You have to hand it to Perfect Effect: when they know they have a winning
figure, they really make the most of it. Last year, I picked up their
upgrade set for
Super Ginrai and their Powermaster Optimus Prime/Ginrai figure
to spruce up an already excellent Takara Tomy
Legends Super Ginrai figure which only suffered by relying too much on the engineering of
the older
Combiner Wars/Legends Ultra Magnus
figure. PE's Jinrai Prime figure was quickly repainted into PC-17 Core Magnus
- designed to replace CW/Legends Ultra Magnus' integrated truck
- and PC-20 - designed for the Primitive Skateboarding exclusive black
repaint, which could then comfortably function as both a Nucleon Quest Super
Convoy and a Powermaster Nemesis Prime, considering the exclusive toy's
colourscheme didn't match either.
But what happened next was perhaps the most interesting development of
the mold: a strange hybrid which paid equal homage to God Ginrai/Apex
Armour Powermaster Optimus Prime and the deus ex
machina/MacGuffin-powered combination of Optimus Prime with parts pillaged
from the corpse of Jetfire at the end of Revenge of the Fallen.
Needless to say, that is very much my jam.
However, given my prior history with Perfect Effect, I'd been a little
reluctant to buy the PC upgrades, let alone another complete figure...
And, with my finances being less than ideal over the last year or so, I'd put
off buying this set even though there were no reports of horrific QC problems
like those of
Leonidas. It eventually got to the point where he was no longer available via my
usual channels. However, just as my birthday rolled around this year,
and around the time my folks made polite enquiries as to whether there were
items not on my Amazon wish list that I might like to be treated to, I
found
JapanWorld House of Robots
- another website based on the Continent (in Rome, Italy, specifically), who had a limited stock of him remaining, and ordered him forthwith.
Fortunate for me, considering they now no longer have him in stock!
So, let's take a look at Jetforce Revive Commander and see if he was
worth seeking out...
