Cosmic Toys reached out and asked us to do a few quick reviews of items that they have had traded in recently, we kick off with: Maketoys MTRM-15 Endgame, their take on a Masterpiece style Dirge.
This figure comes to me loose, with instructions but with a few of the accessories missing. Items that are missing are: 4 out of the 5 alt face sculpts and the short null ray tips. So what we do get, aside from the figure itself, it’s just the alternate null rays and that’s it.
Speaking of the transformation sequence, it’s a pretty straightforward affair, nothing taxing or apprehension inducing here.
There’s not really much to say about this mode, mainly as by now we are all more than familiar with the Seeker style Masterpiece Transformers, regardless of who has made them. Aside from one or two minor design differences, they are pretty much the same.
Maketoys produce some good figures but they have chosen a style that I don’t feel fits in comfortably with the other Masterpiece figures out there on the market. There’s a very stylised aesthetic to their designs, which in and of itself look real nice, and would they include a little more die-cast and a lick of paint, they’d be up there with other more popular offerings. My only two negative points for this figure, as was the same for their other Seekers, are the small heads and the outdated hand designs.
Overall I’d say that the Maketoys Coneheads are a good viable option for your shelf, certainly better than the older Takara offerings. However I feel it will be a short shelf life given that I fully expect both Takara and Deformation Space to bring newer versions of these characters to the market in the near future.
And that’s all I can be bothered to say about Maketoys Endgame.