Jetstorm is a member of the Air Defence team and forms the middle of the Star Saber. He's a Concorde like jet, mainly cast in clear plastic with the nose & tail in blue plastic. Some of the undercarriage is cast in grey and this will form his upper arms and all of his legs in robot mode. Under his nose is a fold down landing gear.
He has one minicon port and that's on the middle of his underside. This enables you to mount him on a larger toy's arm and pretend he's a blade of some sort
TF: Fold the nose back. Turn the aircraft over. Unpeg the legs from the back of the jet and fold down. Bring the lower legs under the upper legs and twist each in 90 degrees at the knee. Swing the arms down to the sides and fold down the forearms. Pull the tail fin back and fold over his head.
The robot has a minicon symbol on his right lower leg. His knees are ball jointed as well as folding to the sides in the TF. The hips move forward & back, the shoulders swing to the side and the elbows bend. The revealed head is clear with a painted red face plate - though I do own one missing this paint operation.
Decent jet and robot.
In Japan Jetstorm was known as Mach and was released as part of Micron Legend as pack MM-02 with the rest of the Air Defence Team. They also were available in giftbox MS-01 with the Japanese version of Hotshot..
The Air Defence Team were on of the first to be recoloured in the US and UK. Clear plastic becomes pale grey, grey plastic becomes black and blue becomes purple. Red paint ops become gold.
The loss of the clear plastic does affect the (admittedly poor performing) gimmick in combined mode but the individual robot & jet looks great in these new colours.
Never Ending Road is packed with the Air Defence Team that form the Star Sabre
These are the first real CD singles I've ever owned - they're the smaller size ones.
CDJapan also threw in 2 posters advertising the CDs - cool !
Just built the Star Sabre - looks fabulous in blue.
The Star Sabre holds together the best of any of the ones I've got (about equal with Hotrod's ) Exchanging pieces reveals the problem is with the tab on Runway rather than the hole on Jetstorm - the rest of the Firesabre can slot OK into the Blue SS's Sonar, but the Blue SS fit's loosely in the Firesabre's Sonar - as does it's blade.
If it comes down to getting one, I'd go for the Blue Star Sabre & End Theme set. "
The Air Defence team were one of two minicon teams released with a CD single in Japan. Grey plastic becomes blue matching the existing blue plastic, and the clear colour becomes clear blue. The plane looks nice, but the robot is a little odd looking - very blue. However the combined form is really what you're buying this set for.
Kabaya issued a series of Minicon toys with candy in Japan during 2003. The Air Defence team take the clear plastic of the originals and replace it with opaque bright white plastic. Effective repaint, though like the Air Assault Team the solid paint used in the recolour limits the combined mod.
Scattor gains some forward pointing fins and flat wing tips in jet mode. This makes the jet look completely different.
Yellow isn't the best colour for a clear repaint - looks too much like urine ! (see Shining Ultra Magnus)
The Japanese version of the Energon Sabre was numbered SC-08 and Scattor retained his western name.
My notes say that the Energon Sabre seen in Micron Booster V1 is the first Energon toy to be repainted !
Thrust's Red, Silver and Black jet looks spectacular. With the tailfin folded down he's got a good colour balance in robot mode - lots of Black and Silver but a Red chest - but folded back the tailfin is reminiscent of the old "coneheaded" year 2 G1 jets.