Fun fact: Citanes is a slight name fiddle of Gitanes which is a French cigarette brand. A rare thing on something intended (in it's G1 iteration) for children.
The issue with the gap mentioned at 16:38 also happens on my copy. I think this was a small oversight. I had the missile removed and the gap still showed I believe.
FREAKING GEEK!!!! Have you noticed (at least on my end), how the painted die-cast "appears" to match his arms and legs. In my opinion anyway, his chest (body) matches greatly. Anyhoo still an awesome review, keep up the great work.
The off-color white on the diecast chest is just a reference to the yellowing chest on the G1 toy. Yeah, that's it! See, I saved it. I wish they'd done what they did with RP Soundwave and given optional G1 toy style head/attachment parts, I want that to be A Thing that 3P and Hastak themselves do for MP level figures.
The only FT that didn’t come with the QC sticker and the folding bar on the leg was installed backwards. Thankfully I was able to fix it before breaking it by accident trying to convert. Clean figure all around. Also have that cockpit gap issue, but those tabs in the back are pretty shallow.
Now this is worthy of the title "Masterpiece". Just got my Jive the other day and it fits in well with my other MPs, so I'll be looking in to get this guy soon to add to my roster.
On the fence about replacing my transform element mirage with this one. I just got the fanstoys jazz which looks fantastic although the transformation is a bit of a pain.
I got both Jive and Phantasm, and yeah I find the Jive transformation a bit of a needlessly complicated nightmare. Also one of my Jive’s legs was misassembled out of the box. Thankfully I was able to fix it by taking apart and re-assembling the leg. But while both Jive and Phantasm look incredible in both modes (IMO), the issues I had with Jive put Phantasm in top place for me.
Don't give up! They reissue and update the older ones all the time, and there's a lot of different stores out there, I'd avoid eBay as they scalp like crazy, but, if you have no choice.😂 Anyway, patience pays off in Transformer collecting. Rushing to buy an expensive figure, only for a slightly cheaper, and better version, to appear a month later happens all the time. Research pays off. Good luck out there. 👍
I happily got Fantoys Jazz as it was a big enough upgrade to justify the purchase. I won’t be getting this one as I don’t think it does enough to justify replacing my Transform Element Mirage.
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I just got it: Mirage, in a desert, you can have a mirage. And for some reason we think about sand going to Egypt. And his helmer looks like an Egyptian ornament. Doesn’t it? Am tripping too much?
Do you still have BadCube's Steamroll? (not masterpiece not Sideswipe) if you do have it, why do you never use him for comparison shots with cartoon accurate mp's?
it seems nice but i feel like nothing will ever replace my childhood g1 mirage who snapped in half. not even the replacement i got for it that snapped in half.
I have this figure and the MMC version as well. I wish that MMC had the same build quality with its current design. The MMC one looks great, but a little too fiddley. The FansToys is built really well, but too bland. Just need to merge the two together and we’d have a perfect figure.
The incorrect colours are my main issue with this. Really took the shine off when I unboxed it. Neither is really white though. One is (an accurate) powder blue, while the other is an (inaccurate) pearlescent grey. No idea what FT was thinking with the latter. Annoying, as they got the shade of blue spot on. Chroming the missile was also dumb (I also scratched mine), especially when the promo shots had it the same colour as the gun, which it is in the toon. Love the alternate head though, and the silhouette is great. Maybe half a head too short compared to Jive and the mainline MP scale, but not terrible. If not for those colours this would have been a home run. Thanks for another enjoyable review.
@@timothymoss5007 Oh I didn't want you to think I was saying it was right or wrong. It's a little distracting to see it on a toy as I mentioned but everyone has their own preferences.
I love the idea of the figure and FT’s take, however the unevenness of the white, and the limited head turn made me pass on this one. I stuck with my TE. I love everything about it except the weak spoiler and the maneuvering of it sliding on the pin. That said, I have picked up a lot of FT’s items, and normally happy with their product, but felt a bit let down by this one. But Outrider, and Jive are my recent acquisitions. Looking forward to Parkour and Bandit.
