Quote Originally Posted by UltraMarginal View Post
You are completely right, I think the delineator here is actual G1 characters Vs. a EHobby character that has been created to homage an original pre-transformers colour version of a toy, ie, Tiger Track, Blue bluestreak and infamously Exhaust.
That's pretty much it... in other words, it is not just a case of "gee-wun fanboy" hating on anything that isn't pure.

The Masterpiece line was/is for the "best of the best", "premium" homages to the original series of "Transformers" toys (with an acceptably small amount of redecos to help pay for the moulds), and yet two of the small number of MP numbers has now gone to characters that were not even original Transformers characters. As a Masterpiece collector from the beginning, I felt the same way about MP-2 Ultra Magnus when it was revealed and released, but half accepted it because at least that was part of the original Ultra Magnus toy.
Up until Exhaust, it was pretty consistent with not giving new numbers to "new" characters (like Sunstorm, Tigertrack), as well as character redecos (like Black Convoy, Black Rodimus, Gen2 Sideswipe, Soundblaster, Ghost Starscream, Dead Convoy, Gold Bumblebee, Silverstreak, Bluestreak).
But now the rule seems to have changed to just be character redecos only getting extensions to MP numbers.
I guess once they hit 20, the concept didn't seem so limited or premium anymore to worry about how many numbers they go through in a year.