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:''Blackarachnia is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] or [[Maximal]] from the [[Beast Era]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''
[[File:TFLegends-Blackarachnia.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Hot, poisonous, and deadly. Rawr!]]

A sultry femme fatale, '''Blackarachnia''' is smart, sly, and dangerous. She's got eight legs, and she knows how to use them. Of the several rebellious Predacons under [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]'s command, she's one of the very few who can, on occasion, outguile him. Always looking out for Number One, Blackarachnia values her independence and freedom above all else. She would rather be deactivated than be a slave.

Blackarachnia's greatest weakness, other than her overconfidence, is her feelings for the Maximal [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]]. Something about his heroic demeanor and the kindness he shows her makes her uneasy. She hasn't experienced unconditional love before, and it scares her, though she'll never admit it.

{{quote|Even if I'm good, I'm still bad.|Blackarachnia|"[[Crossing the Rubicon]]"}}

==Fiction==
===Toy bios===
Working by moonlight, Blackarachnia posed as a double agent. In reality, this was merely a ruse she utilized in order to lure unwitting Maximals into her darkened den, where she first paralyzed her victim with a poisonous missile. She then proceeded to restrain her victim with her powerful legs, and subsequently sucked their life force dry... kinky. She was capable of converting thermal energy into [[cyber venom]]. {{storylink|Blackarachnia (BW)/toys#Beast Wars|Blackarachnia bio}}

The new [[Transmetal 2]] body Blackarachnia acquired from Megatron's mysterious new technology had the power to cast illusions, altering her physical appearance and position for up to five minutes thanks to the electro disruptor housed in her... rear segment. {{storylink|Blackarachnia (BW)/toys#Beast Wars|Transmetal 2 Blackarachnia toy bio}}

===Cartoon continuity===
====''Beast Wars'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Venus Terzo]] (English), [[Ryōka Yuzuki]] (Japanese)|[[Xu Lin]] (Chinese), [[Fátima Noya]] (Portuguese), [[Françoise Vallon]] (French), [[Loredana Alfieri]] (Italian), [[Uta Dahlbridge]] (German), [[Olga Hnidey]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Marisa Marco]] (Castilian Spanish)}}

[[File:DoubleJeopardy-Blackarachniaintro.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|"I want one." "NO."]]

The Cybertronian who would become "Blackarachnia" was originally one of the many [[Maximal]] [[protoform]]s carried aboard the starship ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'', carried within a [[stasis pod]] and jettisoned into a stable orbit when the ship itself crash-landed on prehistoric [[Earth]]. {{storylink|Beast Wars (Part 1)}} When the stasis pod crash-landed in an icy region, the [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]]s got to it first and brought it back to the ''[[Darksyde (BW)|Darksyde]]'', where the mad scientist [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] installed a [[shell program]] that would turn the unborn Transformer into a loyal Predacon. As the pod's [[DNA scanner]] searched for a compatible life-form, [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]]—intrigued by the sight of a black widow devouring another spider—selected it as the template for their new Predacon. [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]], observing the slim and attractive Blackarachnia transform and strike a few poses, suggested that Tarantulas had "ulterior motives behind her beast form selection" but she was a Predacon, and that was what was important. In the battle with the Maximals that followed, she easily defeated [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] with a well-placed kick, but conspicuously went missing while the other Predacons suffered an ignominious defeat thanks to [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]]'s inept leadership. {{storylink|Double Jeopardy (episode)|Double Jeopardy}}

Blackarachnia was assigned to a mission with [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] and [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] to dig under the ''Axalon'' and use a [[sonic emitter]] she had invented to blow a hole into the bottom. She didn't get on well with either of them, but they managed to eventually get to the point where they were ready to trigger the emitter... only for [[Tigatron]] to steal it. By the time they caught up with the Maximal, the emitter was ready to explode, and they could only flee the blast area. {{storylink|A Better Mousetrap}} When [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]]'s virus turned [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]] into a berserker, Primal launched a one-man war against the ''Darksyde'' while Blackarachnia and Terrorsaur kept the other Maximals at bay. Unfortunately, Cheetor slipped past them and was able to eventually return Primal to normal. {{storylink|Gorilla Warfare}}

[[File:TheSpark Blackarachnia spidermode.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Prime used to leave his trailer behind when he transformed, so why can't she do the same with her abdomen?]]

Blackarachnia was present during the interrogation of Cheetor when the Predacons discovered that a [[temporal probe|Maximal probe]] was flying past the planet, and took part in the battle to destroy the signal array which the Maximals were building. Once [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]] was locked into his dino-mode by Tarantualas's [[Transformation Lock Lens|transformation lock lens]], Blackarachnia delivered the coup de grâce to his pride with several kicks to the face until [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] blasted her off a cliff. {{storylink|The Probe}} Blackarachnia invented some signal dampeners which the Predacons used in their latest ruse: faking their own destruction and hiding while the Maximals used parts from their abandoned ship to repair the ''Axalon'' with the intent of seizing their spaceworthy ship. The Predacons pursued Dinobot once he'd discovered their deception, and during an attempt to rush the ''Axalon'', Blackarachnia was blasted by the ship's defenses. {{storylink|Victory (episode)|Victory}}

After Megatron turned [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] into a Predacon using a [[Transmuter (BW)|Transmuter]], Blackarachnia and Megatron were startled by Waspinator's impression of [[Shrapnel (G1)|Shrapnel]]. The brainwashed Maximal proceeded to string Blackarachnia and Tarantulas up with their own webs. {{storylink|Dark Designs}} Blackarachnia and Scorponok were dispatched to retrieve the latest crashed stasis pod. They encountered Tigatron, who disabled Scorponok, but was himself paralyzed by Blackarachnia's venom. At the pod, she fought Cheetor at length, but he caught her venom dart and used it to knock her out. {{storylink|The Spark}}

[[File:The Trigger Blackarachnia chair.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Regimes fall every day. I tend not to weep about that.]]

The discovery of a mysterious [[Brigadoon|flying island]] led to Megatron dispatching Blackarachnia and Scorponok to investigate. The pair discovered that the island possessed a vast arsenal of exotic alien weaponry, and Blackarachnia resolved that she would take the island's power for herself. {{storylink|The Trigger, Part 1}} As the pair reached the obelisk in the center of the island, Waspinator and Terrorsaur arrived, and Blackarachnia tricked them into using their weapons and tripping one of the island's automated defense systems. She then got rid of Scorponok using another trap, then took control of the entire island. However, as she began piloting the island toward the ''Axalon'', Tigatron was able to destroy its energy supply and the whole thing crashed to the ground. {{storylink|The Trigger, Part 2}}

Blackarachnia attempted to forge an alliance with Tarantulas through flattery, and accompanied him on a mission to secure the latest downed stasis pod. Unfortunately, they were too late to ensure the new Predacon obtained an arachnid beast mode. While Blackarachnia tried to get the violently insane [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] under control, Tarantulas made off with the real prize—the stasis pod itself. After the pod was destroyed, Tarantulas revealed that the planet was doomed, and Blackarachnia realised he intended to construct an escape ship to get off-world. However, Tarantulas rebuffed her offer of further help and threw her out of his lair. {{storylink|Spider's Game}}

[[File:Possession Blackarachnia slags Starscream.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Her eyes are up there! And down there! Take your pick.]]

A Predacon plan to steal the [[rectifier coil]] from the ''Axalon'' resulted in the Maximals going feral, and Blackarachnia was part of the hunting party which pursued them into the jungle. She was defeated by Dinobot after the Maximals overcame their little problem. {{storylink|Call of the Wild}} When [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] took control of Waspinator's body and the Predacons were able to conquer the ''Axalon'', the Decepticon took Blackarachnia under his wing as a student and revealed his true intent to overthrow Megatron. After he abandoned her in the Maximal base, leaving her to escape Primal and Dinobot on her own, she took that as a hint to return the favour, and later shot a cluster of energon crystals, blasting Starscream free from Waspinator. She then engaged in some quick talking to get herself out of trouble with Megatron. {{storylink|Possession}}

Tarantulas infected Rhinox with an [[energon discharge virus]], and was later himself incapacitated, leading the Predacons to investigate his lair to see if they could dig up any more of the virus. Blackarachnia was able to find a counter-virus, but while Megatron was attempting a brilliant gambit against the attacking Maximals, Rhinox countered with an almighty fart which left the Predacon forces hanging from a tree. {{storylink|The Low Road}} Some time later, Megatron called a truce when signs pointed to the [[Vok|aliens]] returning. Tarantulas stole a transwarp cell from the ''Darksyde'', leading Megatron to assign Blackarachnia to keep an eye on him. The two spiders attempted to stop Tigatron escaping the Predacon base, but were tricked into being flattened by a boulder by Dinobot. They were the least damaged, however, and dragged the rest of the Predacons back to base. {{storylink|Before the Storm}}

[[File:OtherVoices2 possessed Blackarachnia.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|I'm sorry; did I step on your moment?]]

Blackarachnia offered to help Tarantulas break into the Maximal base to steal a stasis pod. They were able to use one of Blackarachnia's inventions to penetrate the ''Axalon'' shields and overcome Rhinox and Dinobot. {{storylink|Other Voices, Part 1}} As Tarantulas worked to turn the stasis pod into an escape ship, Blackarachnia intending to use the pod herself, turned on him. They were interrupted by Inferno, who slagged Tarantulas, but Blackarachnia was easily able to defeat him in return. She linked to Tarantulas's mind to obtain the necessary information and successfully completed modifying the pod... only to be captured by the Maximals. Optimus forced her to change the control codes to respond to him, so he could pilot the pod himself and destroy the alien's [[Planet Buster]] weapon. As she badmouthed the Maximals' good-byes, she was subsequently knocked temporarily offline by [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]]. As it happened, Megatron had sabotaged the transwarp cell, and Optimus was unable to eject before impact. {{storylink|Other Voices, Part 2}}

While attempting to escape from the Maximal base, Blackarachnia was shocked to discover that her earlier interfacing with Tarantulas had resulted in a permanent mind-link between the two of them. As the [[quantum surge]] created by the Planet Buster's destruction hit the Earth, Tarantulas forced Blackarachnia to take his unconscious body with her as she left the base. Though she was intercepted by Tigatron and [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]], Megatron happened to turn up at that point. He threatened to terminate Blackarachnia, but she talked her way out of it by pointing out the simple fact that Megatron's stock of troops was sorely depleted. Of course, during the inevitable battle, Tarantulas forced Blackarachnia to retreat with his newly-[[Transmetal]]lized body. {{storylink|Aftermath (BW episode)|Aftermath}}

[[File:ComingoftheFuzors Blackarachnia downloading.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|She blinded me with computer science!]]

Returning to the Predacon base, Blackarachnia interrupted Dinobot stealing the [[Golden Disk (disambiguation)|Golden Disk]]s, but refused Tarantulas's order that she should try to get them back. Although she successfully returned Tarantulas's mind to his own body, she discovered that the mental link between them persisted. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 1)}} While Tarantulas went to help Megatron's latest battle, Blackarachnia dug through the base's computer for information on the Golden Disks and discovered important data regarding Megatron's ''true'' intentions—a plan that involved the access codes to the original Autobot [[Ark (G1)|Ark]]. She downloaded the information while Tarantulas was unconscious, destroyed the computer, and lied to Megatron that Dinobot had done it. {{storylink|Coming of the Fuzors (Part 2)}}

The two spiders were later sent with new recruit [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] to build a refueling station in a cave full of energon. Tarantulas schemed to take over the cave himself and attempted to persuade Blackarachnia to join him, but soon realised she was hiding something from him. When he tried to rip the information from her mind, she cracked an energon cube, and the [[energon radiation]] forced him to sever the mental link. Tarantulas threatened to tear her apart, but was interrupted when Rattrap and [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)|Silverbolt]] arrived to fight. Silverbolt, much to Rattrap's annoyance, refused to strike Blackarachnia because she was female. In the end, Tarantulas used the battle as cover to fake the cave's destruction, and the trio had to report their failure to Megatron. {{storylink|Tangled Web}}

When Dinobot attempted to defect back to the Predacons, Blackarachnia suggested he prove himself by fighting with Quickstrike. {{storylink|Maximal, No More}} During another alien incursion, Megatron took Blackarachnia and Inferno to the Maximal base, where they were able to overcome Rhinox, the sole Maximal there. Blackarachnia grabbed the alien [[Golden Disk (Vok)|Golden Disk]]. Megatron and Tarantulas colluded to work against the aliens, and when Megatron questioned why, Blackarachnia revealed that she had learned from the mind link that Tarantulas hated the aliens and wanted to destroy them. {{storylink|Other Visits (Part 1)}} Though Blackarachnia was rendered unconscious by a blast from the [[Metal Hunter|alien construct]] that appeared, she was reactivated when Megatron took control of the construct and brought the other Predacons aboard. She was one of the Predacons sent out to defend the construct against the Maximals, but Tarantulas managed to infiltrate and destroy it anyway. {{storylink|Other Visits (Part 2)}}

[[File:Bad Spark Blackarachnia Silverbolt.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|DEBATE ME]]

When an energon blast sent her and Silverbolt into the middle of the dense jungles, they were forced to work together. Though attracted to the [[Fuzor]], Blackarachnia was endlessly frustrated by his seemingly idiotic chivalry and need to treat her specially. Megatron, listening in via a [[synch-pulse transmitter]] he'd planted on her, was disgusted by the obvious romance going on. Still Silverbolt and Blackarachnia worked together surprisingly well, saving each other's life in turns and eventually defeating [[Rampage (BW)|Rampage]] with the help of Optimus and Cheetor. {{storylink|Bad Spark}}

Megatron's first attempt to change history and retroactively win the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]] saw the Predacons attack a [[Valley of the Neanderthals|lush valley]] where the [[Anthropoid|ancestors of humanity]] dwelt. As Dinobot laid everything on the line to stop them, Blackarachnia and Inferno did considerable damage to the vengeful Maximal before he could defeat them. {{storylink|Code of Hero}}

[[File:Agenda3-remindsmeofyou.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|And that star over there's named Scott.]]

Blackarachnia took advantage of Silverbolt's obvious interest in her, and met the Maximal at a secluded location to obtain a [[graviton generator]]. She used the generator to convert a stasis pod into a makeship hoversled, and later overheard Megatron giving a mission to Waspinator. As the Maximals fought their way into the Predacon base, Blackarachnia emerged on her sled to encounter Silverbolt. Silverbolt refused a direct order from Optimus to shoot her, allowing her to leave and tail Waspinator instead. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 1)}} Silverbolt eventually caught up with Blackarachnia, who resorted to shooting him in order to try to get the point across that he should leave her alone. It didn't really work, and when the hoversled she was on hit Waspinator, Silverbolt saved her from plummeting to the ground. He subsequently joined her in digging into the side of the mountain they had been heading towards. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part 2)}}

Finally they broke through into a huge cavern containing the Ark, where Blackarachnia explained the ship's significance to her companion. While she was keen to take its power for herself, Megatron arrived and knocked Silverbolt offline before caving in the tunnel they'd dug. Megatron had always known that she'd taken the ship's access codes, and had deliberately allowed her to reach the Ark—his plot complete, he threatened to execute Silverbolt unless she did what he said. Blackarachania bitterly acquiesced to his demands, reluctantly opened the ship's access hatch, and used the Ark's security system to hold off the Maximals while Megatron went on to enact his ultimate gambit—killing the dormant [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]] and triggering a history-changing [[timestorm]] that would retroactively win the Great War for the Decepticons and wipe the Maximals from existence. {{storylink|The Agenda (Part III)}}

[[File:Cutting Edge Blackarachnia kids.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Hey, fellas. Either one of you know where the Smithsonian is? I'm here to pick up a fossil.]]

Unfortunately for Megatron, Blackarachnia had ''been'' a Maximal protoform and certainly wasn't willing to die for his cause. After first activating [[Teletraan I]]'s security nets to force Megatron of the ship, she and Silverbolt helped stabilize the dying Autobot and began a repair process. With no other options available, the Maximals accepted her help; while the Maximals were occupied with Megatron, Blackarachnia slipped out... only to be trapped by falling rocks and damaged by Megatron during his escape. Silverbolt cradled her to his chest as she shut down and swore vengeance until the other Maximals reminded her that she could simply be repaired. With no other choice, Blackarachnia joined forces with the Maximals as they established a new base inside [[Mount St. Hilary]], {{storylink|Optimal Situation}} and spent time on guard duty outside the base with Silverbolt. {{storylink|Deep Metal}} Blackarachnia quickly proved her usefulness to the Maximals by building a [[subaquatic stealth vessel]] that could retrieve [[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]] from the ''Axalon''{{'}}s underwater resting place, although Rattrap was less than thrilled about having to use the "Predacon beach ball". {{storylink|Changing of the Guard}}

Blackarachnia was annoyed when she wound up having to escort [[Chak]] and [[Una]] back to their tribe with Cheetor, who'd developed a boyish crush on her. Rattrap was also rather distrustful of her, as earlier he'd spied Blackarachnia sneaking some parts from a classified area. But when Megatron's new [[Cyber-Raptor]]s attacked, Blackarachnia showed her good side by defending the children, and even took a hit from Tarantulas for them—which she immediately denied to an impressed Silverbolt by saying she slipped. With the Cyber-Raptors defeated, she informed Cheetor that he was a nice kid, which were two strikes against him, and warned him not to look for strike three. {{storylink|Cutting Edge}}

[[File:ProvingGrounds Blackarachnia wink.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Look at that trustworthy face! Blackarachnia's not going to backstab us!]]

[[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]] returned from a mission reporting that Cheetor had seemingly been while destroyed trying to interfere with Megatron's cloning experiments. However, Cheetor eventually turned up alive with the mysterious [[Transmetal driver]] in his possession. Although he tossed it into a pool of lava, Blackarachnia grabbed it before it was destroyed. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 1}} When Cheetor went missing again, Blackarachnia took part in the search mission, leading Silverbolt to develop jealousy at her apparent concern for their comrade. As it turned out, Cheetor had mutated into a [[Transmetal 2]] form. Blackarachnia took a particular interest in acquiring this new technology for herself, but Cheetor remained oblivious to the ''real'' reason behind her sudden interest in his new body. {{storylink|Feral Scream Part 2}}

After Rhinox scanned her and found the shell program that made her a Predacon, Blackarachnia finally got fed up with Rattrap's attitude and Cheetor's crush and nearly snapped before Optimus intervened. Believing that Optimus and Rhinox were planning to remove the shell program without her consent, Blackarachnia left the base and was drawn into a dangerous game of cat-and-mouse with [[Dinobot II]]. Blackarachnia got the upper hand, but was caught off-guard by Dinobot's power and durability before Silverbolt rescued her. Before Dinobot could blast Silverbolt, however, Blackarachnia shot him out of the way and tried to stall their attacker by pretending to bargain with him and form an alliance. Dinobot stunned her, but he was distracted by Silverbolt long enough for the two Maximals to finally defeat him. Blackarachnia was enraged when she realized that Silverbolt thought she'd ''actually'' tried to strike a deal with Dinobot, but before she could leave the Maximals for good, Optimus arrived to point out that the decision to remove the program had always been up to her. {{storylink|Proving Grounds (BW)|Proving Grounds}}

When Megatron attempted to fire his new [[disruptor cannon]] on the Maximal base, the Maximals prepared for the worst, but the cannon blew up instead. {{storylink|Go with the Flow}}

[[File:CrossingtheRubicron-newbody.jpg|left|upright=1.4|thumb|Boy, it must be hard to shake the whole double agent thing, huh? Sticks in the DNA.]]

Seeking more power, Blackarachnia attempted to use the Transmetal driver on herself. Silverbolt, not realizing what she was planning, bailed her out of the contraption. However, her attempts to modify her own systems had tripped Tarantulas's security system, which directly threatened the integrity of her [[core consciousness]]—the only way to fix it would be to cut the Predacon shell program loose. With time running out, she passed the Ark's access codes on to Primal in case she didn't make it and shut herself down, leaving herself in Rhinox's care. Rhinox began the operation, but his tinkering tripped an alert in [[Tarantulas's lair]]. The Predacons got wind of what he was doing and mounted an attack on the Maximal base; the Maximals countered their attack, but the power was disrupted by a shot fired by Tarantulas at a critical stage, which seemingly killed Blackarachnia.

Blinded by rage, Silverbolt took off to avenge her death just as the Transmetal driver activated and resurrected her in a Transmetal 2 body without her Predacon shell program. Now fully a Maximal, she arrived just in time to save Silverbolt from Rampage by using her webs to disarm and stun the titanic Predacon. Silverbolt was, of course, overjoyed to see his beloved alive, but Blackarachnia told him to knock off the vengeful hero stuff so she wouldn't have to keep endangering herself with inevitable rescue attempts. {{storylink|Crossing the Rubicon}}

[[File:MasterBlaster Blackarachnia beast mode.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Actually a real spider in [[Australia]].]]

Some time later, Blackarachnia returned to base to find the doors open. It was the result of Megatron's latest plan, which involved Quickstrike taking control of Optimus Primal's body and imprisoning the other unconscious Maximals. Left in Rampage's "care", Blackarachnia used telekinetic powers to knock him out with a girder. After dealing with Inferno, she went to release the other Maximals, only to run into Quickstrike and Primal. She freed Primal by disabling Quickstrike's control suit, and subsequently managed to stop the Ark's destruct sequence, which Tarantulas had set in motion, before rescuing the other Maximals and helping fight Megatron off. {{storylink|Master Blaster}}
When an object from space destroyed the Predacon base, Blackarachnia realised that the aliens had returned—in this case in the form of the Vok emissary [[Tigerhawk]]. She cut short Rattrap's celebrations by pointing out that when Tigerhawk had finished with the Predacons, he'd probably come for them. {{storylink|Other Victories}}

Tigerhawk, in fact, joined the Maximals. When Silverbolt was injured looking for the Predacons, Blackarachnia rode to his aid on Cheetor's back, and the pair took him back to base for repairs. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 1}} After Megatron raised the ''[[Nemesis (G1)|Nemesis]]'' from the depths of the ocean, the Maximals struggled to prepare the Ark for moving. In search of something to make a power link, Blackarachnia grabbed Rattrap's tail-whip, snipping off the end and repurposing it as a power cable. Though the attempt to shift the Ark failed, Rhinox used a [[Autobot Shuttle Omega Delta|shuttle]] to defeat Megatron and rescue Optimus from the Nemesis. With Megatron in Maximal custody, the Maximals set off for [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]], with the defeated Predacon leader lashed to the hull of their commandeered vessel. {{storylink|Nemesis Part 2}}
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====''Beast Machines'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor|[[Venus Terzo]] (English), [[Ryōka Yuzuki]] (Japanese)|[[Xu Lin]] (Chinese), [[Márcia Moreli]] (Portuguese), [[Rossella Acerbo]] (Italian), [[Heike Schroetter]] (German), [[Olga Hnidey]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Maxo Barjas]] (Castilain Spanish), [[Nathalie Stas]] (French)}}

[[File:TheReformatting-Blackarachnia.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|When they say she's all legs, they ain't kidding!]]

While travelling through [[unspace|transwarp]], Megatron broke free from his restraints and somehow made it to Cybertron before his captors. By the time that Blackarachnia and the other Maximals arrived over Cybertron, Megatron had already engineered a debilitating [[transformation virus]] and an army of [[Vehicon (BM)|Vehicon]] drones that extract the [[spark]]s of everyone on Cybertron. When the Maximals dropped out of transwarp, an automated defense grid shot down their shuttle, and the six Maximals were pursued by [[Tank Drone]]s and exposed to the virus as they tried to escape. Rhinox and Silverbolt were instantly incapacitated, but Blackarachnia's transmetal physiology allowed her to resist its worst effects—however, she was forcibly "devolved" back into her original body, locked out of her [[robot mode]], and lost her short-term memories. {{storylink|Revelations Part II: Descent|Descent}}

Damaged and disoriented, Blackarachnia headed underground to await her imminent deactivation, until the other three surviving Maximals—Optimus, Rattrap, and Cheetor—fell into her web as they tried to escape the Vehicons. Guided by mysterious flashes of intuition, Optimus decided to head further underground, and Blackarachnia's webbing gave the quartet a way to head deeper and deeper into the Cybertronian sublevels. Eventually, Blackarachnia's webbing finally gave out, and the team wound up plummeting into the chamber of the mysterious [[Oracle (BM)|Oracle]] supercomputer, who [[reformatting|reformatted]] all four of the Maximals into [[technorganic]] bodies immune to Megatron's virus. However, when [[Cycle Drone]]s attacked, the Maximals discovered that their new bodies lacked [[onboard computer]]s and couldn't automatically transform. Despite this setback, Blackarachnia was able to make the most of what she had by trapping some of the Vehicons in a tangle of webbing. {{storylink|The Reformatting}}

[[File:Blackarachniamasterofthehouse.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|That's not a forehead. That's a five or sixhead.]]

The Maximals set up a temporary training base in the underground catacombs, and Cheetor and Blackarachnia slowly remastered the lost art of transformation by finding their "emotional still point". However, when their activities attracted the attention of a [[Mole Drone]], Optimus ordered Cheetor and Blackarachnia to scout out a new base. Instead, Blackarachnia goaded Cheetor into accompanying her above ground to find out what happened to everyone on Cybertron; when Blackarachnia attempted to access the [[Cybertron InfoCore]] in [[Cybertropolis]], they found that someone had completely wiped the database before Primal had to rescue the pair from a flight of [[Aero Drone]]s. While Primal entered the [[Council Citadel]] in search of answers, Blackarachnia used her new technorganic powers—including the ability to fire bursts of energy through the ground—to keep the drones at bay alongside Cheetor, but were eventually forced to drag a furious Primal to safety when they learned that Megatron was the mastermind behind the Vehicon army. {{storylink|Master of the House}}

Blackarachnia was injured during an attempt to access the [[Cybertron Archives]], and while unconscious, she experienced a vision of herself and Silverbolt on prehistoric Earth. Against orders, Blackarachnia—tailed by a nervous Rattrap—sneaked off to the [[Central Spaceport]] in an attempt to access the impounded shuttle's flight logs. The pair encountered Megatron's new [[Vehicon General]]s and discovered that there had been ''six'' occupants in the shuttle; when she attempted to access the ship's computer, however, Megatron was able to use the two-way connection against her, and would've found the current Maximal base had Rattrap not severed the link. The pair were subsequently rescued by Primal and Cheetor, but Blackarachnia's information reawakened their memories of Rhinox and Silverbolt. {{storylink|Fires of the Past}}

[[File:MercenaryPursuits-Blackarachnia.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|[[Fly|"Help! Help me!"]]]]

Blackarachnia and the other Maximals accompanied Primal as he tracked the presence of a spark. However, Rattrap's ill-advised decision to use a transformation enhancer got the Maximals captured by Megatron for a short while, until Primal was able to coax the brutish Vehicon General [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]] to their side, and even convince him to abet their escape. Although Megatron was able to reverse their influence and return Tankor to his side, Optimus reported that Tankor's spark seemed familiar. {{storylink|Mercenary Pursuits}}

Blackarachnia and Cheetor continued to hone their new forms, but during one sparring session the group encountered the young Cybertronian [[Nightscream (BM)|Nightscream]], who had somehow survived Megatron's attack on the planet and taken refuge in a strange, organic fruit tree. Eating the organic fruit caused Blackarachnia, Rattrap, and Primal to devolve into an animalistic state, and it wasn't until Cheetor destroyed the tree that the group returned to normal. The stress of reformatting the wounded Nightscream weakened Primal, and while he recovered Cheetor took command of the team. {{storylink|Forbidden Fruit}} While Cheetor was in charge, Rattrap's antics wound up fouling up a raid on a Tank Drone factory, and the remaining Maximals discussed what they needed to do about Rattrap. Blackarachnia was irritated by Rattrap's uselessness, but Cheetor asserted that they had to cover for their friend. They were shocked to find a while later that Rattrap had overheard them and taken up with Megatron in exchange for weapons. However, the recently-recovered Primal talked Rattrap around and scolded the other Maximals for undervaluing their teammate. {{storylink|The Weak Component}}

[[File:Revelations3 Blackarachnia closeup.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|She looks a bit more normal when she closes the extra eyes.]]

Later, the group stumbled across one of Megatron's many Transformer junkyards, where the lifeless, sparkless bodies of the city's inhabitants were disposed of. When [[Thrust (BM)|Thrust]] and Blackarachnia were split up from the battle, the two made an unofficial truce, but when Thrust saved her life and her spark, having strange recollections of doing so before, Blackarachnia's mind was set: "Thrust" was really Silverbolt. Although she told the others that Thrust's spark belonged to a Maximal, she kept quiet on ''who'' she thought it really belonged to. {{storylink|Revelations Part I: Discovery|Discovery}} When Cheetor enacted a subsequent plan to try to hack into Tankor, Blackarachnia volunteered to keep Thrust busy. She made numerous appeals to Thrust to try to bring out his Maximal nature, but Thrust was hesitant and was soon bullied into extracting her spark by [[Jetstorm (BM)|Jetstorm]]. {{storylink|Revelations Part II: Descent|Descent}} As her spark rocketed into the darkness, Nightscream fought Jetstorm for it. At the same time, on another plane of existence, Blackarachnia encountered Primal as he communed with the Oracle, and his calming presence allowed Nightscream to capture the spark and return it to her body. She and Nightscream came to Cheetor and Rattrap's aid, but they had found that Tankor was really Rhinox, and their old friend now sided with Megatron's view of a technological Cybertron. {{storylink|Revelations Part III: Apocalypse|Apocalypse}}

After Nightscream was snatched away by the Vehicons, the other Maximals gave pursuit. Blackarachnia's hesitation in attacking Thrust allowed the Vehicon to pursue Primal and Nightscream, who had discovered a [[fossil chamber|cave full of fossils]] that proved Cybertron was once organic. {{storylink|Survivor}} When Tankor gained control of the [[Key to Vector Sigma]] and used it to transform both Nightscream and the organic plants into [[Living metal|technomatter]], Blackarachnia found that the [[organic goop]] they'd just discovered would cure the infection. While the other Maximals went to get a mole drone, Blackarachnia stayed behind to look after Nightscream, only to be infected by him and temporarily lose her own sanity. Fortunately, the other Maximals eventually returned with a drone and were able to cure everyone in time. {{storylink|The Key}}

[[File:Silverboltjetstorm.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Sorry, your boyfriend was behind door number 2!]]

Taking a vial of goo, kidnapped Thrust, trapped him in a web and used the goo to force out his inner personality in the hopes that it would bring out his inner Maximal. Much to her horror, she discovered that Thrust was really ''[[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]]'', who'd flown to Cybertron from prehistoric Earth. When Jetstorm attacked, another mishap with the organic goop occurred, and Blackarachnia realized that Jetstorm had been Silverbolt all along as he swept her up in his arms. However, as he and Waspinator fought over Blackarachnia, the goo vanished from the both of them, and the Vehicons' minds both returned. Blackarachnia was swiftly rescued by the other Maximals, who rode a giant vine created by a growth catalyst which Rattrap had found. {{storylink|The Catalyst}}

Optimus Primal—now completely convinced that their mission was to restore Cybertron to its original, organic state—led his Maximals to the [[Plasma Energy Chamber]], whose [[Plasma energy|destructive energy]] could theoretically destroy all technology on Cybertron, before Cheetor talked their leader out of using this doomsday weapon in favor of weaponizing Rattrap's fast-growing plants. While Optimus himself confronted Megatron inside the Citadel, Blackarachnia and the other four Maximals held off the Vehicons outside until they were overwhelmed by the Key's energies and turned into technomatter. With Megatron poised to fire a planetary Key pulse at Cybertron's [[organic core]], a desperate Optimus made the decision to open the Plasma Energy Chamber. {{storylink|End of the Line}}

[[File:Fallout-Blackarachnia.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Be honest, do my hips look thick?]]

Optimus was able to use the last of his strength to redirect the duelling energies into the [[Transformer afterlife|Allspark]] and restore the other Maximals to full functionality. When they entered the Council Citadel, they found that the battle had claimed Primal, Megatron and Tankor; although Cheetor attempted to negotiate a truce with the two remaining Vehicon Generals, Jetstorm turned down Blackarachnia's offer to join their side before another fight broke out. Eventually, the Maximals returned to the Oracle for guidance, where they found that Optimus's spirit inside the computer, mourning that his fanaticism had nearly destroyed Cybertron entirely. Eventually, however, the Maximals convinced him to return to the material world and continue leading them. Optimus and the other Maximals realized that their mission was not to ''replace'' the technological with the organic, but to bring them together into a unified technorganic whole. The triumphant Maximals returned to the surface... only to find a [[Grand Mal|giant floating head]] in the likeness of Megatron. {{storylink|Fallout (episode)|Fallout}}

Blackarachnia and Nightscream unsuccessfully tried to infiltrate the head. Leaving Optimus to try and contact Megatron's spark, the other Maximals went to find the two remaining Vehicon Generals and encountered a strange, organic Transformer named [[Noble (BM)|Noble]], who changed from a wolf into the dragon-like Savage. {{storylink|Savage Noble}} The Maximals later infiltrated the Council Citadel in search of information, only to discover that Noble was actually Megatron, trapped in his own organic half. Megatron used [[spark extractor]]s to remove his spark and transfer it into the huge, flying head and reactivate the Vehicon drone army, forcing the Maximals back underground. {{storylink|Prometheus Unbound}}

[[File:Blackarachniasilverboltdarkestknight.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Vamp meets goth.]]

When Rattrap invented a device he hoped could be used to restore the stolen sparks into new bodies, Blackarachnia "borrowed" it as part of a plan to bring Silverbolt back: by ambushing Jetstorm, trapping him in a pool of organic goop, and activating the device's DNA scanner, the full-body reformat transformed him into a technorganic condor and permanently obliterated the "Jetstorm" shell program. However, Silverbolt was not the lovable, chivalrous knight in shining armor she'd fallen in love with. Instead, he was a brittle, haunted 'bot, tormented by the evil deeds he'd committed as Jetstorm. The vengeful Silverbolt headed to the Grand Mal to confront his old master and rescue Primal and Cheetor. In the ensuing conflict, a furious Silverbolt nearly brought down the entire battleship on top of them before Blackarachnia could haul him away. Some time later, Blackarachnia and Silverbolt had a heart-to-heart, where Silverbolt confessed that he'd secretly enjoyed his time as a Vehicon General, with no need to follow his restrictive code of honor. Though Silverbolt had given up on himself, Blackarachania urged Silverbolt to forgive his past. {{storylink|In Darkest Knight}}

Blackarachnia continued to assure Silverbolt that things would get better. After Silverbolt inadvertently spread a new, Megatron-enhanced version of the old [[Hate Plague]], he blamed himself, but she and the other Maximals were supportive. {{storylink|A Wolf in the Fold}} Later, when a Maximal spaceship crashed, the Maximals split up to reach it in time. As they did, Blackarachnia confided to Rattrap that she'd found Silverbolt increasingly cold towards her. At the ship, they encountered a strange, alien plant monster, who nearly infected their technorganic orchard until Primal's reformatting revealed the "alien" as the Maximal [[Botanica (BM)|Botanica]]. {{storylink|Home Soil}}

[[File:Silverboltblackarachniaseedsofthefuture.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.4|Eeek! That smile! Go back to glowering!]]

The Maximals would soon encounter two new Vehicon Generals, [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] and [[Strika (BM)|Strika]], whose gambit almost defeated them until Botanica stepped in. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. I: The Strike|The Strike}} Blackarachnia and Silverbolt were teamed up with Cheetor during a search for the missing sparks. Though Silverbolt was uncomfortable about following someone he still regarded as a kid, Blackarachnia defended Cheetor. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. II: The Search|The Search}} The Maximals attempted to infiltrate the Grand Mal to find the missing sparks, only to discover that Megatron was using them to fuel his great ascension, and Nightscream's intercession appeared to dispel the Vehicon leader's spark. {{storylink|Sparkwar Pt. III: The Siege|The Siege}}

Once the Maximals had celebrated, Blackarachnia tried to talk to Silverbolt, believing now was the time for them to renew their romance. Silverbolt was not convinced of Megatron's demise, and in fact, he was right: Megatron still lived as a disembodied and depolarized spark. The pair found themselves being attacked by a [[zombie]] of pieced-together Vehicon parts, animated by the power of Megatron's spark. Megatron was later trapped in a [[Diagnostic Drone]] by Rattrap. {{storylink|Spark of Darkness}} Silverbolt, Blackarachnia and Nightscream attacked the Vehicons while the others attempted to secure the sparks in the Grand Mal. They were subsequently able to put Megatron's Vehicon factory out of commission, but the Grand Mal itself was brought down. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. I: The Downward Spiral|The Downward Spiral}} Blackarachnia and Silverbolt were able to share a quiet moment before the final battle, and they received a spark power-up from the collective population of Cybertron. However, they were both felled during battle by Obsidian and Thrust, respectively. Their sparks were then torn from them by cycle drones. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. II: When Legends Fall|When Legends Fall}}

Though unable to assist physically, Blackarachnia and the other Maximals were able to give moral support to Primal during his final battle against Megatron, which resulted in the sacrifice of both leaders and the reformatting of Cybertron into a technorganic paradise. With harmony restored, Silverbolt and Blackarachnia were finally able to be together. {{storylink|Endgame Pt. III: Seeds of the Future|Seeds of the Future}}
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====Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity====
=====''Beast Wars Diorama Story''=====
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Soon after [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]'s intrusion into the Beast Wars, Blackarachnia joined a battle between Maximals and Predacons. {{storylink|Optimus Primal Chapter}} Blackarachnia faced off against Dinobot, who attacked with his Dino Sabel. {{storylink|Dinobot Chapter}} Blackarachnia counterattacked with her Anchor Shot. {{storylink|Blackarachnia Chapter}} The battle was joined by [[Autobot]]s and [[Decepticon]]s from another universe, {{storylink|Tigatron Chapter}} and the collective Maximal/Autobot forces faced off against their opposite factions. {{storylink|Motorarm Chapter}}

=====''Legends'' comic=====
Following the [[Great Transformation]], Blackarachnia and the other surviving Maximals listened to Cheetor explain that Rhinox's spark was not gone for good, but lost in [[Legends World|another universe]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Rattrap)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} After [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] and [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]] were sent to retrieve their comrade, Blackarachnia was elated to see the two return with Rhinox accompanying. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Rhinox)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}}
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====3H comics====
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Blackarachnia brought [[Fractyl]] back to reality after the Predacon scientist had been daydreaming about the worst case scenarios that would follow up his presentation to Megatron about his "[[energon armor]]". When Fractyl expressed a desire to inform Megatron about the current progress of his experiements with [[furmanite]], Blackarachnia dissuaded him from doing so, secretly hoping to use Fractyl's invention for her own gain. She and Inferno continued to keep watch over Fractyl, until [[Packrat]] stumbled upon the scene, causing Inferno to lash out violently. In the confusion that followed, Packrat ran off, prompting Blackarachnia to order Inferno to pursue him. She then turned to Fractyl for an explanation to his armor's volatilie nature, only to learn that furmanite was, in truth, "anti-energon". Realizing that if enough energon came into contact with the furmanite, it could spell doom for the entire planet, Blackarachnia went to fetch Megatron while Fractyl pursued the Maximal. When she and Megatron came upon Fractyl, he had retrieved the armor, and was sending a small group of Maximals fleeing. {{storylink|Ground Zero}}

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After Blackarachnia had acquired her Transmetal 2 form, she and the other Maximals set out to investigate a temporal anomaly detected by Rhinox. They encountered the Predacons en-route. The two factions were locked in a firefight, though the advantage lay with the Predacons. After Megatron took off to reach the time-traveler that both teams had previously detected, Optimus was forced to pursue him, leaving his troops against insurmountable odds. Blackarachnia was sure to voice her displeasure over the situation. The Predacons eventually began to push the Maximals back towards a cliffside. Then, suddenly, Predacon fire ceased entirely. The situation had not become any safer however, the Maximals now had to contend with [[Windrazor (BW)|Windrazor]], the aforementioned time-traveler, possessed by Unicron's dark essence. Though Windrazor was able to expunge Unicron from his systems, the much more powerful Shokaract appeared immediately aftwerwards... {{storylink|Paradox}}

This led to Blackarachnia participating in [[Point Omega]], a battle that would determine the fate of all Cybertronians. She was eviscerated by [[Shokaract]]'s firepower. She got better as space-time rebooted itself with the disappearance of the [[Dark Essence]] from the past, and these events were erased from her timeline. {{storylink|Terminus (issue)|Terminus}}

Shortly after Cybertron underwent the [[Great Transformation]], the [[Quintesson]]s seized the opportunity to attack, believing that the revolutionary change would have rendered the planets' inhabitants confused and docile. Suffice to say, the Transformers were greatly underestimated. Silverbolt and Blackarachnia were successfully able to fend [[Cybertropolis]] from Quintesson invaders. {{storylink|Wreckers: Finale Part II}}

[[File:Blackarachniaabduction.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|She stabbed my basketball, and the speakers to my stereo!]]
One year later, Silverbolt and Blackarachnia were chosen to greet a ship of returning Autobot heroes from the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]]. Their welcomes were ignored by the crew, which included [[Sideswipe (G1)|Sideswipe]], [[Trailbreaker (G1)|Trailbreaker]], [[Roulette (Universe)|Roulette]], and [[Shadow Striker (Universe)|Shadow Striker]], when they realized that their home had been transformed into a strange technorganic paradise. Only [[Sunstreaker (G1)|Sunstreaker]] was unfazed, choosing to talk up Blackarachnia and Silverbolt so that he could mug for [[Rook (Universe)|Rook]]'s cameras.

[[File:TFU Blackarachnia vs Rattrap.jpg|left|upright=0.85|thumb|Hey, guys, I turned evil again!]]
Their greeting was interrupted by a series of what appeared to be fireworks. Instead, they were beams of energy sent by [[Unicron]] to capture the returning crew, Blackarachnia, and Silverbolt, and bring them to him. When they arrived, a booming voice welcomed them to the [[Pit (Universe)|Pit]], a dimension inside Unicron. Blackarachnia and her fellow captives were painfully smelted down and reformed; only Trailbreaker emerged unchanged. Since she arrived, Blackarachnia had begun to feel [[Unicron virus|a growing anger]] that she couldn't control. And in this new Unicron-tainted form, she more than welcomed the swarm of creatures that began swarming her group. Overwhelmed, Blackarachnia and the others were herded into the [[Cauldron]] and filed into prison cells. As Blackarachnia protested, she was silenced by [[Tankor (BM)|Tankor]], one of their hosts.

It was revealed to them by the master of ceremonies, [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razorclaw]], that they would be forced to fight fellow abducted Transformers. The loser's [[spark]] would fuel and empower Unicron, whose form had fallen into disrepair. Blackarachnia's uncontrollable rage welcomed this bloodsport; Silverbolt watched helplessly as she fell under Unicron's evil spell. {{storylink|Abduction}}

Optimus Primal, resurrected by [[Primus]], arrived to rescue the prisoners of the Cauldron, and with help from Silverbolt and Trailbreaker, its captives were set free. But Unicron's grip on Blackarachnia was too strong. She began lashing out madly, even at Silverbolt, and the Fuzor took tight hold of her so that he might swiftly remove her from Unicron's grip. But as the others began jumping through a portal that would lead them to their respective homes across the [[multiverse]], Blackarachnia had a moment of clarity. Sadly, she told Silverbolt that Unicron had awakened her ''true'' nature, then bid him farewell and threw him through the portal.

[[File:Optimusprimaluniverseend.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Closure? Maybe?]]
Soon, she was escorted by Tankor and [[Obsidian (BM)|Obsidian]] to the center of Unicron, where she was repulsed to meet a familiar face: Tarantulas! {{storylink|Escape (Universe)|Escape}}

Blackarachnia was dispatched to her home Cybertron's [[Undercity]], where she observed Rattrap for a while. Finally, she made her presence known, stinging him with her cybervenom. She never had liked the vermin, after all. Suddenly, Rattrap was saved by [[Depth Charge (BW)|Depth Charge]], back from the dead. Blackarachnia was knocked out, and Depth Charge left the weakened Rattrap to fend for himself. As Depth Charge departed, he found himself surrounded by Blackarachnia's [[Piranacon (Universe)|Piranacons]]. {{storylink|Homecoming (Universe)|Homecoming}}

Much later, Optimus Primal waged one last desperate assault against Unicron, and his [[Child of Primus|Children of Primus]] were able to defeat the [[Minion of Unicron (Universe)|Minions of Unicron]]. As Unicron himself seemed to dissolve below them, Silverbolt carried Blackarachnia with him, saving her from sharing the gruesome fate of her evil peers. {{storylink|Revelations Part 2}}
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====Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity====
On the way back to Cybertron after the end of the Beast Wars, Blackarachnia and Silverbolt dozed off to sleep while cuddling each other. {{storylink|Ain't No Rat}}

{{BW Shell Game}}
They awoke, affected by a Transwarp agitator planted on the shuttle by a new team of Predacons hiding on Earth. This device caused Blackarachnia and the other Maximals aboard to act aggressively towards one-another, and they tried to force Rattrap into the ship's C.R. Chamber due to its influence. Rattrap resisted, managed to get away, and deactivated the ship's Transwarp drive. Though this restored the Maximals to their senses, it also returned them to prehistoric Earth. {{storylink|Shell Game issue 1|Shell Game #1}}

====''Transformers Legends'' anthology====
Not long after Megatron took the original Megatron's spark into himself, he had Quickstrike deliver a device to the Maximal base which amplified the Maximals' aggression. Blackarachnia was attacked by Rhinox before escaping while Silverbolt distracted him. Once Optimus Primal was able to overcome the device's effects and free the other Maximals, they attempted unsuccessfully to capture Megatron in one of Blackarachnia's webs. {{storylink|A Meeting of Minds}}

After the Maximals returned to Cybertron, Blackarachnia was trying to persuade Silverbolt that it was all right for them to resume their romance after Megatron's apparent death, when they were attacked by a strange zombie-like creature. After it zapped Silverbolt, she unsuccessfully tried to attack it in retaliation. {{storylink|Singularity Ablyss}}

====2006 IDW ''Beast Wars'' continuity====
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"White Propionica"<ref>The [[BotCon 2016]] script reading, "[[The Hot Rod]]" established this name as Blackarachnia's pre-Earth name in this continuity.</ref> was walking down a street shortly after the signing of the [[Pax Cybertronia]]. {{storylink|Dawn of the Predacus}}

As [[Magmatron]] was surveying the timestream, he witnessed several key moments taking place during the Beast Wars. Among these was Blackarachnia fiddling around with some technology. {{storylink|The Gathering issue 1|The Gathering #1}}

While the Maximals attempted to remove her Predacon shell program, an alternate Transmetal "Vok" body was somehow automatically created (by someone, somehow) in [[unspace|subspace]] just in case it was needed. It wasn't, and so it was "sidelined". {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook #1}}

====Waspscream continuity====
In [[Primax 208.06 Zeta]], the machinations of the [[Starscream (G1)|Starscream]] from [[Primax 206.15 Gamma]] resulted in the local Predacons defeating the Maximals, prompting the [[Vok]] to attempt to sterilize their experiment. Blackarachnia was killed when Megatron tricked her into destroying [[Planet Buster|the Vok weapon]] while she was trying to escape Earth. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/16}}

====''Story of Binaltech''====
As the victorious Maximals travelled forward in time from prehistoric Earth to far-future Cybertron in [[Primax 496.22 Alpha]], their shuttle was suddenly struck by a powerful force of darkness. This was the result of the temporal machinations of [[Ravage (G1)|Ravage]] in [[G1 World|Primax 785.06 Alpha]] and the [[Alternity (species)|Alternity]]'s response effort to repair the timeline. However, these events resulted in two copies of the Maximals' shuttle being created: one copy went on home to Cybertron where its crew would participate in the [[Spark War]] while the other was hurled into the early 21st century of [[BT World|Primax 903.0 Beta]]. [[Unicron]] observed the shuttle and destroyed it, scattering most of the crew into [[unspace|transwarp space]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/30}} {{storylink|Outlier (comic)|Outlier}} Blackarachnia, however, was forced by Unicron to aid him in his efforts to destroy the [[Matrix of Leadership]]. Her spark was placed inside the silver Beta Unit Honda S-2000 Aero Style body intended for the Autobot warrior [[Windcharger (G1)|Windcharger]], and her mind was overwhelmed by an evil essence that forced her to do Unicron's bidding.

Still possessing her extrasensory Transmetal 2 powers including telekinesis, Blackarachnia gained several additional weapons courtesy of her new form: a long-range Venom Sniper Gun that fired system-disrupting energy bullets, a defensive riot shield that projected an electromagnetic field from its edge, and the ability to fire strong artificial webs from her grill, exhaust pipe and hands in robot mode.

