New designer for 2014 MP line

[kup]

That's a little worrying as the latest MPs have been great. Clearly made by someone who cares about quality and collector satisfaction. I just hope we don't get a corporate yes man who will give us cost cutted toys at premium prices.

[Ploughmans Lunch]

They're basically going to be the same so I wouldn't worry.

[kaiden]

i thought shogo hasui was the designer for mp-10 onwards..?

i think of the first 9 MPs - I only liked Optimus and Grimlock. hated the face on the seeker mold and issues with hips/feet. Megatron was just too skinny/hollow looking and Rodimus was a complete mess trying to be 2 persons sacrificing a lot to achieve it.

honestly im not impressed.

[MayzaPrime]

I'm still hopeful

I hope that they have learnt from previous mistakes and the line continues in the same direction.

I have MP BB and WJ on pre-order I would assume that these would have already been designed and in the works, hopefully Ultra Magnus will be in the same boat.

I totally agree Griffin I can't do another cardboard trailer

[Trent]

They're basically going to be the same so I wouldn't worry.

This is the guy that designed MP Megs and and Rodimus. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little concerned.

[Ploughmans Lunch]

This is the guy that designed MP Megs and and Rodimus. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little concerned.

I dunno, I'm willing to give people benefit of the doubt. Megs was like, what, 2006? I don't think Rodimus was too well received either, so I figure he probably learned from his mistakes.

[DELTAprime]

I guess this will make the MP-10 haters happy they have MP-01/04's designer back. MP-11 is basically Kobayashi's design. The early version of MP-03 looked like MP-11 then that other guy got a hold of it and made it into the green crap it was.

I hope this doesn't mean we will be going back to one MP a year cause it's been great to have them making so many unique MP molds.

[Hursticon]

This is the guy that designed MP Megs and and Rodimus. I'd be lying if I said I wasn't a little concerned.

Admittedly, I'm a little concerned myself too - I'm sure we'll get awesome figures regardless but I'd definitely like to hear why Hasui has been taken away from Masterpiece Development.

I guess this will make the MP-10 haters happy they have MP-01/04's designer back.

Really? - This is a thing?

[Sinnertwin]

Really? - This is a thing?

Totally

I doubt that with Kobayashi returning we'll see larger scale MP01 sized figures with die cast etc. Changing a winning formula by returning to square one doesn't make sense to me.

[Trent]

Admittedly, I'm a little concerned myself too - I'm sure we'll get awesome figures regardless but I'd definitely like to hear why Hasui has been taken away from Masterpiece Development.

How do we know he was taken away? He might have wanted to move on for all we know. Besides, I'll save my judgement until we see the first new MP which probably won't be for a while. I'd say that as Mayza said most of the design work for Wheeljack, Bumblebee and Ultra Magnus is already complete

Really? - This is a thing?

It's a size thing. There are people that think every MP should scale with MP-01