MP-57 Masterpiece Skyfire Soars Supreme

[High_Q]

Here's a new video of MP Skyfire with brief segments of it being transformed, especially between 0:29 to 0:50. Slowing the playback speed to x0.5 helps improve viewing experience.

MP Skyfire has a long face compared to how he appeared in the cartoon most of the time.


I would have preferred if they shortened it a bit like this. Maybe a 3rd party can make these:

[GoktimusPrime]

MP Skyfire has a long face compared to how he appeared in the cartoon most of the time.

<insert obligatory "Why the long face?" joke here>

The face seems to be proportionately the same as the cartoon model; between 2.5 nose lengths from brow to chin.

Bear in mind that the cartoon model here is show from a low angle vs the toy photo being taken from a front angle. Skyfire is often drawn from a low angle to emphasise how much larger he is compared to other Cybertronians. As such, his chin is often obscured by the top of the chest. I've taken the cartoon model and drawn it in to show how long it should be. The long face is the result of Jet/Skyfire's cartoon/comic model being derived from the Macross VF-1S Valkyrie. If you look at earlier versions of Skyfire's cartoon model, you can see how it evolved from the Macross Valkyrie to the final image. While many features were drastically changed, Jet/Skyfire's proportions are basically the same as the Macross Valkyrie, including the longish head. The TV commercial for G1 Jetfire uses the Mk I design for Jetfire's media model. AFAIK, Mk II and III have never made any media appearance; and obviously Mk IV is what Marvel and Sunbow ran with in the G1 comics and cartoon respectively.

Also, 2 dimensional images often look different in 3D. It's the reason why no 2D map of Earth can ever be as accurate as a globe (any more than a 2D map of a human face can look as realistic as a 3D sculpture; just ask G1 Ratchet and Ironhide ).

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Here's a new video of MP Skyfire with brief segments of it being transformed, especially between 0:29 to 0:50. Slowing the playback speed to x0.5 helps improve viewing experience.

The video wasn't there (for me)... was it the same as the one from twitter a few posts up?


This was an official video from TakaraTomy, but doesn't have the transformation in the twitter video...

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The video wasn't there (for me)... was it the same as the one from twitter a few posts up?

It's not the same one as Twitter's. It has since been removed but someone uploaded again here.