I personally like the dark blue of Hasbro on this. I will probably be touching up the color / getting rid of some of the silly art on him once I get one. People really over look the option of customizing to enjoyment.
As always excellent job on the review. Do you have any plans to review any more of the Gravity Builder combiners? I have a bushel of kids and don't get the chance to buy many toys for myself, how ever your Scraper review made me think this is the combiner I might want to try and pick up if I can. All my best and keep up the good work.
I love the shout out to Jason! Ha! With that said, I've yet to buy a Takara/Tomy Seeker, and it really makes it hard to being used to the Hasbro prices. That's the thing though, I f**king love Transformers, but do I love them enough, and have to have absolute cartoon accuracy? That's the question. And, I'm very happy someone else feels the sprue marks have been since day 1. It's a pull of the still hot plastic, and it's never going away. Every plastic toy has them. And, it takes time and money to sand and paint them. That's the only way your gonna get them gone completely. Now, when you get that deep into production, that's more cash. Hot Toys and figures like that cost more for this reason, so where does that leave us with less paint and more plastic? I dunno,... Just a thought. Awesome review as always! Thanks!
Hey. Are you familiar with the mp 03, 06, and 07 seekers? I am just getting into collecting masterpieces so I'm wondering what your thoughts on them are in comparison to the mp 11 molds?
I was gonna buy the Takara version, but got the Hasbro version as a gift. Although not the same atheistic wise as the Takara version, it does the job for me and saves me 200 bucks. Great review as always.
I have both and I due enjoy this release more not because its better than the Hasbro but because it looks more like the Thundercracker I grew up with and loved. We have the right complain as consumers but in the end we also choose to buy them or not. I personally have no complaints about the figure even with its imperfections it still is an awesome figure in my opinion. Great and honest review
Thanks for the vid. Really wish Takara had made up its mind when applying the Decepticon logos on the wings of the seeker molds. They look great together save for Starscream having the logo's painted on upside-down. The blue on their TC does look way better.
Very nice comparison. It might not have been the review the fandom wanted but it's the review the fandom needed. Sometimes it takes the man behind the mask to lay down the TRUTH.
Dear Bobby Skullface L. First of all, congratulations for your great work. I have a queston: Is any risk to ruin the grey painting of the chest with the transformation of Thundercracker? I had problems with the purple painting (wich is above of the grey painting) of the chest of Skywarp with the transformation robot to jet.Thanks and Best Regards!
Gr8 comparison Skullface! Funny as a kid i never realized noticed all the character repaints. Would be nice to own all the Takara Seeker MP's but at a total of $600 i'd rather use the money on other stuff. COUGH*GRAVITY BUILDER*COUGH.
tfc superion, MMC arcee, hasbro springer, fansproject revolver, mech idea topspin and twintwist, hasbro brainstorm, before and after six gun i think and warbotron swindle ;)
Seeing the 3 seekers together is what really sells the entire Takara set. Hopefully they don't stop with Ramjet and do the other 2 coneheads... so it can be over for real lol... you know.. until Maketoys makes a better mold in the remasters line
Loved this comparison, unpopular opinion time but I actually prefer the darker blue color. I know that the Takara one is more accurate but I have to confess that I prefer the inaccuracies. As you say, either will look great on the shelf, the one thing that bugs me is that the stripes on the wings don't match on my 3 Hasbro seekers! A small niggle but an annoyance non the less and I suppose if they're going to be different, at least they are always different. Now I just need an MP11 SW to replace my current SW and I'll be happy! Thanks again for the upload!
I don't really mind the look of Hasbro Thundercracker. When I was a kid Thundercracker was the first seeker I got so the darker toy color and the toy paint scheme works for me. For what the Takara version costs I could get two real good toys in its place.
Is any toy worth $200.00 ? Lol . Hell fucking no ! BUT , is nostalgia worth $200.00 ? Hell yeah ! Great review , covered all the bases . I got mine the other day an I love him .
