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Transformers Fireflight review – Age of the Primes (2025)

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Fireflight marks the fourth Aerialbot to be released as Hasbro worked hard to ensure Transformers fans could build Superion before 2025 is over. I’ve always dug the fact that the Aerialbots could actually battle the Decepticons in the air.

Now that I’m closing in on completing Superion, I’m excited about zooming in with Fireflight. Let’s see if he’s flight worthy or if he’s going to get grounded early on.

Packaging: Fireflight’s design aesthetic doesn’t change, but he’s part of the Age of the Primes line largely due to the Aerialbots being absent in The Transformers: The Movie. Assuming they didn’t get killed off in 20 seconds, they could have really helped Optimus and the gang.

The front features Fireflight in both alt and bot modes. I wish the packaging showed more of the artwork, which looks really good. He’s ready for action in the image and blasting away in jet mode. Hasbro really needs to open the window a bit wider to show all of the accessories, which are placed in the interior portion of the tray. There’s no way to tell if everything is intact with this presentation.

Neither side offers much personalization save a small line and on the left side stating his name and a large image of Superion ready for battle.

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Turning to the back, there are pictures of both modes for Fireflight without any bio. They’re not great in general, but it’s something I wish the TF team treated as more of a priority. We do get the helpful note explaining how many steps it will take to transform him.

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Likeness: Fireflight stays commendably faithful to how he appeared in the cartoon. That’s been a focus for the Hasbro TF team and they did a good job of sculpting him to convey that visual. There are some paneling adjustments largely to ensure certain aspects of the figure tabs in place properly. He shares a mold with Slingshot with enough tweaks to make them distinct.

Fireflight stands out with his helmet hat style head sculpt. His chest features two panels with four slots and a complex lower torso section with additional paneling. His arms and legs are more streamlined with a moderate amount of kibble along the base of his knees/shins.

Fireflight has a relaxed expression suggesting he’s one of the calmer members of the Autobots’ fighter squadron.

Alt Mode: Fireflight’s alt mode is a F-4 Phantom II jet. I appreciate Hasbro mixing up the Aerialbots’ jets as opposed to making the same model.

Of note, he’s got more than enough differences compared to Slingshot notably the longer cockpit and rectangular slot next to the cockpit.

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Transformation: Similar to the other Aerialbots, Fireflight’s transformation is a reasonable 17 steps. The Aerialbots is largely a one size fits all so once you get one down, the rest become a lot easier.

Scale: Fireflight is scaled accurately to his cartoon appearance.

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He won’t be eye to eye with the Seekers, but he’ll be looking straight ahead at the rest of the Aerialbots and fellow Autobots like Jazz and Wheeljack.

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Paint: Fireflight has one of the more complex paint jobs of the Aerialbots as he’s got some blue added to his mix of red and silver. The Aerialbots stick to a red, black and silver color scheme with an occasional mix of blue and orange tossed in.

Fireflight’s color scheme is similar to Air Raid, but they have enough differences, so they don’t look alike.

The blue is incorporated into his paintjob nicely with some of his panel accent colors breaking up the red and white. He’s got a very minor amount of black on his hips. Fireflight’s eye slots are big enough that his blue eyes show up better than they do on most Autobots.

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Articulation: Fireflight’s articulation is smooth. The shoulders raise up high for dramatic posing. He’s got perfectly good articulation although he’s probably going to have more life on the display in combiner mode.

Fireflight has:

  • neck
  • bicep
  • ball-jointed shoulders
  • elbows
  • wrists
  • wrist hinge
  • torso
  • waist
  • hips
  • thighs
  • knees (double-jointed)
  • ankles

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Accessories: Fireflight gets two blasters. They’re identical though his blasters are not the same as his cartoon weapon unlike his fellow Aerialbots. He gets two so they can be under both wings in jet mode, which is appreciated.

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Worth it?  Fireflight clocks in at $27.99. That’s a steep price hike from the previous Deluxe Class figures cost of $24.99. At this point, getting these figures on sale is key to maintain the proper value as opposed to paying nearly $30 per figure.

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Rating: 9.5 out of 10

Fireflight is another solid addition to the Aerialbots. I love the alt mode even though he probably will be a part of Superion once they’re assembled.

Where to get it?  You should be able to track Fireflight down at retail without too much hassle. Or you could grab him from Amazon.

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