A little late to the party but finally got my TRU online order....

The money for value of this package is beyond awesome. If I owned the Takara version I would still be picking up a Hasbro one just for the 5 cassettes. I'm not quite sure how things work for Hasbro for these Masterpiece figures that were designed by TT only. But the design cost is definitely a pricing factor for the TT release. For future Masterpiece releases that have no licencing issues, waiting for the Hasbro release is a no-brainer is you ask me.

Contrary to the majority of opinion here, I think Ravage is very well designed. Not quite on the level of the Laserbeak/Buzzsaw mold (which utilizes volume and dimension to an extreme), but it captures the feline posture well. Ravage to me is always the most difficult to design because of all the cassette minion he's the least "flat" and has virtually no cassette bits that can be worked with in panther mode. Hasui did a tremendous job here and you can hardly tell what he transforms into in panther mode.

Last but not least:



"Hey! Nobody calls Soundwave unkrozzomatic!"
"Yeah let's kick talegate!!"