Sundance wrote:it's the Valkyrie VF1A from the Japanese manga 'Macross'. the toy was one of a number purchased from Japanese companies by Hasbro and utilised for the Transformers toyline, with the Valkyrie becoming 'Jetfire'. Due to copyright issues, Jetfire's animation model for the cartoon - and which comic art was based on - was heavily modified.
that cut and paste function works well
Sundance is is right, Macross is better known in the west as Robotech. In the storyline there was a team known as Skull Squadron too.
It's funny, someone came in the shop today to try and see if i was intersted in some Robotech action figures.