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MP-36 Megatron seems to have killed the momentum of G1 MP figures. The figure just divided people too much; it’s a slavish recreation of the cartoon ; with complex engineering; but it did so at a cost of qc issues, and an aesthetic change that made further releases, and past ones, complicated. Now there had to be a new Optimus to match this Megatron,and that Optimus had already set the aesthetic standard for figures before 36. Takara is stuck trying to rerelease old figure to match as best they can but it doesn’t work. There’s very few G1 releases a year anymore. Fans Toys and Maketoys has basically picked up the ball and made figures to continue to fill holes Takara is leaving, and not many people are willing to jump back. These 3Ps aren’t bad, but o feel they lack the aesthetic cohesion of MP-10 through 35. Fans Toys sculpts look just a little too plain, and Make Toys looks too cartoony. Shame, back in 2015 it felt like we were going to get the whole 84-85 lineup in the MP line.