Blackarachnia was partnered with the newly-created [[Decepticharge]] and dispatched to confront [[Shockwave (G1)|Shockwave]]'s forces on Earth. Finding them in the middle of a [[Starscream (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Starscream]]-led uprising, the pair put down the rebellion and ordered the Decepticons to defeat [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]] and destroy the [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]]. {{Storylink|Widow's Edge}}

While forced to act as a Decepticon, Blackarachnia's true self remained intact but submerged, struggling to overcome Unicron's control and desperate to correct the warped Binaltech timeline. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/08}}

After [[Nemesis Prime (G1)|Nemesis Prime]]'s defeat, Blackarachnia joined Decepticharge in attacking the [[Earth Defense Command]] Space Center so that they could get to the Matrix within [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Ultra Magnus]]'s chest. Secretly, Blackarachnia knew of the [[Psychedevice]] located there and hoped to use it to remove Unicron's influence from herself. However, she found that she was too large to use the human-sized device and was soon attacked by [[Grimlock (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Grimlock]]. Their bestial natures ensued in conflict till [[Carly (G1)|Carly]] was able to evolve via the Psychedevice and use her new abilities to cure both Transformers' mental issues. Still stranded in this timeline, she was comforted by her old friend [[Optimus Primal (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Optimus Primal]]'s promise to reunite her with her friends. {{storylink|Outlier (comic)|Outlier}}

====''Regeneration One''====
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As the Dark [[Matrix of Leadership|Matrix]] creature tortured [[Spike Witwicky (G1)|Circuit Smasher]] with visions of his [[Sparkplug Witwicky|dead father]] in [[Zero Space]], cracks began to appear in the membrane of infinite worlds. Through one, Blackarachnia could be seen alongside [[Overhaul (Cybertron)|Leobreaker]], [[Jetstorm (Animated)|Jetstorm]], [[Gas Skunk]] and [[Starscream (WFC)|Starscream]]. {{storylink|The War to End All Wars, Part 5}}
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====''Wings Universe''====
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Following the Great Transformation of Cybertron, Blackarachnia and her friends stood guard over Cheetor as their leader attempted to commune with the Oracle. {{storylink|Hoist the Flag|Alpha Trizer's profile}}

An image of Blackarachnia carrying a Maximal flag and being led by [[Primal Prime]] into battle (presumably taken during the [[Quintesson]] invasion) hung in the [[Cybertronian Knight]]s' headquarters. {{storylink|Hoist the Flag}}

====A Change to the Agenda====
After his attack on [[Optimus Prime (G1)|Optimus Prime]], [[Megatron (BW)/Beast Wars cartoon continuity|Megatron]] was thrown out of the [[Ark (G1)|Ark]] when Blackarachnia activated the ship's defense systems. However, he was not thrown far enough and the Predacon managed to reenter the Ark and blasted the Autobot leader, decisively erasing the Maximals from the timeline. But before he could gloat further, Blackarachnia attacked the [[Megatron (G1)|original Megatron]] with her [[Cyber venom|cyber-venom]] before she disappearred, ensuring the Predacon Megatron's nonexistence. {{storylink|A Change to the Agenda}} In [[Primax 209.0 Gamma|the wildly different timeline]] that followed, Blackarachnia's life would take [[#Beast Wars: Uprising|a very different track]].

===''Beast Wars Metals'' manga===
[[File:BlackarachniaMetalsMangaDrop.jpg|left|200px|thumb|Are those high heels or platform shoes?]]
Following the [[Quantum surge]], Blackarachnia was one of the few Transformers ''not'' to be upgraded into a [[Transmetal]]. As [[Quickstrike (BW)|Quickstrike]] and his armies laid siege to the weakened Maximal base, Blackarachnia waited in secret for an opening. When [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] was forced to shut [[Sentinel (BW)|Sentinel]] down to let an injured [[Airazor (BW)|Airazor]] in, Blackarachnia saw her chance and entered the base. Knocking out Airazor and ripping [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]'s arm off, Blackarachnia confronted Rhinox. Rhinox proceeded to pull out a "gun", but instead of shooting her with it, he blasted himself in the head (the "gun" actually being a machine allowing him to enter [[unspace|Transwarp space]]). Confused, but seeing no further use for the Maximals, Blackarachnia left the base. As the base collapsed behind her, she was approached by Quickstrike, who didn't like her "interfering" with his business. Not in the mood, she immediately kicked his head off. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 1|Beast Wars Metals #1}}

She later teamed with Tarantulas in confronting Tigatron. Tarantulas was promptly cut in two by the Maximal, though Blackarachnia blocked his sword with her legs and was able to escape with her comrade's body. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 2|Beast Wars Metals #2}}

Tarantulas recovered and took control of Tigatron's mind. Blackarachnia disapproved of such an invasive attack, but Tarantulas ignored her. While Airazor fought to save Tigatron's mind and body, Blackarachnia had a change of heart and decapitated Tarantulas with her thighs. She then entered the battle to help Airazor, but was shot in the back by Tarantulas' headless body. Ultimately, Tigatron's mind was saved, but Airazor died in the process. With nobody noticing, Blackarachnia slunk away to the ''Ark''. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 4|Beast Wars Metals #4}}

There, she met the severed head of Megatron and disapproved of his plan to kill the sleeping Optimus Prime and disrupt the timestream. She kicked his head into a lava pit, but this only allowed Megatron to merge with the spark of [[Megatron (G1)|his ancestor]] and become even more powerful. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 5|Beast Wars Metals #5}}

After Megatron was killed and the Maximals reunited, Blackarachnia encountered Silverbolt and the two immediately hit it off. {{storylink|Beast Wars Metals issue 6|Beast Wars Metals #6}}

===''Transformers Legends'' anthology===
When [[human]] archaeologists uncovered a cave filled with primitive language, [[Mini-Con]] [[Laserbeak (Armada)|Laserbeak]] translated it for them. The markings told of a time when the Maximals and Predacons crash-landed on prehistoric Earth, though the stranded Transformers were seen by the protohumans as gods. When one of the archeologists, [[Jessica Theist]], later touched one of the markings, she was bestowed a vision of the Maximals' and Predacons' battles. Among them, she saw Blackarachnia. {{storylink|Fire in the Dark}}

===''Universe'' CD-ROM===
Blackarachnia followed [[Reptilion|Reptillion]]{{sic}} in battle against [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] and his Autobot forces. She teamed up with [[Razorclaw (Universe)|Razorclaw]] to fight [[Striker]] before being abducted by [[Acheron|a mysterious ship]], which was bringing the Decepticons to [[Unicron]]. {{storylink|Transformers: Universe CD-ROM|Universe CD-ROM}}

===''Q-Robo Transformer''===
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===''Beast Wars: Uprising''===
[[File:Scavengerblackarachniaalphatriontranscendent.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|Silverbolt would not approve.]]
Blackarachnia was brought online in a [[Primax 209.0 Gamma|universe]] where the Autobots and Decepticons had grown too decrepit to carry on the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], and had made the [[Maximal]]s and Predacons continue the war in a series of ritualized [[Games (competition)|Games]]. As a result from her first moments Blackarachnia knew only strife and combat. Increasingly questioning the orders of her Autobot masters, the breaking point came with the death of her colleagues [[Silverbolt (Fuzor)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Silverbolt]] and [[Rhinox (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Rhinox]], and the apparent death of [[Rattrap (BW)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Rattrap]]. She conspired with [[Nightscream (BM)#Beast Wars: Uprising|Nightscream]] and together they killed their commander, Optimus Primal.

Joined by the malcontent Predacons [[Immorticon (BW)|Immorticon]] and [[Scavenger (BM)|Scavenger]], they fled and activated an experimental transwarp device, hoping to escape Cybertron. Instead, they found themselves in ''another'' Cybertron, in [[Axiom Nexus]]. After processing, they were placed in the care of [[Alpha Trion#Shattered Glass|Alpha Trion]]. He convinced her that the [[Transcendent Technomorph]]s who ruled the city were little different from the Autobots under whose yoke she had chafed. Under his tender ministrations, her spark was transferred from her Lowtech body into that of her Transcendent Technomorph [[Blackarachnia (TransTech)|counterpart]], with the authorities of Axiom Nexus none the wiser. {{storylink|Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 25|Blackarachnia's profile in Club magazine #25}}

Thus upgraded, she joined Alpha Trion's insurrectionist organization, and was part of the raid on [[Shockwave (TransTech)|Shockwave]]'s laboratory in the hopes of rescuing [[Breakaway (Classics)|Breakaway]]. Blackarachnia and her comrades successfully stormed into Shockwave's inner sanctum, where they came face-to-face with the formidable [[Megatron (TransTech)|Megatron]]. {{storylink|Transcendent: Part 5}} Despite that rather severe obstacle, Blackarachnia and the Alpha Trion's minions managed to secure the transit room and transwarp to the Old One's [[Primax -408.24 Epsilon|original universal stream]]. {{storylink|Transcendent: Part 6}}

On the other side of the transwarp portal, Alpha Trion ordered Blackarachnia to prepare the cloaking device in order to keep his return a secret. {{storylink|Reunification: Part 1}}

Through some form of trans-dimensional navigation, Blackarachnia arranged to return to her home universe at [[Primax 215.19 Epsilon|a later point]]. She intended to arrive on Earth, but instead found herself drawn back to Cybertron due to a unique but powerful energy matrix of Terran design she detected. She was discovered after impact by [[Lio Convoy#Beast Wars: Uprising|Lio Convoy]], Guardian of Order in the [[Games (competition)|Games]] and unknowingly the possessor of this [[Energon Matrix|energon matrix]] at the core of his spark. Blackarachnia's words stirred the fires of revolution in Lio Convoy, and he recognized the need to throw off their Builder oppressors. Blackarachnia got back in touch with the resistance, getting a new body along the way.

At the start of the next Games, Blackarachnia and her team of rebels ([[B'Boom]], [[Scylla]], [[Break]], [[Longhorn]], and [[Retrax]]) stormed the stadium and overcame the Builder [[Override (BWU)|Override]]. Taking control of the cameras and broadcast equipment, they ensured Lio Convoy had the world's undivided attention when he executed the Games' [[Supersonic|announcer]] and declared it was time for [[Grand Uprising|revolution]]. {{storylink|Broken Windshields}}

Blackarachnia was tasked with recruiting [[Twirl (G1)|Twirl]] into the resistance, until Twirl was murdered. She started her own investigation into the murder, and infected [[Wolfang (Predacon)|Wolfang]] with a virus, to probe his core conscious for information. Wolfang's secret Predacon identity was revealed, giving Blackarchania leverage over him. Wolfang discovered she purchased the virus from [[Overrun]] under the psuedonym "Elita." Both Wolfang and Blackarachnia traced Twirl's murder to the Mayhemist movement. Despite knowing Twirl for a short period of time, Blackarachnia sought to avenge her death, setting up a sniper's nest outside the Mayhemist base. Wolfang found her and threatened to arrest her, but Blackarachnia countered, stating that she could end his life with a single anonymous transmission. The two reluctantly teamed up, deeming the Mayhemists a mutual threat. The pair shared cy-gar-ettes while waiting for the Mayhemists to arrive. Wolfang was shocked to see that Tarantulas, senior scientist of the Predacon Secret Police, was directly involved with the Mayhemists. Blackarachnia suggested killing him outright, but Wolfang insisted on trying to arrest him. Blackarachnia temporarily fled to avoid the PSP, later intending to meet Wolfang back at [[Sparks of Genius]]. However, she was apprehended by Overrun on the way, who confessed to the murder after Wolfang confronted him. Blackarachnia managed to free herself, but not before the PSP arrived. Overrun escaped, pursued by Wolfang and Blackarachnia, as well as the MCSF and PSP. Overrun attempted to escape near the border of [[Vos (polity)|Vos]]. While Wolfang decided what to do with him, Blackarachnia bought them time by prompting a mortar strike on the area. Blackarachnia offered an escape for Overrun and Wolfang, but Wolfang declined, knowing that their time was near. Wolfang and Blackarachnia shared a brief romantic moment, before she fled the scene. {{storylink|Trigger Warnings}}

Pragmatic to a fault, Blackarachnia was quick to accept "dirty" business as a necessity of war. When the Predacons declared their secetion from the Builders as the [[Independent Predacus States]], they initially opted for neutrality. The Tripredacus Council was willing to entertain an open alliance with the Resistance under certain conditions, one which was non-negotiable: the elimination of [[Preditron]], founder of the Predacons and the council's only real threat to power. Blackarachnia and Lio Convoy agreed to arrange the death of Preditron, who had been in their care since the breakout at Fortress Maximus.

Blackarachnia was also encouraging Games of a new sort in [[Protihex]]—captive Micromasters fighting against each other to the death, just as the proto-races did for centuries. She called it a needed release for their tired troops, but Cheetor wondered how much Lio Convoy knew about such an idea. {{storylink|Safe Spaces}}

As High Command attempted to deal with independent warlords and the rise of the [[Maximal Nation]] and Independent Predacus States as potential allies, the [[Vehicon Apocalypse]] began. Blackarachnia supported Operation Amputation, an excessive counter-strike to wipe out the infected regions of [[Damaxus]], [[Carpessa]], and Protihex with [[K-Class]] Commandos. The failure to cauterize the infected areas mean the Vehicons spread beyond their initial borders, and the Resistance was now caught between the Builders to the north and a growing menace to the south. Faced with little choice, High Command ordered an all-out assault on Iacon, hoping that winning the war and bringing down the [[Builder Assembly]] would also provide the means to contain or deactivate the Vehicon horde.

In order to press onwards to Iacon, the [[Yuss Naval Batteries]] could not be firing on the Resistance Navy when they traversed the [[Rust Sea|Great Rust Sea]]. And so, the Resistance fought to seize the seven fortresses guarding the batteries, and the batteries themselves. Blackarachnia led the successful siege on [[Fort Xern]]. The Maxilla was conquered and the batteries seized, but at great cost. No longer having the necessary naval ships to transport the army up the Sea, the Resistance had to proceed largely on foot to Iacon. They began to double-time it once they realized [[Hot Rod (G1)|Hot Rod]], commander of the Micromaster 001st in Iacon, was refusing to engage in open warfare in the streets and risk civilians. The enemy's general had, effectively, left the front door open to them.

At the [[High Council Pavilions|High Pavilion]] of Iacon, Blackarachnia and Lio Convoy secured the outer perimeter while Psycho-orb and B'Boom led squads inside to reach the Builder Assembly. Instead, the Builders seemingly chose to come to them. The Assembly bunker raised into the sky, exposing the Builders in a naked display of arrogance. Lio Convoy and Blackarachnia ascended to greet them with [[Grimwing (BWU)|Grimwing]] and the Flying Meteors. As they tried to "negotiate" the Assembly into surrendering, the Vehicon hordes finally reached Iacon. They were completely unprepared when the Vehicons turned on the Builder Assembly, assimilating them and going on to augment their numbers with the three million Builders also in Iacon. All hope of shutting the Vehicons down was lost. The Vehicons would not, could not be stopped. The [[Vehicon Apocalypse]] had begun.

Two megacycles later, the army of the Resistance was still fighting to survive in the ruins of the High Pavilion. Lio Convoy was prepared to activate their last K-Class, [[Ro-Tor (RID)|Ro-Tor]], and destroy the entire planet to stop the Vehicons when Administrator [[Eject (G1)|Eject]] arrived with intelligence on the Vehicons' home base, the [[Grand Mal]] of [[Nova Cronum]]. Working quickly, Blackarachnia and Lio Convoy assembled a small squad of special forces troopers to assault the Grand Mal and hopefully defeat [[Galva Convoy]], the dark mirror of Lio Convoy who created the Vehicons.

Entering the Grand Mal and making their way to the command center cost lives, and the final door was heavily guarded. Ro-Tor, [[Apexus]], and [[Razorbeast]] were sent off to cause a diversion while Blackarachnia and Lio Convoy used the concealing power of his [[Solipsistic Staff|Solipsistic Sword]] to move past the Vehicon guards. They confronted Galva Convoy, but were overwhelmed by his defenses. Trying a different tactic, Lio Convoy claimed to have seen the light, and expressed a desire to join his "brother". To prove it, he agreed to have Blackarachnia turned into a Vehicon. Instead, he interposed himself between Blackarachnia and the nano-injection, taking the plague for himself. Their shared CNA allowed him to pass the infection into Galva Convoy with a touch. With a heavy heart, Blackarachnia used her mandible-blaster to shoot Lio Convoy with cyber-venom before he too succumbed to the plague.

Destroying Galva Convoy didn't stop the Vehicons, unfortunately. It only revealed the true malefactor behind the Apocalypse: [[Lord Imperious Delirious]], a second-born intellect who slipped into Cybertron during the Uprising to destroy the Transformers from within. Uncertain of Lio Convoy's chances of survival, Blackarachnia pulled the supreme commander to safety and hooked up with the commandos. She ordered the last surviving special forces trooper, Razorbeast, to get Lio Convoy to safety by any means necessary. After that, she and Ro-Tor pressed on to the engineering section, hoping to detonate the K-Class warrior and stop the flying fortress. Instead, the crazed Rampage intervened and stole Ro-Tor's core bomb for himself. Attaching the explosive to his own spark by ripping open his chest, Rampage bade Ro-Tor and Blackarachnia to run while they still could. The Resistance fighters made it out of the Mal before Rampage detonated his bomb, destroying Delirious and severing the Vehicons from their hive mind.

In the days that followed, Blackarachnia rested at Lio Convoy's bedside in Stanix until he recovered from her cyber-venom, which proved remarkably effective in cleansing the nano-plague. Once he awakened, Lio Convoy insisted on a Grand Summit of the surviving factions to ensure peace was forged and the world didn't slide back into war again. A Cybertronian Parliament was hammered out, with the Resistance gaining three voices out of sixteen, joined by Maximals, Predacons, Neutrals, and a few concessions to the surviving Builders. In the meantime, Resistance territory would be reforged into the League of Autonomous Proto-States, each having a voice while governing themselves. Unfortunately, Lio Convoy wouldn't be around to see it. Blackarachnia's oldest friend and collaborator rightly decided he was too polarizing a figure to remain, and planned to leave Cybertron good-bye. As he departed, Blackarachnia and "Aslan" shared a final moment together, as she thanked him for all his efforts since they first met, stellar cycles earlier. {{storylink|Derailment}}

Millennia later, Blackarachnia would be unfairly remembered as trying to capture "Oversurge" and trying to turn him into a weapon of mass destruction. She was also mistakenly attributed with Lio Convoy's murder of Supersonic. {{storylink|The Inexorable March}}

===''Mini Mayhem!''===
Using the [[Autoscout]], [[Soundwave (G1)|Soundwave]] delivered a love-letter to Blackarachnia. She didn’t seem too happy about it. {{storylink|Mini Mayhem!}}

===''Transformers vs. G.I. Joe''===
[[File:EverybodyHatesMetroplex BlackarachniaLives.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|She lays eggs in your brain that make you think ''Madame Web'' was the greatest movie ever.]]
A Decepticon believed to have been killed by [[Ultra Magnus (G1)|Ultra Magnus]], Blackarachnia had in fact survived and made her way into [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]'s [[Cerebros (G1)|head]], corrupting the giant's brain and turning him into a mindless, violent zombie. She was eventually discovered and defeated by [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]] and [[Tunnel Rat]], restoring Maximus to normal. {{storylink|Everybody Hates Metroplex}}

===''Kre-O'' online manga===
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Blackarachnia was part of [[Bludgeon (G1)|Bludgeon]]'s forces that uncovered the [[Red Bucket]]. She panicked and fled when they were attacked by a giant [[Jazz (G1)|Jazz]] robot. {{storylink|Treasure Competition! Defeat with Block Power!}}

===Legends World===
The Blackarachnia of the [[Legends World]] visited the [[Transformers Celebration 2014]] event, where she browsed the toys for sale. {{storylink|Legends Bonus Vol.}} At day, she was an office worker at [[Tera-Kura Co.]], while, at night, she worked at a [[w:Host and hostess clubs|host club]] where she'd often entertain her employer, President [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]]. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 10#Head of Partying, Cheetor|Head of Partying, Cheetor}} She was also a huge ''Transformers'' fan, something that prompted Megatron to learn more about the franchise to impress her. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 14#President Mega's Requests|President Mega's Requests}} Before long, he was able to recite all kinds of Transformer names, to Blackarachnia's enjoyment. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 14#President Mega's Studies|President Mega's Studies}} She also spent that [[Christmas]] lovingly exchanging gifts with him. {{storylink|Merry X'mas!!}}

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When Blackarachnia stayed at work longer than other employees, Megatron told her to finish up, wanting to leave and go the bar. He was unaware that she also wanted to get done quick as she had to go ''work'' at said bar. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 16#Widow-chan at Work|Widow-chan at Work}} Megatron later went to a ''[[Q-Transformers]]'' event, hoping to buy merchandise Blackarachnia would like, and found to his surprise that she was also there. {{storylink|Deckss × Q-Transformers Collaboration Event Report|Deckss × Q-Transformers}} When [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|the original Megatron]] appeared in the [[Legends World|Legends Universe]], seeking to conquer it, Blackarachnia was happy to see him and gave him some [[oil]] as an offering. {{storylink|Legends Vol. 23#Lord Megatron Goes to the Legends World|Lord Megatron Goes to the Legends World}} She did, however, fail to recognize him while she was on a date with President Megatron and asked her boyfriend who the new guy was at the club. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 13|Bonus Edition Vol. 13}} Blackarachnia was overjoyed when the original Megatron became the chairman of Tera-Kura Co., but worked hard to act natural around him as she didn't want people at the office knowing she was a big nerd. {{storylink|LG13 Megatron Sequel#Widow-chan's Usual Day|Widow-chan's Usual Day}}

[[File:TFLegendVol17DecepticonHalloweenCostumes.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.1|Kitty cat/spider Fuzor!]]

President Megatron later invited all his employees for a night on the town, but none of them showed up including Blackarachnia. {{storylink|LG14 Ultra Magnus Prologue#The Autumn Megatron Festival|The Autumn Megatron Festival}} Among his visions of things to come, [[Alpha Trion]] foresaw that something would happen to Blackarachnia. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 14|Bonus Edition Vol. 14}} She would attend the unveiling of Tera-Kura's latest product, the [[Nightbird (G1)|Nightbird Shadow]] ninja maid robot. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 15|Bonus Edition Vol. 15}} Trion's prediction came to pass when Blackarachnia contracted [[Transformers sickness]], granting her a full-scale Transformer body. Happy to have another Transformer on his team in time for [[Halloween]], Chairman Megatron had her to go trick-or-treating for energy alongside Nightbird and [[Slipstream (Animated)|Slipstream]], which she did dressed as a cat. When Autobots [[Arcee (G1)|Arcee]], [[Chromia (G1)|Chromia]], and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]] showed up to spoil their fun, Blackarachnia defeated all three by tying them up in webbing. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 17|Bonus Edition Vol. 17}}

[[Starscream (Armada)/Cartoon continuity|Armada Starscream]], another employee at the club, called Blackarachnia for help when he got in trouble with Slipstream, but she assumed ''he'' had started it and took Slipstream's side. {{storylink|LG-16 Slipstream Sequel}} When [[Springer (G1)|Springer]] arrived in the Legends world, Blackarachnia found him ''very'' easy on the eyes {{storylink|LG19 Sprung Prologue}} and was quite literally all over him alongside Nightbird and Slipstream. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 19|Bonus Edition Vol. 19}} The three later went with Chairman Megatron on a hot springs trip, and were thus absent when Tera-Kura Co. was briefly taken over by [[Waspinator (BW)#Cartoon continuity|Waspinator]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Waspinator)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} Blackarachnia grieved over G1 Megatron's body after he was seemingly killed by [[Skids (G1)|Skids]], only to find a tiny new Megatron located inside the remains of the old one. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 20|Bonus Edition Vol. 20}}

After their company merged with the Decepticon [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmasters]] to become Decepticon Tera-Kura Co., Blackarachnia appeared on a chart of the current employees. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 22|Bonus Edition Vol. 22}} When Megatron turned into the violent [[Galvatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Galvatron]], Blackarachnia, Nightbird and Slipstream tried to dissuade him from destroying the city only to be blasted for their trouble. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 23|Bonus Edition Vol. 23}} Blackarachnia was later present for [[Scourge (G1)|Scourge]]'s failed attempt at usurping Megatron, {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 26|Bonus Edition Vol. 26}} and was temporarily hypnotized by [[Mindwipe (G1)|Mindwipe]] into clinging all over him. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 34|Bonus Edition Vol. 34}} She sat on Tigatron during the filming of ''[[Transformers: Convobat Amazon Showdown]]'', which he didn't mind but the [[Nightscream (BM)|director]] did. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. EX (Convobat)|Bonus Edition Vol. EX}} Blackarachnia later had her dresses ripped off by [[Apeface]]'s telekinetic powers, {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 38|Bonus Edition Vol. 38}} and started taking [[Astrotrain (G1)|Astrotrain]]'s commuter service to work. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 40|Bonus Edition Vol. 40}}

Blackarachnia helped defend Tera-Kura when the treacherous Headmaster faction came to steal [[Metroplex (G1)|Metroplex]]'s [[Transformation cog (biology)|transformation cog]], but was defeated by [[Trickdiamond]] {{storylink|LG43 Trypticon Mobilization Chapter: Decepticon Civil War|Decepticon Civil War}} and sat back at base during the ensuing battle with [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]]. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 43|Bonus Edition Vol. 43}} She remained loyal to G1 Megatron even after he departed the company, and later helped him clear out invading [[Viper (CW)|Vipers]] from Tera-Kura's office. {{storylink|Legends Comic: Bonus Edition Vol. 63|Bonus Edition Vol. 63}}
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===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[Windblade vol. 2 issue 6|''Windblade'' vol. 2 #6]]}}

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A native of [[Jungle Planet (colony)|Eukaris]], Blackarachnia was a member of the [[Fateweaver]] tribe, a small group of Transformers who specialized in the art of prophecy and fortune-telling. {{storylink|The Price of You}} Blackarachnia was one of the very few Fateweavers to be born with the gift of true precognition and the ability to access what she called the "Web of Time". Her unusual precognitive powers set her apart from the other citizens of Eukaris, and over time she took up the life of a hermit. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 6|Windblade vol. 2 #6}}

When fellow Fateweaver [[Airachnid (G1)|Airachnid]] went rogue and began experimenting on unwilling Eukarian victims, Blackarachnia oversaw her banishment from the tribe and subsequent exile. {{storylink|The Price of You}}

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One evening, Blackarachnia was visited by Airazor and Tigatron, who had witnessed a [[Optimus Maximus (G1)|pair of]] [[Devastator (G1)|combiners]] from Cybertron fighting in nearby [[Talon Valley]]. Consulting the "Web of Time", Blackarachnia foresaw the coming of Cybertronians and [[Caminus (planet)|Camien]]s to their isolated world. Not long afterwards, Blackarachnia assembled representatives from all four of Eukaris's tribes at the planet's [[Space bridge|spacebridge]], where they encountered Cybertronian representative [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]]. Not long afterwards, the tribes reconvened to greet a second delegation, consisting of Starscream and [[Windblade (G1)|Windblade]]. Windblade used her Camien heritage to try and parley favor of the Eukariens, but the arrival of "standard-formers" reawakened Chela - another part of a prophecy that Blackarachnia had forseen. The two Cybertronians were able to put down the mad Titan; although Windblade was saddened by the loss Blackarachnia consoled her by telling her that the death of Chela was but the first step towards changing Eukaris for the better. Eukaris agreed to join the [[Council of Worlds]]; Blackarachnia decided that Tigatron and Airazor's status as outcasts would make them ideal delegates. {{storylink|Windblade vol. 2 issue 6|Windblade vol. 2 #6}}
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===Precursor World===
A [[Primus Vanguard|Warrior of the Seven Lights]] resembling Blackarachnia was a member of the [[Yellow Order]]. She was enjoying one of the local oases on the [[Yellow Planet]] with her comrades when her commander [[Yellow Splendid Convoy]] received word of the fall of the [[Blue Order]] and the threat of the [[G1 World|extradimensional]] warlord [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Generations Selects Special Comic (1)|Ultra Megatron Omega]] from the [[Primus Vanguard]]'s [[Primus#The old universe|eponymous supreme leader]]. {{Storylink|God Neptune comic 1}}

===''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' continuity===
====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' marketing material====
[[File:Kingdom-Golden-Disk-Leader-Blackarachnia.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.0|stronk]]

The Predacons traveled across time to find the [[AllSpark]] and change the fate of Cybertron. While battling the [[Maximal]]s on pre-[[Ice Age]] Earth, both sides were joined by the Autobots and Decepticons, their epic battle changing their combined destinies forever.

Blackarachnia's function was a double agent, and she [[Scanning|trans-scanned]] into a black widow spider. Her venomous weapons and stealth were her powers and weapons, and her core traits were her slyness, snarkiness, and independence. Blackarachnia's message from the future was that she will forge new alliances that will lead her down her true path. {{storylink|War for Cybertron: Kingdom|''Kingdom'' webpage}}<ref>[https://transformers.hasbro.com/en-us/brands/kingdom ''Kingdom'' webpage]</ref>

Blackarachnia was one of a few 'bots with three possible destinies recorded on the [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|''Voyager'' Golden Disk]].
* In one destiny, she became a [[Maximal]], sporting a new color scheme, standing far from [[Waspinator (BW)|Waspinator]], [[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]], [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]].
* In another destiny, she ascended to the leader of the Predacons, standing in front of [[Retrax]], [[Predaking (Kingdom)|Predaking]], [[Buzz Saw (BW)|Buzzsaw]], [[Manterror]], and [[Buzzclaw (BW)|Buzzclaw]].
* In her last destiny, Blackarachnia was reformatted into '''Darkarachnia''' as a [[Herald of Unicron]].
In other possible destinies recorded on the ''Voyager'' Golden Disk, Blackarachnia was part of the united Maximal-Predacon faction lead by Dinobot. {{storylink|Source:Golden Disk destinies|''Kingdom'' Golden Disk cards}}

After obtaining the Allspark, [[Bumblebee (G1)|Bumblebee]] escaped through a [[space bridge]] to protect it from the Decepticons. Arriving in an alternate universe, he faced new beast threats including Blackarachnia. {{storylink|Source:Buzzworthy Bumblebee Worlds Collide|Worlds Collide}}
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====''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon====
{{voiceactor| [[Jeanne Carr]] (English), [[Yuki Kazu]] (Japanese) |[[Cathlen Gawlich]] (German), [[Juliette Degenne]] (French), [[Regina Maria Maia]] (Portuguese), [[Chusa Nieto]] (Castilian Spanish), [[Ileana Escalante]] (Latin-American Spanish), [[Neha Gargava]] (Hindi)}}

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{{charstubfiction|{{storylink|Kingdom episode 1}} {{storylink|Kingdom episode 2}} {{storylink|Kingdom episode 3}} {{storylink|Kingdom episode 4}} {{storylink|Kingdom episode 5}} {{storylink|Kingdom episode 6}}}}
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===2021 ''Beast Wars'' comic===
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After breaking into the ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'', [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] hacked the ship's computers and attempted to upload a personality-altering [[shell program]] into the [[stasis pod]]s that orbited the planet in the hopes that he could initiate their landing protocols and raise an army of loyal slaves. {{storylink|Savage Landing Part 6}} However, [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] interrupted the process and as a result only a single stasis pod received a garbled version of the transmission. Upon making planetfall, Blackarachnia emerged. After first dispatching a native creature, Blackarachnia's [[onboard computer]] guided her towards the nearest Cybertronian signal, which happened to be the nearby ''Axalon''. As the ship's shields had not been keyed to recognize the newly-born Blackarachnia's [[spark]] signature, the new Transformer slipped through the Maximal defenses and right into their base... at which point Tarantulas's shell program took over and converted her into a Predacon. When [[Cheetor (BW)|Cheetor]] overheard the sounds of an intruder, he went to investigate; although he initially mistook Blackarachnia for a confused Maximal, she easily bested him in single combat, paralyzed him with her venom, and trapped him in a web cocoon while she went off to sabotage the ship. {{storylink|Pod Part 1}}

While the other Maximals freed Cheetor and searched for the intruder, Blackarachnia broke into the ship's mainframe and used it to upload a new copy of her own shell program into the orbiting stasis pods, but only managed to infect fifty-one percent of the pods before [[Rhinox (BW)|Rhinox]] found her. To keep the larger Maximal distracted, Blackarachnia triggered the deorbiting protocol ahead of schedule and escaped amidst the confusion, stopping only to use some stolen [[talvox grenade]]s to rig an explosive booby-trap that would've taken out the entire Maximal squad had Dinobot not prevented Cheetor from stumbling into the tripwire. Cheetor pursued Blackarachnia as she blew a hole in the ship's hull and fled, but when Blackarachnia lied about having set a second trap, Cheetor turned back and allowed Blackarachnia to escape into the jungle. Blackarachnia found the crashed ''[[Darksyde (BW)|Darksyde]]'' and encountered Tarantulas. Although the mad scientist found that the independent Blackarachnia was quite unlike the loyal slave he had envisioned, he was pleased to learn that more Predacon reinforcements were on the way. {{storylink|Pod Part 2}}

[[File:MaximalsStrikeBackPart3-BlackarachniavsCheetor.jpg|thumb]]
To commemorate their new recruit, [[Megatron (BW)|Megatron]] held a celebration to welcome their new recruit to the Predacons. During the festivities, [[Terrorsaur (BW)|Terrorsaur]] got on her bad side when he criticized her decision to have the stasis pods land near Maximal territory, and she later insulted [[Skold]] when the little Predacon suggested teaming up to find the stasis pods. {{storylink|Thicker Skin}} After Terrorsaur played a cruel prank on Skold, Blackarachnia and the other Predacons watched in shock as Skold befriended, and subsequently decapitated, [[Powerhug (BW)|Powerhug]]. {{storylink|Skold's No Good, Very Bad Day}}

Blackarachnia and most of her comrades were training when the Maximals used an improvised escape shuttle to launch a bombing run on the Predacon base. {{storylink|Maximals Strike Back, Part 1}} In the ensuing battle, Blackarachnia tried to chase down [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]] and [[Nyx]] as the two escaped into the Predacon ship, but Cheetor, eager for a rematch, kept her distracted long enough for the two Maximals to carry out their sabotage mission. {{storylink|Maximals Strike Back, Part 2}} In the ensuing fight, Cheetor successfully closed the distance on his foe and redirected her own [[stun beam]] against [[Scorponok (BW)|Scorponok]]; when [[Optimus Primal (BW)|Optimus Primal]] defeated Megatron in single combat a few moments later, Blackarachnia mused that she'd have to reconsider her allegiances and scuttled away. {{storylink|Maximals Strike Back, Part 3}}

At one point, she and Tarantulas built a maze to trap the Maximals, and used Waspinator as a guinea pig before abandoning him in the labyrinth. {{storylink|Rhinox's Amaze-ing Adventure}} At another point, Blackarachnia took part in a skirmish over energon that ended with Cheetor getting injured. {{storylink|The Speedway of Central Consciousness}}

When Waspinator and Scorponok stumbled across an unusual sample of aggression-enhancing red energon, Blackarachnia and Tarantulas ambushed Optimus and Dinobot and attached a weaponized version of the substance on Dinobot before they escaped. {{storylink|Primal Rage}}

Soon afterwards, Optimus and Megatron ordered an alliance against the [[Vok]], Blackarachnia being part of an officer exchange assigned to the ''Axalon''. Working with Cheetor, she salvaged what she could from the armoury while noting that the Vok had been present on the planet first before a distress call came in from the ''Darksyde''. {{storylink|The Beginning of the End}}

Finding the ''Darksyde'' besieged by the totality of the [[Children of the Vok (group)|Children of the Vok]], Blackarachnia initially fought [[Polar Claw]] before webbing up [[Razorclaw (BW)|Razorclaw]]. Managing to track down Tarantulas, Blackarachnia mocked his lack of reinforcements before the Vok arrived, intending to fire their [[reversion device]] and scour the planet of life. Only for the ''Axalon'', now flight-worthy again, to open fire on the Vok with unspace beams, dissipating the energy beings. After Megatron had been hit by the same beam - and shunted a few cycles into the future - Optimus Primal offered to extend the truce with the Predacons so they could work together to capture both Megatron and Tarantulas. Assuming command, Blackarachnia denied the offer, but allowed the Maximals to leave peacefully. After inducting [[Inferno (BW)|Inferno]] into the Predacons, Blackarachnia eyed the inert reversion device as a useful supply of spare parts with which to repair the ''Darksyde''. {{storylink|The End (BW)|The End}}
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==Games==
===''Beast Wars: Transformers'' video game continuity===
====''Beast Wars: Transformers'' video game advertising comic====
Upon arriving on "[[Earth|Planet Energon]]," the dangers of Energon radiation forced the six surviving Predacons and their Maximal adversaries to take on beast alternate forms. {{storylink|Beast Wars: Transformers video game advertising comic}}

====''Beast Wars: Transformers'' video game====
{{voiceactor|??? (English), ??? (Japanese)}}

Blackarachnia joined her fellow Predacons in battling not only the persistent Maximal resistance, but the interdimensional monsters known as the [[Skriix]].

=====Maximal campaign=====
{{note|In the Maximal campaign, the stasis pod that would contain Blackarachnia is instead rescued by the Maximals, producing [[Rattrap (BW)|Rattrap]].}}

=====Predacon campaign=====
When Blackarachnia's stasis pod landed in the "Polluted Area," it was secured by the Predacons whom she subsequently joined. {{storylink|Beast Wars: Transformers (video game)|Beast Wars: Transformers}}

{{BW VG|Blackarachnia|P}}

===''Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals'' (N64)===
{{voiceactor|[[Janet-Laine Green]] (English)}}
[[File:N64Blackarachnia.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|I'm... sure she has a nice personality... wait, no. No, she doesn't.]]

As a result of Megatron sending a message to his past self and altering history, Blackarachnia gained a Transmetal form much sooner and joined her fellow Predacons in distributing various one-on-one beat downs to the Maximals. Eventually, Silverbolt convinced her to defect to the Maximals but she never truly reformed. It was her betrayal at a key moment that eventually assured the Maximals' victory in the Beast Wars. Once back on Cybertron, she worked as a double-agent between the Maximal and [[Tripredacus Council]] with no loyalty to either side. She often pondered what would have happened if she had remained on the Predacon team throughout the war. {{storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (N64)|Beast Wars Transmetals}}

{{BW fighter ending|Blackarachnia|N64}}
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===''Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals'' (PS)===
{{voiceactor|[[Janet-Laine Green]] (English), [[Ryōka Yuzuki]] (Japanese)}}
{{note|Blackarachnia appears as a secret playable character in the North American version of the game, but is not playable in the game's story mode, only appearing in cutscenes.}}
====Maximal story====
While the Maximals chased the Predacons back to their base, Blackarachnia joined Waspinator and Inferno in infiltrating and taking control of the ''Axalon''. {{Storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)}}
====Predacon story====
As part of Megatron's plan, a group of Maximals was baited to the ''Darkside'' while Blackarachnia and Waspinator lured the rest away from the ''Axalon''. {{Storylink|Transformers: Beast Wars Transmetals (PS)}}

===''Transformers Legends''===
Alongside Waspinator and Terrorsaur, Blackarachnia came upon the crash-site of a large stasis pod marked with a red "X". Finding the Maximal Silverbolt already there, a battle ensued. When the content of the pod was accidentally let loose, Blackarachnia and Silverbolt were blown away from the fight by the newly emerged Rampage, and sent flying into a hostile swamp. Finding that they need to rely on one another to survive, Blackarachnia is slowly won over by Silverbolt's chivalrous attitude, despite them being on opposing sides of a war. Eventually returning to where Waspinator, Terrorsaur, and a recently arrived Depth Charge continue to do battle with Rampage, all present manage to defeat Rampage just as Megatron arrives on-site. {{storylink|When Sparks Fly}}

===''Transformers: Battle Tactics''===
[[File:BattleTacticsBlackarachnia.jpg|thumb]]
[[File:Battle-Tactics-Blackarachnia-TM-II.jpg|thumb|If she's defeated, she drops her swords, but not her chestplate.]]
Blackarachnia participated in battles against a variety of opponents, both Autobots and Decepticons. Sometimes there were many of her! She appeared in multiple different bodies:
*''Blackarachnia'' — This Epic character first appeared in the "Beast Wars - Episode 2" event, and could be recruited by collecting 500 units of Cybermetal, 250 units of Transmetal, and 50 cores of this character.
*''Blackarachnia TM II'' — This Epic character first appeared in the third "Transmetals 2: Episode 1" mini events, and could be recruited by collecting 650 units of Cybermetal, 350 units of Transmetal, 150 exclusive cores, and 50 cores of this character.
{{storylink|Transformers: Battle Tactics}}
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===''Transformers: Earth Wars''===
[[file:Blackarachnia-Earth-Wars.jpg|thumb||upright=2| I'm bored, so talk to the hand.]]
Blackarachnia and [[Cheetor (BW)#Transformers: Earth Wars|Cheetor]] were investigating a massive anomaly where Megatron and Optimus Primal had seemingly disappeared. Seeing as both Blackarachnia and Cheetor were reverted to their pre-transmetal states, Cheetor had a hard time believing Blackarachnia could be trusted.
{{storylink|Primal Call}}
{{storylink|Arachnophobia}}
{{storylink|Not So Fast}}
{{storylink|String Theory}}

*'''Class''': Special
*'''Weapons''': Blackarachnia can use her built-in gun to shoot a peculiar beam at defenses. In beast mode, she chops and dices at enemy targets with her razor-sharp spider legs.
*'''Ability''': Bestial Fury - For 15 seconds, use melee attacks dealing 37.8 damage. Destroy buildings to increase your attack and movement speed by 25% - the buff lasts 90 seconds and can stack 5 times.
**'''Cost''': 4 ability points +2 cost increase.
[http://wiki.transformersearthwars.com/character:blackarachnia Blackarachnia at Transformers: Earth Wars Wiki]
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{{chargamestub|{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars}} Everything after [[Web of Lies]]}}

===''Transformers Roleplaying Game''===
Blackarachnia was created when Tarantulas used a Predacon shell program to alter a newborn Maximal protoform. As a Predacon, she was a skilled and self-reliant saboteur; when she realized that Megatron’s plans to change history would jeopardize her own existence, she decided to work with the Maximals to ensure her continued existence. After leaving the Predacons, Blackarachnia used the [[Transmetal driver|Transmetal Driver]] to evolve into a Transmetal II configuration, granting her unique telekinetic powers. {{storylink|Technorganic Secrets}}

==Toys==
===''Beast Wars''===
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[[File:Blackarachniabwtoy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|When she chokes you, she can taste your fear. (''Hasbro version'')]]
[[File:BW-toy BlackarachniaTakara.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Well, she's not... ''less'' show-accurate? (''Takara version'')]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Blackarachnia''' (Deluxe Class, [[1996]]/[[1997]])}}</ul>
:*''Takara name'': '''Blackwidow'''
:*''Takara ID number'': '''D-8'''
:*''Takara release date'': November ?? [[1997]]
:*''Accessories'': Launcher, 4 leg-missiles
{{toydesigner|[[Takio Ejima]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist), [[Doug Hart]] (packaging artist)}}

: Part of the third wave of ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' Deluxes, Blackarachnia is a [[redeco]] of the [[Tarantulas (BW)#Toys|Tarantulas]] mold, transforming into a rather generic-looking organic spider. She features a removable spring-loaded launcher hidden in her beast mode abdomen, which can be "held" in her claws by plugging it into holes in her forearms. This launcher nominally fires the grappling hook/"poison-tipped missile" attached to Blackarachnia's abdomen by a string, but it can also fire her front four beast mode legs, designed to be removed and used as ammunition. Like all first-year ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars]]'' Deluxes, the robot mode head has both a "robot" face and a [[mutant head|"mutant" face]]; and as a redeco she used the same helmet flipping gimmick of Tarantulas. Blackarachnia has always been depicted in fiction using the "robot" one (or a rough approximation thereof).

: The [[TakaraTomy|Takara]] release of the toy (coincidentally also in the third wave of the Takara line) has numerous color differences from the [[Hasbro]] version, but they are of dubious merit as far as making her more "show-accurate" go. The bright green of the Hasbro version's forearms is replaced with dull silver, while the brighter purple is replaced with a darker, more desaturated purple. These colors changes exactly match those done to the Takara release of [[Buzz Saw (BW)#Toys|Buzz Saw]]; similar changes to the previous mold-characters Tarantulas and [[Waspinator (BW)/toys#Beast Wars|Waspinator]] indicate the spider and wasp molds might have been at least partially [[gang-molding|gang-molded]]. Paint-wise, her dark copper paint is replaced with a brighter gold. Her robot mode facemask is painted gold, which is closer to the show model... but her face beneath is black with gold eyes (instead of gold with black eyes), and she inexplicably gains a new painted-black forehead crest, where the show model has gold. Japanese catalogues showed a figure with a gold face and black eyes; it is unknown why this was changed for the released figure.

: This toy has the distinction of being the first toy of a [[female Transformer]] released at retail by Hasbro, though she was neither the first retail female ''Transformers'' toy ever, or even the first female ''Transformers'' toy released by Hasbro, having been beaten to both by [[Minerva (human)#Toys|Minerva]] (by Takara in 1988) and [[Nightracer (G2)#Toys|Nightracer]] (a [[BotCon 1995]] [[exclusive]]) respectively.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1996/Predacon/Blackarachnia/blackarachnia.htm More information on Deluxe BW Blackarachnia at TFU.info]''
{{BWTarantulasMold}}

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[[File:BJ's-Wholesale-Club-Rhinox-and-Blackarachnia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1p1|'''Deluxe Beast Assortment (Rhinox and Blackarachnia)''' (Multi-pack, 1996)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Launcher, 4 leg-missiles

: Sold exclusively at [[BJ's Wholesale Club]] in the eastern USA, Blackarachnia was released alongside [[Rhinox (BW)/toys#BJs2pack|Rhinox]] in a two-pack card... by which we mean two regularly-packaged toys were slipped into a thick cardboard sleeve.

: Both toys are identical to their individual releases, because they're just regular retail releases in a thick cardboard sleeve.

::*''[https://www.shmax.com/product_details/9281/rhinox_and_blackarachnia_deluxe_beast_assortment_two_pack More infromation on Shmax.com]''

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[[File:VS8-TigatronBlackarachnia.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Battle of the redecos.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1p1|'''Mitsurin no Taiketsu: Tigatron VS Blackwidow''' (VS set, 1997)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''VS-8'''
:*''Accessories'': Launcher, 4 leg-missiles

: In Japan, "Blackwidow" was available both as an individual and in a "Deep Forest Showdown" (密林の対決 ''Mitsurin no Taiketsu'') two-pack with [[Tigatron#VS8|Tigatron]].

: Both toys were identical to their individual releases.

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[[File:Blackarachniamctm.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|She's got a great personality.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Blackarachnia''' (Happy Meal promotion, [[1998]])}}</ul>
:*''McNumber'': '''5'''

: Part of the second [[McDonald's]] ''Beast Wars'' Happy Meal pack-in, Blackarachnia's "[[Transmetal]]" form resembles some sort of dust mite more than a spider, though it does have a black widow-esque hour-glass shape on the abdomen. It has a ''very'' similar transformation to the earlier promotional figure [[Beetle#Toys|Beetle]].

: Like the other two Transmetal Happy Meal figures, Blackarachnia has some metallic-sheened plastic intended to resemble the colored chromed finish of the retail ''Transmetals'' toys.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1998/Predacon/Blackarachnia/blackarachnia.htm More information on McDonald's BW Blackarachnia at TFU.info]''

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[[File:BW-toy BlackarachniaTM2.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|'Sup, bra.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Blackarachnia''' (Transmetal 2, [[1999]])}}</ul>
:*''Takara name'': '''Metals Blackwidow'''
:*''Takara ID number'': '''C-48'''
:*''Accessories'': Mandible grapnel-line
{{toydesigner|[[Yuichiro Hira]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist), [[Doug Hart]] (packaging artist)}}

: The second of two [[Transmetal 2]] Megas released in ''Beast Wars'', this version of Blackarachnia transforms into a large, monstrous bio-mechanical spider. Her thorax features a [[Insignia|faction symbol]]-switching gimmick activated by [[Blackarachnia (BW)#Notes|rotating her spark crystal around]]. In robot mode, her beast-mode mandibles separate to form a [[Retractable string gimmick|grappling hook with retractable string]], plus she has a spring-loaded spin-kick action feature that rotates her entire lower body around. She also has a half-assed "defense mode", bringing the chromed abdomen bits down to cover her chest.

: Like all larger Transmetal 2s, Blackarachnia has hints of an abandoned "transport" mode, mainly the free-spinning wheels and concealed rockets in the spider mode abdomen. There is no discernible way for the wheels to perform their function as wheels, however.

