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Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 11:10 pm
by Stockade
I just picked up Jetfire today and theres 2 things that might be wrong with him and didnt know if anyone had these issues with him.

First, his head is very loose or wobbly and second when you press the sound button his eyes dont light up, only the very top part of his head or conopy. Is all Jetfires like this? or did i get bad one? All feedback is welcomed. thanks

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 11:19 pm
by Downshift7
Sounds perfectly normal to me. I have two and my friend has one all heads move freely and the eyes are painted. Sounds like yours is the just fine.

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Sat Sep 12, 2009 11:35 pm
by shonenfan4
The eyes aren't painted on mine, but the leds are on top of its head instead of in his eyes.

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 12:56 am
by Convotron
shonenfan4 wrote:The eyes aren't painted on mine, but the leds are on top of its head instead of in his eyes.


Same here. The LED is bright enough to illuminate the eyes, though. I like the way that the canopy gets bright red.

On a slightly related note, I wonder why Hasbro chose to make Leader OP's LED for the eyes green instead of blue. Oh well, the red and green LEDs he has makes him festive. Instead of "Merry Christmas", I'll just tell people that I'm Optimus Prime.

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 1:39 am
by shonenfan4
Convotron wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:The eyes aren't painted on mine, but the leds are on top of its head instead of in his eyes.


Same here. The LED is bright enough to illuminate the eyes, though. I like the way that the canopy gets bright red.

On a slightly related note, I wonder why Hasbro chose to make Leader OP's LED for the eyes green instead of blue. Oh well, the red and green LEDs he has makes him festive. Instead of "Merry Christmas", I'll just tell people that I'm Optimus Prime.


lol :lol: I'm still wondering why there's only 1 LED in the chest of Jetfire as opposed to 2 as shown on the back box art. :-?

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 3:21 am
by Mykltron
shonenfan4 wrote:
Convotron wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:The eyes aren't painted on mine, but the leds are on top of its head instead of in his eyes.


Same here. The LED is bright enough to illuminate the eyes, though. I like the way that the canopy gets bright red.

On a slightly related note, I wonder why Hasbro chose to make Leader OP's LED for the eyes green instead of blue. Oh well, the red and green LEDs he has makes him festive. Instead of "Merry Christmas", I'll just tell people that I'm Optimus Prime.


lol :lol: I'm still wondering why there's only 1 LED in the chest of Jetfire as opposed to 2 as shown on the back box art. :-?


Cost. An english business tycoon reasoned that his company received enough paperclips from the correspondence of other companies that his company didn't need to buy them. He was right and his company saved thousands of pounds just by stopping buying paperclips.

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:59 am
by SKYWARPED_128
shonenfan4 wrote:
Convotron wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:The eyes aren't painted on mine, but the leds are on top of its head instead of in his eyes.


Same here. The LED is bright enough to illuminate the eyes, though. I like the way that the canopy gets bright red.

On a slightly related note, I wonder why Hasbro chose to make Leader OP's LED for the eyes green instead of blue. Oh well, the red and green LEDs he has makes him festive. Instead of "Merry Christmas", I'll just tell people that I'm Optimus Prime.


lol :lol: I'm still wondering why there's only 1 LED in the chest of Jetfire as opposed to 2 as shown on the back box art. :-?


According to tfwiki.net, the right led was taken out to create space for the hidden sound effects button in alt mode. You know, the one hidden in the back that makes the jet-engine noises?

The pic in the back of the box is just the usual pre-release design, before the figure underwent its usual last-minute modifications.

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 1:00 pm
by shonenfan4
SKYWARPED_128 wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:
Convotron wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:The eyes aren't painted on mine, but the leds are on top of its head instead of in his eyes.


Same here. The LED is bright enough to illuminate the eyes, though. I like the way that the canopy gets bright red.

On a slightly related note, I wonder why Hasbro chose to make Leader OP's LED for the eyes green instead of blue. Oh well, the red and green LEDs he has makes him festive. Instead of "Merry Christmas", I'll just tell people that I'm Optimus Prime.


lol :lol: I'm still wondering why there's only 1 LED in the chest of Jetfire as opposed to 2 as shown on the back box art. :-?


According to tfwiki.net, the right led was taken out to create space for the hidden sound effects button in alt mode. You know, the one hidden in the back that makes the jet-engine noises?

The pic in the back of the box is just the usual pre-release design, before the figure underwent its usual last-minute modifications.


I guess that's an explanation for it, but I still think it's partly to cut production costs. :lol:

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 2:33 pm
by Convotron
shonenfan4 wrote:I guess that's an explanation for it, but I still think it's partly to cut production costs. :lol:


It's because Jetfire's an old bot. He just doesn't have it in him to power all the LEDs. Old fart.

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 3:11 pm
by shonenfan4
Convotron wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:I guess that's an explanation for it, but I still think it's partly to cut production costs. :lol:


It's because Jetfire's an old bot. He just doesn't have it in him to power all the LEDs. Old fart.


Quick, feed him Energon Cubes. :P

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 3:51 pm
by Convotron
shonenfan4 wrote:
Convotron wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:I guess that's an explanation for it, but I still think it's partly to cut production costs. :lol:


It's because Jetfire's an old bot. He just doesn't have it in him to power all the LEDs. Old fart.


Quick, feed him Energon Cubes. :P


Remember to mash them up good!

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:02 pm
by shonenfan4
Convotron wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:
Convotron wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:I guess that's an explanation for it, but I still think it's partly to cut production costs. :lol:


It's because Jetfire's an old bot. He just doesn't have it in him to power all the LEDs. Old fart.


