4th Party Masterpiece BW-11 MP-34 Cheetor
ssjgoku22: Heck yeah this looks great. I haven't opened my official, but I'll keep it MISB and get this Cheetor to fiddle with.
Generation Toy GT-99DX ReBuilder Devastator Set of 6
ssjgoku22: Pretty irrelevant combiner at this point as it's way too small to scale with MP and the KO version is a way bigger scale.
4th Party DX06 Beast Gorira Optimal Optimus Oversized Version
ssjgoku22: Well, I put down a preorder. I have the PE version, but if this is good and is cheaper, I'm asking my PE.
Takara Tomy Masterpiece MP-57 Skyfire
ssjgoku22: I do see why this might be cheaper than MP-44 (other the accessories). Some do look a little more hollow and the transformation is quite simple in comparison to MP-44 (which could be a really good thing). I'm not going to jump and say this is better than Phoenix (as that is a very well-made, high quality figure), but so far, this looks promising.
ssjgoku22: *some parts
XTransbots MX-22T Commander Stack Ultra Magnus Youth Version
ssjgoku22: I'm not feeling this design at all, and it's not just the colors.
ZT Toys Marvel Licensed 1/10 Iron Man War Machine Armor Mark 1
Piggy: I really really want to give ths a higher rating, but the lack of functioning accessories is frustrating.  You want to pose him with blast coming out of his guns like in the pictures?  Forget it.  They don't fit.  You can attempt to shave down the pegs to a smaller diameter, but then the they won't fit in his feet or the rocket boosters on his back.  Those pictures should be removed altogether from the listing.

The arm guns and shoulder mounted machine gun are also a huge disappointment.  They're molded out of a single piece of soft rubber.  I feel that they should have been hard plastic. The guns flex too much and aren't molded to sit flush with the arms.  The shoulder canon has zero articulation and can't be posed at all.  You can try to flex it a bit, but there are thin connection points that look like they might eventually tear apart if moved or twisted too much.  There's also no way to pose him in a good attack flight pose as the canon is unable to point forward, and there's also no good way to have a neutral non-attack position as the the canon can't rotate down against his back as it does in the film.

It really is a damn shame because the figure itself looks great.  There's a bit of overspray on the gold highlights on my copy and a scuff on his chest, and upper leg/hip articulation is not great because of the bulkiness of the thigh parts, but everything else was well done with lots of little details and the bright metallic silver really stands out nicely against the dark matte paint job.

I'm a 100% sure they'll eventually release an LED edition.  Here's hoping they see some of this feedback and can include blast effects that fit his weapons.  2 for the arm guns and 1 for the shoulder canon at the very least.  I know this isn't some expensive Hot Toys type figure but it would also be nice at the very least to have that first segment of the canon arm on a ball joint.  That would open up the posing options quite a bit.

Shadow_SG: Thank you so much for all this info, really hope the company is willing to make a led version and wi th a few upgrades with it.

By Jun 19,2022 12:21:43

ssjgoku22: @Shadow_SG Don't buy this figure at all. It's a major downgrade in terms of build quality compared to their previous Iron Man figures.
Mastermind Creations R-42 D-Zef Deathsaurus
ssjgoku22: Don't really like the look of this version. I think the classic look is a better looking Deathsaurus.
DNA Design DK-30 Upgrade Kit for WFC-K28 Galvatron
ssjgoku22: Excellent upgrade kit. The main thing you're buying this for is the height pieces. They really make the figure look more proportional and just overall better. The hands are good (wish they had a bit more articulation). Chain, rifle and blast effect are nice touches. The faces are a bit of a let down though. The sculpts on them are too soft and the lips on the smirking and stoic face have big lips. The official face sculpt looks a lot better. Overall, this is still a great kit that makes Kingdom/ Legacy Galvatron look much better. Highly recommended.
Magic Square MS-B46B Nemesis Prime 2.0 Version w/o Trailer
ssjgoku22: I've seen a lot of positive reviews for this figure and while there are a lot of positives, there are some issues that should be addressed. Starting with the good, the sculpt is awesome, a significant improvement over the 1.0 Magic Square Prime and even better than Newage David. The articulation is also probably the best articulation that you can get on a Legends scale Prime.

There are negatives for this figure though. The materials used are not very good at all. The plastic feels grainy and cheap. I don't think I've felt plastic like this on a third party figure in a long time. There is a lot of plastic flashing through the figure (extra pieces of plastic hanging off of different parts of the figure). Finally the paint isn't applied all that well or neatly. The red on the windshield is a bit out of the lines and the figure came with paint chips on the mouth piece of the main head. When comparing this to my Newage David Youth version (the version of Newage Prime with a bit less paint), David has none of these issues and was just made better overall in terms of qc.

So that kind of sums it up. If you want sculpt and articulation, go with Magic Square. If you want higher build quality in terms of better plastic and paint, go with Newage. Even though MS-B46B didn't have the best qc, I still really like it.

*in the picture I took of the figure, I cleaned up the plastic flashing on the figure and painted the mouth piece so the chipping wouldn't show.
CDL CDL-02 ALT Elita One
ssjgoku22: Wow, now this is a nice repaint/ resculpt. This looks sending amazing as Elite One. Already have Arcee on preorder, but might go for this as well.

Shadow_SG: Did you get Arcee? Wanna know if the quality and more of this is good to maybe give a chance

By Jul 12,2022 03:58:04

ssjgoku22: I did, but I haven't opened it yet...