: This toy was initially hard to find at retail, as one of the toy's features, a piece of removable chest armor (no, really), was altered slightly, delaying later shipments.

: The Takara ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars (Japanese toyline)#1999 (Beast Wars Metals)|Beast Wars Metals]]'' release features no differences to the Hasbro version.

: This mold was used to make the [[BotCon 2001]] [[exclusive]] [[Arcee (G1)/toys#BotCon2001|Arcee]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1999/Maximal/Blackarachnia/blackarachnia.htm More information on Transmetal 2 Blackarachnia at TFU.info]''
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===''Beast Machines''===
[[File:Beast Machines Blackarachnia Toy.JPG|upright=1.66|thumb|In ''Beast Machines,'' Silverbolt doubled his bird and so did she.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m2|'''Blackarachnia''' (Deluxe Class, [[2000]])}}</ul>
{{toydesigner|[[Yuichiro Hira]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Tim Bradley]] (concept artist)}}

: Released in the fourth wave of ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Machines]]'' Deluxes, Blackarachnia transforms into a [[technorganic]] spider. In spider mode, squeezing its pedipalps together raises its central fangs; they are spring-loaded to release and lower, respectively. In keeping with the early ''Beast Machines'' "articulated features" motif, her robot mode head has a multi-piece articulated brow, which can slide up to reveal two extra sets of eyes, as she does on the cartoon. Her [[Spark crystal]] is located behind a window on the left side of her spider abdomen.

: This mold was later redecoed to make the [[#UniDx|''Universe'' version of Blackarachnia]], as well as [[Crystal Widow#Toys|Crystal Widow]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2000/Maximal/Blackarachnia/blackarachnia.htm More information on Beast Machines Blackarachnia at TFU.info]''

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[[File:Blackarachniamcbm.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|This is transformed correctly, right? Right?]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m2|'''Blackarachnia''' (Happy Meal, 2000)}}</ul>
:*''McNumber'': '''6'''

: As one of ''nine'' toys in the fourth Transformers [[McDonald's]] Happy Meal promotion, Blackarachnia is a super-simplified version of her retail toy, with a coloration closer to the [[Mainframe Entertainment|Mainframe]] CG model, though more shockingly pink rather than maroon. This toy is designed for the younger set, with softer plastic and no removable parts.

: She is the only [[Beast Era]] character to get two McDonald's Happy Meal toys.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2000/Maximal/McBlackarachnia/blackarachnia.htm More information on McDonald's BM Blackarachnia at TFU.info]''
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===''Universe'' (2003)===
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[[File:Blackarachniauniversetoy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|You can pick your faction, and you can pick your girlfriend, but you can't pick your girlfriend's faction.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Blackarachnia''' (Deluxe Class, [[2003]])}}</ul>

: Part of the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' Deluxes, Blackarachnia returned as a [[Decepticon]] and as a redeco of [[#Beast Machines|the original ''Beast Machines'' figure]]. However, her forearms were [[Misassembly|mistakenly swapped]], leaving her forearm "spikes" pointing up towards her biceps rather than down near her elbows. She received a Decepticon [[Insignia|faction symbol]] over her [[spark crystal]] as well.

: This mold (with the same swapped-forearms error) was used to make [[Crystal Widow#Toys|Crystal Widow]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2003/Decepticon/Blackarachnia/blackarachnia.htm More information on Universe Blackarachnia at TFU.info]''

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[[File:Blackarachnia unreleased.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Eyow.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Leatherhide Vs. Blackarachnia''' (Halloween Horrorcon Value Pack, <s>200?</s>)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Launcher, 4 leg-missiles

: In 2004, a group of test-shots made their way onto eBay, among them a [[redeco]] of the original ''Beast Wars'' Tarantulas/Blackarachnia mold in black with silver spider-legs and salmon-colored robot parts. Later, Hasbro's official website checklist featured listings for two ''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|Universe]]'' "Halloween [[Horrorcon (Universe)|Horrorcon]] Value Packs" that were to be Wal-Mart [[exclusive]]s... which also likely explains why they were canceled. (Wal*Mart had taken a good half-dozen exclusives and released them more-or-less simultaneously, leading to a huge glut. A lot of other ''Transformers'' exclusives were canceled during the ''Universe'' era.) One of the sets was "[[Leatherhide (Universe)|Leatherhide]] Vs. Blackarachnia"... and thus, the mystery spider was confirmed, as the other test-shots in that group lined up with the name listings given in the sets.

::*''[http://s33.photobucket.com/user/binalternator/library/unreleased/halloween_horrorcons?sort=4&page=1 Gallery of Halloween Horrorcon test-shots]''
{{BWTarantulasMold}}
{{canceledtoy}}
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===''Beast Wars Returns''===
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[[File:Blackarachniabeastwarsreturnstoy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|What a maroon.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m2|'''Blackwidow''' (Deluxe, [[2004]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''BR-04'''
:*''Release date'': [[November 18]], 2004

: Part of the Japanese [[Toys"R"Us]]-[[exclusive]] ''[[Beast Machines: Transformers (toyline)|Beast Wars Returns]]'' series, this toy is a redeco of the original ''Beast Machines'' Deluxe Class Blackarachnia in a more show-like maroon coloration. Reportedly, this toy was limited to 3000 pieces, a full thousand ''less'' than the others in the original assortment. Since she was also the most changed from the US release in the initial batch of toys, this made her considerably harder to get.
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===''Beast Wars Telemocha Series''===
[[File:Blackarachniatelemocha.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|It almost works!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Blackwidow''' (Deluxe, [[2007]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''TM-06'''
:*''Release date'': [[March 22]], 2007
:*''Accessories'': Launcher, 4 leg-missiles

: Part of the heavily-loaded first wave of the ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Telemocha Series|Beast Wars Telemocha]]'' line, the [[#Dx1|original Deluxe Class Blackarachnia toy]] was ''extensively'' redecoed with a ridiculous number of gold [[paint operation]]s, making her closer to [[Show-accuracy|show-accurate]] in coloration than the other versions of the mold, but still not quite there. (Her shoulders are silver in the show, among other things.) All of the [[gimmick]]s of the original toy were retained, though her alternate head didn't receive any paint that wasn't intended to make her nominal head look more show-accurate.

: She came with a DVD containing "The Deadly Virus", the Japanese dubbing of ''Beast Wars'' episode 10, "[[Gorilla Warfare]]".

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2007/Destron/BlackWidow/blackwidow.htm More information on Telemocha Blackarachnia at TFU.info]''
{{BWTarantulasMold}}
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===''Animated''===
[[File:Ani-toy Blackarachnia.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|I promise... not... to kill you! SPIDAAAAAAAH]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Blackarachnia''' (Deluxe Class, [[2008]])}}</ul>
:*''Takara ID number'': '''TA-09'''
:*''Accessories'': Grapnel-hook
{{note|''Animated'' [[Blackarachnia (Animated)#Toys|Blackarachnia]] was [[Repurposing|repurposed]] as the original Blackarachnia in the [[2005 IDW continuity]].}}

:Part of the second wave of Hasbro's ''[[Transformers Animated (toyline)|Animated]]'' Deluxes, Blackarachnia transforms into a mechanical spider with some organic aesthetic. Many of her pointier parts are [[For safety reasons|molded in softer plastic]] to keep unfortunate children from putting their eyes out. She comes with a [[Wiktionary:grapnel|grapnel]] [[Retractable string gimmick|hook accessory]] with a jointed claw at the end of it; pulling out the string then pressing a button o the base's top quickly pulls the string back in. It may be mounted under her abdomen in spider mode or on her back in robot mode, via two different sets of pegs. There is also a peg hole in each wrist, for [[Spider-Man|web-slinging]] action.

: The spider's head is mis-transformed in the package, making the first step of her instructions initially confusing. Furthermore, the pedipalps will easily come off if manipulated too much, and her transformation requires that they be turned around completely. Because of this, they will often fall off over, and over, and ''over''....

: Blackarachnia was released in the first wave of Takara's ''Animated'' line in 2010. Oddly, despite the sheer amount of metallic paint applied to virtually every other toy in the first few waves, Takara Blackarachnia is nearly identical to the Hasbro version, down to the gold Decepticon symbol on her collar.

: This toy was later [[retool]]ed and given a ''Beast Wars'' cartoon-accurate deco for the [[Blackarachnia (BW)/toys#Legends|''Legends'' toy]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Decepticon/Blackarachnia/blackarachnia.htm More information on Blackarachnia at TFU.info]''
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===''Binaltech''===
[[File:Blackwidowwildrider.jpg|upright=1.33|thumb|Honda wouldn't appreciate their car being hot, poisonous, and deadly.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Blackwidow''' (<s>2005</s>)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''BT-16'''
:*''Accessories'': Engine-rifle, roof-shield
{{toydesigner|[[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist)}}

: In 2005, the sculpt used for ''[[Transformers: Alternators|Alternators]]'' [[Decepticharge#Toys|Decepticharge]] was presented as an upcoming release for the Japanese ''Binaltech'' line. Takara decided to give the toy an entirely new deco, as the Hasbro toy's deco didn't appeal to their ideal of "real-life accuracy". In robot mode, the toy was given a color scheme based on Transmetal 2 Blackarachnia, with the toy's name being changed to "Blackwidow", Takara's name for the character. Though a [[bio]] and story chapter were written to accommodate it into the ''Binaltech'' fiction, and photoshopped images released through an online retailer revealed the intended color scheme, Takara ultimately decided to cancel the toy altogether, as they were fearing that another redeco (in addition to the then upcoming ''Binaltech Asterisk'' toys) would be too repetitive. Plans to release this toy as part of a different line were never picked up again. A prototype of Blackwidow was later featured in an exhibit at Transformers Expo in 2014.<ref name="tfexpo1">[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/tf-expo-pics-masterpiece-star-saber-in-color-and-more-180923/ "TF Expo Pics - Masterpiece Star Saber In Color and More!"] at TFW2005.</ref><ref name="tfexpo2">[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/tf-expo-pics-part-2-g1-prototypes-movie-props-and-more-masterpiece-180925/ "TF Expo Pics Part 2 - G1 Prototypes, Movie Props, and More Masterpiece!"] at TFW2005.</ref><ref name="tfexpo3">[http://www.tfw2005.com/transformers-news/conventions-15/tf-expo-pics-part-4-prototypes-and-figure-displays-from-diaclone-g1-g2-beast-wars-180933/ "TF Expo Pics Part 4 - Prototypes and Figure Displays from Diaclone, G1, G2, Beast Wars"] at TFW2005.</ref>

:This sculpt was ultimately released in Japan as part of an unexpected ''Binaltech'' continuation, this time as [[Arcee (G1)/toys#Binaltech|Arcee]]. The original version of the mold was used to make ''Alternators'' [[Windcharger (G1)#Alternators|Windcharger]] and ''Binaltech'' [[Overdrive#Binaltech|Overdrive]]. It was also planned to become a new toy of the [[Paradron Medic#Binaltech|Paradron Medic]], but that also got canceled.

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===''Kre-O''===
[[File:KreO-toy Blackarachnia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|She's got half the number of legs, so she knows how to lose them.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Decepticon Blackarachnia''' (Kreon Micro-Changer, [[2014]])}}</ul>
:*''Collection'': '''''Age of Extinction'' Collection 2'''
:*''Accessories'': Logo brick

: Part of the sixth assortment of [[blindpacking|blind-bagged]] ''[[Kre-O]]'' [[Micro-Changer]]s, Blackarachnia is a [[Kreon]] mini-figure that can be rebuilt into a (four-legged) black widow spider. She sports [[Ironhide (Kre-O)|Ironhide]]'s helmet.

:Unlike prior Micro-Changer assortments, this series does not have any sort identification code for the bags' actual contents, meaning you'd best be good at the feel-though-the-bag method.

:This assortment was originally slated to be a [[Toys"R"Us]] [[exclusive]], but US stores dropped the line before its release. It was still available in Canada, Australia, and Hasbro Asia's markets. In 2015, the Collection appeared in US Dollar Tree stores, with a price tag of a whopping $1 a pop. They didn't last long.
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===''Legends''===
[[File:Legendstoy-Blackwidow.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|On the "Important Blackarachnia Anatomy" hierarchy, apparently "boobs" outrank "torso."]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Blackwidow''' ('''Blackarachnia''') (Deluxe, [[2015]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number:'' '''LG17'''
:*''Release date'': [[October 24]], 2015

: Part of the eighth wave of ''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' product, Blackwidow is a retool of ''[[Transformers Animated (toyline)|Animated]]'' Deluxe Class [[Blackarachnia (Animated)#Animated|Blackarachnia]]. The tooling changes include a new head, a new chest/spider eye cluster, and new, larger pedipalps that form her breastplate in robot mode...albeit made of translucent plastic. (Her pedipalps resemble the kind found on ''male'' spiders, incidentally.) Her official robot mode transformation leaves her robot arms half-transformed, with the spider leg tips unrotated, to more closely resemble the original Blackarachnia's claw-arms.

: Because her pedipalps are no longer filling in her stomach area, she now has a tiny, ''tiny'' waist. Considerably more annoying is that her torso is misassembled such that pushing up her chest/spider eye cluster into the correct position for robot mode (and thus avoiding her having a gaping hole in her chest) is considerably more difficult than it should be.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2015/Predacon/LGBlackarachnia/blackarachnia.htm More information on ''Legends'' Blackwidow at TFU.info]''
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===''Masterpiece''===
[[File:MP 46 Blackwidow.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|The robot mode is real good, but the spider mode....]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Blackwidow (Beast Wars)''' ([[2019]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number:'' '''MP-46'''
:*''Release date'': [[November 23]], 2019
:*''Accessories:'' Smiling face, screaming face, visor, visor cable, "Poison Anchor", Anchor missile, Anchor missile with cord, base, arm, spider web, robot mode spider web adapter, spider mode spider web adapter
{{toydesigner|[[Yuki Ohshima]] (concept artist)}}

: First shown in grayscale prototype form at Winter [[Wonder Festival]] 2019, this ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' Blackwidow is an animation-accurate mold depicting her original, pre-Transmetal beast form. She transforms into a show-accurate black widow spider and features multiple accessories, including her trademark anchor missile launcher (which converts into a panel for the rear of her spider mode), a missile for the projectile and an alternate version with a cord, 2 faces for robot mode, a visor and cable, a giant energon spider web and adapters to attach her in both modes. Blackwidow's engineering means that she lacks any major traces of unwanted kibble, and for the pleasure of display owners is incredibly posable. She is also one of the smaller ''Masterpiece'' figures, and is smaller than her fellow ''Beast Wars'' castmates.

: Care should be taken especially when handling the spider legs of the figure as the tips are known to chip off.

: Per the brand unification of TakaraTomy and Hasbro, Blackwidow was directly released with no changes by [[Hasbro Pulse]] in the United States and Canada.
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===''War for Cybertron: Kingdom''===
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[[File:TF-WFC-Kingdom-Deluxe-Class-Blackarachnia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|You know about the “shoulder touch”?]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Blackarachnia''' (Deluxe Class, [[2020]])}}</ul>
:*''Hasbro ID number'': '''WFC-K5'''
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''KD-05'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[April 24]], [[2021]]
:*''Accessories'': "Poison Anchor"
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] and [[Mark Maher]] (Hasbro)|[[Ken Christiansen]] (concept artist)}}

: Part of the first wave of ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom]]'' Deluxe Class toys, Blackarachnia transforms from a robot (mostly) accurate to her original appearance in the ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' cartoon into a more realistic approximation of a black widow spider compared to previous toys. Her robot mode has some notable color differences: mainly, her spider legs are black instead of bronze, likely for realistic accuracy. Her transformation scheme shares many elements with her ''Masterpiece'' toy, albeit simplified. Due to that, her robot mode shoulders blatantly hang beneath the spider mode's head. The spider mode features [[ball joint]]ed articulation in each of its eight legs.

: Blackarachnia is equipped with her signature "Poison Anchor" missile cannon. The cannon can be stored under the spider mode, acting as a place to apply pressure to secure the robot arms when moving the spider legs. She is one of the few ''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' Deluxe Class-and-up molds without a waist swivel. Whether by coincidence or design, Blackarachnia's spider legs can accommodate blast effects on their ends, recreating the spider leg guns she had in the original ''Beast Wars'' show.

: A common but minor point of breakage lies in a small tab that connects Blackarachnia's chest to her torso. On many copies, the tab sits very securely into its port right out of the box. The tab's length is not entirely suitable for the motion required of the piece for the transformation. Thus, the tab will very likely snap off no matter how carefully one approaches it. A later running change for the toy shortens the tab, fixing the issue.

: Much like most of the toyline, Blackararchnia comes with one of four possible holographic [[Golden Disk (Voyager)|Golden Disk]] cards for her wave, which reveals a [[Source:Golden Disk destinies|possible destiny]] of a key character, Blackarachnia being one of them. Despite being a wave 1 release, she was a commonly-found pegwarmer throughout the entire ''Kingdom'' toyline's time on store shelves.
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===''Buzzworthy Bumblebee''===
[[File:TF-WFC-Trilogy-Buzzworthy-Worlds-Collide-Blackarachnia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|The universe where Blackarachnia manages a Hot Topic instead of enlisting.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-multi|'''Worlds Collide''' (4-pack, 2021)}}</ul>
:*''Series'': ''[[War for Cybertron Trilogy (toyline)|War for Cybertron Trilogy]]''
:*''Accessories'': "Poison Anchor"

: Released as part of the ''[[Buzzworthy Bumblebee]]'' "Worlds Collide" 4-pack, Blackarachnia is a redeco and head-retool of the above ''Kingdom'' Blackarachnia, recolored to replicate her [[:File:BWBlackarachniaCardArt.jpg|original package art]] with the "normal" robot face (as opposed to the [[mutant head]]/[[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]] face) and a leopard pattern on her chest. Due to them being attached by mushroom pegs, the upper arms/spider legs can be swapped for the ones on the Kingdom toy above to increase its accuracy to Blackarachnia's appearance in the original ''Beast Wars'' cartoon.

: Included in the set alongside Blackarachnia is [[Nemesis Primal#Toys|Nemesis Primal]], [[Fangry (G1)#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Fangry]] with [[Brisko#Buzzworthy Bumblebee|Brisko]] and [[Bumblebee (G1)/toys#WorldsCollide|Bumblebee]]. Outwardly branded as part of the ''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' on the packaging, the instructions erroneously label the set as part of ''[[Studio Series]]'', under the 2007 ''[[Transformers (film)|Transformers]]'' movie, instead.

: As with other ''Buzzworthy Bumblebee'' toys, this set was exclusive to [[Target]] in the U.S.
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===''Beast Wars Again''===
[[File:TF-BW-Vintage-JP-BWVS-04-Blackarachnia.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1p1|'''Shūnen no Taiketsu''' (VS set, [[2023]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''BWVS-04'''
:*''Release date'': [[November 25]], 2023
:*''Accessories'': "Poison Anchor"
{{toydesigner|[[Hisashi Yuki]] (TakaraTomy)|[[Hidetsugu Yoshioka]] (packaging artist)}}

: The fourth release in TakaraTomy's ''[[Beast Wars: Super Lifeform Transformers Again|Beast Wars Again]]'' line, the "Tenacious Showdown" (執念の対決) set contains [[Tigatron#Beast Wars Again|Tigatron]] and Blackwidow. Blackwidow is a redeco of [[#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|''Kingdom'' Blackarachnia]] in even more cartoon-accurate colors, including proper bronze spider legs and metallic paint.
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===''Swapticons''===
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-p1|'''Blackarachnia / Predacon Tarantulas''' (2-pack, 2026)}}</ul>

: Part of the third wave of ''[[Swapticons]]'' two-packs, Blackarachnia transforms into the back half of a monstrous organic spider. While her nominal placement is as the back half of a full arachnid with her pack-in partner [[Tarantulas (BW)#Swapticons|Tarantulas]], she can attach to any other Swapticon, front or back, to make whatever silly abomination you feel like unleashing.
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==Merchandise==
===''Beast Wars Transformers Mutating Card Game''===
[[File:Blackarachniamutatingcard.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
*'''Beast Wars Transformers Mutating Card Game''' (1997)

:Blackarachnia was one of the 24 beast warriors to receive a battle card representation for the Beast Wars [[Beast Wars Transformers Mutating Card Game|card game]].
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===''Robot Heroes''===
[[File:Robotheroescheetorblackarachnia.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Cute and poisonous.]]
*'''Cheetor & Blackarachnia''' (Two-pack, 2008)
{{toydesigner|[[Bill Rawley]] (Hasbro)|[[Marcelo Matere]] (concept artist)}}

:Part of the first wave of ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)|Universe]]''-branded ''[[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'', Blackarachnia is a simple, yet well-detailed two-inch tall figurine with exaggerated, cartoony proportions. She was only available in a two-pack with [[Cheetor (BW)/toys#Robot Heroes|Cheetor]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2008/Predacon/Blackarachnia/blackarachnia.htm More information on ''Robot Heroes'' Blackarachnia at TFU.info]''
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===''ReAction''===
*'''Blackarachnia''' (2023)
**''Accessories'': Crossbow

: Released in the seventh wave of [[Super7]]'s line of multi-property 3.75-inch "retro" action figures, ''[[Super7#ReAction|ReAction]]'' Blackarachnia is a non-converting figure based on her original [[Mainframe]] [[character model]], with 5 points of articulation (swivel neck, shoulders, hips). She includes her traditional [[cyber-venom]]-launching crossbow.

: Blackarachnia comes packaged on a small cardback that mixes the design of the original ''Beast Wars'' packaging with some nostalgic elements resembling [[Kenner]]'s ''[[Star Wars (franchise)|Star Wars]]'' action figures from the late 1970s to early '80s.
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===Flame Toys===
*'''Blackarachnia''' (?)
:Released as part of the ''Furai Model'' line by [[Flame Toys]].
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==Notes==
*Blackarachnia's show model was created after some Mainframe folks had taken the design modeler to a strip club only a few days prior for, um... "inspiration".<ref>{{citesocial|link=http://groups.google.com/group/alt.toys.transformers/msg/593687e427efddad|site=alt.toys.transformers|name=Bob Forward|quote=I'm up in Vancouver at the moment, so I took the opportunity to actually ask the Mainframe crew why Blackarachnia looks Asian. Apparently, it is a simple and somewhat amusing answer. The model designer himself was Asian. And the rest of the crew, desiring that BA be as sexy as possible (they are a young and horny bunch) hauled him off to a local strip joint, got him insane with lust, then plunked him down in front of his workstation and turned him loose. Blackarachnia was the result.|year=1997|month=09|day=26}}</ref>
*Like her fellow spider [[Tarantulas (BW)|Tarantulas]], her original [[beast mode]] is depicted with ''nine'' eyes rather than eight.
*An [[Bitch Wars|unproduced ''Beast Wars'' episode concept]] would have seen Airazor and Blackarachnia join forces as a "third faction" for a bit. It went unproduced as the writers couldn't see where to go with the idea.
*In the Japanese dub of ''Beast Wars'', Blackarachnia's character underwent a few noteworthy changes. Firstly, she would switch between her usual sultry, flirtatious voice to a screaming blood-thirsty maniac at the drop of a hat. Another notable change is that she was made more vain and bratty, occasionally being prone to whining, crying and begging for mercy from her enemies (things she never did in the English version). Her unique verbal tic was a habit of making a hissing ''tssshaaaa'' noise, a trait actress [[Ryōka Yuzuki]] would pass on to ''[[Transformers Animated (cartoon)|Animated]]'' [[Blackarachnia (Animated)|Blackarachnia]] and ''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Prime]]'' [[Airachnid (Prime)|Airachnid]].
*Blackarachnia's Transmetal 2 [[character model|animation model]] is noticeably tweaked from the toy design, with her extremely large shoulder-pads and back rockets all being significantly reduced to a very discreet size. Although arguably more [[Show-accuracy|toy-accurate]] than the CG model of her original body, this level of alteration was uncommon in [[To sell toys|new characters/upgraded bodies]] introduced from Season 2 onwards, as their animation models were more closely based on their respective toys (at least in appearance, if not always in capabilities.) Additionally, the CG render omitted her toy's chest armor.<ref>"Animators' Interview" from [[Madman Entertainment]]'s ''Beast Wars'' Season 3 DVDs.</ref>
[[File:BW Sourcebook Blackarachina single vs trade.jpg|thumb|upright=1.1|Woke up in Vegas next to [[BB (BW)#Notes|BB]].]]{{anchor|TriviaBinaltech}}
*Character and fiction information for the cancelled BT-16 "Blackwidow" toy finally emerged in late 2007 with the release of ''The Transformers Binaltech Stories: Profiles and Technical Specifications'', an unofficial publication by ''Binaltech'' story writer [[Hirofumi Ichikawa]] that compiled all then-current ''Binaltech'' information as well as that of the unreleased Blackarachnia and [[Ginrai (human)|Ginrai]] toys. [[Ask Vector Prime]] would canonize her bio almost a decade later.
*Blackarachnia is (strangely) depicted solely using a golden orange version of her Transmetal II body in her IDW ''[[Transformers: Beast Wars Sourcebook|Beast Wars Sourcebook]]'' profile entry. She received properly colored coverage of all her modes in the trade paperback version.
*In the [[Nintendo 64]] version of ''Beast Wars Transmetals'', Blackarachnia was a stretched [[palette swap]] of [[Tarantulas (BW)|Transmetal Tarantulas]]. The [[PlayStation]] version does not stretch out Tarantulas, instead remeshing the model to resemble her Transmetal 2 form.
*The [[:File:Blackarachniahappymeal.jpg|artwork]] advertising the Transmetal Blackarachnia toy on Happy Meal Bags was rendered with the toy transformed incorrectly. Her beast mode head isn't flipped down, leaving her organic-looking robot mode chest exposed.
*Blackarachnia's unreleased [[#UnUni|''Universe'' Horrorcon toy]] (as well as [[Waspinator (BW)/toys#Universe (2003)|Waspinator]]) made a cameo appearance in the ''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' story "[[Not All Megatrons]]" as a [[mechanimal]] in the [[Toxic Sludge Swamps|swamp hideout]] of fellow Horrorcon [[Leatherhide (Universe)|Leatherhide]].
*As Blackarachnia appeared in the ''Kre-O'' webcomic months before her ''Kre-O'' toy was revealed, her comic appearance doesn't completely match up with the toy, lacking the spider legs and featuring additional paint details that make her more accurate to the original Blackarachnia.
*''[[Beast Wars: Uprising]]'' Blackarachnia was depicted in a [[BotCon 2016]] lithograph as a "virtual redeco" of ''[[Transformers: Generations (toyline)#T30|Thrilling 30]]'' Deluxe Class [[Chromia (G1)#Generations|Chromia]].
*Blackarachnia's pre-Beast Wars name (in "Dawn of the Predacus" continuity) "White Proprionica" stems from ''Arachnia propionica'', an archaic name for the bacterium species ''Propionibacterium propionicus''.
*Blackarachnia's ''Kingdom'' incarnation was written with the intention of her being queer.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I definitely subscribe to a death of the author mentality when it comes to most art. As Mark Hamill has famously said, if Luke Skywalker is gay to you, then of course he's gay. But for whatever it's worth, my intent with that scene was pretty darn queer.|link=https://twitter.com/MaeCatt/status/1422247919382536192|name=Mae Catt|site=twitter|year=2021|month=08|day=02}}</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Blackwidow''' (ブラックウィドー ''Burakkuwidō''), '''Blackarachnia''' (ブラックアラクニア ''Burakkuarakunia'')
*''Cantonese:'' '''Alaina''' (雅麗娜 ''Aa Lai Naa'')
*''French:'' '''La Veuve Noire''' (French cartoon dub, Canadian Transmetal 2 and ''Beast Machines'' toys; "The Black Widow"), '''Mygale''' (original Canadian toy only, "Mygalomorph")
*''German:'' '''Schwarze Arachnia''' (''Beast Wars'' cartoon and ''War For Cybertron Trilogy'' cartoon)
*''Italian:'' '''Arachnia'''
*''Korean:'' '''Black''' (브랙 ''Beulaeg'')
*''Latvian:'' '''Zirneklene''' (derived from ''zirneklis'', meaning "spider")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Zhīzhū''' (''Beast Wars'', 蜘蛛, "Spider"), '''Dú Zhīzhū''' (''Beast Machines'', 毒蜘蛛, "Venomous Spider")
*''Polish:'' '''Arachna'''
*''Portuguese:'' '''Aracniana''' (Portugal), '''Viúva Negra''' (Brazil ''Beast Wars'', "Black Widow")
*''Russian:'' '''Chornaya Vdova''' (Чёрная Вдова, "Black Widow")
*''Spanish:'' '''Araña Negra''' (America, "Black Spider")

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:BWBlackarachniaCardArt.jpg|''Beast Wars'' package art
File:Blackarachniatranstechconcept.jpg|Proposed ''Transtech'' concept
File:Transformers Legends LG 17.jpg
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Optimus Primal (ROTB)

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:''Optimus Primal is the [[Maximal]] leader from the [[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (franchise)|Rise of the Beasts]] portion of the [[Movie continuity family]].''
[[File:ROTB-Optimus-Primal-Render.jpg|right|thumb|300px|He's the leader of the bunch. You know him well.]]

'''Optimus Primal''' had the burden of leadership unexpectedly thrust upon him when [[Unicron]] attacked his [[Jungle Planet (colony)|homeworld]]. He and a handful of Maximals successfully evacuated their doomed planet and used the [[Transwarp Key]] to flee across time and space, a journey that led them to ancient [[Earth]].

Since arriving in the jungles of [[Peru]], Optimus and the last remaining Maximals have spent millennia awaiting the day when they would one day battle Unicron and his [[Terrorcon (ROTB)|many]] [[Predacon (BW)|minions]] once more. While the recently arrived [[Autobot]]s disguise themselves from prying [[human]] eyes, Primal has walked among the tribes of South America for many thousands of years, and in that time has come to regard humans as trustworthy friends and capable allies. Primal has sacrificed much, and seen enough tragedy to compel a gentle, resolute wisdom—sometimes, the better part of wisdom is knowing when to make heroic speeches, and when to use your twin swords and powerful [[beast mode]] to protect the innocent.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CsJxYC_rP6T/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D Optimus Primal's Instagram bio]</ref>

{{bigquote|When Unicron destroyed our world, we took an oath dedicated to the preservation of life: no matter the cost. And Earth has been a safe refuge.|Optimus Primal|''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]''}}

==Fiction==
===''Rise of the Beasts'' film===
{{voiceactor|[[Ron Perlman]] (English), [[Takehito Koyasu]] (Japanese)|[[Michel Vigné]] (European French), [[Emmanuel Jacomy]] (European French, first trailer), [[Patrick Chouinard]] (Canadian French), [[Tilo Schmitz]] (German), [[Riccardo Lombardo]] (Italian), [[Humberto Solórzano]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Ángel del Río]] (Spain Spanish), [[Dláigelles Silva]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Miloslav Mejzlík]] (Czech), [[Oszkár Gáti]] (Hungarian), [[Poitr Grabowski]] (Polish), [[Tarkan Koç]] (Turkish)}}

[[File:PrimalROTB-teaserrobot.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Aren't you tired of being nice?]]

Optimus Primal—named in honor of the famous [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]—was one of the Maximals who inhabited a [[Jungle Planet (colony)|distant jungle world]]. When [[Unicron]], the [[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcon]]s, and their [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Scorponok (ROTB)|drones]] attacked, Primal and a small group of Maximals fought their way through to meet their leader [[Apelinq (ROTB)|Apelinq]], guardian of the [[Transwarp Key]] that allowed their race to cross time and space. Primal demanded that the Maximals fight back against the Terrorcons, but Apelinq refused, aware that the Terrorcon leader [[Scourge (ROTB)|Scourge]] would try to claim the key. Apelinq pressed onto Primal that he would stay behind to stall Scourge while they escaped, but not before he passed both the mantle of command and the Transwarp Key to him, who used the key to escape their doomed world moments before Unicron devoured their home. Optimus and a group of Maximals—including [[Airazor (ROTB)|Airazor]], [[Cheetor (ROTB)|Cheetor]], and [[Rhinox (ROTB)|Rhinox]]—fled across space and time to ancient [[Earth]], where they divided into two groups, and split the key in half, each group standing guard of one piece. Primal's group established a new base of operations in southern [[Peru]]; initially, they stored their piece of the key in a hidden tomb, but in time, the Maximals befriended the humans who took up residence in the region and entrusted them with the device instead.

The Maximals remained in hiding for many thousands of years, until, in the year [[1994]], a sequence of events set in motion by the accidental discovery of the Transwarp Key on Earth led a team of Autobots and their human allies [[Noah Díaz]] and [[Elena Wallace]] to the jungles of South America. After Airazor stopped a brief standoff between him and Optimus Prime, Primal agreed to help them retrieve the second half of the Key before the Terrorcons retrieved it, and led them to a nearby village to meet with the latest guardians of the key.

However, the next morning, Scourge's corruption finally overcame Airazor, who'd been previously infected with his corrosive powers during a prior confrontation, and after a brief battle Primal was forced to put his infected teammate down for good. However, the battle allowed Scourge to get a hold of both halves of the Transwarp Key, and used them to open a portal through which to summon Unicron to Earth. The Autobots and Maximals took part in the final battle to retrieve the Transwarp Key and close the portal, with Primal killing a disarmed [[Battletrap (ROTB)|Battletrap]] by smashing his head to bits with his own wrecking ball. Although Optimus Prime successfully killed Scourge and destroyed the key, the imploding transwarp portal forced Primal and his allies into a retreat. However, just when it seemed Noah's attempt to rescue Optimus Prime from the imploding portal ended in failure, Primal arrived in the nick of time to help pull the Autobot leader to safety. With the evil defeated for now, the three remaining Maximals chose to stay behind in Peru while the Autobots returned to America, but not before forming an alliance ready to face the return of Unicron someday. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts}}
{{note|Optimus Primal's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the book "[[The Search Is On]]".}}
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==Toys==
===''Rise of the Beasts''===
[[File:TF-ROTB-Optimus-Primal-Voyager.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Make your pecs dance, you deserve it!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (Voyager Class, [[2023]])}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name'': '''Voyager Class Optimus Primal''' (ボイジャークラスオプティマスプライマル)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''BV-02'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[2023]] [[June 24]]
:*''Accessories'': 2 swords

:Released in the first wave of "Core" ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (toyline)|Rise of the Beasts]]'' Voyager Class figures, Optimus Primal is based on early concept art for his movie appearance, and transforms into a mechanical gorilla with both bipedal and quadrupedal arrangements. Primal comes with two swords very similar in design to those of his original incarnation's, and likewise both can be wielded in one hand. The swords store on two slots on his back.

:In the US, Optimus Primal was exclusive to [[Walmart]] along with the rest of the Voyager assortment, but was a general retail release in other markets.

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[[File:ROTBtoy-SmashChangersOptimusPrimal.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|Heyo, look out down below! Here he comes, banana slamma, Kongo Bongo's hero!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (Smash Changers, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name'': '''Papapatto Change Optimus Primal''' (パパパっとチェンジオプティマスプライマル)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''BPC-01'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[2023]] [[April 15]]
{{toydesigner|[[Shogo Hasui]] and [[Tomoki Tatsumi]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: This 9-inch (the same height as the ''Beast Wars'' Ultra Class figure) Optimus Primal toy changes automatically from gorilla to robot by tapping his feet against a surface three times -- once to unlock his auto-rotating waist into a standing pose, and twice more to convert him further after turning him face-forward.

:[[TakaraTomy]] elder statesman and designer of most of [[The Transformers (toyline)|Generation 1]] [[Kōjin Ōno]] considers this toy a triumph of engineering. Yes, really.<ref>Interview with [[Kōjin Ōno]] in ''[[Figure Ō|Figure King]]'' No. 303 (April 2023 issue)</ref>

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[[File:ROTBtoy-2in1maskOptimusPrimal.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|I've heard of [[Apeface]], but this is ridiculous!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (2-in-1 Mask, 2023)}}</ul>

: This Optimus Primal converts from robot to a wearable mask of Optimus Primal's gorilla mode face in 12 steps.

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[[File:TF-ROTB-Ultimate-Optimus-Primal.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|''This Kong's so strong, it's isn't funny!'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (Ultimate, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy Name'': '''Kakusei Optimus Primal''' (覚醒オプティマスプライマル)
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[2023]] [[July 15]]
:*''Accessories'': 2 Cyber Blades, 2 Missiles
{{toydesigner|[[Kōjin Ōno]] and [[Yūya Ōnishi]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:"Ultimate" Optimus Primal transforms into a mechanical gorilla and is the same size as the pre-''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' Leader Class figures. He borrows much of his engineering from ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]'' [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Optimus Primal]]. He features poseable fingers, a built-in interchangeable face mask, spring-loaded pop-out forearm plasma cannons, and a pair of shoulder cannons complete with fully launchable pressure-launch projectile missiles (a gimmick not seen on a new-mold Transformers toy since ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]''). His swords ([https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58498ad5ebbd1ae61a6e1266/1757364310321-WWU0PNJ31ZMU9PG73EI1/PRIMAL_CHR_210814_PrimalWeaponEnergy_FT.jpg based on concept art with glowing orange energy]) can combine at the hilt and be held as a double-bladed weapon or store on designated slots on his back. While he can assume a bipedal gorilla stance, his head does not have enough clearance to look forward while doing so.

:[[File:TF-ROTB-Ultimate-Optimus-Primal-Awakening-Weapon-Gorilla.jpg|thumb|upright=.66|left|Pirate Docking Six: Giant Robot Big Emperor!]]
:Primal features additional 5mm ports on the shoulder armors, forearms, lower legs, and back for extra playability, where Beast Battle Masters can be mounted on to create the "Awakening Weapon Gorilla" form. The instructions specify the arrangement of Battle Masters as seen to the left, with Arrowstripe attached to the back in crossbow mode.

:While transforming into beast mode, you must push the robot mode head back further (although it is a bit tight) so the chest area can tuck in nicely. The missiles can be left in the shoulder cannons for transformation, but they tend to get caught on other parts in the process. It's easier to leave them out and reattach them at the end.

:Ultimate Optimus Primal was first revealed by Hasbro for the [[Hasbro Pulse]] store, with [[TakaraTomy Mall]] putting up preorders a few days later. TakaraTomy Mall also added the "[[Cheetor (ROTB)#Burning|Burning Cheetor]]" Battle Master as a [[campaign item|freebie]] with the preorder while orders from Amazon Japan included it as a paid manufacturer bonus.

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[[File:Command_And_Convert_Optimus_Primal_Both_Modes.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|''I don't know what's happenin' to me'' ''I'm gettin' all the blame for things I didn't do'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (Command and Convert, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': 2 Attachable Swords

:"Command and Convert" Animatronic Optimus Primal stands at 12.5 inches tall, and auto-converts from a robot to a cybernetic gorilla through voice-activation. Included with the figure are two attachable swords that can be placed into the figure's hands.

:The figure is marketed as having over 100 voice-activated sound and motion combinations. Though the figure is based on the character's appearance in the ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]'' film, many of the voice lines include references to the original ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' cartoon series. When the figure is powered on a guitar riff is played that seems to be inspired by the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon's [[Theme song#Beast Era|opening theme song]].

:The figure was officially announced on [[May 25]], 2023 with a demonstration video posted on the Official [[Hasbro Pulse]] YouTube account featuring [[Ben MacCrae]].

:This toy could be found one year later as a [[shelfwarmer]] in stores and be priced as low as £15/20€ at Smyths Toys.
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====Beast Alliance====
[[File:ROTBtoy-BeastWeaponizersOptimusPrimalArrowstripe.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|"Hey, Tigatron, could you come here for a second?" "Sure, Optim-HEY WHAT ARE YOU OW OW OW OW-"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal & Arrowstripe''' (Beast Weaponizers, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name'': '''Kakusei Change Set Optimus Primal & Arrowstripe''' (覚醒チェンジセットオプティマスプライマル＆アローストライプ)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''BCS-01'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[2023]] [[April 15]]
{{toydesigner|[[Shogo Hasui]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: ''Beast Weaponizer'' Optimus Primal converts from a 5-inch robot to a bipedal gorilla in 7 steps and comes packaged with [[Arrowstripe]], a 3-inch Beast Battle Master toy that can convert from tiger to crossbow in 5 steps. Optimus Primal can wield Arrowstripe in crossbow mode.

:Like the same line's Prime, the stock photo of his packaging depicts him being positioned on the left (with Arrowstripe on the right) before the actual product swaps their positions. The promotional render on the back of the box also depicts Arrowstripe's tail as being painted blue, which it is not on the finished toy.

:During development stages, Primal was designed with shoulder cannons before they were ultimately removed in the final product.<ref>[https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/04/26/figure-king-no-303-beast-wars-special-scans-rise-of-the-beasts-mainline-legacy-studio-series-masterpiece-more-481278 Scans of Figure King No. 303]</ref>

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[[File:ROTBtoy-BeastCombinersOptimusPrimalSkullcruncher.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|Megatron's gonna see this and flip a desk.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal & Skullcruncher''' (Beast Combiners, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name'': '''Kakusei Change Armor Set Optimus Primal & Skullcruncher''' (覚醒チェンジアーマーセットオプティマスプライマル＆スカルクランチャー)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''BCAS-03'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[2023]] [[June 24]]
{{toydesigner|[[Koki Yamada]] (TakaraTomy), [[Marcelo Matere]] (concept art)<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CuHl3BZLzP8/?img_index=1 Beast Combiners Optimus Primal concept art]</ref>}}

: ''Beast Combiners'' Optimus Primal converts simply from a robot to a quadrupedal gorilla in 7 steps, and is packaged with [[Skullcruncher (ROTB)|Skullcruncher]], who Primal can be armored with after he's converted in 6 partially [[autotransformation|autotransform]]ed steps.

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[[File:ROTB-toy OptimusPrimal BattleMaster.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|''His coconut gun'' ''Can fire in spurts'' ''If he shoots ya, it's gonna hurt!'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (Beast Battle Masters, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name'': '''Kakusei Weapon Optimus Primal''' (覚醒ウェポンオプティマスプライマル)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''BW-04'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[2023]] [[July 15]]
{{toydesigner|[[Shogo Hasui]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: Released in the second wave of "Beast [[Battle Master]]s" (and the only new toy in said wave), Beast Battle Master Optimus Primal is a 2-inch figure that transforms from techno-gorilla to a blaster in five steps. Like other Beast Battle Masters, he features a 5mm peg in blaster mode that allows it to be held by other figures.

: While stock photos depict his gorilla mode standing on two legs, it is actually designed to look more natural in a quadrupedal stance. The photos also show him to be a deep brown, while the actual toy is gray with a hint of brown.
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===''Studio Series''===
[[File:TF-ROTB-SS-Optimus-Primal.jpg|thumb|300px|I'll shower you with coconut cream pies~]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (Leader class, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''Movie'': '''''Rise of the Beasts'''''
:*''Hasbro ID number'': '''106'''
:*''TakaraTomy name:'' '''Optimus Primal''' (オプティマスプライマル)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''SS-118'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[2024]] [[‎February 24]]
:*''Accessories'': 2 Scimitars, 2 chain pieces, axe, Transwarp Key, "Peruvian Jungle Discovery" backdrop (1st version)
{{toydesigner|[[Evan Brooks]] (Hasbro), [[Shuhei Umezu]] and [[Koki Yamada]] (TakaraTomy)}}<ref>[[June 20]], [[2023]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjLY0uamTKM Hasbro Pulse Transformers Fanstream] on YouTube, with [[Ben MacCrae]], [[Mark Maher]], [[Evan Brooks]], and [[Rich Pellegrino]].</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIKkqyZTVK0 Transformers presentation] at [[MCM London#2024|MCM London 2024]] with [[Evan Brooks]] and [[Russ Humphreys]] at the "Toys are Russ" YouTube channel</ref>

:Released as part of the thirteenth wave of ''[[Studio Series]]'' Leader Class figures, Optimus Primal transforms from a mechanical gorilla into a voyager-sized robot in 34 steps, making up for his size with parts complexity and many accessories. He comes with 2 combining scimitars, 2 chains, the [[Transwarp Key]], and an axe which is intended for ''Studio Series Rise of the Beasts'' [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#BBROTB|Optimus Prime]]. The Transwarp Key can split in two like in the movie, though it can be difficult as the peg is painted over. The articulated chain pieces each feature 4 hinges in alternating directions and can be combined with the swords (or axe), or, per the instructions, be wielded in his hands as batons. Storage for Primal's accessories is the same in both modes: the swords tab into his back, the axe plugs into his hips, and the chains plug into 3mm pegs on his back or swords. The Transwarp Key has no official storage, but it can be split and attached to the various 3mm pegs and ports on Primal and the other accessories. Lastly, he comes with a backdrop showcasing where the Autobots and Maximals first meet.

:Optimus Primal is a very well articulated figure, including points such as toe bends and butterfly joints (backwards in bot mode, forwards in beast mode). He has a separate pair of hands for each mode, with each hand possessing wrist swivels and two sets of opening fingers. Like other ''Studio Series'' Maximals, he also features jaw articulation in beast mode. His gorilla mode is capable of assuming both quadrupedal and bipedal stances, though his gorilla leg articulation is very limited.

:Optimus Primal is the first ''Studio Series'' toy to be packaged in alternate/beast mode instead of robot mode. The Maximal insignia in his instructions is missing the eyes and forehead details.

[[File:StudioSeriestoy-OptimusPrimalLeader.jpg|left|thumb|''(Pre-release deco pictured)'']]

:As with the rest of the ''Studio Series Rise of the Beasts'' figures, Primal is based on concept art. His chain pieces were not used in the final movie, though they were seen briefly in the first [https://youtu.be/WWWDskI46Js?t=113 teaser trailer]. His head uses a ''Beast Wars''-inspired open mask design, rather than the masked or unmasked faces seen in the film.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=[…] he didn’t have a faceplate in the CAD we received from the movie, and we thought he would have a mouth shown more in the movie.|link=https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/07/28/sdcc-2023-hasbro-show-floor-qa-legacy-studio-series-video-games-more-488215|name=Evan Brooks, SDCC2023 QnA session|site=TFW2005|year=2023|month=07|day=28}}</ref> The prototype and stock photos also use a monochrome gray color scheme, while the final toy adds the black colors of the final design.

:While Primal himself did not use the chains, his designer [[Evan Brooks]] later elucidated that, intentional or not, the 3mm connections utilized on the chains mean that they can be combined with the wrecking ball included with ''Studio Series'' [[Battletrap (ROTB)#Studio Series|Battletrap]] to recreate the flail Battletrap very much did use in the film.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CtzapgoOeHx/ Design notes] on ''Studio Series'' Optimus Primal from [[Hasbro]] designer [[Evan Brooks]] on Instagram</ref>

:Primal would be repacked in the first wave of [[2024]] ''Studio Series'' figures in updated packaging with an open window like the smaller size classes. This was first seen at [[Singapore Comic Con#2023|Cybertron Fest 2023]].

: Primal would later be retooled into fellow Maximal gorilla, [[Apelinq (ROTB)#Studio Series|Apelinq]].

::*''[https://www.instagram.com/p/CtzapgoOeHx/ Designer commentary on Optimus Primal('s accessories) from Evan Brooks on Instagram]''
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==Merchandise==
===Yolopark===
[[File:Yolopark-OptimusPrimal.jpg|right|thumb|200px|''He has no style'' ''He has no grace'' ''Th-this Kong has a funny face'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (Model kit, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'':
: [[Yolopark]]'s poseable, 8-inch snap-together pre-painted model kit of ''Rise of the Beasts'' Optimus Primal comes with his two swords, various replaceable hands, and an alternate face with a mouth.
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===Printables===
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (Print-in-place figure, 2023)}}</ul>
: A 3D printable model of Optimus Primal in gorilla mode was made available for free by Paramount Pictures on Printables. Once printed, the figure features ten points of articulation on its arms and legs.
::*''[https://www.printables.com/model/496012-optimus-primal-print-in-place-figure More information on print-in-place Optimus Primal at Printables.com]''
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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (Bust, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Stand
: Another 3D printable model of Optimus Primal available on Printables, this time of his gorilla head on a stand. The stand features a prominent Maximal insignia.
::*''[https://www.printables.com/model/495875-optimus-primal More information on the Optimus Primal bust at Printables.com]''
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===Figural Bag Clip===
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (2023)}}</ul>
:Released by Monogram, this 2.5" 3D foam bag clip takes the form of a chibi ''Rise of the Beasts'' Optimus Primal in gorilla mode.

