Masterpiece MP-23 Exhaust

[Sinnertwin]

well, there goes my idea of scalping it to the Americans at a ridiculously overinflated price. Sad face.

[theshape]

Im very confused by this. Everyone always says that TT doesn't really care about the foreign market

[DELTAprime]

Damn!

I normally would never deface my Transformers with Reprolabels, but in this case I might actually buy some.

[MayzaPrime]

I have no attachment to the old diaclone version, so the change make no difference to me at all.

I am still happy to have this in my collection.

[kurdt_the_goat]

It's always gonna look lame as long as you know what it's supposed to be, but taken on it's own i think it looks ok. It still boggles my mind that Philip Morris gives any shit at all about this, and also how such a minor change magically makes it ok.

I don't know if it's true or not but was once told there's a 10% or 15% change rule for copyright. But it's so subjective, arguably they could have used a different shade of red (perhaps a more "evil" red!) to meet that criteria.

[TAAUBlaster]

well, there goes my idea of scalping it to the Americans at a ridiculously overinflated price. Sad face.

Sad face too. Would have been nice for the Americans to be on the receiving end of scalper prices for once. Take them down a peg.

I didn't really have any attachment to the original deco, but the new one just looks a bit weird now. Kind of like it's unfinished. Instead of the nice clean line breaking up the colours, now they've got 'steped' lines. To me, it doesn't flow very well.

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Ah well, I was planning on getting Reprolabels for this guy anyway.

[gamblor916]

Screw you Philip Morris mine is going to advertise that smooth Marlboro flavour.

[drifand]

Is this real or somebody just faked it?

This where maybe the ko version will get it right? It be very lame if that does happens.

[GoktimusPrime]

why did TakaraTomy bother changing the deco? the toy is being sold in Asian markets and should therefore be immune to the copyright issues in America.

Philip Morris/Marlboro does exist in Japan.