Quote Originally Posted by GoktimusPrime View Post
For me it's not even about the money. I could preorder MP44 and MP45 right now if I wanted to. They just don't appeal to me. MP1 and MP21 are both perfectly fine MPs in my book and I don't see the need to get new MP versions of MPs that I already own.

The only time I did this was with MP36 as I felt it was a significant enough improvement over MP5. I got MP10 for free, so... not counting that. I might get MP44 or MP45 if I were in Japan and there was nothing else to buy. I am admittedly far more impulsive when shopping overseas, but as Tetsuwan Convoy explained to me at the 2016 Osaka Meet, it's a souvenir purchase. But yeah, barring a moment of impulse I don't see myself getting either Malibu Stacies with a new set of articulation.

I feel like it's important to clarify why people will get or not get a new MP, as with the Megatron example here. A lot of collectors seem to have a mindset of getting a character to fill a spot, rather than having the best representation of that character in toy form (if they can't have both).

Bumblebee for example, many people are (needlessly IMO) labelling as pointless because there already is an older MP Bumblebee, while in reality they are very different and appeal to different collectors' views of what a toy of the character should be. As you said, MP-21 is perfectly fine to keep as your Bumblebee, while MP-36 was more in line with what you wanted, so you got him. Two different outcomes, but the choice for either was always there to meet your tastes, or for any other collector's, for the most part.

As someone who loves the new Bumblebee, which reminds me way more of the cartoon character I grew up with, it's interesting to see people's different views on accuracy, but also a bit disappointing to see the new guys automatically thrown under the bus for simply being a new version of a previously done character. It is a bit disappointing to see the new one's price though.

Just like with the Legends and Prime Wars toys of yesteryear (), choice and options are a good thing, especially with the seemingly huge differences in people's preferred style for a definitive representation of a character. Although in some people's minds it takes up the "spot" of another not previously done character, for many this would be the first Bumblebee MP or Optimus Prime MP or whatever toy, that fulfils their tastes for a true Masterpiece.