Transformer Collection showcase.

[raven1972]

I have to agree. Not to mention there aren't many of them showcasedonthe shows , I can think of 6 of them that were on any of the series.

BW BA
BM Strika
Cyb Thunderblast
TFA BA
TFA Strika
Prime Airachnia

[WriterApprentice]

Proves that TF was mostly targeted at males. My own gender is something I can't understand. Or fail to.

[raven1972]

Indeed, a glaring example is that none of the female characters in G1 got figures.

[WriterApprentice]

Boo! D:<

[raven1972]

new showcase just don't make fun of his chin!


Name Sentinel Prime

Faction Autobots

Function AUTOBOT Elite Commander

Motto Without law, all is chaos.

Bio
Graduate of the same class as OPTIMUS PRIME at the AUTOBOT Academy, SENTINEL PRIME is commander of a squad of the best the AUTOBOTS have to offer - the Elite Guard. Though he is a powerful warrior and a cunning leader, he is also obsessed with following rules to the absolute letter. He is unbending in his interpretation of procedure, and dislikes the way OPTIMUS PRIME and his crew improvise. If he had his way, that whole group would be sent back to Basic Programming.

* Battle lance fires energy bolts.
* Shield can adsorb energy and convert into fuel.
* Thinks humans are gross, and may be contagious.
Many times, brash, leap-before-you-think types learn a lesson from their misadventures, and use that knowledge to grow into more mature, well-rounded fighters, even into leadership roles.
And sometimes, they learn the wrong lesson (or the right lesson the wrong way), and turn out like Sentinel Prime.
Sentinel was once the impulsive type, until a disastrous "unsanctioned" mission he'd suggested with his best friends Optimus Prime and Elita-1 ended in the loss of Elita. Though both bots carried the grief, Sentinel blamed Optimus for abandoning her. When Optimus officially took the blame for the mission (and Sentinel failed to speak up for his part of it), Sentinel placed all his anger on his former friend, and drove himself to climb the Autobot ranks into the Cybertron Elite Guard through strict adherence to military protocol.
The end result is an Autobot who could be one of the Autobots' greatest assets, but he's such a jerk that it's hard to see how. His expandable Skyboom Shield is virtually impenetrable, and he's a strong combatant and utterly tenacious hunter. And he seems to have Cybertron's best interests at heart... but his perception of "best interests" is definitely skewed.
To his core, he's still the same smug, act-first-think-later-maybe bot he was before, only far more focused. Despite the "stickler for the rules" aspect of his personality that has come from the loss of Elita, he seems to use the rules largely to bully his way of doing things on others. He really can't handle the unexpected, thanks to a distinct lack of genuine field experience and inability to improvise like others in the Guard. Thanks to that one fateful trip to Archa Seven, he has a severe phobia of organics, and a burning desire to further humiliate Optimus. To his credit, he would never actively sabotage another Autobot... but he sure will make their lives a living hell if he thinks he can get away with it.
Don't mention his chin. He's a little touchy about it.
SP is a skilled fighter and a good leader unfortunately his strict adherence to the rules and in ability to think on the fly ruins all of that.
• Sentinel Prime's blue coloration and especially pronounced chin (even by normal Animated standards!) really make him look like the Tick. He's even voiced by Townsend Coleman, who provided the voice of the Tick in his 1990s animated series. At the Cartoon Network panel at BotCon 2008, it was confirmed that Sentinel's design was created after Coleman was cast for the role. It's pretty evident that the writers ran with it, having him utter silly, Tick-esque lines like "Energon-y goodness!"
• As for personality, Marty Isenberg said during an interview in the Transformers Collector's Club magazine that his love of M*A*S*H was the big reason Sentinel Prime is a jerk. He believes that the Transformers universe "needed a Major Frank Burns."

