Via Weibo user 玩具人小木 we can share for you new images of the color prototype of Toyworld TW-FS05 Sky Burst (WWI Battleship Jetfire).
These figures, planned for the Studio Series scale, are inspired by the World War I & II Transformers seen in The Last Knight film. In a very original design choice, Jetfire transforms into a powerful WWI battleship. Robot mode still looks recognizable as Jetfire’s design in ROTF, with a solid and detailed alt mode. To make things even more interesting, it includes an stand for the battleship and Jetfire can still combine with Studio Series Optimus Prime.
We still have no concrete information about price or release date, but stay tuned with TFW2005 for more updates!
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tantrum
I hesitated on this since the price was a lot and now I see the pre-order is already sold out at TFsouce
ShadowOfSilver
Just saw the preorder prices and yikes, I'm not seeing where the 200 bucks comes from. Hopefully someone can get it and see how the combination with Prime works but unless I see a price drop, I might be out too.
Chrg
Already up at ShowZ for $199. So Not a huge difference than.
Shmoptimus Prime
Yeaaaah even when accounting for TFS's insanely inflated prices, I'm guessing this guy is gonna land around at LEAST $175-200 at places like showz. And for that reason, I'm out.
Artereis
TFSource has a preorder up for $219.99. Yikes…
A Good Noodle
I'm okay with it if it looks cool ya know? For example UT Dragoon looks like he has a beard to me which I think looks good on him. A badass knight with a beard. Works okay with Bayverse Hound too. Although that is mostly because without he looks off.
![[IMG]](https://tfsource.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2020/07/IMG_5846-1024x682.jpg)
LeoJ
I just think it looks cooler and I don’t like the idea of transformers getting old
A Good Noodle
Same. Or with mouth plate/guard. No robo-lips for me
LeoJ
Is it the same from comics?
TheDude810
Yeah I actually prefer the mouthless design from the video games.
LeoJ
I hope they give his younger mouthless face as an extra head
LeoJ
While I’m actually glad they made him the entire battleship (and prefer it) I’m pretty sure I would’ve bought the citadel only version too, unless they handled the rest of the ship poorly or something. Random thought but I think that would be cool to have as a legends figure
pilot00
Hm?
octobotimus
One of those friends huh?
pilot00
While you are all arguing about ships and planes, a friend of mine saw that and shouted "Since when Jetfire transforms to the Titanic…..?"
I want to believe he didnt see the gun batteries….I really want to….
Rated X
11 years later and I never caught that. To be fair, it doesnt link. movie ROTF Jetfire to the comic ROTF Jetfire portraying him as a boat. But it does confirm Bayverse changed the context of the term "seeker" in his continuity.
Agent 53
To be fair not all of the comics are canon, for example the Bumblebee prequel comic is completely at odds with the film (for those who haven't read it, in the film Bumblebee is shown arriving on earth in the 80s, the comic shows Bumblebee in a James Bond esque spy adventure in (if memory serves) the 60s)
On the Seeker comment, ROTF doesn't use seeker in the traditional Transformers Standard (in which seekers are obviously repaits/retools of Starscream, which normal Jetfire isn't), rather, according to the Transformers Wiki "The Seekers were among the first Transformers, characterized by their ability to traverse space. They were tasked with finding stars by the Dynasty of Primes to feed the AllSpark." Of note the article also cites photos of, not just the Ford Model T mentioned above, but a Hudson steam locomotive and a 1950s truck. See here.
Furthermore, according to the wiki's article the time movieverse Jetfire took on his boat form (chronicled in the first issue of the Sector 7 comic book released in the DOTM era, from which the pictures in earlier posts were sourced), the incident in question occured in 1898, 5 years before the Wright brothers first powered flight, so there were literally no jets he could've used as a vehicle mode at the time. (Of interesting note the wiki claims that, due to his crew misinterpreting the destruction of their vessel caused by Jetfire separating himself form it as the result of a spanish attack , Jetfire unwittingly caused the Spanish-American war.)
Agent 53
They likely chose to make him the whole ship because, unless they planned to sell other figures to make up the other parts of the boat, no one would by a figure that turned into half a boat.
Hobo Prime
Thank you sir, I appreciate the clarification.
grimtnt
It's at the end of this clip
Shows a blackbird, model t, b-24 liberator
and a f-104 as seekers (as in energon seekers, not the same definition used by other continuities)
Others have mentioned a hudson locomotive and an old truck as seekers as well, but aside from the pics on the wiki, can't see them in any clips
Ransack (biplane, also got a scout toy) is also said to be a seeker