MP-11SW Skywarp

[Sinnertwin]

Woke up to this!

Good to see its release given some have been hangin' out for this mould on Skywarp.

I wonder what this release will do to those trying to sell the existing TT & Hasbro Masterpiece Skywarp. I'm one of those. :rolleyes

Make it easier for those looking for a Hasbro Skywarp. I'm one of those

[Megatran]

* Closes eyes & covers ears *
Lalalalalalalalalalala

[drifand]

Woke up to this!

Good to see its release given some have been hangin' out for this mould on Skywarp.

I wonder what this release will do to those trying to sell the existing TT & Hasbro Masterpiece Skywarp. I'm one of those.

This version I like, provided they got the logos correct.

[Sky Shadow]

just wondering if anybody would be able to quickly tell me (off the top of their head) what other models Hasbro Asia have released as "exclusives" in the past before.

white box grimlock

Yep.

tiger track

No.

silver streak

Nope.

mp-10 bath ape

Nup.

evangelion colours

Nah.

The right answers might include chromed Sixshot, and the Autobot and Decepticon Specialist three-packs. There were also Generations Legends (Hoist, Motorbreath, Thundercracker and Bluestreak), Scouts (Dead End, Laserbeak, Sandstorm and Brawl), Deluxes (Springer, Swerve, Wheelie and Cliffjumper), Voyagers (Megatron, Hot Spot and Powerdive) and Leaders (Starscream and Ironhide) that were later also sold in the US. There was a Henkei Jetfire released with the Masterpiece Grimlock, (but I think that was TakaraTomy) and there's an upcoming reissue of Masterpiece-10 Optimus Prime too.

[drifand]

Thanks for clarifying the exclusives.
As Ian only mainly collecting mp I didn't see much exclusiveness with the white box grimlock

[griffin]

I'm still not liking their pricing policy when it comes to reissues or related toys (as this one relates more to the JP Skywarp, which sells for over $200 on ebay).
I might see if the Hasbro AUS people can find out if Hasbro HK have an official policy on this. And if this will be released here.

I am not too sure, the white box grimlock which I don't even know what so exclusive about it.

Other exclusives are tiger track and silver streak. Oh mp-10 bath ape, and evangelion colours.

I let the others fill in about exclusive

Sky Shadow beat me to it and added non-MP exclusives to his post... but yes, all those MPs were JP exclusives. The only HK Masterpiece exclusives that I can think of that aren't reissues (with maybe some minor colour changes) would be this Skywarp and the Gold Megatron.
(but naturally, their reissues would be considered HK exclusives as well... just not a new exclusive)

I hate Hasbro Asia for this release. Why couldnt Takara have done this themselves along with Thundercracker?!? Now Hasbro Asia have screwed up the direction of the wing insignias, and god knows if Thundercracker will make it into this MP styled packaging as well.

And MP-11SW?!? You mean one of the core Season 1 characters cant even get his own unique numbering in the MP line? Hasbro Asia screwing up again. Makes no sense whatsoever.

Hasbro HK won't have rights to create new MP numbers, as that is TakaraTomy's domain. This Skywarp and the Gold Megatron is already a first for Hasbro HK, in that they were allowed to use two sub-numbering designations that won't existing in the primary Japanese Masterpiece market. That's a step towards having their own unique Masterpiece deco/character and numbering in the future... if JP fans aren't too upset about a non-Japanese market securing two sub-numbers of "their" Japanese toyline.
(a bit like the 30 of 30 toys including some expensive HK exclusives - which sucked the fun out of the concept, and annoyed Hasbro US collectors since it was really a Hasbro US promotion)

As for the wing insignias - having them in the same direction as the nose-cone insignia is technically the "right" way, as the original Gen1 toys had it that way, making them the default format, but the cartoon got it wrong (like Rumble/Frenzy colours). So now that a number of cartoon fans have been working within Hasbro, we now have Rumble/Frenzy by Hasbro that matches the cartoon and not the toys... and we have most Seeker toys in the last 10 years have upside-down Decepticon insignias in jet or robot mode (in spite of what is on the original toys, just so it matches the cartoon - according to one designer at BotCon 2013 who is a toy fan, who did Acidstorm to make sure it had the Decepticon logos matching the original Seeker toys).


Personally, I wouldn't care if the original toys had it upside down in robot mode and the cartoon had it right way up... I just think it looks wrong seeing them upside down on toys, particularly in Robot mode (they are specifically located on toys to keep it facing upwards in robot mode). It's like having a flag upside down (saying that you are in distress), or saying that you are fighting for the opposite team (the upside-down Autobot symbol in RID used by Scourge).
It's wrong, and they should stop it.

[Bidoofdude]

Are these the actual prices for stores in HK, or just usual store markups? Didn't see any exclusives when I was in HK last September, so I can't vouch.

[GoktimusPrime]

Pppfffttt... easy pass.

[Jigga]

#nomorehipkibble

[Starscream77]

Yay, another MP Seeker

Pass