While I can't read it, I'm assured this is a genuine announcment of Masterpiece Skids!
I'm excited & keen for both Skids and the inevitable Crosscut!
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While I can't read it, I'm assured this is a genuine announcment of Masterpiece Skids!
I'm excited & keen for both Skids and the inevitable Crosscut!
Yes!!! Happy new year to me! My favourite 80s compact car and my first Diaclone toy. Curiously, the design reminds me more of early MP and Binaltech than recent G1 MPs. Can someone do a proper translation of the Japanese? Google Translate mentions 'hybrid version of MP', and i want to know what that means. Imagine if you could turn this G1-toy-looking MP into an animation-accurate version by adding panels and pieces that can stay on during transformation, like the MP BW Megatron. That would be nice. In which case, fans who are adamant about MP animation accuracy can be happy too since that wouldn't count as 'cheating' or parts-forming.
Won't grab Skids, but keen for Crosscut. Happy for Dirge and those who have been wanting it for some time now.
About 2 years too late HasTak. My 3P Skids does me fine.
I named my car after Skids, so I'll probably grab either him or Crosscut (or both)
Considering the transformation would be pretty simple (almost a shell-former by today's standards), I imagine that this one hadn't been done yet because it wasn't sporty enough or an iconic enough character (probably the least amount of screen/comic time of the second year Autobot cars).
The artwork looks like they might be aiming more for a toy-homaged MP toy like the earlier MP toys... rather than cartoon-homaged MP toy like more recently, which probably would have been more difficult to design than a toy-homage figure.
A translation from tfw...
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\ Masterpiece Skids / There are several new MP products scheduled to be released this year, one of which is “Skids”. With instinctive deformation and a wide range of movement, it is a new work that will be a hybrid version of MP these days! We will update the information from time to time so please look forward to it!
Skids cartoon model had hard to fathom arms (Cartoon or comic) so not going for 100% accuracy is not a bad thing.
As a Skids owner and fan since 1986 this definitely appeals to me, and gives me hope he won’t be forgotten in WFC - he’s so far the only Autobot Car we haven’t got a toy of (as well as Tracks who all rumours say will be in Kingdom).
I take a little objection to the comment that he didn’t get enough appearances in the comic - he was the main Autobot character for several months and one of the extremely few to get a solo story in the Marvel US comic. Of his fellow 1985 Cars, Inferno barely appeared at the end (when his Classics and Action Master toys appeared), Red Alert effectively did not appear, and Smokscreen maybe said four lines, and Tracks, Hoist and Grapple did not much better - good thing all of those guys got their spotlight cartoon eps. Poor Skids missing out on TV stardom.
Yep I bought takara skids and hasbro crosscut last xmas, skids never showed up and I was unimpressed with crosscut so much I never tried to get another. I have a skids shaped hole on my shelf though and hoping for a Kingdom skids cos they've been smashing it for the other cars in earthrise (a Tracks should be a goven too, with some genselects).Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
Given how much of a non-entity this guy was in the cartoon but how fairly important and popular of a toy he is I'm totally on board with the less toon style. Really hope they include the scooter.
While I _do_ like that mould, it's a little fidgetty & doesn't really mesh with what WFC has been doing. A Skids in Kingdom would fill that hole better, methinks.Quote:
Originally Posted by Akky82
I like your thinking. Skids, to me, is an important toy also.Quote:
Originally Posted by llamatron
The Scooter should be included because 1) there's no "that thing from that episode" available for Skids and 2) Crosscut should follow and he'll come with the scooter.
I'm also hoping that this means that somewhere along the line (not toooooo far) we'll get a deluxe Skids. I mean, I'll buy the Thrilling 30 one if I have to, but I'd rather not.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
Yeah, never understood those who claimed he was obscure. And anyway, he isn't obscure any more, not after his run in the MTME/LL comics.Quote:
I take a little objection to the comment that he didn’t get enough appearances in the comic - he was the main Autobot character for several months and one of the extremely few to get a solo story in the Marvel US comic. Of his fellow 1985 Cars, Inferno barely appeared at the end (when his Classics and Action Master toys appeared), Red Alert effectively did not appear, and Smokscreen maybe said four lines, and Tracks, Hoist and Grapple did not much better - good thing all of those guys got their spotlight cartoon eps. Poor Skids missing out on TV stardom.
I remember when I skipped over this character when I was collecting the book style reissues and I?ll be doing the same again. I?ve got absolutely no interest in Skids.
I hope there?s another announcement soon. The glacial pace isn?t helping.
As much as TF fans hate the Bayverse, let's not forget that ROTF also added to Skid's profile.Quote:
Originally Posted by JJJ
Imagine if they announced the next MP was going to be Skids but were less specific and no image, and everyone assumed it was the G1 toy but it was an MPM Skids!Quote:
Originally Posted by shockNwave
But still, Skids or Mudflap haven’t appeared in Studio Series despite 85 releases so someone at Hasbro must really not want to go there.
With Skids being my very first Transformer I have a special place in my heart for it so can't wait. Nice that we have another Diaclone car coming out.
My first comic was the Skids solo issue so this is a must buy for me.
I'm interested in what they mean by "hybrid" if it means toys more in the style of Inferno then I'm in, even though I never had Skids or remember him from the two episodes of the cartoon. (Marvel Skids is great, but not really what Masterpiece aims at)
The MP Autobot cars were just really cleverly designed toys that reasonably matched the cartoon appearance. If this Skids goes back to those roots, I'm very keen.
