Blaster (G1)/Generation 1 cartoon continuity

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These two just can't agree on the same music

In the Generation 1 cartoon continuity, Blaster is one happenin' dude! Looking for more information? Then keep your dial tuned to this station! Yow!

The Transformers cartoon

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Voice actor: Buster Jones (English), Keiichi Nanba (Japanese){{#if: Chen Chun (Chinese), Leonardo Araujo (American Spanish), Thomas Rau (German), Werner Abrolat (German, "Auto-Bop"), Holger Schwiers (German, "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1–5"), Peter Musäus (German, "Forever Is a Long Time Coming"), Gernot Duda (German, "The Big Broadcast of 2006"), Reinhard Brock (German, "Call of the Primitives"), Willy Schäfer (German, The Movie, Generation 2), Christoph Jablonka (German, Generation 2 "Kremzeek!"), Georges Atlas (European French), Unknown (European French, "Five Faces of Darkness" episodes), Pierre Garin (European French, "Blaster Blues" & "Make Tracks"), Henry Djanik (European French, "The Key to Vector Sigma" episodes), François Leccia (European French, "Quest for Survival"), Jean Claudio (European French, "Carnage in C-Minor"), Unknown actors (European French, "Cosmic Rust", "Surprise Party" & "Madman's Paradise"), Bruno Magne (European French, "Only Human"), José Luccioni (French, The Movie), Carlos Seidl (Portuguese), Orlando Drummond (Portuguese, "Make Tracks" & "Quest for Survival"), Francisco José (Portuguese, "The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1"), Nelson Batista (Portuguese, "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5"), Júlio Chaves (Portuguese, "Forever Is a Long Time Coming"), Luiz Feier Motta (Portuguese, "The Movie" VHS dub), Luiz Brandão (Portuguese, "The Movie" Globo dub), Gyula Szersén (Hungarian, "The Movie" 1st dub (some lines)), Jang Kwang (Korean, The Movie), Gianandrea Muià (Italian, second dub of season 3), Mikhail Chernyak (Russian)|, Chen Chun (Chinese), Leonardo Araujo (American Spanish), Thomas Rau (German), Werner Abrolat (German, "Auto-Bop"), Holger Schwiers (German, "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1–5"), Peter Musäus (German, "Forever Is a Long Time Coming"), Gernot Duda (German, "The Big Broadcast of 2006"), Reinhard Brock (German, "Call of the Primitives"), Willy Schäfer (German, The Movie, Generation 2), Christoph Jablonka (German, Generation 2 "Kremzeek!"), Georges Atlas (European French), Unknown (European French, "Five Faces of Darkness" episodes), Pierre Garin (European French, "Blaster Blues" & "Make Tracks"), Henry Djanik (European French, "The Key to Vector Sigma" episodes), François Leccia (European French, "Quest for Survival"), Jean Claudio (European French, "Carnage in C-Minor"), Unknown actors (European French, "Cosmic Rust", "Surprise Party" & "Madman's Paradise"), Bruno Magne (European French, "Only Human"), José Luccioni (French, The Movie), Carlos Seidl (Portuguese), Orlando Drummond (Portuguese, "Make Tracks" & "Quest for Survival"), Francisco José (Portuguese, "The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1"), Nelson Batista (Portuguese, "Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5"), Júlio Chaves (Portuguese, "Forever Is a Long Time Coming"), Luiz Feier Motta (Portuguese, "The Movie" VHS dub), Luiz Brandão (Portuguese, "The Movie" Globo dub), Gyula Szersén (Hungarian, "The Movie" 1st dub (some lines)), Jang Kwang (Korean, The Movie), Gianandrea Muià (Italian, second dub of season 3), Mikhail Chernyak (Russian)}}

Blaster was a fun-loving, hip and happening robot. Loud and energetic, he was happy to share his choice of rockin' tunes with anyone, whether they really wanted to hear them or not.

Blaster appeared out of nowhere one day during Wheeljack's demonstration of the modifications he'd made to the Dinobots. To aid him in his presentation, Wheeljack requested that Blaster play something "nice", and the communicator responded by transforming and queueing up some rock 'n' roll/big band fusion music that Grimlock then started playing with a finely-placed laser-breath blast to Blaster's buttons. While the other Autobots were less than appreciative of Blaster's musical choice, Grimlock danced to the music to demonstrate his new levels of finesse. Dinobot Island, Part 1

Blaster was among the Autobots who were exiled from Earth as part of a villainous conspiracy between Megatron and Shawn Berger. Megatron's Master Plan, Part 1 Everything turned out okay in the end, though.

At a not-so-secret EJK testing facility for the new Ultra Plane, Blaster was sitting in the back of Ironhide's vehicle mode and didn't seem to notice the fact that Soundwave was sitting right next to him—at least until the Decepticon tape deck launched Ravage, whom Blaster quickly transformed to grab. The cat turned to attack the Autobot while his master escaped to report to Megatron. Blaster continued to tussle until Ironhide transformed into robot mode and threw them both out of his caboose. After being initially distracted by the Ultraplane's destruction, the Autobots returned to EJK's lab to confront the Decepticons. Blaster greatly appreciated Jazz's taste in music to confound the hapless villains. Desertion of the Dinobots, Part 1

Boom boom box

While attending a concert with Spike and Carly, Blaster decided to share the show with the other Autobots by flooding their communications channels with the music, though only Cosmos and Jazz seemed to appreciate it. Unfortunately, his broadcast also disrupted an emergency communique from the Haley Observatory, meaning the Autobots were unable to respond and stop the Decepticons stealing the Voltronic Galaxer. Searching for the Decepticons, Blaster and Cosmos were captured and brought to the villains' moonbase, where Blaster was welded into place to be used as a trans-scrambler for Megatron's scheme to use the Voltronic Galaxer to ransom energy from the Earth by disrupting the planet's communications. Blaster tipped the Autobots off to his location by broadcasting his music over the system, and once the Decepticons were thwarted, Blaster was assigned to the abandoned moonbase with Cosmos, but quickly got into trouble with Prime again for his music. Blaster Blues

Damn big tape deck.

