Toy Review - TRAILBREAKER (Masterpiece)

[KELPIE]

He looks fantastic, and while there is a slavish nature to the toon, there is also a slavish nature to the Hilux.

I would have rather a slightly more deformed aesthetic for the alt mode. Like we saw with Bee, those deformed alt modes are where it's at.

[GoktimusPrime]

He looks fantastic, and while there is a slavish nature to the toon, there is also a slavish nature to the Hilux.

I would have rather a slightly more deformed aesthetic for the alt mode. Like we saw with Bee, those deformed alt modes are where it's at.

I suspect the vehicle accurate proportions may be due to the licensing from Toyota. The first MP21 had an undeformed VW Beetle Type 1 alt mode, and even had to have the VW logos on things like the hubcaps etc. I guess they worked out a deal with VW for MP45. And we know that MP Sunstreaker had to have a workaround that prevented the bonnet from splitting during transformation, as well as engineering the car mode to transform between both the standard Countach vs the Super Tuning Countach; and the toy (including Cordon and Spin-Out) had to be packaged in the standard Countach configuration. This would have been all at Lamborghini's insistence.

I'm surprised that Toyota allowed this cartoony grey colour to be used on the vehicle instead of black. Does the HiLux come in this shade of grey? (I honestly don't know) - if not, I suspect that TakaraTOMY would've negotiated for the cartoon grey over vehicle proportions. It's probably an easier thing to persuade vehicle companies for over changing the actual shape of their vehicles. They would've done something similar with Corvette to allow MP Tracks to be made in blue. The compromise that Takara had to make with BT Tracks was to initially release the toy in yellow, then later in blue (as blue is not a factory standard colour for Corvettes, as I understand it).

[Kranix]

That's strange, blue was certainly a colour available on the C5 Corvette (which is what model the BT Tracks was). Rare but available. The shade was quite similar. Blue was also available on the C3 Corvette which G1 Tracks was based on. Shade difference though, from memory.

[Kranix]

I don't mind the new MP Trailbreaker, even though I'm a hybrid MP fan. I think he has come out well, except I'm not a fan of the grey colour. I think with a few more details, a straight black paint job like the toy and the chrome to offset that, he would look great.

[GoktimusPrime]

That's strange, blue was certainly a colour available on the C5 Corvette (which is what model the BT Tracks was). Rare but available. The shade was quite similar. Blue was also available on the C3 Corvette which G1 Tracks was based on. Shade difference though, from memory.

Hhhmmm... perhaps Corvette just wanted to promote the yellow variant before the blue. Similar to how part of Mazda's licensing deal for the use of the RX-8 for BT Jazz was to have the toy released in both red (Zoom-Zoom) and white (Meister) variants.

[Kranix]

Hhhmmm... perhaps Corvette just wanted to promote the yellow variant before the blue. Similar to how part of Mazda's licensing deal for the use of the RX-8 for BT Jazz was to have the toy released in both red (Zoom-Zoom) and white (Meister) variants.

Possible, I vaguely recall that yellow was the "hero" colour for the Z06 top of the line version of the C5.

[GoktimusPrime]

Possible, I vaguely recall that yellow was the "hero" colour for the Z06 top of the line version of the C5.

Hahaha, just as a joke I went and Googled for a yellow Corvette Z06 emergency vehicle...... only to discover that it does exist!



Well played, internet.

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

Kurdt the Goat was kind enough to do a review and post on my blog of this guy, as I didn't get him, and am exceptionally lazy.

https://tetstoys.blogspot.com/2023/0...ece-mp-56.html

Having a look at all the piccies, this guy seems impressively engineered. He manages to come across extremely lanky though. I am most used to looking at the G1 toy though and can't currently recall the cartoon version too well. If they modify him to do an MP Hoist, I'd be worried he isn(t pudgy enough.