'I' On Malaysia

Universe Legends turns up with their first new molds of the series of Jazz, Hound and ‘G2′ Megatron.

So in the last review, Animated Jazz was present and now we get Universe Jazz – seems someone has a thing for Jazz at the moment doesn’t it?  Well, whatever the reason for having so many Jazzes turning up, I’m not about to complain.  Animated Jazz was a great piece and Universe Legends Jazz doesn’t disappoint either.  He couldn’t be more faithful to the original G1 version if he tried and if you place this guy alongside the recent re-release of Encore Jazz then you will find a lot of similarities.  The size doesn’t allow for an exact miniaturisation but the distinctive Jazz head is there, the door ‘wings’, and the racing stripes (albeit without the number 4 again).  Give it feet made out of spoiler and he’d be a perfect ‘mini-me’!

Next on the list of Universe releases was the first wave of Legends class which comprised of “Classics” Onslaught, Red Alert and Starscream.

Unlike the Deluxe class that was just reviewed, none of these are new molds and all are repaints of old molds that have either been used in the Cybertron series or previous Classics series.  Ironically, Onslaught is even a repaint of Cybertron Legends Red Alert whom is now a repaint of Cybertron Legends Hot Shot (which had a re-release here not so long ago).

Ahhh, a quiet week this week.  No movies, very few Transformers in the shops, but plenty of stress and sleepless nights caused mainly by work meant leaving the blog alone for a week.  After last week’s mammoth release schedule, it is nice to have some breathing room for the wallet!  (Though Shell releasing their newest set of Ferraris didn’t help matters much!).

Quite a few new releases have come out over the past few days – I think they’re supposed to have all arrived at once, but Hasbro Malaysia seem to be having problems with their distribution at the moment with one half of Wave 2 being missed out from some shops’ shipments.  A few days later and all the new releases have finally made it to the shops.