in the Transformers franchise, many characters share the same mold. From a
toy perspective, this allows Hasbro and Takara to put a variety of toys on the
shelf for less cost. This also can lead to army building your toy collection.
While the Decepticons have the Seekers, the Autobots tend to have more variety
among their ranks. However, these three Autobots share a car
mode and have been dubbed the Datsun brothers by fans.
While many Transformers fans are familiar with the military strategist, Prowl,
I've got the plan of all of you cast iron manifolds for it. We HAVE!
and the diversionary tacticion, Smokescreen,
It's all in the wrist
Most people forget about the Autobot gunner, Bluestreak.
(laughs), Who me?
Autobots ROLL!
The original Diaclone Car Robots that became Transformers were based on
licensed cars and were released in a variety of colors. This was no different
for the Datsun 280ZX Turbo, also known as the Nissan Fairlady Z, but instead of
using one of the existing colors from Diaclone, Hasbro chose to release this
toy in an all silver deco under the name, Bluestreak.
Characterized in his profile by Bob Budiansky,
Bluestreak is described as a gunner who is haunted by
the memory of his home city being destroyed by the Decepticons.
As such, he talks incessantly.
First introduced in the Marvel Comics, Bluestreak was one of
the Autobots aboard the Ark when it crash-landed on earth 4 million years ago.
Awakened in the present day of 1984 Bluestreak states that he gets his name
for talking fast like a blue streak. When it was learned that Sparkplug Witwicky
was forced to help the Decepticons, Bluestreak suggested to Optimus Prime that
they leave earth and the Decepticons behind by repowering the Ark. But Prime
disagreed, as it was the Autobots responsibility to stop the Decepticons.
After a series of events led to the Matrix being transferred to Buster
Witwicky, Prowl ordered Bumblebee and Bluestreak to protect the boy. After
witnessing Buster kiss his girlfriend, Jessie, Bluestreak wasn't shy to ask
what function it actually served. But before Bluestreak could get an answer,
the Decepticons attack. They stood no chance against the might of Jetfire,
until Buster used the power of the Matrix to disassemble him and rebuild
him to serve the Autobots. once Optimus Prime was restored, Bluestreak was
present when Jetfire was officially branded as an Autobot. Throughout the
rest of the comic, Bluestreak was present for brief appearances as a
background character until he was taken offline by an Underbase-powered Starscream.
Like his comic book counterpart, the cartoon's Bluestreak was just as chatty.
Maybe Hound's got glitch mice in his databanks again. (laughs)
Voiced by Casey Kasem,
Bluestreak lived up to his function as a gunner firing on
Decepticons usually by surprise.
Watch the birdie, Laserbeak!
To differentiate his animation model from Prowl,
the animators chose to include the toy's shoulder cannons on Bluestreak
while they were absent on Prowl.
In addition, his colors is an animation match
his Diaclone toy with a black hood,
instead of the Transformers release of all gray. More on that later.
Throughout the cartoon, Bluestreak made
regular appearances throughout seasons 1 and 2
You look like somebody mugged your manifold. (laughs)
In Part 3 of the More than Meets the Eye pilot,
Bluestreak flew alongside Ironhide when the Decepticons escaped a crystal mine.
Call it off Ironhide. Stop yappin' Bluestreak, this is my fight!
Make it our fight!
It's like fightin' a shadow!
After Skywarp shot Ironhide down, Bluestreak didn't hesitate to save his teammate.
Throw me a line!
You got it!
In the episode, Roll For It, Bluestreak and Prowl bit off more than they
can chew when they chased the Decepticons to a jet hangar.
Fortunately Prowl is able to connect to the internet,
Prowl, this is Chip Chase. Don't worry. I'm assuming control now.
and Chip Chase helped Prowl and Bluestreak with a little human ingenuity.
Now this is a human after my own central processor.
Bluestreak was also present when the first three Dinobots were introduced.
Look at the size of those things.
Great Cybertron. Holy hetrodine.
When the second sets bodies were built,
Bluestreak sparred alongside his fellow Autobots against Snarl and Swoop.
In a real fight, we'd have creamed 'em. Mmm...maybe.
In the episode, Attack of the Autobots, Bluestreak was one of the many
reprogrammed by Megatron's Personality Destabilizer Device.
He attacked Jazz to force his fellow Autobot to be reprogrammed as well.
Hey man, I don't wanna hurt ya, but you're gettin' me steamed!
Fortunately Bluestreak was the first to be saved by Sparkplug's Attitude Exchanger.
From there, Bluestreak assisted the rest of the Autobots to save their teammates.
Thanks! I needed that!
In the episode, Trans-Europe Express,
Bluestreak raced with his fellow Autobots in the Europa 2000.
Racing alongside them was Auggie Cahnay,
who drove an experimental car made of an alloy that the Decepticons sought after.
Listen you didn't anyone ever tell you about Fair Play?
I'm gonna win that million bucks!
Drivin' like that and you won't live long enough to win it!
Not that it would be any great tragedy, but some decent people might get hurt!
I've got a race to win!
What a creep!
Megatron was also seeking out the Pearl of Bahoudin in Turkey,
which was made from a Cybertronian weather control device that crashed on Earth.
and he needed the alloy to be able to harness its power.