Quick, feed him Energon Cubes. :P


Remember to mash them up good!


Indeed :P Back on topic, was Jetfire's voice taken directly from the movie? bc it doesn't sound like his movie voice. :???:

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:06 pm
by Jelze Bunnycat
shonenfan4 wrote:
Convotron wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:
Convotron wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:I guess that's an explanation for it, but I still think it's partly to cut production costs. :lol:


It's because Jetfire's an old bot. He just doesn't have it in him to power all the LEDs. Old fart.


Quick, feed him Energon Cubes. :P


Remember to mash them up good!


Indeed :P Back on topic, was Jetfire's voice taken directly from the movie? bc it doesn't sound like his movie voice. :???:


You're correct: the toy Jetfire has a Scottish accent, instead of the English one from the movie

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 4:09 pm
by Convotron
Yeah, that's an odd thing about the figure. I wonder why Mark Ryan didn't supply the voice recording.

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Sun Sep 13, 2009 6:01 pm
by shonenfan4
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:You're correct: the toy Jetfire has a Scottish accent, instead of the English one from the movie


I see. When I first got the figure, I was pressing down the tab a few times and it just sounded different. :wink:

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 8:29 am
by Stockade
shonenfan4 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:You're correct: the toy Jetfire has a Scottish accent, instead of the English one from the movie


I see. When I first got the figure, I was pressing down the tab a few times and it just sounded different. :wink:


I also noticed this to about Jetfire's voice being different, but so far OP is from the movie right? and what about Megatron? is he different from the movie, cause he sounds like it..

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:55 am
by SKYWARPED_128
Convotron wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:
Convotron wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:I guess that's an explanation for it, but I still think it's partly to cut production costs. :lol:


It's because Jetfire's an old bot. He just doesn't have it in him to power all the LEDs. Old fart.


Quick, feed him Energon Cubes. :P


Remember to mash them up good!


Just curious, but is there such a thing as energon prune juice on Cybertron? :lol:

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:23 am
by shonenfan4
Stockade wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:
JelZe GoldRabbit wrote:You're correct: the toy Jetfire has a Scottish accent, instead of the English one from the movie


I see. When I first got the figure, I was pressing down the tab a few times and it just sounded different. :wink:


I also noticed this to about Jetfire's voice being different, but so far OP is from the movie right? and what about Megatron? is he different from the movie, cause he sounds like it..


I think Megatron is from the movie, though it's pretty altred / deep to hear otherwise.

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:44 am
by Convotron
SKYWARPED_128 wrote:
Convotron wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:
Convotron wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:I guess that's an explanation for it, but I still think it's partly to cut production costs. :lol:


It's because Jetfire's an old bot. He just doesn't have it in him to power all the LEDs. Old fart.


Quick, feed him Energon Cubes. :P


Remember to mash them up good!


Just curious, but is there such a thing as energon prune juice on Cybertron? :lol:


Probably but being technological beings, there's probably a machine assisted option...ewwww.

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 1:35 pm
by shonenfan4
Convotron wrote:Probably but being technological beings, there's probably a machine assisted option...ewwww.


Nah, they just drink the Energon Cubes and get mad drunk. :idea:

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 3:48 pm
by Convotron
shonenfan4 wrote:
Convotron wrote:Probably but being technological beings, there's probably a machine assisted option...ewwww.


Nah, they just drink the Energon Cubes and get mad drunk. :idea:


Beings who can serve their own transportation are the worst drunk drivers.

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 7:07 pm
by SKYWARPED_128
Convotron wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:
Convotron wrote:Probably but being technological beings, there's probably a machine assisted option...ewwww.


Nah, they just drink the Energon Cubes and get mad drunk. :idea:


Beings who can serve as their own transportation are the worst drunk drivers.


Come to think of it, there was this G1 episode where the Decepticons got piss-drunk on energon while celebrating a victory or something. Cybertronian booze as sustenance? No wonder both Autobots and Decepticons are fighting a war over it :lol:

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 9:44 pm
by It Is Him
SKYWARPED_128 wrote:
Convotron wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:
Convotron wrote:Probably but being technological beings, there's probably a machine assisted option...ewwww.


Nah, they just drink the Energon Cubes and get mad drunk. :idea:


Beings who can serve as their own transportation are the worst drunk drivers.


Come to think of it, there was this G1 episode where the Decepticons got piss-drunk on energon while celebrating a victory or something. Cybertronian booze as sustenance? No wonder both Autobots and Decepticons are fighting a war over it :lol:


That was such a great episode. I loved when the Decepticons finally made it to White Castle and ate 20 burgers a piece.

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Mon Sep 14, 2009 11:17 pm
by shonenfan4
SKYWARPED_128 wrote:
Convotron wrote:
shonenfan4 wrote:
Convotron wrote:Probably but being technological beings, there's probably a machine assisted option...ewwww.


Nah, they just drink the Energon Cubes and get mad drunk. :idea:


Beings who can serve as their own transportation are the worst drunk drivers.


Come to think of it, there was this G1 episode where the Decepticons got piss-drunk on energon while celebrating a victory or something. Cybertronian booze as sustenance? No wonder both Autobots and Decepticons are fighting a war over it :lol:


Is that one when where they go inside Megatron? The Heart of Cybertron in Megatron. :???:

Re: Question about Jetfire

PostPosted: Tue Sep 15, 2009 12:17 am
by Convotron
It Is Him wrote:That was such a great episode. I loved when the Decepticons finally made it to White Castle and ate 20 burgers a piece.


NPH sure took those Decepticons on a wilde and crazy joyride. Good times. :lol: