I recently opened MP Hot Rodimus. Out of the box in car mode, one could easily think they just bought a G1 reissue in an MP box. It is nearly the same size and looks nearly identical to the G1 toy. Even the underside resembles the original toy as you can see the same sort of kibble such as the upper head and chest.
During transformation however, the similarities end as we then start to witness modern toy engineering that is fairly easy, fun and intuitive but somehow feel very familiar....
Well that is because the engineering in this toy happens to be a much more refined version of the MP-09 release! Yes, that horrible beta version toy they tried to pass on as Masterpiece that was a horror mess to transform has basically the same engineering as this toy! But how can this toy be fun to transform and MP-09 so horrible? Well that's because MP-09 always had a good engineering concept just horribly executed. Hot Rodimus fixes all the weak plastic tolerance issues, over reliance on weak panel joints on the legs. Like with MP-09, much of the car mode shell compresses onto the back only this is done much more effectively so all the kibble is nicely compressed and does not look like a disjointed mess that can barely keep together in place without unpegging all the time.
In short, the engineering here is what MP-09 should of had in the first place. I am glad they made this toy because I always suspected that under all the mess, there was a good toy in the core of MP-09. MP Hot Rodimus confirms just that.
Accessories are what you would expect - A pair of guns that can also be mounted in car mode. Robot mode can actually hold them well! Wow, how about that? (MP09 couldn't even do that right). However there is no Firebolt and instead we get a silly as hell fishing rod representative of the one we see at the start of the '86 movie. Nothing special, it is just one single plastic piece.
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Originally Posted by kup
He holds the guns just fine, they don't fall. The fingers close as far as they can with a gun in it, but the same can be said for MP28 too. The only tighter way you can get a grip is to have a solid fist with a gun that pegs in like the G1 toy (but sacrifice any hand/finger articulation).
