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versions prerub shockwave was also found in the corrected box before the accessories wording was blanked out and in canadian releases the separations are no longer common this is despite the continued use of the larger springs which suggests that the stronger springs are fine provided the plastic is strong enough to resist the pulling stress because shockwave would split even at the elbow where a normal small spring was always used it suggests that inadequate tensile strength was the major contributing factor note that these springs would continue to be used in for shockwave through to galactic man galactic man is much easier to inspect shockwave has a factory glued torso where as galactic man with a lower price point is not how early is early within shockwave s run apart from the rubsign he is almost entirely uniform there aren t significant variants we can observe that at some point his decepticon insignia changes from purple to pink shockwave s faction logo changes to pink in 1985 in fact the thing that tells us the most is not the figure but the accessory his barrel over the lifetime of the mold we can see that the barrel underwent some changes first was the introduction of a ridge that matches the ridge on the wrist this allows for a tighter fit of the barrel over the right wrist this occurred while the graywaves gray releases were being produced for various small companies e g royal condor at the same time for an unknown reason the adjacent section would be fitted with a small section of hookup wire that has been superglued in place i think that this was used to assist in the fitting of the two halves but only because this was replaced during the shockwave era by an extra tab that lets the pieces interlock this is the way to distinguish galactic man barrels from graywave barrels the barrel that comes with the earliest shockwave is the same as the graywave version with the wire section instead of the fitting tab because only shockwave came with purple translucent plastic it can be identified as his earlier variant that means that the earliest shockwave is almost the same as the latest electronic magnum the only visible mold difference being the shockwave specific trigger posted by masarujasu at 5 30 am no comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest monday october 31 2022 the 40th anniversary of the valkyrie jetfire s story a jetfire centric look at the transformable 1 55 valkyrie figure in november 1982 takatoku toys co ltd released the first 1 55 scale valkyrie figure the vf 1j battroid valkyrie from the animated tv series super dimension fortress macross 超時空要塞マクロス which aired from october 3rd 1982 to june 26th 1983 on the mbs network mainichi broadcasting system through 1983 and 1984 takatoku toys would further release the valkyrie with headsculpt and deco variations as the vf 1s and vf 1a battroid and in gift sets with additional armor as the gbp 1s armored valkyrie and vf 1s super valkyrie autobot air commander jetfire the transformers hasbro industries inc 1984 in late 1984 jetfire landed on usa toy shelves as part of hasbro s the transformers toyline although it was officially an inclusion in the 1985 series two catalog jetfire along with shockwave were both available before christmas 1984 alongside the series one toys and the two figures shared the same television commercial as well for reference the transformers toyline release began in may of 1984 hasbro industries inc from 15 june 1972 hasbro bradley inc from 17 september 1984 acquisition of milton bradley announced may 1984 hasbro inc from 14 august 1985 like all the other figures from the first two series of the transformers jetfire was a product from an existing franchise in the japanese market hasbro had already struck a deal with japan s takara co ltd to repurpose their diaclone real and robo and microman micro change figures for the transformers toyline which they had first discovered at the tokyo toy show of 1983 this was the basis of the november 1983 agreement between hasbro industries inc and takara co ltd a relationship that has endured to this day not long after hasbro looked elsewhere for additional figures to add variety of scale striking deals with toybox toyco and takatoku toys the valkyrie figure that hasbro repurposed as jetfire was takatoku toys vf 1s super valkyrie jetfire was part of the 1985 and 1986 transformers catalog and had notable releases in usa canada and europe where he moonlighted as the autobot leader in 1985 while optimus prime was unavailable in that region milton bradley mb packaging 1985 the beginning the concept for the valkyrie figure originated with designer shoji kawamori a member of studio nue studio nue co created the macross concept with the studio artland other key parties in macross were advertising agency big west which commercialized the franchise and tatsunoko productions which animated the television series big west brought the project to