Jetfire (SG)
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- Jetfire is an evil Autobot from the Shattered Glass continuity family.
Jetfire believes in leading by example at the forefront.
Fiction
Fun Publications Shattered Glass continuity
Long ago, Ultra Magnus started a coup against his brother Optimus. It ended badly, with Stepper and Jetfire holding Magnus down while Optimus Prime ripped off his face. Invasion
Jetfire became part of Rodimus Prime's crew on Earth aboard the Ark. He was eager to undermine Rodimus's authority, pointing out his cowardice and lack of leadership at every turn. He overreached himself while exploring Side Burn's secret lab, however, blundering into booby traps when Rodimus hesitated to lead the exploration team. Rodimus let Inferno extinguish Jetfire's burning body (eventually). Coalescence
IDW Shattered Glass comic
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Toys
Gentei! Gentei!
- Dark Skyfire (March 18, 2010)
- ID number: C-06
- Accessories: Hydrogen-fuel Turbo Thruster Pack, two-piece rifle, 2 photon missile launchers, 2 infrared homing missiles, helmet
- Gentei! Gentei! Dark Skyfire is a Toy Hobby Market-exclusive black repaint and retool of Classics Voyager Class Jetfire. The primary changes to his deco are mainly for making him, uh, darker. Specifically, he's cast in glossy black and purple plastic, with painted purple details and new thin white stripes on his wings. The tips of his backpack cannons have been significantly remolded to make the barrels and stalks on which they are mounted a single, newly-jointed piece, with the result being that the cannons' bodies stick out ever so slightly from their housing. This change is likely to make the barrels more durable under the constant spring-loaded strain of being hidden, as well as allow one to pivot and deploy the cannons without sliding back the panels that are keeping them hidden, due to the fact that deploying the cannons this way with the previous tooling often resulted in the (detachable) tips of the cannons to pop out and send them flying. As with all Henkei toys, he lacks the heat-sensitive rubsign seen on the Classics release, but instead has some vacuum-metallized parts (his jetpack's exhaust nozzles).
- The extent of Dark Skyfire's 'Dark' originally varied from image to image: early pre-production mockup images showed a dark matte grey similar to e-Hobby Astrotrain, whilst later images appeared gloss black with high-contrast silver details, leading to speculation that this redeco is the previously unreleased 'ghost' Classics Jetfire. Some possible hints of this remain, such as the Hasbro Classics-styled open cockpit instead of Henkei's half-painted version, as well as some entirely new paint operations, such as the added stripes on the sides of the intakes just behind his shoulders.
- Pre-orders for Dark Skyfire opened up on November 12 and closed on December 11, 2009, with the toys finally shipping sometime in March 2010.
- This figure was also repurposed as Wings Universe Zardak.
Shattered Glass Collection
- Jetfire (Commander Class, 2022)
- Accessories: Dual rifles, twin-barreled blasters, battle mask, wing guns, shoulder guns, 6 "Fire Blast effects"
- Released as part of the Shattered Glass Collection subline, Jetfire is a redeco of Siege Jetfire, notable as the first Selects-style redeco of a Commander Class figure from the War for Cybertron Trilogy toyline. Jetfire is also the first Shattered Glass Collection figure to be based on a repurposed toy, as opposed to an original Timelines figure.
- The 5 mm post-hole rings on Jetfire's hands are designed to recess into his palms when his fingers are extended forward so he looks less awkward in an open-handed pose. Adding Jetfire's armor and battle mask gives his robot mode a closer appearance to his original-toy. Curiously, the faction symbol's ability to swivel between Autobot or Deception allegiances from the Siege release has been retained, featuring the purple Autobot and red Decepticon insignias respectively.[1]
- Jetfire's vehicle mode features deployable landing gear with rolling wheels and four pop-out handles on his underside that allow other War for Cybertron figures (or any toy or accessory with a 5 mm grip) to hang underneath him, letting him deploy his comrades from above. He can also carry up to three Titan Masters or Prime Masters in jet mode: removing the filler computer core inside his cockpit (by folding down the nosecone) reveals space for one Master, while the back end of Jetfire's backpack lifts up to reveal space for two more Masters. The core also has a 5 mm hole in it so um... there's that. There is a 5 mm hexagonal port on his underside that appears to be for heavier-duty flight stands, since it is recessed too far to peg in any of his own weapons. Some transformation joints on his wings can also simulate working air flaps.
- In either mode, his many many C.O.M.B.A.T. System weapons can be mounted on him in a variety of ways. His twin rifles can be combined into a single double-barreled gun vaguely similar to the original animation model's double-barreled cannon. In this configuration they form the core of a massive pile of weapons and armor that goes on top of his jet mode (as if he wasn't anti-aerodynamic enough). Jetfire's two twin-barreled cannons are two-part weapons that can be pulled apart for even more versatility. Jetfire features a large number of 3 mm "blast effect" hardpoints all over his body and on the tips of his weapons. Jetfire features 6 different "Fire Blast effects" as opposed to his heroic counterpart's two three-part effects.
- Jetfire also includes the fifth issue of IDW Publishing's Shattered Glass "Shards" mini-series, with an exclusive cover featuring spot UV.
- As with the rest of the subline, Jetfire is a Hasbro Pulse exclusive in the United States, Canada, and the United Kingdom.
Notes
- Prior to the BotCon 2012 comic "Invasion", Jetfire's only appearance was on the BotCon 2008 "One Generation Shattered" lithograph, where he was presented as the Cybertron Jetfire Legends Class toy in "evil" colors.