• At BotCon 2008's Cartoon Network panel, Derrick J. Wyatt confirmed that originally the character of Sentinel Prime was going to be named Rodimus Prime, but the idea of casting Rodimus as a big jerk didn't sit well with some people. But they'd eventually find some use for Rodimus somewhere, to be sure!
• Wyatt also related some previously unknown design trivia at BotCon 2008: At the time "Transform and Roll Out" went into production, the only part of Sentinel Prime that had been fully designed was his head. However, this turned out to be a non-final design; in his subsequent appearances, Sentinel's head is shorter and squatter, with a more bulbous chin and dark grey instead of white. Also, in "Transform and Roll Out", he has a set of extra smoke stacks/antennae on his shoulders, which would vanish during his first full-body appearance.
• Sentinel Prime is the first incarnation of the character to possess an Earth-mode. He is also the first to have a toy of him released, as well as the only incarnation of the character to not die at all during his appearances.
• Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II detailed in general how Season 4 might have played out would it have been produced. After Megatron's escape from prison and the death of Ultra Magnus, Sentinel would try to secure his position as Sentinel Magnus, first by commissioning a Powermaster upgrade for himself from the Project Omega team, then by invading Earth with the intent of using the collected AllSpark fragments to defeat Megatron. Optimus would steal Sentinel's Powermaster upgrade and travel to Earth to stop Sentinel from making a huge mistake. If "Powermaster Optimus Prime" toy would have been completed, designers vaguely planned, if at all possible, for it to also be compatible with the Sentinel Prime toy.
• Sentinel Prime's animation model and toy served as raw material for informal mockups of how Ironhide's Earth form would look in Season 4. Ironhide's actual appearance and toy, would they have been completed, would have resulted in an entirely new look and action figure.

Sentinel Prime would have become Magnus after Ultra Magnus finally succumbed to the extreme dange he received at the servos of Shockwave, Primus help us all.

Sentinel was given voice by Townsend Coleman an American voice actor. Coleman has done voices for many, many cartoons including Inspector Gadget (playing Corporal Capeman), Fraggle Rock, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles (playing Michaelangelo), Jem, Batman: The Animated Series, and the Superman: Doomsday direct to video movie. Townsend Coleman is arguably best known for his role as the title character in The Tick animated series (coincidentally also voice directed by Susan Blu). He is currently one of the commercial announcers for The Hub network.

He also did these voices for transformers :


Generation 1
• Martin
• Rewind : One of Blaster’s cassette bots.

Transformers Animated
• Sentinel Prime
• News Bot ("The Return of the Headmaster")
• Tracks


Up next is the sole survivor of the Decepticon heavy Brigade.

[WriterApprentice]

Ugh... Sentinel. Just one of the reasons why I dislike the Autobots.

[raven1972]

-cuddleglomp- its okies, let have Blackout make you feel better....maybe. lol


Name Blackout

Japanese Number TA-20

Faction Decepticons

Function Airborne Soldier

Bio
Blackout is the biggest of all soldiers in the Decepticon army. His mission is of critical importance. First, he’ll secretly infiltrate a target planet. After the opponent’s communications capabilities have been paralyzed and the enemy is in chaos, a full-blown invasion will begin. Up against him, mechanical bodies are nothing more than a burden!
Tech Specs chart for Blackout.*
Strength 8
Intelligence 6

Speed 8
Endurance 7

Rank 7
Courage 5

Firepower 9
Skill 6


*The Japanese Animated figures came with Tech specs.
Blackout is a monstrous brute of titanic proportions, larger than any other Decepticon. Few have survived an encounter with this hulking behemoth and lived to tell the tale, but those who have survived have added his story to Decepticon lore, which tells of him single-handedly obliterating vast numbers of Omega Sentinels, before finally falling himself at the Great War's end.
His feet are equipped with seismic energy dischargers, reverse-engineered from an oddly-misplaced Cybertronian named Crasher*, which allow him to force nearby electronics to shut down with a single stomp.
And we're not kidding, he can destroy Omega Sentinels well. Real well.

