Transformers MP-51 Arcee Available on Amazon Japan for $106 USD

May skip her.

Oh, I hate that Arcee.

I hate her so much that I finally created my Amazon.JP account and I preordered her with the power of a thousands suns!

I admit, she have her flaw. But there's something intriguing about her. Oddly enough, the fact that my Ocular Max Azalea Protoform Edition is coming soon did motivate me to get the official one. For starter, that price is perfectly reasonable and the shipping is absurdly cheap. Second, I really want MP Arcee and Proto Azalea to be side-by-side on my shelf.

Ordering from Amazon.JP amount to 190$CAN shipped. Will I get scored taxes on it is unknown but at worst, it will have 10$CAN of fees on top of taxes.

Meanwhile, Age 3 And Up have their preorders up for 215$CAN.
https://www.agesthreeandup.ca/collectio ... iece-arcee
That is, shipping and taxes not included. The price difference is not that big. But if the Amazon order come in faster, it will be much more worth it.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Oh, I hate that Arcee.

I hate her so much that I finally created my Amazon.JP account and I preordered her with the power of a thousands suns!

Hm. Not gonna lie, You got me at the first half.

I actually ordered 2 of her when I saw she was available. I want to display her in both robot and car mode, although I also have some issues with the design.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Oh, I hate that Arcee.

I hate her so much that I finally created my Amazon.JP account and I preordered her with the power of a thousands suns!

I admit, she have her flaw. But there's something intriguing about her. Oddly enough, the fact that my Ocular Max Azalea Protoform Edition is coming soon did motivate me to get the official one. For starter, that price is perfectly reasonable and the shipping is absurdly cheap. Second, I really want MP Arcee and Proto Azalea to be side-by-side on my shelf.

Ordering from Amazon.JP amount to 190$CAN shipped. Will I get scored taxes on it is unknown but at worst, it will have 10$CAN of fees on top of taxes.

Meanwhile, Age 3 And Up have their preorders up for 215$CAN.
https://www.agesthreeandup.ca/collectio ... iece-arcee
That is, shipping and taxes not included. The price difference is not that big. But if the Amazon order come in faster, it will be much more worth it.

You wont get charged extra when it comes in. What you paid on amazon is the most you'll pay and some of the money might get refunded. In the end, it's gonna be about 40$-50$ cheaper than ages 3 and up and you'll get it in 3 days once shipped.

This news has me reconsidering getting her.

The 1986 cast, should they finish them off, are one of the easiest sub-sets to complete - and Arcee would be a big part of that. Besides, I have Ultra Magnus and Hot Rod.

william-james88 wrote:You wont get charged extra when it comes in. What you paid on amazon is the most you'll pay and some of the money might get refunded. In the end, it's gonna be about 40$-50$ cheaper than ages 3 and up and you'll get it in 3 days once shipped.

Oh yeah, I forgot I already paid some taxes upfront. The amount was so low that it was kinda invisible.

Regardless, it's not true you save money with Amazon.JP because now that I know it's a thing, I randomly happened on something that I never knew existed. It was bought so hard, I almost smashed my keyboard!

I had her on Pulse and quickly cancelled my order with them and got it through AmazonJP.
Saves me a little pocket change and makes up for a deal i missed on Pulse a month ago on another MP.

Thanks for the notice! Cancelled my preorder w BBTS and now have her ready to go when she arrives in-stock later this year on Amazon Japan.

That’s pretty nice deal. Glad I waited before preordering her elsewhere.

-Kanrabat- wrote:Ordering from Amazon.JP amount to 190$CAN shipped. Will I get scored taxes on it is unknown but at worst, it will have 10$CAN of fees on top of taxes.
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That is, shipping and taxes not included. The price difference is not that big. But if the Amazon order come in faster, it will be much more worth it.

I live in Canada too and have been using Amazon Japan for a couple years now. For those that aren't aware, the nice thing about Amazon Japan for us Canadians is you pre-pay the taxes (the "Import Fee Deposit" is just your taxes, nothing extra) and there are zero extra fees beyond that.