Great comparison but I am glad that I spent $50 on the Hasbro version when it first came out years ago compared to spending $200 on the Takara version. Right now the aftermarket pricing of the Hasbro version is around $150 - $200 and with the pricing of both versions being about equal now, if I didn't already have the Hasbro version, I would pick the Takara version for the cartoon accurate coloring. I mean I ended paying that much for the Takara MP11 Skywarp and will be paying that much for the MP11 Ramjet when it comes out!
yea I'm also happy with my hasbro seekers... waiting for hasbro to do skywarp on the new mold.. the only tak seeker i have is starscream... awesome review bro.. but I'm tired of tak milking my wallet.. rather buy good quality 3rd pary toys for the price.
I have the Hasbro TC and was thinking of upgrading, but then I'd have to get Skywarp too, and my policy with the MP's are to avoid repaints if possible. My biggest complaint with these seekers however, is that the faction logo on Starscream is upside down, compared to the rest of them. With that said, I know its show accurate because I checked a few days ago. None the less, I do question the fact that the logo is upside down on Starscream and not on the others. I don't know, but maybe someone knows about something that I do not about that? Price wise on these, I wish that they were a little bit cheaper, especially as far as repaints go. But still! I do prefer the Takara versions over the Hasbro. As Im strictly a MP collector when it comes to transformers figures, I do not mind the price as much, since its usually some damn fantastic engineering behind these figures.
I like the blue on the hasbro version, but the paint apps on the takara version looks better. If they could bring those 2 aspects together I think they'd make a "perfect" version, but that's just 1 fans opinion.
+Bobby “Skullface” Skullface L I certainly would if I had the $$$ for it, and definitely wouldn't be the first frankenstein creation I've made over the years, but probably would be the most complex one (barring car parts).
Yeah, I really think it's a preference when it comes to this particular character. I like both equally from what I've seen in this review, they are different in good ways. I don't think it's a character I would add to my collection, but I think it's a good thing people have options. Personally though if I were going to get one, I would have to go with the Hasbro one. I like the larger lines on the wings and the writing around the cockpit.
I have to say bobby, the price of the seekers are really ridiculous :( Seeing they are not new molds, not perfectly painted, I just cannot think of why. I really love thundercracker & he's my favourite seeker but I just can't find it in my heart to spend 200 bucks for this when there're btr figures out there like quakewave.
didn't get the hasbro one in the first place, don't like the ebay pricing. At last i am able to complete my seekers set...... ohh, do you know there should be a purple one too, hohoho, the nightmare is not over yet.
+Bobby “Skullface” Skullface L ya I should pick my words better. I meant it as though you uploaded a vid on a Saturday. kinda like a gift out of the routine that is Monday Wednesday Friday.
I have both, and to be honest they both look great, but the takara is superior imo..im really happy with mine and i must say that i dont have the paint issues you have, so i might be lucky or you may be the unlucky one Anyway, the takara looks much much better in person, i love the lighter blue tone, the silver paint gives a higher quality look to it over the hasbro, and finally the cockpit is ten times better too, i dont really like the yellow on the hasbro one, while the orange is perfect on takaras Finally the takara looks like a collector transformers, while the hasbro looks a lot more like a toy imo But its still expensive....
good and honest video once again bobby....but....i laugh at these seekers lol. because i got the DEFINITIVE skywarp and thundercracker G1 cartoon painted..and by the horns of unicron, these fuckers are beasts!! wish i can post pics of them right here to show u bobby..i mean pics dont do it justice all the hard work that went into the seekers i got from a seller on ebay.. MY SEEKERS ARE TRUE MASTERPIECE!!!! and i paid way less than what takara selling TC for and those absurd ebay prices for hasbro seekers,,,...oh yeah i also got a G1 cartoon paintjob on starscream when he gets blasted by galvatron, coronation set and all..and mine has a REAL cape lol...its called death of starscream!!!