Later, Blaster and Tracks helped the New York police crack a car theft ring by posing as an attractive target for punks to steal. After Blaster teamed up with car thief Raoul, they learned that Megatron was behind the criminal operation, stealing cars to rebuild them into transforming drones. Blaster defended the Washington Bridge from the Decepticon drones alongside the other Autobots, but they were nearly overwhelmed by sheer numbers. After Ratchet realized the cars were remote-controlled, Blaster jammed the frequency, allowing the Autobots to attack and defeat the Decepticons. Make Tracks

Blaster proved pivotal in saving Cosmos and some robotic insecticide from the Morphobots, when, with no options left, he randomly tried exposing the alien plants to a blast of music, that caused them to recoil away from the Autobots. Quest for Survival Soon afterward, the Autobots were attacked by the malevolent Kremzeek, an energy life form created by Megatron.

Hey, you're not one of my cassettes...

Blaster and a small number of other Autobots were the only ones to stay functional long enough to be sprayed with an insulating foam that protected them from the creature's attacks. The Autobot team chased it to Japan, where it wreaked havoc with the massive electronics industry there. Managing to trap Kremzeek inside his chest compartment, Blaster thought he could short the electrical imp out with his own energy, but this only made the situation worse, as Kremzeek absorbed all the juice Blaster pumped into it and split into dozens of copies of itself. One of the copies managed to slip inside Blaster, and after the other Kremzeeks were seemingly destroyed, it jumped out of his chest and the pursuit began again. Kremzeek!

Blaster was watching "As the Kitchen Sinks" with his Auto-buddies when Prime informed them that Tracks and Bumblebee were late returning from their supply run. Suspecting foul play, the Autobots took off to search for their missing comrades. While on the search, Blaster was forcibly transformed by a Creamy Cream billboard then carted away by the big game hunter Lord Chumley and his butler Dinsmore as bait to lure Optimus Prime into a hunt. Chumley apparently couldn't think of a suitably dastardly device in which to store Blaster, though, as he was totally absent from Chumley's prisoner showcase later on. Prime Target

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He can sure bring the house down, baby!

Tracks and Blaster were reunited with Raoul when they saved their human friend and his Bop Crew from a bunch of hoodlums in the employ of the Dancitron nightclub. The pair investigated the club, but Blaster did not share Tracks's suspicion that something unsavoury was going on inside its walls, enjoying the atmosphere and dancing with the human clubbers. After saving Raoul again when a mind-controlled train driver sent the train Raoul was in hurtling out of control, Blaster was forced to re-evaluate his opinion, and used with Teletraan I to deduce that the club was controlling its patrons with hypnotic signals. Thinking he could counter them his own sonic powers, Blaster returned to the club, where he discovered the culprit was his Decepticon counterpart Soundwave, who he engaged in a fierce sonic duel. Soundwave proved the more powerful of the two, but Blaster won the day by using Dancitron's own sound system to boost his powers. Unfortunately, he was soon pulled into service as the Bop Crew's replacement sound system, forcing him to endure blaring loud breakdancing music for at least three days. Auto-Bop

Blaster joined in Optimus Prime in travelling to Cybertron to stop Megatron from using Vector Sigma to bring his new Stunticons to life. They failed thanks to a cadre of Centurion droids Megatron sent to delay them, The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 1 so as a counter-measure, Blaster and the other Autobots created the Aerialbots from five Cybertronian shuttles as Earth vehicles. With the Key to Vector Sigma in Megatron's grasp, Alpha Trion was forced to sacrifice himself to activate Vector Sigma and bring the Aerialbots to life, a decision Blaster loudly, if vainly, opposed. Returning to Earth to confront the Stunticons, Blaster impressively used his sound system to generate a miniature earthquake using sonic vibrations, but Wildrider just sailed over the cracks and smashed into Blaster's face. On a second encounter, Blaster used his sonics to collapse a tree into Breakdown's path, but the Stunticon just used it as a ramp while Wildrider casually drove by and ran Blaster over. Ouch. The Key to Vector Sigma, Part 2

Everybody was kung-fu fighting, those cats were fast as lightning...

