If always using the cockpit for a chest on TF jets is your biggest pet peeve then I think you got of lightly. I'd rather rant about how every recent TF jet has a fat undercarrige, even the classics seekers for all thier funkyness look like they've been putting on weight in jet mode. While I can name countless great car TF's from the past 10 years, I find it difficult to name more than 2 moulds from the jet family, and they'd probably be the new Seeker mould and the MP Seeker mould so 2 for the Seekers.

One of the reasons I'm sure its difficult for the designers to make a great jet mode is perhaps because jets are mean't to be sleek and thin, and somewhat stretched so there's not a great deal of mass to work with, a car on the other hand is pretty much a box with wheels so that's way easier to unfold. In most aircraft the bulkiest parts are the engine and nosecone/cockpit so its no suprise these parts are used for the legs and body the two bulkiest parts of a humanoid. Perhaps if they spent more effort giving the larger TF size classes clever transformations then we'd see some different designs, but they don't instead they go for the easy option and just pack in a fat batter pack, or add a missile gimmick, or other springloaded doodad and voila another flying tank.

My other rant about jets would be they use the same craft over and over again, seems like every second TF jet is a f15 or f16 or a Sci fi flying brick. You'd think they could try something different. I kinda like movie Dreadwing cause they did try things differently in terms of the jet used and transformation, he was half a step in the right direction but once again the gimmicks got in the way, he had to have big fat arms to fire his missiles and what not. Such a cool jetmode and such a bad robot mode, but I still like him better than the movie Starscream toy.

Ah well lets all just hope that they manage to pull of Universe Cyclonus. Cross your fingers everybody.

PS: yeah the pics are good.