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fenrir72 wrote:Autobot032 wrote:mooncake623 wrote:Autobot032 wrote:His fastpack thrusters swivel. Why? I don't know, but they do.
I know it's mistransformed but it looks better like this. Trust me
OHHH! Hah. No, I meant the black booster exhausts themselves. They swivel up and down for whatever reason. I knew why the jetpack moved, but it's thrusters move too, for whatever reason.fenrir72 wrote:Autobot032 wrote:His fastpack thrusters swivel. Why? I don't know, but they do.
Swivels so in 'bot mode it becomes a booster pack I guess.
I personally prefer it left in vehicle mode. When it's swiveled up, it reminds me of IDW Stormbringer Jetfire, which is fine and all for some, but not me. This is G1 Skyfire and the robot mode pulls it off quite well. Those giant thrusters look doofy sticking straight up out of his back. So dumb.
Yah! Agreed. The thrusters in henkei Skyfire is more proportional in that the guns are collapsible. In the 30th (again, what could have been, maybe aside from the option to swivel, the ability to pull the housing backwards), those two thrusters reminds me of the extended "Main Guns" of the SDF -1.
Roninx35 wrote:Its figures from my Zoids sets. There the same scale it seems. Or at least the cockpits are the same scale.
fenrir72 wrote:
Would 30th Jetfire look better if a special ed was released using this type of scramjets ( calling Tomy or Hasbro...another pocket hurting concept for you to squeeze the mold)?
Optimum Supreme wrote:The one thing that truly bothers me about the toy is the way the chest transforms requires a lot of force to get it fully into/out of jet mode, and it feels like more than those bars it's connected on will be able to take over time. Obviously not an issue for those that plan to keep it in one mode or another, but I'm not one of those people. I like to transform my Transformers!
SJ21 wrote:Optimum Supreme wrote:The one thing that truly bothers me about the toy is the way the chest transforms requires a lot of force to get it fully into/out of jet mode, and it feels like more than those bars it's connected on will be able to take over time. Obviously not an issue for those that plan to keep it in one mode or another, but I'm not one of those people. I like to transform my Transformers!
Yes. Seriously, every time I try to change the plane back to bot, it feels like the whole cockpit is going to snap off at the black part. I don't like that at all.
Wonder if they'll make it feel sturdier. He's looking great though, the more I look at it the more I like it. He's just so Skyfire.fenrir72 wrote:Previous releases like FE Optimus Prime, the Tomy version has metal like flakes combined with the red plastic. Same with RID Fire Convoy compared to the Hasbro one. And GF Convoy compared to the Hasbro version.
He's pretty short with them, though. Shorter than Prime, even.Ravage XK wrote:My Jefire arrived yesterday. Still in the box at the moment but I think I might place this guy with the Masterpiece line.
Shadowman wrote:This is Sabrblade we're talking about. His ability to store trivial information about TV shows is downright superhuman.
Caelus wrote:My wife pointed out something interesting about the prehistoric Predacons. I said that everyone was complaining because transforming for them mostly consisted of them just standing up-right. She essentially said, 'So? That's what our ancestors did.'
Ravage XK wrote:My Jefire arrived yesterday. Still in the box at the moment but I think I might place this guy with the Masterpiece line.
Yotsuyasan wrote:Well, I got one of these today. I got lucky and came across one on Amazon being sold in "Used - Like New" condition that, with tax, only cost me $39.50 shipped. I was a bit worried what "Used - Like New" might exactly translate to, but when it arrived it looked as if the box had never been opened!
Like most everyone else, I think it would have been better if they had left off the chrome and instead used a bit of black paint on the weapons. (I had briefly considered getting the Takara version, but I just could not justify the extra cost.) But having it in hand, while not my absolute favorite deco choice, it isn't the end of the world.
I'm not usually too much in the "No wrist swivels = worst toy ever!" camp... But on a figure this large, and where there seems to be no big reason to admit it (such as if the way the figure transformed had made such a feature difficult to implement) it really sticks out in its absence. (Especially since the 2006 figure had wrist swivels!)
Still... Overall a great figure. And even as someone who loved the 2006 figure, this one blows it away. Still doesn't compare to, say, a Yamato/Arcadia 1/60 VF-1, but for a domestic mass market retail figure, wrist swivels aside I don't see it being much better then this!
Here he is with some friends:
Left to right: 2006 Voyager Jetfire (with Reprolabels), 2014 Leader Jetfire, the VF-1S Valkyrie mold upon which the original Jetfiire toy was based (sadly sans Super armor, which I do not have), and a Yamato 1/60 VF-1S Roy TV Version with Super armor.
leakin' lubricant wrote:Just out of interest, is there any way of using G1 Jetfire's thrusters on Generations Jetfire?
leakin' lubricant wrote:Thanks guys, I thought as much, shame, I think it would look tonnes better with more G1 thrusters.
Yotsuyasan wrote:leakin' lubricant wrote:Thanks guys, I thought as much, shame, I think it would look tonnes better with more G1 thrusters.
I agree! Although the ones it does have are growing on me, stupid chrome and all!
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