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Big Boss

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The villainous '''Brandon "Big Boss" Babel''' is committing crime... in a future time!

==Fiction==
===''The Transformers'' cartoon===
According to [[Ask Vector Prime|a reliable source]], Big Boss is a crime lord in the 2020s of [[The Transformers (cartoon)|universe Primax 984.17 Alpha]] and fights the [[Central Organization of Police Specialists]]. {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II}}

===''Animated'' cartoon===
Big Boss is the villain in the popular [[1987]] game ''[[Ninja Gladiator]]''. The game "story" is that in the year [[2021]], with the [[Earth Corps]] indisposed, Big Boss freed five of the terrible [[Inhumanoids]] and unleashed them on the [[Earth]]! {{storylink|Transformers Animated: The AllSpark Almanac II}}

==Notes==
* "Big Boss" Babel is the central villain of the Hasbro toyline and DiC show ''[[C.O.P.S.]]''. This had no relation to Transformers—though one character was quietly made the son of [[Beachhead]] from ''[[G.I. Joe (franchise)|G.I. Joe]]''—until ''The AllSpark Almanac II'' came along and, in an [[easter egg]], explicitly stated the shows were in canon with each other. This is what [[fandom|fans]] do when they get the chance, and ''you love it''.

*Unless you're trying to reconcile all of it for the wiki.

*Not [[Snake| THAT]] Big Boss.

==External links==
* [[wikipedia:C.O.P.S.|''C.O.P.S.'']] at Wikipedia
* [http://www.tfarchive.com/creative/showentry.php?s=584 The Hasbro Cartoon Universe theory at TF Archive]

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[[Category:Generation 1 humans]]

Multi-property brand

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A '''multi-property brand''' is a line of toys, with its own logo and (if successful) brand recognition, under which toys of characters and/or vehicles from several pre-existing properties, licensed or owned by the toy company, are produced. With rare exceptions, the brand has no characters of its own, but rather represents a play pattern such as construction toys or miniatures gaming under which any number of toy lines can co-exist. Transformers toys have been produced in a number of such lines, going back to ''[[Beast Wars (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'', but more commonly in the 2000s with both contemporary and "classic" ([[Generation 1 (toyline)|Generation 1]] and ''Beast Wars''/''[[Beast Machines (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'', with the occasional oddball from [[Robots in Disguise (franchise)|Robots in Disguise]]) characters represented.

==Brands==
===[[Hasbro]]===
*[[Attacktix]]
*[[Built to Rule]]
*[[MicroVerse]]
*[[Titanium Series]]
*[[Playskool Heroes]]

===[[TakaraTomy]]===
*[[Choro-Q]] Robo
*[[Microman]]
*[[MyClone]]

===[[Kaiyodo]]===
*[[Revoltech]]

[[Category:Multi-property brands| ]]

Playskool Heroes

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[[Image:PlayskoolHeroesLogo.jpg|center]]

'''Playskool Heroes''' is a [[multi-property brand]] from [[Hasbro]]'s [[Playskool]] brand featuring [[toy]]s suitable for small children. There are three separate toylines to the franchise, only one of which features [[Transformers brand|Transformers]]-related merchandise.

Playskool Heroes toylines:
*''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (toyline)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]''
*''Marvel: Super Hero Adventures''
*''Star Wars: Jedi Force''

==External links==
*[http://www.hasbro.com/playskoolheroes/en_US/ Playskool Heroes at Hasbro.com]

[[Category:Franchises]]
[[Category:Rescue Bots]]

Dinosaur (dinosaur)

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{{disambig3|Dinosaur}}
[[Image:DinobotIslandPt2-Dirge.jpg|right|300px|thumb|There's a party in my mouth, and only really depressing people are invited.]]
'''Dinosaurs''' are prehistoric reptiles that dominated the [[Earth]] during their existence. Scientific consensus holds that they became extinct 65 million years ago. In the various [[Transformer]]s [[continuity|continuities]], this belief is often reassessed.

Dinosaurs' [[Popular beast alternate modes|most prominent influence]] in Transformers culture is serving as the [[Alternate mode|altmodes]] for some of the most dangerous (and occasionally ludicrous) Transformers of all time.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:Battle_for_Cybertron_dinosaurs.jpg|right|150px|thumb|[[Earl Norem]] dinosaurs: AWESOME! Chronology: not so great.]]
====Big Looker storybooks continuity====
When the Autobots' spacecraft crashed into the Earth four million years ago, the mighty dinosaurs fled in terror. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

====Marvel Comics continuity====
Shortly after the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] crashed on [[Earth]], the Ark's defense systems detected Cybertronic life on the continent of [[Antarctica]]. The Ark sent a drone to investigate, and it discovered [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] roaming around in the [[Savage Land]] blasting dinosaurs with high-powered X-rays. The Ark determined that Shockwave was a threat and rebuilt five Autobots into forms it assumed were the dominant form of life on the planet, the dinosaurs the drone discovered. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}

Four million years later, [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] visited the Savage Land and passed a dinosaur in his [[Ark shuttlecraft|shuttle]]. {{storylink|Repeat Performance!}}

=====Earthforce=====
{{earthforcefiction}}
[[Image:Destiny_of_the_dinobots.jpg|left|150px|thumb|]]
By [[1992]] the dinosaurs of the Savage Land were suffering from an unidentified disease that drove them insane and ultimately killed them. When the Dinobots returned, searching for the [[control crystal]] from their shuttle to help save [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] from [[Corrodia Gravis]], they discovered that a human paleontologist named [[Embrey|Professor Embrey]] was using it to keep the disease at bay from healthy dinosaurs. Ultimately, they let Embrey keep the crystal and transferred Snarl's mind into the body of a ''Stegosaurus''. {{storylink|Destiny of the Dinobots!}}
{{-}}

====IDW ''Generation 1'' continuity====
Six hundred thousand [[Units of time|meta-cycles]] ago, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] foresaw [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron's]] eventual exhaustion of natural resources. To ensure their survival, he seeded many worlds with [[Ultra-Energon]] and waited. He arrived on the world later to be known as [[Earth]] to regulate the growth of the valuable resource. Unfortunately, the Autobot Dynobots, lusting for revenge after Shockwave had defeated them in a skirmish, followed him to this world. To endure the intense energon radiation on this world, the Dynobots assumed the form of the long-extinct dinosaur species. {{storylink|Spotlight: Shockwave}}

====''Hearts of Steel''====
Both the Autobots and Decepticons assumed the forms of these doomed reptiles upon arriving on Earth, which was in the grip of one of its ice ages. {{Storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 1|Hearts of Steel #1}}

====Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
=====''The Transformers'' cartoon=====
[[Image:DinobotsG1.jpg|right|180px|thumb|The Land Before Time XXIII: The Great Robot Adventure]]
Dinosaurs were understood to have been sluggish and stupid. They dragged their tails on the ground, and theropods walked fully upright. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}}

Dinosaurs survived the mass extinction of 65 million years ago and lived on into the present on the time-displaced, and energy-rich, [[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]].