:It was available only as part of a [[Blindpacking|mystery blind bag]] collection.
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===''Pop!''===
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (2023)}}</ul>
:*''ID number:'' '''1376'''

:Released as part of a ''Rise of the Beasts''-themed batch of the ''Pop! Movies'' segment, [[Funko Pop!|Funko]]'s ''Pop!'' Optimus Primal is a super deformed vinyl figure of the character roaring in gorilla mode.
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===Threezero===
[[File:DLX Transformers Rise-Of-The-Beasts Optimus-Primal.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Does not, in fact, like coconut cream pies.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (DLX Scale, Q3 20234)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': three faceplates, two Cyber Blades, chain, sword connector, two sword adaptors, four pairs of hands (two closed, two relaxed, two open, two weapon-holding)

:Part of [[Threezero]]'s ''Rise of the Beasts'' lineup, DLX Optimus Primal is a screen-accurate, highly-articulated figure based off his appearance in the film. As with previous offerings, Primal features a diecast skeleton (complete with over seventy points of articulation), light-up LED eyes (two LR-44 batteries not included), premium weathered deco and a smorgasbord of accessories. Included are three interchangeable faceplates (one based off his beast mode face, one unmasked and the other masked), eight interchangeable hands (of the fist, relaxed, open and weapon-holding varieties), and his iconic "Cyber Blades" swords. These swords have some customization to them as well - they can either combine to form the double-ended sword by way of a small connector, or be combined via the included chain. The swords can also be stored on the back of the figure via a different pair of adaptors. The figure also comes with an adjustable display stand.
::*''[https://www.threezerohk.com/product/rotb-dlx-optimus-primal/ More information on ''Rise of the Beasts'' DLX Optimus Primal at the official Threezero website]''

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal (Beast Wars Universe Edition)''' (DLX Scale, Q3 2025)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': three faceplates, two Cyber Blades, metal chain, sword connector, two sword adaptors, four pairs of hands (two closed, two relaxed, two open, two weapon-holding), two Wrist Cannons, two shoulders Mega Blasters with missiles

:"Optimus Primal (Beast Wars Universe Edition)" is a repaint of the above figure, who aims to replicate his [[Optimus Primal (BW)|original counterpart colors]], he comes with the same numbers of accessories, but with shoulder cannons that has firing missiles (a first for the DLX line) and wrist cannons on magnetic attachments.

::*''[https://www.threezerohk.com/product/optimus-primal-beast-wars-universe-edition/ More information on ''Rise of the Beasts'' DLX Optimus Primal (Beast Wars Universe Edition) at the official Threezero website]''

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal (Beast Wars Universe Edition) Exclusive Version''' (DLX Scale, Q3 2025)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': three faceplates, two Cyber Blades, metal chain, sword connector, two sword adaptors, four pairs of hands (two closed, two relaxed, two open, two weapon-holding), two Wrist Cannons, two shoulders Mega Blasters with missiles, [[Mutant head|Mutant Mask]], Skull Flail

:"Optimus Primal (Beast Wars Universe Edition) Exclusive Version"... (phew!) is a reuse of the above "Beast Wars Universe Edition" figure, limited to 1,600 pieces. He keeps the same plethora of accessories with two new additions based on his [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#FirstUltra|90's Ultra Class toy]], his Mutant head mask and the skull flail (where you can either attach his metal chain in-between the handle and the skull, or remove it to form a short melee weapon).

::*''[https://www.threezerohk.com/product/primal-beast-war-exclusive-version/ More information on ''Rise of the Beasts'' DLX Optimus Primal (Beast Wars Universe Edition) Exclusive Version at the official Threezero website]''
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===Killerbody===
[[File:KilllerbodyOptimusPrimalHelmet.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''Talk bad, look bad, be bad'' ''Walk bad, think bad,'' '''''BE BAAAAD!!''''']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal Wearable Helmet Collectible Voice Changer''' (2023)}}</ul>
This high end mask features touch control LED light up eyes, voice changing and mouth that moves up and down while speaking, and deployable battle mask.

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===Blokees===
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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1m1|'''Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal (Robot) Battle Scene''' (2024)}}</ul>
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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal Beast''' (2024)}}</ul>
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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal Robot''' (2024)}}</ul>
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===Prime 1 Studio===
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1p1|'''Optimus Primal''' ([[2025]])}}</ul>
:*''Movie:'' '''''Rise of the Beasts'''''
:*''ID number:'' '''MMTFM-37''' / '''MMTFM-37UTS''' (Ultimate Bonus Version)
:*''Accessories'': Base, alternate base with beast mode (Ultimate), alternate robot head (Ultimate), alternate beast head (Ultimate), alternate open right hand (Bonus), alternate left hand with double-bladed sword (Bonus)

:[[Prime 1 Studio]] ''Museum Masterline'' Optimus Primal is a massive non-transforming sculpture mostly made of polystone and based on his ''Rise of the Beasts'' robot mode appearance.

:The regular version comes with his mask closed and with each of his hands holding a sword, as well as a base made out of ruins and a decapitated [[Scorponok (ROTB)#Prime 1 Studio|Scorponok]] head. The Bonus Version, limited to 350 pieces, includes alternate hands, an open right hand and a left hand holding both swords combined. The Ultimate Version comes with a bigger base that features plants among the ruins, the entire dead body of a Scorponok, and Primal himself in beast mode. Plus, this version also comes with an alternate robot head with his mouth exposed, as well as two options for the beast mode head, one with his mouth closed and another one roaring.

:The statue features LED lights on Primal's robot and beast eyes, inside of his roaring beast mouth, on Scorponok's eyes and on a Maximal insignia featured on the base.
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==Notes==
*Optimus Primal was originally conceived for ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|Transformers: The Last Knight]]''. His design in ''Rise of the Beasts'' is actually a heavy modification of [[Furio Tedeschi]]'s unused concept art from said film. Aside from the removal of the [[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|AOE]]/TLK Optimus Prime-like helmet and the addition of organic components (like leather and fur), the most notable differences are a more brown-ish paintjob, green eyes and a more anatomic chest with a Maximal insignia. While the concept art intends for him to be larger, standing at least at 50 feet tall compared to a [[human]], the [[Official sizes and heights#Transformers: Rise of the Beasts AR Statue Experience stats|official AR statue]] website app depicts Primal at 13'2" in beast mode.
*As a contrast to the more static faces of the Autobots, [[Steven Caple Jr.]] needed Primal's beast mode face to be more expressive. He had the graphics team split the face into myriad slivers so the mouth and eyebrows could move expressively, without subtracting the fact that he was supposed to be a robot in disguise.<ref name="Straits Times">[https://www.straitstimes.com/life/entertainment/what-it-feels-like-to-take-second-billing-in-transformers-sequel-after-a-big-metal-alien]</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Optimus Primal''' (オプティマスプライマル ''Oputimasu Puraimaru'')
*''Hungarian:'' '''Optimusz Falkavezér''' ("Pack Leader Optimus")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Jīngāng Wáng''' (金剛王, "Vajra King"),<ref>This is a pun on [[King Kong]]'s localized Mandarin name in Taiwan, which is ''Jīngāng'' (金剛, "Vajra").</ref> '''Qíng Tiān Shèng''' (擎天圣, "Sage that Supports the Sky")<ref>This is a pun on the {{w|Monkey King}}'s honorific title, ''Qí Tiān Dà Shèng'' (齐天大圣, "Great Sage Equaling Heaven").</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:OptimusPrimal-ROTBgorilla.jpg|Optimus Primal's gorilla mode in ''Rise of the Beasts''.
File:TLK Primal concept.jpg|Unused Optimus Primal concept art for ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]''.
</gallery>

==References==
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[[Category:Hall of Fame characters]]
[[Category:Maximal leaders]]
[[Category:Rise of the Beasts Maximals]]
[[Category:Studio Series Maximals]]

Optimus Primal (ROTB)

2026-04-02T10:07:54Z

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:''Optimus Primal is the [[Maximal]] leader from the [[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (franchise)|Rise of the Beasts]] portion of the [[Movie continuity family]].''
[[File:ROTB-Optimus-Primal-Render.jpg|right|thumb|300px|He's the leader of the bunch. You know him well.]]

'''Optimus Primal''' had the burden of leadership unexpectedly thrust upon him when [[Unicron]] attacked his [[Jungle Planet (colony)|homeworld]]. He and a handful of Maximals successfully evacuated their doomed planet and used the [[Transwarp Key]] to flee across time and space, a journey that led them to ancient [[Earth]].

Since arriving in the jungles of [[Peru]], Optimus and the last remaining Maximals have spent millennia awaiting the day when they would one day battle Unicron and his [[Terrorcon (ROTB)|many]] [[Predacon (BW)|minions]] once more. While the recently arrived [[Autobot]]s disguise themselves from prying [[human]] eyes, Primal has walked among the tribes of South America for many thousands of years, and in that time has come to regard humans as trustworthy friends and capable allies. Primal has sacrificed much, and seen enough tragedy to compel a gentle, resolute wisdom—sometimes, the better part of wisdom is knowing when to make heroic speeches, and when to use your twin swords and powerful [[beast mode]] to protect the innocent.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CsJxYC_rP6T/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA%3D%3D Optimus Primal's Instagram bio]</ref>

{{bigquote|When Unicron destroyed our world, we took an oath dedicated to the preservation of life: no matter the cost. And Earth has been a safe refuge.|Optimus Primal|''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]''}}

==Fiction==
===''Rise of the Beasts'' film===
{{voiceactor|[[Ron Perlman]] (English), [[Takehito Koyasu]] (Japanese)|[[Michel Vigné]] (European French), [[Emmanuel Jacomy]] (European French, first trailer), [[Patrick Chouinard]] (Canadian French), [[Tilo Schmitz]] (German), [[Riccardo Lombardo]] (Italian), [[Humberto Solórzano]] (Latin American Spanish), [[Ángel del Río]] (Spain Spanish), [[Dláigelles Silva]] (Brazilian Portuguese), [[Miloslav Mejzlík]] (Czech), [[Oszkár Gáti]] (Hungarian), [[Poitr Grabowski]] (Polish), [[Tarkan Koç]] (Turkish)}}

[[File:PrimalROTB-teaserrobot.jpg|left|thumb|300px|Aren't you tired of being nice?]]

Optimus Primal—named in honor of the famous [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]—was one of the Maximals who inhabited a [[Jungle Planet (colony)|distant jungle world]]. When [[Unicron]], the [[Terrorcon (ROTB)|Terrorcon]]s, and their [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[Scorponok (ROTB)|drones]] attacked, Primal and a small group of Maximals fought their way through to meet their leader [[Apelinq (ROTB)|Apelinq]], guardian of the [[Transwarp Key]] that allowed their race to cross time and space. Primal demanded that the Maximals fight back against the Terrorcons, but Apelinq refused, aware that the Terrorcon leader [[Scourge (ROTB)|Scourge]] would try to claim the key. Apelinq pressed onto Primal that he would stay behind to stall Scourge while they escaped, but not before he passed both the mantle of command and the Transwarp Key to him, who used the key to escape their doomed world moments before Unicron devoured their home. Optimus and a group of Maximals—including [[Airazor (ROTB)|Airazor]], [[Cheetor (ROTB)|Cheetor]], and [[Rhinox (ROTB)|Rhinox]]—fled across space and time to ancient [[Earth]], where they divided into two groups, and split the key in half, each group standing guard of one piece. Primal's group established a new base of operations in southern [[Peru]]; initially, they stored their piece of the key in a hidden tomb, but in time, the Maximals befriended the humans who took up residence in the region and entrusted them with the device instead.

The Maximals remained in hiding for many thousands of years, until, in the year [[1994]], a sequence of events set in motion by the accidental discovery of the Transwarp Key on Earth led a team of Autobots and their human allies [[Noah Díaz]] and [[Elena Wallace]] to the jungles of South America. After Airazor stopped a brief standoff between him and Optimus Prime, Primal agreed to help them retrieve the second half of the Key before the Terrorcons retrieved it, and led them to a nearby village to meet with the latest guardians of the key.

However, the next morning, Scourge's corruption finally overcame Airazor, who'd been previously infected with his corrosive powers during a prior confrontation, and after a brief battle Primal was forced to put his infected teammate down for good. However, the battle allowed Scourge to get a hold of both halves of the Transwarp Key, and used them to open a portal through which to summon Unicron to Earth. The Autobots and Maximals took part in the final battle to retrieve the Transwarp Key and close the portal, with Primal killing a disarmed [[Battletrap (ROTB)|Battletrap]] by smashing his head to bits with his own wrecking ball. Although Optimus Prime successfully killed Scourge and destroyed the key, the imploding transwarp portal forced Primal and his allies into a retreat. However, just when it seemed Noah's attempt to rescue Optimus Prime from the imploding portal ended in failure, Primal arrived in the nick of time to help pull the Autobot leader to safety. With the evil defeated for now, the three remaining Maximals chose to stay behind in Peru while the Autobots returned to America, but not before forming an alliance ready to face the return of Unicron someday. {{storylink|Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts}}
{{note|Optimus Primal's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the book "[[The Search Is On]]".}}
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==Toys==
===''Rise of the Beasts''===
[[File:TF-ROTB-Optimus-Primal-Voyager.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Make your pecs dance, you deserve it!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (Voyager Class, [[2023]])}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name'': '''Voyager Class Optimus Primal''' (ボイジャークラスオプティマスプライマル)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''BV-02'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[2023]] [[June 24]]
:*''Accessories'': 2 swords

:Released in the first wave of "Core" ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (toyline)|Rise of the Beasts]]'' Voyager Class figures, Optimus Primal is based on early concept art for his movie appearance, and transforms into a mechanical gorilla with both bipedal and quadrupedal arrangements. Primal comes with two swords very similar in design to those of his original incarnation's, and likewise both can be wielded in one hand. The swords store on two slots on his back.

:In the US, Optimus Primal was exclusive to [[Walmart]] along with the rest of the Voyager assortment, but was a general retail release in other markets.

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[[File:ROTBtoy-SmashChangersOptimusPrimal.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|Heyo, look out down below! Here he comes, banana slamma, Kongo Bongo's hero!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (Smash Changers, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name'': '''Papapatto Change Optimus Primal''' (パパパっとチェンジオプティマスプライマル)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''BPC-01'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[2023]] [[April 15]]
{{toydesigner|[[Shogo Hasui]] and [[Tomoki Tatsumi]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: This 9-inch (the same height as the ''Beast Wars'' Ultra Class figure) Optimus Primal toy changes automatically from gorilla to robot by tapping his feet against a surface three times -- once to unlock his auto-rotating waist into a standing pose, and twice more to convert him further after turning him face-forward.

:[[TakaraTomy]] elder statesman and designer of most of [[The Transformers (toyline)|Generation 1]] [[Kōjin Ōno]] considers this toy a triumph of engineering. Yes, really.<ref>Interview with [[Kōjin Ōno]] in ''[[Figure Ō|Figure King]]'' No. 303 (April 2023 issue)</ref>

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[[File:ROTBtoy-2in1maskOptimusPrimal.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|I've heard of [[Apeface]], but this is ridiculous!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (2-in-1 Mask, 2023)}}</ul>

: This Optimus Primal converts from robot to a wearable mask of Optimus Primal's gorilla mode face in 12 steps.

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[[File:TF-ROTB-Ultimate-Optimus-Primal.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|''This Kong's so strong, it's isn't funny!'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (Ultimate, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy Name'': '''Kakusei Optimus Primal''' (覚醒オプティマスプライマル)
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[2023]] [[July 15]]
:*''Accessories'': 2 Cyber Blades, 2 Missiles
{{toydesigner|[[Kōjin Ōno]] and [[Yūya Ōnishi]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:"Ultimate" Optimus Primal transforms into a mechanical gorilla and is the same size as the pre-''War for Cybertron Trilogy'' Leader Class figures. He borrows much of his engineering from ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]'' [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Optimus Primal]]. He features poseable fingers, a built-in interchangeable face mask, spring-loaded pop-out forearm plasma cannons, and a pair of shoulder cannons complete with fully launchable pressure-launch projectile missiles (a gimmick not seen on a new-mold Transformers toy since ''[[Combiner Wars (toyline)|Combiner Wars]]''). His swords ([https://images.squarespace-cdn.com/content/v1/58498ad5ebbd1ae61a6e1266/1757364310321-WWU0PNJ31ZMU9PG73EI1/PRIMAL_CHR_210814_PrimalWeaponEnergy_FT.jpg based on concept art with glowing orange energy]) can combine at the hilt and be held as a double-bladed weapon or store on designated slots on his back. While he can assume a bipedal gorilla stance, his head does not have enough clearance to look forward while doing so.

:[[File:TF-ROTB-Ultimate-Optimus-Primal-Awakening-Weapon-Gorilla.jpg|thumb|upright=.66|left|Pirate Docking Six: Giant Robot Big Emperor!]]
:Primal features additional 5mm ports on the shoulder armors, forearms, lower legs, and back for extra playability, where Beast Battle Masters can be mounted on to create the "Awakening Weapon Gorilla" form. The instructions specify the arrangement of Battle Masters as seen to the left, with Arrowstripe attached to the back in crossbow mode.

:While transforming into beast mode, you must push the robot mode head back further (although it is a bit tight) so the chest area can tuck in nicely. The missiles can be left in the shoulder cannons for transformation, but they tend to get caught on other parts in the process. It's easier to leave them out and reattach them at the end.

:Ultimate Optimus Primal was first revealed by Hasbro for the [[Hasbro Pulse]] store, with [[TakaraTomy Mall]] putting up preorders a few days later. TakaraTomy Mall also added the "[[Cheetor (ROTB)#Burning|Burning Cheetor]]" Battle Master as a [[campaign item|freebie]] with the preorder while orders from Amazon Japan included it as a paid manufacturer bonus.

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[[File:Command_And_Convert_Optimus_Primal_Both_Modes.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|''I don't know what's happenin' to me'' ''I'm gettin' all the blame for things I didn't do'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (Command and Convert, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': 2 Attachable Swords

:"Command and Convert" Animatronic Optimus Primal stands at 12.5 inches tall, and auto-converts from a robot to a cybernetic gorilla through voice-activation. Included with the figure are two attachable swords that can be placed into the figure's hands.

:The figure is marketed as having over 100 voice-activated sound and motion combinations. Though the figure is based on the character's appearance in the ''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]'' film, many of the voice lines include references to the original ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (cartoon)|Beast Wars]]'' cartoon series. When the figure is powered on a guitar riff is played that seems to be inspired by the ''Beast Wars'' cartoon's [[Theme song#Beast Era|opening theme song]].

:The figure was officially announced on [[May 25]], 2023 with a demonstration video posted on the Official [[Hasbro Pulse]] YouTube account featuring [[Ben MacCrae]].

:This toy could be found one year later as a [[shelfwarmer]] in stores and be priced as low as £15/20€ at Smyths Toys.
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====Beast Alliance====
[[File:ROTBtoy-BeastWeaponizersOptimusPrimalArrowstripe.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|"Hey, Tigatron, could you come here for a second?" "Sure, Optim-HEY WHAT ARE YOU OW OW OW OW-"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal & Arrowstripe''' (Beast Weaponizers, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name'': '''Kakusei Change Set Optimus Primal & Arrowstripe''' (覚醒チェンジセットオプティマスプライマル＆アローストライプ)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''BCS-01'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[2023]] [[April 15]]
{{toydesigner|[[Shogo Hasui]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: ''Beast Weaponizer'' Optimus Primal converts from a 5-inch robot to a bipedal gorilla in 7 steps and comes packaged with [[Arrowstripe]], a 3-inch Beast Battle Master toy that can convert from tiger to crossbow in 5 steps. Optimus Primal can wield Arrowstripe in crossbow mode.

:Like the same line's Prime, the stock photo of his packaging depicts him being positioned on the left (with Arrowstripe on the right) before the actual product swaps their positions. The promotional render on the back of the box also depicts Arrowstripe's tail as being painted blue, which it is not on the finished toy.

:During development stages, Primal was designed with shoulder cannons before they were ultimately removed in the final product.<ref>[https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/04/26/figure-king-no-303-beast-wars-special-scans-rise-of-the-beasts-mainline-legacy-studio-series-masterpiece-more-481278 Scans of Figure King No. 303]</ref>

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[[File:ROTBtoy-BeastCombinersOptimusPrimalSkullcruncher.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|Megatron's gonna see this and flip a desk.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal & Skullcruncher''' (Beast Combiners, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name'': '''Kakusei Change Armor Set Optimus Primal & Skullcruncher''' (覚醒チェンジアーマーセットオプティマスプライマル＆スカルクランチャー)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''BCAS-03'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[2023]] [[June 24]]
{{toydesigner|[[Koki Yamada]] (TakaraTomy), [[Marcelo Matere]] (concept art)<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CuHl3BZLzP8/?img_index=1 Beast Combiners Optimus Primal concept art]</ref>}}

: ''Beast Combiners'' Optimus Primal converts simply from a robot to a quadrupedal gorilla in 7 steps, and is packaged with [[Skullcruncher (ROTB)|Skullcruncher]], who Primal can be armored with after he's converted in 6 partially [[autotransformation|autotransform]]ed steps.

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[[File:ROTB-toy OptimusPrimal BattleMaster.jpg|right|thumb|upright=1.66|''His coconut gun'' ''Can fire in spurts'' ''If he shoots ya, it's gonna hurt!'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (Beast Battle Masters, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''TakaraTomy name'': '''Kakusei Weapon Optimus Primal''' (覚醒ウェポンオプティマスプライマル)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''BW-04'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[2023]] [[July 15]]
{{toydesigner|[[Shogo Hasui]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: Released in the second wave of "Beast [[Battle Master]]s" (and the only new toy in said wave), Beast Battle Master Optimus Primal is a 2-inch figure that transforms from techno-gorilla to a blaster in five steps. Like other Beast Battle Masters, he features a 5mm peg in blaster mode that allows it to be held by other figures.

: While stock photos depict his gorilla mode standing on two legs, it is actually designed to look more natural in a quadrupedal stance. The photos also show him to be a deep brown, while the actual toy is gray with a hint of brown.
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===''Studio Series''===
[[File:TF-ROTB-SS-Optimus-Primal.jpg|thumb|300px|I'll shower you with coconut cream pies~]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (Leader class, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''Movie'': '''''Rise of the Beasts'''''
:*''Hasbro ID number'': '''106'''
:*''TakaraTomy name:'' '''Optimus Primal''' (オプティマスプライマル)
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''SS-118'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[2024]] [[‎February 24]]
:*''Accessories'': 2 Scimitars, 2 chain pieces, axe, Transwarp Key, "Peruvian Jungle Discovery" backdrop (1st version)
{{toydesigner|[[Evan Brooks]] (Hasbro), [[Shuhei Umezu]] and [[Koki Yamada]] (TakaraTomy)}}<ref>[[June 20]], [[2023]]'s [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QjLY0uamTKM Hasbro Pulse Transformers Fanstream] on YouTube, with [[Ben MacCrae]], [[Mark Maher]], [[Evan Brooks]], and [[Rich Pellegrino]].</ref><ref>[https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cIKkqyZTVK0 Transformers presentation] at [[MCM London#2024|MCM London 2024]] with [[Evan Brooks]] and [[Russ Humphreys]] at the "Toys are Russ" YouTube channel</ref>

:Released as part of the thirteenth wave of ''[[Studio Series]]'' Leader Class figures, Optimus Primal transforms from a mechanical gorilla into a voyager-sized robot in 34 steps, making up for his size with parts complexity and many accessories. He comes with 2 combining scimitars, 2 chains, the [[Transwarp Key]], and an axe which is intended for ''Studio Series Rise of the Beasts'' [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#BBROTB|Optimus Prime]]. The Transwarp Key can split in two like in the movie, though it can be difficult as the peg is painted over. The articulated chain pieces each feature 4 hinges in alternating directions and can be combined with the swords (or axe), or, per the instructions, be wielded in his hands as batons. Storage for Primal's accessories is the same in both modes: the swords tab into his back, the axe plugs into his hips, and the chains plug into 3mm pegs on his back or swords. The Transwarp Key has no official storage, but it can be split and attached to the various 3mm pegs and ports on Primal and the other accessories. Lastly, he comes with a backdrop showcasing where the Autobots and Maximals first meet.

:Optimus Primal is a very well articulated figure, including points such as toe bends and butterfly joints (backwards in bot mode, forwards in beast mode). He has a separate pair of hands for each mode, with each hand possessing wrist swivels and two sets of opening fingers. Like other ''Studio Series'' Maximals, he also features jaw articulation in beast mode. His gorilla mode is capable of assuming both quadrupedal and bipedal stances, though his gorilla leg articulation is very limited.

:Optimus Primal is the first ''Studio Series'' toy to be packaged in alternate/beast mode instead of robot mode. The Maximal insignia in his instructions is missing the eyes and forehead details.

[[File:StudioSeriestoy-OptimusPrimalLeader.jpg|left|thumb|''(Pre-release deco pictured)'']]

:As with the rest of the ''Studio Series Rise of the Beasts'' figures, Primal is based on concept art. His chain pieces were not used in the final movie, though they were seen briefly in the first [https://youtu.be/WWWDskI46Js?t=113 teaser trailer]. His head uses a ''Beast Wars''-inspired open mask design, rather than the masked or unmasked faces seen in the film.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=[…] he didn’t have a faceplate in the CAD we received from the movie, and we thought he would have a mouth shown more in the movie.|link=https://news.tfw2005.com/2023/07/28/sdcc-2023-hasbro-show-floor-qa-legacy-studio-series-video-games-more-488215|name=Evan Brooks, SDCC2023 QnA session|site=TFW2005|year=2023|month=07|day=28}}</ref> The prototype and stock photos also use a monochrome gray color scheme, while the final toy adds the black colors of the final design.

:While Primal himself did not use the chains, his designer [[Evan Brooks]] later elucidated that, intentional or not, the 3mm connections utilized on the chains mean that they can be combined with the wrecking ball included with ''Studio Series'' [[Battletrap (ROTB)#Studio Series|Battletrap]] to recreate the flail Battletrap very much did use in the film.<ref>[https://www.instagram.com/p/CtzapgoOeHx/ Design notes] on ''Studio Series'' Optimus Primal from [[Hasbro]] designer [[Evan Brooks]] on Instagram</ref>

:Primal would be repacked in the first wave of [[2024]] ''Studio Series'' figures in updated packaging with an open window like the smaller size classes. This was first seen at [[Singapore Comic Con#2023|Cybertron Fest 2023]].

: Primal would later be retooled into fellow Maximal gorilla, [[Apelinq (ROTB)#Studio Series|Apelinq]].

::*''[https://www.instagram.com/p/CtzapgoOeHx/ Designer commentary on Optimus Primal('s accessories) from Evan Brooks on Instagram]''
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==Merchandise==
===Yolopark===
[[File:Yolopark-OptimusPrimal.jpg|right|thumb|200px|''He has no style'' ''He has no grace'' ''Th-this Kong has a funny face'']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (Model kit, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'':
: [[Yolopark]]'s poseable, 8-inch snap-together pre-painted model kit of ''Rise of the Beasts'' Optimus Primal comes with his two swords, various replaceable hands, and an alternate face with a mouth.
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===Printables===
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (Print-in-place figure, 2023)}}</ul>
: A 3D printable model of Optimus Primal in gorilla mode was made available for free by Paramount Pictures on Printables. Once printed, the figure features ten points of articulation on its arms and legs.
::*''[https://www.printables.com/model/496012-optimus-primal-print-in-place-figure More information on print-in-place Optimus Primal at Printables.com]''
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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (Bust, 2023)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Stand
: Another 3D printable model of Optimus Primal available on Printables, this time of his gorilla head on a stand. The stand features a prominent Maximal insignia.
::*''[https://www.printables.com/model/495875-optimus-primal More information on the Optimus Primal bust at Printables.com]''
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===Figural Bag Clip===
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (2023)}}</ul>
:Released by Monogram, this 2.5" 3D foam bag clip takes the form of a chibi ''Rise of the Beasts'' Optimus Primal in gorilla mode.

:It was available only as part of a [[Blindpacking|mystery blind bag]] collection.
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===''Pop!''===
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (2023)}}</ul>
:*''ID number:'' '''1376'''

:Released as part of a ''Rise of the Beasts''-themed batch of the ''Pop! Movies'' segment, [[Funko Pop!|Funko]]'s ''Pop!'' Optimus Primal is a super deformed vinyl figure of the character roaring in gorilla mode.
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===Threezero===
[[File:DLX Transformers Rise-Of-The-Beasts Optimus-Primal.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Does not, in fact, like coconut cream pies.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal''' (DLX Scale, Q3 20234)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': three faceplates, two Cyber Blades, chain, sword connector, two sword adaptors, four pairs of hands (two closed, two relaxed, two open, two weapon-holding)

:Part of [[Threezero]]'s ''Rise of the Beasts'' lineup, DLX Optimus Primal is a screen-accurate, highly-articulated figure based off his appearance in the film. As with previous offerings, Primal features a diecast skeleton (complete with over seventy points of articulation), light-up LED eyes (two LR-44 batteries not included), premium weathered deco and a smorgasbord of accessories. Included are three interchangeable faceplates (one based off his beast mode face, one unmasked and the other masked), eight interchangeable hands (of the fist, relaxed, open and weapon-holding varieties), and his iconic "Cyber Blades" swords. These swords have some customization to them as well - they can either combine to form the double-ended sword by way of a small connector, or be combined via the included chain. The swords can also be stored on the back of the figure via a different pair of adaptors. The figure also comes with an adjustable display stand.
::*''[https://www.threezerohk.com/product/rotb-dlx-optimus-primal/ More information on ''Rise of the Beasts'' DLX Optimus Primal at the official Threezero website]''

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal (Beast Wars Universe Edition)''' (DLX Scale, Q3 2025)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': three faceplates, two Cyber Blades, metal chain, sword connector, two sword adaptors, four pairs of hands (two closed, two relaxed, two open, two weapon-holding), two Wrist Cannons, two shoulders Mega Blasters with missiles

:"Optimus Primal (Beast Wars Universe Edition)" is a repaint of the above figure, who aims to replicate his [[Optimus Primal (BW)|original counterpart colors]], he comes with the same numbers of accessories, but with shoulder cannons that has firing missiles (a first for the DLX line) and wrist cannons on magnetic attachments.

::*''[https://www.threezerohk.com/product/optimus-primal-beast-wars-universe-edition/ More information on ''Rise of the Beasts'' DLX Optimus Primal (Beast Wars Universe Edition) at the official Threezero website]''

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal (Beast Wars Universe Edition) Exclusive Version''' (DLX Scale, Q3 2025)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': three faceplates, two Cyber Blades, metal chain, sword connector, two sword adaptors, four pairs of hands (two closed, two relaxed, two open, two weapon-holding), two Wrist Cannons, two shoulders Mega Blasters with missiles, [[Mutant head|Mutant Mask]], Skull Flail

:"Optimus Primal (Beast Wars Universe Edition) Exclusive Version"... (phew!) is a reuse of the above "Beast Wars Universe Edition" figure, limited to 1,600 pieces. He keeps the same plethora of accessories with two new additions based on his [[Optimus Primal (BW)/toys#FirstUltra|90's Ultra Class toy]], his Mutant head mask and the skull flail (where you can either attach his metal chain in-between the handle and the skull, or remove it to form a short melee weapon).

::*''[https://www.threezerohk.com/product/primal-beast-war-exclusive-version/ More information on ''Rise of the Beasts'' DLX Optimus Primal (Beast Wars Universe Edition) Exclusive Version at the official Threezero website]''
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===Killerbody===
[[File:KilllerbodyOptimusPrimalHelmet.jpg|right|thumb|250px|''Talk bad, look bad, be bad'' ''Walk bad, think bad,'' '''''BE BAAAAD!!''''']]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal Wearable Helmet Collectible Voice Changer''' (2023)}}</ul>
This high end mask features touch control LED light up eyes, voice changing and mouth that moves up and down while speaking, and deployable battle mask.

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===Blokees===
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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1m1|'''Optimus Prime and Optimus Primal (Robot) Battle Scene''' (2024)}}</ul>
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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal Beast''' (2024)}}</ul>
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[[File:Optimus Primal ROTB gorilla toy.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Optimus Primal en modo bestia gorilla]]

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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1|'''Optimus Primal Robot''' (2024)}}</ul>
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===Prime 1 Studio===
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-m1p1|'''Optimus Primal''' ([[2025]])}}</ul>
:*''Movie:'' '''''Rise of the Beasts'''''
:*''ID number:'' '''MMTFM-37''' / '''MMTFM-37UTS''' (Ultimate Bonus Version)
:*''Accessories'': Base, alternate base with beast mode (Ultimate), alternate robot head (Ultimate), alternate beast head (Ultimate), alternate open right hand (Bonus), alternate left hand with double-bladed sword (Bonus)

:[[Prime 1 Studio]] ''Museum Masterline'' Optimus Primal is a massive non-transforming sculpture mostly made of polystone and based on his ''Rise of the Beasts'' robot mode appearance.

:The regular version comes with his mask closed and with each of his hands holding a sword, as well as a base made out of ruins and a decapitated [[Scorponok (ROTB)#Prime 1 Studio|Scorponok]] head. The Bonus Version, limited to 350 pieces, includes alternate hands, an open right hand and a left hand holding both swords combined. The Ultimate Version comes with a bigger base that features plants among the ruins, the entire dead body of a Scorponok, and Primal himself in beast mode. Plus, this version also comes with an alternate robot head with his mouth exposed, as well as two options for the beast mode head, one with his mouth closed and another one roaring.

:The statue features LED lights on Primal's robot and beast eyes, inside of his roaring beast mouth, on Scorponok's eyes and on a Maximal insignia featured on the base.
{{comingsoontoy}}
{{--}}

==Notes==
*Optimus Primal was originally conceived for ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|Transformers: The Last Knight]]''. His design in ''Rise of the Beasts'' is actually a heavy modification of [[Furio Tedeschi]]'s unused concept art from said film. Aside from the removal of the [[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|AOE]]/TLK Optimus Prime-like helmet and the addition of organic components (like leather and fur), the most notable differences are a more brown-ish paintjob, green eyes and a more anatomic chest with a Maximal insignia. While the concept art intends for him to be larger, standing at least at 50 feet tall compared to a [[human]], the [[Official sizes and heights#Transformers: Rise of the Beasts AR Statue Experience stats|official AR statue]] website app depicts Primal at 13'2" in beast mode.
*As a contrast to the more static faces of the Autobots, [[Steven Caple Jr.]] needed Primal's beast mode face to be more expressive. He had the graphics team split the face into myriad slivers so the mouth and eyebrows could move expressively, without subtracting the fact that he was supposed to be a robot in disguise.<ref name="Straits Times">[https://www.straitstimes.com/life/entertainment/what-it-feels-like-to-take-second-billing-in-transformers-sequel-after-a-big-metal-alien]</ref>

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Optimus Primal''' (オプティマスプライマル ''Oputimasu Puraimaru'')
*''Hungarian:'' '''Optimusz Falkavezér''' ("Pack Leader Optimus")
*''Mandarin:'' '''Jīngāng Wáng''' (金剛王, "Vajra King"),<ref>This is a pun on [[King Kong]]'s localized Mandarin name in Taiwan, which is ''Jīngāng'' (金剛, "Vajra").</ref> '''Qíng Tiān Shèng''' (擎天圣, "Sage that Supports the Sky")<ref>This is a pun on the {{w|Monkey King}}'s honorific title, ''Qí Tiān Dà Shèng'' (齐天大圣, "Great Sage Equaling Heaven").</ref>

==Gallery==
<gallery>
File:OptimusPrimal-ROTBgorilla.jpg|Optimus Primal's gorilla mode in ''Rise of the Beasts''.
File:TLK Primal concept.jpg|Unused Optimus Primal concept art for ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]''.
</gallery>

==References==
{{reflist|2}}

[[Category:Hall of Fame characters]]
[[Category:Maximal leaders]]
[[Category:Rise of the Beasts Maximals]]
[[Category:Studio Series Maximals]]

Yolopark

2026-03-13T23:13:49Z

Vich0 08:

[[File:Yolopark logo.jpg|right|250px]]
'''Yolopark''' is a [[Hong Kong]]-based [[toy]] company established in [[2009]]. The company manufactures high-end figures and model kits of popular licenses, in addition to the occasional honest-to-goodness kid's toys.


==High-end "movable statues"==
Yolopark's flagship products, their self-described "movable statues" are high cost, high reward. These 62 cm tall figures are manufactured in extremely limited numbers, which we list below when available.

===''IIES Series'' figures===
Short for '''Internal Interconnect Exoskeleton System'''<ref>[https://yolopark.com/pages/about Yolopark.com - About Us]</ref>, IIES figures use mechanical gearing to allow stable posing in their immense size without the limitations of [[Ratchet (mechanism)|ratcheting]] joints.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2021]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#Yolopark|Cybertron Optimus Prime]] (2000 pieces, ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#IIESDeluxe|Cybertron Optimus Prime Deluxe Version]] (500 pcs, ''Bumblebee'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2022]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#IIESEarth|Earth Mode Optimus Prime]] (666 pcs, ''Bumblebee'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Transformers'')}}
|[[File:Yolo IIES BBCyb OptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|IIES Cybertron Optimus Prime]]
|}
{{Comingsoontoy|''Transformers'' Optimus Prime}}

===''IES'' figures===
The '''Internal Endoskeleton System'''<ref>[https://shop.yolopark.com/products/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-ies-series_62cm_optimus-primal shop.Yolopark.com - Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - IES Series 62cm Optimus Primal]</ref> figures sit at around half the price range of the IIES lineup, while boasting a similar stature and many of the same features.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2023]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|Optimus Primal (''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]'')}}
{{Bp-m1|Optimus Primal Deluxe Version (500 pcs, ''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|}
{{-}}

==Model kits==
===PMK Series===
The ''Plastic Model Kit'' range, also known as ''PLAMO'', consists of highly detailed kits that stand 30 cm tall when fully built. This line is developed in cooperation with [[SOSKILL]]. The 2021 sets were reissued in 2025.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2021'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#PMK Series|Earth Mode Optimus Prime]] (''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'')}}
{{Bp-d1|Shockwave (''Bumblebee'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#PMKDOTM|Optimus Prime]] (''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'')}}
</ul>
|[[File:Yolo PMK BB Shockwave.jpg|thumb|PMK Shockwave]]
|}
{{Comingsoontoy|''Dark of the Moon'' Optimus Prime}}

===AMK Series===
The ''Advance Model Kit'' range of kits averages 20 cm in height. Coming out of the box in preassembled, prepainted chunks, this line offers more of a snap-together action figure experience than traditional model kits. The Cogless toys have tin box variants, and ordering a case of all four includes a bonus acrylic stand.

In 2024, some of the kits were distributed in Japan by Doyusha Model Co.,Ltd. There are also "Hasbro Exclusive" variants available outside of the United States and Hong Kong, some with unique decoes and accessories.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2023'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Bumblebee (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#AMK Series|Optimus Prime]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-m1|[[Optimus Primal (ROTB)#Yolopark|Optimus Primal]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2024]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|Cheetor (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-ter|[[Scourge (ROTB)#Yolopark|Scourge]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-m1|Rhinox (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (One)#Yolopark|Cogless Bot Mode B-127]] (''[[Transformers One (film)|One]]'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Elita-1 (One)#Yolopark|Cogless Bot Mode Elita-1]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (One)#Yolopark|Cogless Bot Mode Orion Pax]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (One)#Yolopark|Cogless Bot Mode D-16]] (''One'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (One)#AMKCogged|Cogged Bot Mode Bumblebee / B-127]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Elita-1 (One)#AMKCogged|Cogged Bot Mode Elita-1]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (One)#AMKCogged|Cogged Bot Mode Optimus Prime / Orion Pax]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (One)#AMKCogged|Cogged Bot Mode Megatron / D-16]] (''One'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2025]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#AMKv2|Optimus Prime]] (w/ Upgraded Weapons, ''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#AMK|Bumblebee]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream (Generation 1)}}
|[[File:Yolo_AMK_ROTB_Wave1.jpg|thumb|AMK 2023 ''Rise of the Beasts'']]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Exclusive'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#AMKHasbroEdition|Optimus Prime]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#AMKHasbroEdition|Megatron]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1d1|[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#AMKComboSet|Megatron]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#AMKComboSet|Optimus Prime]] Combo Set (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#AMK|Bumblebee]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Tarn (IDW)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|Optimus Primal (''Beast Wars'')}}
{{Bp-m1|Dinobot (''Beast Wars'')}}
{{Bp-p1|Megatron (''Beast Wars'')}}
{{Bp-p1|Blackarachnia (''Beast Wars'')}}
|}
{{comingsoontoy|Upcoming}}

===AMK Pro Series===
Boasting a greater array of accessories, painted detail, and a selection of diecast parts, ''AMK Pro'' launched with an overwhelmingly successful [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1949685238/unleash-the-power-of-megatron-model-kit Kickstarter campaign] for Generation 1 Megatron. Some have pre-order bonuses, such as acrylic stands.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2023'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Megatron]] (Generation 1)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2024'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Optimus Prime]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Nemesis Prime (G1)#Yolopark|Nemesis Prime]] (Generation 1)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2025'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#AMK Pro Series|Optimus Prime]] (''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Starscream]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|Mirage (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-ter|[[Scourge (ROTB)#AMKPro|Scourge]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#AMKProROTB|Optimus Prime]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#Yolopark|Soundwave]] (w/ Ravage, ''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime / Orion Pax (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron / D-16 (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Drift (''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]'')}}
|[[File:YoloparkAMKProMegatron.jpeg|thumb|AMK Pro Megatron]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Arcee (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Bumblebee (w/ Spike Witwicky, Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|Ironhide (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Jazz (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Transformers'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Sentinel Prime (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|B-127 (''Bumblebee'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Shockwave (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (IDW)}}
{{Bp-d1|Tarn (w/ Nickel, IDW)}}
|}
{{comingsoontoy|Upcoming and Drift}}

===AMK Pro X Series===
With a lavish paintjob, new parts, and a dedicated display base, the introductory figure in the ''AMK Pro X'' range is an original robot mode design for ''Rise of the Beasts'' Apelinq, built off of the bones of AMK Primal. He notably does not feature diecast, unlike the figures of the regular AMK Pro lineup.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2024'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|[[Apelinq (ROTB)#Yolopark|Apelinq]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|[[File:Yolopark-Rise-Of-The-Beast-Apelinq.jpg|thumb|AMK Pro X Apelinq]]
|}

===AMK Mini Series===
The ''AMK Mini'' range of model kits consists of characters (primarily from Generation 1) standing at an average of 11 cm tall. This inaugural wave was released both as individually-marked singles and as blind boxes. Two extra figures were only available blind, and we've listed them in '''bold''' for clarity, alongside their listed odds. Future waves, following wave 2, also include bonus figure(s) when purchasing a full case from the official Yolopark webstore.

In 2025, Doyusha Model Co., Ltd. will distribute the kits in Japan.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Bumblebee]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Grimlock]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#AMK Mini Series|Megatron]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#AMK Mini Series|Optimus Prime]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/merchandise#AMK Mini Series|Soundwave]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#AMK Mini Series|Starscream]]}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Nemesis Prime (G1)#AMK Mini Series|Nemesis Prime]]''' ''(1/60)''}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Skywarp]]''' ''(1/30)''}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Arcee (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Arcee]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Cliffjumper]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hot Rod (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Rodimus Prime]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hound (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Hound]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jazz (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Jazz]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Prowl (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Prowl]]}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Hot Rod (G1)/merchandise#AMKRodimusUnicronus|Rodimus Unicronus]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Bluestreak (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Silverstreak]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hound (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Green Transparent Hound]] ''(case bonus)''}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Bumblebee (IDW)]]}}
{{Bp-a1|Ironhide}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#AMKMiniIDW2005|Orion Pax (IDW)]]}}
{{Bp-a1|Ratchet}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 4'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Grimlock}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|Nickel (IDW)}}
{{Bp-m1|Optimus Primal (''Beast Wars'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Wheeljack}}
{{Bp-d1|Shockwave}}
{{Bp-a1|Sideswipe}}
|[[File:Yolo AMKMini Wave1.jpg|thumb|AMK Mini Wave 1]]
|}
{{comingsoontoy|Wave 3 and 4}}

===DMK Series===
Intended to scale with the PMK Series, the ''Dual Model Kit'' range consists of characters standing at 35 cm tall.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|}
{{Comingsoontoy}}

===BMK Series===
The ''Beginner Model Kit'' range is at a similar price to the AMK Mini toys, but bigger and with less articulation.
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#BMK|Bumblebee]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#BMK|Optimus Prime]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream (Generation 1)}}
|}

==Non-articulated==
===''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]'' friction cars===
For Yolopark's first ''Transformers'' outing, this line of 12 cm long flywheel motor car toys feature lights and sounds. All four cars use the same sounds.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2019]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (WFC)/merchandise#Yolopark|Bumblebee]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Chase (RB)#Yolopark|Chase]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Heatwave (RB)#Yolopark|Heatwave]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (WFC)/merchandise#Yolopark|Optimus Prime]]}}
|
|[[File:Yolo RB Heatwave.jpg|thumb|Friction car Heatwave]]
|}
{{--}}

===Merchandise===
Yolopark released a set of six magnetic, metal badges based on ''Rise of the Beasts'', with a matte finish. They would later release 3D metal puzzle statues based on Generation 1 characters, around 22 cm in height. Finally, a statue of ''Rise of the Beasts'' Optimus Prime, standing at a whopping 220 cm tall.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Badges'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1m1|Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Mirage, Optimus Primal, Cheetor, Rhinox (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''3D Metal Puzzles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime}}
{{Bp-d1|Nemesis Prime}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Soundwave]]}}
{{Bp-a1|Bumblebee}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Jazz}}
{{Bp-d1|Shockwave}}
{{Bp-d1|Wheeljack}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Statue'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}
{{toystub}}

==Exclusives==
With an active presence in the global convention scene, Yolopark regularly offers event exclusive product, even at otherwise unofficial conventions.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''IIES Series'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Nemesis Prime (AOE)#Yolopark|Nemesis Prime]] ([[San Diego Comic-Con#2023|San Diego Comic-Con 2023]], ''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''AMK Pro'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron Golden Color Version (Shangai Wonder Festival 2023, Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron Purple Version ([[Singapore Comic Con]] 2023, Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime Clear Version ([[Cybertron Con 2024]], Generation 1)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|NEW ERA Optimus Prime Black Limited (ComplexCon 2025, Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream Transparent Version (multiple 2025 conventions, Generation 1)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''AMK Mini'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1d1|House of Magnus ([[Delta Magnus#Yolopark|Delta Magnus]] VS [[Sunstorm (G1)#Yolopark|Sunstorm]], [[BotCon]] 2024)}}
{{Bp-a1d1|The Sound of Science ([[Soundwave (G1)/merchandise#botcon2025|Soundblaster]] VS [[Glyph (Universe)#Yolopark|Glyph]], BotCon 2025)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (Yolopark)|Cliffjumper]] (BotCon 2025)}}
|[[File:Yolo AMKMini HouseofMagnus.jpg|thumb|Just when you thought you'd heard the last of them.]]
|}

==Notes==
* In Yolopark's first public appearance at Singapore Comic Con [[2019]], the company displayed a series of silhouettes depicting characters from ''Bumblebee''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s opening sequence.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/possible-bumblebee-movie-megatron-figure-coming-from-yolopark/44328/ Seibertron.com - Possible Bumblebee Movie Megatron Figure Coming from Yolopark]</ref> These silhouettes included Megatron, a character [[Bumblebee (film)#Changes before, during, and after production|reportedly cut from the movie]].
*The majority of the AMK lines, especially the regular line and the Minis, had parts that could be detached into unassembled pieces, except for the pinned areas.

==External links==
* [https://yolopark.com/ Yolopark website]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Yolopark/ Yolopark Facebook page]
* [https://twitter.com/yolopark Yolopark Twitter account]
* [https://www.instagram.com/yolopark.official/ Yolopark Instagram account]
* [https://www.youtube.com/yolopark Yolopark YouTube channel]

==References==
{{reflist}}

[[Category:Companies]]
[[Category:Multi-property brands]]
[[Category:Merchandise]]
[[Category:Generation 1 merchandise]]
[[Category:Rescue Bots]]
[[Category:Movie]]
[[Category:Dark of the Moon]]
[[Category:The Last Knight]]
[[Category:Bumblebee]]
[[Category:Rise of the Beasts]]
[[Category:One]]

Yolopark

2026-03-13T23:12:19Z

Vich0 08: /* PMK Series */

[[File:Yolopark logo.jpg|right|250px]]
'''Yolopark''' is a [[Hong Kong]]-based [[toy]] company established in [[2009]]. The company manufactures high-end figures and model kits of popular licenses, in addition to the occasional honest-to-goodness kid's toys.


==High-end "movable statues"==
Yolopark's flagship products, their self-described "movable statues" are high cost, high reward. These 62 cm tall figures are manufactured in extremely limited numbers, which we list below when available.

