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Leonardo wrote:True, though I must say I always felt Classics Jetfire's 'battle mode' was just a nice solution so that Hasbro could make a toy that could be either Jetfire or Skyfire. A best of both worlds kind of quality.

I just figured it was so they could keep a resemblance to G1 Jetfire's head without getting sued by the current license holders of Macross.

AbsumZer0 wrote:

Leonardo wrote:True, though I must say I always felt Classics Jetfire's 'battle mode' was just a nice solution so that Hasbro could make a toy that could be either Jetfire or Skyfire. A best of both worlds kind of quality.

I just figured it was so they could keep a resemblance to G1 Jetfire's head without getting sued by the current license holders of Macross.

Or that, yeah. Something to do with the Macross issue, anyway.

Bottom Line, i think the whole battle mask thing for this movie is kinda silly, and granted i see that it could be a good emotion tool, or simply the animators felt it looked cool, but honestly their robots at war, what purpose, unless they eat or kiss would they need to open their mask and show their mouth?? it just seems really silly and useless to me. Besides the regular faces look like crap compared to the battle helmet versions..

in some cases, I wouldn't mind if they kept battle mode permanently (bumble bee and jazz mostly, they got the short end of the stick on looks) and if the battle mode covers the whole face, then all the decepticons too

something to bear in mind is the fact that all we have seen is static images of the "downtime"faces so we honestly have no idea of how well the faces emote.so it becomes kinda redundant to say the faces look retarded from just stills.

grimlockprime108 wrote:something to bear in mind is the fact that all we have seen is static images of the "downtime"faces so we honestly have no idea of how well the faces emote.so it becomes kinda redundant to say the faces look retarded from just stills.

A very good point.