Anybody give a crap about the movie line right now?

[andersonh1]

I found two Masterpiece Grims in my TRU on the tiptop shelf, so I passed. Plus isn't he like seventy bucks?

About eighty bucks with tax and everything, more like. He's a completely rad toy, but I could easily see people passing because of that kind of price. Hell, if it wasn't that particular version of that particular character, I would've had to think really hard about buying it.

When I bought Drift #2 last week, the guy behind the register asked if I collected figures or just the comics. Turns out he works at the local Toys R Us as well, and was trying to sell Masterpiece Grimlock. Not that I don't want one, but I was surprised to hear that it was $70. I think I'm waiting to see if it goes on clearance at this point. I just can't justify that much, as much as I'd like the figure.

[Onslaught Six]

Same. I've got an album pressing to worry about, after all.

[Sparky Prime]

I just can't justify that much, as much as I'd like the figure.

Personally, I think $70 is well worth it for MP Grimlock. It's a bit expensive, but it's that great of a figure. And it's a lot cheaper than getting the Japanese version which tends to go for around $150-70 or even up to $250 for the "MP-08X" version.

[JediTricks]

MP Grimlock is the most expensive MP released in the US at $70, and the least MP-like in terms of scale and intricate parts and such, but really, it's such a cool figure on its own that I have to love it for what it is. I don't see a way to express Grimlock as a character better than this, and it scales well to regular figures, not MP. I suppose it scales well to Alternators as well, but MP Prime hangs with them and he's a big boy.


My area has so many Tuner Mudflaps from the last packaging warming pegs, it's a wonder stores order new figures at all. TRU has so many I feel actively bad for them, they have walls of that turd.

[138 Scourge]

Yeah, dude. I've gone by places where they've got Tuner Mudflap, regular Mudflap, Gravity-Bots Mudflap, and I think maybe a FAB Mudflap. Moral of the story appears to be that nobody likes that sumbitch.

For once, I'm with 'em. Usually, I'll be the guy that's completely okay with the character that fills everyone else with the fanrage, like, I think that me and Ahmet Best are the only people that like Jar-Jar Binks. But Mudflap can basically go suck it.

[andersonh1]

I paid $2.50 for Tuner Mudflap, and I regret the waste of money.

[Shockwave]

I had regular MF when he came out and sold it for part of the down payment on my house. I also sold a lot of my Classics/Henkei. Guess which ones I missed and felt inclined to get back? Hint: It wasn't Mudflap.

[andersonh1]

It's interesting to note which figures are selling (judging by full and empty pegs) at the local Toys R Us. And that would seem to be Drift and Thrust, followed by Generations Prime and Bumblebee. The other figures are present in far larger quantities, though I note they're selling too since the endcap that was full of them weeks ago is gone. I know this is entirely anecdotal, so I wonder if anyone's seeing something similar.

And plenty of Tuner Mudflaps clog a portion of the shelf. Along with, oddly, about six Animated Oil Slicks.

[JediTricks]

Yeah, dude. I've gone by places where they've got Tuner Mudflap, regular Mudflap, Gravity-Bots Mudflap, and I think maybe a FAB Mudflap. Moral of the story appears to be that nobody likes that sumbitch.

For once, I'm with 'em. Usually, I'll be the guy that's completely okay with the character that fills everyone else with the fanrage, like, I think that me and Ahmet Best are the only people that like Jar-Jar Binks. But Mudflap can basically go suck it.

Luckily, right now Tuner Skids is selling through in my area. The idea of them selling that figure when Tuner Mudflap is clogging shelves is bizarre though.

I don't think nobody likes Mudflap, I think Hasbro overestimated how much people would want that figure. Look at Wheelie, that one sold like a steaming turd for a while but it's gone now, just overproduction. But Mudflap isn't a particularly engaging alt mode, color isn't as grabbing as Skids, he's ugly in the face, and the toy appears to be a nightmarish tangle of kibble. DvD gave it an "avoid" rating, and even Ben gave it the "why my shoulders hurt" avoid rating, so the mold has bad press from being... well, total shit, apparently.

Ahmed Best lives in my neighborhood, I see him sometimes at the post office, he carries himself with shame over Jar Jar. (That last part isn't true.) He's voiced Jar Jar twice on the Clone Wars cartoon, although there were some eps where a different actor voiced JJB. JJB's first appearance on CW and his appearance last week were both Ahmed.

[138 Scourge]

Ahmed Best lives in my neighborhood, I see him sometimes at the post office, he carries himself with shame over Jar Jar. (That last part isn't true.) He's voiced Jar Jar twice on the Clone Wars cartoon, although there were some eps where a different actor voiced JJB. JJB's first appearance on CW and his appearance last week were both Ahmed.

Man, your neighbors are friggin' awesome.

Somehow, and I'll never really get how, a local radio station got Ahmed Best as a guest on the Sunday night "Punk Rock" show. Like, not on the phone, they got dude to go down there and be in the damn studio, and then the deejay just busts the guy's balls about Jar Jar until he walked out. Huge douche move, I thought. Of course, I was the guy trying to get through on the phone to tell Best "Hey, screw these guys and everybody, Jar Jar was awesome, nice job, man."

Also, it's hilarious that so many Mudflaps shelfwarm so horribly, and yet the Human Alliance version is pretty much only heard of, never seen. Some kind of irony there.