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Day 88: Hooligan

Beginning a run of Decepticon Cyberjets from the 1995 Generation Two collection. The villain Cyberjets were simple repaints of the Autobot Cyberjets released that same year, so each design gets too finishes. This is Hooligan, who is a repaint of Jetfire, but with a rather bright orange tiger-stripe finish. Hoologan is a hit and run specialist, and turns into a YF-22 Raptor.




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