*Crasher is a female Gobot from the planet Gobotron.
During the Great War, the Wreckers were a major problem for the Decepticons, operating behind their lines as a commando unit. Megatron created the Decepticon Heavy Brigade, of whom Blackout was a member, specifically to hunt down the Wreckers. When they finally met in battle, the Wreckers were all destroyed (including their vessel, Zeta Supreme), and Blackout was the only survivor on the Decepticon side. He continues to wear the Brigade's symbol on his shoulders, partly to honor the fallen, and partly to announce that he's a Heavy Brigade all by himself.
Later in the war, on Velocitron, he destroyed Delta Supreme, who had been rebuilt into an artillery platform. During the climax of the war in the Battle for Iacon, Blackout destroyed Beta Supreme and Eta Supreme. Beta Supreme managed to inflict catastrophic injuries on Blackout, however, and he took hundreds of cycles to repair.

Blackout was only made available as part of TakaraTomy's Japanese toyline. He was originally intended to be released under Hasbro's toyline, but was canceled. Based on test shots, the Hasbro version would have different deco on the eyes and coloration for the Decepticon symbol.
Blackout’s toy alt mode is what his earth mode would have been if the 4th season had been greenlighted. There are a few examples of Hasbro's Blackout in collectors hands, mine is not one of them, I paid about double what i paid for any other animated Voyager for my Takara Blackout.

Blackout is an homage to Blackout from the 2007 movie. The Takara figure includes a character sheet of Blackout that mentions said homage, complete with images of the movie Voyager figure, misspelled as "moive".
According to Derrick J. Wyatt, Blackout's modified Decepticon sigil signifies he is the Decepticon Heavy Brigade.
He looks like Wilford Brimley. Derrick Wyatt says he doesn't sound like Wilford Brimley (he sounds like Lurch), but he does suffer from "low-octane oil."
Blackout is armed with 4 zander cannons, and galva conductors in his particle blasters. He also has astro blasters and a "seismic energy disruptor".

Blackout was given voice by Bumper Robinson for more information on him please see the TFA Bumblebee review.


Up next is the Gentle Giant of the Autobots.

[WriterApprentice]

I thought Blackout was quite adorable when he was first presented in TFA. XD But he would crush me for such comment. : P

[raven1972]

hmmmm he might, not sure okay time for a loveable lug.


Name Bulkhead

Faction Autobots

Function Super Tough Strong Bot

Motto Oops. My bad.

Bio
It's hard not to like Bulkhead. Despite being huge and strong, he's the kindest, most gentle of the Autobots, and he always has other people's best interest at heart. He's also a klutz. That's why it's so terrifying when the Headmaster takes over his body. Bulkhead regularly engages in wholesale property damage by accident. With the Headmaster in charge of his body, will anybody be able to stop the tide of destruction?

* The strongest of the Autobots on Earth.
* Rarely uses air torpedoes because of accuracy issues.
* Buzzsaw originally built to slice iron meteors.


The biggest and strongest of Optimus Prime's crew, Bulkhead appears to be little more than a big, dumb lummox at first glance. The second and third glances don't do much to improve that impression. Raised on a backwater energon farm, he joined the Autobot academy to achieve the lofty goal of becoming a lowly space bridge technician rather than a warrior. He also has an unfortunate tendency to break stuff by accident due to his sheer strength and natural clumsiness. He's wrecked major thoroughfares and toppled skyscrapers in his zeal to be helpful; when he gets angry, he's capable of berserker charges that even the Dinobots have learned to respect and fear. His penchant for being a little too eager to please others and getting a little too emotional at times further leads him to act without thinking. Add in a seeming lack of skills beyond "destruction", and it does not paint a pretty picture.
But despite all these shortcomings, one is hard-pressed to find a bot with a bigger heart, and he has astounding (if sometimes well-hidden) depths. He hates being thought of as the clumsy brute of the team, which has bred a certain amount of careful forethought and cautiousness. He's endlessly loyal to and protective of his friends, especially his best buddy Bumblebee and the human girl Sari, even if their impulsive behavior is sometimes annoying. Since coming to Earth, he has discovered a love of art and the urge to express his true feelings through it. He's not very good at it, but he keeps trying anyways. Perhaps most surprising of all is that he is Cybertron's foremost expert in space bridge technology, even though he may not be able to build one himself without accidentally breaking at least half the components.
"You guys got it easy. All people want me to do is break stuff. I've got a sensitive side too, you know... but breaking stuff is kinda fun."
Bulkhead meditates on his lot in life