The most prominent saurians were the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], five rebellious (yet extremely powerful) [[Autobot]]s, who proved time and again a match for an army of [[Decepticon]]s. Other dinosaur Transformers are [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]], and the [[Mini-Cassette|cassette warriors]], [[Slugfest (G1)|Slugfest]] and [[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]].

Transformers who have Dinosaur altmodes have something known as "dinosaur electrons" within their systems. [[Transformation]] causes these electrons to release [[dinosaur transform static]]. {{storylink|Thief in the Night}}

=====Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity=====
======''Victory'' cartoon======
The [[Dinoforce]] consisted of six Decepticons with sentient dinosaurian [[Pretender]] shells and the ability to combine into [[Dinoking]].

======''Beast Wars II'' cartoon======
[[Image:Gigastorm1.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Brother, I think my horn has a rash.]]
[[Megastorm|Gigastorm]], [[Galvatron (BWII)|Galvatron]]'s younger brother, took the form of a theropod dinosaur. He then made several [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s into [[Cyborg Beast]]s including [[Thrust (BWII)|Thrust,]] rechristened Thrustor, a cyborg ''Velociraptor''.
{{-}}

======''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon======
The Predacon lineup consisted primarily of a number of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

===''Beast Wars'' cartoon===
[[Image:Megatronbwtrex.jpg|right|150px|thumb|It's not the size, it's how you use it.]]
By now dinosaurs were understood to have been quick and agile, with ''T. rex'' holding its body parallel to the ground. After crash-landing on a primitive world that was later revealed to be Earth, the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] renegades [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] and [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] assumed the forms of extinct dinosaurs, a dwarf ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' and a giant ''Velociraptor'' respectively, as their beast modes to survive on this energon-soaked planet.{{Storylink|Beast Wars (Part 1)}}
[[Image:Dinobot mirror.jpg|thumb|left|200px|One...two...three...RED LIGHT.]]
After Dinobot's betrayal, Megatron cloned him. This [[Clone One|clone]] was completely biological. {{storylink|Double Dinobot}}

When the alien [[Vok]] [[Planet Buster]] superweapon that threatened Earth was destroyed, the resulting [[quantum surge]] hit the planet, altering Megatron's structure, giving him a new, more powerful [[Transmetal]] body that allowed him to transform into entirely mechanical ''Tyrannosaurus'' with flight capabilities. {{Storylink|Aftermath}} Later, Megatron used the alien [[Transmetal driver]] to create a drone army of ''Velociraptor''s with Cybertronian enhancements. {{storylink|Cutting Edge}} Refining his experiments, Megatron subsequently created [[Dinobot II]], a [[Transmetal 2]] clone of Dinobot. {{Storylink|Feral Scream Part 1}}

===3H ''Universe'' continuity===
[[Image:BMdinobots.JPG|right|200px|thumb|So how did the Oracle get a ''Triceratops'' from ''Velociraptor'' DNA?]]

The Dinobots were created by the Oracle using dinosaur DNA information from Dinobot's spark. Most of the members had true dinosaur alternate modes of a ''[[T-Wrecks|Tyrannosaurus]], [[Triceradon (BM)|Triceratops]], [[Striker|Stegosaurus]]'', [[Dinotron|''Pachycephalosaurus'']], and a mechanical [[Rapticon|''Velociraptor'']]. Magmatron also joined the team although only one of his multiple beast modes is actually a dinosaur. Whether or not [[Airraptor]]'s ''Archaeopteryx'' mode counts is debatable.
{{-}}

===Unicron Trilogy===
====''Energon''====
[[Image:Cruellock.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Americans will never find me here...]]

The [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcon]] [[Cruellock]] is a theropod dinosaur, but with a distinct Japanese giant monster influence.

====''Cybertron''====
[[Image:Cybertron Undermine beastmode.jpg|right|150px|thumb|He acts tough but keeps disappearing when Grimlock walks in the room.]]
One of [[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]]'s underlings, [[Undermine (Cybertron)|Undermine]] and his brother [[Repugnus (Cybertron)|Repugnus]] transform into a ''Spinosaurus''.

{{-}}
===''Dinobots'' toyline===
Walmart released an exclusive mini wave of figures in 2003. It is unclear what continuity these figures belong to but they were released along with ''Armada'' figures. There is really no story behind these figures other than the fact that they are the Dinobots. The members with true dinosaur alternate modes are [[Grimlock (Dinobots)|Grimlock]], [[Snarl (Dinobots)|Snarl]], [[Triceradon (Dinobots)|Triceradon]], and [[Slapper (Dinobots)|Slapper]].
{{-}}

===''Animated'' continuity===
====''Animated'' cartoon====
[[Image:DinobotsAnimated.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Open the door / Get on the floor / Everybody walk the dinosaur]]
[[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]] and [[Snarl (Animated)|Snarl]] are dinosaurs (a ''T. rex'' and a ''Triceratops'') while [[Swoop (Animated)|Swoop]] is a ''Pteranodon''. They form the [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobots]], based on animatronic robots that had entertained the public. {{storylink|Blast from the Past}}

[[Image:AnimatedZaur.jpg|left|thumb|175px|A robot sauropod with guns on its sides. Awesome.]]
[[Zaur]] lives on Cybertron and is frightened of organics. He is an Apatobot, a species which bears a remarkable resemblance to sauropod dinosaurs. {{storylink|This Is Why I Hate Machines}}

====''Time-Quake''====
While conducting time experiments, [[Simion Hawkins|Professor Simion Hawkins]] time-displaced a number of dinosaurs, including a ''T. rex'' which [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] fought. When the Autobots tracked the professor down, he held them off by transporting more dinosaurs forward in time, leading them to fight a ''Triceratops''. {{storylink|Time-Quake}}
{{--}}

===Movie continuity===
After being awoken by an [[AllSpark#Live-action movie universe|AllSpark]] fragment, [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]], confused and disoriented, had trouble remembering what his mission profile was. In his confusion, he briefly believed that the Seekers were there to destroy the dinosaurs, but [[Mikaela Banes]] informed that they were long since dead. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

===Power Core Combiners===
[[Image:PCC-toy_GrimstoneDinobots.jpg|thumb|right|300px|More like "Dino-and-one-Synapsid-bots", am I right?]]

The Autobot [[Grimstone]], who transforms into a mechanical ''Styracosaurus'', can combine with three dinosaur drones, a ''Parasaurolophus'', a ''Pachycephalosaurus'' and an ''Ankylosaurus'', and one ''Dimetrodon''.
{{Note|The toy box mistakenly identifies Grimstone as a ''Triceratops'' and the ''Dimetrodon'' drone as a Spinosaurus.}}

===Shattered Glass===
[[Grimlock (SG)|Grimlock]], who transforms into a ''Tyrannosaurus'', was created by the heroic Decepticons. He was deactivated by [[Megatron (SG)|Megatron]] for being too violent. [[Optimus Prime (SG)|Optimus Prime]] reactivated him and he joined the Autobots. {{storylink|Grimlock (SG)|Grimlock's toy bio}} [[Wheeljack (SG)|Wheeljack]] created the [[Dinobot (SG)|Dinobots]] based off of Grimlock's design. Some of these Dinobots were kept by the Decepticons and renamed Dinocons. {{storylink|Dungeons & Dinobots}}

In search for [[Sir Soundwave|Soundwave]], [[Heatwave (Timelines)|Heatwave]] went to [[Wyatt's Roadsideaganza]], where he mistook two of the displays for real dinosaurs that tried to attack him. He destroyed both displays and some more. {{storylink|The Desert Heat!}}

===Aligned continuity===
[[Shockwave (WFC)| Shockwave]] was fascinated by the lifeforms he spotted on Earth called dinosaurs, and used them as inspiration for strange experiments where he changed the bodies of [[Grimlock (WFC)| Grimlock]] and the fellow members of his strike team. Once Shockwave was done, the team possessed the ability to transform into dinosaurs!