So the price you see when you place the order is the maximum you will pay - there's no surprises when it arrives at the door and no extra processing fees (unlike Canadapost/Customs with their the stupid $10 processing fee). In fact, if the price goes down after you pre-order it (meaning the taxes go down), you get a refund in the taxes you pre-paid too.

Compared to other JP sellers like AmiAmi, they also subtract the Japanese 10% consumer tax before they charge the Canadian tax "Import Fee Deposit", so you frequently save a lot of money compared to buying domestically or from other stores. Although shipping costs have been changing over the years... When I first placed orders in the summer of 2018, it was 600 yen per order plus 600 yen per item for toys. Then it increased to a higher per item and higher initial order fees. Now it's 1,200 per order + a volumetric weight of 650 yen per kg. Which can end up cheaper if you are able to order multiple items at the same time since most toys don't weigh much.

Shipping is super fast via DHL as well. I live in NB, and it if it ships on the weekend I usually get it by Wednesday or Thursday that same week. In fact, something just shipped on Friday and it's already in Ontario and cleared customs so I expect to get it Monday or Tuesday at the latest. In this COVID world, I have an EMS package via Japan Post that has been stuck in Japan for over a month now, but I've received a few Amazon JP packages via DHL like clockwork with no extra delays.

Having said that, though, the Amazon shipping boxes are really low quality (thin cardboard) and the packing is really simplistic. They wrap the items with tight plastic wrapping to keep it attached to a cardboard base and then glue the cardboard base to the bottom of the box. There is never any filler packing material like peanuts or air packets, so sometimes the shipping box can be beat up when it arrives and sometimes there can be a little dent or two on the toy box depending on what happened or how tightly the plastic was wrapped. Most of the time it survives fine. I don't care about perfect boxes anyway as long as the item arrives okay, but don't expect the quality job of A3U or AmiAmi or others in terms of how it's packed.

That's a great price on Arcee through Amazon Japan. Too bad they don't ship to Switzerland

Source: Takara

Well, I gotta say, after taking a good hard look at this and all the other... er, options for an MP Arcee figure, I just don't think there's a choice that suits me. Every one of them has a glaring problem that doesn't justify the prices they're charging for them. As much as I don't want this to be the case, I don't think I'll have an Arcee in my MP collection. Perhaps it's just as well; I can't look at those tiny feet they always give her without being reminded of foot binding.

Glarryg

here is a comparison of all Arcees coming out this year

The more that I think about it, the more that I'm glad I preordered MP Arcee at Amazon.JP.
For what they wanted to accomplish, that backpack could have been a lot worse.

... like the hilarious ER one. That I'm also SO buying. Eh, I may buy ER Arcee TWICE just so that I can make a crazy custom out of the other one.

Hot take: Slightly weird face aside, Cyberverse Arcee is my favourite of those three. The backpack is still quite egregious but it's less awful than, say, ER, and the overall design is just nicer. Also I love the cute, bubbly pink hatchback she turns into.

The Cyberverse one really reminds me of Animated, for some reason. The Earthrise one looks like she's going hiking on a really long trip

From Hong Kong Fans Expo

Every time we get a pic of Arcee that seems like the torso might not look so bad from a certain angle, we then get pics that go right back to showing us just how bad the torso really is.

If 70 year olds sag, 4 Million year olds must as well.

I keep waffling on this figure but I'm pretty sure I'll end up with it one way or another.

It's kinda funny, Transformers: The Movie MPs are what I want but, so far, I've been underwhelmed by Rodimus/Hot Rod and Ultra Magnus (though I really don't know how they're supposed to make him NOT a brick.) So I don't own any yet. Here's hoping they redo Rodimus.

I still REALLY REALLY want a Kup and Galvatron....

Syclone wrote:I keep waffling on this figure but I'm pretty sure I'll end up with it one way or another.

It's kinda funny, Transformers: The Movie MPs are what I want but, so far, I've been underwhelmed by Rodimus/Hot Rod and Ultra Magnus (though I really don't know how they're supposed to make him NOT a brick.) So I don't own any yet. Here's hoping they redo Rodimus.

