It's Official - MP-36 is a new Megatron

[GoktimusPrime]

Not if you want low low low prices

But it's often not that low. Trent is right in that you're often paying the same price to get toys much later. I find there's usually no cost advantage with using PC. Sometimes they may be cheaper than overseas sources, sometimes they're dearer, but when I average them out it works out to be about level overall.

This is not meant as a criticism towards PC - there's nothing wrong with matching your competitor's prices. Sure beats TRU's model of being far above anyone else's prices. And PC would be a much smaller business than say HLJ or a multinational corporation like Amazon, so to be able to match prices with some of these heavy hitters is still pretty good.

Most of my MPs have been pre-ordered through PC, so I am still giving them the bulk of my business. But occasionally I will order through competitors, and this is often because I was too late to jump on PC's pre-order. e.g. I was initially not planning on pre-ordering MP Beast Convoy, but only recently decided that I wanted one when high quality in hand photos of the toy appeared. PC were already sold out as were HLJ, but Amazon JP still had pre-orders available. Price-wise there's not a huge difference, but Amazon was the only one that still had pre-orders available, so I went with them.

If I can hop onto a PC pre-order for MP36 then that'd be great, but at the same time I'm not going to stress over it if I miss the boat because there are other boats that I can catch. We're actually really spoiled for choice nowadays when it comes to sourcing toys from Japan. In the 90s and early 00s I always got my Japanese imports by trading/dealing with individual fans in Japan, which is not nearly as convenient as purchasing online from an e-store (it's a hassle for the person on the other end who has to physically hunt for the toys in store, package it, post it etc.). So yeah, whenever I see people whinge about all these options that we have now, I can't help but wonder how the hell they survived being a TF collector 15 years ago. (-_-)

[philby]

I just imagine a pallet sitting a warehouse and some decides, yep I'll ship another one of these today.

lol

[drifand]

Well I had items sitting in the post office for 5 days before they decide to notify me to collect. Can be annoying especially if you paid ems.

[griffin]

All questions and discussion about the laws behind the importation and/or ownership of this toy should be directed to the Gun-Formers information topic here.

The toy is still about six months away - when the relevant law enforcement bodies get back to me about confirmations or updates to the applicable laws and ownership processes, that topic will be updated, and maybe a post might be posted here to alert people of the update in that topic.

All of those particular posts here have been moved to that topic, so that this one can be just about the news of this toy (reveals, images, information, etc).

[DELTAprime]

^Thanks for cleaning it up Griff, appreciated.

[Deonasis]

Thanks griffin.

I'll be happy with the proportions but i do think a thicker neck on Megatron helped his look in the G1 cartoon.

[1AZRAEL1]

For the first time ever, I think I am not sure which face to display an MP with. They all look fantastic. The cool calculating base face, the angry screaming face, and the maniacal laughter face. Even the battle damaged looks good. And with the last one, wonder when Takara will release MP10 again with new features like battle damaged Prime. Or likely a 3P has already started on the idea

[ZoonMaster5000]

For the first time ever, I think I am not sure which face to display an MP with. They all look fantastic. The cool calculating base face, the angry screaming face, and the maniacal laughter face. Even the battle damaged looks good. And with the last one, wonder when Takara will release MP10 again with new features like battle damaged Prime. Or likely a 3P has already started on the idea

I was thinking the same thing and then I thought maybe this where the + line comes into play a mp-10+ with battle damage to accompany megatron.
Just like red alert with inferno.

[doublespy]

Maybe it's time for an MP OP 3.0?

The aesthetics have changed pretty heavily since the start of the MP 2.0 era.

[Jazzman]

I was thinking the same thing and then I thought maybe this where the + line comes into play a mp-10+ with battle damage to accompany megatron.
Just like red alert with inferno.

And it'll be hard to pass up if they do, as the MP Megs comes stock standard with the battle damage, you almost have to have a battle damaged Optimus to accompany.