==Notes==
* A number of Transformers, such as [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]], [[Brimstone (Cybertron)|Brimstone]], [[Sling]], [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] and two thirds of [[Magmatron]], are treated as if they have dinosaur alternate modes. However, in all cases, these are animals which are either only [[Wikipedia:pterosaur|closely related]], [[Wikipedia:plesiosaur|very distantly related]], or [[Wikipedia:pelycosaur|so distantly related it's like saying you're a fish]]. But that's pretty much par for the course when it comes to the casual portrayal of dinosaurs in popular culture, so we're not judging.

==External links==
*[[wikipedia:Dinosaur|Dinosaur at Wikipedia]]

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Vortex (disambiguation)

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The name '''Vortex''' applies to several different characters.

{{disamb|y=1986
|[[Vortex (G1)|Vortex]] the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] helicopter from [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]].}}

{{disamb|y=2007
|[[Vortex Drone|Vortex Drones]], the mindless minions of [[Mainframe (Movie)|Mainframe]] from the [[Transformers: Rise of the Chevy Autobots|Rise of the Chevy Autobots]] part of the [[Movie (franchise)|2007 movie franchise]].}}

{{disamb|y=2007
|[[Vortex (Energon Wars)|Vortex]] the Decepticon helicopter from an unspecified continuity caught up in the [[3D Battle-Card Game|multi-dimensional "Energon Wars"]].}}

{{disamb|y=2008
|[[Vortex (Movie)|Vortex]] the hi-then-die [[Decepticon]] from the 2007 live-action movie continuity.}}

{{disamb|y=2009|[[Vortex (ROTF)|Vortex]] the [[Combaticon (ROTF)|Combaticon]] helicopter from ''[[Revenge of the Fallen (franchise)|Revenge of the Fallen]]''.}}

{{disamb|y=2012|[[Vortex (FOC)| Vortex]] the [[Combaticon (WFC)| Combaticon]] helicoptor from ''[[Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (franchise)| Fall of Cybertron]]''.}}

{{disambig}}

Transformers: Fall of Cybertron (video game)

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'''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''' is a direct sequel to the 2010 game ''War For Cybertron'', due for release in fall 2012. Published by [[Activision Blizzard|Activision]] and developed by [[High Moon Studios]], [[Next Level Games]] and [[Vicarious Visions]], the game is a continuation of the events of ''War For Cybertron'', exploring the events that brought the [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s to [[Earth]]. A side story also focuses on the creation of the [[Dinobot (WFC)| Dinobots]].

==Featured characters==
{{stub}}
{{featuredcharacters
|c1=
*[[Optimus_Prime_(Prime)|Optimus Prime]]
*[[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]]
*[[Jazz (WFC)|Jazz]]
*[[Cliffjumper (Prime)|Cliffjumper]]
*[[Grimlock (WFC)|Grimlock]]
*[[Swoop (WFC)|Swoop]]
*[[Wheeljack (Prime)|Wheeljack]]
|c2=
*[[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]]
*[[Starscream (Prime)|Starscream]]
*[[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]]
*[[Onslaught (WFC)|Onslaught]]
*[[Vortex (WFC)|Vortex]]
*[[Swindle (WFC)|Swindle]]
*[[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]]
*[[Laserbeak (Prime)|Laserbeak]]
|nonumbering=true
}}

==External links==
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/10/06/november-cover-revealed-transformers-fall-of-cybertron.aspx November cover revealed: Fall of Cybertron] @ GameInformer
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/07/transformers-high-moon-studios-tour.aspx Transformers: High Moon Studio tour] @ GameInformer
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/10/fall-of-cybertron-the-new-optimus-prime.aspx Fall of Cybertron: The New Optimus Prime] @ GameInformer
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/12/behind-the-crosshairs-the-weapons-of-transformers.aspx Behind the Crosshairs: The Weapons of Transformers] @ GameInformer
*[http://youtu.be/Tn4ECyCExeg Fall of Cybertron Teaser 01] @ YouTube
*[http://www.gameinformer.com/b/features/archive/2011/10/13/the-illustrated-tour-of-cybertron.aspx The Illustrated Tour of Cybertron] @ GameInformer

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Dinosaur (dinosaur)

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{{disambig3|Dinosaur}}
[[Image:DinobotIslandPt2-Dirge.jpg|right|300px|thumb|There's a party in my mouth, and only really depressing people are invited.]]
'''Dinosaurs''' are prehistoric reptiles that dominated the [[Earth]] during their existence. Scientific consensus holds that they became extinct 65 million years ago. In the various [[Transformer]]s [[continuity|continuities]], this belief is often reassessed.

Dinosaurs' [[Popular beast alternate modes|most prominent influence]] in Transformers culture is serving as the [[Alternate mode|altmodes]] for some of the most dangerous (and occasionally ludicrous) Transformers of all time.

==Fiction==
===Generation 1===
[[Image:Battle_for_Cybertron_dinosaurs.jpg|right|150px|thumb|[[Earl Norem]] dinosaurs: AWESOME! Chronology: not so great.]]
====Big Looker storybooks continuity====
When the Autobots' spacecraft crashed into the Earth four million years ago, the mighty dinosaurs fled in terror. {{storylink|Battle for Cybertron}}

====Marvel Comics continuity====
Shortly after the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] crashed on [[Earth]], the Ark's defense systems detected Cybertronic life on the continent of [[Antarctica]]. The Ark sent a drone to investigate, and it discovered [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] roaming around in the [[Savage Land]] blasting dinosaurs with high-powered X-rays. The Ark determined that Shockwave was a threat and rebuilt five Autobots into forms it assumed were the dominant form of life on the planet, the dinosaurs the drone discovered. {{storylink|The Last Stand}}

Four million years later, [[Ratchet (G1)|Ratchet]] visited the Savage Land and passed a dinosaur in his [[Ark shuttlecraft|shuttle]]. {{storylink|Repeat Performance!}}

=====Earthforce=====
{{earthforcefiction}}
[[Image:Destiny_of_the_dinobots.jpg|left|150px|thumb|]]
By [[1992]] the dinosaurs of the Savage Land were suffering from an unidentified disease that drove them insane and ultimately killed them. When the Dinobots returned, searching for the [[control crystal]] from their shuttle to help save [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] from [[Corrodia Gravis]], they discovered that a human paleontologist named [[Embrey|Professor Embrey]] was using it to keep the disease at bay from healthy dinosaurs. Ultimately, they let Embrey keep the crystal and transferred Snarl's mind into the body of a ''Stegosaurus''. {{storylink|Destiny of the Dinobots!}}
{{-}}

