Toy Review - RtS Special Ops Jazz

[Blurrprimecoolboz2008]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iWg2gXeFBnE

[griffin]

(Please post comments, photos or even a fully comprehensive review - these are just brief details to start you off)

Toy Review - Special Ops Jazz
Series - Reveal the Shield
Sub-line - N/A
Size/class - Deluxe
New/remould/redeco - New
Wave - 1
Released here - expected here Jan 2011 (released globally Nov 2010)
Approximate Retail Price - $25-30
Approximate Size -
Allegiance - Autobot
Alt-mode - Race car
Main Features/Gimmicks - (Flip out speakers in both modes)
Main Colours - White, black, blue, red.
Main Accessories - gun

[Vector Prime]

Ooh yeah!!!! Definite must buy - even if you have to pay full retail at Myers to grab it.

Special Ops Jazz is a great homage to the G1 character and is easily one of (if not) the best Deluxes in ages.

Pros:
He's Jazz!
Fold out gun and speakers
Cool alt mode design
Perfect transformation
Great articulation for action poses
Tall - great value for money for a deluxe

Cons:
Lack of paint apps on the rear end of alt mode on Hasbro release

It's a definite must buy on sight (as soon as it's released at retail) - I just couldn't wait and pre-ordered him when he was announced.

I've had it for almost a month now and must say that he does not disappoint in any way (except the lack of paint in alt mode which doesn't bother me greatly since I display him in bot mode anyway)

Go buy it, you know you want it! 9/10

[VERT]

He is so good I have two of him right now.

[5FDP]

For the first time I think I am torn between getting the RtS version (convenient local buy) or the United version (superior paint job). Is anyone else going through this dilemma and what have you decided on?

[kaiden]

For the first time I think I am torn between getting the RtS version (convenient local buy) or the United version (superior paint job). Is anyone else going through this dilemma and what have you decided on?

hasbro bot-mode and united alt mode?

personally i wont do that - just getting the united version.

[Vector Prime]

For the first time I think I am torn between getting the RtS version (convenient local buy) or the United version (superior paint job). Is anyone else going through this dilemma and what have you decided on?

Well from what I can see in the comparison pics - the United version is 'whiter' and has better paint apps in alt mode on the rear and side but looks very similar (besides the whiteness) in bot mode.

The United one will most likely have him packaged in his alt mode so I'll be getting one to leave MOSC (since it's his alt mode that really shows the improvements in paint apps) and be keeping the RTS one displayed loose.

Get one of each, but if you had to choose only one, that decision would probably have to be based upon how you intend on displaying him.

[GoktimusPrime]

For the first time I think I am torn between getting the RtS version (convenient local buy) or the United version (superior paint job). Is anyone else going through this dilemma and what have you decided on?

Personally the Hasbro version looks fine enough, but if the United version appeals to you more that much, then I'd say wait for that one. That's what I did with a lot of the Universe figures; passed them up in favour of their Henkei counterparts. I haven't seen Jazz around anywhere yet.

[SharkyMcShark]

This is the only RtS deluxe I have any modicum of interest in, but the chest kills it for me - it's far too bulbous.

Ah well, I'll stick with Animated/Movie Jazz(es)

[VERT]

I dont understand why he looked so yellow in the pics. My two are white and not yellow at all. As for United I just used some paint and now the Hasbro one looks the same