MP39+ Spinout (Red Sunstreaker) announced

[Ode to a Grasshopper]

Takara-Tomy Mall number (apparently a lot of them have been showing up on Hasbro Pulse as well), accessories seem to be the same as MP Cordon, and the same headsculpt. JPY 13,200.
Link at Seibertron.com, includes images.

Images from the TakaraTomyMall listing - for release late November for 13,200yen.





I'm in, I've been waiting for this guy for a while.

EDIT - For those who aren't aware btw, the red Diaclone pre-Sunstreaker is apparently the first car-to-robot transforming toy ever designed (at least, according to Hasbro), and additionally there's pretty plausible speculation that the colours and molds for Sideswipe and Sunstreaker got switched around somewhere in the G1 Diaclone-to-Transformers process. So this guy is a pretty cool homage (IMO), and if you have MP Tigertrack then you'll be able to get a 'what could/would have been' pair of almost-but-not-quite Sideswipe and Sunstreakers. So there's some cool/interesting history behind this redeco.

[Tha_Phantom]

Haha, was just making a thread for this too.
Yeah, I'm in for it 100%. Apparently the name Spinout was in consideration before Hasbro settled on Sunstreaker for the G1 toy (and made it yellow).

[DaptoDog]

Ok we all saw this coming at some point so good to get it confirmed. That car mode is dope.

Now I know we all gave up trying to understand the numbering convention long ago but why is this a "+" version (previously reserved for toon or toy repaints of the original release in the same colour)? Previously they would have called it MP-39R in the same way they did with Red Bumblebee etc.

[Tha_Phantom]

Now I know we all gave up trying to understand the numbering convention long ago but why is this a "+" version (previously reserved for toon or toy repaints of the original release in the same colour)? Previously they would have called it MP-39R in the same way they did with Red Bumblebee etc.

Not sure the + really means anything anymore. Burning Convoy was MP-38+ for instance. So I guess the + simply means alternate deco rather than toy or toon specifically?
It'll probably change again in 12 months.

[DaptoDog]

Not sure the + really means anything anymore. Burning Convoy was MP-38+ for instance. So I guess the + simply means alternate deco rather than toy or toon specifically?
It'll probably change again in 12 months.

Haha yeh I know. I forgot about MP-38+. So Cordon would probably have been a + but they knew they were doing Red Sunstreaker so reserved the + spot for it. Simples.

[Jellico]

Is it wrong that I want that head on a Sunstreaker?

[griffin]

Now I know we all gave up trying to understand the numbering convention long ago but why is this a "+" version (previously reserved for toon or toy repaints of the original release in the same colour)? Previously they would have called it MP-39R in the same way they did with Red Bumblebee etc.

Considering the TakaraTomyMall listing apparently says that Spinout is a new character, I think it should have a new number... or a letter at least. Delta Magnus and Roadrage had new numbers, but then Tigertrack, Cordon and Clampdown had letters added to an old number.
The plus toys were supposed to just be redecos that are the same characters... so I think this is a mistake, and one that will make it impossible to put much stock in the number system from now on.

[Krayt]

Seeming the + line has been hitting EB/zing... any idea if this is going to be available here?

[griffin]

Seeming the + line has been hitting EB/zing... any idea if this is going to be available here?

I will ask, but it wasn't on Hasbro Australia's most recent "current" imports listing, which is changing quite frequently lately.
EB Games has been pretty good at listing anything they are wanting to stock, about 2 weeks after it has been officially revealed in Japan.

[dirge]

Haha, was just making a thread for this too.
Yeah, I'm in for it 100%.

Heh. There's a shock