hasbro always go for the toy accurate they did the same with the u.s starcream which I went for as I didn't see why I should purchase a high priced figure all because it's toon accurate
we know the hasbro ones are more for kids in selling where as takara are more for the adult collectors i also have the hasbro mold but i also have the starscream hasbro mold so i think it would be stupid to pick up the takara one but then again i have the skywarp takara mold so im out of sink with each mold lol sold my mp3 molds not long ago as i had tc as the only mold in mp11 so i purchased starscream and skywarp in the same molds ......now this is going on to long and using molds way to often.....the moral of the story is im just talkin shit lol
I refuse to buy any of the direct stuff from Takara Tomy Mall. Having to pay full retail for something that has problems is ridiculous. General release, sure, you got my money for these B-tier characters. Not premium price material.
Looking back, I'm tempted to get this. Looks like he's wearing a 70's cornflower blue tux. You could play Prom with him where he takes Starscream as his date who is crowned prom queen.
I didn't watch the whole video but I'm guessing the waist connection is crap/non-existent and the shoulders don't hold in place... the pointless and frustrating attempt to avoid partsforming. I completely hate this mold. I gotta take a stand at the MP Ramjet - pass! The jump to $200 with Coronation SS was a joke, a total disappointment. I don't think I'm interested in ANY official product anymore at this point. The more we buy this junk the more the problem continues. >:( Oh, I see now that your new guy's waist is better, too bad all the ones I already bought don't hold together at all. Screw you, Takara.
Customize / repaint them when they aren't quite what you want. For me I like the darker blue on Thundercracker.
+Craig Babbitt well that s nice, because that will save you some coin! For me Tak suits my needs better
I personally like the dark blue of Hasbro on this. I will probably be touching up the color / getting rid of some of the silly art on him once I get one. People really over look the option of customizing to enjoyment.
Craig Babbitt I do too but I’m not paying that much money
As always excellent job on the review. Do you have any plans to review any more of the Gravity Builder combiners? I have a bushel of kids and don't get the chance to buy many toys for myself, how ever your Scraper review made me think this is the combiner I might want to try and pick up if I can. All my best and keep up the good work.
+Jared Cooper thanks man, and yes, i have the mixmaster one done i just keep getting other stuff that pushes it back
great review! thanks for creating this comparison review...but that Ramjet skit tho! I feel ya hahahaa
+Ruben Pena many thanks good sir
In 2015 those were in fashion. Nowadays we need a remold to make compatible with Megatron mp36. Those were the best in their moment.
I love the shout out to Jason! Ha!
With that said, I've yet to buy a Takara/Tomy Seeker, and it really makes it hard to being used to the Hasbro prices. That's the thing though, I f**king love Transformers, but do I love them enough, and have to have absolute cartoon accuracy? That's the question. And, I'm very happy someone else feels the sprue marks have been since day 1. It's a pull of the still hot plastic, and it's never going away. Every plastic toy has them. And, it takes time and money to sand and paint them. That's the only way your gonna get them gone completely. Now, when you get that deep into production, that's more cash. Hot Toys and figures like that cost more for this reason, so where does that leave us with less paint and more plastic? I dunno,... Just a thought. Awesome review as always! Thanks!
+Michael “Elpolkadotdisco” Sillaman exactly man, and many thanks
Hey. Are you familiar with the mp 03, 06, and 07 seekers? I am just getting into collecting masterpieces so I'm wondering what your thoughts on them are in comparison to the mp 11 molds?
+bandoogiemanz if i were you, i'd just stick with the mp-11 mold. i had some of the earlier ones, they just dont look as good at the end of the day
I was gonna buy the Takara version, but got the Hasbro version as a gift. Although not the same atheistic wise as the Takara version, it does the job for me and saves me 200 bucks. Great review as always.
