Jetfire - Blog Posts

So that’s why he’s such an underused character in G1 :0 It always made me sad that he appears so rarely and disappears for episodes and episodes at a time. “Only use when necessary” oof.

Anyways glad to see a straightforward explanation of this, I knew there was legal issues but I didn’t know exactly how it changed or why he went from Jetfire to Skyfire to Jetfire again. The toy lines always be messing with the show. Reminds me of Rumble and Frenzy’s mixed up colors thanks to confusion between the show and the toys lol

I’ve always been confused over the whole jetfire/sky fire name situation, and you seem like the kind of person who would know what’s going on with that. Love your art btw

Thank you ! And yes ! Let me explain the Skyfire Jetfire name situation !

So Jetfire’s original toy came from the Macross Super Valkyrie and he looked like this.

Hasbro licensed Jetfire (the toy) to be used in the Transformers line but did not license him to be used in media (the show). When Jetfire appeared in a commercial fighting Shockwave, Macross sued Hasbro over the use of Jetfire, as they had not licensed him to be used as a character in the show and continued to sue them over Jetfire which is why they had to redesign Jetfire and change his name to Skyfire in the Generation 1 Cartoon.

Hasbro avoided using Jetfire/Skyfire in the show too much so that Macross wouldn’t sue them, it’s even stated in the original pitch bible

Things were eventually sorted out legal wise and now Hasbro can use Jetfire’s name without being sued which is why his name is Jetfire and no longer Skyfire

When he’s got his armor on I think it’s a homage to his original Valkyrie design which i find very charming !

BUT YEAH— THATS BASICALLY THE GIST OF IT !

Originally named Jetfire -> name changed to Skyfire in the G1 Cartoon to avoid getting sued by Macross -> Legal issues sorted -> name changed back to Jetfire

His names are kind of used interchangeably now ! But it just depends on whoever you ask !

I recommend watching The Many Toys of Jetfire if you wanna learn some more about it, Ronbondujon goes over it better than I do and also goes over all of Jetfire’s toys !

You'll never guess who got into transformers... Also improvement on my style in general (ignore my oc I just felt like posting my improvement since my last post)

Jetfire cannot catch a break

wheres he going 😭

Does anyone in the transformers fandom have a fic where starscream is the one too get stuck in the ice instead of skyfire/ Jetfire?

Cause I really one too read one like it, it sounds like it could be really interesting and I really wonder how everything in transformers would transpire with starscream in the ice and sky/jetfire not

it's 3 am. get some skyfire with glasses. i have a silly hc that he has a pretty bad eyesight and he looks just hilarious with glasses on.

what a nerd.

(stupid rambles about hc reasoning under the cut)

a little sketch for @ugly-bug-starscream and @edd-drawsyo tfo au because it's my Roman Empire.

being sparkbonded, Skyfire feels Starscream's struggle on the surface: exhaustion, energon starvation and other kinds of discomforts in a form of his body and spark aching. But he's husband supposed to be dead so the old man is confused. (btw the whole idea's of course Ray's and Edd's, i just got too excited about it and wanted to draw stuff. They are geniuses fr fr.)

+ bonus sentinel being an asshole lol

I adore aurora sm, you have such a way with designs!! I'd love to know more about them if your willing to share

Hiii!!! Thanks for the ask, I'm really happy that so many people liked my little girl <3 So I've brought some sketches and some lore bits

SO, first of all, despite the meme i drew, Skyfire is the carrier and Starscream is the sire. Because I find it funny, and also Aurora is a shuttle. She was pretty big even before coming online, so... It was just logical for a bigger jet to carry her. Of course there was a possibility for creating a smaller sparkling but why risking at all.

Second, some lore: she was created before war. She was a planned sparkling, in my au (is this an au? what am i even doing.) Skystars are Conjunx Endura. They courted each other during their studentship and got engaged after becoming full-time scientists with degrees and stuff.

When Aurora became independent enough, these two resumed their space-travelling program, each time going further and further when their creation grew older. In said time, Starscream's trine committed the crime of baby sitting :)

plus their Academy friends sometimes, because the Trine also needed to work and stuff.

