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Transformers Studio Series Age of Extinction Optimus Prime Hasbro ‎G0482

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Part 2 of ROTB Studio Series Scourge!

In robot mode Scourge is very menacing in appearance. Everything from his flaming chest, chrome mask, huge claw and cracked blade just scream 'bad guy'. The paint details carry over to this mode and really make his upper torso and arms stand out, but from the waist down he really lacks in the paint and detail department. That said, even in his final on screen design that was much the same anyways.

Scourge has little to no impedance on his articulation but I will say he could benefit from one or two more joints per arm. As you can see I've been able to match him up to quite a few of the on screen poses and replicate a few scenes too. He scales really well with other figures in the line and does a good job of standing freely without support.

He only has one accessory, that being his gun arm. In the final movie cut he has both a collapsed arm gun that he uses to fight the Autobots and Maximals but can also use his claw arm to release a pulsing disintegrator blast. The sword blade is permanently attached to his arm and has some real nice detail of its own, with cracks running down its length to really show its battle worn from the many fights he's taken on on behalf of Unicron.

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Transformers Legends (Japanese version)

Leader class

Jetfire

You’d think that I’d be covering the Siege version of Jetfire, didn’t you; but no. I don’t own the Siege version.

He just wasn’t a priority for me.

I got Jetfire from Ebay, for about $30 some time around September 2019, so thins is rough where I am in the timeline. He arrived around the same time as the Rainmakers, and Siege Skywarp.

This version of Jetfire is the Japanese version of 2014′s Transformers Generations toyline, however his weapons and accessories do not come with the vacuum metal red paint, and the’re all just red plastic instead.

Vehicle Mode:

I’m no jet expert, but Sky...I’m sorry, Jetfire’s jet mode is some kind of fighter jet with articulated wings, very similar to his G1 toy/ macros origins.

The jet is cast in mostly white plastic with red painted details. There are some black plastic for the boosters, some clear blue for the canopy, and I think the nose cone is a soft rubber.

it’s a solid jet mode. Everything’s holding together well, the wings move into position fine, it has minimal panel details.

The red paint is clean, and also simple, and I love the Autobot tampagraph on the nose cone.

Jetfire can be outfitted with all of his accessories in both modes; for the jet mode he’s got those awesome rocket boosters, add the guns to the wings and the fuselage and he’s ready for some mainframe combat. You can add the gun to the nosecone too, but I’m not a fan of that.

The canopy can open revealing some nice detail, however it’s all unpainted black plastic, but it’s a nice option.

I will say this; if you look at the jet mode from the ventral section you’ll see the faux chest canopy underneath and between the intake manifolds, and it’s pretty obvious what that part is.

I suppose you could make the argument that since Jetfire’s all about technological advancement that it’s a high powered scanner, or something. Maybe a deflector array?...He is a scientist and explorer after all...

Transformation:

Transformation can be a scary thing sometimes. Lots of the transformations requires moving limbs and large areas around on thin, possibly breakable plastic, and personally this is not the type of Transformer you can just mindlessly convert; I recommend taking your time, and being careful with it.

Robot Mode:

But you can’t argue with the end result; Jetfire looks amazing.

I love this robot mode, I’m really glad that I made bought this figure. He doesn’t exactly look like his G1 counterpart, but he also has that 21st century update to the figure.

Jetfire, stands tall, like any lead class figure should; this is back when the classification still meant something.

Now we do see that Jetfire has a faux chest while the real nosecone is part of his backpack, and maybe that was unavoidable, I don’t know. It doesn’t bother me too much, especially since the rocket boosters do a god job hiding it.

The toy also has a FIFTEEEN 5mm ports; that’s a pretty good amount considering this toy predates the Siege line. Some of these 5mm ports are on the guns which we’ll talk about more in a bit.

I love this head sculpt. It is such a good, and clean sculpt referencing ‘The Transformers’ Sunbow animation cartoon model. 

The head kind of reminds of a space helmet with the silver face sticking, and once you add the battle mask it completes that look just fine. I prefer the mask off to be honest, but depending on the posing or the scene I have no problem with it being on.

Obviously Hasbro and Takara were trying to make a modern representation of both Jetfire’s Marcros origins with his Sunbow cartoon animation model, and I think for the most they made it work.

I would say Jetfire has a decent range of motion:

Horizontal hinge at the head, swivel at the neck, swivel at thye shoulders, hinges at the armpits, elbow bend, NO WRIST SWIVEL, universal knees, thigh swivel, knee bend, and ankle tilt.

The toy is definitely missing any waist or torso articulation, or wrist swivels, but this is also an older figure, is still acceptable..

Accessories:

Jetfire’s weapons and accessories are mostly made of red plastic with some black paint in certain areas.

The booster rockets can be clipped to the back of the jet. The clip is one a swivel, and the boosters can either be positioned up or down. In my opinion I prefer to keep the boosters down. The booster also has two 2 out of the 15 5mm ports.

The pair of arm guns are red, hollow plastic with black paint, they’ll clip on any 5mm port, and each gun has a 5mm point as well.

There’s another pair of larger guns which attach to Jetfire’s legs. They are also hollow red plastic, with black paint at the barrels. And the they also each have a 5mm ports.

The hand gun made out of red plastic is a spring loaded missile launcher.

The missile launches pretty well , and has two 5mm ports on the sides of the  gun.

Last of the accessories is Jetfire’s battle mask. I think it’s a clear blue plastic painted white, silver and black. The mask heralds back to the old Macros toys, and it slides off and on the the heads sculpt pretty well. It’s a nice option.

My only complaint about the battle mask is that for the life of me I can’t get the toy to wear it while in jet mode. Every time I’m transforming the figure, the mask eventually pops off, and I’m not about to use a lot of force with a thin plastic mask, on a toy with thin plastic hinges; so I just don’t even bother keep it on.

Final Thoughts:

I know I’m late to the game here, but I’m happy to finally have this figure. I wanted this figure back in 2014 but never picked it up. I though I had missed my opportunity, but I managed to pick one up for a good price.

Since i don’t have Siege Jetfire I’m glad that I have this one.

It’s a fun, modern update (2014) to a classic character. In my opinion this mold still holds up, as long as you’re careful transforming him.