I do like this mold,with jhaixus being one of my fan favourite characters,i really loved this toy,i think it cloud work as armada thrust with some heavy or expensive retools,especially with that jet mod
I feel like we’ll get a Thunderwing remold from this. That gap under the nosecone would be filled by the mini-jet from the Pretender figure, and the opening grabby hands make me think he’ll come with a Matrix as well.
I would have assumed this was a 3rd party figure just looking at since none of the limbs are visibly hollow. I didn't know Hasbro was still capable of that.
Looking him over recently, I wouldn't be surprised if they decided to retool him into a Thunderwing eventually. You'd have to do very little engineering wise to get a Legacy Jihaxus into a Thunderwing. The nosecone folds up the same way for both, the bat wings can be angled down at the halfway point like on Thunderwing, and the big gap underneath the cockpit is perfect for a micromaster or other smaller robot to mimic his inner robot. A lot of Jihaxus' sculpting also has the roundness that Thunderwing's pretender shell is known for.
Somehow this guy and Cyclonus get really well done engineering while the Earthrise Seekers had to settle for outdated engineering from 2006 and had no waist swivels to call their own.
@@rayvenkman2087 Maybe this is payback for all the years that Fun Pub and IDW spent hyping up literal nobodies. "You want nothingburgers like Skids, Jhiaxus, Apeface, Snapdragon, Runamuck and Runabout, Flamewar, Slicer, Cog, or Fasttrack in Generations? FINE! Have 'em! But know that because of your whining, you're going to end up with half-baked versions of the characters the general public actually wants! Cliffjumper is going to partsform! The Seekers won't have waist swivels! Hoist is going to be hollow as all get out! Arcee is going to be the worst shellformer known to man! ALL BECAUSE YOU WOULDN'T SHUT UP ABOUT LITERAL NOBODIES LIKE GUZZLE AND PYRO!!!"
… he was probably a bad example to use. Maybe I should’ve used ER Wheeljack’s incorrectly shaped windshield or Netflix Soundwave’s awkward alt mode as examples.
@@rayvenkman2087 It would definitely be a smart move for Hasbro but there can be some caveats with. For example, the soundwave is definitely going to shelf warm. As for repacking hard to find figures, exclusives like those Netflix figures may never see a release outside of whatever Walmart wants due to contract and the fact that Walmart has a habit of bullying companies to maintain exclusivity or special deals.
@@NathanSteven They just have to reissue the non-Walmart items from Siege to Kingdom like the Earthrise Smokescreen which is starting to climb in value in the aftermarket only two years after his release or a Kingdom Dinobot re-release.
@@rayvenkman2087 "Legacy" is the perfect line name to release repacks of rare figures from previous lines and "close enough" soft redecos of exclusives, along with new figures from previous generations, unicron trilogy, beast wars, etc whether as wave mates or boxed sets. Maybe it lets the main line do something different as well, like focusing on updated releases for an entire series without enforcing G1ish aesthetics for future remolds. Prime/Armada/RiD getting fresh updates and unreleased characters that are genuine to that part of Transformers' spirit and aesthetic would be refreshing.
He's amazing, although, naturally the part that scares me the most is his clear plastic chest, especially where the nosecone tabs into it. Feels a bit tighter than I'm comfy with, and I worry it'll snap the plastic. I'm thinking of shaving that tab a bit
I just received the OG Beast Wars Inferno in the mail today so I was gonna hold off on the spending...But I think I’ll make it a point to look for this guy tomorrow, your review convinced me.
A cool generation selects repaint could be an orange/grey version to reference the beast machines and generations figure. Heck maybe put the BM vehicon symbol on his chest and it could be a nice figure
If we get a true G2 Tank Megatron, then get it a Marvel G2 repaint of it and Earthrise Optimus; it’d be cool to get an exclusive three pack based on that fight scene the pair had with him including having the grimacing/grinning faces from those two iconic comic covers while Optimus gets the G2 #1 cover bullet-ridden head.
