I think the answer lies in your question, they didn't make a "G1 MP Starscream", they made an "MP Starscream".

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I don't think anyone can say that with certainty until it's been released and the booklet has been translated.

I think the answer lies in your question, they didn't make a "G1 MP Starscream", they made an "MP Starscream".

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I don't think anyone can say that with certainty until it's been released and the booklet has been translated.

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I know what you're saying, but unless we know for sure that the person writing the booklet and the person/people designing the figure were working hand in hand, I don't know how meaningful that would be.

 

My point isn't about that, though. It comes back to what I personally understand "being a G1 fan" to mean. To my mind, G1 Starscream was a toy from the 1980's. Period. There have been a lot of homages to the character since that point (starting as far back as G2, depending on how you interpret the intent of that line), but by definition none of them are "G1" Starscream. They can't be. G1 is finished, done with, over. It has been for a long time.

 

So when I see this figure, and I see the series it's being released in, I think to myself, "this is Masterpiece Starscream". Not "G1 Starscream". To be sure, part of being an MP figure (so far, anyway) is a verrrry strong connection to the G1 toys & cartoon, but MP Starscream simply isn't G1 Starscream, in the same way that MP Convoy isn't G1 Convoy. And I mean that as literally as possible.

 

To me, that's what G1 purism is about. Recognizing the difference between G1 itself and homages to G1. G1 is where my Transformers nostalgia comes from. That's what's meaningful to me. I'm not one of those fans who's constantly looking to replace every G1 figure they own with a newer, cooler version. I can appreciate MP Starscream and MP Convoy for what they are, but they will never replace, or be as cool as, their G1 counterparts. At least not to me. It's just not possible for it to happen, by definition, as these are new products that weren't around when I was discovering Transformers back in the 1980's.

 

The point of all this is that this mindset changes my expectations for MP figures (or Alt/BT figures, or Classics, or Titaniums, or anything else). Yeah it's totally great that Takara is producing these figures; they're awesome and it demonstrates a lot of love for the fans. But it's not like I'm looking for the MPs to fill a void in my G1 luv or anything -- they can't. Anything HasTak has done post-G1 has been icing on the cake to me. Bonus material. So to have MP Starscream colored differently than his G1 counterpart... it really doesn't matter to me. They could make him pink and green with purple stripes for all I care. Now I might not want to get him if he were released in those colors, but so what? So I don't get it. I haven't lost anything.

 

And to briefly address I.S.T.'s point about ghey loser Geewun fanboys... :P to *me*, the only G1 fanboys who annoy me are the ones who expect EVERYTHING post-G1 to mimic G1 as much as possible. I don't understand the mindset personally, as you can probably guess by now. It's not like any post-G1 toy could ever live up to the originals... yes of course G1 toys are old and outdated, but it was those (now) old and outdated toys that I fell in love with, not their latter-day homages. So yeah, it's cool to see Classics Bumblebee or Titanium Scourge or whatever else, but those toys weren't around in the 80's.

 

I dunno, this might make no sense at all to some fans. That's cool. But it's this mindset that's made me one of those crazy Star Wars fans who clamored for the original movies to be released on DVD. :D Imagine if Hasbro took away every G1 Prime and replaced it with something else and said "oh this is the real G1 Prime, that other thing wasn't really it". Well of course you'd want the original back. Why? Because that's the one that matters to you. That's the one that you grew up with. So hopefully that helps to illustrate what I'm talking about a bit more.

 

wow I'm wordy on Saturday mornings :eek

i agree with LM (ive been doing that alot latly... im scared)

i agree with LM (ive been doing that alot latly... im scared)

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yea, i've never agreed with somebody as much as i have with lm in the past couple days

 

PREACH IT BROTHER!!!

i agree with LM (ive been doing that alot latly... im scared)

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yea, i've never agreed with somebody as much as i have with lm in the past couple days

 

PREACH IT BROTHER!!!

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:pfx

 

I call for a name change to "Lord Marmite" because you either love his opinion or you hate it, no half measures with him!  :thumb

i agree with LM (ive been doing that alot latly... im scared)

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yea, i've never agreed with somebody as much as i have with lm in the past couple days

 

PREACH IT BROTHER!!!

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:pfx

 

I call for a name change to "Lord Marmite" because you either love his opinion or you hate it, no half measures with him!  :thumb

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i had to google that one

Yeah, I kept sunstreaker normal and did the trunk mode to sideswipe.  I think it's doubly cool because they are once again the same car in alt mode, except for the trunk area, and different in robot mode.  Just like G1 (ahhhhh).

 

OK, I'm a dork.

Pasquale

 

just my two cents, the trunk mod realy helps in giving sideswipe that... sideswipe feeling, it improved my opinion of the mould 100%

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That's what I meant earlier by Sideswipe requiring modifications to actually look like Sideswipe.  And yes, I did the same thing.  Modded Sideswipe, left Sunstreaker alone, and Dead End... found his way into the box of doom.

Show me how to do this ''trunk mod'' my sunstreaker blows!!!!

Show me how to do this ''trunk mod'' my sunstreaker blows!!!!

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i don't think you can do it to sunstreaker and dead end due to the roof

shame, I can whip the roof off though, his robot mode is nice apart from the total lack of movement in his legs