Jazz from the 2007 movie is one of my favorite designs from the Bay movies, it perfectly translates his G1 design into the hyper realism of the movies. And they WASTED IT BY KILLING HIM OFF.
Because of that Jazz only had like 5 different toy molds total in total until the studio series figure came out. I mean hell, they were still releasing new redecos of the 2007 deluxe toy up until 2018!
For the 15th anniversary of the 2007 movie hasbro released a box set of all the Autobots from the movie in new decos that supposedly make them more screan accurate, and in the case of Jazz, they gave him more yellow I guess?
This figure represents his on screen appearance extremely accurately with stunning detail that the movie figures are known for, although this does have a catch
Another thing movie toys are known for is the backpacks they carry. Now Jazz's isn't that bad compared to something like Studio series B-127 and it honestly doesn't look to bad from most angles. That's one of my major problems with a lot of movie toys, the designs are so extremely complex that no toy has any hope of being able to recreate that look without huge sacrifices.
This head sculpt is perfect though, I love the ear wings he has and the vizier looks really cool, my only problem with it is I wish the vizier was a bit more opaque, but it still looks great!
Jazz has fairly average posability, nothing mind blowing but nothing horrible, although I do wish he had a waist swivel.
Jazz's transformation does have quite a surprise though. There's a step where you turn the whole hood of the car upside down and that's really cool, I can't recall any other figure doing anything similar to that.
Gotta love movie car modes, they're practically just scale models of cars that just happen to turn into robots.
And Jazz is absolutely no exception, turning into a beautiful Pontiac Solstice.
Studio series Jazz is an amazing figure, and one of the better figures from the early years of studio series, if you see this guy for a cheep price go ahead and pick him up.
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