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Takara's patent for the original G1 Jazz toy designed by Kouzin Ohno, taken from the US Patent Office website. |
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The original G1 Jazz toy from 1984. Also used for the 1990 European "Classic Heroes" re-release. |
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The box artwork for the original 1984 G1 Jazz toy. Also used for the 1990 European "Classic Heroes" re-release. |
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The Studio Ox design for Jazz, taken from the Japanese Transformers: Generations Deluxe book. |
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Jazz as he usually looked in the G1 cartoon, taken from the pilot episode "More Than Meets the Eye, Part 1". |
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A slightly off-character rendition of Jazz in the G1 cartoon with ridiculously over-emphasized horns, taken from the pilot episode "More Than Meets the Eye, Part 3". |
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An early model for Jazz, taken from the Japanese Transformers G1 Characters Archives book, presumably one of the designs which would be further simplified by Floro Dery. |
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Marvel's The Transformers Universe profile for Jazz. |
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Jazz as drawn by Ricardo Villamonte for Marvel USA's Transformers #10. |
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Jazz as drawn by Geoff Senior for Marvel UK's Transformers #84. |
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Jazz as drawn in the Japanese G1 manga featured inside TV Magazine. |
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The Jazz decoy from 1986. |
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Jazz' Classic Pretender toy from 1989. |
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The box artwork for the Classic Pretender Jazz toy. |
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Pretender Jazz from an animated segement of a commercial for the Classic Pretender toys. |
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Pretender Jazz as drawn by José Delbo for Marvel USA's Transformers #60. |
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Jazz' Action Master toy from 1990. |
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The card artwork for the Action Master Jazz toy. |
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Action Master Jazz from an animated segement of the first commercial for the Action Masters toys. |
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The Generation 2 Jazz toy from 1993. With this release, the mold for the head sculpt started to degrade, and the mouth would slowly turn into a weird smirk. |
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The card artwork for the Generation 2 re-release of the Jazz toy. Presumably, this was redrawn or traced from the G1 box artwork. |
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Takara's SCF Act 8 Meister PVC figure, also released by Hasbro as Heroes of Cybertron Autobot Jazz. |
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The character card artwork for the Heroes of Cybertron Autobot Jazz PVC. |
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Jazz as drawn by Pat Lee for one of the covers of Dreamwave's Transformers: Generation 1 (vol. 1) #2, also used for the box artwork for both Takara's 2002 Meister (Jazz) reissue and Hasbro's 2003 "Autobot Jazz" reissue. |
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Jazz as drawn by Pat Lee for Dreamwave's Transformers: Generation 1 (vol. 1) #5. |
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Dreamwave's Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye profile for Jazz drawn by Don Figueroa, also published in Transformers: The Ultimate Guide by DK Books. |
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Dreamwave's Transformers: More Than Meets The Eye profile for Pretender Jazz. |
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Don Figueroa's concept for Dreamwave's Transformers: The War Within version of Jazz. |
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Jazz as drawn by Don Figueroa for Dreamwave's Transformers: The War Within (vol. 1) #1. |
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Jazz as drawn by Don Figueroa for Dreamwave's Transformers: The War Within (vol. 1) #3. |
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The 2002 Takara Meister (Jazz) reissue, also used for the 2003 Hasbro "Autobot Jazz" reissue. The mold degradation that started with the G2 release has continued even fourther, with the chin-strap now completely gone and the mouth distorted into an ugly smirk. Takara would finally fix the mold for the 2004 Stepper reissue, which got also released by Hasbro as "Ricochet" around the same time. |
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The e-hobby exclusive gold chromed version of Meister (Jazz), released as a companion piece to the 2002 Takara reissue of the toy. Supposedly, the gold color is meant to represent Jazz as he looked in the season 2 cartoon episode "The Golden Lagoon". The smirk from the degraded mold is still present on this version. |
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Takara's "Smallest Transformers" Meister toy. |
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The prototype for the unreleased Binaltech/Alternators (Autobot)Jazz/Meister toy, shown in the Japanese The Transformers Binaltech & TF Collection Complete Guide book. Note how the head is still a lot more closely based on the original 1984 toy's head than what the Mazda RX-8 "Meister" toy's head would end up like. |
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Detailed control drawing for the head sculpt of the Binaltech/Alternators Meister toy, shown in the Japanese The Transformers Binaltech & TF Collection Complete Guide book. |
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Early version of a control drawing for the Binaltech/Alternators Meister toy, shown in the Japanese The Transformers Binaltech & TF Collection Complete Guide book. |
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More refined version of the control drawing for the Binaltech/Alternators Meister toy, shown in the Japanese The Transformers Binaltech & TF Collection Complete Guide book and the "system description" from the instruction booklet of the Binaltech Meister toy. |
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Another detailed control drawing for the head sculpt of the Binaltech/Alternators Meister toy, shown in the Japanese The Transformers Binaltech & TF Collection Complete Guide book. |
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A variation of the detailed control drawing for the head sculpt of the Binaltech/Alternators Meister toy shown in the Japanese The Transformers Binaltech & TF Collection Complete Guide book, this time showing the eyes behind the visor. |
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Blueprint for the head sculpt of the Binaltech/Alternators Meister toy, shown in the Japanese The Transformers Binaltech & TF Collection Complete Guide book. |
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Mazda's early in-house animation for the "RX-8 Transformer" which would ultimately end up as Binaltech/Alternators Meister. |
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The Binaltech/Alternators Meister toy. |
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The character card artwork for the Binaltech Meister toy, drawn by Hidetsugu Yoshioka. |
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The box artwork for the Alternators Meister toy (original red packaging release), drawn by Alex Milne. |
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The box artwork for the Alternators Meister toy (bubble packaging re-release), drawn by Marcelo Matere. |
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The Titanium Robot Masters Autobot Jazz figure, based on the Alternators toy. |
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Jazz as drawn by Guidi Guidi for one of the covers of IDW's Transformers: Infiltration #3. |
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Jazz as drawn by E.J. Su for IDW's Transformers: Infiltration #3. |