This guy is such a love letter to second generation Transformers, and I love everything about it. I haven't put Jhiaxus down since I got him last week. I even dragged out my old Generation 2 comics for a re-read. This Jhiaxus really is one of the best of the bunch in Legacy and its cousin the War for Cybertron Trilogy as part of the larger Generations line. Put short, if anyone reading this is considering Legacy Jhiaxus, my advice is buy it. Buy it now. You won't regret it. (Unless the plastic ends up yellowing, that is.) I can't really articulate how much joy this figure has given me, but I am most thankful for it.
When I saw the sensor piece on his gun, I got pissed at Amazon. I thought I had a missing piece, as my copy had a dented box that looked like it had been opened. But all is well. Figure is amazing.
People talk about how the Masterpiece line gives off a Roger Rabbit effect with some of the figures, but this guy definitely gives me Roger Rabbit feelings with how he looks like he jumped out of the G2 and Regeneration One comic. The fact this is a mainline figure too, don’t think anyone was expecting a proper Jhiaxus figure, after so many years of repaints that claim to be Jhiaxus.
I could be wrong about this but I feel like they're going to redo the transformation and turn this into Prime Skyquake, because you can form a more normal jet mode by leaving the wings in their robot mode configuration and leaving the wings on the legs folded out
Hey TJ, Australia already has year 2 of legacy. Or maybe it’s wave 2. Either way a local target has Buzzsaw, Sandstorm and that weird grey Cheetor. And my local EB Games (GameStop) has This toy and the Soundwave.
"Clean" version of the "jet," uh huh. More like a cargo shuttle, with those two bulk shipping containers hanging off the bottom... Maybe that's why he transformed so rarely, he's got a flyer alt mode but is afraid of heights, like that one Aerialbot who was converted from a cargo shuttle to a high speed earth mode?
I like the figure overall but the legs don’t tab together as well as I would like. Always feels like stuff is moving around down there even if it doesn’t come completely undone
I love how subdued his G2 Decepticon symbol is... Almost like he's less in it for the faction loyalty and more about his own goals... Which is appropriate for the character.
The only part I do not like are the arms that just sit at the bottom of the jet mode. It just look like a loading dock attached at the bottom. But it is different and different enough that it is cool.
i smell skyquake from Tfprime extense remold from this toy because the design is much similar with a big minigun of energon to hasbro give us a reason the leader class price
They finally just said..."No, seriously, we're doing G2 Jhiaxus." Again tho, with the Unicron Trilogy, G2, and Beast Wars, why are Prime figures the only ones so heavily "Geewunned"?
I'm guessing because otherwise they'd stick out like a sore thumb. And they want their options open to reuse the molds for different characters. (or in Knockout's case, the mold previously belonged to a G1 character)
Whoever designed this guy is such a die-hard G2 fan with how impeccable this one turned out.
I do like this mold,with jhaixus being one of my fan favourite characters,i really loved this toy,i think it cloud work as armada thrust with some heavy or expensive retools,especially with that jet mod
I feel like we’ll get a Thunderwing remold from this. That gap under the nosecone would be filled by the mini-jet from the Pretender figure, and the opening grabby hands make me think he’ll come with a Matrix as well.
Darn you. Now you’ve got me wanting a Thunderwing retool of this guy! (Probably would need new wings, though)
I would have assumed this was a 3rd party figure just looking at since none of the limbs are visibly hollow. I didn't know Hasbro was still capable of that.
You are a blessing to the transformer community
Looking him over recently, I wouldn't be surprised if they decided to retool him into a Thunderwing eventually. You'd have to do very little engineering wise to get a Legacy Jihaxus into a Thunderwing. The nosecone folds up the same way for both, the bat wings can be angled down at the halfway point like on Thunderwing, and the big gap underneath the cockpit is perfect for a micromaster or other smaller robot to mimic his inner robot. A lot of Jihaxus' sculpting also has the roundness that Thunderwing's pretender shell is known for.
Somehow this guy and Cyclonus get really well done engineering while the Earthrise Seekers had to settle for outdated engineering from 2006 and had no waist swivels to call their own.
I can’t understand Hasbro’s logic in giving most of the A-listers the bare minimum but the B to D-listers the absolute best treatment.