I still REALLY REALLY want a Kup and Galvatron....

I really disliked that Ultra Magnus. I felt the Combiner Wars and Siege versions handled the articulation better.

Syclone wrote:I keep waffling on this figure but I'm pretty sure I'll end up with it one way or another.

It's kinda funny, Transformers: The Movie MPs are what I want but, so far, I've been underwhelmed by Rodimus/Hot Rod and Ultra Magnus (though I really don't know how they're supposed to make him NOT a brick.) So I don't own any yet. Here's hoping they redo Rodimus.

I still REALLY REALLY want a Kup and Galvatron....

Galvatron is the only G1 MP I want. He should have been released years ago, to coincide with Rodimus. But alas, we continue to wait...

AllNewSuperRobot wrote:

Syclone wrote:I keep waffling on this figure but I'm pretty sure I'll end up with it one way or another.

It's kinda funny, Transformers: The Movie MPs are what I want but, so far, I've been underwhelmed by Rodimus/Hot Rod and Ultra Magnus (though I really don't know how they're supposed to make him NOT a brick.) So I don't own any yet. Here's hoping they redo Rodimus.

I still REALLY REALLY want a Kup and Galvatron....

Galvatron is the only G1 MP I want. He should have been released years ago, to coincide with Rodimus. But alas, we continue to wait...

Hard to disagree on that one!

Will be newsing a transformation video of this Arcee, which will be released officially really soon. And While looking at it, I am just beyond baffled at how bad a job Takara did with the upper torso. Cartoon accuracy is key (right?) so why does that part not look accurate at all? It's not even that the collar is all wrong but it just makes her proportions look really bad. Arcee has a pink upper torso and a small white collar around her neck but here it makes it look like her collar is part of her torso, and the front of the torso begins below her shoulders. It's like her back half and her front half are not in synch with one another, so freaken wierd.

You aren't wrong are you? Probably has something to do with how she transforms (read: explodes and reassembles). Either way it looks pretty bad, like her chestplate is falling off?

Transformers MP 51 Masterpiece Arcee is shipping from online retailers at the end of this month and it has even appeared in some shops like Takashiyama in Singapore. Cybertron21 has released a transformation video which you can see below. This will close the year of Arcee where each line had an Arcee release, be it Studio Series, War for Cybertron, Cyberverse and Masterpiece. Oddly enough, while the Masterpiece should be the most cartoon accurate it has a rather inacurate chest. In the cartoon, Arcee has a pink upper torso and a small white collar around her neck but here it makes it look like her collar is part of her torso, and the front of the torso begins below her shoulders. It's like her back half and her front half are not in synch with one another. Feel free to share your thoughts on the matter now that we can see exactly how she transforms and which sacrifices were made.





The Singapore sighting was reported on TFW2005 by their member Automorpher.

god she looks so bad, I'd rather have the earthrise version - which is saying something, at least it only cost $20

That chest still looks way too saggy...

The whole torso has been constructed to have its front and side panels all placed far lower on the body than they're supposed to be.

Sabrblade wrote:The whole torso has been constructed to have its front and side panels all placed far lower on the body than they're supposed to be.

That's a major gaffe on the part of the designers, whoever is responsible for QC should have caught it. That's literally their job. Catching mistakes on a product before it enters mass production.

What a piece of junk.

Hellscream9999 wrote:god she looks so bad, I'd rather have the earthrise version - which is saying something, at least it only cost $20

And that's STILL too much.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:The whole torso has been constructed to have its front and side panels all placed far lower on the body than they're supposed to be.

That's a major gaffe on the part of the designers, whoever is responsible for QC should have caught it. That's literally their job. Catching mistakes on a product before it enters mass production.

It's not a quality issue, so it's not qc related. It's really a design issue and the team responsible for MP releases at Takara signed off on it.

I have that uncancellable preorder that is supposed to be charged and shipped soon...........

Well, the transformation doesn't look too bad, no really thin panels.

perhaps some 3rd party company can make a fix for that chest

Third party will probably only offer soft and squishy real feel upgrades but can't make it look any worse.