====IDW ''Generation 1'' continuity====
Six hundred thousand [[Units of time|meta-cycles]] ago, [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] foresaw [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron's]] eventual exhaustion of natural resources. To ensure their survival, he seeded many worlds with [[Ultra-Energon]] and waited. He arrived on the world later to be known as [[Earth]] to regulate the growth of the valuable resource. Unfortunately, the Autobot Dynobots, lusting for revenge after Shockwave had defeated them in a skirmish, followed him to this world. To endure the intense energon radiation on this world, the Dynobots assumed the form of the long-extinct dinosaur species. {{storylink|Spotlight: Shockwave}}

====''Hearts of Steel''====
Both the Autobots and Decepticons assumed the forms of these doomed reptiles upon arriving on Earth, which was in the grip of one of its ice ages. {{Storylink|Hearts of Steel issue 1|Hearts of Steel #1}}

====Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
=====''The Transformers'' cartoon=====
[[Image:DinobotsG1.jpg|right|180px|thumb|The Land Before Time XXIII: The Great Robot Adventure]]
Dinosaurs were understood to have been sluggish and stupid. They dragged their tails on the ground, and theropods walked fully upright. {{storylink|S.O.S. Dinobots}}

Dinosaurs survived the mass extinction of 65 million years ago and lived on into the present on the time-displaced, and energy-rich, [[Dinobot Island (G1)|Dinobot Island]].

The most prominent saurians were the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], five rebellious (yet extremely powerful) [[Autobot]]s, who proved time and again a match for an army of [[Decepticon]]s. Other dinosaur Transformers are [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], [[Sky Lynx (G1)|Sky Lynx]], and the [[Mini-Cassette|cassette warriors]], [[Slugfest (G1)|Slugfest]] and [[Overkill (G1)|Overkill]].

Transformers who have Dinosaur altmodes have something known as "dinosaur electrons" within their systems. [[Transformation]] causes these electrons to release [[dinosaur transform static]]. {{storylink|Thief in the Night}}

=====Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity=====
======''Victory'' cartoon======
The [[Dinoforce]] consisted of six Decepticons with sentient dinosaurian [[Pretender]] shells and the ability to combine into [[Dinoking]].

======''Beast Wars II'' cartoon======
[[Image:Gigastorm1.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Brother, I think my horn has a rash.]]
[[Megastorm|Gigastorm]], [[Galvatron (BWII)|Galvatron]]'s younger brother, took the form of a theropod dinosaur. He then made several [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s into [[Cyborg Beast]]s including [[Thrust (BWII)|Thrust,]] rechristened Thrustor, a cyborg ''Velociraptor''.
{{-}}

======''Beast Wars Neo'' cartoon======
The Predacon lineup consisted primarily of a number of dinosaurs and other prehistoric animals.

===''Beast Wars'' cartoon===
[[Image:Megatronbwtrex.jpg|right|150px|thumb|It's not the size, it's how you use it.]]
By now dinosaurs were understood to have been quick and agile, with ''T. rex'' holding its body parallel to the ground. After crash-landing on a primitive world that was later revealed to be Earth, the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] renegades [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] and [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] assumed the forms of extinct dinosaurs, a dwarf ''Tyrannosaurus rex'' and a giant ''Velociraptor'' respectively, as their beast modes to survive on this energon-soaked planet.{{Storylink|Beast Wars (Part 1)}}
[[Image:Dinobot mirror.jpg|thumb|left|200px|One...two...three...RED LIGHT.]]
After Dinobot's betrayal, Megatron cloned him. This [[Clone One|clone]] was completely biological. {{storylink|Double Dinobot}}

When the alien [[Vok]] [[Planet Buster]] superweapon that threatened Earth was destroyed, the resulting [[quantum surge]] hit the planet, altering Megatron's structure, giving him a new, more powerful [[Transmetal]] body that allowed him to transform into entirely mechanical ''Tyrannosaurus'' with flight capabilities. {{Storylink|Aftermath}} Later, Megatron used the alien [[Transmetal driver]] to create a drone army of ''Velociraptor''s with Cybertronian enhancements. {{storylink|Cutting Edge}} Refining his experiments, Megatron subsequently created [[Dinobot II]], a [[Transmetal 2]] clone of Dinobot. {{Storylink|Feral Scream Part 1}}

===3H ''Universe'' continuity===
[[Image:BMdinobots.JPG|right|200px|thumb|So how did the Oracle get a ''Triceratops'' from ''Velociraptor'' DNA?]]

The Dinobots were created by the Oracle using dinosaur DNA information from Dinobot's spark. Most of the members had true dinosaur alternate modes of a ''[[T-Wrecks|Tyrannosaurus]], [[Triceradon (BM)|Triceratops]], [[Striker|Stegosaurus]]'', [[Dinotron|''Pachycephalosaurus'']], and a mechanical [[Rapticon|''Velociraptor'']]. Magmatron also joined the team although only one of his multiple beast modes is actually a dinosaur. Whether or not [[Airraptor]]'s ''Archaeopteryx'' mode counts is debatable.
{{-}}

===Unicron Trilogy===
====''Energon''====
[[Image:Cruellock.jpg|left|150px|thumb|Americans will never find me here...]]

The [[Terrorcon (Energon)|Terrorcon]] [[Cruellock]] is a theropod dinosaur, but with a distinct Japanese giant monster influence.

====''Cybertron''====
[[Image:Cybertron Undermine beastmode.jpg|right|150px|thumb|He acts tough but keeps disappearing when Grimlock walks in the room.]]
One of [[Scourge (Cybertron)|Scourge]]'s underlings, [[Undermine (Cybertron)|Undermine]] and his brother [[Repugnus (Cybertron)|Repugnus]] transform into a ''Spinosaurus''.

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===''Dinobots'' toyline===
Walmart released an exclusive mini wave of figures in 2003. It is unclear what continuity these figures belong to but they were released along with ''Armada'' figures. There is really no story behind these figures other than the fact that they are the Dinobots. The members with true dinosaur alternate modes are [[Grimlock (Dinobots)|Grimlock]], [[Snarl (Dinobots)|Snarl]], [[Triceradon (Dinobots)|Triceradon]], and [[Slapper (Dinobots)|Slapper]].
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===''Animated'' continuity===
====''Animated'' cartoon====
[[Image:DinobotsAnimated.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Open the door / Get on the floor / Everybody walk the dinosaur]]
[[Grimlock (Animated)|Grimlock]] and [[Snarl (Animated)|Snarl]] are dinosaurs (a ''T. rex'' and a ''Triceratops'') while [[Swoop (Animated)|Swoop]] is a ''Pteranodon''. They form the [[Dinobot (Animated)|Dinobots]], based on animatronic robots that had entertained the public. {{storylink|Blast from the Past}}