===''IIES Series'' figures===
Short for '''Internal Interconnect Exoskeleton System'''<ref>[https://yolopark.com/pages/about Yolopark.com - About Us]</ref>, IIES figures use mechanical gearing to allow stable posing in their immense size without the limitations of [[Ratchet (mechanism)|ratcheting]] joints.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2021]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#Yolopark|Cybertron Optimus Prime]] (2000 pieces, ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#IIESDeluxe|Cybertron Optimus Prime Deluxe Version]] (500 pcs, ''Bumblebee'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2022]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#IIESEarth|Earth Mode Optimus Prime]] (666 pcs, ''Bumblebee'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Transformers'')}}
|[[File:Yolo IIES BBCyb OptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|IIES Cybertron Optimus Prime]]
|}
{{Comingsoontoy|''Transformers'' Optimus Prime}}

===''IES'' figures===
The '''Internal Endoskeleton System'''<ref>[https://shop.yolopark.com/products/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-ies-series_62cm_optimus-primal shop.Yolopark.com - Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - IES Series 62cm Optimus Primal]</ref> figures sit at around half the price range of the IIES lineup, while boasting a similar stature and many of the same features.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2023]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|Optimus Primal (''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]'')}}
{{Bp-m1|Optimus Primal Deluxe Version (500 pcs, ''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|}
{{-}}

==Model kits==
===PMK Series===
The ''Plastic Model Kit'' range, also known as ''PLAMO'', consists of highly detailed kits that stand 30 cm tall when fully built. This line is developed in cooperation with [[SOSKILL]]. The 2021 sets were reissued in 2025.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2021'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#PMK Series|Earth Mode Optimus Prime]] (''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Shockwave (movie) /merchandise#PMK Series]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#PMKDOTM|Optimus Prime]] (''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'')}}
</ul>
|[[File:Yolo PMK BB Shockwave.jpg|thumb|PMK Shockwave]]
|}
{{Comingsoontoy|''Dark of the Moon'' Optimus Prime}}

===AMK Series===
The ''Advance Model Kit'' range of kits averages 20 cm in height. Coming out of the box in preassembled, prepainted chunks, this line offers more of a snap-together action figure experience than traditional model kits. The Cogless toys have tin box variants, and ordering a case of all four includes a bonus acrylic stand.

In 2024, some of the kits were distributed in Japan by Doyusha Model Co.,Ltd. There are also "Hasbro Exclusive" variants available outside of the United States and Hong Kong, some with unique decoes and accessories.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2023'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Bumblebee (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#AMK Series|Optimus Prime]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-m1|[[Optimus Primal (ROTB)#Yolopark|Optimus Primal]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2024]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|Cheetor (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-ter|[[Scourge (ROTB)#Yolopark|Scourge]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-m1|Rhinox (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (One)#Yolopark|Cogless Bot Mode B-127]] (''[[Transformers One (film)|One]]'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Elita-1 (One)#Yolopark|Cogless Bot Mode Elita-1]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (One)#Yolopark|Cogless Bot Mode Orion Pax]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (One)#Yolopark|Cogless Bot Mode D-16]] (''One'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (One)#AMKCogged|Cogged Bot Mode Bumblebee / B-127]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Elita-1 (One)#AMKCogged|Cogged Bot Mode Elita-1]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (One)#AMKCogged|Cogged Bot Mode Optimus Prime / Orion Pax]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (One)#AMKCogged|Cogged Bot Mode Megatron / D-16]] (''One'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2025]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#AMKv2|Optimus Prime]] (w/ Upgraded Weapons, ''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#AMK|Bumblebee]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream (Generation 1)}}
|[[File:Yolo_AMK_ROTB_Wave1.jpg|thumb|AMK 2023 ''Rise of the Beasts'']]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Exclusive'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#AMKHasbroEdition|Optimus Prime]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#AMKHasbroEdition|Megatron]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1d1|[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#AMKComboSet|Megatron]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#AMKComboSet|Optimus Prime]] Combo Set (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#AMK|Bumblebee]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Tarn (IDW)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|Optimus Primal (''Beast Wars'')}}
{{Bp-m1|Dinobot (''Beast Wars'')}}
{{Bp-p1|Megatron (''Beast Wars'')}}
{{Bp-p1|Blackarachnia (''Beast Wars'')}}
|}
{{comingsoontoy|Upcoming}}

===AMK Pro Series===
Boasting a greater array of accessories, painted detail, and a selection of diecast parts, ''AMK Pro'' launched with an overwhelmingly successful [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1949685238/unleash-the-power-of-megatron-model-kit Kickstarter campaign] for Generation 1 Megatron. Some have pre-order bonuses, such as acrylic stands.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2023'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Megatron]] (Generation 1)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2024'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Optimus Prime]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Nemesis Prime (G1)#Yolopark|Nemesis Prime]] (Generation 1)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2025'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#AMK Pro Series|Optimus Prime]] (''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Starscream]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|Mirage (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-ter|[[Scourge (ROTB)#AMKPro|Scourge]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#AMKProROTB|Optimus Prime]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#Yolopark|Soundwave]] (w/ Ravage, ''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime / Orion Pax (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron / D-16 (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Drift (''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]'')}}
|[[File:YoloparkAMKProMegatron.jpeg|thumb|AMK Pro Megatron]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Arcee (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Bumblebee (w/ Spike Witwicky, Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|Ironhide (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Jazz (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Transformers'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Sentinel Prime (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|B-127 (''Bumblebee'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Shockwave (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (IDW)}}
{{Bp-d1|Tarn (w/ Nickel, IDW)}}
|}
{{comingsoontoy|Upcoming and Drift}}

===AMK Pro X Series===
With a lavish paintjob, new parts, and a dedicated display base, the introductory figure in the ''AMK Pro X'' range is an original robot mode design for ''Rise of the Beasts'' Apelinq, built off of the bones of AMK Primal. He notably does not feature diecast, unlike the figures of the regular AMK Pro lineup.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2024'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|[[Apelinq (ROTB)#Yolopark|Apelinq]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|[[File:Yolopark-Rise-Of-The-Beast-Apelinq.jpg|thumb|AMK Pro X Apelinq]]
|}

===AMK Mini Series===
The ''AMK Mini'' range of model kits consists of characters (primarily from Generation 1) standing at an average of 11 cm tall. This inaugural wave was released both as individually-marked singles and as blind boxes. Two extra figures were only available blind, and we've listed them in '''bold''' for clarity, alongside their listed odds. Future waves, following wave 2, also include bonus figure(s) when purchasing a full case from the official Yolopark webstore.

In 2025, Doyusha Model Co., Ltd. will distribute the kits in Japan.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Bumblebee]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Grimlock]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#AMK Mini Series|Megatron]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#AMK Mini Series|Optimus Prime]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/merchandise#AMK Mini Series|Soundwave]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#AMK Mini Series|Starscream]]}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Nemesis Prime (G1)#AMK Mini Series|Nemesis Prime]]''' ''(1/60)''}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Skywarp]]''' ''(1/30)''}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Arcee (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Arcee]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Cliffjumper]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hot Rod (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Rodimus Prime]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hound (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Hound]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jazz (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Jazz]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Prowl (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Prowl]]}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Hot Rod (G1)/merchandise#AMKRodimusUnicronus|Rodimus Unicronus]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Bluestreak (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Silverstreak]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hound (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Green Transparent Hound]] ''(case bonus)''}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Bumblebee (IDW)]]}}
{{Bp-a1|Ironhide}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#AMKMiniIDW2005|Orion Pax (IDW)]]}}
{{Bp-a1|Ratchet}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 4'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Grimlock}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|Nickel (IDW)}}
{{Bp-m1|Optimus Primal (''Beast Wars'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Wheeljack}}
{{Bp-d1|Shockwave}}
{{Bp-a1|Sideswipe}}
|[[File:Yolo AMKMini Wave1.jpg|thumb|AMK Mini Wave 1]]
|}
{{comingsoontoy|Wave 3 and 4}}

===DMK Series===
Intended to scale with the PMK Series, the ''Dual Model Kit'' range consists of characters standing at 35 cm tall.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|}
{{Comingsoontoy}}

===BMK Series===
The ''Beginner Model Kit'' range is at a similar price to the AMK Mini toys, but bigger and with less articulation.
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#BMK|Bumblebee]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#BMK|Optimus Prime]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream (Generation 1)}}
|}

==Non-articulated==
===''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]'' friction cars===
For Yolopark's first ''Transformers'' outing, this line of 12 cm long flywheel motor car toys feature lights and sounds. All four cars use the same sounds.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2019]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (WFC)/merchandise#Yolopark|Bumblebee]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Chase (RB)#Yolopark|Chase]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Heatwave (RB)#Yolopark|Heatwave]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (WFC)/merchandise#Yolopark|Optimus Prime]]}}
|
|[[File:Yolo RB Heatwave.jpg|thumb|Friction car Heatwave]]
|}
{{--}}

===Merchandise===
Yolopark released a set of six magnetic, metal badges based on ''Rise of the Beasts'', with a matte finish. They would later release 3D metal puzzle statues based on Generation 1 characters, around 22 cm in height. Finally, a statue of ''Rise of the Beasts'' Optimus Prime, standing at a whopping 220 cm tall.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Badges'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1m1|Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Mirage, Optimus Primal, Cheetor, Rhinox (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''3D Metal Puzzles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime}}
{{Bp-d1|Nemesis Prime}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Soundwave]]}}
{{Bp-a1|Bumblebee}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Jazz}}
{{Bp-d1|Shockwave}}
{{Bp-d1|Wheeljack}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Statue'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}
{{toystub}}

==Exclusives==
With an active presence in the global convention scene, Yolopark regularly offers event exclusive product, even at otherwise unofficial conventions.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''IIES Series'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Nemesis Prime (AOE)#Yolopark|Nemesis Prime]] ([[San Diego Comic-Con#2023|San Diego Comic-Con 2023]], ''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''AMK Pro'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron Golden Color Version (Shangai Wonder Festival 2023, Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron Purple Version ([[Singapore Comic Con]] 2023, Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime Clear Version ([[Cybertron Con 2024]], Generation 1)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|NEW ERA Optimus Prime Black Limited (ComplexCon 2025, Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream Transparent Version (multiple 2025 conventions, Generation 1)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''AMK Mini'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1d1|House of Magnus ([[Delta Magnus#Yolopark|Delta Magnus]] VS [[Sunstorm (G1)#Yolopark|Sunstorm]], [[BotCon]] 2024)}}
{{Bp-a1d1|The Sound of Science ([[Soundwave (G1)/merchandise#botcon2025|Soundblaster]] VS [[Glyph (Universe)#Yolopark|Glyph]], BotCon 2025)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (Yolopark)|Cliffjumper]] (BotCon 2025)}}
|[[File:Yolo AMKMini HouseofMagnus.jpg|thumb|Just when you thought you'd heard the last of them.]]
|}

==Notes==
* In Yolopark's first public appearance at Singapore Comic Con [[2019]], the company displayed a series of silhouettes depicting characters from ''Bumblebee''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s opening sequence.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/possible-bumblebee-movie-megatron-figure-coming-from-yolopark/44328/ Seibertron.com - Possible Bumblebee Movie Megatron Figure Coming from Yolopark]</ref> These silhouettes included Megatron, a character [[Bumblebee (film)#Changes before, during, and after production|reportedly cut from the movie]].
*The majority of the AMK lines, especially the regular line and the Minis, had parts that could be detached into unassembled pieces, except for the pinned areas.

==External links==
* [https://yolopark.com/ Yolopark website]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Yolopark/ Yolopark Facebook page]
* [https://twitter.com/yolopark Yolopark Twitter account]
* [https://www.instagram.com/yolopark.official/ Yolopark Instagram account]
* [https://www.youtube.com/yolopark Yolopark YouTube channel]

==References==
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Yolopark

2026-03-13T23:11:22Z

Vich0 08: /* PMK Series */

[[File:Yolopark logo.jpg|right|250px]]
'''Yolopark''' is a [[Hong Kong]]-based [[toy]] company established in [[2009]]. The company manufactures high-end figures and model kits of popular licenses, in addition to the occasional honest-to-goodness kid's toys.


==High-end "movable statues"==
Yolopark's flagship products, their self-described "movable statues" are high cost, high reward. These 62 cm tall figures are manufactured in extremely limited numbers, which we list below when available.

===''IIES Series'' figures===
Short for '''Internal Interconnect Exoskeleton System'''<ref>[https://yolopark.com/pages/about Yolopark.com - About Us]</ref>, IIES figures use mechanical gearing to allow stable posing in their immense size without the limitations of [[Ratchet (mechanism)|ratcheting]] joints.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2021]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#Yolopark|Cybertron Optimus Prime]] (2000 pieces, ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#IIESDeluxe|Cybertron Optimus Prime Deluxe Version]] (500 pcs, ''Bumblebee'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2022]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#IIESEarth|Earth Mode Optimus Prime]] (666 pcs, ''Bumblebee'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Transformers'')}}
|[[File:Yolo IIES BBCyb OptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|IIES Cybertron Optimus Prime]]
|}
{{Comingsoontoy|''Transformers'' Optimus Prime}}

===''IES'' figures===
The '''Internal Endoskeleton System'''<ref>[https://shop.yolopark.com/products/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-ies-series_62cm_optimus-primal shop.Yolopark.com - Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - IES Series 62cm Optimus Primal]</ref> figures sit at around half the price range of the IIES lineup, while boasting a similar stature and many of the same features.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2023]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|Optimus Primal (''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]'')}}
{{Bp-m1|Optimus Primal Deluxe Version (500 pcs, ''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|}
{{-}}

==Model kits==
===PMK Series===
The ''Plastic Model Kit'' range, also known as ''PLAMO'', consists of highly detailed kits that stand 30 cm tall when fully built. This line is developed in cooperation with [[SOSKILL]]. The 2021 sets were reissued in 2025.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2021'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#PMK Series|Earth Mode Optimus Prime]] (''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Shockwave (movie)/merchandise#PMK Series]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#PMKDOTM|Optimus Prime]] (''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'')}}
</ul>
|[[File:Yolo PMK BB Shockwave.jpg|thumb|PMK Shockwave]]
|}
{{Comingsoontoy|''Dark of the Moon'' Optimus Prime}}

===AMK Series===
The ''Advance Model Kit'' range of kits averages 20 cm in height. Coming out of the box in preassembled, prepainted chunks, this line offers more of a snap-together action figure experience than traditional model kits. The Cogless toys have tin box variants, and ordering a case of all four includes a bonus acrylic stand.

In 2024, some of the kits were distributed in Japan by Doyusha Model Co.,Ltd. There are also "Hasbro Exclusive" variants available outside of the United States and Hong Kong, some with unique decoes and accessories.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2023'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Bumblebee (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#AMK Series|Optimus Prime]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-m1|[[Optimus Primal (ROTB)#Yolopark|Optimus Primal]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2024]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|Cheetor (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-ter|[[Scourge (ROTB)#Yolopark|Scourge]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-m1|Rhinox (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (One)#Yolopark|Cogless Bot Mode B-127]] (''[[Transformers One (film)|One]]'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Elita-1 (One)#Yolopark|Cogless Bot Mode Elita-1]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (One)#Yolopark|Cogless Bot Mode Orion Pax]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (One)#Yolopark|Cogless Bot Mode D-16]] (''One'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (One)#AMKCogged|Cogged Bot Mode Bumblebee / B-127]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Elita-1 (One)#AMKCogged|Cogged Bot Mode Elita-1]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (One)#AMKCogged|Cogged Bot Mode Optimus Prime / Orion Pax]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (One)#AMKCogged|Cogged Bot Mode Megatron / D-16]] (''One'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2025]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#AMKv2|Optimus Prime]] (w/ Upgraded Weapons, ''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#AMK|Bumblebee]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream (Generation 1)}}
|[[File:Yolo_AMK_ROTB_Wave1.jpg|thumb|AMK 2023 ''Rise of the Beasts'']]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Exclusive'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#AMKHasbroEdition|Optimus Prime]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#AMKHasbroEdition|Megatron]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1d1|[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#AMKComboSet|Megatron]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#AMKComboSet|Optimus Prime]] Combo Set (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#AMK|Bumblebee]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Tarn (IDW)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|Optimus Primal (''Beast Wars'')}}
{{Bp-m1|Dinobot (''Beast Wars'')}}
{{Bp-p1|Megatron (''Beast Wars'')}}
{{Bp-p1|Blackarachnia (''Beast Wars'')}}
|}
{{comingsoontoy|Upcoming}}

===AMK Pro Series===
Boasting a greater array of accessories, painted detail, and a selection of diecast parts, ''AMK Pro'' launched with an overwhelmingly successful [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1949685238/unleash-the-power-of-megatron-model-kit Kickstarter campaign] for Generation 1 Megatron. Some have pre-order bonuses, such as acrylic stands.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2023'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Megatron]] (Generation 1)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2024'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Optimus Prime]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Nemesis Prime (G1)#Yolopark|Nemesis Prime]] (Generation 1)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2025'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#AMK Pro Series|Optimus Prime]] (''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Starscream]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|Mirage (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-ter|[[Scourge (ROTB)#AMKPro|Scourge]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#AMKProROTB|Optimus Prime]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#Yolopark|Soundwave]] (w/ Ravage, ''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime / Orion Pax (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron / D-16 (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Drift (''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]'')}}
|[[File:YoloparkAMKProMegatron.jpeg|thumb|AMK Pro Megatron]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Arcee (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Bumblebee (w/ Spike Witwicky, Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|Ironhide (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Jazz (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Transformers'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Sentinel Prime (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|B-127 (''Bumblebee'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Shockwave (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (IDW)}}
{{Bp-d1|Tarn (w/ Nickel, IDW)}}
|}
{{comingsoontoy|Upcoming and Drift}}

===AMK Pro X Series===
With a lavish paintjob, new parts, and a dedicated display base, the introductory figure in the ''AMK Pro X'' range is an original robot mode design for ''Rise of the Beasts'' Apelinq, built off of the bones of AMK Primal. He notably does not feature diecast, unlike the figures of the regular AMK Pro lineup.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2024'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|[[Apelinq (ROTB)#Yolopark|Apelinq]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|[[File:Yolopark-Rise-Of-The-Beast-Apelinq.jpg|thumb|AMK Pro X Apelinq]]
|}

===AMK Mini Series===
The ''AMK Mini'' range of model kits consists of characters (primarily from Generation 1) standing at an average of 11 cm tall. This inaugural wave was released both as individually-marked singles and as blind boxes. Two extra figures were only available blind, and we've listed them in '''bold''' for clarity, alongside their listed odds. Future waves, following wave 2, also include bonus figure(s) when purchasing a full case from the official Yolopark webstore.

In 2025, Doyusha Model Co., Ltd. will distribute the kits in Japan.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Bumblebee]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Grimlock]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#AMK Mini Series|Megatron]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#AMK Mini Series|Optimus Prime]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/merchandise#AMK Mini Series|Soundwave]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#AMK Mini Series|Starscream]]}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Nemesis Prime (G1)#AMK Mini Series|Nemesis Prime]]''' ''(1/60)''}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Skywarp]]''' ''(1/30)''}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Arcee (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Arcee]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Cliffjumper]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hot Rod (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Rodimus Prime]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hound (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Hound]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jazz (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Jazz]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Prowl (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Prowl]]}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Hot Rod (G1)/merchandise#AMKRodimusUnicronus|Rodimus Unicronus]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Bluestreak (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Silverstreak]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hound (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Green Transparent Hound]] ''(case bonus)''}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Bumblebee (IDW)]]}}
{{Bp-a1|Ironhide}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#AMKMiniIDW2005|Orion Pax (IDW)]]}}
{{Bp-a1|Ratchet}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 4'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Grimlock}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|Nickel (IDW)}}
{{Bp-m1|Optimus Primal (''Beast Wars'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Wheeljack}}
{{Bp-d1|Shockwave}}
{{Bp-a1|Sideswipe}}
|[[File:Yolo AMKMini Wave1.jpg|thumb|AMK Mini Wave 1]]
|}
{{comingsoontoy|Wave 3 and 4}}

===DMK Series===
Intended to scale with the PMK Series, the ''Dual Model Kit'' range consists of characters standing at 35 cm tall.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|}
{{Comingsoontoy}}

===BMK Series===
The ''Beginner Model Kit'' range is at a similar price to the AMK Mini toys, but bigger and with less articulation.
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#BMK|Bumblebee]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#BMK|Optimus Prime]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream (Generation 1)}}
|}

==Non-articulated==
===''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]'' friction cars===
For Yolopark's first ''Transformers'' outing, this line of 12 cm long flywheel motor car toys feature lights and sounds. All four cars use the same sounds.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2019]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (WFC)/merchandise#Yolopark|Bumblebee]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Chase (RB)#Yolopark|Chase]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Heatwave (RB)#Yolopark|Heatwave]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (WFC)/merchandise#Yolopark|Optimus Prime]]}}
|
|[[File:Yolo RB Heatwave.jpg|thumb|Friction car Heatwave]]
|}
{{--}}

===Merchandise===
Yolopark released a set of six magnetic, metal badges based on ''Rise of the Beasts'', with a matte finish. They would later release 3D metal puzzle statues based on Generation 1 characters, around 22 cm in height. Finally, a statue of ''Rise of the Beasts'' Optimus Prime, standing at a whopping 220 cm tall.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Badges'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1m1|Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Mirage, Optimus Primal, Cheetor, Rhinox (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''3D Metal Puzzles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime}}
{{Bp-d1|Nemesis Prime}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Soundwave]]}}
{{Bp-a1|Bumblebee}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Jazz}}
{{Bp-d1|Shockwave}}
{{Bp-d1|Wheeljack}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Statue'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}
{{toystub}}

==Exclusives==
With an active presence in the global convention scene, Yolopark regularly offers event exclusive product, even at otherwise unofficial conventions.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''IIES Series'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Nemesis Prime (AOE)#Yolopark|Nemesis Prime]] ([[San Diego Comic-Con#2023|San Diego Comic-Con 2023]], ''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''AMK Pro'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron Golden Color Version (Shangai Wonder Festival 2023, Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron Purple Version ([[Singapore Comic Con]] 2023, Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime Clear Version ([[Cybertron Con 2024]], Generation 1)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|NEW ERA Optimus Prime Black Limited (ComplexCon 2025, Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream Transparent Version (multiple 2025 conventions, Generation 1)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''AMK Mini'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1d1|House of Magnus ([[Delta Magnus#Yolopark|Delta Magnus]] VS [[Sunstorm (G1)#Yolopark|Sunstorm]], [[BotCon]] 2024)}}
{{Bp-a1d1|The Sound of Science ([[Soundwave (G1)/merchandise#botcon2025|Soundblaster]] VS [[Glyph (Universe)#Yolopark|Glyph]], BotCon 2025)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (Yolopark)|Cliffjumper]] (BotCon 2025)}}
|[[File:Yolo AMKMini HouseofMagnus.jpg|thumb|Just when you thought you'd heard the last of them.]]
|}

==Notes==
* In Yolopark's first public appearance at Singapore Comic Con [[2019]], the company displayed a series of silhouettes depicting characters from ''Bumblebee''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s opening sequence.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/possible-bumblebee-movie-megatron-figure-coming-from-yolopark/44328/ Seibertron.com - Possible Bumblebee Movie Megatron Figure Coming from Yolopark]</ref> These silhouettes included Megatron, a character [[Bumblebee (film)#Changes before, during, and after production|reportedly cut from the movie]].
*The majority of the AMK lines, especially the regular line and the Minis, had parts that could be detached into unassembled pieces, except for the pinned areas.

==External links==
* [https://yolopark.com/ Yolopark website]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Yolopark/ Yolopark Facebook page]
* [https://twitter.com/yolopark Yolopark Twitter account]
* [https://www.instagram.com/yolopark.official/ Yolopark Instagram account]
* [https://www.youtube.com/yolopark Yolopark YouTube channel]

==References==
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Yolopark

2026-03-13T23:09:14Z

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[[File:Yolopark logo.jpg|right|250px]]
'''Yolopark''' is a [[Hong Kong]]-based [[toy]] company established in [[2009]]. The company manufactures high-end figures and model kits of popular licenses, in addition to the occasional honest-to-goodness kid's toys.


==High-end "movable statues"==
Yolopark's flagship products, their self-described "movable statues" are high cost, high reward. These 62 cm tall figures are manufactured in extremely limited numbers, which we list below when available.

===''IIES Series'' figures===
Short for '''Internal Interconnect Exoskeleton System'''<ref>[https://yolopark.com/pages/about Yolopark.com - About Us]</ref>, IIES figures use mechanical gearing to allow stable posing in their immense size without the limitations of [[Ratchet (mechanism)|ratcheting]] joints.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2021]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#Yolopark|Cybertron Optimus Prime]] (2000 pieces, ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#IIESDeluxe|Cybertron Optimus Prime Deluxe Version]] (500 pcs, ''Bumblebee'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2022]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#IIESEarth|Earth Mode Optimus Prime]] (666 pcs, ''Bumblebee'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Transformers'')}}
|[[File:Yolo IIES BBCyb OptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|IIES Cybertron Optimus Prime]]
|}
{{Comingsoontoy|''Transformers'' Optimus Prime}}

===''IES'' figures===
The '''Internal Endoskeleton System'''<ref>[https://shop.yolopark.com/products/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-ies-series_62cm_optimus-primal shop.Yolopark.com - Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - IES Series 62cm Optimus Primal]</ref> figures sit at around half the price range of the IIES lineup, while boasting a similar stature and many of the same features.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2023]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|Optimus Primal (''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]'')}}
{{Bp-m1|Optimus Primal Deluxe Version (500 pcs, ''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|}
{{-}}

==Model kits==
===PMK Series===
The ''Plastic Model Kit'' range, also known as ''PLAMO'', consists of highly detailed kits that stand 30 cm tall when fully built. This line is developed in cooperation with [[SOSKILL]]. The 2021 sets were reissued in 2025.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2021'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#PMK Series|Earth Mode Optimus Prime]] (''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Shockwave]] (''Bumblebee'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#PMKDOTM|Optimus Prime]] (''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'')}}
</ul>
|[[File:Yolo PMK BB Shockwave.jpg|thumb|PMK Shockwave]]
|}
{{Comingsoontoy|''Dark of the Moon'' Optimus Prime}}

===AMK Series===
The ''Advance Model Kit'' range of kits averages 20 cm in height. Coming out of the box in preassembled, prepainted chunks, this line offers more of a snap-together action figure experience than traditional model kits. The Cogless toys have tin box variants, and ordering a case of all four includes a bonus acrylic stand.

In 2024, some of the kits were distributed in Japan by Doyusha Model Co.,Ltd. There are also "Hasbro Exclusive" variants available outside of the United States and Hong Kong, some with unique decoes and accessories.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2023'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Bumblebee (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#AMK Series|Optimus Prime]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-m1|[[Optimus Primal (ROTB)#Yolopark|Optimus Primal]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2024]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|Cheetor (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-ter|[[Scourge (ROTB)#Yolopark|Scourge]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-m1|Rhinox (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (One)#Yolopark|Cogless Bot Mode B-127]] (''[[Transformers One (film)|One]]'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Elita-1 (One)#Yolopark|Cogless Bot Mode Elita-1]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (One)#Yolopark|Cogless Bot Mode Orion Pax]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (One)#Yolopark|Cogless Bot Mode D-16]] (''One'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (One)#AMKCogged|Cogged Bot Mode Bumblebee / B-127]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Elita-1 (One)#AMKCogged|Cogged Bot Mode Elita-1]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (One)#AMKCogged|Cogged Bot Mode Optimus Prime / Orion Pax]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (One)#AMKCogged|Cogged Bot Mode Megatron / D-16]] (''One'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2025]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#AMKv2|Optimus Prime]] (w/ Upgraded Weapons, ''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#AMK|Bumblebee]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream (Generation 1)}}
|[[File:Yolo_AMK_ROTB_Wave1.jpg|thumb|AMK 2023 ''Rise of the Beasts'']]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Exclusive'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#AMKHasbroEdition|Optimus Prime]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#AMKHasbroEdition|Megatron]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1d1|[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#AMKComboSet|Megatron]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#AMKComboSet|Optimus Prime]] Combo Set (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#AMK|Bumblebee]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Tarn (IDW)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|Optimus Primal (''Beast Wars'')}}
{{Bp-m1|Dinobot (''Beast Wars'')}}
{{Bp-p1|Megatron (''Beast Wars'')}}
{{Bp-p1|Blackarachnia (''Beast Wars'')}}
|}
{{comingsoontoy|Upcoming}}

===AMK Pro Series===
Boasting a greater array of accessories, painted detail, and a selection of diecast parts, ''AMK Pro'' launched with an overwhelmingly successful [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1949685238/unleash-the-power-of-megatron-model-kit Kickstarter campaign] for Generation 1 Megatron. Some have pre-order bonuses, such as acrylic stands.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2023'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Megatron]] (Generation 1)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2024'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Optimus Prime]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Nemesis Prime (G1)#Yolopark|Nemesis Prime]] (Generation 1)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2025'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#AMK Pro Series|Optimus Prime]] (''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Starscream]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|Mirage (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-ter|[[Scourge (ROTB)#AMKPro|Scourge]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#AMKProROTB|Optimus Prime]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#Yolopark|Soundwave]] (w/ Ravage, ''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime / Orion Pax (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron / D-16 (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Drift (''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]'')}}
|[[File:YoloparkAMKProMegatron.jpeg|thumb|AMK Pro Megatron]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Arcee (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Bumblebee (w/ Spike Witwicky, Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|Ironhide (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Jazz (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Transformers'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Sentinel Prime (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|B-127 (''Bumblebee'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Shockwave (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (IDW)}}
{{Bp-d1|Tarn (w/ Nickel, IDW)}}
|}
{{comingsoontoy|Upcoming and Drift}}

===AMK Pro X Series===
With a lavish paintjob, new parts, and a dedicated display base, the introductory figure in the ''AMK Pro X'' range is an original robot mode design for ''Rise of the Beasts'' Apelinq, built off of the bones of AMK Primal. He notably does not feature diecast, unlike the figures of the regular AMK Pro lineup.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2024'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|[[Apelinq (ROTB)#Yolopark|Apelinq]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|[[File:Yolopark-Rise-Of-The-Beast-Apelinq.jpg|thumb|AMK Pro X Apelinq]]
|}

===AMK Mini Series===
The ''AMK Mini'' range of model kits consists of characters (primarily from Generation 1) standing at an average of 11 cm tall. This inaugural wave was released both as individually-marked singles and as blind boxes. Two extra figures were only available blind, and we've listed them in '''bold''' for clarity, alongside their listed odds. Future waves, following wave 2, also include bonus figure(s) when purchasing a full case from the official Yolopark webstore.

In 2025, Doyusha Model Co., Ltd. will distribute the kits in Japan.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Bumblebee]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Grimlock]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#AMK Mini Series|Megatron]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#AMK Mini Series|Optimus Prime]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/merchandise#AMK Mini Series|Soundwave]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#AMK Mini Series|Starscream]]}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Nemesis Prime (G1)#AMK Mini Series|Nemesis Prime]]''' ''(1/60)''}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Skywarp]]''' ''(1/30)''}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Arcee (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Arcee]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Cliffjumper]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hot Rod (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Rodimus Prime]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hound (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Hound]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jazz (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Jazz]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Prowl (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Prowl]]}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Hot Rod (G1)/merchandise#AMKRodimusUnicronus|Rodimus Unicronus]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Bluestreak (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Silverstreak]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hound (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Green Transparent Hound]] ''(case bonus)''}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Bumblebee (IDW)]]}}
{{Bp-a1|Ironhide}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#AMKMiniIDW2005|Orion Pax (IDW)]]}}
{{Bp-a1|Ratchet}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 4'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Grimlock}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|Nickel (IDW)}}
{{Bp-m1|Optimus Primal (''Beast Wars'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Wheeljack}}
{{Bp-d1|Shockwave}}
{{Bp-a1|Sideswipe}}
|[[File:Yolo AMKMini Wave1.jpg|thumb|AMK Mini Wave 1]]
|}
{{comingsoontoy|Wave 3 and 4}}

===DMK Series===
Intended to scale with the PMK Series, the ''Dual Model Kit'' range consists of characters standing at 35 cm tall.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
</ul>
|}
{{Comingsoontoy}}

===BMK Series===
The ''Beginner Model Kit'' range is at a similar price to the AMK Mini toys, but bigger and with less articulation.
{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#BMK|Bumblebee]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#BMK|Optimus Prime]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream (Generation 1)}}
|}

==Non-articulated==
===''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]'' friction cars===
For Yolopark's first ''Transformers'' outing, this line of 12 cm long flywheel motor car toys feature lights and sounds. All four cars use the same sounds.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2019]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (WFC)/merchandise#Yolopark|Bumblebee]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Chase (RB)#Yolopark|Chase]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Heatwave (RB)#Yolopark|Heatwave]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (WFC)/merchandise#Yolopark|Optimus Prime]]}}
|
|[[File:Yolo RB Heatwave.jpg|thumb|Friction car Heatwave]]
|}
{{--}}

===Merchandise===
Yolopark released a set of six magnetic, metal badges based on ''Rise of the Beasts'', with a matte finish. They would later release 3D metal puzzle statues based on Generation 1 characters, around 22 cm in height. Finally, a statue of ''Rise of the Beasts'' Optimus Prime, standing at a whopping 220 cm tall.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Badges'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1m1|Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Mirage, Optimus Primal, Cheetor, Rhinox (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''3D Metal Puzzles'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime}}
{{Bp-d1|Nemesis Prime}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Soundwave]]}}
{{Bp-a1|Bumblebee}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Jazz}}
{{Bp-d1|Shockwave}}
{{Bp-d1|Wheeljack}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Statue'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|width="20%" valign="top"|
|}
{{toystub}}

==Exclusives==
With an active presence in the global convention scene, Yolopark regularly offers event exclusive product, even at otherwise unofficial conventions.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''IIES Series'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Nemesis Prime (AOE)#Yolopark|Nemesis Prime]] ([[San Diego Comic-Con#2023|San Diego Comic-Con 2023]], ''Bumblebee'')}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''AMK Pro'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron Golden Color Version (Shangai Wonder Festival 2023, Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron Purple Version ([[Singapore Comic Con]] 2023, Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime Clear Version ([[Cybertron Con 2024]], Generation 1)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|NEW ERA Optimus Prime Black Limited (ComplexCon 2025, Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream Transparent Version (multiple 2025 conventions, Generation 1)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''AMK Mini'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1d1|House of Magnus ([[Delta Magnus#Yolopark|Delta Magnus]] VS [[Sunstorm (G1)#Yolopark|Sunstorm]], [[BotCon]] 2024)}}
{{Bp-a1d1|The Sound of Science ([[Soundwave (G1)/merchandise#botcon2025|Soundblaster]] VS [[Glyph (Universe)#Yolopark|Glyph]], BotCon 2025)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (Yolopark)|Cliffjumper]] (BotCon 2025)}}
|[[File:Yolo AMKMini HouseofMagnus.jpg|thumb|Just when you thought you'd heard the last of them.]]
|}

==Notes==
* In Yolopark's first public appearance at Singapore Comic Con [[2019]], the company displayed a series of silhouettes depicting characters from ''Bumblebee''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s opening sequence.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/possible-bumblebee-movie-megatron-figure-coming-from-yolopark/44328/ Seibertron.com - Possible Bumblebee Movie Megatron Figure Coming from Yolopark]</ref> These silhouettes included Megatron, a character [[Bumblebee (film)#Changes before, during, and after production|reportedly cut from the movie]].
*The majority of the AMK lines, especially the regular line and the Minis, had parts that could be detached into unassembled pieces, except for the pinned areas.

==External links==
* [https://yolopark.com/ Yolopark website]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Yolopark/ Yolopark Facebook page]
* [https://twitter.com/yolopark Yolopark Twitter account]
* [https://www.instagram.com/yolopark.official/ Yolopark Instagram account]
* [https://www.youtube.com/yolopark Yolopark YouTube channel]

==References==
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Yolopark

2026-03-13T23:08:51Z

Vich0 08: /* PMK Series */

[[File:Yolopark logo.jpg|right|250px]]
'''Yolopark''' is a [[Hong Kong]]-based [[toy]] company established in [[2009]]. The company manufactures high-end figures and model kits of popular licenses, in addition to the occasional honest-to-goodness kid's toys.


==High-end "movable statues"==
Yolopark's flagship products, their self-described "movable statues" are high cost, high reward. These 62 cm tall figures are manufactured in extremely limited numbers, which we list below when available.

===''IIES Series'' figures===
Short for '''Internal Interconnect Exoskeleton System'''<ref>[https://yolopark.com/pages/about Yolopark.com - About Us]</ref>, IIES figures use mechanical gearing to allow stable posing in their immense size without the limitations of [[Ratchet (mechanism)|ratcheting]] joints.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2021]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#Yolopark|Cybertron Optimus Prime]] (2000 pieces, ''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#IIESDeluxe|Cybertron Optimus Prime Deluxe Version]] (500 pcs, ''Bumblebee'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2022]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#IIESEarth|Earth Mode Optimus Prime]] (666 pcs, ''Bumblebee'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Transformers'')}}
|[[File:Yolo IIES BBCyb OptimusPrime.jpg|thumb|IIES Cybertron Optimus Prime]]
|}
{{Comingsoontoy|''Transformers'' Optimus Prime}}

===''IES'' figures===
The '''Internal Endoskeleton System'''<ref>[https://shop.yolopark.com/products/transformers-rise-of-the-beasts-ies-series_62cm_optimus-primal shop.Yolopark.com - Transformers: Rise of the Beasts - IES Series 62cm Optimus Primal]</ref> figures sit at around half the price range of the IIES lineup, while boasting a similar stature and many of the same features.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2023]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|Optimus Primal (''[[Transformers: Rise of the Beasts (film)|Rise of the Beasts]]'')}}
{{Bp-m1|Optimus Primal Deluxe Version (500 pcs, ''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|}
{{-}}

==Model kits==
===PMK Series===
The ''Plastic Model Kit'' range, also known as ''PLAMO'', consists of highly detailed kits that stand 30 cm tall when fully built. This line is developed in cooperation with [[SOSKILL]]. The 2021 sets were reissued in 2025.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2021'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#PMK Series|Earth Mode Optimus Prime]] (''[[Bumblebee (film)|Bumblebee]]'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[Shockwave] (''Bumblebee'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#PMKDOTM|Optimus Prime]] (''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (film)|Dark of the Moon]]'')}}
</ul>
|[[File:Yolo PMK BB Shockwave.jpg|thumb|PMK Shockwave]]
|}
{{Comingsoontoy|''Dark of the Moon'' Optimus Prime}}

===AMK Series===
The ''Advance Model Kit'' range of kits averages 20 cm in height. Coming out of the box in preassembled, prepainted chunks, this line offers more of a snap-together action figure experience than traditional model kits. The Cogless toys have tin box variants, and ordering a case of all four includes a bonus acrylic stand.

In 2024, some of the kits were distributed in Japan by Doyusha Model Co.,Ltd. There are also "Hasbro Exclusive" variants available outside of the United States and Hong Kong, some with unique decoes and accessories.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2023'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Bumblebee (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#AMK Series|Optimus Prime]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-m1|[[Optimus Primal (ROTB)#Yolopark|Optimus Primal]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2024]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|Cheetor (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-ter|[[Scourge (ROTB)#Yolopark|Scourge]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-m1|Rhinox (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (One)#Yolopark|Cogless Bot Mode B-127]] (''[[Transformers One (film)|One]]'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Elita-1 (One)#Yolopark|Cogless Bot Mode Elita-1]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (One)#Yolopark|Cogless Bot Mode Orion Pax]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (One)#Yolopark|Cogless Bot Mode D-16]] (''One'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (One)#AMKCogged|Cogged Bot Mode Bumblebee / B-127]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Elita-1 (One)#AMKCogged|Cogged Bot Mode Elita-1]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (One)#AMKCogged|Cogged Bot Mode Optimus Prime / Orion Pax]] (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (One)#AMKCogged|Cogged Bot Mode Megatron / D-16]] (''One'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''[[2025]]'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#AMKv2|Optimus Prime]] (w/ Upgraded Weapons, ''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#AMK|Bumblebee]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream (Generation 1)}}
|[[File:Yolo_AMK_ROTB_Wave1.jpg|thumb|AMK 2023 ''Rise of the Beasts'']]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Hasbro Exclusive'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#AMKHasbroEdition|Optimus Prime]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#AMKHasbroEdition|Megatron]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1d1|[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#AMKComboSet|Megatron]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#AMKComboSet|Optimus Prime]] Combo Set (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#AMK|Bumblebee]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Tarn (IDW)}}
</ul>
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|Optimus Primal (''Beast Wars'')}}
{{Bp-m1|Dinobot (''Beast Wars'')}}
{{Bp-p1|Megatron (''Beast Wars'')}}
{{Bp-p1|Blackarachnia (''Beast Wars'')}}
|}
{{comingsoontoy|Upcoming}}

===AMK Pro Series===
Boasting a greater array of accessories, painted detail, and a selection of diecast parts, ''AMK Pro'' launched with an overwhelmingly successful [https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/1949685238/unleash-the-power-of-megatron-model-kit Kickstarter campaign] for Generation 1 Megatron. Some have pre-order bonuses, such as acrylic stands.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2023'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Megatron]] (Generation 1)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2024'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Optimus Prime]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Nemesis Prime (G1)#Yolopark|Nemesis Prime]] (Generation 1)}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2025'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#AMK Pro Series|Optimus Prime]] (''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Starscream]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|Mirage (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-ter|[[Scourge (ROTB)#AMKPro|Scourge]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#AMKProROTB|Optimus Prime]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Revenge of the Fallen'')}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (ROTF)/toys#Yolopark|Soundwave]] (w/ Ravage, ''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime / Orion Pax (''One'')}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron / D-16 (''One'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Drift (''[[Transformers: Age of Extinction (film)|Age of Extinction]]'')}}
|[[File:YoloparkAMKProMegatron.jpeg|thumb|AMK Pro Megatron]]
|-
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Upcoming'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|Arcee (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Bumblebee (w/ Spike Witwicky, Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|Ironhide (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Jazz (''Transformers'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Transformers'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Sentinel Prime (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|B-127 (''Bumblebee'')}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|''''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-d1|Shockwave (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (IDW)}}
{{Bp-d1|Tarn (w/ Nickel, IDW)}}
|}
{{comingsoontoy|Upcoming and Drift}}

===AMK Pro X Series===
With a lavish paintjob, new parts, and a dedicated display base, the introductory figure in the ''AMK Pro X'' range is an original robot mode design for ''Rise of the Beasts'' Apelinq, built off of the bones of AMK Primal. He notably does not feature diecast, unlike the figures of the regular AMK Pro lineup.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''2024'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-m1|[[Apelinq (ROTB)#Yolopark|Apelinq]] (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
</ul>
|[[File:Yolopark-Rise-Of-The-Beast-Apelinq.jpg|thumb|AMK Pro X Apelinq]]
|}

===AMK Mini Series===
The ''AMK Mini'' range of model kits consists of characters (primarily from Generation 1) standing at an average of 11 cm tall. This inaugural wave was released both as individually-marked singles and as blind boxes. Two extra figures were only available blind, and we've listed them in '''bold''' for clarity, alongside their listed odds. Future waves, following wave 2, also include bonus figure(s) when purchasing a full case from the official Yolopark webstore.

In 2025, Doyusha Model Co., Ltd. will distribute the kits in Japan.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 1'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Bumblebee]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Grimlock (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Grimlock]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Megatron (G1)/merchandise#AMK Mini Series|Megatron]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#AMK Mini Series|Optimus Prime]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/merchandise#AMK Mini Series|Soundwave]]}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#AMK Mini Series|Starscream]]}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Nemesis Prime (G1)#AMK Mini Series|Nemesis Prime]]''' ''(1/60)''}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Skywarp (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Skywarp]]''' ''(1/30)''}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 2'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Arcee (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Arcee]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Cliffjumper]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hot Rod (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Rodimus Prime]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hound (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Hound]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Jazz (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Jazz]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Prowl (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Prowl]]}}
{{Bp-d1|'''[[Hot Rod (G1)/merchandise#AMKRodimusUnicronus|Rodimus Unicronus]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|'''[[Bluestreak (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Silverstreak]]'''}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Hound (G1)/toys#Yolopark|Green Transparent Hound]] ''(case bonus)''}}
|
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Wave 3'''
<ul class="iconlist">
{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Bumblebee (IDW)]]}}
{{Bp-a1|Ironhide}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#AMKMiniIDW2005|Orion Pax (IDW)]]}}
{{Bp-a1|Ratchet}}
|
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{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Bumblebee'')}}
{{Bp-d1|Nickel (IDW)}}
{{Bp-m1|Optimus Primal (''Beast Wars'')}}
{{Bp-a1|Wheeljack}}
{{Bp-d1|Shockwave}}
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{{comingsoontoy|Wave 3 and 4}}

===DMK Series===
Intended to scale with the PMK Series, the ''Dual Model Kit'' range consists of characters standing at 35 cm tall.

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{{Bp-d1|Megatron (''Dark of the Moon'')}}
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===BMK Series===
The ''Beginner Model Kit'' range is at a similar price to the AMK Mini toys, but bigger and with less articulation.
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{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (G1)/merchandise#BMK|Bumblebee]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (G1)/merchandise#BMK|Optimus Prime]] (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron (Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Starscream (Generation 1)}}
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==Non-articulated==
===''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (franchise)|Rescue Bots]]'' friction cars===
For Yolopark's first ''Transformers'' outing, this line of 12 cm long flywheel motor car toys feature lights and sounds. All four cars use the same sounds.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
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{{Bp-a1|[[Bumblebee (WFC)/merchandise#Yolopark|Bumblebee]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Chase (RB)#Yolopark|Chase]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Heatwave (RB)#Yolopark|Heatwave]]}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Optimus Prime (WFC)/merchandise#Yolopark|Optimus Prime]]}}
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|[[File:Yolo RB Heatwave.jpg|thumb|Friction car Heatwave]]
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===Merchandise===
Yolopark released a set of six magnetic, metal badges based on ''Rise of the Beasts'', with a matte finish. They would later release 3D metal puzzle statues based on Generation 1 characters, around 22 cm in height. Finally, a statue of ''Rise of the Beasts'' Optimus Prime, standing at a whopping 220 cm tall.

{| style="margin-left:1em;" width="100%"
|width="20%" valign="top"|'''Badges'''
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{{Bp-a1m1|Optimus Prime, Bumblebee, Mirage, Optimus Primal, Cheetor, Rhinox (''Rise of the Beasts'')}}
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{{Bp-d1|Megatron}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime}}
{{Bp-d1|Nemesis Prime}}
{{Bp-d1|[[Soundwave (G1)/merchandise#Yolopark|Soundwave]]}}
{{Bp-a1|Bumblebee}}
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{{Bp-a1|Jazz}}
{{Bp-d1|Shockwave}}
{{Bp-d1|Wheeljack}}
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==Exclusives==
With an active presence in the global convention scene, Yolopark regularly offers event exclusive product, even at otherwise unofficial conventions.

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{{Bp-d1|[[Nemesis Prime (AOE)#Yolopark|Nemesis Prime]] ([[San Diego Comic-Con#2023|San Diego Comic-Con 2023]], ''Bumblebee'')}}
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{{Bp-d1|Megatron Golden Color Version (Shangai Wonder Festival 2023, Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-d1|Megatron Purple Version ([[Singapore Comic Con]] 2023, Generation 1)}}
{{Bp-a1|Optimus Prime Clear Version ([[Cybertron Con 2024]], Generation 1)}}
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{{Bp-d1|Starscream Transparent Version (multiple 2025 conventions, Generation 1)}}
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{{Bp-a1d1|House of Magnus ([[Delta Magnus#Yolopark|Delta Magnus]] VS [[Sunstorm (G1)#Yolopark|Sunstorm]], [[BotCon]] 2024)}}
{{Bp-a1d1|The Sound of Science ([[Soundwave (G1)/merchandise#botcon2025|Soundblaster]] VS [[Glyph (Universe)#Yolopark|Glyph]], BotCon 2025)}}
{{Bp-a1|[[Cliffjumper (Yolopark)|Cliffjumper]] (BotCon 2025)}}
|[[File:Yolo AMKMini HouseofMagnus.jpg|thumb|Just when you thought you'd heard the last of them.]]
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==Notes==
* In Yolopark's first public appearance at Singapore Comic Con [[2019]], the company displayed a series of silhouettes depicting characters from ''Bumblebee''<nowiki>'</nowiki>s opening sequence.<ref>[https://www.seibertron.com/transformers/news/possible-bumblebee-movie-megatron-figure-coming-from-yolopark/44328/ Seibertron.com - Possible Bumblebee Movie Megatron Figure Coming from Yolopark]</ref> These silhouettes included Megatron, a character [[Bumblebee (film)#Changes before, during, and after production|reportedly cut from the movie]].
*The majority of the AMK lines, especially the regular line and the Minis, had parts that could be detached into unassembled pieces, except for the pinned areas.

