Toy review - Masterpiece Bumblebee and Spike

[GoktimusPrime]

Sheer perfection.

^Fully deserved. I declare MP Bumblebee to be 2014's Toy of the Year!

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^Fully deserved. I declare MP Bumblebee to be 2014's Toy of the Year!

Yes Bee is totally the best thing Takara or Hasbro have done all year. Wheeljack getting a close second. Everything else this year is a fail Okay maybe not Generations. But everything else sold at Aus retail.

[rodent]

I am so glad I got into MPs just as Bee was coming out, definitely my favourite character on the show as a kid so it brought back all kinds of happy memories. Many, MANY thanks to Sinnertwin for bringing it in for me!

[GoktimusPrime]

More pics here

[laproblematique]

Yes Bee is totally the best thing Takara or Hasbro have done all year. Wheeljack getting a close second. Everything else this year is a fail Okay maybe not Generations. But everything else sold at Aus retail.

I'm pretty happy with my YOTH Prime for $108.

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I'm pretty happy with my YOTH Prime for $108.

So am I but I did not count him as he is a repaint of an older figure.

[millhouse]

I received my Bumbles from nexusnixx yesterday (w/coins and Amazon Japan battle masks).

Really digging them, and being a fan of the 86 movie, love that we have a Spike in exo-suit. Ideally, I'd like to end up with two more of the Exos (y'know, for Daniel in each mode) but alas.

I still think Wheeljack may be the better toy, but Bumblebee isn't the doom that the usual suspects on other boards are venting about.

Next? Ultra Magnus. Oh, and I still have an MP-10 Mode EVA to open at some point, but I don't think that'll be happening just yet!

[Smint]

Just received mine. Preordered from nippon yasan $61 shipped via eco sal. Arrived in 13 days.

After being fairly critical without actually seeing the figure for myself i have to say he's better than i expected. Decent articulation, some ok engineering went into the transformation. He looks good.

I appreciate the transformation is fairly simple. I can appreciate that a simple transformation can require just as much engineering and thought as a complex one.

Not worth anywhere near $100, i would have been more happy to pay $50 shipped max.

[GoktimusPrime]

Really digging them, and being a fan of the 86 movie, love that we have a Spike in exo-suit. Ideally, I'd like to end up with two more of the Exos (y'know, for Daniel in each mode) but alas.

It's Daniel in the suit, actually. Although the instruction sheet and box doesn't identify who it is, apparently the MP Generations book states that it's Daniel, and the image from the cartoon in the sheet is Daniel too IIRC.

But Spike would've made more sense! Spike is Bumblebee's buddy. Daniel get stuck with Wheelie, because the two most annoying characters in G1 totally deserve each other. In a rocket. Headed for the Sun. But yes, I wouldn't mind a Daniel in Exo-Suit too. Perhaps for MP Cliffjumper?

Not worth anywhere near $100, i would have been more happy to pay $50 shipped max.

^This is how I feel about all the MP cars.

[millhouse]

It's Daniel in the suit, actually.

I totally realised that after I posted it!