Blaster and Cosmos were sent on an inter-galactic shopping trip to pick up more Ingredient X for Perceptor's protective chemical spray, Corrostop, only to find there was none left in the entire universe. Cosmic Rust Soon after, when the Stunticons returned performing a series of heists for Megatron, Blaster joined Prime and Bumblebee in hunting down Motormaster. He didn't do much, but he did get to witness the most awesome game of chicken ever, when Prime totalled Motormaster. Masquerade

In the year 2005, Blaster was assigned to the communications hub at Autobot City on Earth. When the fortress was attacked by the Decepticons, Blaster used the advantageous height of his broadcast tower to fire upon the enemy before being urged by Perceptor to send a distress signal to Optimus Prime's forces on Moonbase One. His transmission equipment was destroyed by Soundwave's cassettes, who proceeded to break into the tower and attack the pair, Blaster countered with his own cassette army, and his efforts were soon revealed to have succeeded when Optimus Prime arrived with reinforcements to rout the Decepticons. After the Decepticons retreated, Blaster was helping to rebuild the city when he received a faint signal from Jazz and Cliffjumper on Moonbase One, which was being munched by a ginormous, weird-looking planet. Several of the Autobots soon departed to investigate this new threat, but Blaster remained behind on Earth. The Transformers: The Movie

Blaster’s involvement in these events, or events mostly similar, were also chronicled in the comic mini-series "Transformers: The Animated Movie" and the storybook "Transformers the Movie."
If he comes back alive, he's not coming back alive.

Perhaps it was this dedication to Earth that saw Blaster appointed City Commander once Autobot City was successfully rebuilt later in 2005. Believing the Decepticons responsible for an attack on the Galactic Olympics which saw Ultra Magnus, Kup and Spike kidnapped, Blaster and Outback were sent to the North African nation of Carbombya on the suspicion that the militant leader Abdul Fakkadi was harbouring Decepticon fugitives that they could interrogate for information. Despite Fakkadi's assurances that there were no Decepticons on his soil, Outback managed to psyche out Dirge and Ramjet, whose escape was also quickly put down by the Australian-accented Autobot. Blaster then threatened the two coneheads to spill the beans, for Outback was trigger-happy. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 1

While Rodimus Prime followed up on the info they obtained, Blaster returned to Autobot City to keep tabs on the impending delivery of the city's new transforming cog, replacing the original that was destroyed in the great battle. Unfortunately, Blurr and Wheelie's delivery shuttle was destroyed by Galvatron, forcing Blaster to call upon Commander Marissa Faireborn of the Earth Defense Command for help. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 3 Faireborn and the Autobot delivery team were stranded when Io's native lightpoles destroyed the EDC ship, so the long-suffering Blaster sent rescue in the form of the magnificent Sky Lynx, whom Blaster remarked was difficult to describe. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 4 After Sky Lynx effortlessly saved their friends and delivered the cog to Earth, Pipes installed the cog, allowing the giant Autobot Metroplex, who formed part of the city, to transform to robot mode. Once the Autobot city defeated the Decepticon giant Trypticon, Blaster declared that Metroplex was his kind of town. Five Faces of Darkness, Part 5

In 2006, Blaster was briefly seen aboard the Autobot flagship when Optimus Prime returned from the dead to rally the troops against the Quintessons. He fled the ship with the rest of the crew before Prime's suicidal assault on the Quintessons' central planet. Dark Awakening

Pizza delivery!

After Perceptor uncovered a source of chronal energy emanating from an asteroid belt, Blaster accompanied him on a survey mission, along with his cassettes Rewind and Ramhorn. Though prompted to radio for reinforcements when they were attacked by Sharkticons on approach, Blaster made short work of their opponents with the help of Blurr and Wreck-Gar. The source of the chronal energy proved to be a Quintesson Time Window, through which Blaster and the other Autobots were accidentally chased by the tentacled aliens, catapulting them 11 million years back through time, to Cybertron's distant past. Immediately attacked by Dark Guardian robots, Blaster and his comrades were saved by the intervention of Beta, second-in-command of the slave rebellion against the Quintessons. With the rebels' leader A-3 missing, Blaster and the Autobots stepped into his place to lead the rebellion, but the sheer number of Dark Guardians seemed insurmountable. Just as the Autobots were about to be overwhelmed, A-3 returned through the time window and turned his Coder Remote device against the Guardians, shutting them down. With the natural flow of history ensured, Blaster and the future Autobots took the window back to the present. Forever Is a Long Time Coming

He's a riot on karaoke night.

When Daniel Witwicky and Wheelie were taken hostage by the Decepticons, Blaster fielded the ransom call for Spike and Ultra Magnus, but his skill as a communication officer failed him and he lost Cyclonus's signal at a critical point in the monologing. Surprise Party Daniel was saved, but it wasn't long before he got into more trouble, disappearing with Grimlock during a reception on Cybertron. Blaster had Steeljaw track the boy's scent, following it to an ancient Quintesson chamber beneath Cybertron's surface, where he then called upon Rewind to translate the ancient text on the walls. Discovering that the chamber was a method of banishing criminals to other dimensions, Blaster and the others reactivated the portal and followed them to the sorcerous world of Menonia. There, they got involved in a local skirmish against Mara-Al-Utha, the banished Quintesson who had usurped power from the benevolent Golden One. In order to defeat the Quintesson, Blaster lent his sound system to the Golden One, amplifying his voice as he invoked the proper counter-spells. Madman's Paradise

He has no reflection! He's a vampire!

When Kup visited Autobot City for a security inspection, Blaster passed with flying colors and nearly succeeded in convincing Kup how seriously they took the job... until he happened to lean against a control panel and set off some 20 year old tunes on the sound speakers. Things turned serious immediately thereafter, though, as Metroplex was invaded by Scourge and the ghost of Starscream, who stole Metroplex's eyes and set off a bomb in his brain. Ghost in the Machine

Who runs Bartertown?

