JR 500系 Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 (edited) The older generation of us might recall Raiden, the combiner transformer that was composed of 6 prototypical Japanese trains and locomotives that combine into one mean looking robot: And here comes the remake, and i must say, i am VERY TEMPTED! https://tf.takaratomy.co.jp/tf_mpg/mpg-01/ It is truely amazing! look at the photos and we can recognise some of Tomytec products in there immediately: https://tf.takaratomy.co.jp/tf_mpg/mpg-01/gallery.html This is indeed.... tempting haha Edited December 23, 2021 by JR 500系 1 Link to comment
Kamome Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 ¥20000 for just the first part! Definitely a collectors piece. But looks pretty special. Link to comment
The Birmingham train spotter Posted December 23, 2021 Share Posted December 23, 2021 There is a transformer called astrotrain that transformed into a D51 Link to comment
Kamome Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 The next Masterpiece trainbot is now on preorder. I’m slightly tempted to start this collection as they’re very well modelled and who wouldn’t want a huge combining robot made out of JNR era trains. Shouki Masterpiece Generations 01 transforms into a 0 series shinkansen and is out in June 2022. He also forms the body of Raiden. Getsuei MPG-02 transforms into a EF65 and will be released in September 2022. He also forms Raiden’s right leg. Link to comment
JR 500系 Posted February 1, 2022 Author Share Posted February 1, 2022 It is SO HARD to resist this fellow... It's really well made, heck it even came with a display track! 1 Link to comment
Kamome Posted February 1, 2022 Share Posted February 1, 2022 (edited) Actually they look better as trains but the robots have the nostalgic 80s feel that I remember as a kid. Here's the info on the Getsuei model. https://tf.takaratomy.co.jp/tf_mpg/mpg-02/ My only issue is the price and size. 18cm tall but very tempting. Edited February 1, 2022 by Kamome Link to comment
JR 500系 Posted September 15, 2022 Author Share Posted September 15, 2022 So i bent... Amazon was providing a really hard to beat price so here goes.... The box art really is pretty nice, quite small for a train this size Right out of the box, the train takes up almost half of the space, along with display tracks and some accessories Apart from the main body, we get the display track, his blaster, a trans-piece for connecting to a display stand, two seats (that can fit into the front cabin) and the shield piece, that will serve as the chest piece of the combined form, Raiden! Takara Tomy placed major emphasis on the train mode this time, and i must say it looks almost NOT transformer-ish, if not for the transforming panel lines. The front nose piece is in a whole which is great. The model is also supposed to be HO Scale, but i dont have a HO Scale model to compare this with... While i love the Zero series train form, the robot form is pretty neat as well! Needless to say, it's on to the rest of the gang! 3 Link to comment
Kamome Posted September 22, 2022 Share Posted September 22, 2022 Getsuei (EF65) is out pretty soon and Yukikaze (200 series) in February. Would be kind of nice to see what all will look like once in Raiden mode. I still see a few Shoukis around in some local hobby shops but I think the next 2 releases will sell out pretty quickly. Link to comment
JR 500系 Posted September 23, 2022 Author Share Posted September 23, 2022 On 9/22/2022 at 3:08 PM, Kamome said: Getsuei (EF65) is out pretty soon and Yukikaze (200 series) in February. Would be kind of nice to see what all will look like once in Raiden mode. I still see a few Shoukis around in some local hobby shops but I think the next 2 releases will sell out pretty quickly. Pre-ordered the Getsuei as soon as i got hooked on the Shouki... It's getting ready to be shipped over to me! Pre-ordered the Yukikaze as well. Will be using this thread to share the MPG series trainbots till completion! 1 Link to comment
Yavianice Posted September 23, 2022 Share Posted September 23, 2022 Modern version of transformer trains Link to comment
JR 500系 Posted October 23, 2022 Author Share Posted October 23, 2022 The Getsuei has arrived! Lovely box art as usual. Not a huge fan og EF-65, but it looks really good! No space wasted on the box, which is what i really like All the contents. The rail is of less width than Shoki's, as it is prototypically correct. The guage of the shinkansen is indeed larger than the usual 'Zai-rai' sen. Glad Tomy has actually captured this very minute but accurate point! Attach the pantographs and it looks just like a model, not a transformer! Looks pretty cool as well! Let's see if the Yukikaze has the same rail track width as the Shouki! 1 Link to comment
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