Takara Masterpiece Reissues for 2015 - Convoy, Starscream, Alert, Lambor

[Trent]

They're milking it. I hope no one here collects MPs hoping the value to go up over time. Because it's never gonna happen.

Scalpers must be loving it

[drifand]

They're milking it. I hope no one here collects MPs hoping the value to go up over time. Because it's never gonna happen.

Scalpers must be loving it

Unfortunately, most Scalpers are the toy shops themselves and those on Ebay. They do control the prices in "some" way whether we like it or not.
And we have new Transformers collectors growing every month, and of course some would have discovered the mp line halfway.

I do agree that 90% of the mp line will be reissued from time to time. But it may take a while.

[Blastwave]

I was waiting for Hasbro releases on some of the cars but having seen the price listed for Prowl at TRU, Takara looks to be the way to go as these reissues will work out cheaper.

[DELTAprime]

Well those of you that refuse to pay HK or secondary market prices have an option now. Plus this is a great way for Takara to combat the KO's.

[drifand]

Well those of you that refuse to pay HK or secondary market prices have an option now. Plus this is a great way for Takara to combat the KO's.

Thats probably the best yet and is to make KO not worth anything.

This is why in some ways the hong kong reissues are scalping but is up to individuals to support this. I could not justify why a second run of sideswipe would cost $79 bucks and they have a G2 sideswipe with more stuff at $59.

And my thoughts are, is scalping for remaining demand because they can do it.

[Golden Phoenix]

Now I can get my hands on Red Alert. Swish

[GoktimusPrime]

Yes! Gonna gets myself a reissue MP Red Alert!

Red Alert (2nd production run) is suppose to be released in Q4 this year. It seems a bit awkward to have two re-runs of the same item so close together. Unless the Q4 2014 re-run has been pushed out to early 2015.

As drifand alluded to before, this year's reissue is from Hasbro Hong Kong (even though it bears TakaraTOMY's logo, it's organised by Hasbro HK). The reissues here appear to be direct from TakaraTOMY for the Japanese market.

[yoshi594]

I wonder if this reissue sideswipe will have it's paint apps fixed?

[tangy]

awesome - i've been waiting got an MP10... such a long way away

[philby]

sweet, hopefully can get mp-10! unless current prices come down and i can't wai that long...