[[Image:AnimatedZaur.jpg|left|thumb|175px|A robot sauropod with guns on its sides. Awesome.]]
[[Zaur]] lives on Cybertron and is frightened of organics. He is an Apatobot, a species which bears a remarkable resemblance to sauropod dinosaurs. {{storylink|This Is Why I Hate Machines}}

====''Time-Quake''====
While conducting time experiments, [[Simion Hawkins|Professor Simion Hawkins]] time-displaced a number of dinosaurs, including a ''T. rex'' which [[Bulkhead (Animated)|Bulkhead]] fought. When the Autobots tracked the professor down, he held them off by transporting more dinosaurs forward in time, leading them to fight a ''Triceratops''. {{storylink|Time-Quake}}
{{--}}

===Movie continuity===
After being awoken by an [[AllSpark#Live-action movie universe|AllSpark]] fragment, [[Jetfire (ROTF)|Jetfire]], confused and disoriented, had trouble remembering what his mission profile was. In his confusion, he briefly believed that the Seekers were there to destroy the dinosaurs, but [[Mikaela Banes]] informed that they were long since dead. {{storylink|Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

===Power Core Combiners===
[[Image:PCC-toy_GrimstoneDinobots.jpg|thumb|right|300px|More like "Dino-and-one-Synapsid-bots", am I right?]]

The Autobot [[Grimstone]], who transforms into a mechanical ''Styracosaurus'', can combine with three dinosaur drones, a ''Parasaurolophus'', a ''Pachycephalosaurus'' and an ''Ankylosaurus'', and one ''Dimetrodon''.
{{Note|The toy box mistakenly identifies Grimstone as a ''Triceratops'' and the ''Dimetrodon'' drone as a Spinosaurus.}}

===Shattered Glass===
[[Grimlock (SG)|Grimlock]], who transforms into a ''Tyrannosaurus'', was created by the heroic Decepticons. He was deactivated by [[Megatron (SG)|Megatron]] for being too violent. [[Optimus Prime (SG)|Optimus Prime]] reactivated him and he joined the Autobots. {{storylink|Grimlock (SG)|Grimlock's toy bio}} [[Wheeljack (SG)|Wheeljack]] created the [[Dinobot (SG)|Dinobots]] based off of Grimlock's design. Some of these Dinobots were kept by the Decepticons and renamed Dinocons. {{storylink|Dungeons & Dinobots}}

In search for [[Sir Soundwave|Soundwave]], [[Heatwave (Timelines)|Heatwave]] went to [[Wyatt's Roadsideaganza]], where he mistook two of the displays for real dinosaurs that tried to attack him. He destroyed both displays and some more. {{storylink|The Desert Heat!}}

===Aligned continuity===
[[Shockwave (WFC)| Shockwave]] was fascinated by the lifeforms he spotted on Earth called dinosaurs, and used them as inspiration for strange experiments where he changed the body of [[Grimlock (WFC)| Grimlock]]. Once Shockwave was done, Grimlock possessed the ability to transform into a Tyrannosaurus Rex!

==Notes==
* A number of Transformers, such as [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]], [[Brimstone (Cybertron)|Brimstone]], [[Sling]], [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]] and two thirds of [[Magmatron]], are treated as if they have dinosaur alternate modes. However, in all cases, these are animals which are either only [[Wikipedia:pterosaur|closely related]], [[Wikipedia:plesiosaur|very distantly related]], or [[Wikipedia:pelycosaur|so distantly related it's like saying you're a fish]]. But that's pretty much par for the course when it comes to the casual portrayal of dinosaurs in popular culture, so we're not judging.

==External links==
*[[wikipedia:Dinosaur|Dinosaur at Wikipedia]]

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Grimlock (WFC)

2011-10-15T21:24:41Z

24.70.5.127: /* Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS) */

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{{disambig3|Grimlock}}
:''Grimlock is an [[Autobot]] from the [[Aligned continuity family]].''

[[Image:GrimlockWFCconceptart.jpg|thumb|right|350px]]

'''Grimlock''' is egomaniacal, impatient and dimwitted, but he is a powerful soldier. He likes when things go his way, including his craving to be the Autobot leader. He is good friends with [[Swoop (WFC)|Swoop]] and wields his prized [[energo weapon|energon sword]] in battle.

==Fiction==
===''Hall of Fame'' bios===
Grimlock was a [[gladiatorial combat|gladiator]] from [[Kaon]], but chose to join the Autobots early on in the war. His dislike of [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]] and shock and awe approach to combat meant he was not regarded as a great leader, but he has survived long enough to earn a high rank and command of the [[Lightning Strike Coalition]]. Captured by [[Shockwave (WFC)|Shockwave]], they were reformatted into the [[Dinobot (Prime)|Dinobot]]s. During a battle with [[Scorponok (Prime)|Scorponok]], Grimlock's vocal [[processors]] were damaged, causing his awkward manner of speaking. {{storylink|Transformers Hall of Fame}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: War for Cybertron'' (DS)===
:''Voice actor:'' [[Crispin Freeman]] (English)

[[Image:WFCDS Grimlock.jpg|thumb|left|125px|Me Grimlock too big to fit on screen.]]
Grimlock and Swoop were two powerful best friends who'd apparently taken no side in the war for the planet. [[Optimus Prime (Prime)|Optimus Prime]], leader of the Autobots, came to them to recruit them to the cause. Grimlock dismissed the [[Decepticon]] threat, claiming they were "too stupid" to mess with him and Swoop. The Autobots tried to explain that the Dark Energon could ravage Cybertron permanently, but Grimlock and [[Ironhide (Prime)|Ironhide]] almost came to blows. Optimus began playing to Grimlock's self-centered ego, saying no one was stronger than Grimlock and Swoop, to the former's pleasure. Ironhide and [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]] joined in, but adding that with [[Dark Energon]], [[Megatron (Prime)|Megatron]] and his forces could be stronger than Grimlock and Swoop.

Grimlock decided that he and Swoop would consider joining the Autobots, but just as negotiations were to begin, Grimlock noticed Swoop had been missing since the Autobots arrived. Grimlock said they would speak once Swoop was rescued from the Decepticons. Once Swoop was safe, he immediately joined the Autobots in gratitude. Grimlock declared he wouldn't join the Autobots yet, but tag along to protect his best friend.

Grimlock subsequently actively participated in the campaigns to save the [[Core]] of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. Grimlock said that even though the Decepticon army was waiting for them at the Core, all they'd wait for from him was a butt-kicking. Ironhide pondered aloud if it was a good idea to bring Grimlock along, but as Optimus put it, "Do you want to be the one to argue with them?"

Grimlock also participated in the battle against the massive Decepticon [[Trypticon (WFC)|Trypticon]], and presumably stayed behind with Optimus on Cybertron while the Autobot population evacuated the planet.

Grimlock was apparently wandering around an [[Energon (fuel)|Energon]] purification station the Autobots had been using, and picked a fight with the Autobots. To his utter surprise, the Autobots beat Grimlock, and he finally joined them. {{storylink|Transformers: War for Cybertron (DS)|Transformers: War for Cybertron}}

===''Transformers: Fall of Cybertron''===

Before the [[Great Exodus]], Grimlock was captured by [[Shockwave (WFC)| Shockwave]], a Decepticon charged with seeking out new forms of power and destruction in the universe. His eye was drawn to Earth, where he spotted [[dinosaur]]s, inspiring him to change Grimlock's alternate form into that of a Tyrannosaurus Rex, with the intention of creating a powerful new warrior. Grimlock, using his new-found power, escaped the laboratory, and is now on the loose.

