Toy Review - Masterpiece Hound

[Tha_Phantom]

Having these itty bitty pieces is part of what they're doing to try and achieve these crazy slavish levels of show likeness, but that's what fans are demanding.

Sorry, I don't see how that is part of show accuracy. They could have made a thicker bit connecting the rear panels to the Jeep mode and still maintained show accuracy. You don't have to change the overall look of the rear panels, just the piece I'm pointing to in the above pic.

I do take your point about better plastic. I know MPs never have been or ever will be completely immune to breaking, but the older ones sure do stand up to numerous transformations. I just transformed Sunstreaker for the zillionth time today, which goes to show that a cartoon accurate and durable MP is possible (okay aside from his paint). Hopefully if they can at least fix the plastic quality then there will be far less breakages on future Hound releases, but I still maintain some connecting bits are designed too thin.

[Tha_Phantom]

On a different note, I wonder if an MP Hound+ will ditch the canopy accessory in favour of a cage for Ravage. I'd love that personally.