@@rayvenkman2087 Maybe this is payback for all the years that Fun Pub and IDW spent hyping up literal nobodies. "You want nothingburgers like Skids, Jhiaxus, Apeface, Snapdragon, Runamuck and Runabout, Flamewar, Slicer, Cog, or Fasttrack in Generations? FINE! Have 'em! But know that because of your whining, you're going to end up with half-baked versions of the characters the general public actually wants! Cliffjumper is going to partsform! The Seekers won't have waist swivels! Hoist is going to be hollow as all get out! Arcee is going to be the worst shellformer known to man! ALL BECAUSE YOU WOULDN'T SHUT UP ABOUT LITERAL NOBODIES LIKE GUZZLE AND PYRO!!!"
@@EternityKingdomsHeadHoncho I like Moist as much as the next guy but when exactly was he ever on the A-list?
… he was probably a bad example to use. Maybe I should’ve used ER Wheeljack’s incorrectly shaped windshield or Netflix Soundwave’s awkward alt mode as examples.
Still baffles me how he wasn’t given the leader price given the lack of hollow parts and articulated hands
This might be due to the fact that the other voyager was a repack of an older figure so they were able to use the budget of both voyagers for Jhiaxus
@@NathanSteven Maybe they should repack more figures in that case, specifically the hard to find ones.
@@rayvenkman2087 It would definitely be a smart move for Hasbro but there can be some caveats with. For example, the soundwave is definitely going to shelf warm. As for repacking hard to find figures, exclusives like those Netflix figures may never see a release outside of whatever Walmart wants due to contract and the fact that Walmart has a habit of bullying companies to maintain exclusivity or special deals.
@@NathanSteven They just have to reissue the non-Walmart items from Siege to Kingdom like the Earthrise Smokescreen which is starting to climb in value in the aftermarket only two years after his release or a Kingdom Dinobot re-release.
@@rayvenkman2087 "Legacy" is the perfect line name to release repacks of rare figures from previous lines and "close enough" soft redecos of exclusives, along with new figures from previous generations, unicron trilogy, beast wars, etc whether as wave mates or boxed sets. Maybe it lets the main line do something different as well, like focusing on updated releases for an entire series without enforcing G1ish aesthetics for future remolds. Prime/Armada/RiD getting fresh updates and unreleased characters that are genuine to that part of Transformers' spirit and aesthetic would be refreshing.
He's amazing, although, naturally the part that scares me the most is his clear plastic chest, especially where the nosecone tabs into it. Feels a bit tighter than I'm comfy with, and I worry it'll snap the plastic. I'm thinking of shaving that tab a bit
I just received the OG Beast Wars Inferno in the mail today so I was gonna hold off on the spending...But I think I’ll make it a point to look for this guy tomorrow, your review convinced me.
A cool generation selects repaint could be an orange/grey version to reference the beast machines and generations figure. Heck maybe put the BM vehicon symbol on his chest and it could be a nice figure
If we get a true G2 Tank Megatron, then get it a Marvel G2 repaint of it and Earthrise Optimus; it’d be cool to get an exclusive three pack based on that fight scene the pair had with him including having the grimacing/grinning faces from those two iconic comic covers while Optimus gets the G2 #1 cover bullet-ridden head.
*Yeeeeeessssss*
they might try to use Armada megatron as that since having multiple tank megatrons might be a bit much
This guy is such a love letter to second generation Transformers, and I love everything about it. I haven't put Jhiaxus down since I got him last week. I even dragged out my old Generation 2 comics for a re-read. This Jhiaxus really is one of the best of the bunch in Legacy and its cousin the War for Cybertron Trilogy as part of the larger Generations line. Put short, if anyone reading this is considering Legacy Jhiaxus, my advice is buy it. Buy it now. You won't regret it. (Unless the plastic ends up yellowing, that is.) I can't really articulate how much joy this figure has given me, but I am most thankful for it.
Hes a cool looking figure, love the colors on him
When I saw the sensor piece on his gun, I got pissed at Amazon. I thought I had a missing piece, as my copy had a dented box that looked like it had been opened. But all is well. Figure is amazing.
I wasn't initially planning on getting this guy but the more I see the more he's tempting... I guess if I see him in store.
I always pronounced it as Jie-axe-iss.
I just got him at Walmart today an amazing figure and decent transformation
After the flying hot dog comment I just got to say. I can't unsee it now. Awesome figure though. Great review Thanks!
