MP Star Saber coloured prototype

[drifand]

Mine will be displayed with the rest of the mps. I Do not find him out of place.

[MayzaPrime]

In my display case I have 2 levels for my MPs.

Top level is for all of the new 'in scale' MPs

The 2nd level has all the older style MP, with some of the new stuff that will end up being my Diaclone MP. Star Sabre will be join in this level.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Mine's coming tomorrow.

In this case, I don't really care for the G1 character (boring, generic-hero-type), and the IDW version - while I do like the take - hasn't been all that prominent. Not $150 prominent, that's for sure.
The thing is, though, the toy looks amazing, even with the made-up alt-mode. Aside from a few favourite characters I appreciate the design/engineering of TFs as much as I appreciate the characters they're meant to represent, and this one is very much a 'sold-me-on-the-toy' instance.

[leej84]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UGkD15Gj4-c

enjoy guys

[Hursticon]

Just got my shipping notice from HLJ!

Man they must've had A LOT of preorders to get through from Friday morning, obviously with a weekend in between, as normally I get a shipping notice from them within 4 or 5 hours of payment - Guess there's a lot of checking & re-checking going on because of MP Exhaust?

[griffin]

HLJ are out of stock now, so maybe you got one of the last.

[Initial_G]

HLJ are pretty good, my first time pre-ordering from them. They shipped my MP-24 on the 20th, got it today

[BruiseLee]

Got a shipping notice from HLJ too!

HLJ are out of stock now, so maybe you got one of the last.

Strange this was the case when I checked earlier today but they are back listing at 14,400 yen but at low stock. Think perhaps some people missed the 3 day payment deadline and their pre order hold was released.

[Hursticon]

HLJ are out of stock now, so maybe you got one of the last.

It's possible, but myself and a number of the other Twitter blokes were fairly on-top of when the preorder page went up, so maybe that says their prioritisation is based on some other metric - Or more likely they just had so many to get out on Friday that there wasn't enough hours in a day!

I don't know if it's wise that once there stock is scanned into the warehouse, the website immediately pops-up saying instock & available before they actually start sending out payment requests for preorders - That could lead to issues I think.

HLJ are pretty good, my first time pre-ordering from them. They shipped my MP-24 on the 20th, got it today

Oh you lucky bugger! - Pictures and a review in the thread! - Go on, hop to it!
(Kidding, enjoy him dude, I'll just be sitting here grinding my teeth until my own arrives! )

[Hursticon]

Got a shipping notice from HLJ too!

Awesome, another person having to wait eagerly!

Strange this was the case when I checked earlier today but they are back listing at 14,400 yen but at low stock. Think perhaps some people missed the 3 day payment deadline and their pre order hold was released.

That's actually a very good point!