I always hated dropping the hips, just didn't seem like it was designed well, and I saw a couple of cases where people had broken the hip/leg off

 

It still boggles my mind how it's priced so affordably for an MP. I remember everyone claiming that the MP stand and MP minifigs would rack the price up for stuff like Optimus, Hound, Starscream. Jetfire has all the good accessories, is twice the height of those guys, and yet somehow manages to keep itself priced at $300.

 

Looks like TFSource is delivering in March now.  

 

Parts count. That’s literally the reason for the prices. Skyfire is large but it has about half the parts of even an MP like Sunstreaker. Also no licensing for the alt mode.

 

Come on, the size is relatively close to what it should be

 

On the same boat too! Last week of Feb to 1st week of March (just messaged my supplier) the wait is indeed a killer 

 

This, why you guys are saying that SF is smaller than it should be?

 

Honestly this is complete BS. Aside from like two very vocal TT "White Knights" around here, most people who only collect TT don't even care enough about what 3P are doing to rake any effort over any damn coals. And it's the complete opposite from the 3P only crowd.

 

I'm just glad he's not as small as Star Saber, which is what I feared when they first indicated that Skyfire would be coming. A lot of people assumed that Star Saber was Takara's size limit, since he was so undersized. Can you imagine the kinds of arguments we'd get if people had to choose between Phoenix and a Star Saber-sized yet toon accurate MP-57? At least now we're just losing about half a head in height in exchange for that toon accuracy.

 

I have to say, one of the most objective and exaustive review until now.

 

I wish his mouth was tiny bit wider

 

I tried fixing him up (2016) - 3D printed head and thigh gap fillers:


But I think it never really was aimed at MP segment - more like Generations Siege Jetfire, certainly with it only being shy of 10inch.

 

Here is a Spanish review if anybody is interested. There are no others on Youtue yet from what I can tell

 

And this guy:

 

You have to press really firmly. Mine kept untabbing when I was struggling to get the right chest piece to connect (which was a swine) but one I was sure everything was in position I've pressed in really firmly and you could feel them connect better (especially the one connected to the chest, actually).

I've just tried grabbing both arms and pulling them apart (not roughly, but with enough that if it were loose it'd unpeg) and it stayed together, including the chest that I'd had issues with.

Haven't tried the blast effects but i agree the elbows are butter smooth so it might easily be too much.

 

winner is clearly the original Takatoku's Valk.
#macrossripoff   

 

Oh no, I love toon accuracy, I guess I just worded the statement below wrongly, it's articulation that I don't care much for, hell, frankly I was satisfied with what car bots were doing up until MP-27, Hot rod when they introduced ab crunch, a testament to this is that Phoenix and MP-22 are some of my favourite robots and the seekers lack of waist articulation doesn't or didn't bother me as well. A lot of the things I don't enjoy about it weren't that obvious in the rehearsed videos, for obvious reasons. But like I said many times in the review it's a good but not a great figure.

I fail to see where you're coming from, the gaps are right on top of the alt-mode how are they not visible, it's not like they're underneath him or behind him or to the side of him in robot mode? If they don't bother you, that's a different matter but not noticeable is a completely different matter altogether.