While helping Ultra Magnus and the other Autobots fight the Decepticons on a renegade comet, Blaster experienced first-hand the power of the harmony, a musical weapon from the nearby planet of Eurythma, which blew the comet to bits. With Galvatron now seeking to acquire the harmony's power, Blaster joined Ultra Magnus and Broadside in travelling to Eurythma to stop him. Discovering that the entire planet's civilization was based on music, Blaster immediately became enamored with the world, and served as translator for the Eurythman's lyrical language. The hunt for the harmony turned into a bizarre scavenger hunt, as Blaster and Soundwave attempted to recover the three thirds of the harmony produced by Basso Profundo, Zebop Skandana and Allegra. The Decepticons assembled the harmony first, and Soundwave turned its united power against the Autobots, but Blaster stopped him by erasing his recording of it. Carnage in C-Minor

Blaster joined Kup, Ultra Magnus and Rodimus Prime aboard Omega Supreme to check out some strange reports from the planet of Junk, which turned out to be a full-fledged war between half the galaxy raging over the Junkions' heads. Blaster's receivers pinpointed the source of the sudden intergalactic aggression: a hypnotic signal being broadcast somehow from the Junkions' TV antenna, which he was able to counteract by broadcasting his own counter-frequency. In the course of the chaos, a Quintesson Journal was lost in space, The Big Broadcast of 2006 eventually coming to rest on an uninhabited planet. The journal's signal was detected by the Perceptor some time later, who contacted Blaster, Outback, Steeljaw, Ramhorn and Sky Lynx while they were returning from another mission and had them investigate. Navigating the planet's dangers, they recovered the journal, finding that it detailed centuries of manipulating the planets Xetaxxis and Lanarq into ever-escalating warfare. Despite Quintesson and Decepticon interference, Blaster and his comrades managed to bring the journal to the attention of the warring aliens, ending their conflicts... at least for the moment. The Quintesson Journal

Blaster, NOW you choose the time for this?

Blaster was manning Autobot City when Victor Drath's men drove the empty shells of Ultra Magnus, Arcee, Springer and Rodimus Prime towards the city for a Trojan horse ploy. When the real Magnus and Springer hijacked the latter's helicopter mode and started taking potshots at the city, however, Blaster quickly caught on and transformed the city into battle station mode, cutting off their entry. Only Human Later, when Sky Lynx and Cosmos crashed on Power Platform Alpha, Blaster raced out to help with his fellow Autobots. Upon trying to radio for assistance, however, Blaster found himself unable to properly transmit any signals. The Autobots eventually uncovered anti-electron sabotage in the new power generator, and cleaned out the disruptive influence. Grimlock's New Brain Later still, Blaster began self-ejecting when the Oracle's transmission convinced Ramhorn and Steeljaw to force their way out of Blaster's chest to answer the call of the Primitives. Call of the Primitives

Although he wasn't on the initial casualty list, Blaster was revived alongside the Autobots who fell before the crazed Superion, during the outbreak of the Hate Plague. He travelled with the resurrected Optimus Prime and the other survivors of the plague to planet Chaar to recover a heat-resistant alloy that would shield Prime from the plague's effect, but succumbed to the disease while battling infected Decepticons. He and all other sufferers were cured when Prime used the wisdom of the Matrix of Leadership to eradicate the plague. The Return of Optimus Prime, Part 2

Japanese cartoon continuity

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Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers story pages

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Blaster battled Soundwave in what seemed to be the foothills of the Alps, while Perceptor kept the Decepticon communicator's cassettes busy. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers story page #5

Scramble City

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In the late 1980s, as the Autobots neared the completion of their "Scramble City" project to construct a transforming battle fortress, Blaster and his new cassette troops were assigned the task of guarding the entrance to the subterranean cavern where the construction was taking place against incursion by Decepticon spies. When Ravage, Laserbeak and Ratbat came sniffing around, Blaster deployed Steeljaw and Ramhorn to take care of the former two, while he himself dealt with Ratbat. Unfortunately, the tiny Decepticon was able to avoid his blasts and returned fire, which forced Blaster to dodge away from the cavern opening, allowing Ratbat to swiftly fly inside. Although Blaster gave chase, he lost track of Ratbat, who escaped with all the data he could scan from Scramble City. Scramble City: Mobilization

Legends comic (1)

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In the 1980s, Blaster and the Autobots defended the Ark and Wheeljack's Transform Super Cog from a Decepticon attack. Blaster shielded the Jumpstarters from an assault by Enemy using his indestructible shogun cassette, Nightstalker. Slugslinger's Ambition

The Battle of the Star Gate

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In the 1990s, Blaster was among the assembled forces of the Autobots who travelled into Earth orbit to save the human space station known as the Trigger from the Decepticons. When Starscream seized control of the station, he used its warp gate to bombard the Autobots with asteroids he teleported from across space, which Blaster helped blast to bits so they wouldn't rain down on Earth. The battle was ended when Megatron and Optimus Prime combined their powers to stop the treacherous Starscream, resulting in an explosion so powerful that Blaster and all the other Autobots were hurled into Earth's atmosphere, where they were badly damaged by re-entry and disappeared for some time. The Battle of the Star Gate

Asterisk Story

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"My voice gives me super strength!"

In the early 21st century, Blaster's love of human culture made him a logical choice for participation the Interplanetary Personnel Exchange Program, an initiative designed to promote goodwill and cooperation between humans and Transformers that saw one member of each race partnered with another. Blaster was paired up with TV Announcer Lumina Hoshi, and was reconfigured with a new Toyota Scion alternate mode, prompting him to take on the new name "Broadblast".

