Quote Originally Posted by drifand View Post
Masterpiece is collectors grade though. I never understood why the cutting corners in quality as I would pay top dollar for a real masterpiece like mp-1.

Look at wheeljack at compare to sunstreaker, what a difference. The white plastic is Just crap looking. Just hold your Binaltech and compare with the early masterpiece cars. They can't beat it.

The licensing debate is a joke, you have toyworld and maketoys making jazz and just don't care.

Where Takara stands now, I am mostly not buying their toys anymore. Not to mention hasbro is worse.

I missed Takara golden age where their toys were solid.
Re Sunstreaker v Wheeljack, I do get the impression with the recent MP releases that there is less of a focus on keeping price low with the recent releases. Sunstreaker, Megatron and the upcoming Dinobot (seemingly) are obscenely feature rich and very well engineered, especially compared to the earlier releases from the soft relaunch of the MP line with Optimus Prime and Starscream 2.0 six years ago.

As an adult collector it is an approach I do appreciate.