About MP3Pdb

MP3Pdb — the Masterpiece & Third-Party Database — is the site I kept wishing existed: one corner of the Transformers hobby, covered properly. Puddle-wide and ocean-deep.

Every release and reissue, what it cost and what it's worth now, the review that shows you how to get that chest panel to tab in, and who else has one on the shelf. I want it to be the first place you go when a new figure lands on your doorstep — the source of truth for this thing of ours. That's why it's called The Archive.

If you land here and think finally… someone built it, my bucket is full.

It started with Grimlock, on my fifth birthday in 1985. A robot that turns into a dinosaur — nothing was cooler, and honestly, it's still in the conversation. I rode G1 out through the Action Masters, drifted off to the Turtles, and came back the long way: old stock from the back corners of toy stores, every Alternator I could find, then Transformers Animated — the first time a figure in my hand looked like it had jumped straight off the screen.

Masterpiece took longer to win me over. My first, MP Silverstreak, left me sooo disappointed: no heft, no rubber tires, and fifty bucks felt like a lot back then (oh, how things have changed). Then one New Year's Eve I picked up Fans Toys Koot, and the build, the paint, the heft and that transformation were everything I'd been looking for. I sold a hundred figures to go all in, and the spreadsheet started that week.

This site lived in my head for years. I taught myself to scrape with Python — it barely worked — but the code was never the problem. The data was: too big to get my arms around, and I have a folder of spreadsheet designs that fell flat to prove it.

My dad passed away at the end of 2025, and afterwards I needed somewhere to put my head. So I took one more swing at the data, found dbdiagram.io, and that was the spark. I'm an Applications Engineer by trade, but it had been a long time since I'd built anything for the web, so I learned how it's done today and committed to seeing it through this year. Building it gave the grief somewhere constructive to go.

And here we are.

A hundred-plus Masterpiece and third-party figures share four full-size IKEA Billys and two half-size ones with Mondo's Real Ghostbusters, Storm's Street Fighter II, Jada's Mega Man, a few Mezco one-offs and a nearly complete NECA TMNT cartoon line (the Turtles never really left). Every shelf is lit, and I've never paid over retail for any of it.

Favorites? One from each faction. Kup, for the grizzled-veteran vibes. And Soundwave, because the best second-in-command sets the standard and tells the boss the truth. He was the G1 grail I never got as a kid — which made the Masterpiece's so-so build sting a little. That's grails for you.

Nobody builds something like this alone, and credit should be given loudly.

• The keepers of the TFW2005 Masterpiece Character Guide, TFWiki, Teletraan I, TFU.info and Botch's Box Art Archive, whose years of work this archive stands on.
• Every reviewer and photographer who shows us these figures better than any product shot ever could.
• The shops that keep us stocked, with a special shout-out to Agabyss and NickTheToyGuy.
• Realm of Collectors and the MiROC crew: my favorite, wonderfully weird people. You fill my bucket.
• The testers kicking the tires before anyone else gets here.
• Takara Tomy, Hasbro and every third-party studio, for making the things that bring us together.
• My wife and our two daughters, for their patience every time I disappeared into this thing.
• And you, for being here.

Thanks for filling my bucket. Till all are one.

— TheKrunkyMonkey