Jetfire!
Not much was happening on the internet in respect of new toy news, then blam… TFormers.com posted a billion pictures of the new classics Jetfire. Holy sweet banana in heat, I’m so excited that these pictures have me coming up with bizarre phrases.
For those of you who don’t know much about him, Jetfire is here is a handy Wikipedia article to get you acquainted. For those of you with lives, I’ll give you a short run down. Jetfire was known in the cartoon as Skyfire where he looked almost completely different than his toy counterpart. This is because Jetfire the toy came from Robotech and was just used as a Transformer. His cartoon version is basically the effort to avoid angry lawyers bashing down Hasbro’s doors.
Anyway, this figure does an excellent job of really meshing the two designs together. While it’s a little closer to the cartoon version, that’s pretty much what fans have wanted for awhile now. What’s really cool is that this version can still be transformed into the Robotech “gerwalk mode”, the half fighter/half robot design of the original. Holy hopping jingle bells, I need one!
Toys, toy collecting, Transformers, Jetfire, Skyfire
November 27th, 2006 at 1:24 pm
I used to have one of the original Robotech Veritech fighters. It was pretty sweet.
I always thought it was odd that he was the only airplane autobot. It seems like he was dissin’ his decepticon counterparts.
November 27th, 2006 at 3:39 pm
He was the lone aircraft for awhile. He came in pretty handed when they need to… well fly. I’ve been watching the entire run of transformers cartoons so I’m starting to learn way too much about these guys, like the fact that Starscream was supposedly a scientist before he became a decepticon. Yeah… right.