The Masterpiece Appreciation and Speculation Thread

[MULTIPLEX]

Originally Posted by DuG

Just noticed that it doesn't show him coming with a pilot, but he does cone with a small Megatron gun?

Given he has Takara packaging, he'll come with a pilot but no stand. You can see a rectangular placer on the back of the box where the pilot image should be. Also I do believe I see a pilot sitting in the cockpit. Silver maybe?

[DuG]

Is it just me or does the purple seem a little light. I'm hoping Hasbro will release one next year using darker purples.

[Masta_Skidz]

See we get skywarp and pple still complain

[jjwankenobi]

Originally Posted by Masta_Skidz

See we get skywarp and pple still complain

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Well there's complaining and there's observation. And right now all I observe is a high ass price tag. But I'm not complaining lol

[wervenom]

Originally Posted by MULTIPLEX

Well there's complaining and there's observation. And right now all I observe is a high ass price tag. But I'm not complaining lol

Same here

[Darth Cylon]

I think it's highly likely we will see a Takara Tomy release later. If that's the case then the price should be more reasonable.

Did Takara release Hasbro MP-11 mold TC in Japan like they did with MP Acidstorm as MP-11A? If not then, we may even see a Takara MP-11T ???

[MULTIPLEX]

Originally Posted by Darth Cylon

I think it's highly likely we will see a Takara Tomy release later. If that's the case then the price should be more reasonable.

Did Takara release Hasbro MP-11 mold TC in Japan like they did with MP Acidstorm as MP-11A? If not then, we may even see a Takara MP-11T ???

They did not for TC. But that was before the big Masterpiece boom.

Regarding Acid Storm Takara release. They were actually just imported from North America into Japan and a MP-11A sticker slapped on the Hasbro box. It was never available on any Japanese site that I saw.

[Masta_Skidz]

I will be observing this beauty on my shelf soon enough. I got mine pre-ordered

[MULTIPLEX]

Here is an interesting post from TFW that explains a lot about Hasbro Asia with reference link.

Originally Posted by iGrimlock

There is a difference between a regular Hasbro Asia release and a Hasbro Asia Exclusive release. A regular Hasbro Asia release is just a mass retail release of something like MP20, since Takara themselves cannot release Transformers products outside of Japan per their agreement with Hasbro. HA usually will include some kind of promotional item(collector coins, USB drives, etc) presumably to encourage non-Japanese Asian customers to buy from their local HA retailers instead of simply ordering the same item from Japanese retailers(at a cheaper price?).

A Hasbro Asia Exclusive release is handled by a different department at HA and their intended market is completely different. Their products aren't marketed to the average toy buyer, but are squarely aimed at collectors. And not just regular collectors but collectors who are "sophisticated," which I interpret to mean adult collectors with disposable income.Talk to any serious vintage G1 collector and they will tell you that such a market is very real in China. Hasbro Asia works closely with Takara Tomy to develop and produce these exclusives for HA. MP11SW is such a product. That's why TT seems to have gone to the trouble of designing the box(they even used the same photography style and background as their official releases) collector card, and instructions in the same vein as any other official TT releases, even though it isn't. And since HA claims that these are premium releases for sophisticated collectors, they can overprice these releases and justify it. You can read a short interview on the TFAsia website concerning the strategy and marketing behind the Asia Exclusives:

Transformersasia.com