MP12A (Red Alert) & MP13 (Soundwave) announced

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

from what i read, the cassettes with be in separate 2 packs.

Are you sure that wasn't for Voyager FoC Soundwave?

[kup]

Are you sure that wasn't for Voyager FoC Soundwave?

Maybe that's what they are calling 'Masterpiece'

[Ultra Mackness]

I'm really very excited by this! I've thought since seeing the silhouette that it was most likely Soundwave given the curved shape on the upper forearms and the different structure of the legs. The pose looks like Sondwave with his left leg slightly forward and right shoulder slightly tilted down and forward (to me at least, but I do wear glasses!). I seem to remember from one of the interviews about the time of release of MP-10 that the entire series from MP-10 onwards was to be re-scaled all in line with each other. Given MP-11 Starscream was in scale with MP-10 and from the G1 cartoon, Soundwave was sized somewhere between Starscream and Optimus, I'm hoping that MP-13 will be similarly scaled. I'm also thinking about the cassettes and whether they'll be split between this release and a potential MP Soundblaster release (3 now 3 later or something like that), and would classics Ravage that came with Hound fit this scale? But the big question for me is will he be able to transform into a lamppost (or whatever it was supposed to be) like he did in the very first episode of G1?

[5FDP]

Trying to keep a lid on it (my excitement levels) until I see actual pics of MP Soundwave. I'm betting that he will come with his minions given the price jump.

Just hope he will be a tapedeck

He would have to be otherwise it wouldn't be a 'masterpiece' version of the character.

[kup]

I think that the darken silhouette was actually the Red Alert as it was too close to the Sideswipe mold and not Soundwave. However awesome news that we will be getting an MP Soundwave and that Sideswipe appears to be a lot more affordable than traditional Japanese MPs.

[hanprimus]

Looks like MP12 will costs much less than I thought, RK has it up preorder @USD$78....oh yea~
http://www.robotkingdom.com/services...=us&CatID=1_42

[Lord_Zed]

Looks like MP12 will costs much less than I thought, RK has it up preorder @USD$78....oh yea~
http://www.robotkingdom.com/services...=us&CatID=1_42

How abnormally reasonable.

[canofwhoopass_87]

How abnormally reasonable.

Yeh... maybe it's all plastic. Diecast free!

[kup]

Yeh... maybe it's all plastic. Diecast free!

So was Starscream and Rodimus and MP-10 but that didn't stop them from charging an arm and a leg for them.

A welcomed change indeed but let's wait for the final product to determine how good it is.

[Trent]

So was Starscream and Rodimus and MP-10 but that didn't stop them from charging an arm and a leg for them.

A welcomed change indeed but let's wait for the final product to determine how good it is.

Rodimus had die cast on him. The hinge for canopy/windshield I'm pretty sure. Only a very little bit but die cast non the less.