Welp you’re wrong. Porsche finally allowed Takara to have the licensing for Transformers again with the Rise of the Beasts movie. Cliffjumper was already teased which means Jazz can’t be far behind :)
One thing I don’t understand about the Masterpiece line and third party companies. Why do simple blocky transformer designs have the transformation of a Bayverse transformer?
@@Gojiraman2005 look at the original G1 Autobot Classics figures. They had irl accurate car modes, but very inaccurate bot modes because of blockforming 🙂
Hey Emgo, 2:10 Mirage's chest isn't actually the same colour as those light-bluish parts on the sides of his torso, that's actually accurate to his cartoon character model, not a flaw of the painted diecast. Only his arms, chest, thighs and the striping for his vehicle mode are white, the other parts that aren't blue or black are like a bluish-grey colour on his character model to simulate the chrome parts of the G1 toy. These bluish-grey parts also often look purplish-blue in the cartoon, just due to degraded masters and such used for the home media releases. If you ever want to see what these colours looked like in their prime on the original character models, before all of the degrading and aging, there's a guy who goes by "DM" on The Allspark forums who has done a ton of research into this stuff to make the most 100% accurate G1 models you can find on the internet. Someone from the Dragon Ball fandom also purchased original Toei colour chips (these were used as a reference to match up paint colours as they were mixed when the animators were painting animation cels) and scanned and digitized the colours, giving us a little over half of Toei Animation & Marvel Productions' paint colours used in the 80s and 90s. This was one of the many sources DM had used to recreate these models accurately.
Yeah, and they're meant to be white (like the TE, MMC etc), but they aren't white on Phantasm. They're the same kind of pearlescent grey used on Acoustic Wave. They should be the same colour as the Citanes livery. How do you get such an iconic colour scheme wrong?
Best mascot intro ever. I’m still laughing.
I want mascot
Fun fact: Citanes is a slight name fiddle of Gitanes which is a French cigarette brand. A rare thing on something intended (in it's G1 iteration) for children.
The whites not matching is actually cartoon accurate.
still not a fan
I actually have the Transform Element version and am very happy with it. The prime they made at least in my opnion is one of the best on the market.
The issue with the gap mentioned at 16:38 also happens on my copy. I think this was a small oversight. I had the missile removed and the gap still showed I believe.
FREAKING GEEK!!!! Have you noticed (at least on my end), how the painted die-cast "appears" to match his arms and legs. In my opinion anyway, his chest (body) matches greatly. Anyhoo still an awesome review, keep up the great work.
Yes. The colour mismatch, altho counterintuitive, is actually accurate to the cartoon. Now whether that's a good thing is up to subjective preference
Top tier intro from Mascot
Man, I love this guy! Keep up the great work Emgo 😊
Prime:Why can THEY do stuff that I can't!?
Me:So are we just gonna forget about your MILLIONS of forms?
The off-color white on the diecast chest is just a reference to the yellowing chest on the G1 toy. Yeah, that's it! See, I saved it.
I wish they'd done what they did with RP Soundwave and given optional G1 toy style head/attachment parts, I want that to be A Thing that 3P and Hastak themselves do for MP level figures.
The only FT that didn’t come with the QC sticker and the folding bar on the leg was installed backwards. Thankfully I was able to fix it before breaking it by accident trying to convert. Clean figure all around. Also have that cockpit gap issue, but those tabs in the back are pretty shallow.
I had the spoiler part incorrectly installed on one leg of my Jive. My Phantasm was fine though. I love both figures.
Now this is worthy of the title "Masterpiece". Just got my Jive the other day and it fits in well with my other MPs, so I'll be looking in to get this guy soon to add to my roster.
On the fence about replacing my transform element mirage with this one. I just got the fanstoys jazz which looks fantastic although the transformation is a bit of a pain.
Ssme. Both Jive and Phantasm seem like just incremental improvements.
I got both Jive and Phantasm, and yeah I find the Jive transformation a bit of a needlessly complicated nightmare. Also one of my Jive’s legs was misassembled out of the box. Thankfully I was able to fix it by taking apart and re-assembling the leg. But while both Jive and Phantasm look incredible in both modes (IMO), the issues I had with Jive put Phantasm in top place for me.
