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News Credits: 273 · by **Delicon** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 6:41 pm

Those of you who saw Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen are sure to remember the scene in which Agent Simmons, Sam, Mikaela, Leo and Wheelie discovered Jetfire in the Smithsonian's National Air and Space Museum.

There is now a special Transformers ROTF exhibit on display that features many of the props from the movie. It is located at Udvar Hazy Center of the National Air and Space Museum right outside of Washington, DC at Dulles Airport.

TFW2005's curlup recently visited this display and recounted his experiences here.

We have mirrored these images for your convenience.

Also of note is an Air and Space Museum presentation later this month. On August 27th, there will be a special lecture entitled Transformers: Cold War Toys for Boys from 12:30 TO 12:45 PM. For more information, click here.

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News Credits: 1 · by **YRQRM0** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:14 pm

That's awesome! Especially that Wheelie leg prop, I love stuff like that! Is this permanent? And who's the weird colored Jetfire toy?

Also, do they happen to have Jetfire's cane on display? It might of just been astounding CGI work, but I'm pretty sure for some shots in the boneyard, they had a giant bottom half of Jetfires cane that was real, for the shots with the humans, you could see Jetfire's cane in front of them shaking around like he was moving.

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:21 pm

And that is... a new Jetfire repaint?

News Credits: 3 · by **Archanubis** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:23 pm

YRQRM0 wrote:Is this permanent?

Good question; looks like it's a good reason to go back, and it'd be nice to know how long this thing will be on display.

YRQRM0 wrote:And who's the weird colored Jetfire toy?

Blurrz wrote:And that is... a new Jetfire repaint?

I'm guessing it's a toy prototype.

Hmm, first it's Grimlock in the Natural History Museum in London, now Starscream, Jetfire, and Wheelie have gone to the Smithsonian. Any chance Prime and Megs will be enshrined somewhere soon? ;;)

by **Hard Hacker** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:25 pm

That funkily coloured Jetfire is a hard prototype. Basically, something that shows that the mould works.

Also funky is the sheer amount of stuff.

News Credits: 6 · by **Jacob P. Galvatron** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:31 pm

Multicolored Jetfire is snazzy.

by **BATTLEMASTER IIC** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:41 pm

For those of you unfamiliar with the Udvar-Hazy museum at Dulles Airport near DC, there is NO DESERT outside those hangar doors with lots of C-141s sitting outside as portrayed in the film

It's almost like they warped all the way to Davis-Monthan AFB in Arizona walking out of those hangar doors into the AMARC lot and the boneyard. Still very cool though!

News Credits: 1452 · by **Blurrz** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:41 pm

Hard Hacker wrote:That funkily coloured Jetfire is a hard prototype. Basically, something that shows that the mould works.

Also funky is the sheer amount of stuff.

Poo. I was hoping for a Leader Prime and Jetfire Costco exclusive similar to Costco Prime/Overload scheme;

News Credits: 1 · by **Bumblebeast** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:42 pm

What are those wires going into Jetfire ?

Anyways, that exhibit looks a lot like my house :grin:

News Credits: 273 · by **Delicon** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:51 pm

I absolutely love the Smithsonian museums and stuff like this is the reason why.

I make sure to check out the Air and Space Museum every time I am in the DC area.

by **megawhat!!** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 7:57 pm

WHEN THE F**K IS JETFIRE GONNA B IN STORES!!! Good looking jetfire though I jus wish they could of done a better job with its back to make it look like those feathers sticking out know what I mean....WHEELIE LIFESIZE AND TRANSFORMABLE AND RC...THA PERFECT TRANSFORMER!!

News Credits: 8 · by **Megatron Wolf** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 8:45 pm

Thats pretty cool. I like how they have both the old and new figures for the characters. That way people can see what TF are suppose to look like. "Here we have the original version of the character, and here is the bayformer gobot version". Is the white Jetfire a prototype or an upcoming repaint? Never seen it before.

by **Superior Prime09** » Sun Aug 02, 2009 9:14 pm

Awesome!! hopefully this display/exibit will stay for a couple of years. (yeah when I've lost some weight, have the initive and money.)

Oh and I just saw two Jetfires at my somewhat local Meijers. :grin: