MP-57 Masterpiece SKYFIRE: EmGo's Transformers Reviews N' Stuff 

Kinda sad, if you ask me

Unless you count movie

@@WestenCombs trueeee

It's because Porche won't license their design to Takara or Hasbro. For mainlines, they've tweak Jazz's design just enough to get by. But that won't cut it for MP level

Let's not forget they included a transformed Blaster with MP Tracks....

Especially because those human figurines are grossly out of scale...

​@Nobiemon To be fair nothing in the G1 series is to scale. They change sizes in every scene and sometimes we see scenes where Spike is the same height as Skyfire's legs. Scale in G1 is so inconsistent that we may aswell not even mention it.

@@ju87d-3stuka7 Usually I tend to try and find the "sweet middle," as in which scale works most of the time and should therefore be considered "canon." For example, in one scene, Grimlock is big enough to reach, bite, and hold Thrust in his jaw in alt mode which makes 0 sense, and a similar size never comes up again, so the scene can therefore be retconned and ignored, and Grimlock can be treated as slightly bigger than Optimus. On the other hand, Sky Lynx and Skyfire, both known for being transports, are only slightly bigger than the average Cybertronian, but should be almost Combiner, if not Titan, sized, and therefore can be treated as such. When it comes to figures, I like and collect CHUG, and MP-57 Skyfire scales perfectly with CHUG figures, but I would love to see a potential oversize to make him even bigger and therefore even more scale accurate.

That's why they had to change the character into Skyfire in the 80's. They re-designed and renamed the character to avoid copyright infringement. This is an MP of an original Hasbro creation, not the original Jetfire name.

Hence his Macross/Robotech face change which is a nice nod 😊

@@jrcarclay1944 dont forget the gerwalk mode

@@AlbusDandy the gerwalk mode featured in the episode Day of the Machines.

And harmony gold got obliterated by Hasbro after sueing them so many times

I was thinking the flight stand colors were representing the respective faction symbols, but that works too.

That’s what I am waiting for.

Or you could go a fraction of the cost with Magic Squares version.

I’ve been waiting for em to pick up the wfc version to oversize and fill up the hollow spots to make it really good but nobody picked it up so a think they won’t pick up the mp now. Maybe a straight but bad quality ko at best from a nameless ko company

@@Thunderhawk8472 There is an Oversize seige Jetfire now. Not sure if they filled the gaps though.

@@dmonsef yeah, it's a good bot, but size does matter.

Exactly. What are people gaining from the MP version? The Siege one is the same size, and has more surface detail!

I was wondering about this!

The piece attaches with a magnet right on the face. It's a weak connection and kinda just hangs on.

Same. It would be a good troop transport

The FansToys version is pretty great, just saying.

Ignoring the Siege Commander figure?

@@danielacosta248 Around the time that one came out, I never saw it in any stores around me, nor did I have the extra cash to buy one online.

@@DragonmanX90 They are going to reissue Siege Jetfire, you can preorder it in several stores.

One of my favorite episodes. 👍🏼

@@carnmarth334 Toy reviewers

Me. I did.

I have lots.

Somebody is going to make it 😅

Third party companies: *Write that down, write that down!*

If you are doing Takara only, they did MP18+ Bluestreak, which is the best version of him, IMO.

Every time I preorder from BBTS it's always 2 months later that it finally show..I purchase alot of figures from them and here lately its been taking forever..hope this isn't the case with Skyfire...

Starscream: *Omae wa mou shindeiru.*

The original G1 Jetfire figure in the 80s was originally a Macross figure back in Japan.

NewAge yes but, Magic Square, at least mine, isn't so good. Mine came with two different color whites, one being white white while the other being yellowish white. About 25% of my figure looks like it's been peed on and it left a yellowing stain on it. Alt mode also isn't the best.

@@saysoun752 R.I.P. sorry to hear that. I have their ratchet and jazz and haven’t seen signs of yellowing so it must be a new thing sadly.

@@alc4528 Jazz is freaking awesome and I would love a Masterpiece size version of him. Megatron too is freaking awesome. Probably the best Megatron out there. Magic Square needs to upscale Megatron and Jazz. Their Menasor is legit as well, although one of the arm peg is broken. I emailed them about it and they said they'll send me a replacement part once they get back to the office. Well, it's been a week and if I don't hear anything from them by next week, I'll email them again for a follow-up. Of course their Optimus Prime is the best when it comes to toon accuracies.

@@alc4528 The Ratchet is so perfect that I had to buy him a matching Ironhide, even though I had to find one on a used auction site lol

Cough Macross cough. But yeah Robotech was bad ass shame it essentially ruined Macross and Harmony Gold essentially did what 343 did with Halo and let a golden goose fade.

@@gundamzeta3447I have nothing against Robotech as a tv series, but I think it’s bs what Harmony Gold did after, especially when they haven’t (and likely never will) make any new Robotech media.

It’s snapped in all the way

@@emgo316 well, shooooots. Needs a good calking then.

Exactly what I did do!

Not funny or witty

just wait until you see mp44's price

@@forgedtofight Zing!!!

@@forgedtofight What's he go for these days?

254€. Not to get political but yay for brexit I guess

Where are you seeing those prices? It's only £260-ish if you buy from a UK store, and about fifty quid cheaper from overseas.

I had the same problem until I straightened both legs and now they do tabs in well.

Agree, due to size, quality and cartoon accuracy it can be there without looking out of place.

as someone with neither I'm thinking of getting the siege if I'm getting a JF, it looks so much better than the mp IMO, even FT vs Siege is debatable for me IF they retailed at the same price (and since siege is so much cheaper, siege is a no brainer for me if I decide to get one)

Porsche finally gave the Transformers the rights to use their products, as shown in the upcoming Rise of the Beast movie. And there's this supposedly leaked images of prototype MP Cliffjumper. So.. it's like puzzle pieces coming together.

I was wondering about that with Gerwalk mode.

Judging by other videos, you can do this, at some point move hip and pull out hands, the official instructions show only legs and arms separately, but someone combined them.