==External links==
* [https://yolopark.com/ Yolopark website]
* [https://www.facebook.com/Yolopark/ Yolopark Facebook page]
* [https://twitter.com/yolopark Yolopark Twitter account]
* [https://www.instagram.com/yolopark.official/ Yolopark Instagram account]
* [https://www.youtube.com/yolopark Yolopark YouTube channel]

==References==
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Dai Atlas (G1)

2026-03-04T10:27:24Z

Vich0 08: /* Alternity */

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:''Dai Atlas is an [[Autobot]] [[Powered Master]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].''

[[File:DaiAtlas1.jpg|upright=2|thumb|An atlas helps you find stuff. ''Dai'' Atlas shoots you in the face.]]

'''Dai Atlas''' (see [[#Name|below]]) is one of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]'s greatest heroes. With blade in hand, he has singlehandedly held the line against supernatural abominations and faced down some of the vilest [[Decepticon]]s ever to stalk the galaxy. Dai Atlas cares deeply for civilians—be they human, alien, or Cybertronian—who find themselves in the crossfire of the endless Autobot-Decepticon war and will gladly put his own life on the line to protect them. However, Dai Atlas is also a 'bot of strong personal convictions and would rather excise himself from the conflict entirely rather than violate his principles. Fortunately, when push comes to shove, he's humble enough to put his pride aside and rejoin the fight against evil.

In some realities, Dai Atlas is a [[Powered Master]] who can combine with his partners. When combined with [[Sonic Bomber (G1)|Sonic Bomber]], they become [[Sky Powered]]. When combined with [[Roadfire]], they become [[Land Powered]], and when combined with Sonic Bomber and Roadfire, the three form the massive [[Big Powered]]. Dai Atlas has a close relationship with his [[Micromaster]] partner [[Speeder]], who often accompanies him into battle.

==Fiction==
===Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity===
====''Legends'' comic (1)====
Four million years ago, [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Megatron]] created Dai Atlas, Sonic Bomber, and Roadfire as the Poweredrons. Implanted with specially-engineered Powered Engines, they were designed as space pioneers, traveling to distant corners of the galaxy to engineer energy-producing colony worlds for the Decepticon cause. When the Poweredrons learned the energy they cultivated was being used to harm innocent life, they rebelled against Megatron. The Poweredrons evacuated much of the civilian population of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to a new colony, [[Paradron]], which they hadn't informed Megatron about yet. Rechristening themselves the Powered Masters, the trio switched sides and joined the Autobots. {{storylink|LG-EX Daiatlas}}

====''Zone''====
{{voiceactor|[[Yūsaku Yara]] (Japanese)}}
[[File:Zone daiatlas03.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|Nothin' I love more than a lens flare.]]

Dai Atlas, along with his fellow Powered Masters, created the technological planet [[Micro|Zone]] which eventually developed the super energy source, [[Energon Z]]. After the [[Nine Great Demon Generals]] attacked and destroyed the planet [[Feminia]], and the [[Supreme Commander]] [[Star Saber (G1)|Victory Saber]] was lost in the explosion, Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber left to search for their leader.

The pair eventually found the injured Autobot and returned him to Zone for repairs. On Zone they received word that they were needed elsewhere, so they left for [[Earth]], to counter an attack from the Demon Generals.

[[File:Zone daiatlas01.jpg|upright=1.1|thumb|Isn't flying too close to the sun more Dai [[Icarus]]'s thing?]]
Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber arrived just in the nick of time, saving the Autobot [[Micromaster]]s from the all-powerful Decepticons. Dai Atlas then raced [[Devastator (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Devastator]] to the underground location of the [[Zodiac]], an energy source capable of creating an entire universe.

Devastator beat Dai Atlas to the punch thanks to the intervention of [[King Poseidon]], who caught the Autobot leader with a chain weapon. Devastator handed the Zodiac to Poseidon and took the chain from him, intending to kill Atlas. But Dai Atlas drove forwards using the treads in his feet and then transformed into his drill form and smashed through into a wall, killing Devastator in a flood of hot lava.

Free now, he chased King Poseidon to the surface, where he wrestled the Zodiac away from him. However, [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]] got pissed off and unleashed his [[Energon Z Beam]], which Sonic Bomber threw himself in front of to protect Dai Atlas, nearly getting himself killed by the attack. Taking a risk, Dai Atlas unleashed the power of the Zodiac, and both he and Sonic Bomber (now healed from Trypticon's attack) transformed into their base modes and blasted Trypticon and King Poseidon into oblivion.

[[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]] saw this and decided it was time to get the hell out of there. Dai Atlas pursued, riding on Sonic Bomber. He merged his wings into his Zone Powered Cutter and sliced Predaking neatly in half.

[[File:Zone daiatlas02.jpg|left|upright=1.1|thumb|This drill tank mode can effortlessly drive through solid rock. Wait... what?]]
After returning to Zone with the Zodiac, Victory Saber inaugurated Dai Atlas as the new Autobot Supreme Commander. {{storylink|Enter the New Supreme Commander, Dai Atlas!}}

Dai Atlas helped to complete the Zone Operation, leaving Victory Saber relieved he had passed the role of Supreme Commander on to him. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 4}} Dai Atlas's mere presence enhanced the Autobots' morale by a tremendous degree and they enforced the peace of the galaxy with an even greater resolve. Soon after, Evil Spirit General [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]] attacked the Earth and took [[Landshaker]] and [[Sky Hyper]] hostage. Driven by the need to rescue their comrades, Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber defeated BlackZarak and rescued their friends. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 5}}

Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber then focused their attention on Super-God General [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]] and Dinosaur General [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], whom they vowed to defeat in under eight seconds. Dai Atlas took on Overlord, the strongest of the Generals, and defeated him with his "Galactic Dash" attack. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 6}}

[[File:Violengiguar battle.jpg|thumb|250px]]
Violengiguar then summoned [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]] as a rival for Dai Atlas and unleashed him on the Lunar Zone Base on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]]. Dai Atlas heard the SOS and rushed to aid Sonic Bomber in battle. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 8}} Dai Atlas arrived and combined with Sonic Bomber into [[Sky Powered]], but they were quickly frozen solid by Metrotitan's Freeze Beam Gun. All hope seemed lost until [[Roadfire]] appeared and took Metrotitan out. Freed, Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber happily welcomed Roadfire into the club. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 9}}

Violengiguar at last came out of the shadows and attacked the Earth in person. Dai Atlas and the other Powered Masters attempted to stop him with their "Triple Powered Attack" but failed. Violengiguar escaped back to the [[Tenth Planet]] with the Zodiac and a [[Galaxy Rocket]] full of hostages. Dai Atlas and the Powered Masters then combined into [[Big Powered]] and gave chase. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 10}}

Arriving at the Tenth Planet, Violengiguar split into his three forms, Vion, Lenger and Iguarn, and attacked. Dai Atlas destroyed Vion with his Powered Cutters while Sonic Bomber and Roadfire took out the other two. However, the battle was not over. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 11}} Violengiguar returned as a horrible phoenix-thing and attacked. Upgraded with the power of the Zodiac, the Powered Masters combined into Big Powered yet again, but this time their strength was enhanced thirty-fold. They flew through Violengiguar and destroyed him with the "Powered Rainbow Attack". The Zodiac then reformed the desolate Tenth Planet into a lush utopia where [[human]]s and robots could live in harmony. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 12}}
{{-}}

====''The Battlestars''====
To counter the threat of [[Dark Nova]], Dai Atlas charged the [[Battlestars]] with the task of resurrecting [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Optimus Prime]]. Giving the [[Zodiac]] to their leader, [[Sky Garry (G1)|Sky Garry]], Dai Atlas inaugurated the youthful Autobot as temporary Supreme Commander, at least until Optimus Prime was brought back online. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: The Battlestars (story page)|The Battlestars Part 1}}

====''Legends'' comic (2)====
Dai Atlas's subordinates, [[Twin Twist (G1)|Twin Twist]] and [[Topspin (G1)|Topspin]], were inspired by his use of the Zodiac to create the [[Legends World]]. {{storylink|LG66 Targetmaster Topspin}} When the Legends World was destroyed, they hoped Dai Atlas would help them recreate it. {{storylink|Targetmaster Chapter Finale: Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two|Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part Two}}

In [[2035]], Dai Atlas, Sonic Bomber and Roadfire returned to the Tenth Planet to investigate an incident only for all three of them to be destroyed by a resurrected Violengiguar, who stole their bodies. Their disembodied [[spark]]s were recovered in [[2038]] by [[Perceptor (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Perceptor]] and [[Wheeljack (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Wheeljack]] and placed in new [[protoform]]s, allowing the trio to be revived in new bodies with [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] functionalities. They returned to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to stop Violengiguar from stealing the Zodiac, but their new bodies' lack of [[Powered Engine]]s led to their failure, Dai Atlas himself only holding his own thanks to borrowing power from Twin Twist and Topspin. When Violengiguar retreated to recharge the Zodiac, Dai Atlas knew he'd be targeting the [[Micro|Z Planet]]. {{storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 2}}

{{charstubfiction | {{storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 4: LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part One|LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part One}} {{storylink|The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 5: LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part Two|LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part Two}}
{{storylink|LG-EX Sonicbomber}}
{{storylink|LG-EX Roadfire}}
{{storylink|LG-EX Daiatlas}}
{{storylink|Transformers Legends Final Chapter "Epiloge"|Epiloge}} }}

====''Generations Selects Special Comic''====
In [[2050]], the Powered Masters reassembled all the fragments of the Zodiac, and were surprised when it was shaped in the familiar design of a [[Silver Matrix]]. Before they could ponder this further, they were attacked by [[Primus#The old universe|Primus]] and his [[Golden Age (GS)|Golden Age]] from the [[Precursor World]], who sought the Silver Matrix for their own ends. {{storylink|Abominus comic 2}} {{storylink|Generations Selects Special Comic Finale Prelude|Finale Prelude}}

====''End of G1 Universe''====
Untold generations after the end of the Autobot/Decepticon conflict, a ship looking an awful lot like Dai Atlas could be spotted going about its business in orbit as abdicant [[Maximal]] leader [[Lio Convoy]] and his young companion [[Blue Bolts (RID)|Bluebolt]] returned to [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]] to give the [[Thirteen#End of G1 Universe|Prime Council]] what for. {{storylink|Age of Primes (End of G1 Universe)|Age of Primes}}

===''Zone'' comic===
[[File:Starsaber and daiatlas manga.jpg|thumb|250px]]
Following the upgrade of planet [[Micro]] into the Autobot Zone, rumors abounded that not [[Star Saber (G1)|Victory Saber]], but a ''new'' [[Supreme Commander]] would be in command. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 1}}

Later, [[Violengiguar]] ordered his [[Nine Great Demon Generals]] on a campaign to conquer planets and create a [[Decepticon Zone]] to counter the Autobot Zone. The Decepticons attacked planet [[Feminia]] and destroyed it completely, with Victory Saber lost in the destruction. However, Dai Atlas and [[Sonic Bomber (G1)|Sonic Bomber]], the [[Powered Master]] space explorers, had arrived in time to rescue the badly wounded Autobot Supreme Commander. The Decepticons then shifted their focus to [[Earth]], where they hoped to obtain a powerful energy source called the [[Zodiac]]. Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber intercepted them on Earth, defeated them, and regained the Zodiac. Impressed with Dai Atlas' courage and power, and too injured to lead any longer, Victory Saber inaugurated Dai Atlas as the new Supreme Commander of the Autobots. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (manga)|Zone}}

[[File:Zone12FinalPage.jpg|thumb|left|250px]]

Dai Atlas helped to complete the Zone Operation, leaving Victory Saber relieved he had passed the role of Supreme Commander on to him. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 4}} Dai Atlas's mere presence enhanced the Autobots' morale by a tremendous degree and they enforced the peace of the galaxy with an even greater resolve. Soon after, Evil Spirit General [[Scorponok (G1)|BlackZarak]] attacked the Earth and took [[Landshaker]] and [[Sky Hyper]] hostage. Driven by the need to rescue their comrades, Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber defeated BlackZarak and rescued their friends. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 5}}

Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber then focused their attention on Super-God General [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]] and Dinosaur General [[Trypticon (G1)|Trypticon]], whom they vowed to defeat in under eight seconds. Dai Atlas took on Overlord, the strongest of the Generals, and defeated him with his "Galactic Dash" attack. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 6}}

Violengiguar then summoned [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]] as a rival for Dai Atlas and unleashed him on the Lunar Zone Base on the [[Moon (moon)|Moon]]. Dai Atlas heard the SOS and rushed to aid Sonic Bomber in battle. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 8}} Dai Atlas arrived and combined with Sonic Bomber into [[Sky Powered]], but they were quickly frozen solid by Metrotitan's Freeze Beam Gun. All hope seemed lost until [[Roadfire]] appeared and took Metrotitan out. Freed, Dai Atlas and Sonic Bomber happily welcomed Roadfire into the club. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 9}}

Violengiguar at last came out of the shadows and attacked the Earth in person. Dai Atlas and the other Powered Masters attempted to stop him with their "Triple Powered Attack" but failed. Violengiguar escaped back to the [[Tenth Planet]] with the Zodiac and a [[Galaxy Rocket]] full of hostages. Dai Atlas and the Powered Masters then combined into [[Big Powered]] and gave chase. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 10}}

Arriving at the Tenth Planet, Violengiguar split into his three forms, Vion, Lenger and Iguarn, and attacked. Dai Atlas destroyed Vion with his Powered Cutters while Sonic Bomber and Roadfire took out the other two. However, the battle was not over. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 11}} Violengiguar returned as a horrible phoenix-thing and attacked. Upgraded with the power of the Zodiac, the Powered Masters combined into Big Powered yet again, but this time their strength was enhanced thirty-fold. They flew through Violengiguar and destroyed him with the "Powered Rainbow Attack". The Zodiac then reformed the desolate Tenth Planet into a lush utopia where [[human]]s and robots could live in harmony. {{storylink|Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers: Zone (story page)|Zone Part 12}}
{{--}}

===Dreamwave ''Generation One'' continuity===
[[File:DaiAtlas cameo.jpg|thumb|Dai Atlas Shrugged, by Ayn Randroid.]]
Dai Atlas was an [[Cybertron (G1 faction)|ancient Transformer]] from Cybertron's lost past. While searching for clues about Cybertron's history, [[Megatron (G1)|Megatron]] stumbled across a hidden chamber beneath the planet's surface containing two massive statues of [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]] and Dai Atlas, holding a [[Golden Disk (ancient)|golden disk]] between them. This chamber apparently told of a vast Cybertronian Empire that ended prior to recorded history. {{storylink|The Route of All Evil}}
{{--}}

===2005 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[Drift issue 2|''Drift'' #2]]}}

[[File:PrimusAllGoodThings-introdump.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|This is as close as he'd get to G1 Marvel, sadly.]]
Dai Atlas was one of the older Cybertronians, dating back to the era of [[Nova Prime]] 8 million years ago. In [[Ancient Cybertronian|Old Cybertronian]] his name was "Dei Atlas", meaning "God Map", which reflected his desire to find the legendary [[Knights of Cybertron]], a group of Cybertronians who supposedly made Cybertron perfect before leaving to spread enlightenment and peace to the rest of the universe. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}}

A strict believer in pacifism and in [[Primus]], Dai Atlas was part of Nova Prime's inner circle and was present when he located the legendary [[Crystal City]] and its guardian, [[Omega Supreme (G1)|Omega Supreme]], allowing him to bring about a new [[Golden Age|era of peace]] on Cybertron. With time, an increasingly ambitious Nova began planning for aggressive expansion into space to "free" other races from "the tyranny of will" as well as authorizing [[combiner]] experiments in the name of [['Til all are one|all becoming one]], both of which horrified Dai Atlas. When Crystal City was destroyed in a battle between Omega Supreme and [[Jhiaxus (G2)|Jhiaxus]]'s creation, [[Monstructor (G1)|Monstructor]], he confronted Prime with the consequences, but was rebuffed and told he had lost his place on the ''[[Ark (G1)|Ark]]''. Omega then approached Atlas to show him something he hadn't trusted Nova with: the location of [[Metrotitan (G1)|Metrotitan]], one of the last [[Titan (group)|Titans]] on Cybertron. Atlas was told that someday he would have to leave Cybertron "to keep the light of the [[Guiding Hand]] burning in its endless circle", and the Titan's energies would aid him in this endeavor. {{storylink|Primus: All Good Things|All Good Things}}

Following the departure and subsequent disappearance of the ''Ark'', Dai Atlas became a [[Senate|senator]] in the new government that formed on Cybertron under the new Prime, [[Nominus Prime|Nominus]]. Although initially wary of his colleague [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]], on the grounds of his apprenticeship to the amoral Jhiaxus, the two came to develop a friendship around their shared dislike of the prominent senator [[Proteus (G1)|Proteus]]'s [[functionism]]. Shockwave confided in Dai Atlas with his worries that Cybertron would face a critical resource shortage thanks to the planet's development into a metropolis, and the two would both champion the cause together.

Eventually, Shockwave's continued dissidence against Proteus and the rest of the Senate would lead to him being subjected to the [[empurata]] ritual and a [[mnemosurgery|mnemosurgical]] "personality inversion", turning him into a coldly logical person who accused Atlas of lying about the resource crisis so as to allow his own experiments into the matter to continue unfettered. Concerned, Dai Atlas asked another former friend of Shockwave, the upstart police officer [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Orion Pax]], to try and contact the other senator and talk sense into him.

[[File:Grand convocation derelicts.jpg|thumb|right|upright=2.1|OBJ'ACCUSE!!!]]
This effort failed, and before long Dai Atlas, along with the rest of the Senate, was summoned to an emergency meeting in [[Kaon (polity)|Kaon]] regarding the burgeoning [[Decepticon]] movement. Before he could leave, however, Shockwave arrived at his home and shot him. Unbeknownst to Atlas, Shockwave had been recruited by the Decepticons and was aware that the Senate would be massacred at the meeting. Through some vestige of sentimentality, Shockwave attacked his former friend to ensure he did not travel to Kaon, sparing him the fate of the rest of the Senate. {{storylink|Shockwaves}}

Rather than join the "new Senate" assembled under the ascendant [[Zeta Prime (G1)|Zeta Prime]], Dai Atlas went on to form a group dedicated to preserving Cybertron's ancient culture, naming it the [[Circle of Light]] after Omega Supreme's prediction. The Decepticons, now holding Kaon, continued their campaign of terror, but were halted temporarily after Zeta's death and the [[Matrix of Leadership]]'s selection of Orion Pax to become Optimus Prime. In spite of the new Prime's successes, Atlas considered him a warmonger and refused to accept his authority. Even though he had no faith that Prime could lead Cybertron back to peace, he grudgingly participated in the [[Grand Convocation]] out of respect for the Matrix. {{storylink|Derelicts}}

[[File:Monstrosity3 DaiAtlasDestroys.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6|"I believe in peace. The peace of the GRAVE!"]]
When he refused to let Prime use his Circle of Light as recruiters for the [[Autobot]] army, Prime warned him that pacifism would only mark him as a target for the [[Decepticon]]s. In response, Atlas proved himself to be neither pacifistic nor weak by destroying a group of [[auto-combatant]]s, explaining that while he didn't believe in violence, he was primarily a patriot, not a pacifist. {{storylink|Faces of Darkness}}

When Optimus Prime responded to a Decepticon attack on the [[Toraxxis mega-refinery]], Dai Atlas came with him as an observing non-combatant and ended up witnessing his arrest of [[Grimlock (G1)|Grimlock]]. He suggested that they hear Grimlock out and give him and his [[Dinobot (G1)|Dynobots]] safe passage off Cybertron like they wanted, but Prime refused, causing the situation to escalate. Although Grimlock was eventually talked down, [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]], current leader of the Decepticons, triggered the detonation of the refinery, {{storylink|Rage (IDW)|Rage}} causing widespread devastation and compounding the energon crisis. After hearing Prime vow to restore unity to the planet at the memorial service for the disaster, Dai Atlas attempted to convince Optimus that that Cybertron was a lost cause and that seeking new energy reserves on other worlds was the best option. The Autobot leader instead reaffirmed his decision to continue to fight for Cybertron. Nevertheless, many citizens began an [[Exodus (event)|exodus]] off-world, and Dai Atlas was later interviewed by [[Blaster (G1)|Blaster]] on his news broadcast, where he expressed his lack of belief in the Prime. {{storylink|Fallout (issue)|Fallout}} During the exodus, he worked with [[Solomus|Tyrest]] to help millions of civilians leave the planet. {{storylink|Remain in Light 2 of 5: House of Ambus|House of Ambus}}

[[File:Massacre DaiAtlasOptimusPart.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.6|"Bye, loser." "Later, wuss."]]
While the Autobots did locate a new energon resource, Dai Atlas rejected the possibility that it could save Cybertron. He was present when Optimus Prime personally told the evacuees that they were free to go, but while he gave Prime praise for this act, it did not change his decision to leave. As he boarded a ship off-world, Atlas turned down Prime's last offer to stay, causing the two to trade insults before separating on bad terms. {{storylink|Massacre}} After fleeing their homeworld, Dai Atlas and his Circle of Light moved further and further away as the war spread before Cybertron. Eventually, they formed a new Crystal City deep underground on [[Theophany]], a utopian society hidden from all other Transformers. {{storylink|Drift issue 2|Drift #2}} As per Omega Supreme's instruction, Atlas brought the Titan with him, building Crystal City on top of it and using it as the city's power source. {{storylink|Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|You, Me, and Other Revelations}}

[[File:Dai Atlas Leads Drift 4.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.5|Shouldn't he preface that with "Would you kindly"?]]
Dai Atlas's utopia was threatened by its first serpent when an idealistic swordsman named [[Wing (IDW)|Wing]] broke their laws and brought a Decepticon into their midst after an encounter with Slavers on the planet's surface. Although Dai Atlas and [[Axe (G1)|Axe]] condemned Wing for this mistake, he insisted [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] would not be trouble. {{storylink|Drift issue 2|Drift #2}} This proved to be false weeks later when Drift stormed into the meeting chambers and announced he had made a deal with the Slavers to sell them out for his own freedom. But, um...he didn't mean it! He hoped to stall long enough to arm the Knights of the Circle with knowledge in advance of the Slaver's attack, and catch them off-guard. Dai Atlas was furious at Drift for forcing them into a position where they'd have to fight to protect their peace, the very thing they had long criticized the Autobots for doing. When other Knights seemed prepared to listen to Drift, he refused to allow them access to the weapons vault, willing to do anything he could to ensure the Crystal City remained secret and at peace. Dai Atlas ultimately relented, but refused to have any part in the battle. As the oldest of the Knights, he had seen his share of warfare, and dreaded seeing it again. {{storylink|Drift issue 3|Drift #3}}

Safe inside Crystal City, Dai Atlas wrestled with his decision as he watched his friends and comrades battle from afar. The death of Wing at the hands of the lead Slaver was too much for him to bear, and it rekindled his fighting spirit. Dai Atlas raised Crystal City from beneath the sands and led the full compliment of Cybertronians into battle against their foes. The tide of battle turned quickly with these reinforcements, and the citizens of Crystal City soon stood triumphant. Dai Atlas declared that the Circle of Light would no longer hide in secret, and that the Knights would go forth and allow their message to be heard. He named Drift the latest of the Knights and passed on Wing's great sword to him. {{storylink|Drift issue 4|Drift #4}}

Dai Atlas's certain belief in the Knights of Cybertron was one of the reasons Drift used to try and convince others to join him and [[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Rodimus]] on a quest to find them. Optimus Prime and [[Prowl (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Prowl]] remained unconvinced, with Optimus describing Dai Atlas and his Circle of Light as a cult. {{storylink|Transformers: The Death of Optimus Prime|The Death of Optimus Prime}}

[[File:Dai Atlas Cyclonus and Whirl face the Legislators.jpg|thumb|upright=1.95|right|''Cautionary Tales of Swords'']]
Meanwhile Crystal City was attacked by an army of [[Legislator]]s, led by [[Star Saber (G1)|Star Saber]], who had betrayed the Circle and now worked under Chief Justice [[Solomus|Tyrest]]. Although it cost 10,000 Legislators to subdue the population, eventually Dai Atlas and the survivors were captured and taken to the fabled miracle moon of [[Moonbase One|Luna 1]]. The ''Lost Light'' would later find only the city in ruins. {{storylink|Primus: You, Me, and Other Revelations|You, Me, and Other Revelations}} {{storylink|Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|The Divided Self}}

For the Circle, Luna 1 became a prison slaughterhouse, and they would lose 90% of their population before their accidental discovery by [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] and [[Cyclonus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Cyclonus]]. Once freed, Dai Atlas joined the pair as they faced off an army of Legislators sent by Tyrest to quell the breakout. {{storylink|Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|The Divided Self}}

[[File:StarSaber Primushatesyou ArmtheLonely.jpg|thumb|upright=0.85|left|''Cierra tu cara, culo.'']]
While the battle raged, Dai Atlas noticed that, just like his own, Cyclonus's [[Great Sword]] was glowing with light, his devout spark igniting the nexus in the sword's hilt and turning it super-charged.

He would not have the time or chance to explore the notion of having a fellow 'bot with a similar talent, for Star Saber teleported himself close to the battle. His appearance prompted Dai Atlas to abandon the battle and confront him, denouncing Star Saber for his betrayal and fanaticism. Star Saber countered with nothing but criticism for Atlas, calling him a heretic and unbeliever, and that his faith in Primus was only an affectation. Star Saber also accused Dai Atlas of waiting arrogantly around at Crystal City for the Knights of Cybertron to show up instead of taking action. Moments later, Star Saber shoved his fist into Dai Atlas's chest, killing him with the final words, "''Primus hates you''". {{storylink|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely|Arm the Lonely}}

Some time later, after being informed of Dai Atlas's demise, Drift began sporting facial [[tattoo]]s in honour of the deceased.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Yes :D you are the first to mention it :) it's was done to honor Dai Atlas.|link=https://twitter.com/markerguru/status/716702702416355328|name=Alex Milne|site=Twitter|year=2016|month=04|day=03|(defunct=)}}</ref> {{storylink|The Dying of the Light Part 3: Your Fierce Tears|Your Fierce Tears}}
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===''Kre-O'' online manga===
[[File:Dai-Atlas_Kre-O_Character_Image.jpg|upright=0.6|thumb|Thank goodness [[Predaking (G1)|Predaking]] hadn't met this guy.]]
Dai Atlas was shocked by the very appearance of the [[Combaticon (G1)|Combaticon]] combiner [[Bruticus (G1)|Bruticus]]. {{storylink|New Military Unit Combaticon! Bruticus, Combine!}}

===Ask Vector Prime===
[[Vector Prime]] noted that, though rare, there were realities where Dai Atlas became a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]], or more commonly, was upgraded into '''Atlas Convoy'''. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/26}} He also noted that in many realities, Dai Atlas and the Powered Masters were fated to defeat the [[Thirteen Great Demon Generals]]. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/12/19}}

In [[Primax 092.0 Beta]], Dai Atlas was one of [[Hyperdrive (Turbomaster)|Hyperdrive]]'s predecessors as Autobot leader. {{storylink|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/16}}

===Precursor World===
[[File:Dai_Atlas_Selects.jpg|thumb|left|100px]]

A [[Primus Vanguard|Warrior of the Seven Lights]] resembling Dai Atlas was a member of the [[Blue Order]] of the [[Primus Vanguard]]. He and his comrades followed their commander [[Blue Big Convoy]] into battle when a duel between [[G1 World|dimension-tossed]] future warriors [[Megatron (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity#Generations Selects Special Comic (1)|Ultra Megatron]] and [[Optimus Prime (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity|Star Convoy]] threatened the [[Blue Planet (GS)|Blue Planet]] and [[Beast People|its people]]. {{storylink|Super Megatron comic 2}}

In short order the battle went sideways when the traitorous [[Straxus (G1)#Precursor World|Straxus twins]] unleashed a rage virus to destroy the corps from within, and the blue warrior was attacked by [[Frenzy (G1)#Precursor World|a diminutive comrade]] in the ensuing free-for-all. {{storylink|God Neptune comic 1}} Slain in the brawl, he was later memorialized with a hologram in the inner sanctum of the [[Ivory Towers]] by [[Magna Convoy]]. {{storylink|Cybertron Magna Convoy prequel comic}}
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===2019 IDW continuity===
{{first|[[Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down|''Transformers'' #19]] (mentioned); [[Escape Part One|Transformers: Escape #1]] (full)}}

[[File:EscapePartOne-DaiAtlas.jpg|thumb|300px]]

Before the [[War of the Threefold Spark]], Dai Atlas was one of those who fought against the mad combiner, [[Abominus (G1)|Abominus]], when all attempts to reason with it failed. The truth of the story would become distorted over time, claiming that Atlas fought against the abomination alone. {{storylink|Escape Part Three}}

When the war broke out, Dai Atlas took part in the fighting against the Threefold Spark, becoming one of the four [[Great General]]s. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down|All Fall Down}} Dai Atlas fought because he felt Exarchon's plans threatened all Cybertronian life, but by the war's end, he was haunted by the casualties on both sides, and the question of whether they would have happened had he not fought. {{storylink|Escape Part Three}} He was present at [[Nominus Prime]]'s side when [[Highbrow (G1)|Highbrow]] shared his discoveries regarding Exarchon's spark. {{storylink|Darkness, Once Gazed Upon: Part One}}

Ninety kilocycles before the [[Great War (G1)|Great War]], Dai Atlas took an active role in the conflict between the [[A'ovan]] and the [[Thraal]] by helping to coordinate the evacuation efforts and holding off the Thraal long enough for a convoy of A'ovan refugees to escape their doomed homeworld. Those refugees that made it to Cybertron held him high regard and dubbed him one of their "Three Saviors" along with [[Roadfire]] and [[Sonic Bomber (G1)|Sonic Bomber]]. In return, Dai Atlas gave the aliens a beacon that could be used to call him in times of distress, which became a treasured relic interred in their [[A'ovan habitat]]. {{storylink|Escape Part One}} Despite his heroics, however, the former general was still shaken by what he had done. {{storylink|Escape Part Three}}

[[File:EscapePartThree-DaiAtlasAfterlife.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8]]

By the time of the [[Decepticon|Ascenticon]] crisis, Dai Atlas had retired from active duty and gone [[immersant]]. {{storylink|Rise of the Decepticons: All Fall Down|All Fall Down}} When the [[Insecticon (G1)|Insecticon]]s attacked the A'ovans, a group of children broke into the archives to try and summon Dai Atlas; although [[Pra'tyne]] and [[Hound (G1)|Hound]] believed that nothing would rouse him from his slumber, the beacon did indeed reach him, and prompted him to rip himself free from the ground. {{storylink|Escape Part One}} Dai Atlas later arrived to scare off the Decepticons when they attacked the evacuation convoy. He explained to [[Wheeljack (G1)|Wheeljack]] and Hound about how he had returned from immersion. Though Hound was glad he came, Atlas revealed he has no interest in fighting anymore. [[Road Rage (G1)|Road Rage]] tried to convince Atlas to regain his sense of justice before [[Nautica (G1)|Nautica]] called her to protect the convoy from the Insecticons. {{storylink|Escape Part Two}} Despite the threat, Atlas still refused to fight, explaining his reasoning to Hound, that inflicting harm on others was essentially inflicting harm on himself, admitting uncertainty whether he had been called back from his immersion or been sent. Atlas then continued on with Hound's group to [[Darkmount (Cybertron)|Darkmount]], where [[Straxus (G1)|Straxxus]] refused the refugees sanctuary. {{storylink|Escape Part Three}} While camped outside, Dai Atlas was met by [[Speeder]], who sought to return his sword to him, but while he was grateful to see his old friend again, Atlas had no intention of taking the sword.

As he and Hound watched [[Tote]] playing with some A'ovan children, they were approached by [[Cromar]], who alerted them to the incoming swarm of [[Insecticon clone]]s. Hound once again appealed to him to fight, noting that while Cybertronians might possess an afterlife, the organics they were protecting did not, and asked if that wasn't the reason for his reawakening. After a moment's thought, Dai Atlas asked Speeder to fetch his sword. Retaking his blade, Atlas met the oncoming horde. {{storylink|Escape Part Four}}

Though Dai Atlas fought bravely, having a philosophical monologue as he did, the Insecticons proved too numerous. Salvation came when Straxxus preemptively launched two of the [[Ark (G1)|''Ark'']] evacuation vessels, the clones being drawn to their energon signature. When the clones ate through one of the ships, it detonated and wiped most of them out. With it being decided that the last operational ''Ark'' should go to the organic refugees, Dai Atlas embarked with them to serve as their protector. {{storylink|Escape Part Five}}
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==Games==
===''Transformers: Legends''===
The Circle of Light, under Dai Atlas's leadership, was in search of a peaceful place to call home when they encountered the Decepticon Deadlock. They aided him when the bounty hunter [[Lockdown (G1)|Lockdown]] came looking, and Dai Atlas's actions helped Deadlock turn over a new leaf and become Drift. {{storylink|Circle of Light (Legends)|Circle of Light}}

==Toys==
===''Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers''===
{{anchor|Zone}}{{anchor|The Transformers}}
[[File:Zone daiatlas toy.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|More of a "[[Triple Changer|Three-and-a-Half Changer]]", really.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Dai Atlas''' (Powered Master, [[1990]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''C-348'''
:*''Accessories'': Gun, drill, runners/skids, gun platform, dual cannon, 2 wings (left & right), tail fin, 2 large ramps (left and right) 2 ramps, 2 radar dishes, pipe
{{toydesigner|[[Motoki Takaya]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: Released only in Japan, Dai Atlas is a quad-changer with four distinct (well, that might be stretching it a bit) modes. Robot mode, [[Popular Cybertronian vehicle alternate modes#Drill tank|drill-tank]], 'jet', and base mode. He contains a [[motorized movement|battery-powered motor]] as a gimmick which could rotate the treads on his legs, allowing him to move under his own power in [[alternate mode|vehicle]] and [[robot mode]] and spins his drill. In base mode his tank treads become moving walkways, and his gun platform can spin. [[Grandus (G1)|Grandus]]'s [[instructions]] show that Dai Atlas can use his motor gimmick in [[alternate mode|vehicle mode]] to tow Grandus.

: He includes a cockpit for Micromasters, which can also become a gunnery station. The gun platform and the two large ramps can be combined to form a shield, while his wings can be combined together to form his Zone Powered Cutter. In base mode, Dai Atlas can connect to other Micromaster bases, as well as his buddies Sonic Bomber and Roadfire, using Micromaster connector ramps.

: In robot mode, Dai Atlas's articulation is limited to mobility in the arms.

: Dai Atlas also came with the Micromaster partner [[Speeder#Toys|Speeder]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/1990/Cybertron/DaiAtlas/daiatlas.htm More information on Dai Atlas at TFU.info]''

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[[File:ZoneToy bigpowered giftset.jpg|thumb|upright=1.67]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Big Powered''' (Multi-figure giftset, 1990)}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''C-353'''
:*''Accessories'': Gun, drill, runners/skids, gun platform, dual cannon, 2 wings (left & right), tail fin, 2 large ramps (left and right) 2 ramps, 2 radar dishes, pipe

: Dai Atlas was also released in a giftset with [[Sonic Bomber (G1)#Toys|Sonic Bomber]] and [[Roadfire#Toys|Roadfire]]. All of the toys are identical to their individual releases.

: This set is particularly expensive on the secondary market today, being pretty late-run (thanks to Roadfire's late release) at a time when ''Transformers'' had already seriously started to wane in sales and popularity.
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===''Alternity''===
[[File:Alternity-dai-atlas-toy-tt.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|The, Atlas, the.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Dai Atlas''' {{sic}} '''[Aurora Flare Blue Pearl]''' ([[2012]])}}</ul>
:*''ID number'': '''A-01D'''

: Part of the seventh and final wave of ''[[Transformers: Alternity|Alternity]]'' toys, Dai Atlas is a redeco of ''Alternity'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#Alternity|Convoy]]. Dai Atlas transforms into a 1:32 scale Nissan GT-R, featuring die-cast metal parts, an opening hood, trunk and doors, as well as an interior, complete with his feet and thighs being sculpted to form the back seats. This complex figure stands at 6.5" tall, and is armed with a pair of blasters on each arm.

:The mold suffers from a [[Design flaw|minor design oversight]], wherein the rear Nissan badge collides with his left leg strut when the left foot is hinged over and pegged into a clear plastic socket during transformation, with the results being that the connection is slightly crooked, isn't very secure, and sometimes pops off, and that the crooked pegging often causes the socket to crack.

:The external packaging uses the spelling "DAI ATRAS". The instructions give the rendition "DAI ATLAS".

::*''[http://www.seibertron.com/transformers-toys/gallery/alternity/dai-atlas-aurora-flare-blue-pearl/2944/1/ Image gallery of Dai Atras at Seibertron.com]''
{{AlternityConvoyMold}}
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===''Legends''===
[[File:Legends-toy DaiAtlas.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66| Just give him a sword, and call it good.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Big Powered''' (Multi-pack, [[2019]])}}
:*''ID number'': '''LG-EX'''
:*''Release date'': [[March 30]], 2019
:*''Accessories'': Cannon, left & right wings, Headmaster unit
{{toydesigner|[[Hisashi Yuki]] (TakaraTomy)}}

: ''[[Transformers Legends (franchise)|Legends]]'' "Daiatlas" {{sic}} is an ''extensive'' [[retool]]ing of ''[[Titans Return (toyline)|Titans Return]]'' [[Black Shadow (G1)#Titans Return|Sky Shadow]] and [[Overlord (G1)#Generations|Overlord]]; he shares biceps and most of his hips/legs with those two (only the "shinguards" of his legs are new), with almost everything else being entirely new. He transforms into a treaded "shuttle" mode, as well as a slightly-different "tank" mode, but unlike his mold predecessors, does not split into two components to do so. Instead, his halves are tethered together with a thin, multi-jointed "spine" piece (that does not really latch into place in any configuration, making him a little floppy), with the shuttle/torso portion clipping onto the legs/tread unit. With the loss of the turret part of the tank-legs, this leaves him with incredibly hollow calves in robot mode.

: In vehicle mode, his "inner" head separates from the connected-to-his-torso helmet into a separate [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] unit using the body tooling for Black Shadow's [[Titan Master]] [[Ominus#Toys|Ominus]], but with a new head-mode face and robot-mode head. This mini-robot can then sit inside the opening "cockpit" compartment of Dai Atlas's vehicle mode.

: The drill on his shuttle nosecone is on a spring so that it can recess into the nosecone [[for safety reasons]]. His wings can separate from his body and join together to form his "Zone Powered Cutter", but he has no actual way of holding it in his hand, and must mount it on one of the [[5 mm post]]s on his forearms instead.

: He also has a "base" mode, and can combine with his fellow ''Legends'' Powered Masters [[Sonic Bomber (G1)#Legends|Sonic Bomber]] and [[Roadfire#Legends|Roadfire]] to form a new version of [[Big Powered#Legends|Big Powered]].

: He was available only in a [[TakaraTomy Mall]] [[exclusive]] "Big Powered" multi-pack with his fellow Powered Masters.
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==Merchandise==
====Super Collection Figure====
[[File:SCF DaiAtlas.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|Dai Atlas? That sounds like the name of a Welsh geography teacher.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Dai Atlas''' ([[2002]])}}</ul>
:*''Act'': '''8'''
:*''Accessories'': Stand

:A soft-plastic PVC of Dai Atlas was made in "Act 8" of [[TakaraTomy|Takara]]'s ''[[Heroes of Cybertron (toyline)|Super Collection Figure]]'' line. It was available in both full-color and pewter-finish versions, one of each per case of twelve.

:The pewter version of the figure has a potential problem with connector peg breakage, due to said pegs often getting a layer of pewter paint before being forced into a socket, leading to sticking and tearing. Care should be used when moving or removing the arms; shaving down the socket interior with a thin hobby knife is usually sufficient to fix the issue.

:The color version of Dai Atlas also came packaged with the left arm to the Act's "build-a-figure" [[Scorponok (G1)#Super Collection Figure|MegaZarak]]. This part could also be in either full-color or pewter, packed at a ratio of six color parts to four pewters out of every ten cases.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2002/Cybertron/DaiAtlas/daiatlas.htm More information on ''Super Collection Figure'' Dai Atlas at TFU.info]''
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====Mega Action Series====
[[File:SunriseMegaAction Dai Atlas.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|I'm a [[Toei Animation|Toei]] character but line up with {{w|Sunrise (company)|Sunrise}} [[Brave (franchise)|characters]].]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Dai Atlas''' ({{w|Wonder Festival|Wonder Festival 2007 Summer}} exclusive, 2007)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories:'' Reflec Shield, Magna Shot, Z Powered Cutter, left & right "clench" hands, left & right "spread" hands, left & right "weapon-holding" hands

:''Mega Action Series'' Dai Atlas is a highly poseable figure (and also a redeco of the ''[[Brave (franchise)|The Brave Express: Might Gaine]]'' BRAVE-BOX2 DVD set exclusive Gōryū figure, with some new parts like the retooled Dai Atlas head, Reflec Shield, Magna Shot, & the Z Powered Cutter) from the {{w|Sunrise (company)|Sunrise}} Mega Action Series of mecha action figures, made by [[CM's Corporation]]. With articulation and scaling on par with a [[Revoltech]] figure, this set included several alternate hands as well as the character's signature gun and shield accessories. As seen in the image, the wing pieces can be clipped together to form a rough 'Z shape' to simulate the Zone Powered Cutter of the original Dai Atlas.

:However, the series is notorious for its fragile joints.
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===Transformers Gum===
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Dai Atlas''' (2012)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories'': Cannon, shield, wings

: Part of the sixth wave of Kabaya's revived ''[[Transformers Gum]]'' Series, Dai Atlas is a snap-together kit which can transform into his other three modes once assembled. Dai Atlas can also combine with the [[Sonic Bomber (G1)#Transformers Gum|Sonic Bomber]] and [[Roadfire#Transformers Gum|Roadfire]] kits (sold separately) to form Big Powered.

: He does not actually come with his "Z Powered Cutter" weapon and a non-transformable [[Speeder#Merchadise|Speeder]] partner; those were included with the concurrently released Roadfire kit.

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[[File:DXGattai-BigPowered.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|200px]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Big Powered''' (2016)}}</ul>

: The Dai Atlas, Sonic Bomber, and Roadfire kits were re-released as a bundle under the ''DX Gattai'' label in 2016. They feature changes to plastic color compared to their initial separate releases, and foil stickers.

: As with other ''DX Gattai'' toys featuring box art in homage to their original figures, God Ginrai's packaging mimics that of the original 1990 Big Powered gift set.

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==Notes==
[[File:Zone daiatlas05.jpg|thumb|Baby got back.]]
*In the industry pitch reel included as a special feature (under 'ads') on the Madman ''Victory'' DVD set, all of Dai Atlas's action features are demonstrated using the Micromaster Freewheeler, and not Speeder. Sonic Bomber, on the other hand, is demonstrated using Sonic.
*During the [[title sequence]] for the ''Zone'' OVA there is a strange mini-montage of shots of Dai Atlas (all of the cartoon screencaps of his [[robot mode]] on this page are from that montage) including... a random shot of him from behind.
[[File:BraveGoryuModel.jpg|thumb|Ronald McDonaldpants.]]
*The Dai Atlas toy was [[redeco]]ed in Takara's ''[[Brave (franchise)|Brave Express Might Gaine]]'' toyline as "Gōryū" (轟龍, "Thundering Dragon"), which served as the second mech of the series's antihero, Joe Rival. The [[character model]] was altered in various ways, such as straightened wings in robot mode and a creepier face, but the toy itself had no retooling. In a seeming nod to the toy's ''Transformers'' origins by the ''Brave'' staff, the robot was originally dubbed "Atlas" by its creator on the show, but Joe chose to rename it to his liking. Dai Atlas's design was also used for the "Atlas Mk.II" drones from the same series, which were never made as toys.
*''[[Transformers: Universe (2003 franchise)|Universe]]'' [[King Atlas]] was created as an [[homage]] to Dai Atlas. A bio written for the toy by [[3H Productions]] would have cemented King Atlas as the same character as Dai Atlas (and thus would have made "King Atlas" the English name for Dai Atlas), but said bio was ultimately never published, leaving its [[canon]]icity in limbo. Consequently, the lack of any published bio information for the toy led "[[Force of Habit]]" to instead establish King Atlas as a distinct [[Unicron Trilogy continuity family|Unicron Trilogy]] character by this wiki's classification, while Dai Atlas later went on to appear in various English-language media using his original name (though, see below for more on that).
*Dai Atlas was a candidate in [[TakaraTomy]]'s [[Fan polls#Masterpiece Fan's Choice|''Masterpiece'' Fan's Choice]] poll, which asked fans to determine which Autobot/Maximal leader from the franchise's then-30 year history should receive a new toy in the prestigious ''[[The Transformers: Masterpiece|Masterpiece]]'' line. Dai Atlas placed fourth, with 8% of the vote.
*''Kre-O'' Dai Atlas utilizes the [[Bumblebee (Kre-O)|Bumblebee]] helmet (with additional yellow decorations), a backpack piece, a gun (with orange detailing) and 2 clip-on wings.
*The Primus Vanguard incarnation of Dai Atlas posthumously debuted as a transparent hologram in [[Cybertron Magna Convoy prequel comic|the prequel story to "Cybertron Magna Convoy"]] drawn according to the base tooling of [[Black Shadow (G1)#Titans Return|''Titans Return'' Sky Shadow]], possibly because at that point, the ''Legends'' Dai Atlas toy had not yet been finalized. Regardless, [[Hayato Sakamoto]] would fully color Dai Atlas of the Primus Vanguard in ''Generations Selects'' stories as a consistent virtual redeco.

===Name===
Dai Atlas's name in Western fandom is derived from the belief that it uses ''dai'' (大), a Japanese word meaning "great" or "big". However, some suggest that the character's name is properly rendered "Diatlas", as the name ('''ダイア'''トラス '''''Daia'''torasu'') appears to be a reference to ''[[Diaclone]]'' ('''ダイア'''クロン '''''Daia'''kuron'', a portmanteau of "diamond" and "cyclone"). The ''Zone'' portion of the original toyline was an attempt at replicating the older line's play patterns,<ref>''[[Takara SF Land Evolution]]''</ref> implicitly supporting the "Diatlas" interpretation. This interpretation has affected Japanese translations of [[IDW Publishing|IDW]]'s comics, which add an {{w|interpunct#Japanese|interpunct}} to the name to emphasize the separation in IDW's spelling. What is certain is that both do use {{w|Atlas (mythology)|Atlas}} (Ἄτλας), the name of a Titan in Greek mythology who held the sky on his shoulders.

Official Romanizations on Japanese product have varied. Cards available with the December [[1990]] issue of ''[[TV Magazine]]'' use "Dy Atrus", the 2012 ''Alternity'' toy's packaging uses "Dai Atras" (while its instructions do say "Dai Atlas"), and [[LG-Ex Daiatlas|the 2019 ''Legends'' toy pamphlet]] uses "Daiatlas".

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Diatlas''' (ダイアトラス ''Daiatorasu''), '''Dai Atlas''' (ダイ・アトラス ''Dai Atorasu'')

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Toxitron (Animated)

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:''Toxitron no am [[Decepticon]] from the [[Transformers Animated (franchise)|Transformers Animated]] [[continuity family]].''

[[Image:ToxitronAnimated-model.jpg|right|thumb|200px|Toxitron #1 Forever!]]

Goodbye! '''Toxitron''' am not [[Scalpel (Animated)|Bug Thingy]] and [[Oil Slick (Animated)|Cycle Guy]]'s failed clone of [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]]! He no am shooting you with Toxitron's corrosive toxic sludge thingies! Uh oh! Toxitron no am know Toxitron's strength! This am not energy axe thingy, am plunger! Toxitron no am confused. Toxitron no am just pawn in game of life.

Him are valued member of [[Team Stunticon|Stunticon team]]!

==Fiction==
===''Animated'' cartoon continuity===
{{voiceactor|[[David Kaye]]}}

[[Image:StuntiConJob-bigheroautobotguy.jpg|left|thumb|200px|Toxitron no am biggest nuisance on the beach!]]