So yep. That's for the start, I guess. You're free to ask me anything, if you want to. I'll talk more about her anyway, she has quite a story.

somewhere at the Iacon Academy, before the war, Skyfire tries to communicate and fails miserably. some stupid fluff because i am in the mood.

couldn’t finish this piece for a long time for some reason? but now it’s here so yay

hey

hey

Did i hear… sirens…?… au by @deezzenut

EXAM WEEK KILLED ME WITH NO MERCY AARGH

Coming back well rested with ability to draw again. Started with something easy, to remember how to hold pen at all. I wanted to make a fankid for a while now SO HERE WE ARE, SAY HI TO MY GIRL AURORA

Next stop - requests. Thank you so much for you submissions I HAVE SO MANY IDEAS AND YET SO LITTLE ENERGY. I will work it out eventually but yay I'm back

so it’s still 2024 in my timezone SO i was right on time with the New Year drawing :)

well actually i think kissing under mistletoe is Christmas tradition?… i don’t celebrate Christmas so yeah, can’t be sure but it’s cute

anyway, happy holidays to you, whatever you do celebrate!!! take my last skystar of this year as a gift teehee

welp that was unfortunate

+bonuss

We all know how it ends. How it should end. He was dead for millions of cycles, and while Skyfire was gone, his conjux hasn't waited for a long time to join him in eternity of the memory. Starscream is someone else.

However, let’s give them this moment of uncertainty. To pretend that they are still there.

BONUS

some cute pics that i like :p

EDIT: I FORGOT TO DRAW AUTOBOTS SIGN ON HIS CHEST ON ONE FRAME UGHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH i'm tired so let it be

drew some sketches about skystars back at the Academy, a lil bit of headcanons for you

i'm almost sure that starscream doesn't handle compliments well. he's too used to responding to sarcasm with sarcasm to express any sincere feelings with words. he doesn't know how to accept them either.

so. most of the time he creaks and squeals. skyfire is more than used to it tho

My Shayla’s 😔

human Starscream and Jetfire.

yes this is Roblox lol

What's op's favorite ship\\dynamic or transformer???

im not normal about them

And yea the big marshmallow is favorite

SKYFIRE MY BABYBOY SO CUTE

Baby boy baby! Evil

I lost the original meme😶‍🌫️

wipwipwipwipwip

i saw ur art requests are open...mayy i ask for more Starscream pls?? love the artstyle sm <\3333

THANK YOU! requests always open, I Love getting ideas from people and draw them anyway, i have some tf stuff Aand there's a starscream here too :)) i'm still learning forgive me and, well, g1 designs go brr

memes.........

So... Prowl is a owl. There is "owl" in Prowl. It can't be a coincidence

Long...

Guys the Starscream and Skyfire/Jetfire brainworms are getting to me they make me sick like just kiss already dang-

My beautiful old man with a paper craft (not finished) of my lovely Jetfire. Credits to kellcoffee on Tictok for the craft

I can’t deal right now I’m laughing way too hard at this.

He craves VIOLENCE.

Link:https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0IcbkTrQY4 👀

PD

Fantastic work!

Days 28 and 29 were Shockwave and Ironhide - though Ironhide is actually my 31st character, because with the two humans I didn’t count I was ahead of myself. 

So, finished!

Thanks to all those that commented, watched, faved and saw this grow through the month : ) If anyone new wants to see the progresses, I tagged them all with #screwsTFAInktober

Starting a new series? (Idk what to call it) called CONSXSSO basically Decepticons from Transformers as horses from sso idk if anyone has done this before so if anyone has uhm- Sorry?

The first batch is all flyers/Seekers! BlackOut RedWing JetFire/SkyFire SunStorm and ThunderCracker!

There’s alot of ideas nagging in my head all day about the few characters in Transformers Animated that I just want to talk about.

Compare to the characters in this show and the other animated series, it’s a lot different than I expected.

Such as Optimus Prime, who is supposed to be a wise and respected leader that we know and love, turns out to be just a young bright bot in a academy ends up being demoted to be a leader to a space bridge crew. Bumblebee being a chatterbox who likes to annoy everyone, etc..

And with that, there’s this one headcanon I desperately want to set out

Headcanon: Orion Pax and Optimus Prime are two separate characters.

(Sorry about the image being a bit blurry)

Orion Pax works in the Elite Gurard (I forgot to add the Elite Guard symbol on him) with Sentinel Prime, Jazz, and the Jettwins.

Since many are completely different in the animated show, I like to see Orion Pax as this hotheaded character who gets angered quite often by others (mostly Sentinal). He’s not this naive person you can take advantage of quite easily. I added spikes on his helm to kinda represent his character.

He isn’t a fighter, he mostly do all of the paperwork for Sentinal since Orion’s past job was being a archivist.

Most of his frustrations is the cause of Sentinal but likes to annoy the shit out of the prime on several occasions when he has the chance.

However, besides his hot temper, he is still a kind bot who truly cares about others, even if other cybertronians don’t think so.

(It was Orion)