takatoku toys in 1982 and after some debate the project planners settled on the valkyrie as the focal point of the toyline takatoku toys still had doubts about the design and kawamori who had assisted with the design of several transformable figures from takara s diaclone series in the early 1980s created a transformable paper model to show takatoku toys planning manager takeo mitsui kawamori then made a proposal to commission a prototype from a trusted workshop the design of this model was entrusted to a company called watanabe giken which had been involved in prototyping various toys for popy and takara tetsu watanabe led this project and within two months delivered a one off transformable wood sculpted prototype which would be the basis for takatoku toys managerial approval to proceed takatoku toys was primarily a fabless product planning enterprise so they approached matsushiro co ltd who made rc cars and toy guns to be the fabrication partner for this project matsushiro skillfully translated the prototype into a blueprint and produced the injection molds tooling and manufactured the product watanabe s painted wooden prototype article from figure oh 134 march 2009 the first figure the vf 1j was released in november 1982 and was an instant hit takatoku toys sold 200 000 units by the end of 1982 alone and the combined 1 55 series had sold over 1 million units in total by the end of 1983 the figure release dates were as follows vf 1j hikaru ichijyo type november 1982 3980 yen vf 1s ostensibly roy focker type however as roy was deceased in the tv show hikaru was on the box february 1983 3980 yen vf 1j max type april 1983 3980 yen vf 1j miria type april 1983 3980 yen vf 1a misa featured july 1983 3980 yen gbp 1s armored valkyrie may 1983 4980 yen vf 1s super valkyrie february 1984 4980 yen vf 1d postponed ultimately unreleased vf 1j battroid valkyrie hikaru type vf 1s battroid valkyrie vf 1j battroid valkyrie miria type vf 1j battroid valkyrie max type vf 1a battroid valkyrie vf 1s armored valkyrie gbp 1s vf 1s super valkyrie vf 1d unreleased toy journal 1982 12 showcases the vf 1j battroid that faithfully reproduces the animation s mechanism toy journal 1983 toy show ed showcases up coming vf 1j max mira and gbp 1s toy journal 1983 3 showcases the vf 1s battroid toy journal 1984 4 showcases the vf 1s super valkyrie and coincidentally all the takatoku releases that would eventually make it into the transformers beetras dorvack toy journal 1984 6 by which time takatoku toys had gone bankrupt hasbro gets onboard the super valkyrie was released in japan in february 1984 and on us shelves as jetfire as early as october 1984 according to print ads since this was the first fast pack version of the 1 55 valkyrie it s reasonable to say that this must have been the very figure that hasbro discovered and decided to bring into the transformers line and the party they dealt with in the first instance was takatoku toys in order to protect hasbro s interest matsushiro filed us patents for the figure in april 1984 licensing was granted to hasbro by tatsunoko productions which owned exploitation rights outside japan thus one will find tatsunoko production logo stickers affixed to the front of the jetfire packaging hasbro commissioned mark watts to illustrate jetfire for the front of package art us patent filed by matsushiro co ltd the jetfire artwork illustrated by mark watts there is a company product brief for hasbro s 1985 product line that has character biography and sample photos of jetfire dated 30th april 1984 though the photos are poorly reproduced in the scans you can see that the jetfire sample is the pointed nose takatoku figure the hasbro release has a retooled blunt nose for safety reasons it is unclear whether the photographs are necessarily from april but it is clear that as of april hasbro already had advanced character development that would have commenced maybe weeks prior the deco is also more advanced than seen in the tv commercial as the nosecone is painted in these photographs hasbro had already decided on the sticker design i e the diagonally striped feet stickers are visible as well as the autobot stickers on the booster armor the instruction manual was not final suggesting that the figure would have come with missiles however only a rare canadian distribution would have missiles the procurement of the figure samples licensing development etc would have begun very shortly after the release of the super valkyrie in february it is typical for hasbro to do safety tests drop tests and request modifications this is certainly the reason for the nosecone change mr morishima product development at bandai confirmed that matsushiro did this change for overseas i e hasbro additionally hasbro required copyright notices stamped on the figures hasbro requested copyrights be added to tf toys by takara in their contracts this will also be why matsushiro filed us patent in april 1984 as did takara for their designs polaroids of