MP38 Supreme Commander Convoy (Optimus Primal).

[Raider]

For sure.
I'd hate to throw money at something that isn't due for another 5-10 months depending on where you shop, only to find out it isn't my cup of tea when actual images are released.

I think it is going to come down to how you collect. Masterpiece for me are like pokemon, got catch em all!

I am just banking on the fact that it has its own number and not simply a letter or + after 32 to mean that it is at least a substantial redeco.

[DELTAprime]

I think it is going to come down to how you collect. Masterpiece for me are like pokemon, got catch em all!

I am just banking on the fact that it has its own number and not simply a letter or + after 32 to mean that it is at least a substantial redeco.

Yeah but they are giving repaints their own number these days that would once have been a letter. How the MP-11 Seekers are letters and yet Road Rage and Diaclone Magnus are new numbers just erks me. I would have made both Road Rage and Diaclone Magnus letters and limited releases. They are hurting the MP line with some of these repaints.

[GoktimusPrime]

Don't blame takara, blame the first retailer that jumped the gun and started taking orders before official solicitations, thereby forcing all other retailers to scramble and open orders up so they don't lose any sales.

And it's not as if these retailers are putting guns against the heads of consumers and forcing them to jump on the pre-order bandwagon. At the end of the day we all vote with our wallets. If this turns out to be a meaningless redeco, then don't buy it. But as long as fans keep on buying it, then HasTak will keep making it.

Having said that, we still have no idea what kind of redeco this could be. It might be something meaningful like Burning Convoy (most obvious choice), or maybe something else like a toy-accurate deco or something. But these days HasTak are more likely to make meaningful redecos instead of meaningless ones. Remember when fans were fed up with this from Takara...

Or when Hasbro were doing this...

Yeah but they are giving repaints their own number these days that would once have been a letter. How the MP-11 Seekers are letters and yet Road Rage and Diaclone Magnus are new numbers just erks me. I would have made both Road Rage and Diaclone Magnus letters and limited releases. They are hurting the MP line with some of these repaints.

I highly doubt that having different numbering would've notably improved sales for Road Rage and Delta Magnus, but rather simply a lack of sufficient interest in these characters. I do agree that they should've been limited exclusive releases though.

[DELTAprime]

I highly doubt that having different numbering would've notably improved sales for Road Rage and Delta Magnus, but rather simply a lack of sufficient interest in these characters. I do agree that they should've been limited exclusive releases though.

I wasn't implying the numbering was an issue in and of itself, I was implying that the fact they made it a full on numbered mass retail release was the issue. They really should have been limited release.