Siege Jetfire is in stock @ TRU
 

Just got an email saying my preorder is in stock. Of course if you order now it is at regular price...

http://m.toysrus.ca/product/index.js...i&locale=en_CA

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Awesome, here's hoping for a sale soon!

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Same here but they messed up on taxes. They charged me 40$ of taxes on a 89$ figure. Ill have to call them.

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Way to go on screwing my rebate lol

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This figures. Literally 2 days after I pre-ordered it somewhere else.


But you know what? I'm ok with it. I pre-ordered through site sponsor TFTOYS.ca, and they are selling it for the same price. The only difference is the about $17 shipping. And I'm ok with that since I'm supporting a small Canadian business.

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You have Omega on pre-order don't you....

That's the tax for both combined.

My email is the same and that's what it is.

It's either going to be corrected when they do charge your card, or you'll have already paid the taxes by the time Omega arrives.

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Ah yes i have both. Thanks for the heads up!

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Yep, got my email too.

Hyped.

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Don’t worry about the tax, it will be corrected with in the follow up when item ships. My MPM8 was shipped. First email had tax for the entire order shown, 2nd email with shipping notification shows the correct amount

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Jetfire just shipped from TRU!

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Same! Hype.

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On his way! Woohoo

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Me too me too.. delivery "by Monday"...

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And yup, mine was adjusted on my "your item is sent" email.

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Jetfire OTW. Woo!

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Will wait for the next sale (esp if I can combine it with an r club coupon) but very excited he is here!

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Put me down in the jetfire shipping notice club, looking forward to this guy for sure. Got him back when he and Omega were on sale, very happy about that.

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Mine is shipped also. I hesitated on omega. Went back a day or two later and it was closed. :(

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Mine is shipped... but TRU shipped it by Purolator to my PO Box! Need to call Purolator for a redirect or hold on Monday

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You can have orders shipped to a store near you for the next time. The store will just call you when they receive it.

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They used to ship via CanadaPost Expedited for the last few times but they switched to Purolator on me...

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well.. we are Saturday, I do NOT want the weekend to go by fast but I do in a way so it can get here already!!!

Cue the picture of Al Bundy waiting for pizza picture....

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lol :rofl:

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Mine is on the way too! Sadly hesitated on Omega Supreme and now regretting it. Loved Canada Post but never home for Purolator. I just end up rescheduling them to come on a day I'm home or don't have to work. I don't feel comfortable to leave a $100 plus toy out on the door step!!

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They use Purolator frequently now, even if you use a P.O. Box. My TRU told me to just use their address and pick up my orders from there.

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To be honest, Omega was my "must have!!!".

He was one of my favourites in the 80s, and I had lucked out in getting one in a flea market for really cheap (as I didn't manage to get him in stores at the time), but my brother "borrowed" him and never returned it (and a few others) and we are no longer on speaking terms due to fairly bad reasons, including this sort of stuff. I never was able to get him afterwards.

So in the last few years, I did get the Huge Dragon version that's amazing but small, but the other 3rd parties were simply too expensive I found... so when this guy showed up, and while he's not cheap, he's still a lot cheaper than the 3rd parties ones.

I think this Jetfire looks really great, he wasn't one I expected and debated on due to price and even size as I'm not sure how I'm going to manage to display him well with my setup. (and yes, Omega is going to be a crazy situation to figure that out)

I am very curious and eager to get Jetfire, no question about that. But the wait for Omega is simply terrible.

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He has arrived!!!!

Just got him now. Surprised by a Sunday delivery. Also surprised by the lack of a window box, instead just a solid box with art. Either way can't wait to get my hands on him!!!

Sucks that I have to wait for the family stuff to end later today.

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did it come packed in another box?

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Yes but no packing material inside. Just the box loose inside the shipping box. Thankfully no damage to the box.

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Came home from vacation to find him and mpm megs wedged in my front door. Separate boxes, no packing material, but they look fine so far. Haven’t opened them, though.

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And he's home with the family....

First impressions: where the heck am I going to put him... my Siege shelf is way too small for him... argh... if I knew they'd make such large figures I would have planned differently.

But that said... he's big, he's sturdy, great plastic, feels a bit like the type they used for OP (Siege voyager) but a bit softer, which is quite fine, as it offers a bit of flexibility with such a large size.

The good: robot mode, they did a great job and the face shield/mask is something that I am very grateful for as it looks amazing, but I prefer a robot/mech head type than human face. Overall a very nice, even stunning figure.

The bad: while plane mode looks amazing from the top, the undercarriage is so much robot kibble that could have been done better, and hidden more. The leg ratchets are great except for one that' s missing so I feel that in time, lots of these figures may learn to do a split. The arm cannons accessories don't hold all that well, and the hands transformation's pins to hold them in place are weak.

