Fans Toys FT-48 Jive (Masterpiece Jazz)

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  1. luckyman76

    luckyman76 Well-Known Member

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    I know from looking at Mirage there are still a few color changes that can be made like chrome to the rocket or more silver. For Jive I hope hope that they give us better rims with the spoke look in a copper finish like MT. This for me is the perfect Jazz. I know people wanted more detail on the abdomen section. It could be there but this is more important.
     
  2. Gabriel Contreras

    Gabriel Contreras After 5 years of lurking I finally made an account

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    A huge missed opportunity not calling him Jizz
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  3. Treadshot 2.0

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    This is pretty fucking great. But so is their Mirage and IDK if I’m gonna replace my TE Mirage… so I’m looking at this and saying, yes, it’s better than MT downbeat (ESPECIALLY in vehicle mode) but is it so much better in robot mode (where he will spend all his time) that it’s worth shelling out $150?

    FT has entered that “Spindrift 2” zone I was talking about in 2020, where now almost all of their forthcoming figures are of characters most of us not only have but are pretty happy with, and it’s gonna be harder for them to sell out large production runs (Jazz, mirage, huffer, trailbreaker and hoist, etc.) I’d go so far as to say the only must-buy “replacement” they’ve shown off so far is Cliffjumper, which seems to blow every other MP scaled version out the water.

    I do like this jazz better though and since he’s my favorite character I could see myself getting it, especially if he’s a little bit bigger than downshift.
     
  4. StarMaverick

    StarMaverick Nemesis Command Upgrader

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    This is MP Scale anyways, this figure would look waaaayyyyy out of scale/place in a mainline collection, just like SS86 JAZZ would be way to small, and completely out of scale/place in an MP collection.
     
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    Man they should have named him Scatman, instead of Jive
     
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    I’ve got to be honest, I think Downbeat looks better. That said, I might pick this up since I’m such a big fan of the Martini 935 Porsche. This probably is toon accurate, but the alt mode isn’t a very good representation of the real car. This is the actual car at Laguna Seca a few years back.

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  7. Alph

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    The two aren't even competing in the same space though. Why would anyone even bother "replacing" a $20 dollar toy with one that'll be well over $100? At that point you may as well keep the $20 dollar toy as its own separate thing that you can fiddle with whenever, because you know, that's what it is.
     
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    Buying them all, but FT needs to bring out more Decpticons. FT sneaked in Soundwave (which was not needed, MP-13 imo is still the best), but bring on the deluxe inscecticons, Blitzwing and Octane, I would add in the Constructicons and other combiners, but I am probably in the minority that do not care if there is no combined mode, as Zeta (which needs to produce) is the best TF combiner company.
     
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    Not every Board member is a native English speaker, lots of us are from overseas. Not me personally but plenty of folks
     
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    Wait, are you telling me everyone on this website isn’t American!?! o_O 
     
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  12. Hans

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    I thought everyone here was Dutch like me.... ⊙.☉

    Why doesn't anyone get the foglights right on Jazz? They have a simple clear blue-tinted plastic cover on them. Maketoys makes it black, FansToys puts a ton of vertical lines in them.... Why???
     
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    Looks good, especially the head. But I think Downbeat looks way better.
     
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  14. Hans

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    That's not the car Jazz is based on though, he's based on the Martini Racing Porsche 935 Chassis 002 R16, this one:
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    With the wrong number, obviously ;) 
     
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    TigerBlade Prepare for extermination

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    I've just had a blindingly obvious realisation. Fanstoys have to do Sideswipe and Red Alert.....

    Can you imagine the pure cartoon goodness after this phenomenal Jazz? Reveal with Gears and Windcharger. I can finally banish Badcube's Chugsterpiece aesthetic from my shelf forever.
     
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    I must've been thinking of a different Jizz then....
     
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    I know it was always unrealistic with FT, but I wish we could get a release after this with this livery (or as close as skirtingly possible). Always loved this car.
     
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    I want a FT Sideswipe soooo bad...
     
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    I've never bought a third party item til now
     
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    OmegaTaco Supreme Evil will always triumph, because good is dumb

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    I felt that way about MP-13 till I got Acoustic Wave in hand and he blows MP-13 out of the water. MP-13 is still great, but comparing the 2 he is dated looking compared to the newer toon bots. All these Autobots coming out have been in design for a while, so that is why there is a flood of them. Insecticons just got a release, so im sure they are not even thinking about upgrades to them.
     
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