==Notes==
*The gladiator aspect of Grimlock's Hall of Fame nomination bio is based on his [[Grimlock (G1)#Dreamwave comics continuity|Dreamwave]] and [[Grimlock (G1)#IDW Generation 1 continuity|IDW]] incarnations, while his enmity with Scorponok has shades of the latter and [[Bumblebee (Prime)|Bumblebee]]'s story.
*According to the "[[Binder of Revelation]]"'s map of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] included in ''[[Transformers Vault]]'', Grimlock comes from [[Simfur]] (from where he was presumably transferred to Kaon). This is a reference to [[Simon Furman]], whose favourite character is Grimlock.

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Sky Blast (Armada)

2011-10-15T19:32:47Z

24.70.5.127: /* Armada */

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{{disambig3|Skyblast}}
:''Sky Blast is a [[Mini-Con]] from the [[Armada (franchise)|Armada]] portion of the [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Skyblast-armada-packageart.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Be small and have a big stick for an arm.]]
'''Sky Blast''' is a hothead with hot feet. He's always rushing into battle without a second thought, and sometimes not even a first. This gets on the nerves of his friends on the [[Space Mini-Con Team]], but they know he means well. Still, his battle-cry of "''BLAST OFF!''" can get annoying quickly.

==Fiction==
===''Armada'' cartoon===
Sky Blast was a Mini-Con whose storage panel lay dormant deep inside the crashed ship that was Autobot headquarters on Earth. When his partner [[Payload (Armada)|Payload]] was pinpointed on a deserted island, a signal went out that located Sky Blast and [[Astroscope]] beneath the Autobot base and on the [[Moon (moon)|moon]], respectively. The [[Street Action Mini-Con Team (Armada)|Street Action Team]] and the Autobots' pet kids went looking for the Mini-Con in the bowels of the base while most of the Autobots were engaged with the enemy on the island. They found Sky Blast and activated him but, in his petrified state, he fired on the children with his hand-cannon. {{storylink|Awakening}}

Despite his fearsome firepower, the kids quickly realized Sky Blast was more scared than they were, and [[Rad White|Rad]] tried his best to be comforting to the Mini-Con. The Autobots were having a rough time against the new super-warrior [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Tidal Wave]], and so Rad, [[Carlos Lopez|Carlos]] and [[Red Alert (Armada)|Red Alert]] took Sky Blast to the battlefield in the hopes that he could do something to help. The timid Mini-Con was still too unnerved to help, but after both Red Alert and [[Hot Shot (Armada)|Hot Shot]] were injured trying to protect him, and Rad constantly stood up for Sky Blast's right to choose for himself, Sky Blast made the brave choice and got involved in the fight. He summoned his fellow [[Space Mini-Con Team]] partners, calling up Payload from the ground and calling down Astroscope from the skies. The three of them linked up into the [[Requiem Blaster]] in mid-air for [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]], as he plummeted to the ground after a disastrous fight with [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] and his [[Tidal Wave (Armada)|Dark Fleet armor]]. Prime used the Requiem Blaster to carve out a landing spot for himself in the middle of the ocean, and was saved. {{storylink|Desperate}}

Sky Blast and his teammates briefly ran away from the Autobots, because they didn't want to be used for combat. After Optimus Prime rescued them from [[Thrust (Armada)|Thrust]], he promised the Mini-Cons they would only join the battles against the Decepticons if they desired it—no Autobots would force them to fight. {{storylink|Runaway}}

True to his word, Optimus Prime left Sky Blast and the others back at headquarters when the Autobots were called into battle against the Decepticons, with [[Smokescreen (Armada)|Smokescreen]] watching over them. The battle was only a lure for the Requiem Blaster, however, and [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] and Thrust soon doubled back to attack the undermanned Autobot headquarters. Smokescreen fought bravely to defend the Space Mini-Con Team, but Megatron managed to subvert their programming and [[powerlinx]] with the trio, forcing them to form the Requiem Blaster and obliterate their Autobot protector. {{storylink|Sacrifice}}

Sky Blast and the Space Team had little time to act as individuals after that, remaining powerlinxed as the Requiem Blaster as Megatron's personal weapon, and later when the Decepticons used the gun as one-third of the [[Hydra Cannon]], before it was stolen by Thrust and used to provide power to the heart of Unicron. Sky Blast, Payload and Astroscope reawakened as individuals with the help of [[High Wire (Armada)|High Wire]] and the Street Action Team, who had journeyed to Unicron's core with Optimus Prime, [[Megatron (Armada)|Galvatron]] and the Earth children to grant the super-weapon Mini-Cons their freedom. {{storylink|Origin}} Sky Blast fled Unicron aboard the Autobot [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] just before the Chaos-Bringer was finally destroyed. {{storylink|Mortal Combat}}

===Dreamwave ''Armada'' comic===
Back in the day, Sky Blast lived in [[Mini-Con Sector|Mini-Con village D10]] alongside the other Space Team members, until one day when the [[Decepticon]]s trashed the village and captured them. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 1|Armada #1}} Along with most other imprisoned Mini-Cons, they eventually escaped and made their way to [[Earth]], where their [[Exodus (Armada)|ship]] crashed on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]]. For the next million years, Sky Blast and the others built and resided in a [[Mini-Con Moonbase|fortress base]] on the moon under the command of [[Dualor (Armada)|Dualor]]. Him and the Space Team were apparently responsible for the signal that called all the Mini-Cons living on Earth to the moonbase. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 9|Armada #9}} Unfortunately, this attracted the Decepticons, who attacked the base. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 10|Armada #10}}

As Mini-Cons' defenses failed them, Sky Blast packed up his belongings (such as a [[Rubber Ducky|rubber ducky]]) and prepared to take the next escape pod outta there. He was stopped by [[Sparkplug (Armada)|Sparkplug]], who needed the Space Team's help to save [[Rad White]], a [[human]] who was stuck in one of the moonbase's orbital mines. The team was hesitant, but were eventually convinced that they couldn't just run away. Sky Blast obtained the recall code for the relevant mine, but it didn't work properly, so he improvised a plan to bring the whole minefield to low lunar orbit. When this was done, Sky Blast headed out in person, using his rocket mode to reach the mine and pull it onboard a approaching [[Autobot]] shuttle. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 11|Armada #11}}

With nowhere else to go, the former moonbase residents temporarily sided with the Autobots. Sky Blast was seen listening to one of [[Rook (Armada)|Rook]]'s speeches about Mini-Con independence. {{storylink|Fire & Ice}} A while later, the Space Team oversaw a battle in [[Alaska]], and Sky Blast recognized that the [[Destruction Mini-Con Team|Destruction Team]] had driven [[Cyclonus (Armada)|Cyclonus]] berserk by deactivating their [[safety interlock]]s. He was later ordered by [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|Optimus Prime]] to head into space and shoot down [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]]'s destructive [[Solar Scalpel]] satellite, which he did at the very last second. {{storylink|Dreamwave Armada issue 13|Armada #13}}