Ultra Markus wrote:perhaps some 3rd party company can make a fix for that chest

Why bother when they can make the whole thing from scratch? There's already a zillion 3P "Arcees" that keep popping out since at least a decade.

All set for backpacking through Disney's Kingdom!

I am glad I did not pre order her.

-Kanrabat- wrote:

Ultra Markus wrote:perhaps some 3rd party company can make a fix for that chest

Why bother when they can make the whole thing from scratch? There's already a zillion 3P "Arcees" that keep popping out since at least a decade.

Yeah I suppose so

william-james88 wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:The whole torso has been constructed to have its front and side panels all placed far lower on the body than they're supposed to be.

That's a major gaffe on the part of the designers, whoever is responsible for QC should have caught it. That's literally their job. Catching mistakes on a product before it enters mass production.

It's not a quality issue, so it's not qc related. It's really a design issue and the team responsible for MP releases at Takara signed off on it.

The team responsible for MP releases at Takara need new fucking eyeballs.

Rodimus Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:The whole torso has been constructed to have its front and side panels all placed far lower on the body than they're supposed to be.

That's a major gaffe on the part of the designers, whoever is responsible for QC should have caught it. That's literally their job. Catching mistakes on a product before it enters mass production.

It's not a quality issue, so it's not qc related. It's really a design issue and the team responsible for MP releases at Takara signed off on it.

The team responsible for MP releases at Takara need new **** eyeballs.

Or maybe use correct references. I pulled out my PotP Novastar and she somewhat has the same problem as MP Arcee with the tall collar and seemingly low chest. It's a bit less noticeable because of the angle and how much it stick out.

the issue here isn't really that the chest is too low. It is in fact in an accurate position, if you are basing off of human anatomy. Basically, she's designed like an "endowed" shall we saw woman, not wearing a bra with a loose fitting tank top. There's a lot of human anatomy in her shapes. Which imho, isn't necessarily a bad thing, but not only is it not needed in a cartoon robot, its not really accurate to any version of the character. Sure, she had a human female shape overall, but in a cartoony, basic shapes kind way. It is a design choice I am not sure I would make.

I also feel like they could have done something different with her car kibble. Like if they hadn't gone through all the effort of making her legs super human shaped sexy legs, they could have made them hollow found a way to have some of the back wheel panels fold up into the backs of them, for rough example.

all in all, its another frustrating masterpiece where the design choices hurt the overall release, and a preorder I can't cancel.

Oh well, at least she has a bonus mode 2.04 mins in, the crazy car face for a combined mode, she has raised the bar over Mixmaster forming the head of Devy.

With the chest opened, i thought oppai will be revealed.

She looks like an old woman who didn't take care of her body, the chest is too low, the face looks emaciated and the thighs look malnourished.

Jelze Bunnycat wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

william-james88 wrote:

Rodimus Prime wrote:

Sabrblade wrote:The whole torso has been constructed to have its front and side panels all placed far lower on the body than they're supposed to be.

That's a major gaffe on the part of the designers, whoever is responsible for QC should have caught it. That's literally their job. Catching mistakes on a product before it enters mass production.

It's not a quality issue, so it's not qc related. It's really a design issue and the team responsible for MP releases at Takara signed off on it.

The team responsible for MP releases at Takara need new **** eyeballs.

Or maybe use correct references. I pulled out my PotP Novastar and she somewhat has the same problem as MP Arcee with the tall collar and seemingly low chest. It's a bit less noticeable because of the angle and how much it stick out.

Firstly, @Rodimus Prime, I agree

And Jelze, I looked at Novastar and while I see what you mean at least the chest blends with whatever proportions they are going for. The big problem with this arcee is a real big disconnect, the chest just doesn't seem to be the same piece as the rest of her torso. I mean, we know it literally isn't but that makes it really hard to sell the look. Reminds me of how much I hate the Tracks/Roadrage mold for how the front and back just seem to be disconnected pieces rather than be part of a whole robot.

Amazon Japan tried to charge me for Arcee, wasn't supposed to be in until Tuesday.