The Dragonfly is a high speed jet and the signature mode of aerial transportation of the Quest team; designed by Dr. Benton Quest.
History[]
Jonny Quest (1964 TV series)[]
The team sitting in their usual places.
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The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest[]
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The Quest Team takes the Dragonfly from Anchorage, Alaska to the Sea of Okhotsk in the North Pacific to visit Professor Erikson. It's taken down by General Vostok using a weapon called the Bifrost Effect which freezes up all the avionics. The Quest Team escapes on the Quest Snowcat as the Dragonfly crashes and is destroyed. Jonny is sad about the end of Dragonfly, and Race jokes that it has a low deductible. (General Winter)
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Appearances[]
- Jonny Quest (1964-1965 TV series)
- 104. Pursuit of the Po-Ho
- 109. Double Danger
- 110. Shadow of the Condor
- The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest (1996-1997)
- 201. The Mummies of Malenque (seen on Quest Map)
- 203. Bloodlines
- 223. General Winter
- 225. The Robot Spies
- Tom and Jerry: Spy Quest (2015 movie)
Total appearances: 7.
Apocryphal[]
Tom and Jerry: Spy Quest[]
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Notes/trivia[]
- The Dragonfly wasn't named in the original series, but that is the name Doug Wildey used for it off-screen.[1] The Dragonfly is first named in The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest season 2.[2][3][4]
- The Dragonfly is notable for appearing in the opening and closing theme music, with the opening also showing inside the cockpit where the team sit and get a close-up of each of them (including Bandit) with their names typed at the bottom of the screen in white.
- The first episode of the 1980's series, Peril of the Reptilian, alludes to the Dragonfly, when Dr. Quest uses a new jet.
- Its inclusion in season two of The Real Adventures of Jonny Quest was Lance Falk's attempt to bring the series closer to the original. He used the name Dragonfly to honor original series creator, Doug Wildey, who gave it that name off-screen.
- The original series would only show the cockpit, presumably due to limited budget, but the Real Adventures was able to show some of them sitting at the back, entering and leaving, along with smaller vehicles stored, as well.
- It was called the Quest Jet in the direct-to-video film, Tom and Jerry: Spy Quest.
- A Dragonfly model kit was released in 2014 by Moebius Models.
Gallery[]
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Chinook • Dragonfly • Mini-Chopper • Rover • Snowcat • Snowmobiles • Questsled • Queststream • Whaler • All vehicles List of episodes • Comic books • Book series • Computer game • Trading cards • Locations • Objects • Characters |
References[]
- ↑ Falk, Lance. Jonny Quest AOL newsgroup. "Behind the Scenes 4." 23 Feb 1997. Quote: "The Dragonfly Jet (white with the huge tail fin) is from the Classic Show. Season One chose not to use it. I made sure it returned in "Rock of Rages" as the official Quest transport. Its name was never actually given in a show but JQ creator Doug Wildey told me it's name (and HE would know)."
- ↑ TRA: Bloodlines (1996), season 2, episode 3.
- ↑ TRA: General Winter (1997), season 2, episode 23.
- ↑ TRA: The Robot Spies (1997), season 2, episode 25.