Title:
Hooligan Cyberjet
Description:
Hooligan (Cyberjet, 1995)
Japanese ID number: TRF-9
Accessories: 2 missiles
Released as part of wave 1 of the Generation 2 Cyberjets assortment, Hooligan’s alternate mode is the proposed "swing-wing” Naval variant of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor in orange with black tiger stripes and a large pressure-launch missile launcher atop the airframe. When transformed, the missile launcher becomes the robot’s right arm, and like all Cyberjets, Hooligan’s robot mode makes use of ball joints for a high degree of articulation. His two missiles store by clipping into grooves on this non-launcher arm, which ends up on the underside of his jet mode.
Hooligan was redecoed into Jetfire for wave 2 of the Cyberjets assortment. Apparently, the decision to market the redecos as separate characters was a last-minute change of plans that was only put into use in America and Japan; in Europe, Hasbro supposedly stuck to the original idea for said assortment (here named "Mini-Jets”), with the redecos being sold as running change color variants of their wave 1 mold-mates instead, in unchanged packaging featuring package art in the original deco and the original character’s name. Thus, Hooligan was available in Jetfire’s colors but still marketed as Hooligan himself. This practice is only confirmed for the versions available in multilingual French/Dutch/German packaging; thus far, no specimens in English/Spanish/Portuguese packaging or in Italian GiG packaging have surfaced.
Furthermore, this sculpt was also used to make Robotmasters R-Blade, Universe Wind Sheer, and Timelines Ricochet.
Japanese ID number: TRF-9
Accessories: 2 missiles
Released as part of wave 1 of the Generation 2 Cyberjets assortment, Hooligan’s alternate mode is the proposed "swing-wing” Naval variant of the Lockheed Martin F-22 Raptor in orange with black tiger stripes and a large pressure-launch missile launcher atop the airframe. When transformed, the missile launcher becomes the robot’s right arm, and like all Cyberjets, Hooligan’s robot mode makes use of ball joints for a high degree of articulation. His two missiles store by clipping into grooves on this non-launcher arm, which ends up on the underside of his jet mode.
Hooligan was redecoed into Jetfire for wave 2 of the Cyberjets assortment. Apparently, the decision to market the redecos as separate characters was a last-minute change of plans that was only put into use in America and Japan; in Europe, Hasbro supposedly stuck to the original idea for said assortment (here named "Mini-Jets”), with the redecos being sold as running change color variants of their wave 1 mold-mates instead, in unchanged packaging featuring package art in the original deco and the original character’s name. Thus, Hooligan was available in Jetfire’s colors but still marketed as Hooligan himself. This practice is only confirmed for the versions available in multilingual French/Dutch/German packaging; thus far, no specimens in English/Spanish/Portuguese packaging or in Italian GiG packaging have surfaced.
Furthermore, this sculpt was also used to make Robotmasters R-Blade, Universe Wind Sheer, and Timelines Ricochet.
Theme:
Generation 2
Manufacturer:
Hasbro
Year:
1995
Country:
United States
Series:
G2
Model Number:
Orange Plane
Date Added:
2022-01-18 14:56:45
Automatic Estimated Date:
2024-01-25
Date Added:
2022-01-18 14:56:45
