Got to fiddling around with him. Hat's off to the designer/s whoever they are!
What an added scaling can do wonders. Already history but the previous Jet/Skyfire mold simply got hobbled by the Voyager scale.
Anyway back to the present. I was looking at how the designers flipped the design from the source "Valkyrie" mold.
Kawamori had the jet engines concentrated on the legs, the latest kind off used a flipped out Armoss Legios from Mospeada Genesis Climber design. The outer legs served as the housing while the arms served as the jet engines. but situated on the underbelly (Legios had the arms situated topside).
The almost seamless way the faux chest mounts on the "real" cockpit is just a stroke of genius!
It might be due to cost concerns, the "hollow" parts(fore arms, fist and thighs) could have easily been remedied, kind of distracting.
Again, resurrecting one design that the henkei version had an advantage is that its fist is a separate rotatable part. It would have been even more awesome if the fist could be collapsed in the arm (like the original Bandai Valkyrie).
And the connecting pegs on the cockpit, I'd wish it were made from a more durable material........(maybe die-cast?), it kind of a concern somewhere down the road.
Sorry about the ventilating (the positives btw far outstrips the negatives)
Now the positives............the jet mode is soooooooooooooooo AWESOME! Just needing the reprolable detail upgrades for all the white spaces. Cockpit for the pilots are also detailed (off course not to the level of the SOC Bandai or the Yamato/Arcadia Valkyrie) but it does the work). Overall, it again reminds me of the Armoss Legios merged with the F-14 Tomcat........same enjoyment but at a lesser price.
Surprising aspects:
For age 8 up right? The cockpit has a sharp pointy end. The G1 Seekers have rubberized tips. Were the first release any less sharper?
Spring mounted missile on his gun. It's good, just like the recent Roadbuster. I wonder what brought about this change in toy feature design?
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