MP-20 Wheeljack images and info

[Hursticon]

Hasui-san is on the record saying he tried his best but ultimately decided upon vehicular mode accuracy of Bot mode accuracy, colour-wise, but IMO he's done an utterly fantastic job regardless to the point where I have literally no complaint.

[Trent]

Hasui-san is on the record saying he tried his best but ultimately decided upon vehicular mode accuracy of Bot mode accuracy, colour-wise, but IMO he's done an utterly fantastic job regardless to the point where I have literally no complaint.

Agreed. The way I look at it, the only issue isn't that the MP colour scheme differs from the cartoon, it's that the cartoon was coloured wrong. It should have looked like the MP

[drifand]

Sure, as soon as someone invents time travel to allow TakaraTOMY to start photographing MP cars being loaded onto an MP Ultra Magnus that doesn't exist yet.

Back in the old days, is not unusual to see a future product in a catalogue though. It makes you more excited as a kid that you be looking forward to it when it hits the shelves.

[GoktimusPrime]

Back in the old days, is not unusual to see a future product in a catalogue though.

Examples with links?

[Sky Shadow]

Examples with links?

Are you serious, Goki? Like... every year from 1984 to 1990?

[5FDP]

Examples with links?

Google is your friend

[Robzy]

Those catalogues were some of my favourite things when I was a kid (especially that 1985 one). I would stare at them for hours.

[GoktimusPrime]

I meant a catalogue that showed an existing toy interacting with a toy that didn't exist yet, as per the suggestion that current MP cars should be photographed interacting with the as-of-now non-existent MP Ultra Magnus.

So for example, the 1986 catalogue showed Metroplex with the 1986 Mini Cars interacting with it. But at the time, both Metroplex and those Mini-Cars were in existence and available for retail purchase. I've only seen a concept silhouette of MP Magnus, not even any images of unpainted prototypes like MP Bumblebee. So currently the only larger vehicle that the MP cars can interact with is MP Convoy. So as a selling point it makes more sense to inform consumers that the MP cars are "reverse compatible" with the MP Convoy toy (thus enticing people who already own Convoy to consider purchasing the MP cars to play along with it). I think it would make more sense to show Ultra Magnus w/ the MP cars on the MP Ultra Magnus box itself (which I'm sure they will), then for any future MP car releases they can show the cars interacting w/ MP Magnus and/or Convoy. I don't quite see the logic of showing the cars interacting with Ultra Magnus now when the toy doesn't yet exist, and some of the more casual collectors of MPs (and they do exist) may not be necessarily aware that MP Ultra Magnus is down the pipeline. I personally cannot recall any TF catalogue that displayed toys interacting with another toy that didn't exist yet, like say the 1986 Autobot cars (pre-TM) interacting with say Fortress Maximus.

Some of the G1 catalogues would either use concept silhouettes or "stand in" figures for toys that didn't yet exist at the time that the catalogues were created, and often figures varied between the time that the catalogue was made and when the final toy was released (e.g. Bluestreak, Slag, Astrotrain etc.). The early 1988 catalogue showed approx. half the Pretenders in just silhouettes with "Coming Soon!" plastered across them. Many of the Micromaster playsets just show them with the original versions of the moulds that were eventually repainted for them (e.g. Ironworks is shown w/ Powertrain etc.), and some just featured entirely unrelated toys as stand-ins, e.g. Skystalker is shown w/ Roadhandler etc.

So when it comes to the suggestion that current promotional images of MP Wheeljack should show him interacting w/ MP Ultra Magnus... I'm not entirely sure where the precedent for this exists. Currently I've only seen an illustrated silhouette of the toy; not even any unpainted prototypes for Wheeljack to be displayed with.

If anyone knows of a specific example of a catalogue that shows a toy being showcased or interacting with a future toy that didn't yet exist at the time of that display, please let me know and I'll happily sit corrected.

Those catalogues were some of my favourite things when I was a kid (especially that 1985 one). I would stare at them for hours.

Ditto. I used to try and draw all of the toys from that catalogue too, which sometimes got interesting when I was trying to draw a toy that I hadn't yet seen IRL yet, so just based on squinting at those little catalogue photos for ages. I initially thought that Repugnus was a major retool of Snarl (and drew him using the same basic body structure).

[Sky Shadow]

I meant a catalogue that showed an existing toy interacting with a toy that didn't exist yet

http://www.grayskullmuseum.com/conception/guetapens.htm

[drifand]

There were heaps in Japanese line of toys, unfortunately goki , you were not in my age when that was happening. Diaclone, takara toys such as dougram, takatoku toys such as Macross and orguss have shown toys developed but not released yet. In a kids point of view is "new" and not available.

Take it with grain of salt as shipping from Japan took a while before it would reach countries like Singapore.

I have no idea why the big deal suddenly.

The thing is ultra magnus does exist except is not completed thus why they cannot do such a thing yet. It is common sense. What I am referring is when they finish ultra magnus but have not officially released the toy and they print it in the catalogue and it would be a "coming soon" as indicated.