Bulkhead was originally an energon farmer and attended Autobot boot camp in order to qualify as a space bridge engineer. It was there that he first met Bumblebee and their trainer, Sentinel Minor. To begin with, Bumblebee had no interest in being friends with the gentle giant, insulting him with the nickname "mudflap". A friendship blossomed after Bulkhead saved Bumblebee from some "malfunctioning" turrets, dropping a building on Sentinel in the process. In order to prevent Bulkhead from being expelled, 'Bee took the blame, and they both ended up on space bridge detail.


• Bulkhead's design and demeanor likely owe themselves to Crunch from Mighty Orbots, a series Derrick J. Wyatt has admitted as being an inspiration.
• Upon seeing a red test shot of Bulkhead's Voyager-class toy, Derrick J. Wyatt recolored a Bulkhead character model in the test shot's colors—on company time!
• After his reformatting into his APC mode, Bulkhead's robot mode kibble changes from the front of his vehicle mode (where it forms the scoop of the bulldozer) to the back, where it forms the doors of the truck.

• Bulkhead can form his kibble into a chair. This is awesome.
• Bulkhead has a storage place in his chest which opens in at least two ways, like a drawer or like a door.
• Bulkhead's eyes can extend from his face and act as a microscope, as shown in "Rise of the Constructicons". This is slightly strange, but also awesome.
• In spite of the visual differences, it would appear that rather than simply swapping out his hands for his signature wrecking balls, Bulkhead's hands actually transform to become the wrecking balls. Although most episodes show his hand simply retract and then be replaced by the ball, a few instances show it actually stay in place, blur and change into the ball. Furthermore, in cases where Bulkhead has had the tether-line of his wrecking ball severed, he remains conspicuously handless until the ball is re-attached, such as in "Transform and Roll Out" and "Megatron Rising - Part 2".
• Bulkhead's vehicle mode design was used as the basis for Generation 1 Blurr's personal transport in Spotlight: Blurr.
• Of all the vehicles that Teletran 1 scanned, the SWAT vehicle Bulkhead was reformatted into was the only one that didn't match his color scheme.
• Bulkhead's vehicle form strongly resembles a futuristic version of the real world: "2007 DURO IIIP 6x6 (Protected Military Tactical Vehicle)" made by General Dynamics: European Land Systems (MOWAG). This mode also has some design traits from the "Unimog" by Volvo.
• For the Japanese release of Animated, Bulkhead was renamed "Ironhide" to keep the names of the primary Animated Autobots consistent with the names of the primary Movie Autobots. Animated Ironhide was in turn renamed "Armorhide" to escape confusion.
• TakaraTomy marketing director Masahiko Yamazaki has stated that Bulkhead actually is Movie Ironhide, as Animated was supposed to be reworked in order to take place within Movie continuity, and Bulkhead would have his "world view" modified appropriately. The actual dub of the series seems to contradict Yamazaki's statements, as Bulkhead remains a big dumb lug as opposed to a psychotic gun enthusiast. In fact, he's played off as even dumber than in the English version, being prone to screaming things such as "Mommy!" when frightened. Thus far, the only change to his "world view" to make him more similar to Movie Ironhide has been a brief statement in his TakaraTomy online bio, which says that he is "something of a weapons specialist".

The leader class figures in the animated line each had 3 soundclips except for Bulkhead who has 4 , 3 regular ones :
"Sorry, my bad," "You can do it, buddy!", and "Time for the big guns!"
And one additional sound clip when you put the headmaster unit on him:
"Ownage! Total ownage!" said in the voice of the Headmaster.
While the headmaster can be used with any leader class figure only Bulkhead as an extra sound clip for him, also you can wedge him on to SP.