Glad to know Jhiaxus turned out well
i can't believe how early I found him in Australia
People talk about how the Masterpiece line gives off a Roger Rabbit effect with some of the figures, but this guy definitely gives me Roger Rabbit feelings with how he looks like he jumped out of the G2 and Regeneration One comic. The fact this is a mainline figure too, don’t think anyone was expecting a proper Jhiaxus figure, after so many years of repaints that claim to be Jhiaxus.
I can imagine it being retooled to Machine Wars Starscream.
The Flying Lipstick
I’m an adult….just not a collector….
This guy will be retooled as Dreadwing of TF Prime, my guess.
It's stupid. It's garish. It has literally no subtlety.
And honestly? That's perfect. I'm glad this exists.
I mean to be fair, that's a pretty accurate summary of G2 in general.
Great review. Pretty solid, unlike his eventual fate in G2. :p
Feels like a missed opportunity to have the arms fit in the front cockpit
I could be wrong about this but I feel like they're going to redo the transformation and turn this into Prime Skyquake, because you can form a more normal jet mode by leaving the wings in their robot mode configuration and leaving the wings on the legs folded out
Skyquake is gonna be a Leader, so i wouldn't know how a remold would work.
@@muisverriet have you modern leader class figures, classes don't mean size anymore, it's more like engineering or budget, so it could happen 🤔
Hey TJ, Australia already has year 2 of legacy. Or maybe it’s wave 2. Either way a local target has Buzzsaw, Sandstorm and that weird grey Cheetor. And my local EB Games (GameStop) has This toy and the Soundwave.
"Clean" version of the "jet," uh huh. More like a cargo shuttle, with those two bulk shipping containers hanging off the bottom... Maybe that's why he transformed so rarely, he's got a flyer alt mode but is afraid of heights, like that one Aerialbot who was converted from a cargo shuttle to a high speed earth mode?
The shoulders on mine are are a bit loose too.
his alt mode makes me think of hotdog
Gee Axe Us.
Id love to see if this mold could work as a Cybertron era Swoop - replace the bat wings and your golden.
I like the figure overall but the legs don’t tab together as well as I would like. Always feels like stuff is moving around down there even if it doesn’t come completely undone
T30 Jhiaxus in retrospect could work as a G1 Era Jhiaxus before adopting his beefy G2 form.
Hahahahaha space hawtdawg
$100 they make a broadside out this mold.
I love how subdued his G2 Decepticon symbol is... Almost like he's less in it for the faction loyalty and more about his own goals... Which is appropriate for the character.
Who's madder of a scientist jihaxus flame or Shockwave
The only part I do not like are the arms that just sit at the bottom of the jet mode. It just look like a loading dock attached at the bottom. But it is different and different enough that it is cool.
I kinda want a g1 skyquake retool out of this
I mean, to be fair, both Prime and Primal got Voyagers with opening hands, so
i smell skyquake from Tfprime extense remold from this toy because the design is much similar with a big minigun of energon to hasbro give us a reason the leader class price
The head on mine isn't loose at all so I guess it's just a quality control issue and not an issue with the figure itself
Jhiaxus is still stuck in the 90's.
That’s a good thing; we don’t want him to advance to the 2000s and do something horrible to Arcee
I like the alt mode, although i think it would look cooler with bigger wings but that's just a nitpick and not a deal breaker to me
Slap some different wings on him and he could pass for energon thrust
Why havent they made a Jhiaxus who actually comes with an axe? that'd be perfect
Cut off the wings and add some propellers and maybe Blue Bacchus?
Really like it, but also really bored by it too. Maybe it's the deco?
Cool mould, fugly colours.
They finally just said..."No, seriously, we're doing G2 Jhiaxus."
Again tho, with the Unicron Trilogy, G2, and Beast Wars, why are Prime figures the only ones so heavily "Geewunned"?
I'm guessing because otherwise they'd stick out like a sore thumb. And they want their options open to reuse the molds for different characters. (or in Knockout's case, the mold previously belonged to a G1 character)
no coments on the translucid plastic? is hasbro menacing you? 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
Yipee
Also first
Does anyone else hate jhaixus's colors or is it just me?😅