Alt Mode 7/10
Plenty to love, and to hate about the alt mode. For the love of God, it's an SR-71!!! This jet is legendary. Simply love the size, panel lines, details, markings and everything else looking from the top. Very accurate to the blackbird. But, plenty to hate about the robot kibble below. Don't get me wrong though, i am not blaming the designers AT ALL for this. it has a jet mode, robot mode, and can combine with leader prime for God's sake. A solid, 7.
And now... BANDAI DISPLAY STAND TIME!!!
Thanks for trying, Grandpa Jetfire...
Robot Mode 7/10
For the most part, a pretty decent attempt. Nothing REALLY wrong about it, just don't think TOO much about movie accuracy and you'd be fine. Yeah... after watching the movie a few more times, you'd be less than satisfied with this. The jet turbines are supposed to be the legs, but here you find them both on his back as kibble, while his legs have fake turbines. The cockpit kibble is on the arms, while a fake cockpit is on Jetfire's forehead. And, Jetfire's body is too big compared to his legs. Another 7 i'd say.
Articulation 8/10
Now let me show you how Jefire brought the pain in his day!!!
Transformation 5/10
OK, not as hard as Prime's, but still much harder than Megatron's. However, the is nothing fun or satisfying about it. There is no wow factor either. Wow factor is something like when robot kibble is cleverly hidden in the Alt mode. None of that here.
X-factor 10/10
i really liked his movie appearance, though it wasn't long! First off it was simply WOW to find a SR-71 transformer. then he provided some good humour and an interesting history lesson. Then he absolutely kicked somebody's ass. Finally, he was part of the climax of the movie, 50% of it actually. Nothing less than 10 in X-factor, considering all this.
Overall 37/50
The winning point is his X-factor. Combining with Prime, a legendary jet as an Alt mode, solid movie character. Otherewise, imagine if his alt mode wasnt an SR-71 and just any plane with robot kibble under. Imagine if he was just a nobody in the movie. Imagine if he never combined with Prime. Then, this toy would be everything that reminds me of why i quit collecting TFs for a while and moved to Macross.
Love ya review! Jet is simply an amazing toys to play with, glad that you grabbed it!
ReplyDeleteToo bad with the fake copic and turbines, and the robot underneath, anyhow I think the team had already done a great job, and they are moving on with combination of 2 primary TF together, which required a lot of effort and creativity, bravo to them.