a jetfire prototype from the 1985 product brief biography of jetfire initially called fireball referencing the valkyrie toy from the 1985 product brief instruction manual non final from the 1985 product brief note it advertises 5 missiles takatoku toys went bankrupt with debts of about 3 billion yen roughly 13 million usd on may 25th 1984 after suffering losses due to exposure on animated properties that slumped in ratings or were prematurely cancelled matsushiro which managed the fabrication and possessed the dies became the owner of the dies and continued development for hasbro see thelonewolf s matsushiro stamped super in a jetfire proof of concept package below which is probably the only known example of a matsushiro figure without the blunted nosecone this figure could not have been retooled to a matsushiro stamp until after may 25th the common understanding is that hasbro licensed the figure from matsushiro directly after takatoku s bankruptcy and i believe this idea is due to the two most commonly facts 1 the matsushiro stamping on the early jetfire figure and 2 takatoku s well known bankruptcy however i will discuss later how takatoku s bankruptcy halted their macross movie toyline mid production which basically leaves a time stamp on the last takatoku stamped toys possibly made by matsushiro for takatoku around may the very last property that takatoku toys released were the armored insect corps beetras of which they had developed 4 figures and released three prior to bankruptcy according to print ads the first figure was released in mid march 1984 so i believe takatoku was doing just fine during the period where hasbro started developing jetfire super attack galbion a tv series majorly sponsored by takatoku toys was abruptly cancelled during production of episode 22 due to their bankruptcy episode 22 was reworked to include a brief story conclusion to the series and aired on june 29 1984 finally print ads for takatoku products still ran in the june 1984 toy journal considering lead times these facts indicate takatoku toys was fully active until bankruptcy was announced at the end of may i think the most plausible scenario is this hasbro contacted takatoku toys to license the figure and out of that agreement that included merchandising licensing from tatsunoko pro and may have included some financial benefit to takatoku hasbro was put in direct contact with matsushiro in order to manage their specific product requirements more directly takatoku toys was not bankrupt at the time but it also didn t make sense for takatoku to be a liaison between hasbro and matsushiro beyond the introductory phase as takatoku toys was a consignee not a fabricator beetras takatoku toys last project for a brief period matsushiro exported figures such as an unlicensed vf 1j in the uk called space fighter which may have been left over inventory and continued working with hasbro on the development and manufacture of the jetfire figure but gradually fell victim to financial difficulties itself matsushiro therefore sought to be acquired by a big brand in the world of toys ultimately being acquired by bandai co ltd matsushiro was restructured as unix co ltd under the umbrella of bandai co ltd and as such bandai took control of matsushiro s assets not limited to the valkyrie but also other figures which bandai would also later supply to hasbro such as whirl roadbuster and the deluxe insecticons that all began as takatoku toys products as the owner of unix bandai also became responsible for fulfilling the hasbro agreement matsushiro stamped super valk in jetfire test packaging c o thelonewolf matsushiro stamped super valk in jetfire test packaging c o thelonewolf space fighter released in uk by matsushiro takatoku toys stamped space fighter released in uk by matsushiro takatoku toys stamped by the time they were acquired by bandai matsushiro had already manufactured an inventory consisting of completed jetfires with their matsushiro stamping and incomplete or unassembled figures ultimately all jetfire packaging manuals listed bandai as the manufacturer suggesting bandai must have taken over well before any orders were completed packed or shipped jetfire was manufactured by bandai co ltd for hasbro industries inc commencing prior to sept 14th 1984 rubsigns appeared on jetfire only after the matsushiro mold was retooled to a bandai stamping and the rubsign was introduced in september so bandai must have taken over prior to september 1984 indeed this is why the company name is still hasbro industries inc on the box this changed to hasbro bradley inc on september 14th their merge with milton bradley bandai made some tooling changes to the original mold such as the smooth antenna and deco changes such as the removal of the un spacy logo from the wing bandai tooled two additional dies of the figure hence there are 3 molds and 4 different stampings evident for jetfire in total across its run and some transitional figures were assembled from mixe...