+quintin tabura many thanks man, and hell, a free one beats a 200 one any day of the week :)
Need your opinion. I like too use the takara thundercracker as a stand-in for Ionstorm. What's your thoughts on this
I have both and I due enjoy this release more not because its better than the Hasbro but because it looks more like the Thundercracker I grew up with and loved. We have the right complain as consumers but in the end we also choose to buy them or not. I personally have no complaints about the figure even with its imperfections it still is an awesome figure in my opinion. Great and honest review
+Eugene Robledo many thanks, and im right there with you
Thanks for the vid. Really wish Takara had made up its mind when applying the Decepticon logos on the wings of the seeker molds. They look great together save for Starscream having the logo's painted on upside-down. The blue on their TC does look way better.
+Paul Gorman yea i agree on all accounts
Very nice comparison. It might not have been the review the fandom wanted but it's the review the fandom needed. Sometimes it takes the man behind the mask to lay down the TRUTH.
+The Comic Dork many thanks good sir
Dear Bobby Skullface L. First of all, congratulations for your great work. I have a queston: Is any risk to ruin the grey painting of the chest with the transformation of Thundercracker? I had problems with the purple painting (wich is above of the grey painting) of the chest of Skywarp with the transformation robot to jet.Thanks and Best Regards!
+Pintovision2010 there is the risk, of course but with proper care you shouldnt have an issue
Bobby Skullface L Thanks for your answer! Best Regards
anytime
Gr8 comparison Skullface! Funny as a kid i never realized noticed all the character repaints. Would be nice to own all the Takara Seeker MP's but at a total of $600 i'd rather use the money on other stuff. COUGH*GRAVITY BUILDER*COUGH.
+AnT Booth its funny i never did either
can you tell me all the toys at 0:01 and that swindle toy that comes after it? I want ALL of them! they look so cool!
tfc superion, MMC arcee, hasbro springer, fansproject revolver, mech idea topspin and twintwist, hasbro brainstorm, before and after six gun i think and warbotron swindle ;)
I like too use the lighter version for Ionstorm. What do you think?
I want him and skywarp but that's at the same price as a hot toys Han and Chewy. Can't justify spending my money
+NYManChild i hear you buddy
Seeing the 3 seekers together is what really sells the entire Takara set. Hopefully they don't stop with Ramjet and do the other 2 coneheads... so it can be over for real lol... you know.. until Maketoys makes a better mold in the remasters line
+Krommdor or until rainmakers
+Bobby “Skullface” Skullface L thats a cash grab I can say No to easily (thankfully for my wallets sake)
Loved this comparison, unpopular opinion time but I actually prefer the darker blue color. I know that the Takara one is more accurate but I have to confess that I prefer the inaccuracies. As you say, either will look great on the shelf, the one thing that bugs me is that the stripes on the wings don't match on my 3 Hasbro seekers! A small niggle but an annoyance non the less and I suppose if they're going to be different, at least they are always different. Now I just need an MP11 SW to replace my current SW and I'll be happy!
Thanks again for the upload!
+Michael Carter it's not unpopular, it totally makes sense. definitely personal preference, and many thanks
overall I think the Takara is better but I also prefer the darker blue since, for me, nothing looked better than my first G1 seeker.
I don't really mind the look of Hasbro Thundercracker. When I was a kid Thundercracker was the first seeker I got so the darker toy color and the toy paint scheme works for me. For what the Takara version costs I could get two real good toys in its place.
Yep I totally get it.
godamn gentleman you are, helpful this video was.
+Cho Cho thanks of many
Is any toy worth $200.00 ? Lol . Hell fucking no ! BUT , is nostalgia worth $200.00 ? Hell yeah ! Great review , covered all the bases . I got mine the other day an I love him .
+HAWKSFAN79 hahahaha exactly
the Hasbro one has a chrome driver.
+Alex Dalton gotcha
I'm not paying 200 dollars again for this mold.
+John Lant dont blame you
John Lant you pay $200 for this
Its not THAT good looking.
