[En Sabah Nerd]

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Originally Posted by PROVOST

Today's mail call -

Oh man, I remember when I got Elis Helrot. I was in a Target and I found that wave of the 30th anniversary figures, they had everybody except for the animated Boba Fett (which was fine because I already found it elsewhere) and so I immediately grabbed the McQuarrie concept Vader but then I saw M'iiyoom Onith and my love for the cantina scene overtook me and yet there was also Elis Helrot and I was like "wait, if I get both I can combine their bar pieces?!" Of course this was back when each figure was like $6 so I had no issue grabbing all 3 of them. Man I loved the 30th ann. collection line, so many great figures in that line.


So I technically got this Saturday night but I've been busy with life so here I go now:

It's PotP Jazz. My local Walmart had the PotP deluxes but nothing else which is odd because then my other Walmart had the voyagers and leaders but not the deluxes, go figure. It's a very G1 Jazz, the robot mode in particular very much so resembles his 1984 cartoon self although the car is kind of a mixed take. So the car definitely has the G1 deco with all the striping and proper colors plus the door decals but then the frame of the car feels off, it isn't a Martini Porsche 935 it looks more like a modified 936. On its own the toy has no real problems other than that I find the shoulder joints to be kind of ugly to use. By which I mean that they swivel front and back fine but when they hinge up and out it creates a large gap because of the way the arm/shoulder attaches to the body by only a single hinge. That might not be a problem for most but it looks awkward to me. My other point of note is with his hands. They have a swivel joint but because of the flat planks on his underarms (the doors of the car) they don't even swivel enough to count, so what's the point of having them? If they were gonna make his hands separate from the rest of the forearm mold couldn't they have at least cast the hands in black then to be more G1 accurate? I don't detract anything from the toy over this it's just something I thought about.

Comparing it to the RtS Jazz which as I recall was the last G1 style deluxe Jazz we got, PotP has a more cartoon accurate robot mode but the RtS one looks a lot more like the original toy. I'm also giving the RtS figure bonus points for including the speakers from the cartoon and for having more aesthetically pleasing articulation. Comparing car modes I like the colors and the deco of the PotP figure more but the RtS car had a more G1 looking frame. So I'd say unless you love Jazz and want to have all of his figures then you can probably pass if you already got the RtS figure. However, if you don't have the RtS figure then this is a good way to get a deluxe sized G1 style Jazz.