Jason Jansen, the child actor who played Tommy Kennedy in the live action segments of the widely unknown "fifth season" of the G1 cartoon, has been a mystery among the Transformers fandom for years. So much that the Transformers Wiki even considered him (or rather, information regarding his person) a "holy grail".

Now someone found him. Or rather, he found his name mentioned on someone's blog and decided to give an interview.
Tommy Kennedy, Found – An Interview with Jason Jansen « Digest My Brain

Turns out his real name is Jason Jankowski, "Jansen" was just a stage name, and he quit acting and grew up to become an ABC Television exec.

 

Geez. I saw the Title and thought it was a Amber Alert thing or something.

 

I wouldn't post such a thing in the Transformers section.

 

That's incredible.

 

Wow, just wow.

 

Now we need to find out where the animatronic Powermaster Prime is.

 

Holy smokes. It's a proud day for Transfandom.

 

Yay

 

Probably resting in peace in a landfill somewhere out there.

 

then someone must find it

 

That was cool

 

That is an astoundingly impressive article! Congratulations and a huge thank you to all involved! I love seeing mysteries solved!  

I hope Mr. Jansen is able to forward more stories about the filming; I love behind-the-scenes stuff!  

 

I thought it'd be a female child actress who was now a man.

 

Granted, but someone who doesn't know you would still throw up red flags upon seeing the title. God knows people post in wrong spots all the time anyway - to someone who doesn't know Nevermore, you could be just another one of those people. Just saying, that title *could* have been worded a smidge better. Thanks for the link, though!

 

Oh cool, someone found him.

 

No fucking way   so cool!

 

Awesome.

Botcon 2013 guest? Hall of Fame inductee?  

 

Very cool! That was a good read. Thanks for sharing.

25 years from now, somebody should track down that kid from the "Daaaaaaad, can I borrow the Transformer?" video Hasbro...graced...us with from a couple of years ago.

 

Quick someone update the tfwiki page about him!

 

I honestly have no clue what the fuck any of this is about...