The side and back views are in the TFW2005 article.
It seems a little weird that Skids is a release in the vein of the Lamborghini and Datsun moulds, which aren't given over to absolute accuracy to the Flory Dery character models the way later figures are.Quote:
Originally Posted by griffin
There have been a few other movieverse characters that have yet to get Studio Series releases, like Jolt, the Fallen, RotF Sideswipe, and DotM Bumblebee. Mirage/Dino only got announced in November, and the figure is due out later this year.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
From that list they seem to have something against ROTF - or maybe because there's 8 Constructicon toys already from that film they want so spread things out a bit?Quote:
Originally Posted by Magnus
I assume that scale wise Skids and Mudflap (with their car modes) might be too small to sell as deluxes and they'd need to be a two pack Voyager (like Arcee being a deluxe price point for three small figures), and the Ice-Cream truck version of the pair would be similar, and given there's fewer Voyager spots to go around than Deluxe spots, that's holding them up.
Or maybe there just won't be a toy of those things, given the furor around their characterisations...Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
Considering they made DoTM toys for them, I don't think they're too worried about it. Probably don't have the rights or something like that or don't see the need just yet. I have a feeling we'll eventually see them, especially since they're a fairly big part of the whole Devastator thing.
Great discussion about Masterpiece Skids. :rolleyes:
Sorry Mr Thread Policeman, but maybe some people want a MPM Skids too?
(Not like there's much more to discuss at this point about the MP G1 one...)
Not even that, it's moved onto Studio Series now. Hardly seems relevant.Quote:
Originally Posted by Paulbot
Well rather than complaining, maybe bring it back on topic?
What accessories could Skids come with. The scooter as mentioned above seems a no-brainer but it's got no canon appearance in Transformers lore (that I'm aware of)
So um, one of the bombs Blitzwing was planting in Triple Takeover?
Will they acknowledge his comic book role?
A Charlene figure would be a nice touch, A Donny Finkleberg (civilan clothes not Robot-Master) ones too? His hippie holo-avatar?
What about a life size version of his pea-sized brain (as show in Circuit Breaker's hands in Decepticon Graffiti)!? A removabe face plate you can put on the wall as a trophy like she did?
I'd like them to include one of those Limbo parasites to attach to his head (see Time Wars). It wouldn't be too far off the Hoist Goes Hollywood masks but maybe UK comics are a step too far.
My apologies, you're right.
I reckon the scooter will certainly be moulded now (along with Crosscut head), but if it doesn't come with Skids it might appear with Crosscut (perhaps further incentive for people to double dip).
A scooter with a later toy has the feel of those stickers with Spin-Out that help you toy-ify the earlier Sunstreaker, so yeah I think an MP Crosscut coming with it is likely.
I also wonder if the more toy accurate look is not just because of his lack of show presence, but also to bring down the cost of the toy, being a lesser known character. It's been confirmed by Takara that the more show accurate Masterpieces have higher parts counts, thus cost more. Might make it an easier sell to collectors since he's not as well known as the other 1984/1985 cars. Potentially could also be a market test to see if people are over cartoon accuracy.
Sorry, I wasn't around for G1 so I have no real ideas about Skids outside the TFwiki page and the ROTF one but if it's cheap, fits in Prime's trailer and available at Zing/EB I'll probably end up getting it.
Probably all of the above, and maybe the MP designers took a look at the derpy Sunbow animation model, shook their heads and thought, for once, the original lanky toy bot looked better than the animation model. While they looked plain compared to their toy versions, most other G1 character models were better proportioned in robot mode (from a conventional aesthetics perspective) than their toy counterparts.Quote:
Originally Posted by Tha_Phantom
From what I've seen, I'm going to pick up this MP. I am not a huge Skids fan but I do love the Autobot Cars and the "Hybrid" style. MP-39 Sunstreaker was my last MP purchase but he is still in his box, never even transformed him as I couldn't get into the figure. I'll sell him I think.
So, it will be nice to have a new MP. I even made room in my display cabinet for Skids and hopefully an MP licenced "hybrid" Jazz! I didn't think I would ever be getting another MP after they moved to the toon style. Although Hound tempted me as I like the character but dodged a bullet skipping that one.
what are all those lines in the artwork?? is that...detail? sculpted details? not a blank block of plain? my gosh!
I'm both surprised and happy to see that it is very toy-based... like the earlier MPs before the recent trend for cartoon based MPs.
The robot mode is like looking at the Gen1 toy, but with two legs. :p
I just read the article at the tfw link, and it was actually Honda that tweeted up the reveal... so this project must really be a close partnership with that car company.
It seems to do with the Honda City turning 40 this year so a collaboration between the 2 makes sense.
The Honda tweet also mentioned Figure King #277, so maybe there'll be more information on this MP in that issue. Definitely getting a lime green Quantum Operative Skids as well if they release one (hopefully with a retooled head sculpt). Unfortunately, the altmode doesn't seem to have space for driver/passenger, so no Charlene.
Looks like room in the back for a scooter though... if they decide to do a pre-Transformers release later.
Certainly looks to be a departure from the usual cartoon aesthetic, probably because of the circumstances of the character. The shape reminds me a lot of Alternators figures.
This is where masterpiece should be going. Looks great.