Toy Review: Generations Leader Jetfire

[Tetsuwan Convoy]

How is lighter better? Lighter implies less plastic used which means cut corners. How can you justify less material as better?

Quality of material and the way that material is used. I can see Zommamel's point. I am going to go out on a limb here and assume that since the 1980s, better stronger plastics have been developed, which means that you should be able to use less for the same effect.

Sure, the hollow limbs look awful from behind and personally I'd prefer they were covered up. Let's say they did cover them up, we'd never know that he was hollow until you cracked him open.

TBH though, I don't really worry about the weight of Transformers anymore, although it is nice when you pick a figure out of the box, it's chock a block full of metal and it just has that heft to it. Although that can also be a bad thing. Alpha Trion's legs are generally too heavy to hold a set pose for example.

[FruitBuyer]

While I understand that, it is still a sign of corner cutting and that is never good. The fact that they didn't even bother with covering the hollow pieces exemplifies this. Of course it's not just a trait of Jetfire, there are plenty of other figures that have this.

I certainly understand Hasbro/Takara doing this to save costs but at the end of the day, it drives collectors into the arms of third-party companies. As someone eloquently put it on TFW2005:

Every cent Takara/Hasbro save by cutting corners is another dollar into the third-party pockets.

[Sinnertwin]

While i cant speak for anybody else, Hasbro's cost cutting hasn't and won't drive me into the arms of third party manufacturers.
It's great that the third parties have been offering other options, but i can't justify $500 for a single combiner etc etc

[5FDP]

While i cant speak for anybody else, Hasbro's cost cutting hasn't and won't drive me into the arms of third party manufacturers.

You can speak for me on this point because I 100% agree with you. I collect Transformers

[yoshi594]

While i cant speak for anybody else, Hasbro's cost cutting hasn't and won't drive me into the arms of third party manufacturers.
It's great that the third parties have been offering other options, but i can't justify $500 for a single combiner etc etc

3rd party toys are way too expensive to even consider and some are just pure turd (sonicron, warbot anyone?).