So another Siege figure and another time where I'll say... so close to being amazing but dang it, a bit more work of the design and he'd be so much better for it... again it feels that they went "ok, that's good enough, it's going to sell"....so he's in the very nice, great categories, but misses amazing.

I just think that the designers could have done a lot more, with less kibble, and it's amazing to see something this huge that they didn't design to actually carry other figures inside, even if just a few micromasters (cockpit non-withstanding).. that backpack is just so freaking huge.... the first pictures that came out, I hoped that it was as such, a section that big, so square, that it would be a passenger "deck".

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We get so many updates that aren't as good as previous versions or...

This Jetfire is clearly the goat

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Wow! Got it this morning from the Purolator Guy and after all the GOOD, the BAD and the UGLY I'm afraid to open him up! I pre-ordered him for so many months and saved all my money for a plastic BRICK! So sad it came out this way because he was supposed to be my Birthday present!!

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What the? This figure is glorious. Man people just love to complain...

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Canada Post says Skyfire is arriving later this morning.

Based on what I have seen in the reviews, the figure does look darn magnificent!

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I'd say that he does live up to a lot of the hype, the robot itself is absolutely stunning, the details looks great, he does have a lot pf presence. For the price (especially if you managed to get the 20% sale), he is quite nice. He gets extra points because he is a very solid figure that should hold out for many years and can be actually "played with".

I do state the "bad" so that to provide unbiased perspective about any figure. I'm not saying that it's a bad figure, just that it's not perfect and those flaws that are annoying, could have been avoided.

Note that people tend to avoid the fact that while 100$, even 200$ seems like a lot for a toy, that if you were to go into the Soul of Chogokin, Macross, and many other series, 100-200$ is almost the starting point to the lower end figures. Macross stuff for example is crazy expensive, looks amazing, but are a huge risk to transform as they are very fragile, so are more display pieces. And at the 100-200$ price range, nothing would be close to the size of this guy, and are many of them have their own flaws.

To be honest, I'm looking at all the figures I have in my office right now to see which I'd rate as "perfect" or close to it... and that list is very small.

I rate all my figures by:

• Quality of plastic
• Esthetics, including emptiness syndrome (within acceptable limits) and kibble
• Articulation and quality of joints
• Accessories (as applicable depending on figure)
• Scale (but with some flexibility)
• engineering laziness (where some parts could have been very easily improved)

and there's not a single one that is what I'd consider perfect. Some are close though. Some are very close in either their robot mode or their alts, but not both.

A few example I can give to what I'd consider my "best of", in no order of preference:

Windblade (RiD masked version) - faults: kibble, lack of wrist articulation
Sandstorm (Generations) - faults: hard plastic, some articulation issues
Warpath (Generations) - fault: lack of wrist articulation, lack of accessories
Nitro zeus (movie) - fault: plastic, kibble

All of the Siege line would be in the "best of" but all suffers from various levels of: kibble, lack of wrist articulation, emptyness syndrome, engineering laziness, loose 5mm ports: either connector (hole) is too large or the accessory's peg is too small so they are loose. The weaponizers are a hot mess of being loose, which is ridiculous as they are all about the pegs.

But that said, I still absolutely love my collection, and I just really enjoy all the figures I have regardless of their imperfections.

So for this Jetfire, I will worry about the legs articulation that lacks the rackets as mine has already tried to do the split, the kibble thing is the huge backpack and undercarriage of plane mode, the pegs that holds the hands really could have been better, but all that said, he is a absolutely great looking figure. The face shield adds a "serious" tone to him that takes him beyond the cartoony look that the humanoid face gives him.

So I do not regret getting him even with his flaws... should they (Hasbro) come out with a improved version, then I'll kick myself, but for now and even with his flaws, he is probably the best figure of this size that Hasbro has ever done.

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I don't think the backpack counts as "kibble" since that's how Skyfire is supposed to look. I don't think it really counts as kibble if it's supposed to be there.

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I have that same issue with those who call Siege Starscream a shellformer. Starscream is supposed to have his wings in robot mode, thats his main look, always. So saying its a shellformer would include his wings as kibble, which is not that they are. They are just as much a part of his robot mode as they are a part of his alt mode.

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There's that:

https://i.ibb.co/hmF3tyc/20190615-111328.jpg

As for the undercarriage, it has always been part of the design, it's unavoidable.

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I state it as kibble due to it's size... having a backpack is fine, but this is a beast of a backpack that makes him very top heavy and easily tipped over. Heck that backpack is like 1/3 of the mass of the whole robot.