Tuned Agent wrote:Nice list! Jetfire has so many good toys, and these are really the cream of the crop. Knowing how much you love G1 Jetfire, WJ88 (having read your praises in other threads), I'm not at all surprised to see him at #1. I'm glad to see T30 Jetfire ultimately made the list as well.
I'd like to give an honorable mention to my boy
Animated Jetfire. Probably not top 5 worthy, but he's a fun figure and his ability to combine with Jetstorm was cool (when it held together).
Thanks for the kind words. And yeah, people who read these lists had a pretty good idea of what number 1 would be. But reading the comments here and elsewhere online it seems I'm not the only one to feel this way.
AllNewSuperRobot wrote:So I take it no one liked the Animated Jetfire then? As I see no mention of it in two pages, so far.
See what I quoted above.
carytheone wrote: I own T30 and Siege and I like T30 better, but I also like Siege just fine. To me they are both good toys in different ways.
Yes, that's why I put both on this list, and both in favor of the classics toy. It's a good toy but it's dated and it feels a tad obsolete, as most classics toys feel. I did keep the threadbolt redeco though, I like having that mold in my collection, it's just not top 5 in my book.
Flashwave wrote:Honestly, I am disappointed the original Classics Jetfire is not on that list. I would have ranked it over any of the UT figures. Its not a perfect representation, but it is a fantastically fun toy.
You mentioned the T30 Jetfire as having Chromed guns as a good thing, its funny to me, so many people actually preferred the Takara because it didn't have the chrome that flaked off so easily
What's funny to me is that all along, Takara was releasing their figures with chromed weapons and parts and US fans were paying a premium to import them. But when Hasbro was the one to do chromed weapons and not Takara, chrome became uncool all of a sudden and the really cool thing was paying extra to import a version that didn't have chrome. This was all hilarious to me.
Flashwave wrote:Honestly, I think its deeper than that: we have no definition of Jetfire yet.
Yes, hence why I find it equally hilarious for people to talk as if some are not really Jetfire. There is no true Jetfire, the whole point of that character in TF history is the lack of consistency in rendition. The G1 toy and G1 show character looked very different and inspired different ideas of the character, ideas that these young fans then kept in their heads till now. So there can be no such thing as a perfect Jetfire representation and I love that about him. Hence why I wanted to make this list as diverse as possible and show the good toys he's had representing his different incarnations.
-Kanrabat- wrote:G Plus I'm pretty sure that if he'd be produced today as a regular release, he would be a 200$+ toy at the bare minimum, with all those parts and diecast. He was also fairly articulated.
I see this being a debate, it doesnt need to be, we have the actual facts. The latest reissue of the exact toy (in its original Robotech deco) was sold for $180 USD.
ZeldaTheSwordsman wrote:What's your beef with #3?
It's not "G1"