Toyworld TW-FS05 Sky Burst (WWI Battleship Jetfire) Color Prototype

Just received mine also  

1st: BOX IS WAY TOO HUGE for what's inside… i mean the boat mode is not that big, doesnt take a lot of space… the axe neither…. the boat stand maybe but still would be possible to make it better… then you have like a corner of the box that is not utilized at all
2nd: The instruction… as in the tradition of EVERY recent Toyworld figure… you want to take the instructions and throw them in the garbage… they are beyond HORRIBLE… the images are TINY, they'd fit on my pinky finger's nail… its impossible to tell if its the front or the back of the boat or what is it they actually MEAN to do… i check instructions… FIRST step seems to ask you to pull down the fron of the boat completely… I check a video NOPE its flipping up 2 pannels in the back actually… aiight… F-those instructions from that point on.
3rd: its by my last HORRENDOUS experience with hotrod, but the transformation was MAD SCARY SO MANY weird tollerances, some joints seems "glued" by the paint, others are INCREDIBLY STIFF, others are loose (but not alot are, they mostly super stuff)

Nothing is broken or missing on mine, so I'm thankful for this.

OVERALL:
-transformation is SCARY but nice
-Boat mode has A LOT of panels lining but its not so bad, the ugly is the under the boat which has a lot of robot showing
-paint is great
-robot is amazing but mine seems to have weak ankles… but still stands due to its super big feet.

Very Satisfied so far… I'll be making a video today/tomorrow… should be up this weekend  

PS: YES now i do have all of Starscream's parts!!!

porkchop123

Did it come with the Starscream torso?

Yep, comes with the Starscream torso, spare head (movie Blitzwing style), gas mask, hands and machine guns.

Did it come with the Starscream torso?

Mine shipped from Omegalock, should arrive tomorrow! Let's say a prayer to the QC gods…

OK, double post, but for good reason!

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So it's a good news / bad news situation, but overall I'm pretty happy. First off the bad news, and as expected, I've had a couple of QC issues, but nothing super catastrophic. Here's what I've noticed so far – there may be more, but I've checked him pretty thoroughly in both modes:

-His right thumb is missing – this is the most annoying one for me because it's not something I can fix myself and I know my chances of getting a replacement from Toyworld are basically zero. That said, when he's holding his walking stick, it's not really noticeable – be honest, you didn't notice it in the pic above until I mentioned it, did you?  
-There's a small "flank" piece on either side of the torso that folds out during transformation, and the one on the right snapped off as the pin had been misfired *slightly*. I can probably fix this one myself, at least in a "good enough" sense.
-A very thin "mast" piece at the front of the boat had snapped off in the box. Easily fixable. interestingly, another super thin piece comes separate and in a bag precisely so it doesn't get broken in shipping – I don't know why they didn't do this with both pieces tbh.
-I *think* I'm missing a lifeboat piece, but that's not a huge issue – I can headcanon it that one of them needed to be launched already!
-The "backpack" detached during transformation, but I think this is intentional – it's just held on by a C-clip and I assume it's meant to come off for combining with Prime.

None of the above are hugely problematic in bot mode, and either barely noticeable or totally hidden in ship mode, which is how I'm likely to display him most of the time. Would I like it if he were perfect? Of course, but it's Toyworld, I was expecting worse tbh.

Anyway, negatives aside, what do I like? Well, for a start, just look at it – it's gorgeous! It even kinda makes me like the design of movie Jetfire, which I never thought would happen! Transformation is also surprisingly not awful – I've only done it ship to bot so far, I expect that getting it back into ship mode will be more difficult, but we'll see. There are also a couple of "masterpiece" moments in the transformation – I particularly like the way some of the mounted guns fold backwards to make them symmetrical in bot mode, where they're one in front of the other in alt mode. The way the arms fold out out is really nice too.

I think some people might be disappointed by his size (no jokes), particularly in ship mode – he's a fair bit smaller than I expected. Not an issue for me, mind, cos I'm running out of space enough already!

So yeah, for those who have this incoming and are fearing the worst QC wise, as long as you're willing to accept "good but not perfect" you should (fingers crossed) be OK. Considering I doubted this toy would ever actually come out, I'm pretty darn pleased to have him in hand.

PLUS the Starscream BAF part came with the piece that was missing from my Red Baron, so that QC issue has been solved at least!  

Same here.

svek

Well, STS OP was just a render (from a company that never released a thing), BA Irohide was a grey prototype (and the designer confirmed that he's not coming back to TFs) while Shatter looks like to be a finished/fully painted prototype. And we still need a confirmation that TW is actually dead

STS was a prototype and ba ironhide had a fully painted prototype. They're both about as real as tw shatter to me (or would be if we didn't know about black apple's situation).

Shmoptimus Prime

Yep put that right up there with BA Ironhide and STS/TMT Optimus.

Well, STS OP was just a render (from a company that never released a thing), BA Irohide was a grey prototype (and the designer confirmed that he's not coming back to TFs) while Shatter looks like to be a finished/fully painted prototype. And we still need a confirmation that TW is actually dead

Bakuopp

Just saw this. Guess everyone's feeling that this is ToyWorld's last.

never say never
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Shmoptimus Prime

Bombusbee agrees with me, which isn't a good sign for this figure. Hoping for you guys that this figure is of good quality and fun to play with!

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Because there is no after sale support from TW. So for store like BBB or ShowZ, if anything goes wrong, they will be in a difficult position, probably need to open a new one and get the parts from there.

Like the Rabbit store on Taobao, just say this: No after sale support from TW, if you care about that, pls don't buy.

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Just saw this. Guess everyone's feeling that this is ToyWorld's last.