While covering an auto show where Broadblast was operating undercover, Lumina Hoshi was unfortunately present when a large section of lighting broke free from the ceiling and came hurtling down upon a crowd of people. Luckily, Broadblast was able to transform in time and catch the lights before they could squash everyone. Broadblast was then left to nervously explain his presence to the onlookers as Lumina apologized for the technical difficulties to her viewers. The World's First Disaster Relief Car!?

15 Go! Go!

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"Don't be cryin'—here's a lion!"

Blaster was present when Optimus Prime made the discovery that numerous Autobot files held within Teletraan I's databanks had been lost. Information Administration Teletraan 15 Go! Go! Volume 1

While travelling through time and space to gather up information to replace data lost when Teletraan I was damaged, the human computer Teletraan 15 was damaged by Galvatron. While recuperating from her injuries (presumably back in her home year of 2005), she was watched over by Blaster in his boombox mode, who grew determined to cheer up the perpetually downcast girl. Telling her that "the song in her heart sounded lonely" and that she deserved better, Blaster transformed to robot mode to listen to her problems, and advised her to not to worry, and to focus on doing what she loved best. Likening human beings to individual notes who become music when they work together, Blaster advocated listening to music when depressed, and gave Teletraan 15 a cassette. The perked-up 15 thanked him and he departed... but she soon discovered that, despite his best intentions, the tape was full of really depressing music. Blaster Volume It also turned out to be Steeljaw! Steeljaw Volume

Kiss Players

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While continuing to build his cassette army into a force that could rival Soundwave's, Blaster hand-picked the Autobot songstress Rosanna to join his team, feeling that she was the only Autobot who properly understood his love of music. Rosanna's bio He was also so happy to add the avian Sundor to his cassette ranks, finally giving his forces some air support, that he didn't suspect Sundor was actually an undercover Decepticon. Sundor's bio

In 2007, when the Autobots were able to return to Earth after being forced to withdraw when Transformer/human relations had been heavily damaged the previous year, Ultra Magnus hit upon the idea of a joint Transformer/human singing group to help improve public relations. Blaster was assigned the role of producer for this group, the "Kiss Players", of which Rosanna became a founding member. Kiss Players #39

The Headmasters cartoon

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Voice actor: Keiichi Nanba (Japanese), Simon Broad (English, Omni Productions dub){{#if: Roberto Alexander (American Spanish), Mikhail Chernyak (Russian)|, Roberto Alexander (American Spanish), Mikhail Chernyak (Russian)}}
OOH YEAH MACHO MACHINE WITH THE ELBOW DROP OFF THE TOP ROPE! SNAP INTO A SLIM JIM! MISS ELIZABETH!!

Some time before the Transformers' war left Cybertron, Blaster briefly engaged the Decepticons with his comrades.

In 2011, Blaster and his Mini-Cassettes were on Earth under Ultra Magnus's command when the Decepticons attacked Cybertron. While making their way to the space bridge to join their comrades, Blaster and Ultra Magnus were attacked by the new Decepticon ninja consultant, Sixshot and were unable to help in the battle on their homeworld. Four Warriors Come out of the Sky Fortunately, the arrival of the Autobot Headmasters helped shift the fight in the Autobots' favor, allowing Blaster and a group of other high-rankers to convene at the Autobots' secondary command post on the planet Athenia to discuss the situation. Realizing the Decepticons had been able to invade the planet thanks to the destabilization of Vector Sigma, the Autobots realized that in order to bring the computer back under control, they would have to locate the missing Matrix of Leadership, hidden somewhere on Earth by Optimus Prime. Before returning to Earth to outline their plan, Blaster gave the ill-tempered Wheelie a tape of music to relax him.

Upon the group's return to Autobot City, Blaster immediately detected Ratbat spying on their conversation. Sending Steeljaw to pursue the bat, Blaster found Soundwave lurking nearby, and a brief battle between the two old enemies ended with both combatants vowed to rid the universe of one another some day. The day came sooner than either expected, as Blaster joined Hot Rod in searching for the Matrix in the Arctic, and found Soundwave waiting for him. Blaster engaged his opposite number in battle to cover Hot Rod's retreat, with the clash quickly moving from a firefight to a physical brawl that saw Blaster rip off one of Soundwave's arms.

Sometimes I have three buttons...

After both combatants caved in each other's chests, it appeared Blaster had won when Soundwave's injuries consumed him and he exploded, but Blaster quickly succumbed to his wounds as well, urging Hot Rod to find the Matrix with his last words. When the news of his death reached Athenia, Wheelie played the tape Blaster had given him to commemorate his passing, finding to be full of soft, beautiful violin music. The Mystery of Planet Master

Knowing the super-science of planet Master could potentially be used to restore Blaster to life, Autobot Headmaster commander Fortress set about rebuilding the communications officer on his spaceship, the Maximus. Unaware of the secret project, Blaster's cassettes grew increasingly despondent over the loss of their commander and became unable to perform their duties, so Rodimus Prime elected to reveal Blaster's impending resurrection, putting a spring back in their step. When Blaster's reconstruction as Twincast was complete, he was teleported from the Maximus to Athenia, reunited with his cassettes, and was then immediately charged with investigating the Decepticons' newest weapon, the Madmachine. Infiltrating Trypticon on Earth, Twincast learned that the Madmachine was being controlled remotely from Chaar by Soundwave, who had also been resurrected as "Soundblaster". Twincast single-handedly overpowered the Constructicons to access the Decepticon space bridge, and made his way to Chaar, where he faced off with Soundblaster and destroyed the sonic controller he had been using to command the Madmachine, then escaped. The Great Cassette Operation

...And sometimes I have five!

