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Originally Posted by positivelyken
What's up with that Blast Off? I don't remember him having bright orange all over him in G1. The bot arms are in full view sitting on the side of the alt mode. And the tail fin is clearly a removeable piece, which cheats the part of the transformation where the fin moves from the rear of the shuttle to the bot mode's back. Not even an armature. Takara went to the trouble of making a brand new mold, and yet... I'm having trouble seeing it as an improvement even if it is ostensibly more G1 than Hasbro's fighter jet Blast Off (which at least has the right coloring).
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I'd like to present a slightly different angle to this. I think that Hasbro has (accidentally), corrected an error that they made in 1985. A space shuttle as an alt mode is pretty cool, and would be very useful to have, but considering the team that he's on, giving Blast-off a space shuttle as an alt mode is… nonsensical.
I know that he had a space shuttle as an alt mode in G1, but it made no sense then either. Forget the scale problem (which we do on a regular basis). They are COMBAT-icons. A fighter jet makes SOOO much more sense. If there had already been a fighter jet on the team, then adding a shuttle might have been an idea, but the team should have had a jet in the first place. So, in my opinion, Hasbro has accidentally blundered into the right decision on this very rare of occasions to give us a jet fighter Blast Off, and has inadvertently fixed a blunder committed in the original toy.
Having said that, the Takara shuttle Blast off is no more of a disappointment than the alt mode for Alpha Bravo, as someone else points out above. It is only OK. I certainly won't be shelling out the extra cash for it, but I can see the appeal for those people who (like myself) have fond (and slightly irrational) memories of their childhood toys, and want updated versions.