Sky Blast was at the [[Autobase (Armada)|Autobase]] when the Autobots found an alternate-dimension [[Optimus Prime (Worlds Collide)|Optimus Prime]], who passed away after giving them a mysterious warning. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4}} With their own Optimus Prime missing somewhere in the multiverse, the Space Team started researching alternate dimensions in an attempt to find him. While Astroscope went on another mission, Sky Blast and Payload stayed at base, where they sent a temporal probe into a [[space bridge]] to scan different realities for Prime. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 2 of 4}} While the defending Autobots were taken out one by one in a Decepticon attack, the two Mini-Cons had no choice but to sit tight, keep scanning and hope for the best. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 3 of 4}} After 75,890,007 realities, the probe finally found Optimus Prime, and Sky Blast quickly sent his spatial coordinates to Sparkplug, [[Over-Run (Armada)|Over-Run]] and [[Comettor (Armada)|Comettor]] so that they could retrieve him. {{storylink|Worlds Collide, Part 4 of 4}}

Some time later, all the Mini-Cons on Earth gathered to join the fight against [[Unicron]], including Sky Blast. They traveled to the [[Loop]] on their home planet, where they focused their energies into the [[Mini-Con Matrix]] and released a blast that crippled Unicron. {{storylink|The End}}

===Panini ''Armada'' comic===
[[Image:PaniniArmada9_allthoseinfavour.jpg|thumb|right|200px|]]
In the early stages of the war, Sky Blast was among the Mini-Cons who supported [[Dualor (Armada)|Dualor]]'s plan to kill [[Megatron (Armada)|Megatron]] by luring him to the [[Autobot]] headquarters and blowing it up. {{storylink|Panini Armada issue 9|Counter-Strike!}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===Armada===
[[Image:Armada-toy_SkyBlast.JPG|right|thumb|250px| UCHU KITAAAAAAAAAA!]]
*'''Space Mini-Con Team''' (Basic, 2003)
**''Japanese ID number'': '''MM-13'''

: Sky Blast transforms into a multi-thruster rocket based on the Vostok Rocket. He is designed to be carried on his teammate [[Payload (Armada)|Payload]]'s truck-mode. He also forms the main chamber of the combined [[Requiem Blaster]] weapon. He was only available in the Space Team set with [[Astroscope]] and Payload.

: The Space Team was put in "clamshell" packaging with other Mini-Con teams as "bonus buy" packs in several different store chains, including the [[Adventure Mini-Con Team]], [[Night Attack Mini-Con Team]], and [[Road Assault Mini-Con Team]].

: This mold was used to make [[Backblast]]. It was slated for a few other [[Redeco|redecoes]] that were ultimately not released (see below).

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Mini-Con/SkyBlast/skyblast.htm More information on Sky Blast at TFU.info]''

[[Image:2003-spacemicron-xdimension-toys.jpg|thumb|right|250px|]]
*'''Space Micron X-Dimension''' (Basic, 2003)
**''Japanese ID number'': '''MM-14'''

: For their Japanese [[X-Dimension Mini-Cons|X-Dimension]] release, the entire Space Team was redecoed in shades of green and brown... an oddly terrestrial color scheme for a space-based group.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Micron/XApollo/apollo.htm More information on X-Dimension Apollo at TFU.info]''
{{-}}
*'''Apollo''' (Candy toy, 2003)
**''Change Micron ID number'':

: Sky Blast was sold as an individual in the second series of [[Kabaya]] "[[Change Micron]]" [[Candy toy|candy toys]] in Japan. This mold is based on the original, but is in fact an entirely new mold with numerous minor sculpting differences. It's likely this toy is also not [[Gang-molding|gang-molded]] with his teammates like the original. The most notable differences between the [[Hasbro]]/[[Takara]] Sky Blast and the Kabaya version is the latter has darker-blue plastic for the left arm and head, plus lacks the "burn mark" spray-painting on his legs.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Micron/CMApollo/apollo.htm More information on Change Micron Apollo at TFU.info]''

*'''Jetfire w/ Comettor''' (Ultracon, 2003)

: The Space Team was placed in a bubble attached to the top of normal ''Armada'' [[Jetfire (Armada)|Jetfire]] packages as a bonus-buy in Target stores for a limited time in the US.

===Energon===
*'''Ultra Magnus''' (Ultra, 2004)

: The Space Team was redecoed and packaged in with ''[[Energon (toyline)|Energon]]'' [[Ultra Magnus (Energon)|Ultra Magnus]]. Magnus was originally going to be packed with a new-characters redeco of the [[Street Speed Mini-Con Team]] ([[Brakedown (Energon)|Brakedown]], [[Clocker (Energon)|Clocker]] and [[Override (Energon)|Override]], no team name given), but were changed towards the last minute. Exactly why the change to the Space Team was made has yet to be determined.

: The toy was a last-minute redeco, along with [[Rapid Run (Energon)|Rapid Run]] and [[Treadbolt]]. As such, their packaging photography had to be completed before properly painted samples could be obtained, so the box-back photos use the original decos; Magnus's box also shows the original Street Speed Team rather than the Space Team.

: Magnus, Rapid Run and Treadbolt were produced in smaller numbers than the rest of the normal retail ''Energon'' line (reportedly only about 10,000 units each) and were only available in the initial shipments of the line. However, Magnus's shipment saw a very limited release, quickly replaced with the second assortment in the US, making him hard to come by. Magnus later showed up in much larger numbers in Australia, Canada and some European markets, and was made available in Japan through [[e-Hobby]] with the box altered via a black and white sticker, reflecting the Space Team's addition. The back of the European release's box was further corrected, as the Mini-Cons shown were changed along when more languages were added.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2004/Mini-Con/Skyblast/skyblast.htm More information on ''Energon'' Sky Blast at TFU.info]''

*'''Road Assault Mini-Con Team & Space Mini-Con Team''' (Multi-pack, 2004)

: The Space Team was part of a Wal-Mart [[exclusive]] ''Energon''-series six-pack, in their original ''Armada'' deco. They came with the "Road Assault" version of the Race Team.

===Unreleased===
[[Image:Spacewarp-r.jpg|right|180px|thumb|Don't eat the brown acid!]]
* Test-shots of a slightly altered Space Team have popped up from various sources. It's possible this was intended to be a mid-series deco-change for the team, though it looks unfinished at best. The team has the ''exact'' same [[Paint operation|paint application]] layouts in the exact same ''colors'' as the original. Sky Blast's white and blue plastics changed to black, and that's it.