Here is a pic of the Voyager class Bulkhead and its repaints:
Normal:

Takara:

Cancelled Mudbuster Bulkhead: ( another victim of season 4 not happening)


Bulkhead was given voice by Bill Fagerbakke an American actor and voice actor. His most famous on-screen roles include "Dauber" Dybinski on TV's Coach, and Tom Cullen in the mini-series version of Stephen King's The Stand. Voice over-wise, he is recognized best as Broadway on Disney's Gargoyles, Patrick Star on Spongebob Squarepants and as Cpl. Jeff Gossard on Roughnecks: Starship Troopers. He also had a notable appearance on Heroes as a gangster.

He also provided these Voices for Transformers Animated:
Transformers Animated
• Master Disaster
• Hot Shot
• Security Bot (Rise of the Constructicons


Up next is a mech who would sell his mother for the right credits!

[WriterApprentice]

There seems to be a lot of confusions between the U.S. and Japan in regards to Bulkhead. O.o
But I love him, the big doof. XD *huggles him*

[raven1972]

well thats Takaratomy's fault they decided to link animated with the live action movies in Japan XD. makes no sense at all to me.

[raven1972]

okay showcase time .



Name Swindle

Faction Decepticons

Function Decepticon Weapons Specialist

Motto Hey man. Wanna buy a plasma cannon, cheap?

Bio
SWINDLE is a one-robot black market. He's only a DECEPTICON by default, since they're the ones who most often take advantage of his unbeatable deals on armor, weapons and combat systems. If it shoots, explodes, or focuses light into a beam intense enough to melt high-grade armor, SWINDLE will sell it to anyone. Anyone who can pay his price, that is. Most of his inventory, he scavenges from those who fall in battle, but he doesn't mind helping a crippled AUTOBOT all the way to the scrap heap before stripping him of his weapons.


Galactic Powers & Abilities:
- Expert haggler and negotiator.
- Skilled at weapon modification and invention.
- Gyro missile disrupts enemy sensors and balance.

Quick, hide the silver! An entrepreneur with few equals, the smooth-talking Swindle is always ready to make a deal. Trading extensively with many alien races and loaded down with their respective technologies, his goods are highly useful to interstellar warlords, bounty hunters, and many, many others. Though nominally a Decepticon, he just views the Cybertronian civil war as yet another business opportunity, one which has kept him living posh for centuries and could be great for his bottom line again now that it's starting back up.

“Scruples? You'd sell your own motherboard to the highest bidder.”
Megatron scoffs at Swindle's spiel, "SUV: Society of Ultimate Villainy"
Swindle travels extensively, to provide his customers spectacular bargains from the far corners of the universe. His trade route includes:
• The planet Andellor, who make an excellent anti-gravity cannon.[1]
• Cheyne, builder of fine Circuitry repair patches. [2]
• Com, where the Nemesis Shield type 2B is available.[2]
• The planet Dahros, which produces the amazing product that is glass gas.
• Devola, where he purchased escape ships.
• Ganzvort, home of the Omega bomb. He noted that he had to visit Okayama at some point.
• Garo, where Nemesis Shield type 11A can be purchased.
• Menonia, source of the robotic panacea of "super glue".
• Nebulos, where the energon is exceptionally smooth, and one can retire to live the good life on a tropical island.[3]
• Nexus Zero, where the Vok manufacture superior force-field technology.
• Quintessa, where he picked up the fantastic Sonic Jammer 3000 for a great price, as well as all the oil he could drink.
• Prysmos, a future stop on his itinerary where he will trade with the Darkling Lords.
• Pz-Zazz, where he visited the scenic fifth moon.
• Talos Four, manufacturers of the triple crusher cannon.
• The world of Torkulon, source of the spectacular decompression pump.
• The home of Vandarian holographic technology, which Lockdown finds useful.
• Xeptos, the source of Chaosmaster Bombs.

