Toy Review - Masterpiece MP-10 Convoy ver. 2.0

[willocrew]

Yeah I agree with what u guys said about mp1 as a better toy. I've got both MP1 and MP10.

I bought MP1 two to three years before MP10 came out. It was my first ever masterpiece and it was what got me hooked. But to be honest, when I first opened the box up, I was a little disappointed with the aesthetics because I thought it looked better in photos. But after playing around with it, I began to like it more.

MP10 is different. I wasn't 100% sold on the aesthetics based on the online pictures, but opening up the box, I blew me away completely.

I've since contemplated selling MP1 a number of times, but I've decided to keep it simply because I was thinking of doing a Optimus prime collection. Need to hunt down a THS and a G1 and a few others.

[drifand]

Mp-10 feels like "this is Optimus prime"
MP-1 feels like "I am the only Optiums Prime"

I have Mp-1. Mp-4 Mp-10 Hasbro and Mp-10 Takara.

I am disappointed that Takara has not pulled their socks up to do a version 2 repaint. The eyes of mp-10 Takara should have matched what is on MP-1, This one thing alone would have made me like the Takara version.

I don't know why Roller is silver, thats is a bad mistake.

Forced to buy this sucker because of the autobot cars. Mp-10 is a action figure to me and in truck mode it looks awkward at the leg area.

The riffle feels too small and I think they done a stupid thing of folding the gun while it can be kept in the trailer.

Poor hands, have to upgrade to KFC ones to make it look more like a masterpiece.

MP-10 scores a 7/10 for me.

The price differences is astronomical, While a YOTH Optimus went as low as $115 from Myers, The reissue Hasbro was at $210 on averaged same with Takara.

I left TT MP-10 in MISB while I played with the Hasbro as it felt better looking imo over TT version.

It shits me to say that they put more effort painting Eva MP-10 over the original prime.

I voted YES only because if you are collecting mp line this piece will match up with mp cars. I know of people who refuse to buy a mp-10 and will not budge.

Will I welcome a version3? Hell yes.

Looking at Goki's pics the Hasbro version feel's like he came alive. Thats just me, I just feel the TT version looked a bit way too dull compared to what they done on MP-1

[GoktimusPrime]

Comparison pics between Hasbro & Takara versions here.

I don't know why Roller is silver, thats is a bad mistake.

Yes. How dare TakaraTOMY give Roller show-accurate colours that was based on an actual 1984 variant of Roller! Let's shake our fists at them in anger!

The riffle feels too small and I think they done a stupid thing of folding the gun while it can be kept in the trailer.

Shake harder, son!

[drifand]

Comparison pics between Hasbro & Takara versions here.


Yes. How dare TakaraTOMY give Roller show-accurate colours that was based on an actual 1984 variant of Roller! Let's shake our fists at them in anger!


Shake harder, son!

Don't look silver mate. For the record TT version was g1 toy accurate hence this would be incorrect. Not to mention eyes would be yellow if they want to go that path. If we going to say roller is silver than I would argue Magnus gun should be silver as well.

I still don't like the riffle and I did shook it off!
If it doesn't look right is not. The proportion is off for me, I see more times in the cartoon that it isn't a small gun or foldable weapon. < the weapon is not a major deal for me but I expected the fingers to be all articulated.

The eyes are what set me back, as they should have done mp1 style

[GoktimusPrime]

MP10's instruction booklet explicitly states that the gun folding gimmick came from the "recent overseas comics where the gun folds and stores in his back." This is clearly seen in the IDW comics where the rifle folds in the exact same way as MP10's rifle, hence in my translation for Hasbro, I've made a more direct/explicit reference to it.

Don't look silver mate. For the record TT version was g1 toy accurate hence this would be incorrect. Not to mention eyes would be yellow if they want to go that path. If we going to say roller is silver than I would argue Magnus gun should be silver as well.

I still don't like the riffle and I did shook it off!
If it doesn't look right is not. The proportion is off for me,

#occupytakaratomy

< the weapon is not a major deal for me but I expected the fingers to be all articulated.

Which is what MP1 has. Which is also why he can't hold his rifle very well (it's easily prone to falling out of his hands). MP1 already has a solid non-folding rifle and articulated fingers. I think that they wanted to do something different for MP10 by giving him the folding rifle and more solid hands that can hold the rifle a lot better than MP1. I personally appreciate this, as it helps to make my MP10 more distinctive from MP1. I would have a lot less interest in this toy if it were just a scaled down copy of MP1.

The eyes are what set me back, as they should have done mp1 style

MP10's eyes can actually look more vibrant under the right lighting conditions, but I agree that under most typical/normal lighting, they can look somewhat dull. I agree that MP1's and even Hasbro's MP10's eyes are better looking, but I don't dislike the eyes on TakaraTOMY's MP10 either.

[Trent]

He did the gun storing in back thing in the Deamwave comics too didn't he? I couldn't be bothered to go check but that's where he pulled his gun from when he took Devastator down.

Sounds like Hasui was a little too proud to admit that Pat Lee had an influence on MP-10.

I wouldn't want to say that either

[GoktimusPrime]

I don't recall the rifle folding up in the DW comics. But the way that MP10's rifle folds up is directly taken from IDW's Transformers Escalation, as illustrated by E. J. Su. Also, the original Japanese text is quite vague and just says, "Recent overseas comic." It doesn't specify publisher or artist.

[UltimateGalvatron]

Yes. How dare TakaraTOMY give Roller show-accurate colours that was based on an actual 1984 variant of Roller! Let's shake our fists at them in anger!


Shake harder, son!

Lol!

[Magnus]

This is from an interview with Shogo Hasui. Source: http://news.tfw2005.com/2012/03/26/t...60#more-174660

– How were the accessories selected?
Hasui: The gimmicks and accessories that were present with MP-1 were omitted as far as possible because I felt doing the same was not interesting. I tried to include as many new gimmicks as the cost allowed. The Spike figure, the gun storage and Roller were the result of this.

– Was the gun storage in his back inspired by the American comics?
Hasui: There was certainly an influence from the American comics, but basically that is taken from the cartoon, too. In many scenes, Convoy transforms with his gun. I wanted to make the most of that image. I assumed Convoy had a system to transform with his gun and incorporated (the gimmick).