Toxitron was cast as the "hero" in [[The Motor Master]]'s Stunt Convoy show, scripted to "rescue" [[Drag Strip (Animated)|Drag Strip]] from the other [[Team Stunticon|Stunticon]]s just before a large hologram of [[Sentinel Prime (Animated)|Sentinel Magnus]] was cast in plain view of [[Trypticon Prison]]. In reality, Toxitron and the others were Decepticons posing as Autobots posing as Decepticons, all part of an elaborate scheme to eject [[Megatron (Animated)|Megatron]] from his imprisonment.

But Toxitron wasn't too bright, so he lost his replica energy axe where [[Rattletrap]] could find it and hawk it on the black market. This eventually led the copperbots [[Sideswipe (Animated)|Sideswipe]] and [[Cheetor (Animated)|Cheetor]] to the Motor Master and his Stunt Convoy. Though the pair had their suspicions, they were ultimately turned away.

[[Image:StuntiConJob-interrogation.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Toxitron no am stuck in here with you! You am stuck in here with Toxitron!]]

Soon thereafter, Toxitron was caught by Sideswipe and Cheetor after he had broken into [[Ironfist (Animated)|Ironfist]]'s lab to steal his modifications and inventions. After a short battle, Toxitron was captured and interrogated. To Sideswipe's irritation, Toxitron kept plea bargaining his sentence longer.

After Toxitron's futile interrogation, Sideswipe was told he had no choice but to release him. However, the "Toxitron" he released was actually Optimus Prime in an electronic paint job. The real Toxitron was jailed in Trypticon prison, and after Optimus Prime's undercover work, his Stunt Convoy comrades were jailed alongside him. {{storylink|The Stunti-Con Job}}

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==Toys==
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[[Image:Animatedtoy-Toxitron.jpg|right|thumb|300px|Me no am unobtainable!]]
*'''Sideswipe and Toxitron''' (Souvenir set, 2011)
**''Accessories'': Ion Axe/backpack, water cannon

:A redeco of Voyager Class [[Optimus Prime (Animated)|Optimus Prime]], Toxitron transforms into a futuristic Earth-mode fire truck. His rear portion includes a giant extinguisher cannon, which can become a hand weapon and [[Water-squirting gimmick|really squirts water]]. His trailer also transforms into a giant, double-bladed ion axe. These weapons can store on his back, giving the appearance of wings and a jet pack. The toy features a mouthplate which can slide up to cover his face or retract down below. He also has an [[Automorph Technology|Automorph]] feature: Pressing a button on his butt causes his crotch to flip down and rotate into the proper position for robot mode. Toxitron was limited to 1500 pieces and sold in a set with [[Sideswipe (Animated)|Sideswipe]].

:This mold was also used to make [[Nemesis Prime (Animated)|Nemesis Prime]] and was [[retool]]ed into [[BotCon 2011]]'s [[The Motor Master]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2011/Decepticon/BCToxitron/toxitron.htm More information on Toxitron on TFU.info]''

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==Notes==
*Toxitron is based on a [[Toxitron (Universe)|proposed redeco]] of the ''[[Transformers: Generation 2 (toyline)|Generation 2]]'' [[Optimus Prime (G1)/toys#LaserOptimusPrime|Laser Optimus Prime]] toy planned as part of the [[Transformers: Universe (2003 toyline)|original ''Universe'' toyline]].
* Toxitron's transformation sound effect is seemingly written backwards. Aren't we clever!
* Him Toxitron no am talk as homage to Bizarro from ''[[Superman]]'' comics.

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Grimlock (G1)/2005 IDW continuity

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[[File:MTMTE 46 Textless.jpeg|upright=1.4|thumb|Demolition while you wait.]]
A powerhouse fighter and always a rogue element, '''Grimlock''' is the leader of the [[Dinobot (G1)|Dinobots]], a team of Autobots committed to doing their own thing their own way! Surly and disobedient, Grimlock is always at odds with authority... an attitude that changed everything when he disregarded orders to lead the Dynobots on a mission to destroy [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]] on prehistoric Earth. Being buried for thousands of years, having his comrades turned against him, imprisonment in [[Garrus-9]], and an unlikely alliance with a [[Scavengers (G1)|squad of Decepticons]] were only some of the adventures that Grimlock faced as a result of that fateful mission!

{{First|''[[Spotlight: Shockwave]]''}}

{{bigquote|Will he be pleased to see us?}}
{{bigquote|Hell no. He's never pleased to see '''''anyone'''''.|Guzzle & Kup|[[Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|''Last Stand of the Wreckers'' #4]]}}

==Fiction==
===Joining the Autobots===
'''Grimlock of Iacon''' was a [[Reproduction#2005 IDW continuity|forged]] heavy-weight class [[Point One Percenter]]. {{storylink|Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|The Divided Self}} {{storylink|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely|Arm the Lonely}} He has been a warrior for millennia, although not always an obedient one. He was languishing in a military brig after angering a field commander when he met a fellow detainee named [[Slag (G1)|Slag]], and started swapping stories. Slag had shot a vice-admiral in the back to con him into a frontal assault, so Slag won the conversation. Grimlock thought this Slag guy sounded like a good bloke, and the two of them discussed the formation of their own rule-breaking strike team, the Dynobots. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 2|Maximum Dinobots #2}} Grimlock and the Dynobots would go on to serve under the [[Primal Vanguard]] {{storylink|Rage (IDW)|Rage}} as a covert strike force, carrying out over 200 missions under the command of [[Nominus Prime]] and receiving numerous commendations. {{storylink|Underworld (IDW)|Underworld}} {{storylink|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook issue 2|Grimlock profile}}

[[File:Scorponok grimlock soundwaves.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.5]]
Everything changed, however, when the team was sent to investigate a tunnel network below the [[Toraxxis Plains]]. Set upon by powerful [[cyber-morphic predator]]s, the Dynobots were forced to use technology developed by their medic, [[Skar (IDW)|Skar]], to scan the creatures and match their power. These new [[alternate mode]]s gave the team the edge needed to defeat their assailants, {{storylink|Underworld (IDW)|Underworld}} but Grimlock, unable to control the rage induced by his monstrous form, inadvertently killed Skar. {{storylink|Massacre}} On returning to base, the Dynobots were placed in quarantine for the study of their altered bodies, but overwhelmed with grief and a feeling of betrayal, they staged an escape and went on the run. {{storylink|Underworld (IDW)|Underworld}}

Having fallen from grace, the Dynobots began fighting in the gladiatorial pits. {{storylink|Rage (IDW)|Rage}} There, the likes of [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] regarded Grimlock as one of the greatest gladiators the pits had ever produced, having personally fought him one-on-one. {{storylink|Soundwaves (issue)|Soundwaves}} At the start of [[Megatron (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Megatron's]] rise to power, the Dynobots turned out to an open casting call for Megatron's underground gladiatorial games, and got a good deal more respect from the Predacons than the other attendees. It turned out to be a recruitment drive for the Decepticon army. What they thought of that is unknown, as Autobot security forces raided the party soon after. {{storylink|Megatron Origin issue 3|Megatron Origin #3}} While Megatron would mark Grimlock as a potential Decepticon of great potential, he was also acutely aware that for all his strength, Grimlock possessed a "flaw": compassion. {{storylink|Rage (IDW)|Rage}}

[[File:Dinobots Autocracy Endgame.jpg|upright=1.6|thumb|"The odds of survival are a million to one!" "And that's the way we LIKE it!"]]
Later, Grimlock and the Dynobots were in [[Ironfall]], at the [[Ring of Trials]], when they heard [[Optimus Prime (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Optimus Prime]]'s call to arms against the new Decepticon insurrectionist government. The Dynobots responded on the side of the Autobots, and joined in the march on Megatron's citadel. {{storylink|Broadcast}} During the battle, Grimlock and his Dynobots took out [[Onslaught (G1)|a lot]] [[Brawl (G1)|of tanks]], sneering at the Decepticons' definition of "armored". {{storylink|Endgame}}

Not long after Megatron's defeat, the Dynobots once again disappeared from the radar and took to robbing reserve energon supplies, receiving intel from [[Swindle_(G1)#2005_IDW_continuity|Swindle]]. After a raid proved less successful then had been hoped, Grimlock throttled an explanation from Swindle, who admitted that intelligence had suffered in the now Scorponok-dominated Decepticons. Releasing the Decepticon, Grimlock fretted over the idea that the longer the Dynobots remained on Cybertron, the greater the risk their unstable alternate modes posed to the populace. {{storylink|Derelicts}} Tempers in the Dynobot ranks soon flared as Slag accused Grimlock of dragging them from small-time raid to small-time raid because he enjoyed their life on the run. The pair began to lose their tempers, but were talked down by [[Swoop (G1)|Swoop]], who feared what would happen if they transformed. Their next raid was at the [[Toraxxis mega-refinery]]. While they broke in, they were hindered by remote sentries until Grimlock killed their controller. Once they had captured the refinery, Grimlock ordered they wait for [[Snarl (G1)|Snarl]] to bring a truck to drain the energon. {{storylink|Wreckage (issue)|Wreckage}}

[[File:RageIDW GrimlockKillYou.jpg|upright=1.7|thumb|left|[[Beast (G1)|NO PLEASE NOT AGAIN]]!!!]]
Tempers continued to flare until a furious Slag seemingly abandoned his comrades, but returned at sunrise just as Scorponok's Decepticons arrived in their own bid to raid the refinery. However, Grimlock had triggered the refinery's alarm during the fight and summoned back-up in the form of the Autobots. {{storylink|Faces of Darkness}}

Using the arrival of the Autobots as a distraction, the Dynobots made their escape, followed by Scorponok, Blitzwing, Dai Atlas and Optimus. Scorponok and Blitzwing managed to get ahead, and as Scorponok ordered Blitzwing to attack, Grimlock mocked him for hiding behind artillery. The two former gladiators clashed, the fight driving Grimlock into a rage. After stabbing Scorponok, Grimlock began to lose control, battering the Decepticon to the ground. As he advanced on his prey, Grimlock began to change into his bestial form, with his eyes changing from yellow to red and bladed ridges bursting through his exoskeleton. The Dynobots tried to restrain him, but he seemed to have lost control completely, crying out he'd kill them all. He was brought back to his senses by a shot from Orion. Grimlock begged Optimus to let him leave, but when the Autobot leader refused, Grimlock threatened to blow the refinery up, killing everyone there. By appealing to his better nature, Optimus managed to talk Grimlock down, but this only allowed Scorponok to attempt the very same thing. {{storylink|Rage (IDW)|Rage}} Grimlock survived the subsequent explosion, but was left wandering the ashen blast crater alone. {{storylink|Fallout (issue)|Fallout}}

[[File:Monstrosity9 Grimlock beast mode.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.5|She is learning where she fits on the food chain and I'm not sure you want her to figure that out.]]
Eventually, Grimlock was found by both [[Kup (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Kup]] and his teammates, who, with some difficulty, managed to convince him that Optimus Prime could be able to help the "cursed" Dynobots. {{storylink|Prey (issue)|Prey}} They met up with the Prime at [[Starsreach Spaceport]], where a mass exodus of neutral Cybertronians was occurring, but the entire group was caught in a Decepticon aerial bombardment ordered by Scorponok. Enraged, Grimlock fully transformed into his [[beast mode]] and attacked the Decepticon ground forces, {{storylink|Massacre}} with such vigor that they effected a full retreat. Still in a fury, it took Optimus to subdue and calm Grimlock sufficiently for him to revert to robot mode. Despite Prime's efforts to convince them otherwise, the Dynobots proceeded with their plan to get themselves away from Cybertron, leaving the spaceport in a shuttle. {{storylink|Unleashed}}

However, an [[Trypticon (G1)|ancient monster]] appeared on the surface not long afterwards, accompanied by the same predators that the Dynobots had fought beneath Toraxxis. Unwilling to leave the Autobots to their fate, Grimlock turned the ship around and air-dropped with his team to the surface, where they were able to fight off the smaller beasts. When Megatron approached a wounded Optimus Prime, Grimlock leapt to the rescue. Engrossed in combat, neither the Dynobot or Decepticon noticed Trypticon lean down towards them, and the creature swallowed them whole. {{storylink|Annihilation}}

[[File:BellyOfTheBeast GrimlockCarriesPrime.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8]]
Trapped inside the monster, the two enemies were attacked by more of the dragon-beasts, revealing to Grimlock that they were generated from inside Trypticon. Agreeing to a temporary alliance to escape alive, Megatron and Grimlock fought their way to the beast's plasma-core, where they found vast containers of an aggression and power-boosting energon substance. With Megatron covering him, Grimlock went to destroy the reservoirs, but was halted when proximity to the volatile fuel began increasing his rage. Fighting through the impulses, the Dynobot cleaved open the tanks, felling Trypticon. Emerging just after Megatron, Grimlock found Prime close to death, and decided to let his battle with Megatron wait until another day so the wounded Autobots could be taken to safety. As they retreated, leaving the inert Trypticon in Decepticon hands, Grimlock asked [[Jetfire (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Jetfire]] for his help in curing the Dynobots. {{storylink|Belly of the Beast (issue)|Belly of the Beast}}

Though Grimlock was worst off among the Dynobots, Autobot scientists were eventually able to purify his corrupted energon and re-engineer his original altmode, curing him. He was sent to check up on Trypticon's body together with [[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Hot Rod]], but the optimism of the young recruit got on his nerves and an argument broke out between the two when he accused Hot Rod of not understanding pain and guilt. They quickly shut up upon noticing that Trypticon had disappeared. {{storylink|Primacy issue 1|Primacy #1}} The beast soon reappeared from the depths of space on a collision course with Iacon, prompting an emergency security meeting which Grimlock attended. {{storylink|Primacy issue 2|Primacy #2}} Once this turned out to be the first step of a Decepticon invasion plan, he took to the battlefield, fighting [[Junkion (species)|Junkions]] and [[Sharkticon (species)|Sharkticons]] before being confronted by [[Blackwall]], an old rival from his gladiator days. {{storylink|Primacy issue 3|Primacy #3}} Though outpowered in hand-to-hand combat, Grimlock prevailed by stabbing Blackwall in the head with his sword, proclaiming he was better at fighting dirty. He then gathered his Dynobots and led them into battle against the [[Predacon (G1)|Predacons]], saving Hot Rod from the beasts and personally breaking [[Razorclaw (G1)|Razorclaw]]'s jaws off. {{storylink|Primacy issue 4|Primacy #4}}

[[File:TheChaosOfWarmThings GrimlockAllegiance.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.6]]
At some point during the war, Grimlock's natural distrust for authority led him to briefly defect to the Decepticons. {{storylink|Animals}} {{storylink|Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook issue 2|Grimlock profile}} For one reason or another, he eventually went back to the Autobots; Megatron was so furious at losing the powerful warrior that he ordered the dreaded [[Decepticon Justice Division]] to bump the Dynobot commander up their infamous [[The List|List]]. {{storylink|The Ties That Bind (issue)|The Ties That Bind}} {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}}

Returning to the Autobots, Grimlock tussled with the DJD several times; in one encounter, he was responsible for mangling the face of their leader, [[Tarn (G1)|Tarn]]. {{storylink|The Ties That Bind (issue)|The Ties That Bind}}

===On Earth===
In no small part due to Grimlock's influence, the Dynobots remained a group of close knit hunters and guardsmen who preferred to work outside the Autobot rulebook, though still on the same side. Grimlock was among the Autobots fighting atop the Decepticon warship ''[[Hell's Point]]'' during a [[Battle for Hell's Point|particularly brutal fight]]. {{storylink|The Gloaming}} After the war spread off-world, the Dynobots fought a campaign on [[Varas Centralus]], where their brutality horrified even the [[Wreckers]]. {{storylink|The Killing Jar (issue)|The Killing Jar}} A campaign on another alien world ended with its native population reduced to a mere handful of survivors. When Optimus Prime arrived in the aftermath, Grimlock had to prevent a bitter Slag from attacking the Autobot leader, even though he agreed with Slag's take that Prime was becoming too detached from the cost of war. {{storylink|Post}} After [[Shockwave (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Shockwave]] destroyed a cache of energon the Dynobots had been hoarding, causing them severe energon burns and equally severe humiliation, they swore revenge. So, against orders from Optimus Prime, they followed Shockwave when he left Cybertron to stabilize "[[Ore-13|Ultra-Energon]]" deposits he had sent to other worlds as a precaution against the depletion of Cybertron's own energon reserves.

[[File:SpotlightShockwave GrimlockSlag trexscan.jpg|thumb|upright=1.4|left|Me Grimlock in love!]]
When Shockwave reached his first destination—Earth, at the end of the last Ice Age—the Dynobots destroyed his ship, but Slag revealed that the high energon levels of the planet would put them in stasis lock, since they hadn't come prepared like Shockwave. Slag then came up with the idea that they should scan the local life forms and create alt modes based on those animals, but with synthetic flesh coatings to protect against the high levels of energon radiation. Grimlock was completely against the idea, but since Slag couldn't come up with something better, he relented. However, he refused to take on the form of the weak mammalians that dominated the planet, demanding "something with some... bite." Scanning fossil deposits, Slag found the remains of some [[Dinosaur (dinosaur)|extinct reptilian animals]] and brought up a holographic representation of one to see if Grimlock approved. What popped up was a ''Tyrannosaurus rex'', which Grimlock seemed to fall in love with the moment he saw it. The choice made, Grimlock took the Tyrannosaur as his altmode and had Slag find more dinosaurs as templates for the rest of the Dynobots.

[[File:SpotlightShockwave Grimlock stasislock.jpg|right|upright=1.0|thumb|One, two three... Red light!]]
On teleporting down to the planet's surface to confront Shockwave, they gained an initial advantage, as Shockwave's logic was unable to comprehend the effort and risks they had taken for their revenge. However, when Shockwave recognized this weakness, he shut down his logic processors and executed a "rage" program to enable him to operate on pure instinct. He shrugged off the Dynobots' attacks and beat them severely, ending the assault by burning off their organic coatings. Unable to accept another defeat, Grimlock transformed to robot mode and fought against his imminent [[stasis lock]] to no avail.

However, before leaving the Dynobots' ship, he had enabled a "dead man's switch" designed to take Shockwave with them if they were defeated. When he entered stasis lock, this failsafe activated, firing on a nearby dormant volcano and causing an eruption which buried Shockwave and the Dynobots under ash and lava. Thousands of years later, their entombed bodies were discovered by a human archaeological team. {{storylink|Spotlight: Shockwave}}

In [[2007]], the [[human]] organization [[Skywatch]] took over jurisdiction of the dig site and excavated Shockwave and the Dynobots. {{storylink|Escalation issue 5|Escalation #5}} When the [[Reaper]]s attacked the Decepticons, Skywatch decided to awaken the most advanced of their "Eureka Six", which turned out to be Grimlock. {{storylink|Devastation issue 5|Devastation #5}} {{storylink|Devastation issue 6|Devastation #6}}

[[File:SpotlightGrimlock punch KLUNG.jpg|upright=1.5|thumb|left|Six foot, seven foot, eight foot, Punch! Daylight come and me Grimlock wanna go home.]]
Grimlock's reactivation was sabotaged by an agent of the [[Machination]] and when he awoke, they had no control over him. He escaped the facility, confused and angry. His escape was engineered by the head of the Machination, Scorponok, who wanted Grimlock to join him in the Machination plot to dominate the Earth by running interference and delaying Megatron's plans long enough for the Machination to put their plans into action.

[[File:GrimlockMaxDino01.jpg|right|upright=1.2|thumb|Me Grimlock's roar sound funny...]]
Grimlock considered for a second, but refused the offer for two reasons: he could turn Scorponok in to Ultra Magnus for redemption, and as revenge for Scorponok once robbing an installation the Dynobots were guarding. The two fought and Scorponok quickly gained the upper hand, mostly due to his [[Headmaster (technology)|Headmaster]] upgrade. Grimlock was able to activate his transporter chip, which beamed him back to his ship, the ''[[Skyfire (ship)|Skyfire]]'', which was buried deep in ice somewhere. Grimlock hoped he could use the ship to find the other Dynobots. {{storylink|Spotlight: Grimlock}}

Finding himself trapped, both on a useless ship and in a less than inconspicuous form, Grimlock was forced to try and contact some of his less reputable acquaintances in an attempt to get the ''Skyfire'' into some sort of working order. Meanwhile, the Machination had tracked him down and had sent their [[Sunstreaker clone|Tsunami Unit]] to apprehend him. Grimlock's early warning system detected them, and he circled round as they began to attack, bursting from the ice and transforming. The battle very quickly turned in his favor with four of the clones falling in the opening moments. The surviving Headmasters were rather shaken, but managed to fulfill their mission: attach a device which would [[Orbital jump|orbital bounce]] him to Nevada, near Skywatch's base. Grimlock materialized in the middle of a busy street in [[Fallon]]. As a car crashed into his toe, he realized things had just gone from bad to worse. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 1|Maximum Dinobots #1}}

[[File:GrimlockSludgeSwoopMaxDino02.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|left|Hey... he stole that move from Shockwave!]]
Grimlock knew Scorponok was trying to deliberately set him up as a rampaging monster, but ''didn't'' expect his fellow Dynobots to be sent to take him down! He was able to fight them all off but unable to break their reprogramming by appealing to their team ethos...and when they ''did'' regain sentience and memory, it was because Scorponok let them so they could get pissed off at the knowledge Grimlock had set up a "dead man's switch" ''without'' informing them. Grimlock's defence was that such a sneaky, amoral and rule-breaking act was what the Dynobots were ''all about'', which surprisingly worked. While saying this, he grudgingly and with much moaning saved a human from burning to death. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 2|Maximum Dinobots #2}}

Convinced he'd brought his team round, Grimlock began issuing orders, only to be met by an icy silence. Swoop spoke for the group, saying his trust was hard earned and Grimlock tossed it away. Disgusted, he abandoned the team, prompting the others to follow. Grimlock tried pleading with them, then turned in a huff, stating he'd be better off on his own. He was interrupted by the arrival of the Sunstreaker clones, who blasted him in the chest. Enraged, he vented his frustrations on the clones until their laser blasts began to wear him down. He was saved by the arrival of the other Dynobots, who felt that whatever had happened, they were still a team. However, they were overwhelmed by the sheer number of clones, until the arrival of the "help" Grimlock had requested earlier: the [[Monsterbot (G1)|Monsterbot]]s. Seeing the newcomers take the fight to the enemy, Grimlock ordered his unit to show the Monsterbots how it's ''really'' done. Decimated and demoralized, the surviving Machination clones escaped with their lives. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 3|Maximum Dinobots #3}}

[[File:MaxDinos3 Grimlock SS clone.jpg|right|upright=1.66|thumb|Me Grimlock best is at what do. And it not very nice.]]
Aboard the Monsterbots' ship, the Dynobots wondered why Grimlock would side with the outcasts. They gave Grimlock a stern look when he exited the cockpit. The Dynobots didn't see the point of fighting Scorponok, but Grimlock said that Scorponok made it their fight when he turned the Dynobots against him. Snarl disagreed, saying that it had always been Grimlock's fight, that he and the other Dynobots went along with him, and that it was now Grimlock's wounded pride at stake. After the Monsterbots blasted away the defenses, Grimlock exited the ship, saying that there was no way he could let this go, and that with or without the Dynobots, there would be a reckoning for Scorponok. The Dynobots decided that arguing was pointless and followed Grimlock. When [[Hunter O'Nion]] pulled the cords from [[Sunstreaker (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Sunstreaker]]'s head, shutting him down, the clones ceased to function. [[Sludge (G1)|Sludge]] cried out in victory, but the moment was short-lived as Scorponok blasted Sludge into stasis. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 4|Maximum Dinobots #4}}

[[File:MaxDinos5 Grimlock Sludge.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|left|He's dead, Grim.]]
Grimlock stared down at Sludge's dead body, brooding about how it was his fault Sludge was dead... while a battle between Scorponok and Shockwave (for rights of revenge upon Grimlock) raged on around him. Eventually Snarl, Slag, and Swoop decide to get to the Monsterbots' ship while the getting was good, but Grimlock stayed behind with Sludge. Grimlock tried infusing some of his [[spark]] energy into Sludge to revive him, but it seemed to have no effect. Shockwave got the upper hand and let Scorponok escape, and in frustration, Grimlock attacked Shockwave. Grimlock and Shockwave were too busy fighting to notice the return of Slag, Snarl, and Swoop, who reasoned that, while helping Grimlock might not be much of a cause, it still beat being no better than the Monsterbots. They were noticed by Sludge, who seemed to have recovered due to Grimlock's treatment after all. The four of them dove into the fray proper, but Grimlock ordered them to go after Scorponok instead. When [[Hot Rod (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Hot Rod]] was about to get squished by Scorponok, the remaining Dynobots showed up in just the nick of time. At Hot Rod's urgings, Swoop severed the connections keeping Scorponok's head conscious. In the meantime, Grimlock had found out Shockwave was using their battle to stall for time so that Soundwave could free him from Skywatch's control. The Decepticon attempted to abandon the fight, but Grimlock stubbornly refused to let him walk away, and rolled out a grenade, which incapacitated them both.

[[File:MaxDinos5 Grimlock Magnus.jpg|right|upright=1.9|thumb|Magnus was unaware that Grimlock had watched ''[[Jurassic Park]]'', and had already hired a fat man to bring the fences down.]]

By this time [[Ultra Magnus (G1)/2005 IDW continuity|Ultra Magnus]] had arrived and taken Scorponok into custody. Grimlock and Shockwave were both arrested and taken off-world. Ultra Magnus later told Grimlock that having Scorponok and Shockwave in custody could help offset Grimlock's own sentence. Grimlock wasn't interested, asking only that the blame was put squarely on him and that the other Dynobots' warrants were cancelled. Magnus agreed, and Grimlock was left to muse on the fact that Sludge and his team were alive and well, thanks to him. {{storylink|Maximum Dinobots issue 5|Maximum Dinobots #5}}

Grimlock was taken to [[Garrus-9]], {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}} an offworld detention facility that, unbeknownst to the Autobot rank and file, was also the secret storage location for the artifact known as the [[Epistemus|Magnificence]]. When Grimlock arrived, it was decided that the Autobots would store the Magnificence in the one place harder to get into than a fortified prison world: Grimlock himself. As such, Grimlock's chest was modified to include a secure, tamperproof brace designed to house the artifact. {{storylink|The Ties That Bind (issue)|The Ties That Bind}}

Grimlock spent a few months in a private cell, {{storylink|Kill All 'Cons}} until the Decepticon [[Surge (event)|Surge]]. As the Autobot war machine collapsed, Garrus-9 was assaulted and overrun by the rogue Decepticon [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]] and his [[Predator (subgroup)|Predators]], who seized control of the detention facility. Overlord turned the prison into his own personal playground, forcing prisoners and guards, Autobots and Decepticons alike, to fight for his amusement... except for Grimlock, who Overlord kept alive, forcing him to watch footage of the pit fights. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}}

[[File:TheTiesThatBind GrimlockTortured.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5|left|They forced him to watch the [[Machinima]] trilogy on endless repeat.]]
Shortly after their initial escape from Garrus-9, Scorponok and [[Flame (Marvel)|Flame]] came into the employ of the enigmatic [[Adaptus|Grand Architect]], who required the Magnificence to advance his own agenda. {{storylink|Kill All 'Cons}} The two of them used the interspacial portal network known as the [[Warren]] to teleport Grimlock out of his cell and onto their [[Worldsweeper]]-class starship; unable to pry the Magnificence free from Grimlock's chest, the two of them tortured Grimlock mentally and physically until the Dynobot lost control of his body and involuntarily relinquished the artifact. {{storylink|The Ties That Bind (issue)|The Ties That Bind}}

Though Grimlock was still alive, he had suffered acute mental and physical trauma as a result of his recent experiences: in his case, it manifested as severe aphasia stemming from his recently incurred brain damage. {{storylink|Kill All 'Cons}} In this primitive state, Grimlock was no longer needed: he was imprisoned inside a [[stasis pod|stasis tube]] and remained there for several years. {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}} When the Grand Architect's research facility on the planet [[Corritan]] was decommissioned, the Worldsweeper-class vessel Grimlock was imprisoned aboard was selected to transport the nascent experiments to a nearby facility. {{storylink|Chasing the Infinite}} However, organic matter bled into its fuel supply and the ship crashed on the planet [[Clemency]]. {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}}

By the time that the [[Wreckers]] arrived to rescue the inhabitants of Garrus-9, they discovered that Grimlock had disappeared. [[Snare]] confirmed that Grimlock was "long gone," and wondered if his torture at the hands of Overlord had driven him mad. {{storylink|Last Stand of the Wreckers issue 4|Last Stand of the Wreckers #4}}

===After the war===
[[File:MTMTE ROE Grimlock.jpg|thumb|right||"This is how you make dinosaurs?" "No, this is how you play God".]]

Shortly after the end of the Great War in 2012, a mismatched group of Decepticons known as the "[[Scavengers (G1)|Scavengers]]" stumbled across Grimlock's tube on Clemency. {{storylink|Rules of Disengagement (issue)|Rules of Disengagement}} These Decepticons had made themselves targets for the [[Decepticon Justice Division]] and quickly decided to use Grimlock to their advantage, awakening him with a dose of [[circuit speeder]]s that drove him into a ferocious rage and pointing him in the direction of their hunters. Unfortunately, after a brief burst of violence and success against [[Tarn (G1)|Tarn]] and [[Kaon (G1)|Kaon]], Grimlock all but stopped fighting following a blow from [[Tesarus (G1)|Tesarus]], and would have been destroyed by the weaponized speech of Tarn if the battle had not prematurely ended when their opponents picked up the trail of [[Overlord (G1)|bigger game]] and departed. In the aftermath, when the speeders had worn off, the Scavengers found that Grimlock had been rendered incoherent by his brain-damage. Believing that the Autobots had won the war, they set off for Cybertron, believing they could use him as a bargaining chip. {{storylink|Scavengers (Part 2): Who's Afraid of the DJD?|Who's Afraid of the DJD?}}

[[File:Scavengers arm the lonely.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.4|Winning is easy when everyone else is dead!]]

Later, aboard the ''[[Weak Anthropic Principle]]'' on the planet [[Constancy]], Grimlock was playing a game similar to [[Jenga]] whilst completely oblivious to the effects of [[Solomus|Tyrest]]'s [[universal killswitch]] on his shipmates. {{storylink|Remain in Light 4 of 5: Arm the Lonely|Arm the Lonely}}

After learning what had transpired on Cybertron in their absence, however, the Scavengers abandoned their plans to return home and continued wandering the galaxy aboard the ''[[Weak Anthropic Principle]]''. Over the next few years, the Scavenger [[Misfire (G1)|Misfire]] took a particular liking to Grimlock; in between various madcap adventures, he attempted to rehabilitate the Dinobot by trying to teach him how to speak, read, and write. Though Grimlock's body quickly healed, he remained incapable of speech and was prone to lashing out at anything around him without warning—fits that only grew more destructive as he recovered his strength.

When the Scavengers made a stopover on [[Tebris VII]], Grimlock was in the middle of another unsuccessful spelling lesson when he abruptly began attacking Misfire. Grimlock rampaged through the ship before the other Scavengers blasted him into submission; an argument about whether or not they could safely keep the increasingly destructive Dinobot around was interrupted by a transmission from [[Krok (G1)|Krok]]'s contact [[Demus]].

Leaving Grimlock behind on the crashed W.A.P., they went to meet Demus; {{storylink|Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots}} unbeknownst to the Scavengers, he was an affiliate of the Grand Architect, {{storylink|Animals}} and sought to take Grimlock "off their hands" by tempting them with a vast sum of [[Shanix]]. The vote turned in favor of selling the Dinobot, but the matter quickly became moot when [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]] blew Demus's head up. {{storylink|Some Of My Best Friends Are Autobots}}

[[File:Grimlock and Misfire.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|right|Me..Grimlock...am..feeling...a bit better in cognitive faculties.]]
To protect himself, Crankcase made Grimlock's signal visible to Fort Max, who decided it was better to go after the former G-9 inmate. When the duly appointed enforcer of the Tyrest Accords arrived at the W.A.P., Grimlock was in the middle of writing something. He soon attacked Fort Max, who believed Grimlock had turned 'con again. Their battle was cut short when the Scavengers appeared and talked Max out of fighting by explaining their story with Grimlock. Maximus proposed bringing the Dinobot to Luna 1 to Misfire's agreement, but he was met with objection from Spinister, who noted that they should ask Grimlock his opinion; to which he managed to sputter out Misfire's name. After bluffing Maximus into leaving the planet with the Roboids, the Scavengers returned to space in the ''Weak Anthropic Principle''. Misfire, having lost a game of "[[Cybertronian games#Shoot Shoot Bang Bang|Shoot Shoot Bang Bang]]", escorted Grimlock to his quarters and was left stunned when the Dinobot replied to him, but the Decepticon failed to notice what he'd drawn before Max had shown up: a gear-shaped symbol and writing the message "PREPARE - CONFRONT - REPEL". {{storylink|Animals}}

Grimlock would later watch the disturbing last will and testament of several of the ''Lost Light'' crew. {{storylink|The Dying of the Light: (1) How Bright Their Frail Deeds|How Bright Their Frail Deeds}} Unknown to him, shortly after they recorded those, [[Drift (G1)|Drift]] had had a vision of himself, Grimlock, and Rodimus standing against an apocalyptic threat, with "PREPARE - CONFRONT - REPEL" inscribed before them in [[Ancient Cybertronian]]. {{storylink|Dissolution Part 1: Some Other Cybertron|Some Other Cybertron}}

[[File:GrimlockPresent.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.6|His name was Slag! NONE OF YOU BELIEVED ME!]]

When the Scavengers paid a brief visit to Earth, specifically the [[Texas]] region, Grimlock recognised this as the place he'd last seen the other Dinobots. Unable to articulate his reasons, he escaped the ship and inadvertently smashed up several human towns (injuring dozens of people) in an attempt to get to Dallas. Misfire found him digging up his old sword, the names of his comrades inscribed, before he sadly handed it to the Decepticon. After consoling him, Misfire told Grimlock that he was thrilled to see he'd recovered a memory, something he'd assumed was impossible. {{storylink|Nothing Will Ever Be the Same Again!}}

Grimlock and the Scavengers were scrounging for [[ununtrium]] on [[Frayus]] when they stumbled into a battle between the [[Galactic Council]], [[Black Block Consortia]], and [[Deathsaurus (G1)|Deathsaurus]]'s Decepticons. Not wanting to get involved, the Scavengers were drawn into a mysterious portal when their orbital link back to the W.A.P. failed. {{storylink|The Plotters' Club (Part 3): Journey's End|Journey's End}}

They found themselves on [[Troja Major]] with the Curator, a former Decepticon named [[Agonizer]]. The Curator had recently discovered his rival, [[Mengel]], had been in possession of the Magnificence before it was recovered from her by Flame. He wanted to hire the Scavengers to retrieve the Magnificence for him. Unaware of the past link between Grimlock and the Magnificence, Misfire believed he could use it to fully restore Grimlock's mind. For that, and a tidy sum of money, the Scavengers agreed. They were joined by Nickel, a Decepticon doctor from Deathsaurus's crew who accidentally tumbled through the portal after them.

[[File:KillAllCons-panic.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.25]]
On [[Confluence]], however, the Scavengers quickly realized they were out of their depth. They discovered the connection between Flame, Scorponok, and the Worldsweeper they found Grimlock inside. Scorponok himself appeared and put Grimlock to sleep with a wave of his hand. He contained the Scavengers and the unconscious Grimlock in a cell on board his Worldsweeper. When the Scavengers opened up Grimlock's chest cavity looking for whatever device allowed Scorponok to knock him out, they discovered the Magnificence cradle and Scorponok filled them in on the rest. Then he woke Grimlock up. Confused, enraged, and feeling utterly vulnerable to find his chest open and surrounded by Decepticons, Grimlock started to tear through everyone in sight. {{storylink|The Ties That Bind (issue)|The Ties That Bind}}

[[File:KillAllCons MisfireGrimlockPals.jpg|thumb|upright=1.8|left]]
Nickel had been paying attention, however, and she noticed Grimlock was more coherent and reasonable in dino mode. She forcibly triggered his transformation, allowing Misfire to talk Grimlock down. Nickel explained her theory that Grimlock suffered from non-fluent aphasia, and in dino mode his brain module was repositioned to have less pressure placed upon it. With Spinister's help, she coordinated a treatment to manipulate that pressure and restore Grimlock's faculties fully in either mode. The Scavengers then decided to "play dead", making it appear as if Grimlock destroyed them all before asking for an audience with Scorponok. Once Grimlock was out of the cell and distracting Scorponok, the Scavengers reassembled themselves and made a surprise appearance.

A mad scientist to his core, Scorponok explained his plan to extract Decepticon sparks and place them in organic bodies to take advantage of their one upside: procreation. Once his sparked organics had suitably repopulated the Decepticon movement, he would transfer the new generation into pre-fabricated bodies to restore the might of the Decepticon army. Indeed, he had already created the prototype of his experiment, an infant [[Firstborn]] contained in his chest cavity. Not one for volunteers, Scorponok had discovered the means to remotely access Decepticon sparks through the spark casing elements in their badges, affecting them as he did to Grimlock. Scorponok tried to incapacitate all the Scavengers this way, but Nickel disabled him with a voice message from Tarn.

[[File:KillAllCons GrimlockProtectsFirstborn.jpg|thumb|right|upright=1.5|How about "Lone Dino And Con"? No, no wait- "The Grimdalorian".]]
Grimlock and the Scavengers retrieved the Firstborn and prepared to leave the Worldsweeper via transmat portal. They intended to travel to Garrus-9 and use spark extraction technology to place the Firstborn's spark back in a mechanical body. Unfortunately, it seemed the transmat effect was hazardous to organics, meaning the baby would not survive. Grimlock volunteered to stay behind, protecting the baby in his chest brace while destroying the portal controls so Scorponok could not follow. He forcibly pushed Misfire and the others through the portal before preparing to fight. {{storylink|Kill All 'Cons}}

[[File:ADanceBeforeDying GrimlockCrushesSparkeaters.jpg|thumb|left|upright=1.8|"We need more teeth!"]]
After fighting his way through the Worldsweeper, Grimlock escaped into the vacuum of space. He sent out an A.S.O.S. and was picked up by [[Riptide (G1)|Riptide]], [[Thunder Clash|Thunderclash]], and [[First Aid (G1)|First Aid]], recently of the ''Lost Light''. Learning of the mutiny they suffered, Grimlock agreed to help chase down Getaway after they dropped off the Firstborn on Troja Major with Agonizer. Following a tracking device, they found the ''Lost Light'' over [[Mederi]] and Grimlock engaged a group of [[Sparkeater (creature)|Sparkeaters]] unleashed on Rodimus and the other survivors of the ''Light's'' original command crew. Unfortunately, these Sparkeaters were the ''other'' members of the crew, twisted against their will by a virus used by Scorponok.

Grimlock joined Crankcase, Ultra Magnus, and others on a strike team that penetrated the ''Lost Light'' while Misfire and the others remained behind to deal with the Sparkeaters. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 1): A Dance Before Dying|A Dance Before Dying}} They were assaulted by [[Scraplet|Red Scraplets]] Getaway had been keeping in the oil reservoir, but [[Whirl (G1)|Whirl]] was able to tame them. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 2): Lūstrāre|Lūstrāre}} After the ''Lost Light'' was recovered and the Sparkeaters safely disabled, the united group then found themselves facing off against the schemes of the [[Adaptus|Grand Architect]], the force behind Scorponok and Getaway. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 3): Farsickness|Farsickness}} The Grand Architect's actions were only in response to an even ''greater'' threat: the Cybertron of [[Functionist Universe|another universe]], transformed into a secondary robot mode patterned after Primus, intent on destroying all other life in two universes. Grimlock's plan (naturally) was to blow it up. However, Megatron (having recently spent time in that universe) warned that Cybertron was still populated with innocents. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 4): The Return of the King|The Return of the King}}

[[File:LL25 ScavengersOut.jpg|upright=1.4|thumb|right]]
After rescuing Rodimus and the others, who had just discovered [[Rung (G1)|Rung]]'s true nature as Primus as well as the creator of the [[Matrix of Leadership]], the crew hit on a plan to create twelve Matrixes to use to surge [[Vector Sigma]] with energy and destroy the [[Functionist Council]]. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 5): The Unremembering|The Unremembering}} Once the Functionist Cybertron had been forcibly converted back into planet mode, Grimlock and Misfire accompanied [[Swerve (G1)|Swerve]] to [[Warrior's Gate]]. While Grimlock held off the [[Functionary|Functionaries]], Swerve and Misfire successfully opened their Matrix after an uplifting speech from Rodimus, sending its energies through the [[hot spot (phenomenon)|hot spot]] into Vector Sigma and destroying the Functionist Council. {{storylink|Crucible (Part 6): A Spark Among Embers|A Spark Among Embers}}

After partaking in one last celebration on the ''Lost Light'' where they made peace with Fortress Maximus, Grimlock and the Scavengers departed for Troja Major to meet up with [[CONS4EVA]]. In another universe, the Scavengers were [[Quantum generator|quantum duplicated]] and went on more adventures aboard the ''Lost Light''. {{storylink|How To Say Goodbye And Mean It: Part 2}}
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==Notes==
*Grimlock was retroactively identified as a Forged Point One Percenter in the trade version of [[Remain in Light 3 of 5: The Divided Self|''More than Meets the Eye'' #19]]. [[Minimus Ambus]] listed [[Impactor (G1)|Impactor]] instead of Grimlock in the original published issue, but that was at odds with Impactor being a defendant at the [[Aequitas]] trials, and therefore Constructed Cold.
*According to [[Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook issue 2|''Hasbro Heroes Sourcebook'' #2]], Grimlock is 38 feet tall and weights 24 tons.<ref>For reference, this equals 11.6 metres and 21.8 metric tonnes.</ref>
*Both [[Scorponok (G1)|Scorponok]] and Grimlock were originally intended to be large players in ''Last Stand of the Wreckers''. Scorponok would have acted as [[Overlord (G1)|Overlord]]'s go to guy for crazy science and would develop [[Nucleon (substance)|Nucleon]] as a steroid analogue. The nucleon would power fighters up but damage their mental state. Scorponok would have solved the problem of not having a head by stealing [[Fortress Maximus (G1)|Fortress Maximus]]'s. Grimlock would have been dosed up on nucleon, trapping him in his dinosaur form, and rendering him a psychotic beast. Overlord was to have gone on to use him as the final opponent for anyone who progressed far enough in the arena. It was then intended that Overlord's defeat would come from the Wreckers knocking him into the arena with the enraged Grimlock. Although Grimlock did indeed have a minor part in the series, it was decided to deliberately minimalise any 'big name' characters at Garrus-9 so as not to overshadow the Wreckers.<ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L2uzQB1GqS0 Auto Assembly 2010 Last Stand of the Wreckers Panel]</ref><ref>[http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J9DPbginVXE Moonbase 2's AA2010 interview], 30:06 - 31:03</ref>

==References==
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:''Jetfire is a [[Decepticon]] and later an [[Autobot]] from the [[movie continuity family]].''

[[File:ROTF_Jetfire.jpg|thumb|351px|
"Ah. I look out there at [[Fandom|all you wonderful guys]] and I say to myself, 'What I wouldn't give to be 20 million years younger... and a woman'."]]

'''Jetfire''' was a living legend both in the air and on the battlefield in his day. Sadly, his day has long since passed. His body went south years back. His bunny is dead on the wheel. He's got rust in places he didn't even know he had. Basically, Jetfire's old! An ancient Decepticon [[Seeker (ROTF)|Seeker]], Jetfire was around long before the war broke out, and unlike many, came to see his "comrades" for what they were. This caused him to defect to the Autobots, something virtually unheard of. As a consequence, Jetfire never managed to fully obtain the trust of the others back in the day.<ref>[http://www.hasbro.com/transformers/en_US/discover/Battle-Bios.cfm Hasbro Jetfire Battle Bio]</ref>

He's still a fine asset, powerful and able to activate a [[space bridge]] to teleport across great distances. This is slightly offset by the fact he's so old.
After years without a proper source of energon, he's practically falling apart. His processor gave up the ghost millennia ago. These days he has a hard enough time remembering his name, and he's lucky if his teleporting puts him on the right planet. It makes him a bit crotchety and also leaves him with the nagging feeling he's forgotten something important.

{{bigquote|[[Relatives|My father]], why, he was a wheel! The ''first'' wheel! And do you know what he transformed into? ''Nothing!'' But he did so ''with honor! Dignity, damn it!''|Jetfire suffers the seven signs of aging|[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]}}

==Fiction==
===''Revenge of the Fallen'' film===
{{voiceactor|[[Mark Ryan]] (English), [[Kenji Nomura]] (Japanese)|[[Han Tongsheng]] (Chinese), [[Engelbert von Nordhausen]] (German), [[Idzi Dutkiewicz Sánchez]] (Latin American-Spanish), [[Franco Zucca]] (Italian), [[Patrick Béthune]] (European French), [[Benoît Rousseau]] (Canadian French), [[Márcio Simões]] (Portuguese), [[Nüvit Candaner]] (Turkish)}}

Jetfire was one of the Seekers dispatched by The Fallen to locate the [[Matrix of Leadership]] after the [[Dynasty of Primes]] hid it on Earth. However, Jetfire and the other Seekers were unable to locate the [[Tomb of the Primes|Tomb]] that the Primes had forged. The only clue they could find was a riddle: "When dawn alights the Dagger's tip, Three Kings will reveal the Doorway". Eventually, the Fallen abandoned the Seekers and they were forced to go into stasis lock out of a lack of energon.

[[File:ROTF behold Jetfire.jpg|thumb|left|350px|"How are ya, sir?" "Hawaii? Goddamn it, Bill! I'm supposed to be in California!"]]

For many years, a dormant Jetfire had hidden in his alternate mode at the [[Smithsonian National Air and Space Museum]]'s {{w|Steven F. Udvar-Hazy Center}}, until [[Seymour Simmons]], [[Sam Witwicky]], [[Mikaela Banes]], [[Leo Spitz]] and [[Wheelie (ROTF)|Wheelie]] broke in with a small fragment of the [[AllSpark]]. It was only after the AllSpark shard hit Jetfire that they bothered to check which side he was on. The sight of the Decepticon [[insignia]] sent the humans scrambling for cover, but the surge of energy awoke him. Confused at the "hideous mausoleum" he was held in, Jetfire decided to head outside to get a better handle on where he was. After his attempts at overriding and shooting the doors failed, Jetfire smashed them aside, then wandered about the planes outside, damaging a few. When the humans tried to talk to him, he initially claimed that he couldn't deal with them, as he had a mission, but did ask what planet he was (he wasn't too fond of the name "Earth", feeling it might as well be called "Dirt"). Jetfire inquired on the state of the civil war, and revealed that he had defected to the Autobots (it's an intensely personal decision). This led the smaller Wheelie to defect to a [[Mikaela Banes|human female]] he dubbed "warrior goddess". After the human Sam asked what he was saying, Jetfire, still confused, pounded the ground and shouted that he had a lot of issues regarding his mother, and that his father was the first wheel, who did not transform but performed his functions with honor and dignity. At which point a parachute stored in him suddenly popped open, bringing him down. Sam then tried to explain what was going on.

[[File:Jetfire-ROTFstandingindesert.jpg|thumb|right|350px|"Every time I give an order, it gets screwed up! Plan a reception, wrong hors d'oeuvres! Appoint an ambassador, he leaves the country!"]]
When Sam was finished carving [[Cyberglyphics|Cybertronian symbols]] on the ground, he mentioned Megatron and [[The Fallen]]. Jetfire ranted that The Fallen was the original Decepticon and had left him on Earth to rust. The symbols were a part of Jetfire's mission, and they jogged his memory banks enough to convince him to open a [[space bridge]], teleporting the entire group (including [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], [[Skids (ROTF)|the]] [[Mudflap (ROTF)|twins]], and Wheelie) to [[Egypt]]. Thankful that he had managed to stay on the planet, Jetfire then told them the story of the Dynasty of Primes and The Fallen, Cybertron's first contact with Earth, the [[Star Harvester]] which could destroy a [[Sun]] and convert it to energon, and the Matrix of Leadership needed to activate it, hidden on Earth. He revealed that only a [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] could defeat The Fallen, but he believed that none were left. Sam told him of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]; this caught the ancient Seeker's interest, revealing eagerness in the Prime's whereabouts, but became distraught to hear of Prime's death. Sam then wondered if the Matrix could restore Optimus to life. Jetfire said it was not the Matrix's intended use, but that the power within was unlike any known. Sadly, this was all Jetfire could do for the group, and after telling them of the riddle, he urged them to hurry off and find the [[Tomb of the Primes]].

[[File:Jetfire-ROTFripoutspark.jpg|left|thumb|350px|"I mean, one minute you're in bed with a knockout gal... or guy. And the next, you're a compost heap. Doesn't that bother any of you? Because it scares the living piss outta me!"]]

