Takara MP-23 Exhaust Revealed

[elburrito]

Originally Posted by protoform_ironhide

O sorry, my bad.. I didn't realize Star Saber is MP24... Anyways, MP23 is just pure garbage.. Takara better focus mainly on on-screen G1 right now, instead of made up character like this. They are definitely not getting my money on this piece of junk. If we support to buy this, they will keep on doing garbage repaint like this in the future.

Or, buy the repaints or Takara/Hasbro will move on to something else because it is not worth it to them otherwise.

Edit: and it looks cool.

[Darth Cylon]

Apparently it's based on this

http://www.tf-1.com/articles/pretf_f...art=joustralan

I would totally get it for the car mode. Too bad Takara isn't likely to put the Marlboro name on the car due to many countries banning tobacco ad. But it's so awesome though.

[MULTIPLEX]

Originally Posted by Sir Prime A Lot

This figure (or its inspiration) was a character long before Transformers existed.

Nice little backstory. Thanks. He will be mine

Originally Posted by protoform_ironhide

O sorry, my bad.. I didn't realize Star Saber is MP24... Anyways, MP23 is just pure garbage.. Takara better focus mainly on on-screen G1 right now, instead of made up character like this. They are definitely not getting my money on this piece of junk. If we support to buy this, they will keep on doing garbage repaint like this in the future.

I look at it from a different point of view. I have no issue supporting repaints because it justifies Takara's mould investment and there is more hope for future "single use" moulds like Sunstreaker, Jazz, Hound and Mirage, etc. This has been stated by Kobayashi and Hasui in interviews already on a few occasions. Support Takara and they will deliver new moulds.

Originally Posted by Darth Cylon

Apparently it's based on this

http://www.tf-1.com/articles/pretf_f...art=joustralan

I would totally get it for the car mode. Too bad Takara isn't likely to put the Marlboro name on the car due to many countries banning tobacco ad. But it's so awesome though.

Oh Darth, you're such a great resource here. OK that looks better than WJ . Why shouldn't I get this again? Btw re: Marlboro tags, that's what Reprolabels is for

[Sir Prime A Lot]

Originally Posted by Darth Cylon

Too bad Takara isn't likely to put the Marlboro name on the car due to many countries banning tobacco ad. But it's so awesome though.

Don't you mean Marl Boor? Take a closer look at the front of the toy.

[SleeplessKnight]

I think it's cool, a nice nod to and obscure diaclone figure that only the really hardcore will go for. It will make a nice convention or club exclusive... wait... what's that? It's a regular release? Ah...hahahahaha... no, that's not going to work out very well at all.

[down_shift]

Originally Posted by protoform_ironhide

And?

And what? This is exactly what people wanted when they announced Wheeljack. Obviously they cannot name him Marlboro Wheeljack so they took a liberty.

I think the best thing about this figure would be the stubby twin shoulder cannons over the head.

This could also be mislabeled as MP 23 and could very well be 20B or 20D (whichever designation they feel fit)

[Bruticus82]

I think "Exhaust" is a very sneaky and appropriate little name.

[Dynamo.Dave]

I don't think I'll be picking this up. It's a weird one to be a mainstream release, but what else could it be? To my knowledge, Wheeljack was never repainted to another G1 character (at least, not in the cartoon).

[xueyue2]

Question: Now we know the background history, How many of you will buy it?
Myself, I'm seriously considering. At one hand I like the color, but at the other hand, there are so many good stuffs even besides the MP line, and I need to save money for those dinobots...

[Nazarite]

I'm gonna pass. Star saber as well. They really do not interest me at all. I'd really like to see Jazz.

Shouldn't Exhaust be MP-20E or something like that?