You're very good at posing. I wish I had the space to! Most of my figures are in the mode that takes up the least space and just lined up next to each other.
I'm a collector myself and I know how much they are apart of your life and it makes u happy same as me been collecting since 16 now I'm 50 and still collecting transformers
Great video and collection!! Here's a couple of things: 1. Joints aren't exactly the best way to tell a KO when even legit Takara figures have issues with quality control. An example of this is my Bluestreak, a Hasbro Asia release. One arm is loose at the bicep, but the other is perfectly fine...but worse is the gun: the handle can't rotate around to reveal the post that connects to the vehicle mode *at all*. By comparison, I have KOs of Prowl & Smokescreen whose guns work just fine. But in many cases, price can be a HUGE giveaway. (Many, but not all: Hasbro Asia releases are basically Takara figures with a Chinese language information sticker on the box and an extra collector card and extra instructions, entirely in Chinese inside the box. These tend to be mistaken for KOs, when they're not.) 2. An example of the last point in number 1 about Hasbro Asia vs. KO is Hot Rod. The KO of MP28 Hot Rod has a modification where the wheels of the car are lowered slightly to give enough clearance to roll along the ground properly. MP40 Targetmaster Hot Rod never had such a mod done, and it doesn't have a KO, either. But it does have the things that a Hasbro Asia release has...just that the seller thought it was a KO, and priced it as such. 3. "Destron" is the Japanese version term for Decepticon (and for Predacon in Beast Wars, Beast Wars II, Beast Wars Neo, & Beast Wars Metals), whereas "Cybertron" is for Autobot (and Maximal). "Laserwave" is Shockwave's Japanese name. A *LOT* of the characters you know have different names in Japan. Other examples are: Gong (Brawn), Bumble (Bumblebee), Clonebots & Clonetrons (Autobot Clones & Decepticon clones, aka Fastlane, Cloudraker, Pounce, & Wingspan), Ginrai (Powermaster Optimus Prime; Ginrai is a completely different character), Car Robots Gigatron (Robots in Disguise 2001 Megatron), Car Robots Speedbreaker (RiD01 Sideburn), Galaxy Force Noisemaze (Cybertron Sideways), Car Robots Brave Maximus (RiD01 Fortress Maximus), Micron Legend Ultra Magnus (Armada Overload), and others. Outside of Masterpiece, this was largely dropped by the time Transformers Animated and the live action movies came out in Japan in favor of the American names and terminology.
Thank you so much for taking the time to write such a great comment! I really appreciate it. Glad you liked the video. Look out for the next few I'll be making over the coming weeks.
In my experience so far, the best way to know if a figure is a KO or not is to look for the (C)TOMY stamp on the plastic in some obscure spot. With the KOs I have handled, the stamp usually missing, and I think I saw one that had (C)TONY. As for the packaging… usually the stamped vs cut number is reliable, but some more recent officials are more cut, and I think some more recent KOs are closer to the stamp. Harder to get used to but still good is inspecting the exposed cardboard edges. There are subtle differences.
I think there are several factors behind mp-ko and their “allowed” existence. Since the factories that produce takara tomy masterpiece are in China, either “private merchants” have access to the factories after hours to produce ko’s using the same materials, purchase (or steal)unused or discontinued part molds to make their own in another location, or reverse engineer authentic products. China doesn’t adhere to or recognize copyright or intellectual property laws, so any ethical or legal issues are avoided. The first ko I bought was on Amazon. Third party figures manage to avoid legal issues as well. unlike takara tomy many third party companies originate in China, may change character names, slight appearance alterations, and offer unique/original transformation engineering. 4th party seems to be a mix of all three, like robot rose “arcee”, a ko masterpiece arcee, with some unique engineering that improves on the original with different packaging and name. Be wary of the RU-vid reviewers though, some of the names on your list are loaned products and paid to post a positive review.
The licence is not on the likeness of the toy but on the names. That's why other companies never use the original names and mostly never use the faction symbols
You put yourself down at the start of your video. You shouldn't. I like your presentation its relaxed. I have seen Bobby Skullface videos and all he does is say everything is rubbish, it's tiresome.
Bro when are you gonna grow up and stop playing with toys? For crying out loud!! ... Just kiddin bro, don't do it. I've seen grownups, they're a miserable bunch or sorry saps, devoid of joy, with bills, terrible marriages and whiney ass kids. Stay young at heart forever and keep on keepin on. Awesome vid with a ton of great info for the newbie. And a fun watch for us ol skoolers.