During the final [[Operation: Firestorm|battle]] around the [[Great Pyramid of Giza]] (which contained the Star Harvester), Jetfire arrived and attempted to "stick" the landing, which didn't go quite as he planned. He immediately decided to "show how they brought the pain in my day", using his axe to slice [[Mixmaster (ROTF)|Mixmaster]] across the chest and decapitate the [[Constructicon (ROTF)|Constructicon]]. He was critically wounded by a surprise attack from [[Scorponok (Movie)|Scorponok]] and although he managed to crush the Decepticon's head, the injury was fatal. Fortunately, Jetfire was treated to one last wonder, as Sam Witwicky used the Matrix to resurrect Optimus. Jetfire was overjoyed of the moment, hardly believing that he was seeing a living [[Prime (rank)|Prime]]. Unfortunately, The Fallen teleported in and attacked, damaging Optimus and stealing the Matrix, placing it in the harvester. As he lay dying, Jetfire, who felt that during his entire life he'd never done a thing worth doing, offered his parts to Optimus Prime, saying that they would give him "a power like you've never known". Telling Optimus to fulfill his destiny, Jetfire ripped out his own spark and died.

[[File:ROTF movie Powered-Up Optimus Prime.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"God, I love a good funeral!"]]

Jetfire's sacrifice was not in vain: within moments of his death, [[Ratchet (Movie)|Ratchet]] instructed [[Jolt (ROTF)|Jolt]] to begin a full transplant of the rocket thrusters and weapons systems onto Optimus. Now equipped with Jetfire's powerful weapons and engines, Optimus broke through a blockade of debris The Fallen had telekinetically erected around the Pyramid and destroyed the Star Harvester before it could be used against the Earth's Sun. Prime then faced the Fallen and Megatron, using his afterburners to send Megatron flying through some ruins. During the battle, The Fallen pulled off the left afterburner and used it to strike Prime in the face, but Optimus ultimately triumphed and ripped out the Fallen's spark core, killing the treacherous Prime. After the battle, Optimus quickly detached Jetfire's parts. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen}}

{{note|Jetfire's involvement in the preceding events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the novels "[[Revenge of the Fallen: The Junior Novel]]," and "[[The Last Prime]]"; the "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Official Movie Adaptation]]" and "[[Movie Trilogy]]" comics; and the storybooks "[[Rise of the Decepticons]]," "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Electronic Voice Changer]]" and "[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen Mix & Match]]."}}
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====''Revenge of the Fallen'' novel adaptation====
Immediately after arriving in Egypt, Jetfire was attacked by [[Ransack (ROTF)|Ransack]]. Calling Jetfire a traitor, the smaller Seeker fired a single shot which bounced off his target, and Jetfire promptly stomped Ransack to death, muttering how he'd never liked that guy. {{Storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (novel)|Revenge of the Fallen (novel)}}

===IDW comics===
[[File:Defiance4_Jetfire.jpg|thumb|left|250px|"You know, I've personally flown over 194 missions, and I was shot down in every one. Come to think of it, I've never landed a plane in my life."]]
In the distant past, the [[AllSpark]] Cube created [[Thirteen|a race]] of powerful, trans-dimensional beings as the first inhabitants of [[Cybertron (planet)|Cybertron]]. The Cube gave these beings mighty powers, as well as terraforming their world, but it was not limitless, and gradually became depleted. The first beings learned that the AllSpark's power could be replenished by harvesting the energy of stars, but they were unable to locate new stars to suit their purposes, despite their amazing ability to travel between dimensions. Once again, the Cube came to the rescue, creating a race of workers who had the ability to change their shape.

Jetfire was among the very first of these new beings, a "[[Seeker (ROTF)|Seeker]]" with the ability to travel across the vastness of space in search of new suns. Once located, he would lead others and his masters back to it so a [[Star Harvester|harvester]] could be constructed to drain the energy of these stars, thus replenishing the AllSpark. {{Storylink|Defiance issue 4|Defiance #4}}

[[File:JetfireROTF-TalesoftheFallen.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"Jetfire?" "No you're not. I've seen him on TV. He's an older fellow. My height."]]

Jetfire served directly under the [[Prime (rank)|Prime]] who would become [[The Fallen]], finding for him various stars to harvest, believing he was serving the [[Dynasty of Primes]] as a whole, rather than The Fallen's machinations in specific. Over time, The Fallen began to open up to Jetfire, his most loyal and capable Seeker, and told him that the Dynasty no longer served Cybertron's best interests. Jetfire had unwittingly sacrificed a populated star system under The Fallen's misdirection, and became confused.

Still, Jetfire continued to work with The Fallen, despite his doubts. His master and a small army of [[Constructicon (ROTF)|Constructicon]] drones had fashioned a new, secret faction called the Decepticons with the intention of eventually subverting the Dynasty. Jetfire followed them to a desert on [[Earth|a small blue planet]] to build another star harvester when [[human|primitive]] life made itself known. The Dynasty arrived soon thereafter to put an end to The Fallen's betrayal. Jetfire realized too late that he was on the wrong side, and so The Fallen warped Jetfire and the other "underlings" ''into orbit'' so that the Primes could face each other alone. As they fell planetward, Jetfire fought the Constructicons, and was eventually victorious, but with a price. He crashed from orbit into the Earth and laid dormant for thousands of years. {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 3|Tales of the Fallen #3}} {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 4|Tales of the Fallen #4}}

[[File:Sector7_Jetfire.jpg|left|thumb|200px|"In exactly five hours and 17 minutes, we hit the enemy toast. Wait, ''coast''?? That'll take a little more planning. But it doesn't matter."]]

After he awoke, Jetfire began wandering the Earth {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 3|Tales of the Fallen #3}} periodically adopting new alternate modes to remain hidden. In [[1898]], while disguised as a portion of the [[United States Navy]] vessel the [[USS Maine|USS]] ''[[USS Maine|Maine]]'', Jetfire sensed energy similar to the Fallen's, and broke away from the wooden housing that formed the rest of his alternate mode (inadvertently leading his human crew to believe they had been attacked, thereby initiating the Spanish-American War) that he might settle the score. Tracking the signal to the Arctic, he instead found a near-comatose robot bearing the Decepticon mark instead. Upon discovering that he was ''not'' The Fallen, but someone Jetfire had never heard of named [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]], the Seeker just punched him and turned to leave. At this point, Jetfire realized he had an audience: a [[First Seven|group of humans]] who had been studying Megatron, and who reacted to Jetfire's presence by shooting at him. Jetfire promptly seized [[Billy North|his attacker]] and hurled him to his death, while the other humans used explosives to crack the ice sheets and send Jetfire plummeting into the frigid depths. {{storylink|Original}}

[[File:Sector7 2 Jetfire.jpg|right|thumb|200px|"It seems like only yesterday I was strafing so many of your homes. Here I am today, begging you not to make such good cars."]]

At the bottom of the ocean, Jetfire discovered a subterranean cave network in which he took refuge. Sensing a familiar energy source somewhere on the planet, the Seeker began to seek... but he was growing progressively low on power, and it took him fifteen years of crawling about underground before he could track the signal to its source. Along the way, he was confronted by [[Cave brute|strange, inhuman beasts]] that inhabited the caves, and slew all those that dared attack him. Finally, in [[1913]], addled and sluggish from lack of energy, he found the source of the signal: the AllSpark itself, which was in the process of being excavated by the same humans he had met in the Arctic! Fending off another attack on his person, Jetfire reached for the cube, inadvertently triggering a discharge of [[Energon]] from it that brought [[Energon mutation|several surrounding machines to life]], and overloaded his systems. To expend the excess energy, Jetfire promptly teleported via [[space bridge]] to parts unknown. {{storylink|Irreplaceable}}

[[File:Sector 7 4 Jetfire and Panzer-Giganten.jpg|left|thumb|200px|"I don't have a clue what you're talkin' about, Phil. Not a fracking clue. I have a shell fragment the size of a fist in my head. Pork Chop Hill, 1953."]]

Jetfire next surfaced in [[1944]], in the form of a Lockheed P-38 Lightning, when he was captured by [[Nazi]] scientists during [[World War II]] and imprisoned in a cryo-chamber in [[Castle Neuschwanstein]]. The Nazis studied his body and mind, reverse-engineering transforming tank-mecha from his systems and prising a map of the cave system from his memory. When [[Sector Seven]]—the government organization which had grown out of that original group of humans Jetfire had fought in the Arctic—got wind of the new Nazi technology, they dispatched a unit led by [[Bill Simmons|William Simmons]] to find and destroy Jetfire. Simmons was the only survivor of the team, and made it into Castle Neuschwanstein before being confronted by the Nazis' ultimate creation, the [[Panzer-Giganten]], which he tried to destroy by throwing a satchel of explosives at it. The explosives instead struck Jetfire's chamber, freeing the Seeker from his confinement, and he proceeded to stop the Panzer-Giganten by tearing out of its human components. Demanding to know how humans could do something so hideous to their own kind, Jetfire was told by Simmons that it was not his doing, and that he believed his bomb would have killed them all, prompting Jetfire to inquire why he valued his life so little. Simmons retorted that he did value his life, but valued freedom more, something that gave Jetfire pause, reminding him of his reasons for turning on The Fallen millennia before. Seeing a kinship in Simmons and in humanity that he had not felt before, he silently destroyed the castle and everyone in it, then flew Simmons to an Allied outpost before disappearing once more. {{storylink|Weapon (issue)|Weapon}}

[[File:Sector7 5 Jetfire.jpg|right|thumb|200px|"Looks like the upper hand is on the other foot!"]]

Jetfire's experience with Simmons deeply affected him, and he evidently shadowed the man and his organization over the following five years, taking the form of a Lockheed U-2 spy plane. In [[1954]], he was present when sabotage at Sector Seven's Arctic base left Simmons and a small crew trapped with a rapidly-thawing Megatron. [[Walter Simmons]] called for liquid nitrogen bombs to be dropped on the complex, at which point Jetfire swooped to intervene, transforming and shielding the younger Simmons' wife [[Tova Anael Fischer|Anne]] and [[Philip Nolan]] from the freezing blast. When Jetfire sadly informed Walter that he had been unable to save William, Walter could only ask why he had done anything at all. Jetfire explained that William's nobility had driven him to atone for past sins: before departing, Jetfire told him that he was no longer the creature Walter had met in those caves half a century before... and Walter did not have to be either. {{storylink|Frozen}} Over the next few years, Jetfire decided to defect to the Autobots, wanting to put his former Decepticon life behind him.

By [[1964]], Jetfire adopted the vehicle mode of a {{w|Lockheed A-12}} owned by [[Sector Seven]] agent [[Heath Donovan]]. Remaining in vehicle mode, Jetfire delivered [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] and [[P.R.O.G.R.A.M.M.E.]] agents [[David Reeve]] and [[Diana Lux]] to a castle used by modern Decepticons as a secret base. En route, Lux had the impression that the jet was alive, only to brush it off as imagination to Jetfire's relief. {{storylink|Energon Is Forever}}

[[File:Talesofthefallen3_Jetfire_Altmode.jpg|thumb|left|200px|"My skin's made of asbestos. Tanning parlor accident at Dien Bien Phu."]]

At some point in the latter half of the twentieth century, Jetfire was wandering in a desert when an SR-71 Blackbird crashed into him and exploded. Amidst the chaos, he took its form. {{storylink|Tales of the Fallen issue 3|Tales of the Fallen #3}}
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===Toy bios===

Sickened by the war, the Decepticon Jetfire left Cybertron and went into hiding on Earth. When the war came to Earth and woke him up, {{storylink|#Leader Class|Jetfire}} he decided to rejoin the fight on the side of the Autobots and use his might to bring his former comrades to justice. {{storylink|#Fast Action Battlers|Photon Missile Jetfire}}

===Titan Magazines===

Jetfire harkens from a time when warriors stood by a code of honour. He was first sent to Earth by the Fallen, and believed he was working in the best interests of Cybertron, and so was a ''little'' upset to find the Fallen was actually an evil bastard. After seeing the Fallen imprison the [[Dynasty of Primes|other Primes]], Jetfire went into hiding. In [[1998]], he took advantage of the SR-71 being retired to hole up in the National Air and Space Museum as a permanent resident.

At some point, he found himself at odds with the Decepticons' credo and switched sides. ''When'' is not clear. {{storylink|Transformers Comic issue 2.8|Jetfire profile}}

===''Unite for the Universe'' manga===
Following his death, Jetfire's remains were attached to Optimus Prime once more as part of [[Project Unite|Project: Unite]], a joint [[NEST]]/Autobot project that would give Optimus Prime permanent access to the jet-powered form he'd used in Egypt. Prime first utilized the parts in battle with a group of Decepticons in the [[Hida Mountains]], {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 1|The Secret of Project: Unite}} then used them to fly to [[Greece]] where the Autobots had discovered [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]'s base. {{storylink|Unite for the Universe issue 2|On the Road of Destruction}} After foiling an attempt by Starscream to use Project: Unite for himself, Prime had the project canceled. {{storylink|The Strongest Weapon}}

==Games==
===''Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen'' - The Game===
[[File:Jetfire-ROTFvideogame.jpg|right|thumb|300px|"We'll settle this the old navy way: first guy to die, loses!"]]
{{voiceactor|[[Clive Revill]] (English)|[[Philippe Dumond]] (French)}}

{{note|On [[August 27]], [[2009]], Jetfire was one of a handful of downloadable characters in a DLC pack for XBox 360 and Sony Playstation 3, but not for PC ([[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox_360/PS3/PC)#Cut_and_unused_content|kinda]]). He could be used in multiplayer games only.}}

====Xbox 360/Sony PS3/PC====
=====Autobot campaign=====
Jetfire had been dormant for years in the Smithsonian Museum, but that changed after [[Sam Witwicky]] got a tip from [[Seymour Simmons|Agent Simmons]] about his location, and that he would know where the [[Tomb of the Primes|Tomb of the Twelve]] was. Sam woke Jetfire up, and got the sort-of-cryptic clue "When dawn alights the Dagger's tip, Three Kings will reveal the Doorway". After that, Jetfire transported Sam to [[Cairo]] via [[space bridge]] to look for the Tomb, and the Autobots followed.

In Cairo, Jetfire assisted [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] in battle against [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]. The battle went in the Autobots' favor, but Megatron was able to stab Jetfire through the back, mortally wounding him. Afterwards, a dying Jetfire asked Prime to take his parts, and shortly after, Optimus was wearing a new combat suit with winged rocket thrusters. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)}}

=====Decepticon campaign=====
Starscream was sent to destroy the Smithsonian Museum, where Jetfire laid dormant. He succeeded, but it was too late: both Jetfire and Sam Witwicky had already left for Cairo through a space bridge.

In Cairo, Jetfire battled Megatron alongside [[Bumblebee (Movie)/games|Bumblebee]]. He was killed. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)}}

====Wii/PS2====
{{voiceactor|[[Clive Revill]] (English)}}
{{quote|The universe is larger than your understanding of it. My motivations are larger than those of your petty war.|Jetfire finds the label "Decepticon" reductive|[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Wii/PS2)|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen game]]}}
Jetfire was hiding in a museum at one point, until [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] found and captured him with some [[drone]]s. Starscream reported to [[The Fallen]] that he had found Jetfire.

Jetfire was kept in the [[Decepticon]] base. After the Decepticons captured [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]], Jetfire went to rescue him. Bumblebee thought he was an enemy, but Jetfire explained to Bumblebee that he defected to the [[Autobot]]s at one point in the war and about the Fallen's plans. Later he showed Bumblebee some escape pods, and they witnessed the battle with [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]] and [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]. Jetfire put Prime in one of the escape pods, and he left to spy on Megatron and Starscream.

After the two Decepticons got an artifact, Jetfire chased after them but Megatron shot at him. Jetfire followed them by tracking Energon radiation. Meanwhile, Starscream found Optimus and attempted to kill him, but Jetfire took the shot that was meant for Optimus. Later he combined with Optimus Prime. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Wii/PS2)|Revenge of the Fallen (Wii/PS2)}}

====PSP====
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===''Transformers Autobots/Decepticons''===
In Autobots, Jetfire appears after you beat [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]]. The seeker doesn't appear again until after [[you]] beat Megatron. He doesn't get turned into a corpse backpack, and is standing silently next to [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]].
{{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen: Autobots/Decepticons|Revenge of the Fallen: Autobots/Decepticons}}

===''Revenge of the Fallen'' (mobile game)===
Jetfire was an old friend of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|Optimus Prime]]'s who defected from the Decepticons when [[The Fallen]] changed the Decepticon cause from rebellion to conquest. He ended up on [[Earth]] in [[Egypt]], where he was soundly defeated by [[Devastator (ROTF)|Devastator]]. Before he fell unconscious, he told [[Bumblebee (Movie)|Bumblebee]] that Optimus should salvage his parts in order to gain the power needed to defeat [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]]. While he was unconscious, Optimus did just that, terminating Jetfire's life. {{storylink|Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Glu)|Revenge of the Fallen (Glu)}}

==Toys==
===''Revenge of the Fallen''===
====Legends Class toys====
[[File:ROTF Jetfire 2009 Legends.JPG|300px|thumb|"Many of you are wondering what's wrong with my pants. Well they started running short on materials right before they got to the knees. So don't give me any shit."]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1|'''Jetfire''' (Legends Class, [[2009]])}}</ul>
:*''Japanese ID number:'' '''EZ-05'''
{{toydesigner|[[Andrew Scribner]] (deco artist)}}
[[File:ROTF Legends Prime Jetfire combo.jpg|thumb|left|"Have [[Optimus Prime (Movie)|they]] no respect for the dead?!"]]
:[[Size class|Legends]] class ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (toyline)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'' Jetfire transforms from a tiny {{w|Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird|SR-71 Blackbird}} spy plane to a sort of hunchback robot. In a bit of character design accuracy, his left arm has a cane. For some reason, his pair of hands had a 1.5mm compatible holes.

:The upper fuselage of the plane mode has a thin rectangular peg to slot into the back of [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Revenge of The Fallen|Legends class Optimus Prime]] to recreate the powered up mode at the end of the movie. There are no instructions on the packaging making mention of this, but they're hardly needed, as it's as simple as plugging him on and folding his wings backwards.

:A <s>possible variant</s> nearly identical knockoff of the toy has surfaced on several Chinese online shops, so buyers beware! Differences include the red deco on his eyes has changed into a simple dot, the red striping is slightly thicker and more opaque, the scratched Decepticon insignia had smaller scratches and eyes, and the leg joints are the same black plastic color utilized for the Kmart exclusive War for the Skies 4-pack below. It doesn't help that the copyright underneath his upper legs from the genuine mold is retained on this knockoff.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Decepticon/LegJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on Legends Jetfire at TFU.info]''

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[[File:KMartROTFJetfire.jpg|thumb|300px|"Be careful, man! Ever since D-Day, 1944, this plate in my head has been sensitive."]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''War for the Skies''' (Legends Class multipack, 2009)}}</ul>
:Available only as part of the [[Kmart]]-[[exclusive]] "War for the Skies" Legends battlepack, this release of Legends class Jetfire is a grey and black [[redeco]] - essentially inverting the colors of the regular toy, give or take a few paint operations.

:He comes with the Legends-class figures [[Blades (ROTF)|Autobot Blades]], [[Thundercracker (Movie)|Thundercracker]] and [[Spinister (ROTF)|Spinister]].

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Autobot/KMJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on War for the Skies Jetfire at TFU.info]''
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====Voyager Class toys====
[[File:ROTF_Voyager_JetPowerOptimusPrime_toy.jpg|upright=2.66|thumb|Use your friends wisely.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Jet Power Optimus Prime''' (Voyager Class, [[2010]])}}</ul>
:*''Japanese ID number:'' '''UA-01'''
:*''Accessories:'' 2 rifle/smokestack-fuel tank assemblies, 2 missiles, [[Sword]], Jetfire armour parts
:Jetfire appears in this set as snap-on armour parts for a redeco of Voyager-Class [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#VoyagerJetPower|Optimus Prime]]. Obviously, the armour fits onto Optimus Prime's robot mode to form the Jet Power Optimus combination, but when removed, can be assembled into a gun platform, or can be fitted to Optimus' vehicle mode as some sort of rocket booster, or individually display it as long you're fine with Jetfire's "alt-mode" being a weird piece of flying chunk. Optimus Prime himself has been redecoed similarly to Buster Optimus Prime, in that he has an extensive, [[Show-accuracy|movie-accurate]] paint scheme.
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====Leader Class toys====
[[File:Jetfire ROTF leader toy.jpg|thumb|400px|"Of course I'm all right! Why, what have you heard??"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Jetfire''' (Leader Class, 2009)}}</ul>
:*''Japanese ID number:'' '''RA-13'''
:*''Accessories:'' Front landing gear/walking stick, rotary cannon missile launcher, projectile, back panel/cannon
{{toydesigner|[[Takashi Kunihiro]] (TakaraTomy), [[Masakatsu Saito]] (concept artist)}}

:Jetfire transforms into an {{w|Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird|SR-71 Blackbird}} spy plane, quite possibly the largest alternate mode yet for the [[size class|Leader class]] price point. Unfortunately, the vehicle mode he has chosen means that he also has one of the largest amounts of underside robot [[kibble]] ''ever'', with his bulky robot mode parts being blatantly visible underneath his sleek jet mode parts.

:For accessories, he comes with a spring-loaded, [[missile]]-launching rotary cannon which can be mounted underneath his cockpit or onto his left forearm, and his front landing gear becomes a walking stick that he can hold with his jointed hands.

:Jetfire features several electronic lights and sounds; in jet mode, pushing the button on his back activates a "swooshing" noise. Pressing the tab on Jetfire's chest turns on the lights in his chest and head, and activates his moving [[Mech Alive]] gears and head, accompanied by Jetfire announcing: "Jetfire's mah name!". The European version has the clip abbreviated to "Jetfire" (humorously, due to the way that the original clip is trimmed, the end of the word is cut off, so it sounds like "Jetfi-"). Unlike previous ROTF Leader Class toys, this is not the version sold in the UK. In contrast to the film, where the character speaks with a Yorkshire accent, the toy is positively Scottish.

:Despite the back of the package showing two lights within Jetfire's torso, he only has one light, in his left side, while the other socket that would normally house the light is replaced with a button that emits Jetfire's transformation noise when the toy is transformed.

:Amusingly, the two jet kibble panels above his head like to pop off their [[ball joint]] sockets during transformation. It makes him a little more screen accurate, after all...

:The remarkably small text written under the cockpit windows reads, "''[[Brawley (ROTF)|LT. COL. BRAWLEY]] WARNING THIS AIRCRAFT CONTAINS A SEAT CONTAINING AN EXPLOSIVE CHARGE SEE MAINTENANCE MANUAL BEFORE REMOVING''."

[[File:ROTF_Leader_Jetfire_PowerUpPrime_toy.jpg|thumb|left|200px|Jetfire died to become a power mushroom. There have been worse fates.]]
:As seen in the movie, he can combine with [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Revenge of The Fallen|Leader Class Optimus Prime]] to form Prime's powered-up mode, albeit at the cost of Optimus Prime's leg articulation. During combination, the (difficult to open) panel on Jetfire's back is removed, revealing on his rear (beside the "swooshing noise" button) a new button that triggers a mechanical stomp sound. The panel itself is transformed and combined with his walking stick to form a skinny-barreled, less slender, and somewhat-inaccurate version of the cannon that Optimus wielded in his combined form.

:A few inaccuracies are present in the combination instructions: for instance, while the instructions say to position the cockpit halves behind Prime's shoulders, they actually are meant to sit on top of them (as seen to the left), and feature small grooves into which the small silver triangular prongs lock. In addition, while Optimus' rear cab sections are shown as being folded out like rectangular wings in the instructions, it appears they are intended to sit flat against the sides of the portion of Jetfire that connects to Prime's back. Jetfire has two tabs that sit directly above the panels when folded back which better support the weight of Jetfire. Along with back panels, the struts on which Jetfire's engines are mounted on also pivot back to allow exactly enough space for the folded cab panels to fit.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Autobot/MovieJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on Leader Jetfire at TFU.info]''

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[[File:ROTF-JetpowerOptimusPrime2Pack-Jetfiretoy.jpg|thumb|300px|"My eyes are ceramic. Caught a bazooka round at Little Big Horn. Or was it Okinawa? The one without the Indians."]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Jetpower Optimus Prime''' (Leader Class 2-pack, 2009)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories:'' Front landing gear/walking stick, rotary cannon missile launcher, projectile, back panel/cannon
[[File:ROTF-JetpowerOptimusPrime2Pack-CombinedMode.jpg|thumb|left|200px|When Optimus plays Black Ops, he doesn't just call in the Blackbird. He ''equips'' the Blackbird.]]
:This [[TakaraTomy]] Asian market [[exclusive]] Leader class two pack consists of a redecoed Jetfire and an altered [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#JetfireBuster|Buster Optimus Prime]]. Jetfire has a more subtle, more [[show-accuracy|movie-accurate]] colour scheme, replacing his white and gunmetal blue parts with gunmetal brown. Buster Optimus Prime has the [[Mouthplate|faceplate]]d head of the first release of ''Revenge of the Fallen'' Leader Class Optimus Prime instead of the new head sculpted for Buster Optimus Prime, and prop vehicle-accurate blue pin striping instead of CGI-accurate white.

:In mid 2010, this set was released in Australia. In early 2011, it was released in the Philippines. In late 2011, [[#DOTMJetfireBuster|this set]] was [[Rebranding|re-released]] in ''[[Transformers: Dark of the Moon (toyline)|Dark of the Moon]]'' packaging.
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====''Fast Action Battlers''====
[[File:Jetfire ROTF FAB toy.jpg|thumb|300px|NOBODY MOVE... I dropped me cane...]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Photon Missile Jetfire''' (Fast Action Battler, 2009)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories:'' "Photon Missile" projectile
:[[Fast Action Battlers]] Jetfire is a simplified, roughly Deluxe-sized toy of Jetfire. In vehicle mode, he transforms into a sort of cute, super-deformed SR-71 Blackbird jet. As with most ''Transformers'' toy jets, he has a fair bit of undercarriage junk from his robot mode, though not to the extent of the Leader class toy. In robot mode he has a reasonably accurate depiction of Jetfire's design, though his right arm ends in a spring-loaded projectile launcher shaped like a rotary cannon.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Autobot/FABJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on Photon Missile Jetfire at TFU.info]''
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===''Mega Power Bots''===
[[File:ROTF-toy MegaPowerBots JetpowerOptimus.jpg|upright=0.85|thumb|Jetfire is just a business suit at this point.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Jetpower Optimus Prime''' (Mega Power Bot, 2009)}}</ul>
:Mega [[Power Bots]] Jetpower Optimus Prime represents the Autobot leader in his combined form with Jetfire. Designed for younger children, he is a large, bulky, non-transforming figure with limited articulation. Pressing the Autobot insignias on his chest and arm plays various sound effects and cause blue lights to flash in his head and gun.

:As a Mega Power Bot, Optimus features what his package claims to be a transformation: his wings can flip up to become his "flight mode".
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====''Robot Replicas''====
[[File:ROTF Robot Replica Jetfire.jpg|thumb|150px|With genuine simulated robo-bursitis!]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Jetfire''' (Robot Replica, 2009)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories:'' Cane
:[[Robot Replicas]] Jetfire is a non-transformable, intended-to-be-accurate representation of his CGI model from the film. He is highly posable, and not much else. Due to his unusually large head and shortened neck, he appears based on the promotional art seen at the very top of this page, whose head and neck are severely foreshortened.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Autobot/RRJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on Robot Replica Jetfire at TFU.info]''
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===''Transformers'' (2010)===
[[File:TF-2010-VotF-Legends-Class-Jetfire.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"Morale around here has been shot to hell! Just look at it out there! Quiet. Not hardly a man moving! Roy? ROY! I went to school with that man. Just not the same. Been ignoring me all day."]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''The Victory of The Fallen''' (Legends 5-pack, 2010)}}</ul>
{{toydesigner|[[Andrew Scribner]] (deco artist)}}
:Jetfire is a redeco of his Legends-class toy with light blue arms, hips, and knees. He comes bundled in a Kmart-[[exclusive]] pack with redecos of Legends Class The Fallen, Optimus Prime, Megatron, and Starscream.
[[File:TF-2010-VotF-Legends-Jetpower-Optimus.jpg|thumb|left]]
:To date, this is the only Hasbro release of this figure that acknowledges the combining feature between Jetfire and Optimus Prime.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2010/Autobot/KMLegJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on Victory of The Fallen Jetfire at TFU.info]''
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<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Jetfire''' (EZ Collection, 2010)}}</ul>
:Released as part of the [[EZ Collection#Autobot Alliance|5th Volume]] of the ''EZ Collection'' line, this Jetfire is a ''very'' slight redeco of the Legends Class figure, featuring a darker shade on the unpaintable parts, so as to be used with the similarly-repainted Legends Optimus Prime figure to form the Optimus' powered up combination.
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===''EZ Collection Real''===
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Jetfire (Real Color Ver)''', ([[2011]])}}</ul>
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Jetfire (Metallic Color Ver.)''' ([[2011]])}}</ul>
:Released as part of the blindpacked EZ Collection Real by TakaraTomy's "TakaraTomy A.R.T.S", this Jetfire is a redeco of the first Legends Class figure. Like his EZ Collection Real brethren, Jetfire comes with two different variants: The "Real Color" features a flat shade on the plastic colors and paint, while the "Metallic Color" features metallic paint and plastic instead.
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===''Dark of the Moon''===
[[File:TakaraTomy-Jetpower-Optimus-Prime-2-pack.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Jetpower Optimus Prime''' (Leader Class 2-pack, [[2011]])}}</ul>
:*''Accessories:'' Front landing gear/walking stick, rotary cannon missile launcher, projectile, back panel/cannon
:A re-release of the [[#JetfireBuster|Jetpower Optimus Prime two-pack]], this time in ''Dark of the Moon''-branded packaging. Both toys are unchanged.
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===''Movie The Best''===
[[File:TF-Movie-the-Best-MB-16-Jetfire.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Jetfire''' (Leader Class, [[2018]]-[[March 24|03-24]])}}</ul>
:*''ID Number'': '''MB-16'''
:*''Accessories'' Front landing gear/walking stick, rotary cannon missile launcher, projectile, back panel/cannon
:''Movie The Best'' Jetfire is a redeco of the Leader Class figure, featuring plastic color and deco changes to make him screen-accurate. He also features new voices for his voicebox, recorded by [[Kenji Nomura]] himself.
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===''Studio Series''===
[[File:Studio-Series-35-MV2-Leader-Jetfire.jpg|upright=2.2|thumb|Once a power 'shroom, always a power 'shroom.]]
[[File:Jet Optimus SS.jpg|thumb|upright=1.66|”I’ve been so patient!!!”]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Jetfire''' (Leader Class, [[2019]])}}</ul>
:*''Movie'': '''''Revenge of the Fallen'''''
:*''Hasbro ID number'': '''35'''
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''SS-26'''
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[March 23]], 2019
:*''Accessories'': Cane, battle axe, Optimus abdominal replacement piece, 2 cannon barrel halves, "[[Operation: Firestorm|Pyramid Desert Battle]]" backdrop (1st version)
{{toydesigner|[[Yūya Ōnishi]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:Released to commemorate the 10th anniversary of ''[[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (film)|Revenge of the Fallen]]'', ''[[Studio Series]]'' Jetfire is a Leader-sized mold accurate to his appearance in ''Revenge of the Fallen'', transforming into a licensed SR-71 Blackbird. He comes with his cane and battle axe, along with a cardboard backdrop display depicting [[Operation: Firestorm]]. The cane doubles as his front landing gear. The axe can store on tabs on his robot back wing kibble, and underneath the jet mode.

:He can combine with [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS32|the second ''Studio Series'' Optimus Prime figure]] to form "Jetwing Optimus Prime"... although ''that'' Optimus figure is based on the character's appearance in the original ''Transformers'' film. What's more, Jetfire comes with a duplicate abdominal piece for that same Optimus figure, with a metallic red deco. Presumably, it's meant to be swapped onto [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#SS44|Optimus' ''Dark of the Moon''-based Leader Class figure,]] allowing him to combine, but it's color-matched to [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/toys#Studio Series|Optimus' first release,]] an actually '' Revenge of the Fallen''-based figure that... lacks the necessary tooling to combine with Jetfire. D'oh!

:Unlike the original Leader-class toy, Jetfire [[Partformer|splits into separate components]] to combine with Optimus, just like in the movie! Five of these components form the boots, shoulder pads, and wings for Jetwing Optimus Prime, while Jetfire's upper body forms a big freakin' gun! Two gunmetal pieces used to form the barrel of this cannon are stored on the underside of the wings and plug into the slots where the front of the jet is disconnected from. However, as this gun is roughly a third of Jetfire's mass, it is too heavy for Prime to lift up unassisted. Fortunately, there is a 3 mm port under Jetfire's head, allowing a figure stand (not included) to support the weight of the gun. While the Hasbro release's instructions do not tell you how to form the gun, the [http://web.archive.org/web/20201112010824/https://tf.takaratomy.co.jp/wpadmin/wp-content/themes/tf/img/products/tf_ss/item_tf_ss-26_manual.pdf TakaraTomy instructions] show how. The latter's instructions also mention one other feature not shown in Hasbro's instructions: the abdominal replacement piece can be stored in a cavity right behind Jetfire's chest. It should also be noted that the small flip-out tabs on Prime's grill are used to fasten the jet engines to his back securely; this is pointed out but somewhat unclear in the instructions of both versions. Care must be taken when combining him with Optimus, as it can place much stress on the hinges that Prime’s grills are connected to.

:In combined mode, the cane folds up and attaches to the large tab on Optimus' left arm, resembling the smaller on-screen gun. The axe can store on the wings/backpack, utilizing the tab used by the gray gun barrel pieces.

:A rather severe issue was found on some copies of Jetfire: the pinned hinge connecting the central black strut to Jetfire's chest can break, permanently separating the torso from the rest of the body.

:Jetfire's box is noticeably thicker than that of other Studio leaders. The CG renders on the sides of the packaging still use the concept art version of the character, while the one used on the front has a new render with the correct design. The Hasbro instructions amusingly mislabel Jetfire as a Voyager class figure.

:Parts of Jetfire's fuselage were reused on ''[[Transformers Collaborative|Collaborative]]'' [[Ultimate X-Spanse]].
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* '''''Revenge of the Fallen'' 15th Anniversary Autobot Multipack''' (Multi-pack, [[2024]])
:*''Movie'': '''''Revenge of the Fallen'''''
:*''Hasbro ID number'': '''35'''
:*''Accessories'': Cane/front landing gear, battle axe, 2 cannon barrel halves, "Race to Protect Earth" backdrop
{{toydesigner|[[Yūya Ōnishi]] (TakaraTomy)}}

:"''Revenge of the Fallen'' 15th Anniversary" Jetfire is a re-release of the 2019 Jetfire figure, featuring very little, if any deco differences. This release of Jetfire omits the alternate Optimus Prime abdominal piece due to a re-release of [[Optimus_Prime_(Movie)/toys#SSROTF15th|Optimus]] also coming in this multi-pack. As to be expected, the two can still combine to form Optimus' super mode from ''Revenge of the Fallen'''s climax.

:Alongside the aforementioned Optimus, this version of Jetfire comes in an [[Amazon_(website)|Amazon]] exclusive pack alongside ''Studio Series'' [[Chromia (ROTF)#SSROTF15th|Chromia]], [[Arcee (Movie)#SSROTF15th|Arcee]], and [[Elita-One (Movie)#SSROTF15th|Elita-1]], released in commemoration of ''Revenge of the Fallen'''s 15th anniversary. The set also includes a unique reversible backdrop with the first version of the "Pyramid Desert Battle" scene on one side and the other side featuring the "Shanghai Pursuit" scene.
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==Merchandise==
===3D Battle-Card Game===
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Jetfire''' (3D Battle Card, [[2007]])}}</ul>
[[File:Jetfire movie cardgame.jpg|right|thumb|It's growing tiresome to see this deco being slapped on a toy and declared "Jetfire". [[Storm Jet (RID)|Storm Jet]] was a new character and he was cool.]]
: A 38-point "Uncommon" piece from the [[3D Battle-Card Game]], Jetfire is composed of punch-out parts from two different cards that can be reconfigured to make a robot or a fighter jet. He uses the same parts layout as Movie [[Dreadwing (Movie)|Dreadwing]], [[Starscream (Movie)|Starscream]] and [[Thundercracker (Movie)|Thundercracker]], and "Energon Wars" [[Starscream (G1)/merchandise#3D Battle-Card Game|Classic Starscream]], [[Skywarp (G1)/toys#3D Battle-Card Game|Skywarp]] and [[Ramjet (G1)/toys#3D Battle-Card Game|Ramjet]].

:While the prototypes shown on the 3D Battle Card site, as in the image seen to the right, resemble the [[The Transformers (toyline)|original toyline]]'s [[Jetfire (G1)|Jetfire]] toy, both the preview pack and production run versions are based more on the [[The Transformers (cartoon)|original cartoon]] Skyfire/''[[Transformers: Classics|Classics]]'' Jetfire body with live-action movie stylization.
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===Burger King===
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Ultimate Prime''' (2009)}}</ul>
[[File:ROTFMerchandise-BurgerKingOptimus.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|right]]
: This small statuette of Optimus comes with a Blackbird plane representing Jetfire's alternate mode. The plane splits in two, and the two parts can be clipped onto Optimus to replicate the climax to Revenge of the Fallen. The front section of the plane has a black Optimus face which sits in front of Optimus' own face.

::*''[http://www.tfu.info/2009/Autobot/BKJetfire/jetfire.htm More information on Burger King Jetfire at TFU.info]''
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===Basic Fun===
[[File:TF-ROTF-Basic-Fun-Jetpower-Optimus-Prime-Keychain.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|"...I think I'm wearing your pants."]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Articulated keychain''' (2009)}}</ul>
:Produced by [[Basic Fun]], this keychain is a likeness of Power Up Optimus Prime's robot mode with articulated arms, legs, head, waist, and a keyring sticking out of his ass.
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===''Robot Heroes''===
[[File:Robotheroesmegatronfallenprimejetfireironhide.jpg|300px|thumb|right|Kinda morbid, really.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Battle of the Fallen''' (Multi-pack, 2009)}}</ul>
{{toydesigner|[[Marcelo Matere]] (concept artist)}}

:This ''[[Robot Heroes (toyline)|Robot Heroes]]'' box set of figures comes with [[The Fallen/toys#Robot Heroes|The Fallen]], [[Megatron (Movie)/merchandise#RHBattleFallen|Megatron]] in tank mode, [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#RHBattleFallen|Jetpower Optimus Prime]], and [[Ironhide (Movie)/toys#RHBattleFallen|Ironhide]] in truck mode.
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===RPMs - ''Robot Powered Machines''===
[[File:ROTF-toy_RPM_Jetfire.jpg|thumb|right|300px|Jetfire forgot to tell Hasbro he's claustrophobic.]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Jetfire''' (R.P.M. Mini-Vehicle, 2010)}}</ul>
:*''Series:'' '''Metal Heroes'''
:*''Number:'' '''02 of 08'''
:''[[Robot Powered Machines]]'' Jetfire is a die-cast Blackbird with wheels. It can stand up to reveal a sculpted image of Jetfire's robot mode, and the wings are jointed so that it fits into the package better. The wheels feature through-axle construction, allowing the toy to roll well on flat surfaces.

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[[File:ROTFRPMBattleSeries2JetfireRetail.jpg|thumb|250px|"Put Robinowitz in a plane. Have him fly in circles until we return."]]
[[File:ROTFRPMBattleSeries2JetfireCardback.jpg|thumb|250px|"Looks like aircraft at 12 o'clock." "Really? 12 o'clock? Well, that gives us about... 25 minutes. Think I'll step out for a burger."]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Jetfire VS Megatron''' (two-pack, 2010)}}</ul>
:*''Series:'' '''Battle Series 2'''
:*''Number:'' '''02 of 08'''

:This two-pack contains a metallic purple [[redeco]] of ''RPM'' [[Megatron (Movie)|Megatron]] and... a barely-changed Jetfire. It lacks some red detailing, and changes the tail Autobot symbol to silver.

:Unusually, the back of the packaging features a significantly different deco for the toy, with brighter silver and more red. Though this particular redeco was seen at [[Toy Fair 2010]], it was never released anywhere.

:As part of the final wave of RPMs, Battle Series 2 did not get released through normal retail outlets in the United States, instead showing up for sale first in Canada, Asia and Europe. Later, though, it would show up in the US though [[Toys"R"Us|Toys"R"Us Express]] mall stores and discount chains like Ross and TJ Maxx.
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===''Speed Stars''===
[[File:SpeedStars_MetalHeroes_Jetfire.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"Then we'll fly them over here! Their families too! We'll teach them to skate. Do I have to think of everything?"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Jetfire''' (Mini-Vehicle, 2010)}}</ul>
:*''Series:'' '''Metal Heroes'''
:*''Number:'' '''02 of 08'''

:Jetfire was also made available in ''[[Speed Stars]]'', the follow-up to ''Robot Powered Machines''. This version has a different color layout from the RPM release, and is less detailed in its [[paint operation]]s.

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[[File:SpeedStars_BattleSeries_JetfireVSMegatron.jpg|thumb|right|300px|"[[Megatron (Movie)|You]] risked the lives of some damn fine civilizations! That's MY job!!"]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Jetfire VS Megatron''' (two-pack, 2010)}}</ul>
:*''Series:'' '''Battle Series 2'''
:*''Number:'' '''02 of 08'''

:Battle Series 2 was released normally in the United States under the ''Speed Stars'' banner, though with various changes. Jetfire's colors are similar to his original RPM toy.

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===Prime 1 Studio===
[[File:Prime 1 Studio Museum Optimus Prime Jetpower.jpg|upright=1.11|thumb]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1d1|'''Jetpower Optimus Prime''' (2018)}}</ul>
:*''Movie:'' '''''Revenge of the Fallen'''''
:*''ID number:'' '''MMTFM-21''' / '''21EX''' (exclusive)
**''Accessories'': Base, alternate head, The Fallen's spark (exclusive), The Fallen's Staff (exclusive)

:[[Prime 1 Studio]] ''Museum Masterline'' Jetpower Optimus Prime is a ''massive'' statue perfectly recreating [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#P1SJetpower|Optimus Prime]]'s combined form with Jetfire from the end of ''Revenge of the Fallen''.

:He features LED lights on his eyes, cannon, afterburners and base, and comes with a masked and a maskless head. The exclusive version also comes with [[The Fallen/toys#Prime 1 Studio|The Fallen's]] [[spark]] and [[Void Scepter|Command Staff]].

:The standard version is limited to 1200 pieces while the exclusive version is limited to 500 pieces.

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===Threezero===
[[File:threezero_DLX_TF_JetpowerOP_wlogo_05.jpg|thumb|upright=1.5]]
<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-a1|'''Jetfire''' (DLX Scale, 2021)}}</ul>
:*''Accessories:'' Cannon, machine gun, alternate hands, head parts for DLX Optimus Prime

:[[Threezero]] DLX Jetfire can combine with ''Revenge of the Fallen'' DLX [[Optimus Prime (Movie)/merchandise#ThreezeroROTF|Optimus Prime]] to form "Jetpower Optimus Prime".
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==Notes==
* While all the fictions agree that Jetfire was a Decepticon Seeker who defected and has been stuck on Earth for a long time, none agree on when and why he came to Earth, when and why he defected, or how long he snoozed. Random, confused mythos divergence? Now ''that's'' '80s nostalgia!
* Jetfire's head was redesigned so [[Industrial Light & Magic]] could animate a smirk on the character. This early, mouthless head was still used for the toy designs and promotional art though.<ref>[http://vfxworld.com/?atype=articles&id=4003 Scott Farrar's VFXWorld interview]</ref>
* Jetfire's ancient Cybertronian vehicle mode as seen in [[IDW Publishing]]'s [[Defiance issue 4|''Defiance'' #4]] bears more than a passing similarity to the starship ''[[Axalon (BW)|Axalon]]'' from ''[[Beast Wars: Transformers (franchise)|Beast Wars]]''.
* Jetfire was briefly active during the {{W|Cuban Missile Crisis}}, according to one of his comments in the [[Transformers: Revenge of the Fallen (Xbox 360/PS3/PC)|''Revenge of the Fallen'' video game]]. This might explain his current alternate mode in the movie.
* According to an extended bio unlocked on the [[Hunt for the Decepticons]] website by a code on "The Victory of The Fallen" toy's box, Jetfire's body is filled with mysterious, powerful technology lost to the Autobots for centuries, which explains why it gave Optimus the boost he needed to defeat The Fallen.
* Jetfire's model was tweaked and used for one of the elderly transformers in ''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|The Last Knight]]'', referred to as "[[Lieutenant]]" in the credits.
* Jetfire's combination with Optimus Prime is likely a callback to [[Jetfire (Armada)|the ''Armada'' version of the character]], and his ability to combine with [[Optimus Prime (Armada)|the Autobot leader]], except this time he's dead and forms armor with a jetpack for Prime, instead of alive and just a pair of trousers with a chestplate.

===Foreign names===
*''Japanese:'' '''Jetfire''' (ジェットファイアー ''Jettofaiā'')
*''Mandarin:'' '''Tiān Huǒ''' (天火, "Sky Fire")
*''Hungarian:'' '''Röptűz''' ("Flyfire")

==References==
{{Reflist}}

==External links==
* [http://www.wizards.com/transformers/ 3D Battle Card Game at Wizards of the Coast]
* [http://www.tfu.info/2009/Autobot/MovieJetfire/jetfire.htm Jetfire at TFU.info]

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Mario C. CastaÃ±eda Partida

2026-01-09T06:02:09Z

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[[File:Mario Castaneda.jpg|280px|thumb]]
'''Mario C. Castañeda Partida''' (born [[June 29]], [[1962]]) is a Mexican voice actor.

He is the regular voice of Bruce Willis, Jim Carrey, Mark Ruffalo and Tom Hanks. His voice roles also include MacGyver, Goku from ''Dragon Ball'', Captain Planet, [[Iron Man]] and Zapp Brannigan in ''Futurama''.

Castañeda was married to fellow voice actor [[Rommy Mendoza]] and they had a son, [[Arturo Castañeda]].

==Voice roles==
===''[[Transformers (film)|''Transformers'' (2007)]]''===
*[[Glen Whitmann]]

===''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|''Transformers: The Last Knight]]''===
*[[Guardian Knight]]

===''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy]]''===
*[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]]

==Producer==
*''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' (Executive Producer of the Latin-American Spanish dub, season 2)
*''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'' (Executive Producer of the Latin-American Spanish dub)

==Notes==
*He originally confirmed on his Facebook account that he would retire from voice acting in [[2012]], but [[Eduardo Garza]] later confirmed otherwise.

==External links==
*{{w|Mario Castañeda|Mario Castañeda on Wikipedia}}
*[[wikia:doblaje:Mario Castañeda|Mario Castañeda on Doblaje Wiki]]

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Mario C. CastaÃ±eda Partida

2026-01-09T05:58:29Z

Vich0 08:

[[File:Ejemplo.jpg]]{{disambig3|Mario}}

[[File:Mario Castaneda.jpg|280px|Hola, soy Goku]]
'''Mario C. Castañeda Partida''' (born [[June 29]], [[1962]]) is a Mexican voice actor.

He is the regular voice of Bruce Willis, Jim Carrey, Mark Ruffalo and Tom Hanks. His voice roles also include MacGyver, Goku from ''Dragon Ball'', Captain Planet, [[Iron Man]] and Zapp Brannigan in ''Futurama''.

Castañeda was married to fellow voice actor [[Rommy Mendoza]] and they had a son, [[Arturo Castañeda]].

==Voice roles==
===''[[Transformers (film)|''Transformers'' (2007)]]''===
*[[Glen Whitmann]]

===''[[Transformers: The Last Knight (film)|''Transformers: The Last Knight]]''===
*[[Guardian Knight]]

===''[[Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy (cartoon)|Transformers: War for Cybertron Trilogy]]''===
*[[Dinobot (BW)|Dinobot]]

==Producer==
*''[[Transformers: Prime (cartoon)|Transformers: Prime]]'' (Executive Producer of the Latin-American Spanish dub, season 2)
*''[[Transformers: Rescue Bots (cartoon)|Transformers: Rescue Bots]]'' (Executive Producer of the Latin-American Spanish dub)

==Notes==
*He originally confirmed on his Facebook account that he would retire from voice acting in [[2012]], but [[Eduardo Garza]] later confirmed otherwise.

==External links==
*{{w|Mario Castañeda|Mario Castañeda on Wikipedia}}
*[[wikia:doblaje:Mario Castañeda|Mario Castañeda on Doblaje Wiki]]

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