* The Space Team was also slated to be redecoed as pack-in partners for ''[[Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' [[Astrotrain (Timelines)|Spacewarp]]. When the toy was saved from limbo by [[Fun Publications]], they intended to keep the Mini-Con partners, but were told by [[Takara]] that the ''Armada''-era Team molds were too worn out to use again. As such, the team was replaced by a redeco of the [[Giant Planet Mini-Con Team]] when "Astrotrain" finally saw release.
{{--}}

==Notes==
* Sky Blast's persona seems to be based on the [[Fantastic Four]]'s [[Human Torch]], to go with Astroscope being [[Mister Fantastic]] and Payload being the Thing.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Apollo''' (アポロ ''Aporo'')

==External links==
* [http://tfkenkon.com/collection/act281/ Gallery of the unreleased Armada Space Team at TFkenkon]

* [http://www.blackgears.com/gallery/micro2.html Gallery of the unreleased Spacewarp team at Black Gears]

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Enemy (G1)

2011-10-10T18:31:43Z

24.70.5.127: /* Encore */

{{disambig2|the Generation 1 Decepticon|the Shattered Glass Decepticon|Enemy (SG)}}
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:''Enemy is a [[Decepticon]] [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|Mini-Cassette]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Enemy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Not to be confused with [[Cobra]], the Enemy.]]
'''Enemy''' is one who feels hatred toward, intends injury to, or opposes the interests of another; a foe. He is a hostile power or force, or possibly something destructive or injurious in his effects.

For example, if one were not to want to sound like a robot, Enemy would, counter to this one's desires, change this being's voice into sounding like that of a robot's. And he would do this with only one part of his body; nay, the only part of his body he has.

He is a bastard. Perhaps, even, a nemesis.
{{TOCclear}}

==Fiction==
===Dreamwave comics continuity===
[[Image:Enemytww.jpg|150px|thumb|Could it be? Is it he?]]
While [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] led most of the Decepticon army into [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], several of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s troops snuck into [[Kolkular]] to end [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s plan to transform [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] into a spacefaring warship. Enemy, the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]], [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], and others countered the Autobots when they were discovered. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}}

{{note|It's possible that Enemy was merely a miscolored [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] or [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], even though ''The War Within'' didn't shy away from using Microchange or Diaclone versions of toys as characters.}}
{{--}}

==Toys==
===Encore===
[[Image:Enemymicrochange.jpg|right|75px|thumb|[[Anakin Skywalker| If you're not with me, then you're Enemy!]]]]
*'''Soundblaster''' (2012)
**''ID number:'' '''21'''
:''[[Transformers Encore]]'' Enemy is a red redeco of the [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]/[[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] mold, based on the red version of the ''[[Micro Change]]'' MC-01 Micross toy.

{{comingsoontoy}}

==Merchandise==
*'''AM Radio & Headset
[[Image:Am Radio decepticon.jpg|thumb|140px|Does he use anarchy?]]
:Enemy first appeared in 1984 as part of a working AM radio & headset, a piece of merchandise made by [[Nasta]] under the "Power Tronic" imprimatur. Featuring a large wearable Decepticon symbol belt-clip, removing this item revealed Enemy, a solid red (with blue thighs and upper arms) simplification of the [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]/[[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] mould. Permanently attached to the radio, Enemy could not be removed without breakage, but could nevertheless transform ''in situ''.
{{-}}
*'''Enemy''' (voice changer)
[[Image:Enemy ecv inpackage.jpg|thumb|100px]]
:Enemy was given life again the following year when Nasta released a voice-changer in 1985. A large disembodied head, Enemy again looked like a red [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]/[[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], but this time with proper silver face detailing. If a kid talked into a headset that plugged into Enemy's noggin, his voice would be modified to sound robotic. Enemy came with a belt clip, power pack, headset with built-in microphone, and ran on a single 9 volt battery (not included).
{{--}}

==Notes==
*Enemy is awesome.
*Enemy could possibly be [http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Char_Aznable three times faster] than most [[Mini-Cassette]]s, but his lack of media appearances make it hard to tell.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Enemy''' (エネミー ''Enemī'')

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Enemy (G1)

2011-10-10T18:31:29Z

24.70.5.127: /* Encore */

{{disambig2|the Generation 1 Decepticon|the Shattered Glass Decepticon|Enemy (SG)}}
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:''Enemy is a [[Decepticon]] [[Decepticon Mini-Cassette|Mini-Cassette]] from the [[Generation 1 (franchise)|Generation 1]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:Enemy.jpg|right|300px|thumb|Not to be confused with [[Cobra]], the Enemy.]]
'''Enemy''' is one who feels hatred toward, intends injury to, or opposes the interests of another; a foe. He is a hostile power or force, or possibly something destructive or injurious in his effects.

For example, if one were not to want to sound like a robot, Enemy would, counter to this one's desires, change this being's voice into sounding like that of a robot's. And he would do this with only one part of his body; nay, the only part of his body he has.

He is a bastard. Perhaps, even, a nemesis.
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==Fiction==
===Dreamwave comics continuity===
[[Image:Enemytww.jpg|150px|thumb|Could it be? Is it he?]]
While [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]] led most of the Decepticon army into [[Iacon (polity)|Iacon]], several of [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]]'s troops snuck into [[Kolkular]] to end [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]]'s plan to transform [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] into a spacefaring warship. Enemy, the [[Constructicon (G1)|Constructicons]], [[Thrust (G1)|Thrust]], and others countered the Autobots when they were discovered. {{storylink|The War Within issue 5|The War Within #5}}

{{note|It's possible that Enemy was merely a miscolored [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] or [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], even though ''The War Within'' didn't shy away from using Microchange or Diaclone versions of toys as characters.}}
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==Toys==
===Encore===
[[Image:Enemymicrochange.jpg|right|75px|thumb|[[Anakin Skywalker| If you're not with me, then you're Enemy!]]
*'''Soundblaster''' (2012)
**''ID number:'' '''21'''
:''[[Transformers Encore]]'' Enemy is a red redeco of the [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]/[[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] mold, based on the red version of the ''[[Micro Change]]'' MC-01 Micross toy.

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==Merchandise==
*'''AM Radio & Headset
[[Image:Am Radio decepticon.jpg|thumb|140px|Does he use anarchy?]]
:Enemy first appeared in 1984 as part of a working AM radio & headset, a piece of merchandise made by [[Nasta]] under the "Power Tronic" imprimatur. Featuring a large wearable Decepticon symbol belt-clip, removing this item revealed Enemy, a solid red (with blue thighs and upper arms) simplification of the [[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]]/[[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]] mould. Permanently attached to the radio, Enemy could not be removed without breakage, but could nevertheless transform ''in situ''.
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*'''Enemy''' (voice changer)
[[Image:Enemy ecv inpackage.jpg|thumb|100px]]
:Enemy was given life again the following year when Nasta released a voice-changer in 1985. A large disembodied head, Enemy again looked like a red [[Frenzy (G1)|Frenzy]]/[[Rumble (G1)|Rumble]], but this time with proper silver face detailing. If a kid talked into a headset that plugged into Enemy's noggin, his voice would be modified to sound robotic. Enemy came with a belt clip, power pack, headset with built-in microphone, and ran on a single 9 volt battery (not included).
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==Notes==
*Enemy is awesome.
*Enemy could possibly be [http://gundam.wikia.com/wiki/Char_Aznable three times faster] than most [[Mini-Cassette]]s, but his lack of media appearances make it hard to tell.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Enemy''' (エネミー ''Enemī'')

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