Toy Review - JP Masterpiece Rumble & Jaguar

[Hursticon]

Thanks for giving me confidence that they're worth the money Hursti

Nice review Hursti, these guys really look good. Still waiting on my HLJ warehouse stuff til I get mine.

Glad to hear you are happy with them Hursti. From what I have read / heard / seen I was worried it might end up being a regrettable purchase. They do say that beauty is in the eye of the beholder.

for the time being I just get to drool at all Hursti's and everyone elses awesome pictures.

Thanks guys.

Of course beauty & opinion is in the eye of the beholder, you're right 5FDP, but I'm glad that my thoughts & pics have been of help to people.
Hopefully the following will continue the trend


As I didn't bother fiddling with them last night, I thought I'd post some pics focussing on Rumble's Piledrivers :




His arms seem to only enter the Piledrivers 'One Way', which is in the upward or 'Yay' position; They also only 'Slip' on too, as there isn't any 'clip' or 'plug' that holds them in place so they rely purely on the friction between the arms & the inside of the Piledriver - Hence I feel that people's mileage here may vary :




Here I'm aiming to show why you can't enter the arms the other way as that area is taken up by the 'Piston' of the Piledriver & the elbow of his arms simply wont sit correctly within them if one was to use a 'Scarecrow' posture, also this should show the absence of any 'clips' or 'plugs' for the arm's attachment:




Showing down within the Piledrivers, each has a 'One Way' set of guides for either the (His) Left (Shown), or Right hand guns:






Heres the differing pegs on the gun/s & the hinge for switching between them (Big peg for back, small peg for fists):




Finally, here's a shot showing Rumble in a crouched/hunched posture with his Piledrivers at Max extension; looks really good I think & very much has that classic G1 Cartoon silhouette:





I'll show a little more about Ravage too, later.

[Hursticon]

Well?... It IS later.

Okey doke; here's some shots of the amazingly poseable, yet sadly (but necessarily) compromised, MP Ravage:




This guy is quite fiddly to transform & is probably the least fun of the 3 MP Cassette molds:




That said, the fun with Ravage is derived from his spot on 'Cat-like' posture & poseability:




You can do some REALLY silly things with him though :




...finally showing off the compromisation along with Ravage's fold out nose that eliminates a heavy seem in his face:




Hope that gives you guys some ideas on what these figures are like, I'm sorry for the horrible 'phone-taken' photos - I'd like to take some better quality shots at a later time though.
(Setting up my whole camera rig is both time & space consuming, getting quite backed up with figures though! )

[primatives]

i was going to get this still thinking about it but seriously I'm finding it really hard and sad that the paint app is outrageously shite!!!! only because i had a japanese made G1 tape on my desk and the tampo on it is flawless the lines are straight and doesn't look like a homemade job. the plastic reminds me of the 3rd party why so serious ultra magnus head. looks like from bad moulds i dont know and its not very clean cut. what do u guys think?

[Shirokaze]

I got a reply from HLJ about the status of my MP-15, and it appears that they took more pre-orders than they could fill, so I basically have to wait until they find more. Considering I pre-ordered back in October, it really doesn't instill me with confidence about future orders....

[GoktimusPrime]

Hopefully for you the news of the upcoming Hasbro MP Soundwave may reduce the demand for consecutive production runs of TakTOM's MP Cassettes. <shrug> If you can't find it elsewhere for a decent price, perhaps get the Hasbro version, keep the Cassettes and sell the rest off to partially recover the costs.

[Trent]

Only if.

Waiting for Hasbro version

[Bidoofdude]

Who knows? Maybe Hasbro will make Rumble purple...

[Hursticon]

I got a reply from HLJ about the status of my MP-15, and it appears that they took more pre-orders than they could fill, so I basically have to wait until they find more. Considering I pre-ordered back in October, it really doesn't instill me with confidence about future orders....

That really sucks to hear man, REALLY does as I must've been one of the lucky ones (I'm certain I placed orders for them on October 23rd? ) - I sincerely hope that they rectify this problem that many are having ASAP.

It seems others have been having problems with AmiAmi; as they've been forgetting to email customers stock notifications, but then sending emails notifying said customers of their overdue penalties they've incurred for not responding sooner?

[GoktimusPrime]

Who knows? Maybe Hasbro will make Rumble purple...

As much as I am a staunch RIRFIB supporter, I actually think that's a good idea! The TakTOM version is already RIRFIB, so why not make the Hasbro version FIRRIB? I'm all for Hasbro making their MPs more distinct from TakTOM's (in good/sensible ways, not random or cost-cutting cheap ways)

[kurdt_the_goat]

Just got mine and happy to say they both have no QC issues at all and are incredibly awesome!

The back of Ravage's cassette mode leaves a little to be desired but i would have made the same choice in designing him. Fiddly (best with a very tiny screwdriver to carefully pry out the parts) but I didn't have any fear of breakage. Only minor shame with his design is that the built in missiles are permanently aiming at his front legs - ouch!

Rumble is pretty much perfect - again i'm reminded how awesome the originals still are, because his transformation is very similar. But the look is spot on this time.

I have the other set coming too which'll be great, but boy i hope they somehow manage to release even more cassettes, as the standard has been incredible!