Later on, Twincast reported to Rodimus Prime that the Decepticons were gathering on Earth, in preparation for a raid on Cybertron that tragically led to the planet's destruction. Cybertron Is in Grave Danger, Part 1 Soon after, he attended a party on Athena to commemorate the launch of the Sol 1 satellite, where he was badgered into serving as a karaoke machine for Hardhead. The Sol 1 was stolen by the Decepticons to power a mysterious plot, The Shadow Emperor, Scorponok so Twincast was charged with finding out what the villains were up to. He sent Ramhorn and Steeljaw to Chaar on a reconnaissance mission, and they returned with information on Scorponok's scheme to harness plasma energy, like that which was released by Cybertron's destruction. The Dormant Volcano Mysteriously Erupts Soon after, Twincast followed Sixshot to Chaar over the space bridge, and witnessed the activation of Scorponok's MegaZarak transtector. Explosion on Mars!! MegaZarak Appears

Presumably because of his role as a communications officer, Twincast was aware of Punch's undercover duties with the Decepticons as Counterpunch. After the Headmasters clashed with Scorponok near Chaar, he alerted Fortress that Punch had arrived to make his latest report. Return of the Immortal Emperor Later, Twincast learned that the Decepticons planned to raid the energy supplies Ultra Magnus was sending to the destitute planet Sandra. His warning only arrived a few short moments before the Decepticons did. SOS from Planet Sandra

When Fortress and the Headmasters pursued the Decepticons out into space, Twincast joined them on the expedition. Fight to the Death on Planet Hive!! He was with the Headmasters when they investigated an SOS call from the planet Daros. Find MegaZarak's Weak Spot!! On Paradise, Twincast used his Mini-Cassettes to scout the countryside and locate the Decepticons. Head Formation of Friendship He was also active when the Autobots came to the Pirate Planet, watching for Decepticon activity. His scouting patrol came by a sealed pyramid in time to pull Highbrow to safety when Galvatron arrived looking for energy. Mystery of the Space Pirate Ship

Steeljaw, the next words out of your mouth are going to be followed by your teeth.

After the Autobots returned to Earth, Twincast helped investigate the sudden flurry of Decepticon attacks. He released his collection of Mini-Cassettes to seek out information, and personally accompanied Steeljaw on an investigation to an Autobot outpost in Alaska. Upon arriving, they discovered Scorponok had wiped out the outpost. Twincast and Steeljaw were spotted by Sixshot, who opened fire on them. Twincast demanded Steeljaw return to Autobot City with the information they had uncovered, while he stayed behind to cover the retreat. Steeljaw reluctantly left his commander to his fate, and Twincast was ultimately blasted into a ravine by Sixshot's winged wolf mode. Steeljaw eventually returned with reinforcements, and Twincast was taken in for repairs. The Emperor of Destruction Vanishes on an Iceberg

Eject ALL the tapes!

Twincast reported to a series of caves where the Headmasters were searching for plasma energy bombs left behind by Scorponok and the Decepticons when they departed Earth. He joined the Headmasters aboard the Battleship Maximus as they tried to get the massively powerful explosives a safe distance away from Earth. When they came across a group of six refugees fleeing the planet Master, Twincast used his interpretive skills to translate their strange language. Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 1) On the planet Master, Twincast was among the Autobots when the kidnapped scientist, Jack, suddenly returned to their midst. Prompted by the suspicious Pointblank, Twincast scanned Jack and discovered the Decepticons had installed a time bomb inside him. Miraculous Warriors, Targetmasters (Part 2) Twincast was also among the Autobots debating whether Wheelie's life was worth the secret of the Master Sword. The Master Sword Is in Danger!!

Twincast joined the entire Autobot army in journeying to the North Pole. There they battled Scorponok and his minions to stop the crysmagnetal towers from destroying the planet Earth. Twincast saved Chromedome and Hardhead from Mindwipe's hypnotic spell by dumping his entire chest full of Mini-Cassettes on the evil Headmaster. The Death Towers created a field of energy that was threatening to tear the Earth apart At the request of Daniel and Wheelie all the Autobots assembled to assist the Autobot Headmasters, thus combined in "Final Formation", they provided Fortress with the energy he needed, and the Earth was saved. The Final Showdown on Earth (Part 2)

Masterpiece toy bios

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When one of his cassette subordinates, Flip Sides, came under suspicion of espionage, Twincast—unfortunately unaware that she genuinely was a Decepticon sleeper agent—vociferously defended her. Together, Flip Sides and Twincast went on the run from the Autobot bounty hunter Road Rage. Masterpiece Road Rage bio

Legends comic (2)

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Twincast and Flip Sides were eventually apprehended by Road Rage and taken back to Athenia for trial, but Twincast continued to protest Flip Sides's innocence. Sadly, even he could no longer deny the truth when Flip Sides revealed her submerged Decepticon personality. LG27 Blaster

