David Hingtgen

I'm waiting for an HA Sideways or something--mainly for (hopefully) more car-mode accuracy. Ironically I passed on Dlx Barricade due to robot accuracy.

Leader Megs was a shelf-warmer last time around. Why Hasbro thinks he'd be any more popular this time around, I don't know. He's not even the main villain this time around. At least he transforms into something resembling a vehicle this time. Leader Megs---always overproduced. Jetfire's going to be under-produced.

There's a "design your own figure" contest at the official movie site----grand prize is to actually have the figure made, using your headsculpt! Only open to ages 6 to 12 though. Which is really weird when you think about it, since the figures use existing parts for the bodies, and there's no 8-year-old Joes... You can save what you make though---I quickly made this, it's basically armored Scarlett with Helix's head, in Techno-Viper colors. (since I'm still waiting for a 25th Techno-Viper) http://hasbro.promotions.com/gijoecobra/ta...S6WGpj3gdZhUksa

Man, now I really want to paint my soon-to-arrive Jetfire like that. ::edit:: Seems he does just mainly use drybrushing----just LOTS of it, in multiple layers and colors in a single area. Hmmmmn. I rarely drybrush, and then only raised details, not areas. May have to experiment on something. (maybe my Animated Swindle)

Leader-class molds cost a lot of money, and frankly "nightwatch Prime" variants don't sell that well AFAIK---people buy $10 repaints, not $45 repaints. They'll just wait a year or so IMHO, so as to avoid cries of "double-dipping".

I'm still debating whether to buy a Leader Prime, take it apart and spray the grey parts silver, and everything else with clear pearl, or just wait for a premium version...

You're not the first to make that comment.

I think Long Bow may have a chance at a toy---Hasbro needs more than repaints to sustain 2 more years of toys, and that design looks far more "plausible" than most movie characters.

Amazon got Jetfire in a day early it seems.

Sorry A7, I had to edit the poll to allow multiple options, and add a very-requested one.

Will Soundwave be a bigger peg-warmer than the first movie's "Protoform Starscream" was? My local Target and Wal-Marts seem to each have 50, he alone outnumbers many other waves and pricepoints..

No, the pic I'm thinking of looks just like mine IIRC, and is worse. We're talking a gap, not just stress/hairline fracture. It's around the bottom edge of the hip joint, very near the black stripe.

Sigh, major crack in right thigh of YF-21, very near metal hip-joint. Just like someone else had, but I can't find the pic of theirs. YF-21 plastic seems to respond well to Plastruct, will see how it holds.

I remember it was red, but can't remember if they got the shape right. How exactly did Jetfire's drag chute look? Interestingly, one of the first pics I found online is that exact SR-71---probably landing at Dulles even. http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/comm...F-1234P-050.jpg

Do you like visible shockwaves? Do you like the F-22? http://www.news.navy.mil/management/photod...N-8290D-008.jpg http://www.news.navy.mil/management/photod...N-7780S-014.jpg And if you prefer thick vapor: http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2610/366983...8948ec6e2_o.jpg

B-1B, F/A-18F, Burke-class, Nimitz-class. (active roles, not just in the background).

I think you've got it a bit backwards---the face artwork is clearly originally from NGE. They mainly just tweaked the hair.

If they made some Frontier Revoltechs, you could pretty easily replicate half of those...

New question. However, it's not allowing people who voted for the previous question to vote for the new one.

I *really* wanted to see Jetfire in jet mode just flying along for a few secs---up high, low across the desert, whatever---just show us a Blackbird on the big screen. Fighting Starscream would have been a very cool bonus. First movie showed SS is quite adept at transforming, flying, and fighting all at once---surely Jetfire can too. Or at the very least---just have Jetfire simply out-run SS! Just show us the speed and power of a Blackbird at some point, in some way.

Does anyone have a Haruhi fig that can compare scale to the previous Fraulein figs? Specifically---what (if any) parts are swappable? (even if scales are the same, the joints may be so different that you still can't mix and match anything)

I could rarely get that to work. Though when it did...

Notable for being (probably) by far the most "mis-transformed for a photo shoot" Transformer ever. ROTF Leader Prime: http://img151.imageshack.us/img151/1867/whyprime.jpg

I'll second learning of the Go229 in SWOTL. That game taught me the difference between the B-17F and B-17G, too.

wolfx---Jetfire rocked *because* he was old. Especially when .