Consumer's Distributing Jetfire With Missiles

[Sir Prime A Lot]

I've always heard rumours of a Generation 1 Jetfire variant which was offered exclusively from a mail-order only Canadian store named Consumer's Distributing. The rumour was that the figure came with missiles which launch from the figure's gun, which was spring loaded already. A friend of mine recently bought a complete copy and inside were some little missiles which appear to fit inside the gun, though none are loose so we can't confirm. Is this true? Anyone else seen this?

It is a Canadian box so that adds legitimacy. I don't know why but I didn't get close photos of the missiles. They're definitely not from any other 1984-1987 figures, I have a complete collection of those years and they don't match anything I have. They're not Roadbuster nor Wheeljack.

[Robimus]

Looked into this in 2011 a little bit when I got shown a G1 Jetfire boxed in robot mode that was said to be that consumers distributing variant. Story was it had been recalled due to the missile firing feature.

I chatted about it with Protoman and a couple other esteemed experts. General vibe was, maybe it existed because there were a lot of little differences on different production runs - but the one I snapped a picture of boxed in robot mode was likely a creative swap out with the styrofoam from the robotech version. The styrofoam trays would fit in the Hasbro Jetfire boxes.

Daniel mentioned that some early versions of Jetfire did come with shooting missiles and even Macross decals on the wings, hilighting the varied production runs of the beast.

So maybe, but it could just easily be a folk tale spawned with slivers of truth to it(like the shooting missiles)

[Sir Prime A Lot]

It's as much a mystery as the black face Canadian Slag I guess.

[Protoman]

Originally Posted by Sir Prime A Lot

It's as much a mystery as the black face Canadian Slag I guess.

Canadian Slag came in both black AND red and honestly, one does not seem more rare then the other in Canada. It's almost a toss up. In the states it's another story

[brr-icy]

I know Tusko has a firing missile one from childhood, and I seen one at tfcon last year. I am going to try to hunt one down for my collection since I love Canadian variants.

[Akroyer]

I have mine from childhood, and his gun is working but I don't have any missiles. What did they do in later runs? Remove the missiles or modify the gun?

Im curious about what version I have.

[Sir Prime A Lot]

All versions have the firing gun, they just took the missiles from the box. So the story goes.

[LittleDee]

It exists. I know of one for sale in my location. Saw it today. Guy says he’s only ever seen one for sale on eBay. It was in the package. Comes in robot mode.

[Zenith27]

My childhood Jetfire had missiles but they didn't fire. They were really small and didn't really fit in the gun. Mine was not a Consumers figure though, just Woodward's as far as my mum remembers.

[alternatorfan]

I'm seem to recall that
I used to hang out at consumers distributing back in the olden days lol
Looking at all the transformers section cataloge
Those were the days.