Agreed. A little disappointing after how great huffer/rig was.
Aw mirage and bumblebee best buddies
Phantasm! Like the movie with the flying metal death balls.
Boooooyyyyyyy!!
So glad I found this channel...been binge watching a lot lately...just wish I found it sooner maybe I wouldve been able to get certain transformers
Don't give up! They reissue and update the older ones all the time, and there's a lot of different stores out there, I'd avoid eBay as they scalp like crazy, but, if you have no choice.😂 Anyway, patience pays off in Transformer collecting. Rushing to buy an expensive figure, only for a slightly cheaper, and better version, to appear a month later happens all the time. Research pays off. Good luck out there. 👍
Nice figure. I dig both modes. The engineering and transformation is really cool. Great channel.
Mirage looks Awesome
He's the only one with the "can't-unsee-it," toon-accurrate white outlined codpiece.
Hope someone makes his bf Cliffjumper soon
Let’s gooo a cliffraj shipper; now Takara is making a MP Cliffjumper tho
5:04 - i swear for a second i thought he was gonna say that the head was BLOOSH compeetablah!
i had the gen 1 Mirage years ago i was transforming him one day & he snaped in half around the waist. i was pissed when it happened
Hahaha best intro. I literally laughed out loud.
Yay first comment on my favorite toy reviewer love your videos emgo keep up the amazing work
Like most Fanstoys this is well done. I just don’t think it’s enough of an improvement over the Transform Element to warrant the extra cost.
Will you do a video on Fans Toys Jive?
Yes I am
diecast detector Emgo's ice touch technique ( like third party naming )
18:26
He might wanna duck down if he wants to use that blaster…
What do you think of the magicians sleeves?
Phantastic!!!
Great as usual
I happily got Fantoys Jazz as it was a big enough upgrade to justify the purchase. I won’t be getting this one as I don’t think it does enough to justify replacing my Transform Element Mirage.
I just got it: Mirage, in a desert, you can have a mirage. And for some reason we think about sand going to Egypt. And his helmer looks like an Egyptian ornament. Doesn’t it? Am tripping too much?
Love your page & hope robot chicken (if they’re still around) picks you up for Transformers skits! Are you gonna do Jive next?
Prime: Why can they do stuff that I can't. Then again I do get a bunch of super grade armors later.
Do you still have BadCube's Steamroll? (not masterpiece not Sideswipe) if you do have it, why do you never use him for comparison shots with cartoon accurate mp's?
As a general rule of thumb Emgo always compares with the official version if it exists, even if it is not what he displays
it seems nice but i feel like nothing will ever replace my childhood g1 mirage who snapped in half. not even the replacement i got for it that snapped in half.
Should've called him Sphinx since his face is literally that of an Egyptian Sphinx.
But MMC already called theirs Sphinx
@@Transfixed I had a feeling it was already taken lol thanks for the heads up.
I have to say automatic chapters are getting pretty good, except for the third of the video that's labelled 'lower body' 😅
Hey Emgo could you review more G1 suff?
Looks like this has a lot of transform elements phantom in it?
Can you toy reviews ss 100 bumblebee ?
I have this figure and the MMC version as well. I wish that MMC had the same build quality with its current design. The MMC one looks great, but a little too fiddley. The FansToys is built really well, but too bland. Just need to merge the two together and we’d have a perfect figure.
The incorrect colours are my main issue with this. Really took the shine off when I unboxed it. Neither is really white though. One is (an accurate) powder blue, while the other is an (inaccurate) pearlescent grey. No idea what FT was thinking with the latter. Annoying, as they got the shade of blue spot on. Chroming the missile was also dumb (I also scratched mine), especially when the promo shots had it the same colour as the gun, which it is in the toon.
Love the alternate head though, and the silhouette is great. Maybe half a head too short compared to Jive and the mainline MP scale, but not terrible. If not for those colours this would have been a home run. Thanks for another enjoyable review.
Check the character model sheet. Those whites don't match either. Pretty sure that's what Fans Toys was after here.
@@timothymoss5007 Oh I didn't want you to think I was saying it was right or wrong. It's a little distracting to see it on a toy as I mentioned but everyone has their own preferences.
@@Sunstreaker2k5 No worries. Sometimes it's a pain to parse intent from text alone.
I'm kind of annoyed that the smirking face from the BOX ART is not included. I think that was a very nice face.
Race car mode + mirage head = mario kart
Still waiting for the Jive and Navigant reviews!!
So am I. Until then, any thoughts on Phantasm here?
I love the idea of the figure and FT’s take, however the unevenness of the white, and the limited head turn made me pass on this one. I stuck with my TE. I love everything about it except the weak spoiler and the maneuvering of it sliding on the pin.
That said, I have picked up a lot of FT’s items, and normally happy with their product, but felt a bit let down by this one. But Outrider, and Jive are my recent acquisitions. Looking forward to Parkour and Bandit.
Please weijiang do an OS of this one 🙏 (I collect only OS … and MP scale combiners)
Wow, MP Ironhide is really not aging well at all. Definitely needs an updated figure.
I have a strong feeling Mirage will be the next masterpiece since they CLEARLY have no desire to try to get Jazz as a masterpiece
Wrong, FT has already dona Jazz
@@zilvertron official masterpiece I mean.
Welp you’re wrong. Porsche finally allowed Takara to have the licensing for Transformers again with the Rise of the Beasts movie. Cliffjumper was already teased which means Jazz can’t be far behind :)
I m guessing uou haven't got fantoys jive yet
I have it. I’ll get to him next week
@@emgo316 awesome emgo cant wait
Needs a mask.🦇🦇🦇
I'm generally not a fan of cartoon looks for Transformers but Fans Toys figures are pure works of art.
Why didn't you start in the vehicle mode
I start from whichever mode the figure is packed in now.
@@emgo316 you lie
cool
Again the squirrel! joke that I don't get
Again, I explained it the first time you asked about it. (whisper) he doesn’t check his replies.
@@emgo316 yeah, seems like my notifications are broken. I just read your first answer, now I know thanks. Maybe I need to see those movies again.
I like to pay this Transfromer okay
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA MISSILE SCARY
One thing I don’t understand about the Masterpiece line and third party companies. Why do simple blocky transformer designs have the transformation of a Bayverse transformer?
For on screen accuracy
just look at the g1 cartoon models and you'll see why
@@pugwash1 I already saw them. But…
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@@Gojiraman2005 look at the original G1 Autobot Classics figures.
They had irl accurate car modes, but very inaccurate bot modes because of blockforming 🙂
@@Armoure10 eh I can see that now.
I guess the best thing to do is leave it as it is and never question it again lol
Hey Emgo, 2:10 Mirage's chest isn't actually the same colour as those light-bluish parts on the sides of his torso, that's actually accurate to his cartoon character model, not a flaw of the painted diecast. Only his arms, chest, thighs and the striping for his vehicle mode are white, the other parts that aren't blue or black are like a bluish-grey colour on his character model to simulate the chrome parts of the G1 toy. These bluish-grey parts also often look purplish-blue in the cartoon, just due to degraded masters and such used for the home media releases.
If you ever want to see what these colours looked like in their prime on the original character models, before all of the degrading and aging, there's a guy who goes by "DM" on The Allspark forums who has done a ton of research into this stuff to make the most 100% accurate G1 models you can find on the internet. Someone from the Dragon Ball fandom also purchased original Toei colour chips (these were used as a reference to match up paint colours as they were mixed when the animators were painting animation cels) and scanned and digitized the colours, giving us a little over half of Toei Animation & Marvel Productions' paint colours used in the 80s and 90s. This was one of the many sources DM had used to recreate these models accurately.
Yeah, and they're meant to be white (like the TE, MMC etc), but they aren't white on Phantasm. They're the same kind of pearlescent grey used on Acoustic Wave. They should be the same colour as the Citanes livery. How do you get such an iconic colour scheme wrong?
$140 😵
Don't scarcth the paint..
0/10
Not a chrome ball that drills into a person's brain
Way too complicated and fragile, I take TE ver over this!
I'm waiting for streetwise