I shall be master of the very elements! (evil laughter)
Megatron then sent the Stunticons to take out the racing Autobots,
and capture Auggie's car.
Oh, my aching cyclinders...
That's right cuz we're taking your car.
After smokescreen was wounded, Bluestreak arrived to try and help his friend.
However, the chatty Autobot took Wildrider for a ride long enough to get away.
Bluestreak then found the archaeologist, Professor Terranova
who had escaped from the Decepticons earlier.
Terranova explains to Bluestreak, along with Tracks and Bumblebee via radio,
what the Decepticons are planning.
And so, they begin their mission to confront Megatron.
Alongside the road, Bluestreak picks up Auggie Cahnay,
who shows off his driving skills behind the wheel of Bluestreak,
as the three Autobots finish the race.
Driving past the finish line,
Announcer: But I think Bluestreak was the winner!
the Autobots arrive to face off against the Decepticons.
Unfortunately they are vastly outnumbered.
Bumblebee manages to take the Pearl of Bahoudin from Megatron.
Then he opens up the Pearl's casing, which causes a massive windstorm.
Seeing that the Pearl is lost, Megatron retreats.
Leaving Menasor to destroy the Autobots.
Such senseless violence.
In a last-ditch effort,
Auggie Cahnay sacrifices his car to stop the giant Decepticon combiner,
while Bumblebee jumps into the windstorm to destroy the Pearl.
After this episode, Bluestreak's final appearance in the cartoon was
helping Kup with a road block
before the Battle of Autobot City in Transformers: The Movie
While there were other Autobot casualties,
Bluestreak was not mentioned among them.
But he was not seen again in the cartoon.
Like Cliffjumper,
Bluestreak was written out of the cartoon after Casey Kasem left the show.
Whoa! Look out below!
He did appear in the Dreamwave comics though.
Informing his friend, Optronix, that Sentinel Prime was killed by Megatron.
after Optronix was given the matrix and became Optimus Prime,
Bluestreak continued the fight alongside his fellow Autobots.
In the present on Earth, Bluestreak was untrusting of Shockwave since
the memory of his hometown still haunted him he wasn't wrong though
after blue streak accompanied Optimus Prime and surrender shockwave ordered
Ultra Magnus to deactivate the Autobots when they arrived on Cybertron
fortunately the Autobots on Cybertron had organized a resistance and so
broadside and sandstorm freed the captive Autobots after badgering gears
for wanting to return home so badly blue streak battled against the Decepticons
to free Cybertron from shockwaves control once the battles were over blue
streak tried to get his fellow our crew members to return to Earth led by prowl
so they can begin construction of Autobot City after g1 ended blue streak
has been mostly forgotten about in almost every transformers form of media
so much so that Hasbro had lost the trademark to his name in the early 2000s
and all toy releases of his character went by the name of Silver Streak during
that decade it wasn't until 2010 that Hasbro
regained the rights to his name and released a speed stars mini vehicle
under the name of blue shriek this caused an interesting thing to happen in
the comics published by IDW at first the character
by the name of blue Street once the 2009 ongoing series began he suddenly started
going by the name of Silver Streak until 2012 when he went back to being called
Blue Streak what made this worse was the fact that a blue blue streak appeared in
the bumblebee miniseries when the character is being called Silver Streak
at the time helping hot rod in construction of a space cruiser some
have theorized that blue streak in Silver Streak are two separate
characters much like their versions of Galvatron and gold-bug being separate
from Megatron and bumblebee most likely the bot in the bumblebee series was
smokescreen who has had a few toys released in that blue color scheme in
fact in Transformers Prime smokescreen updated his color scheme in
the third season to that same blue and yellow when his legends toy was released
in those colors they gave him the name of Blue Streak probably to keep up with
a trademark this has also been a part of the misconception about the original
Blue Streak toy while the cartoon used the diaclone silversides with a black
hood and roof the original toy was released in all silver however the toy
catalog his box art and his instruction manual all used this blue and silver
color scheme this led some fans to believe that there was a blue cited
variant of Blue Streak released during g1 what most likely happened was that
Hasbro was still deciding on which color scheme to use while they were putting
together the first year of Transformers toys unfortunately the finalized color
scheme was chosen a little too late for any promotional material to be changed
after the fact this probably cause what's known as the mandala effect as it
pertains to blue streak as people's memory of events are different than what
really happened in the catalog for 1985 Blue Streak was correctly colored among
his fellow autobot cars as such even with reissues Blue Streaks g1 toy was
never released as a blue sided variant years later other lines have released
Blue Streak as a blue variant including vinyl tech and masterpiece in
addition Blue Streak was released as a recolor of come
- prowl offered through Hasbro subscription service while there's no
images of him appearing in fiction it's implied that the Alltech shattered glass
story coalescence uses this release of the character as an evil autobot while
characters such as prowl and smokescreen have been seen various transformer
series and now with barricade added to the mix in the cease toy line it's
difficult to forget the chatty gunner who shared the same mold as them we can
only hope to see blue streak return in one of the many transformer series in
the future well what do you think did you once believe that blue streak was
originally released in blue and silver and do you think he should return again
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