I love how it transforms, because it's one of few jetformers that have nearly no kibble under the jet form. It think that the way arms go out, it's inspired by Macross transformation scheme. Actually, I never understood why jetformers rarely try to use the bulk of the arms as the mid-section of the jet, at least to some degree. Even the G1 sekkers used this trick to make a clean jet mode.
I pre-ordered this figure when it was first announced, but cancelled when reviews started coming out for it as everyone was saying how bad of a toy it was. I recently got it as it was really cheap on Amazon and I think it's really good actually, closest we've gotten to a budget Macross Valkyrie in years. I think if Hasbro used a darker plastic and sold it for $35 instead of $50 the reaction wouldn't have been so bad.
I got this figure when it was on sale for around $25 dollars. It is honestly a pretty fun figure and worth the money if it is on sale. The only gripe I had with it is that a lot of the details are lost in the bare white color scheme, but if you can, you can give it some weathering with some watered down black acrylic to make all the panel lining pop.
THE EMBLEM ON THE TAILFIN SAYS "VF-1"!!! I've never noticed that until now! That's the model name of Valkyrie fighters from Super Dimensional Fortress Macross, which are based on f-14!... And i have no idea if it was added for the toy or it actually was in the movie
VF-1 was the name/designation of the squadron Mav was assigned to in Top Gun. IRL, VF-1 "Wolfpack" was one of two squadrons to initially deploy with the Grumman F-14A Tomcat in 1974-1975, flying Combat Air Patrol during the Evacuation of Saigon. The other Tomcat squadron deployed was VF-2 "Bounty Hunters"
@@datkat2001 That only happened once the mission changed to include strike missions. V stands for Navy squadron, F stands fighter. When the Tomcat was in-use, it was just Navy Fighter Squadron 1 or 2, or at least before the Tomcat was able to use PGMs and such.
@@lekanraposte6732 Hell the head as it is would work as a good homage to the original Eagle Robo figure which had a fighter jet pilot helmet for a face
I almost got two. I don't even have that much interest in the collaborative. I think his shotguns are sick.Reminds me of when I used to go to airshows with my dad
Always have loved the F14s, the first movie has a good soundtrack too, as its has some great classic songs, the top gun theme and danger zone. At the end of the day both movies are entertaining to watch. For the transformer, like some are saying, the problem with this guy is the paint used, but hopefully the plastic doesn't turn to that yellow color. For transformation I had to go to a just transform video, as the instructions are kind of bad, and couldn't get the body to snap in a solid way, but the video showed the necessary steps for that. I wanted to add that you didn't try the gerwalk mode. If you want to see that pose, go to calibre wings video for this guy, and see how paint would have made it much, much better.
Northrop Grumman is the company that makes the F-14. I’ve still been debating on whether or not to get this guy. I have also not seen either Top Gun, but it is a really cool Jet.
Canadian here. I finally imported it from Amazon USA for *CHEAPER than the price of a freaking DELUXE!* That is, even when including taxes and shipping! So I had top try it out. But mine was different from the original. It didn't have the extra ball and pair of hands. Those were not even included. No biggie. So how was the toy? It is fiiiiiine. Not great, not bad, just fine.
I'm not mad, more curious. There are some movies that are in heavy rotation throughout cable. Like if you didn't see the Harry Potter movies in theaters, that's understandable. But never seen an HP movie ever? How? It's probably on TNT or TBS right now. Usually Top Gun is up around now. Along with Saving Private Ryan, Independence Day, Apollo 13 and one of the Rocky movies, probably 3. Not a must watch, but how do you avoid it so completely. Personally, Hasbro could have made some bank giving it a grey helmet and yellow aviators and calling it Leader-1.
Grumman stopped making fighters after the F-14, and Northrop stopped after their F-20 Tigershark lost the export battle with the F-16 and Dassault Mirage family, and their YF-23 was passed over in favor of Lockheed’s F-22. The merged company hasn’t made a fighter since. F-14 was by Grumman F-15 was by McDonnell-Douglas (merged with Boeing) F-16 was by General Dynamics (since then sold to Lockheed Martin) YF-17 was a Lightweight Fighter contender by Northrop, lost to the F-16 F/A-18 was by McDonnell Douglas (merged with Boeing) based on Northrop’s YF-17, a land-only version was to be built by Northrop but was never sold due to infighting within the F/A-18 program between the two companies F-19 was a model kit by Testors based on F-117 rumors F-20 was by Northrop, never sold F-21 was by Israel Aircraft Industries F-22 was by Lockheed Martin with some support from Boeing and GE YF-23 was by Northrop with help from McDonnell Douglas, was cancelled in favor of F-22 F-24 to F-34 are unused F-35 was by Lockheed Martin So that makes 4 of 10 built by Northrop or Grumman since 1974, only one of which entered service