Im just gonna keep the 80 dollar hasbro one I got a couple years ago
+Justin Linett dont blame you
I am from the year 2021 6 day's away from 2022 and it is not over for Bobby. 🤣👍🏼
Great comparison but I am glad that I spent $50 on the Hasbro version when it first came out years ago compared to spending $200 on the Takara version. Right now the aftermarket pricing of the Hasbro version is around $150 - $200 and with the pricing of both versions being about equal now, if I didn't already have the Hasbro version, I would pick the Takara version for the cartoon accurate coloring. I mean I ended paying that much for the Takara MP11 Skywarp and will be paying that much for the MP11 Ramjet when it comes out!
+primekiller thanks man
yea I'm also happy with my hasbro seekers... waiting for hasbro to do skywarp on the new mold.. the only tak seeker i have is starscream... awesome review bro.. but I'm tired of tak milking my wallet.. rather buy good quality 3rd pary toys for the price.
+WalkingDeadpool78 i hear you man, me too
I have the Hasbro TC and was thinking of upgrading, but then I'd have to get Skywarp too, and my policy with the MP's are to avoid repaints if possible. My biggest complaint with these seekers however, is that the faction logo on Starscream is upside down, compared to the rest of them. With that said, I know its show accurate because I checked a few days ago. None the less, I do question the fact that the logo is upside down on Starscream and not on the others. I don't know, but maybe someone knows about something that I do not about that? Price wise on these, I wish that they were a little bit cheaper, especially as far as repaints go. But still! I do prefer the Takara versions over the Hasbro. As Im strictly a MP collector when it comes to transformers figures, I do not mind the price as much, since its usually some damn fantastic engineering behind these figures.
+eSeReS i hear you man, good points
I took a dremel with a buffing pad to the sprue marks on TRU MP Starscream. Now they are non existent.
+jrimme ta-da!
I like the blue on the hasbro version, but the paint apps on the takara version looks better. If they could bring those 2 aspects together I think they'd make a "perfect" version, but that's just 1 fans opinion.
+torkair72torino you could make a frankenstein TC :)
+Bobby “Skullface” Skullface L I certainly would if I had the $$$ for it, and definitely wouldn't be the first frankenstein creation I've made over the years, but probably would be the most complex one (barring car parts).
I really need one of these. I have the Igear raptor and i really like that one.
+Eric Larson he's good. PRICEY, but good lol
Yeah, I really think it's a preference when it comes to this particular character. I like both equally from what I've seen in this review, they are different in good ways. I don't think it's a character I would add to my collection, but I think it's a good thing people have options. Personally though if I were going to get one, I would have to go with the Hasbro one. I like the larger lines on the wings and the writing around the cockpit.
+John Byrd always good to have options
man looking at this mold i like it and dont like it i would like to see an upgrade.
+booksy1a This is the Upgrade mold, lol.
my ass
+booksy1a NOOOOOO no more upgrades lol, i want to be done with seekers lol
No stand like MP11SW?
+Famy Emil correct :(
Hail TakTom :(
I have to say bobby, the price of the seekers are really ridiculous :( Seeing they are not new molds, not perfectly painted, I just cannot think of why. I really love thundercracker & he's my favourite seeker but I just can't find it in my heart to spend 200 bucks for this when there're btr figures out there like quakewave.
+Starzap00 certainly a tough pill to swallow
didn't get the hasbro one in the first place, don't like the ebay pricing. At last i am able to complete my seekers set...... ohh, do you know there should be a purple one too, hohoho, the nightmare is not over yet.
+norlkrivc jarison hahaha nooooooooo
I feel like the Hasbro one is more toy accurate whereas the Takara one is more show accurate, if that seems right.
+Smoke screen exactly
well looky kooky, thanks for the early x mas gift.
+Chris Gardner no sir, the xmas gift will be on xmas, and the first clue... it will NOT be on youtube...
+Bobby “Skullface” Skullface L ya I should pick my words better. I meant it as though you uploaded a vid on a Saturday. kinda like a gift out of the routine that is Monday Wednesday Friday.
This woukd have been perfect if the paint was like MP 7
Jason lowery TC was horrible. And it was missing a thumb. I felt so bad.
