Animated Jetfire/Jetstorm

[MV75]

http://www.bigbadtoystore.com/bbts/product.aspx?product=HAS16205&mode=retail&picture=aux2

Err yea. Ok then.

[Bartrim]

I was expecting something better:(

[GoktimusPrime]

That doth looketh disappointing.

[Paulbot]

Well.. that's interesting...

The combined 'jet' mode is a bit disappointing, but the Energon Omega-type combined robot is pretty original.

[iceburn]

did he ever appeared in the last 2 Animated Seasons?
can't remember

[sifun]

not picking that up.

[1orion2many]

:eek:That's horrendous:eek:.

[liegeprime]

it looks bleh, but sadly I'll be buying that crap :(

[MV75]

Well.. that's interesting...

The combined 'jet' mode is a bit disappointing, but the Energon Omega-type combined robot is pretty original.

Yea, pretty lame all over, but the robot mode does look interesting, until you wonder where two legs and two arms (back kibble), go off to...... :)

[Kyle]

Not what I expected, but still quite... "interesting". Since I'm now collecting all Animated characters, will get him anyway. Who knows... the characters can end up being very interesting and likeable in Season 3.

[MV75]

Oh yea no doubt about that, I'll most likely love the characters, but I'm just not buying any of the toys.

[SilverDragon]

I hope the jets are mistransformed or something, because they look really, really bad.

Oh, and apparently the combined mode is named Safeguard. (http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HT83889#LargeImage)

[liegeprime]

I hope the jets are mistransformed or something, because they look really, really bad.

Oh, and apparently the combined mode is named Safeguard. (http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HT83889#LargeImage)

After the soap? :p:o

[Mr_K]

Maybe someone can help me out here since I don't watch animated, but to be honest I really don't see what they are meant to be at all. Their individual alternate modes look like they are trying to be some type of jets but to me it looks like the head of a jet stuck on some legs.

And then the combined alternate form, well, I can rest any two transformers on top of each other.

I do understand that I haven't seen the series, but I have just been pretty impressed with the styalised look of the toys anyway (thus I bought Magnus) and this to me (coming from an outside perspective) looks like their engineering team has gone back to before G1.

[Golden Phoenix]

Looks a bit meh. The combined mode is interesting, I just hope there are some hands hidden in the feet turned arms. No point to the vehicle combined mode. Waste of time there. The robot modes don't look to bad though. I kind of like them. Just wish they had like wings or something instead of just a V shaped hull

[Pulse]

I can't believe Hasbro gave this the "ok"... :rolleyes:

[i_amtrunks]

did he ever appeared in the last 2 Animated Seasons?
can't remember

Nope, he/they are meant to be season 3 characters.

At least we now know they are part of the Autobot elite guard. They are going to have to be some stellar characters for me to pick them up (unless later pics show these ones to be mistransformed), the alt mode is lazy, the combined Jet mode even worse, and while the combined robot mode seems interesting (like the Energon omega style merge) it still does not look all that great, especially with the lack of hands.

At least the colours are really nice, and somewhat different.

[kup]

So we are back to 1988 Pretender inner bot engineering?

Boy this is a very progressive line!:rolleyes:

[autobreadticon]

Is he suppose to be a homage to G1 or Armadaverse, if Armadaverse i am not surprise its looks weird...

[jaydisc]

My kingdom for some wings. Combined robot is intriguing. The cone of the jets actually is the first time I've seen a Jetfire resemble its cartoon Skyfire likeness (inverted air intake), but with no wings, it's sort of all wasted. Two unique heads is cool.

[amon]

I suspect it was miss transformed, the combiner should have fists, turn over his "feet" maybe.

[TF76]

I really don't like it, first animated I don't like. :(

[Stompy]

Erm... wow. I didn't expect it to be like this. Even if the robot mode is mistransformed it's still quite regressive in design. The combined robot mode is not too bad but those arms are clearly legs. The jet mode is alright but I don't even want to get into the combined jet mode. Pegging two jets together is NOT a combination.

