many moving parts, so I think this is probably the closest we'll get, unfortunately. I'd love to be proven wrong, though!
MV Steve
Yeah! Instead of silver legs/waist, if all that was chrome….. that would be an amazing looking figure!
TylerB
We all know it's supposed to be chrome! I've been wanting it forever.
bruhimus prime
I've never really understood why almost all of the G1 cartoon based Optimus figures make his hips and thighs a different color than the smoketacks and grill. In the cartoon they were all the same color. So I swapped the hips and thighs of MS-02TC with those of MS-02. I quite like how this turned out!
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octobotimus
Reminder that preorders are against EBay’s guidelines. Never trust Preorders from there.
RKillian
I made the preorder when they first went up and they weren't open long. They had stopped carrying MS for some time after their initial offerings (Inferno, Sideswipe, Trailbreaker, etc) weren't fulfilled. But then they got what I now think was overstock of Bluestreak, Bumblebee, Skyfire, etc. And the Combaticons seem to be trickling in. So no idea why this came and went other than NewAge pulls a similar stunt delivering several months late. When I worked with overseas companies to source products, they often had an attitude of indifference towards American customers so I'm not ready to blame BBTS for the situation.
But I've got a full page of preorders that have been released for months that I guess I'd better follow up on.
MV Steve
BBTS is notoriously bad with their time frames taking forever, but you're waiting on the original from them , something has to be a mistake if they didn't have any to simply fulfill an order. There was the full duration of the original release, then the second EX, then the TC, so if there were any for BBTS to order so they could fulfill orders, it should've happened by now. I wonder if they sold their stock and immediately reopened preorders assuming MS would just be making more but that hasn't been the case. I'd reach out to them to see what's up.
RKillian
Meanwhile I'm still waiting on the original version preordered at BBTS. Does Magic Square pick and choose what orders of theirs they'll fulfill or do they ship by hot air balloon over the ocean?
MV Steve
I won't believe this til we get an actual announcement that MS is doing this. With the others, shortly after MS confirmed, preorders were live in stores then up on their own site. Has there been word that I missed or is this just speculation? I'd trust Aliexpress over ebay but not sure to use either to gauge preorder info
ldl0021
All over EBAY… It’s probably already available on AliExpress… you might have to wait a little longer for a major retailer to do a preorder
Flapjacks
Where are these preorders at? Lol!
Turbine027
I totally see it
Honesty
I had to do a double take looking at this photo. I was wondering what you were doing displaying your figures in a refrigerator,
Turbine027
That was the Hasbro MP 10 … between those two photos I moved him up by my Prime helmet to put the sealed encore box in his place. The really tall one on the left, standing, is the oversized MP 10
Here’s that MP10 in his new spot:
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Snaku
Looks like MP-10. Or maybe one of the oskos.
David Hingtgen
@Turbine027 Top pic, far left side—-what Optimus in that? (truck mode, cab behind the G1). Is it an MP-10 variation?
timcourtois
In terms of posing, it looks like the FT will have the same problem a lot of FT & Magic Square figures have with the thigh rotation: the sculpting of the upper thigh looks like it won't allow the leg to rotate inwards, which is annoying when trying to achieve certain poses. (It's a pet peeve of mine when the joint is present, but sculpting hinders usage of the joint. It feels like a designer was checking a box, but never thought about whether the articulation was actually usable.)
Trailbreaker77
Thank you!
You sir! Out with you!
Would anyone be interested in a 3D printer logo similar to what I’m doing with the Pangu figure?
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