MP-37 Artfire with Targetmaster Nightstick

[drifand]

The general release Masterpiece pre orders are typically up for a week if not a few. Seriously no need to stress on this one.

Actually it depends I wouldn't just say no stress unless you are the owner of PC you self allocated your own. Roll of the dice as soundwave TT got sold out real quick and if they answer your emails slow you are out. Is simple as that a weigh up whether 10% or not getting any

[DaptoDog]

Actually it depends I wouldn't just say no stress unless you are the owner of PC you self allocated your own. Roll of the dice as soundwave TT got sold out real quick and if they answer your emails slow you are out. Is simple as that a weigh up whether 10% or not getting any

I take your point on Soundwave but Artfire is no Soundwave. While I can't guarantee it, I expect Artfire to be about as popular as Delta Magnus or Road Rage since there is little nostalgia factor for most of us with the character. It was only released in Japan and didn't appear in the US or Japanese G1 cartoons . Heck, Cheetor is a far more popular character and was available for a good two months on PC from memory. If I was Zoon I wouldn't be losing any sleep over it.

[aching878]

I take your point on Soundwave but Artfire is no Soundwave. While I can't guarantee it, I expect Artfire to be about as popular as Delta Magnus or Road Rage since there is little nostalgia factor for most of us with the character. It was only released in Japan and didn't appear in the US or Japanese G1 cartoons . Heck, Cheetor is a far more popular character and was available for a good two months on PC from memory. If I was Zoon I wouldn't be losing any sleep over it.

Artfire is definitely more appealing & popular than the other two at lease Asia wise, locally at any time I'll see 1-2 out of 10 people saying interested but overseas its more like 9-10 out 10 people wouldn't hesitate to get.

[Jetfire in the sky]

I take your point on Soundwave but Artfire is no Soundwave. While I can't guarantee it, I expect Artfire to be about as popular as Delta Magnus or Road Rage since there is little nostalgia factor for most of us with the character. It was only released in Japan and didn't appear in the US or Japanese G1 cartoons . Heck, Cheetor is a far more popular character and was available for a good two months on PC from memory. If I was Zoon I wouldn't be losing any sleep over it.

I agree with this, JP and Diaclone MP's tend to "shelfwarm." The rush of having to get in with PC early has died down now, perhaps they have a bigger allocation, or now that their pre-orders seem to be going a lot more months out now until release they have more time to build up orders, but yeah, ummed and ahhhed about Megs V2 and the other day thought, why not, and it was still available after the early rush.

[laproblematique]

Actually it depends I wouldn't just say no stress unless you are the owner of PC you self allocated your own. Roll of the dice as soundwave TT got sold out real quick and if they answer your emails slow you are out. Is simple as that a weigh up whether 10% or not getting any

This has been my experience with the VIP program too. I must have only been able to use it on about a third of my orders.

Frustrates me that I'm not able to use my 10% VIP discount on all orders that is what is advertised or risk not receiving the discount. They never mention the fact that you have to wait hours, days, heck even days after having to re-send invoice requests up after a few days to receive an invoice with the discounted price.

They really should make the discount be applied automatically at checkout with an account specific VIP code. I'm grateful that they have the program in place, but I think they should actively cater to VIP's with a little more priority when it comes to guaranteeing preorders and not have them worrying about missing pre-orders because of unnecessary slow response times.

[Magnus]

Also, they should've just made this like the seekers and went with
MP-33 Inferno
MP-33G Grapple
MP-33A Artfire
MP-33H Hauler etc

and keep 37 for Cliffjumper or Jazz

The MP-11 numbering bugs me, why are all the Seekers the same number but every other repaint/remould gets it's own number unless it's super obscure?

I would agree with having variant numbering for toys which are variant characters (e.g. G2 Lambor, G2 Bumblebee etc.), but in all fairness, I can see why they would have separate numbering for wholly new and different characters. After all, the MP Nissans all had separate numbers, as did the original Seekers (MP3, MP6 & MP7).

It was pointed out once that the numbers with the suffixes denote store exclusive figures, whereas the general release figures have new numbers.

[MEEEGGGAAATTTRRROOONNN!!!]

Bigger pics from Amazon Japan:

[FruitBuyer]

Blast, I really enjoy the paint scheme more than Inferno and Grapple however the markings really bring it down for me even though I know it's accurate. Oh why couldn't they have been stickers?

[drifand]

I hate stickers but that's me .

I like the target master but I don't like artfire himself, grapple is looking to be the best of the lot for me atm.

[1AZRAEL1]

I say bring on more targetmasters lol. Looks great