Toy Review - Masterpiece Acid Storm

[lancalot]

The mould
My Acid Storm seems to have some QA issues, and I'm not sure if it's just an isolated freak incident or if there's any degradation in the MP Seeker mould. My Acid Storm suffers from the following main problems:
1) The right wing joint is loose making the wing floppy in robot mode.
2) One of the rear stabliser wings is prone to popping off.
3) The two main wings tend to pop off easier than my other MP Seekers (though not too easily).

1. there should be a clip that fold out from the wing and clip into his back ..
2. they all fall out with all of them but i think just acidstorm is not molded properly as my one doesnt clip in place securely at all
3. the wings actually clip off now , as to the old one are pin in place with a closed joint .. i think alot of ppl keep breaking the joints there ..

overall i like him but it is weird that they only did a digital camo on the wings and not the whole plane... and i love the green ... certainly make him stand out , but the should of made a new face for him at least

[GoktimusPrime]

Yeah, the clip holds the wing fine; but the floppiness is still rather disappointing for a Masterpiece level toy. You do raise a valid point in that it does at least have something to clip it into place rather than just letting it flop about on its own.

and i love the green ... certainly make him stand out ,

He's practically night safe. I simultaneously love and hate the green (for reasons mentioned in post #1 ).

but the should of made a new face for him at least

Yeah, I agree. One might argue that making the alternate face would've increased the cost of the original MP11, but surely they'd make the money back w/ all the subsequent uses of the mould. Alternatively they should've just maintained or emulated the facial expression changing gimmick from MP03, but I guess they were cutting out some features of the old Seeker mould to compensate for the cost of the new features (which many consider have improved the robot mode). But they could've moulded an alternate expressionless faced on the same original mould to be used for later redecos (as they have often done w/ other TFs). Eh... lack of foresight?

[tangy]

I picked one up from Chicago last month but just got around to opening it - the colour on this is actually quite striking in real life but then again it's my first MP so maybe i'm bias