+poloskier1967 yea, that sucked
I have both, and to be honest they both look great, but the takara is superior imo..im really happy with mine and i must say that i dont have the paint issues you have, so i might be lucky or you may be the unlucky one
Anyway, the takara looks much much better in person, i love the lighter blue tone, the silver paint gives a higher quality look to it over the hasbro, and finally the cockpit is ten times better too, i dont really like the yellow on the hasbro one, while the orange is perfect on takaras
Finally the takara looks like a collector transformers, while the hasbro looks a lot more like a toy imo
But its still expensive....
+Erick Gaudreault yep, pretty much agree with all that
good and honest video once again bobby....but....i laugh at these seekers lol. because i got the DEFINITIVE skywarp and thundercracker G1 cartoon painted..and by the horns of unicron, these fuckers are beasts!! wish i can post pics of them right here to show u bobby..i mean pics dont do it justice all the hard work that went into the seekers i got from a seller on ebay.. MY SEEKERS ARE TRUE MASTERPIECE!!!! and i paid way less than what takara selling TC for and those absurd ebay prices for hasbro seekers,,,...oh yeah i also got a G1 cartoon paintjob on starscream when he gets blasted by galvatron, coronation set and all..and mine has a REAL cape lol...its called death of starscream!!!
+Lord “Starwave” Supreme wow that sounds awesome!
Where can I send you pics ?! Would love your opinion on them.
my email is in the description of the vid :)
+Bobby “Skullface” Skullface L ok man i emailed you all the pics take a look tell me what u think..
+Lord “Starwave” Supreme I want to see! I want to see! Let me know if you would email me too. Who did you buy them from on ebay?
thanks for the comparison video. definitely not worth $200 imo and neither is Ramjet. oh, dibs on your Hasbro one if you are going to sell it.
+Hoang Nguyen Ramjet is $180
+Hoang Nguyen hahaha copy that
What??? No Buster included??? LOL
Unfortunately not
hasbro always go for the toy accurate they did the same with the u.s starcream which I went for as I didn't see why I should purchase a high priced figure all because it's toon accurate
+John Ward yea man, if toon accurate isnt a big del for you by all means pass. its my goal, so i felt strongarmed lol
we know the hasbro ones are more for kids in selling where as takara are more for the adult collectors i also have the hasbro mold but i also have the starscream hasbro mold so i think it would be stupid to pick up the takara one but then again i have the skywarp takara mold so im out of sink with each mold lol sold my mp3 molds not long ago as i had tc as the only mold in mp11 so i purchased starscream and skywarp in the same molds ......now this is going on to long and using molds way to often.....the moral of the story is im just talkin shit lol
+john ward hahaha yea man you are in a tough spot lol
Looks good to me
Ramon Bauza me too
My Takara has same peck-moving-with-arm issue and floppy wing syndrom on same side. Annoying.
+Professor D sorry to hear that
I have 3rd party legends seekers that look more cartoon acurate
I refuse to buy any of the direct stuff from Takara Tomy Mall. Having to pay full retail for something that has problems is ridiculous. General release, sure, you got my money for these B-tier characters. Not premium price material.
+Mike Honcho i hear you
Looking back, I'm tempted to get this. Looks like he's wearing a 70's cornflower blue tux. You could play Prom with him where he takes Starscream as his date who is crowned prom queen.
I didn't watch the whole video but I'm guessing the waist connection is crap/non-existent and the shoulders don't hold in place... the pointless and frustrating attempt to avoid partsforming. I completely hate this mold. I gotta take a stand at the MP Ramjet - pass! The jump to $200 with Coronation SS was a joke, a total disappointment. I don't think I'm interested in ANY official product anymore at this point. The more we buy this junk the more the problem continues. >:( Oh, I see now that your new guy's waist is better, too bad all the ones I already bought don't hold together at all. Screw you, Takara.
+MultiJamesman hahaha youre right with the shoulders though
Great skit.
+Chrisp1811 lol, thank you
Hasbro= better.
SON OF......😕
+poloskier1967 ;)