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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 20, 2014 19:16:15 GMT
Even if the big fella here didn't arrive on these shores until '86.  Jetfire was definitely in the UK during 85. I've got this nagging voice in the back of my head that says it might have even been the end of 84! |
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 20, 2014 20:13:22 GMT
Even if the big fella here didn't arrive on these shores until '86. Jetfire was definitely in the UK during 85. I've got this nagging voice in the back of my head that says it might have even been the end of 84! That makes more sense to me. 86 seems too late for an early design like that. He doesn't fit with the movie cast or the special teams. I was just going by the reference on tfwiki which says he was held over to 86 in the UK, and this one I have has the 86 UK toy checklist sheet in the box, which I think is the first one he's on. But that doesn't really mean anything. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 20, 2014 20:25:42 GMT
I can see where the wiki got the info from: he's not on the 85 UK Catalogue
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Post by duffism1981 on Feb 20, 2014 20:37:54 GMT
I was going to chime in saying I am positive he was released in the UK, as I did know people who had him as a child. Being an army child and having spent 85'-87' living in Germany, I guess it is possible that the Jetfire's could have been released and bought there.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Feb 20, 2014 21:40:19 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 20, 2014 23:03:09 GMT
Those catalogue scans are awesome. I've always had it in the back of my mind that the cars were around £7 when they first came out, but it's great to see that in print to confirm it. I'm surprised by Prime though, I was sure he was £21.99. £15.95 for the biggest scale Transformer! amazing. Suck that MP10!
The wiki may be wrong, they have an oversight in that Inferno isn't on their list of '85 UK cars, he's on the '86 list. That can't be right surely when he was on the '85 UK toy sheet, and indeed came with one.
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Post by Shockprowl on Feb 21, 2014 13:28:39 GMT
I am 95% sure my brother got his Jetfire Christmas '85, or his birthday, January '86, shortly after. We got our first Transformers late '84, and Jetfire was after that. But it was a looooooong time agoooooooooo.
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Post by Pinwig on Feb 21, 2014 15:51:24 GMT
I'll have a flick through some TF:UK comics when I'm next near them for adverts. I only have paper copies of those, nothing digital for quick reference. I would bet Christmas '85. If you think about the leader size of figure in those days, between Prime and Magnus there is only Jetfire so he's an obvious choice for the big Autobot for Christmas 1985. By Christmas 1986 Magnus, Galvatron and Metroplex were out.
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Post by The Huff on Feb 21, 2014 16:13:00 GMT
He was out in early 1985 - along with the jumpstarters Insecticons and Dinobots. Just before the 'main' 1985 line was released in the summer holidays. (Which is probably why he appears in season 1 of the cartoons before everyone else).
Yes - the 'big' toy for 1985 Christmas.
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Post by legios on Feb 21, 2014 19:52:49 GMT
My recollection was pointing in the general direction of it being '85, mostly because of when I remember seeing him in Stirling's Tesco (it had several major makeovers and reorganisations which serve as convenient milestones in the memory). But I am inclined to say that your recollection and Matt's represent far more reliable testimony than mine anyways
Karl
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Post by The Doctor on Feb 23, 2014 14:08:13 GMT
All I know is...my gut says 'maybe'.
-Ralph
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Post by primenova on Feb 23, 2014 18:48:40 GMT
I can tell you that he was on sale in the Filey newsagent toy shop in august 1988.
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Post by Rich on Feb 23, 2014 21:57:00 GMT
Love those scans. Serious nostalgia kick!
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Post by Pinwig on Mar 2, 2014 19:35:05 GMT
I didn't think I could remember seeing a toy advert in the UK comic for Jetfire and I can't find one having looked. His intro story comes at the start of Dec 85 but at that point the Hasbro advert is Prime/Megatron every issue. The previous one is the Dinobot one and the one that comes after in 86 is the special teams. Beyond that you're into movie toys. I vaguely remember that his release was scuffed over in favour of other toys in terms of publicity, in my head he has always been an outsider.
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 13, 2014 17:23:27 GMT
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 13, 2014 22:01:44 GMT
Fantastic stuff  that scan actually clears up another question that the tfwiki page left me with. As well as saying Jetfire was an 86 toy, Inferno is also missing from their UK 85 list and doesn't appear until the 86 one. I assumed that was a mistake, but there's Inferno in that catalogue too which proves it is indeed a mistake. |
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Post by Philip Ayres on Nov 13, 2014 22:11:31 GMT
Link please?
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Post by Pinwig on Nov 13, 2014 22:18:29 GMT
Here under UK releases for 85 it says Jetfire was held to 86 and Inferno isn't in the car list, but is in the 86 one. That was what started this thread originally.
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that scan actually clears up another question that the tfwiki page left me with. As well as saying Jetfire was an 86 toy, Inferno is also missing from their UK 85 list and doesn't appear until the 86 one. I assumed that was a mistake, but there's Inferno in that catalogue too which proves it is indeed a mistake.