I admire them for trying, but we are really just getting one single robot twice with a combine feature that was engineered once and duplicated. Very poor for the animated standards.

[GoktimusPrime]

Pegging two jets together is NOT a combination.
+1 QFT

You know that the combined jet mode is epic fail when it looks worse than other combined jet modes from fourteen and twenty years ago...

2008/9
http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/attach/4/2/8/4/5/HAS162052_1222891642_thumb.jpg (http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/attachment.php?do=fullview&attachmentid=10243)

1994
http://www.cliffbee.com/reviews/images/g2dreadwing.gif

1988
http://www.cliffbee.com/reviews/images/dreadwing.gif

:/

[autobreadticon]

I suspect it was miss transformed, the combiner should have fists, turn over his "feet" maybe.

I think the slits on the front of the legs are suppose to come out and make wings

But the accessories are missing and they could be vital, i think there is suppose to be a tailfin.

[Autocon]

Two unique heads is cool.

for the colour blind people in the world :p


the combined jet mode is that pathetic i just had to post it!:eek::eek:

bet they have some form of the elements water n fire

[GoktimusPrime]

It's like Transformers meets...

http://www.geocities.com/Area51/dimension/2090/superman-blue2.gifhttp://www.geocities.com/Area51/dimension/2090/superman-red.gif

NNNNOOOOOOOOOOOO!!! (>o<)

[Lord_Zed]

I thought it was a Power Rangers toy.

[amon]

Is he suppose to be a homage to G1 or Armadaverse, if Armadaverse i am not surprise its looks weird...


Judging from the head,http://www.tfu.info/2001/Autobot/RailRacer/facepic.jpg I think it is a homage to RID... three trains combiner, whatever the name is.

[GoktimusPrime]

JRX (Japan Rail eXpress) - known as Rail Racer RiD.

http://www.geocities.co.jp/Playtown-Dice/4403/takara/carobo/carobo11.jpg

[Pulse]

You know, I wouldn't have minded if they had gone-all-Superlink with Jetfire/Jetstorm (It'd be a nice throwback to Energon :)) but for 2008/2009 standards, this combined mode just_seems_so_lame... :rolleyes:

[PirateCop]

i hope they get better looking earth modes or something. their names and head designs are too cool to be wasted

[dirge]

I like the innovation of the combined robot mode, although TBH similar concepts have been done before (the Multiforce did it 20 years ago, with better vehicle modes).

[STL]

Fugly. Utter excrement.

Crap colour scheme, crap combination, crap combined mode. Hell, the worse superlinks in Energon were better than this pile of puke.

[Soundwarp]

:eek:That's horrendous:eek:.

+1

[jaydisc]

Fugly. Utter excrement.

Crap colour scheme, crap combination, crap combined mode. Hell, the worse superlinks in Energon were better than this pile of puke.

Don't hold back now. :D

[Golden Phoenix]

Fugly. Utter excrement.

Crap colour scheme, crap combination, crap combined mode. Hell, the worse superlinks in Energon were better than this pile of puke.

I actually don't mind them separately. It is just when they are joined that things go bad.
I do like they way they combine in robot mode though. It looks like an interesting way to do it. Just the colours could have been better....

[Paulbot]

I'm wondering about their size? Do we know what that is. The preorder price is a bit high. I'm guessing the two figures are probably going to be sold in a Voyager box. If these two figures came as a single deluxe that would be some good value.

[jaydisc]

Looks like 2 x deluxe to me

[heroic_decepticon]

That looks terrible.

[i_amtrunks]

In box pic (http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HT83889#LargeImage).

Looks like its going to be a similar box to the Prime/Megatron 2 pack, so you were on the money Paulbot. Bonus Comic too.