In 2021, Twincast and the rest of Fortress Maximus's soldiers were infected with tiny black holes known as "blackballs" following a battle with Scorponok. These blackballs caused their bodies to slowly shrink away into nothingness, forcing Twincast and others to have their heads removed and turned into Headmasters to save their lives. Headmaster Chapter Prologue In need of new bodies, the Autobots traveled to the Legends World and formed a partnership with Axalon Trading Company to build everyone transtectors. There, Twincast enjoyed singing karaoke with his friends and once helped Hardhead fight off a meteor. LG21 Hardhead When it turned out the Decepticons had also come looking for new bodies, Twincast helped defeat a narcoleptic Skullcruncher by broadcasting Hardhead's lullaby at him. LG22 Skullcruncher

When Twincast received his new Transtector—which was capable of shrinking down into a hand-held boombox—he decided to return to being "Blaster" again, and quit working for the Axalon Trading Company so he could go back to making music. He "released" his cassettes, giving them freedom to go and live their own lives, and dedicated himself to uniting the world through music, in hopes that he could one day bring the Autobots and Decepticons together again and see Flip Sides once more. Unfortunately, things didn't go well for him—Blaster soon wound up penniless, living on the streets and trying to sell his mix CDs to passersby. Just as he found himself wishing that his new Transtector could turn into somewhere for him to live, Scourge came rampaging through the streets, transformed by the power of the Zodiac into a two-headed monster. Blaster leapt into action, snagging the Zodiac from around Scourge's neck; the ancient, enigmatic energy then flowed through Blaster himself, and granted his "wish," transforming his Transtector into a brand-new base mode! With the help of his friends, Blaster used this new form to defeat Scourge, and then to host a concert celebrating their victory... but it didn't help his CD sales any! LG27 Blaster

Highbrow later visited Blaster to borrow the Zodiac for research purposes. LG33 Highbrow His stage, Blaster Blues, was then attacked by a crowd that had been brainwashed by Soundblaster's music. He cured them with his own tunes, but while he was distracted, Soundblaster stole the Zodiac and used it to create a Soundwave transtector for himself. To Blaster's surprise, however, Soundwave had no interest in fighting him if he wasn't a soldier and instead vowed to defeat him as a fellow musician. Soundwave's boss, Devil Z, was none too pleased with his desertion and attacked him, but Blaster helped defeat the villain by teaming up with his rival and lending him the harmony. After the battle was over, he revealed that that piece of the harmony had been one-time-use only, earning Soundwave's scorn once more and fueling their rivalry. LG36 Soundwave Blaster was later scanned by Leo Prime, who used the Autobot as a basis for his own Headmaster body. LG41 Leo Prime

When the Legends World was placed under martial law by the Dimensional Patrol, Blaster was among the Autobots who resisted and incapacitated their drones. LG-EX Black Convoy During Trypticon's attack on the city, Blaster attacked him with a barrage of ultrasound from his base, but the giant Decepticon was unaffected and stomped the base to pieces. LG43 Trypticon It was repaired and integrated into the rebuilt Neo Akihabara City. Targetmaster Chapter Prologue He later witnessed Majin Zarak's arrival in the Legends World, Legends World in Imminent Danger! Part One and subsequently evacuated from the doomed dimension. On his return home, in the year 2023, Blaster aided in the Beastformers' war with the Laser Beasts and got knocked around by the Red Phoenix. The Road to Legends' Revival Chapter 1

Metrowars

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Blaster later went back to being Twincast in order to keep fighting the war. Twincast commanded Scramble City while it was under reconstruction after an attack from Metrotitan. When Metrotitan and the Decepticons attacked again, Pipes pleaded with Twincast to have Metroplex transform, but an ongoing energy crisis made Twincast reluctant to use up so much. Nevertheless, Metroplex pressed the need and Twincast allowed his transformation. After the Decepticons retreated, Twincast received and showed a message from Optimus Prime about the discovery of Nucleon. Metrowars

Legends comic (3)

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Once the Autobots discovered nucleon, an energy that could power Transformers infinitely, Twincast held an impassioned speech calling for peace on the basis that was no need for fighting if they had infinite resources. As the war came to an end and the Cybertron Alliance was established, Twincast returned to being Blaster once more, adopted a nucleon-powered Action Master body, and was finally reunited with Flip Sides. LG-EX Metroplex

G-2 story pages

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There's so much we don't understand about this image.

After Optimus Prime and Megatron forged the Cybertron Alliance, Blaster was an active participant in the united faction, until the Autobots and Decepticons once again descended into conflict. G-2 Part 3

Legacy VS500 Collection Special Comic

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Blaster was one of many spectators for the Speedia 500 race on Velocitron. Velocitron Speedia 500 Part 2 Twincast would later be present with Rewind for the second week of the race. Velocitron Speedia 500 Part 3

Legends comic (4)

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By 2038, the Cybertron Alliance had fallen apart after a friend of Megatron was killed by humans and Galvatron II assumed command of the Decepticons. Blaster had hope, however, for Megatron's timeline from the Legends World had finally caught up to his. While Blaster and the Headmasters returned from the Legends universe fifteen years prior, Mayor Megatron had only just gone and returned from New Akihibara City, emerging back into the G1 World with a renewed desire for peace. He hoped to restart the Cybertron Alliance in order to pool resources and recreate that lost dimension. LG-EX Big Powered Prologue Part One

Although their efforts were temporarily waylaid by the attacks of Dark Nova and Violengiguar, the Autobots and Decepticons eventually succeeded in recreating the Legends World. Peace reigned in the galaxy, as Optimus Prime and Megatron shook hands to reinstitute the Cybertron Alliance. Blaster and Flip Sides were on scene with Soundwave and Sundor to observe the historic meeting. Blaster also finally took off with his music career, apparently topping #1 on the charts. Epiloge

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers comic

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Blaster was stationed at a secret base in Japan, connected to the primary Autobot HQ in America via the Autobot Road. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #4

Later, while vacationing on a utopian island, he and Perceptor were captured by the Constructicons. Blaster was eventually freed by Kenji, Superion and several other Autobots. Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers #6

Full Throttle Scramble Power!

