primalxconvoy wrote:I'm not blaming Hasbro. In blaming Bakara on this one. It's not good to just release anime styles ones, when there is demand for toy versions. I think it's good form of Takara does this for all MPs if they release two versions and announces them at the save time and/or makes one version with options for either (which they've done before with inferno, Op Primal, etc).
As for paint, the entire body on this mp Megs is painted in slightly metallic grey, so full metallic would not be a problem.
Options are key for MP figures as collectors are discerning and picky. With a KO version in the works, I and other people might move away from certain/all further official releases and wait for the ko versions. They seem to have increasingly better joints and features than the originals (such as the mp seeket legs).
Like I said, Takara already did a toy-inspired Masterpiece Megatron with MP-5. It's a lot more like the original than simply giving the MP-36 mold a shiny coat of paint. The proportions are very different. They're not doing you a disservice by offering a different, more anime take on Megatron now. Besides, why would you just settle for a shiny version of cartoon Megatron if what you want is a Masterpice "toy" Megatron? It's going to take more than a deco change to make a convincing toy Megatron out of MP-26, like a new headsculpt, a completely different leg transformation, etc.
Also, keep this in mind. While there is definitely demand for toy versions of the G1 characters, Masterpiece or otherwise, that's likely a smaller corner of the Japanese market than you may think. Takara is almost always about screen representation in their modern products, and their mainly Japanese fan and consumer base eats it up. Remember, Takara makes their Transformers products for JAPAN. It's incidental to them that fans outside of Japan want their products too, especially since it is Hasbro that is supposed to cater to the Transformers demand of the rest of the world.
primalxconvoy, I know you have your tastes, and you want something that is not available right now (and may never really be), but that's just reality. Complaining that Takara isn't giving you G1 toy options in a Masterpiece figure that is primarily designed to be accurate to the cartoon look of a character isn't that far off from complaining that the figure "sucks" because you wanted it to be a different character altogether. For what MP-36 is, it's pretty fantastic.