• Swindle made his appearance because Derrick J. Wyatt lobbied hard for him to show up.
• Swindle's design is quite heavily influenced by his Generation 1 namesake's animation character model, from the "squarehead" with large, purple optics to the windshield-chest with grill-stomach to the right-arm-mounted cannon which can be mounted on the back of his vehicle mode. As a result, Swindle is the first of only two Decepticons to not have red eyes in Animated.
• Swindle is a double-homage, as he also features a chest cannon that is quite similar to his movie namesake's.
• He also makes a reference to Binaltech Swindle, who possessed a force field because his body was meant to be Trailbreaker's, but couldn't use it. This Swindle doesn't have that issue.
• He has a bolo tie. That's awesome.
• Swindle also possesses a chest compartment which is capable of storing many, many things, such as weapons, Seeker accessories, and even an entire Autobot. Though, at first glance, this sounds virtually impossible, Swindle explains that he has a transwarp link to his own "personal storage dimension" within this compartment.
• Derrick J. Wyatt has noted that Swindle's mannerisms are based on Ron Popeil. In fact, in "Everything Must Go", Swindle even uses Ron's signature catch-phrase "Now, how much would you pay?", and in "Decepticon Air" he uses Ron's other catchphrase, "But wait, there's more!" (Coincidentally enough, "Weird Al" Yankovic has done a song about Popeil...)
• Despite the two having never been seen together in the show, Swindle is apparently Starscream's 'agent', by the latter's testimony.


Here is a picture of the canceled mercenary Swindle repaint, yet another victim of animated’s 4th season being cancelled.


Swindle was given voice by Fred Willard an American comedic actor. He first attained fame as lunkheaded straight man Jerry Hubbard on the '70s talk show spoof Fernwood 2 Night, and has played a number of recurring roles on sitcoms, including Roseanne, Mad About You, and Everybody Loves Raymond. On film, he has appeared in Anchorman, American Wedding, and all of Christopher Guest's mockumentaries, including This is Spinal Tap, Best in Show, and A Mighty Wind, as well as a live action appearance in the Disney-Pixar film WALL-E. He's also a frequent guest on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno and also made a few guest appearances on Tim and Eric Awesome Show, Great Job!.
In the realm of voice acting, Willard has made memorable appearances on Kim Possible, King of the Hill, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, and in the Rifftrax for Missile to the Moon.


Up next is a set of Autobot Twins with a strange connection to Starscream.

[WriterApprentice]

Oh Swindle, up to his tricks as usual. XD For some credits. >3
I wonder if the Autobots tolerate him though since he often deals with the Decepticons only because they give him the credits.

[raven1972]

I am sure he has a few under the table deal with Autobots, most likely selling him Autobot military equipment for resale.

[raven1972]

okay time for a pair of "flighty" twins.


Name Jetfire and Jetstorm

Faction Autobots

Bio
Created using the most advanced techniques known to autobot science, JETSTORM and JETFIRE were cloned from tech recovered from Starscream. Brought online in a secret laboratory deep beneath Cybertron, they are the first Autobots created specifically to battle the Decepticons. Though they are young, they are extremely intelligent, working their way through the Elite Guard boot camp in record time. Together they are potentially the most powerful Autobots of all time, especially when they combine into their SAFEGUARD form.

* The only Autobots that can fly.
* Youngest Elite Guard members of all time.
* The first robots with the ability to combine. (only applies to Animated)

Jetfire and his twin brother Jetstorm are part of a risky Autobot Elite Guard experiment in duplicating the flight and combat abilities of the Decepticons. What the Autobots got were two incredibly rambunctious, cocky, and oddly naive robots with devastating combat power and acrobatic skill.