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When Tōru, Jenny, and Hound were captured while searching for the Decepticon Omega Wave Cannon device, Blaster came to their rescue, blowing several large holes in Ravage with his electro-scrambler gun. He then grappled with Soundwave until the entire Autobot army arrived with Metroplex to drive off the Decepticons. Full Throttle Scramble Power!

Mars Attacks: The Transformers

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Blaster took part in a battle that ended in the defeat of the Decepticons. When Martians promptly invaded and trapped both factions in a force field, the Autobots and Decepticons entered into an alliance. Megatron came up with a plan involving hooking Soundwave and Blaster together, using their combined power to take down the force field. The alliance continued to last just long enough for them to see off the Martians. Mars Attacks: The Transformers

Ask Vector Prime

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In a universe where Sideways and Gong had thrown GoBots into the Unicron War, Blaster was manning Autobot City's communication center when Perceptor alerted him to Cy-Kill's Renegade assault. Blaster radioed Prime for reinforcements, then wound up grappling with Re-Volt, Chaos, and Traitor, who had managed to breach Autobot City from above. Blaster countered their attack by deploying four of his own cassettes, and with the odds evened he and Perceptor managed to defeat the three Renegades.

Reality bounced around a few times before settling on a new configuration where our Blaster was replaced with a different Blaster because the universe is funny like that. Echoes and Fragments

Deviations

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When Hot Rod sacrificed himself to save Unicron, Blaster attended Optimus’s speech commemorating the end of the Cybertronian wars. Deviations

Notes

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  • As part of his hip and happening personality in the Generation 1 cartoon, Blaster's speech patterns were modeled on those of a radio DJ, a rhythmic pattern full of raps and rhymes. However, throughout season 2 of the cartoon, Blaster very rarely talked in rhyme, if at all. The rhyming dialogue didn't fully take over until The Transformers: The Movie onwards, but even then, there were still entire sequences of season 3 where he talked regularly.
  • Blaster's absence from the second half of The Transformers: The Movie is often a talking point among fans. It stems from a deleted plotline from early drafts of the movie, in which he would have led several other 1984 and '85 Autobots as a team of guerrilla fighters, defending Earth against the Decepticons while Ultra Magnus and the other Autobots went into space to stop Unicron from feeding on the energy of the planet. While this plot had been excised by the time of dialogue recording, the shooting script for the film does include another pair of deleted lines that explain Blaster's absence, as he and Inferno tell Magnus's Autobots that they will cover them as they escape on the shuttles.
  • The script for the 1986 episode "Fight or Flee" noted the Communication Autobot of Paradron as a "primative [sic] Blaster". The intended family resemblance didn't really make it on-screen, unfortunately. As it happens, however, decades later the Paradron communicator would be retconned in 2015 by Ask Vector Prime as an alternate version of the barely-seen Marvel character Playback, who was described as a cassette-former. This would come full circle in IDW Publishing's 2021 Shattered Glass comic, where Playback is a member of evil Blaster's lineup of cassettes.
  • The cartoon version of Blaster makes a Hasbro-sanctioned cameo in the 2022 film [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (film)|{{#if:Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers|Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers|Chip 'n Dale: Rescue Rangers (film)}}]], appearing as an audience member during Chip and Dale's high school talent show performance.

Character model

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"Try Blue – It's the New Red!"
  1. The first is the arms. His arms are drawn based on the toy reference's being left folded against the body like they are in his alternate mode, leading to both the sticker details and the wrist slider slots on the forearms being on the sides of the arms, rather than the front. Additionally, the toy's wrists are on swivels, so one can easily replicate this with their toy and not lose the ability to hold the gun in a natural position.
  2. The second is his thighs. His thighs on the toy references were left extended, exposing the black-plastic sliders inside the legs, thus giving the model the iconic "shorts"-like divide between his upper thighs and lower legs.
  3. Lastly, the robot mode model breaks the row of buttons on his abdomen up into three buttons, while keeping the correct four in his alternate mode model. This is a product of the way his toy is made: it has three separate button chunks, but the center chunk is actually two buttons sculpted together. The reason the robot mode ended up with three buttons instead of four is likely due to a combination of the angle that the robot mode toy references were shot on, and the light source used in the photos. Most toy reference photos the artists were given from Hasbro were shot at a ¾ angle. They were also usually given one photo reference for the back and one for the front, meaning that wherever the light source was coming from in that one robot mode photo, likely never captured the molded groove that divides the two center buttons, whereas the alternate mode photo did.
  • After Blaster and Soundwave were rebuilt into Twincast and Soundblaster respectively in The Headmasters cartoon, their animation models weren't a simple recoloring as one might assume; to match the retooling found on the respective toys released in 1987 that allowed for two cassettes to be stored, their animation models were slightly modified to include bigger chest doors that protruded from their bodies.
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