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[Nekoman]

Shortly after being revealed here yesterday, we now have images of Animated Jetfire and Jetstorm in-package from Entertainment Earth. It is also revealed to us that their combine name is Safeguard.

Click here to see the preorder, or see the image below.

[Zeds]

Does not look any better in or out of box. Looks like it comes with an exclusive comic. Hasbro's way of trying to move these off shelves. It will go on clearance. Maybe then.

[Omega Charge]

So comic and no dvd? They look okay, but probably a pass for now. Wonder if they'll make it into the show at some point.

[Jaz-Zen]

These really suck. So disappointing. I DO like the individual jet modes, they're not that bad, but everything else about these two is just Epic Fail. Too bad, since I love the rest of Animated.

[ACIDSTORM]

did you guys get this off the animated forum cos i posted it there about half an hour before this news came up if you did you couldve at least thanked me if not ok

[DavidT]

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Still Looks like Poo!


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[Solrac333]

This just makes me laugh everytime I see it.

[Bumblethumper]

I thought Firestorm would be a much cooler name for the combined form of Jetfire and Jetstorm(get it?).

Safeguard is a bit... I dunno. I guess maybe the idea is that individually they represent 2 extremes, but together they balance each other's craziness out. Or maybe their mission is to 'guard' a 'safe'. Or protect the allspark or something. Other than some reason like that, it'd be a bit ... weak.

[StryderPrime]

Is it me.....or on the package....they suppose 2 have wings the kinad remind me of Voltron on their back?????

[HighPrime]

I thought Firestorm would be a much cooler name for the combined form of Jetfire and Jetstorm(get it?).

Safeguard is a bit... I dunno. I guess maybe the idea is that individually they represent 2 extremes, but together they balance each other's craziness out. Or maybe their mission is to 'guard' a 'safe'. Or protect the allspark or something. Other than some reason like that, it'd be a bit ... weak.

Or maybe Hasbro is getting ready to trademark the name again since it was last used quite a while ago as the name of Vector Prime's mini-con.

Or maybe they really like Safeguard soap.. these guy kind of look like a bar of soap when combined.

[muswp1]

I'm not a huge fan of those figures at all. The combined jet mode just looks dumb.

[ayenlou]

Hey guys!

I messaged Derrick Wyatt at his blog regarding the Jetfire and Jetstorm figures. And here's what he had to say about it...

"I wouldn't rush to judgment on the Jetfire and Jetstorm figures yet. Those are some pretty terrible pictures that are out there right now. The pictures I saw way back of the grey prototypes looked really good. And yes, of course they have hands! In both robot modes! The promo pics are just mistransformed. Once they are properly transformed and posed out, they should look pretty cool. "

SWEEET!!!!

[Counterpunch]

Safeguard against me ever buying them...

[Autobot Firestorm]

There's suck...and then there's this.

Fail.

[Autobot032]

Still crap. No matter how much spin you put on it, how flashy the packaging....CRAPOLA.

[Firebird]

I was hoping that the 2-Pack would come with a DVD.

At least the comic gives me more of a reason not to pick this up.

[Autobot032]

I pity the poor sucker picked to write and illustrate that comic. I mean, all of that work...packed in with all of that fail.

TF Fail: Makes Baby Primus Cry.

[Menbailee]

OK, so we have confirmation that the pics show them mistransformed. Regardless, even with hands, I have a hard time seeing them looking even decent. That combined jet form is an atrocity. Unless there's a completely different combined jet mode that the photographer utterly failed to understand, I'm just not seeing any way to justify these guys. A correct transformation might save these figures from the status of complete embarrassment, but they're still the bottom of the Animated line, which otherwise has given us an almost unbroken series of terrific figures.

[Bumblebeast]

Nope. Im not feeling it yet. Nothing. My wallet is still closed...

[shortround]

I have to say it would be more fun to stand in a hockey net and take nut shots than get these figures.

[Prowl1529]

Box or no box those two are very out of the animated line!

[Autobot032]

I have to say it would be more fun to stand in a hockey net and take nut shots than get these figures.

Um...by the end of it, people are gonna wonder...which one's the puck?

[Mykltron]

I have to say it would be more fun to stand in a hockey net and take nut shots than get these figures.

You mean you'd rather get hit in the balls repeatedly with hard, fast moving objects than lose $25? Man, you're a real miser!

Yeah these two are disappointing, although I like they way the robots combine - I've not seen it done like that before. But they should have at least given them more differences in the mold. And putting one jet on top of the other doesn't constitute 'combining' in the transformers style for me.

[TFBuyer]

Yes, two piggy-back jets is a ridiculous "combination," but the addition of actual wings might do them wonders...

[Cyber Bishop]

Ick.