Jetfire, true to his name, has the ability to create massive bursts of flame in both robot and jet modes. However, his accuracy and judgment as to when to use this power are questionable at best. Thankfully, he actually listens to Sentinel Prime's orders to throttle down once they get on his nerves (which is often).
Jetstorm is capable of attacking with incredible bursts of wind in both robot and jet modes, creating focused cyclones with devastating force (if somewhat questionable accuracy). Luckily, he's one of the few bots who actually listens to Sentinel Prime, and stops his attack once his commander barks out his order to do so... though usually by that time, the damage has already been done.
The twins also have the ability to combine into a superjet and the powerful robot Safeguard. Both modes greatly enhance their combat effectiveness... but not their wits, unfortunately.

When flight schematics stolen from Starscream were infused into Jetfire and Jetstorm, Safeguard, their "gestalt powerlink" form, was an unexpected result!
Though Safeguard combines the twins' bodies to further enhance their already-impressive combat capabilities, it does not appear to be a melding of their minds. Instead, both twins work in complete synchronization in this form. Unfortunately, both twins are cocky, brash showoffs who are only partially in control over their own powers... which makes Safeguard a potentially very dangerous robot to everyone around him.
Safeguard has both a robot mode and a super jet mode.


• Both twins speak with a thick Russian accent.

• Jetfire and Jetstorm's fire/wind theme has its roots in some of the earliest concepts of Animated. Sean Galloway, who had been commissioned to do early concept work for the series, revealed several pieces of this concept art long before the "final" Derrick Wyatt-designed characters were shown. Among these images were a pair of "fire and wind" robots who have a few features that made it into the jet-twins' final designs.
The twins' method of combination is seemingly an homage to Hyoryu and Enryu/Choryujin from the final installment of Takara's Brave Series, King of Braves GaoGaiGar. It is also noteworthy only one other Transformers figure has used the divided down the middle method of combination and that is Energon Omega supreme.

In the early stages of the toy's development, the end of the twins' combined vehicle mode is supposed to split apart and wings are supposed to slide out of the shins, so that the combined mode resembles an X-wing fighter.[2]
Derrick J. Wyatt had no input over Jetfire's name, as the twins were largely the work of Eric Siebenaler; Wyatt only did a "once-over" of their aesthetics to match the rest of the series near the end of their development cycle. That's the reason why Animated Jetfire does not have a more "traditional" Jetfire design. As such, Wyatt said that if he ever did an homage to the original Jetfire's design, he would gladly call the character "Skyfire".
Perceptor's dialogue in the "Rise of Safeguard" comic implies that Jetfire and Jetstorm were split from one protoform, possibly making Safeguard their true form. Such a theory is supported by Safeguard's being unnaturally intelligent for a combiner, and his possessing of his own alternate mode.
In a conversation with one of his fans on a piece of fan art on his Deviantart page, The Boo, who worked on the first half of the "Rise of Safeguard" comic, revealed that Jetfire and Jetstorm's original vehicle modes were similar to ATVs instead of cycles or other types of vehicles. He also said this was due to their working in the industrial sector. [
Jetstorm's design, revealed at BotCon 2008, contains numerous homages to the Beast Machines
Vehicon general Jetstorm, particularly his helmet.

Jetfire was voiced by Tom Kenny for more information please the see TFA showcase.
Jetstorm was voiced by Phillip LaMarr an American comedian and actor. He is best known as one of the original cast members of MADtv, the voices of Hermes Conrad from Futurama, Static from Static Shock, the Green Lantern, John Stewart from Justice League, Aquaman from Young Justice, the title character from Samurai Jack, Scrap-Iron and Doc in G.I. Joe: Renegades, Vamp from Metal Gear Solid, Joe Robertson in The Spectacular Spider-Man and for his role in Pulp Fiction as an unfortunate young man whose head John Travolta accidentally blows off. He also guest-starred in Big Time Rush as Gustavo Rocque's rival, Hawk.
He, ah, also does the voice of Ollie Williams, the BlaccuWeather Forecaster on Family Guy.

He also provides the Voices for Transformers Animated :
• Jazz
• Oil Slick
• Omega Supreme (season 3)
• Alpha Trion

Up next is a Decepticon of 3 minds.