[Pulse]

I wonder how they're gonna be portrayed in Season 3? (Seeing their personality/transformation in a cartoon may actually persuade some of the naysayers... but not me though :D)

[SilverDragon]

I wonder how they're gonna be portrayed in Season 3? (Seeing their personality/transformation in a cartoon may actually persuade some of the naysayers... but not me though :D)

Jetstorm will probably be keeping the hotheaded Jetfire in check. They'll probably be like Bulkhead and Bumblebee-the sensible one tries to keep the impulsive one under control.

[Pulse]

Yeah probably :).

I can definitely see them having opposing personalities - which provides the writers with ammunition for jokes a-plenty... :D

[jaydisc]

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.

[Source: Seibertron (http://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/derrick-wyatt-talks-about-tfa-jetfire-and-jetstorm-toys/14109/)]

[Stompy]

If I had a big corporation, I certainly wouldn't bring out official pictures of products that have errors. It's like McDonalds releasing a picture of their new burger but someone "misprepared" it and used two beef patties as buns instead of bread.

Unfortunately we do have the right to judge it if they release official stock photos. What else do we have to judge it with until we have the actual figure in our hands.

Looks like QC issues is not just isolated to the figures themselves.

[Pulse]

But hold on, didn't these pics (http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HT83889#LargeImage) come directly from Hasbro? Shouldn't they have made sure the figures were shown in their best light?

[i_amtrunks]

But hold on, didn't these pics (http://www.entertainmentearth.com/prodinfo.asp?number=HT83889#LargeImage) come directly from Hasbro? Shouldn't they have made sure the figures were shown in their best light?

Underlined the word that could be used as a synonym for error. :p

[Zippo]

I'm sorry but I have to follow the majority of the haters here.
Though I have seen that joining form on some other toy line before, Just canb't remember what now.

[amon]

OMG!

I suddenly remember, they were on the first pic about animated carton we got.

Back then the "animated" was a rumor which was called "heros", it has been a while.
http://pic.actoys.net/attachment/Mon_0810/198_1194_54ec9ed6e8aa6a8.jpg

[GoktimusPrime]

Those don't look like Transformers at all (no sign of any vehicle kibble). :/
Interestingly the red one's hands are doing a "Yin-Yang salute" typically used in Chinese Kung Fu, whereas the blue one is holding nunchaku, commonly used in Okinawan and Japanese peasant arts (although originally from China). An intentional dichotomy? It'd be interesting if one used a more aggressive form of fighting while the other used an passive fighting style. This was something used in The One's Jet Li Vs. Jet Li (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7woLiTBrB0) where good Jet Li used a passive style (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLrw5QcdSVo) whereas the evil Jet Li used a more aggressive form (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S3gE_TOB5I).

[autobreadticon]

the whole thing is just weird, i hope in the cartoon they won't have annouying cliche twin personalities , e.g calm character and hot-headed character

[GoktimusPrime]

Oh you know they will!

[SilverDragon]

Those don't look like Transformers at all (no sign of any vehicle kibble). :/
Interestingly the red one's hands are doing a "Yin-Yang salute" typically used in Chinese Kung Fu, whereas the blue one is holding nunchaku, commonly used in Okinawan and Japanese peasant arts (although originally from China). An intentional dichotomy? It'd be interesting if one used a more aggressive form of fighting while the other used an passive fighting style. This was something used in The One's Jet Li Vs. Jet Li (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=C7woLiTBrB0) where good Jet Li used a passive style (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLrw5QcdSVo) whereas the evil Jet Li used a more aggressive form (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S3gE_TOB5I).

I think that image was declared to be fanart ages ago.

[amon]

I think that image was declared to be fanart ages ago.

Did they? I doubted it to be a fan art before, but not after I saw this jetfire/jetstorm toy.Cuz I can't belive a fan could know what a TF character concept art look like two years before it is publiced.

[SofaMan]

So much hate...you all have so much hate for combinery goodness...

I don't luuuurv them or anything, but even lame combiners win kudos with me, for I am a colossal sucker for combiners. So I will get them, and probably quite enjoy them. :p