Breastforce

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The Breastforce (tee hee!) are a Decepticon subgroup from the Generation 1 continuity family.
A team of boobs.

The Breastforce (ブレストフォース Buresutofōsu, aka Destrons and Chestmasters) are Deathsaurus's elite troopers, comprising some of the most vile Decepticons imaginable, from murderous back-stabbers to incarcerated convicts, all hailing from the Death Zone. Deathsaurus himself is also a member of the subgroup, but the name is most often used to refer to the elite six-robot team that serves under him. The group derives their... unusual name from the Breast Animals they are partnered with, which transform from their eponymous breastplate armor into an autonomous robotic animal or hand-held blaster. Don't let the name fool you, the Breastforce are nothing to laugh at.

(giggle)

The core six members of the Breastforce are:

Other members include:

Leozack, Drillhorn, Guyhawk, Hellbat, Jallguar, and Killbison can combine to form the super-warrior Liokaiser. Unlike other Decepticon combiners, the Breastforce can fuse their psyches effectively and form a highly intelligent combiner. Deathcobra was also capable of combining with the team, but died before he got the chance.

Fiction

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Cartoon continuity

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Victory cartoon

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Invading a Tron machine near you!

Leozack was the first of the Breastforce to join Deathsaurus for his campaign against Earth, Sneak Attack! Dinoking but he quickly developed designs on Decepticon leadership himself. Move Out! Rescue Team He was soon joined by his teammates Drillhorn, Jallguar and Killbison, Unite!! Multiforce and the team performed such missions as the raiding of the Neo Uranium Mines Infiltration... The Uranium Mine and the theft of energy from an American subway system. During the latter mission, the team's Breast Animals came to the fore, as they were unleashed upon the Autobots in the cramped quarters of the underground tunnels. Big City - Underground Terror

Leozack later summoned the fifth Breastforcer, Hellbat, to Earth, but upon witnessing his leader getting dressed down by Deathsaurus, Hellbat decided he himself would make a better leader for the Breastforce. The New Warrior - Hellbat Ever the schemer, Hellbat's honeyed words roped the rest of the Breastforce into several plots, like the theft of energy from a shuttle port Attack the Shuttle Base!! or the ransom of Marine City. Tanker Hijack Operation Since the silver-tongued sneak was usually able to pass the blame for any failures on to Leozack, none of the other Breastforce members really trusted Hellbat, and Leozack began making plans to get rid of him. After rescuing their sixth teammate, Guyhawk, from the Planet Micro Satellite Penitentiary, Rescue! Guyhawk Leozack summoned his old friend Deathcobra so that he could boot Hellbat out and the remaining six could combine into the giant robot, Liokaiser. Attempting to secure his position on the team, Hellbat petitioned Deathcobra to leave, but when a fight broke out between the two, Hellbat accidentally killed Deathcobra and blamed the murder on the Autobot Micromaster Holi. Seeking revenge, the Breastforce merged into Liokaiser and defeated Star Saber in their first battle. Unite! Liokaiser

Oh, not another black recolor...

Back on Earth, the Breastforce battled Star Saber and Road Caesar at the Schaeffer Energy plant, Battle Up of Wrath!! and then went up against Landcross in the South Pole. Fight to the Death!! Antarctic Battle They later lured the Brainmasters into an ambush in the desert Crisis! Ambush in the Desert and helped Deathsaurus battle Star Saber, A Deadly Battle then proceeded to perform numerous energy raids across the world, Ginrai Dies!! only to be repeatedly stymied by new Autobot Victory Leo Fight!! Victory Leo Awaken! Victory Leo and his ability to combine with Star Saber. The Tide Is Turned! The Ultimate Weapon, the Victory Unification

After plots that involved Leozack disguising himself as Star Saber A Mystery?! The Deception of the Base Bombs and unleashing metal-eating insects on the Autobots, The Death-Bringing Space Insects!! the Breastforce accompanied Deathsaurus into space once he had obtained enough energy to reactivate his Planet-Destroying Fortress. The Wrath of the Resurrected Giant Fortress! The Autobots arrived to stop the villains while the fortress's main cannon was charging, and the Breastforce, combined as Liokaiser, engaged Victory Leo in battle. The feral Autobot was able to blast the combiner into the barrel of the cannon, which drained his energy dry. As his body blackened, Liokaiser could feel his consciousness begin to fade, and he could only manage a faint cry for help as his deactivated body drifted off into the depths of space. Showdown! The Fortress vs the Victory Unification

Zone catalog

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Revived from death by some means and lead by the reborn Dark Emperor Deathsaurus, The Breastforce in the combined form of Liokaiser joined several other powerful Decepticons in an assault on planet Zone. Attempting to steal their Energon Z, the Decepticons proved no match for the Micromasters and were driven away.Zone Project Story

Victory comic

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When the Breastforce arrived to join Deathsaurus in stealing energy from Earth, Leozack made his first strike alone, but botched it by forgetting to take his Breast Animal with him. Leozack's Rampage! The rest of the team later battled Star Saber in their individual forms Star Saber, Warrior of Love! and still later combined with Leozack into Liokaiser to engage the Autobot leader on Energy Planet X. Liokaiser had the upper hand in this battle, but the tide turned when his individual components began arguing amongst themselves over who would get to deliver the killing blow, and Star Saber used the opening to defeat them. Star of Friendship, Jan and Star Saber!

Subsequent fights did not go well for Liokaiser; first, he was thrashed by Star Saber when the Autobot leader combined with Victory Leo to become Victory Saber, The Strongest Pair, the Combination of Victory! and was then flattened by the united Autobots' "Five Stars of Victory" attack. Shine, Five Stars of Victory Following this defeat, the Decepticons retreated into space and began attacking Earth using Deathsaurus's "Space Stronghold". Naturally, the Autobots pursued, and when Deathsaurus engaged Star Saber in a space battle, Leozack saw an opportunity to remove all his enemies at once. Even as his shocked teammates looked on, Leozack turned the fortress's main cannon on Deathsaurus! Deathsaurus survived the blast and fired upon the fortress with his own weapons, after which Star Saber came smashing through the fortress's control room window and slashed Leozack with his sword. Even as he collapsed in front of the Autobots, Leozack begged them not to destroy the fortress, and the true nature of the massive craft was revealed to the Autobots: It contained the Decepticons' families, whom they had been fighting to protect all along. The Grand Victory War

Combiner Wars toy bio

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The Destrons were an elite strike team comprising criminals and convicts. Combiner Wars Liokaiser toy bio

Toys

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Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

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Deathsaurus
Killbison
  • ID number: D-336
  • ID number: D-329
  • ID number: D-330
  • ID number: D-331
  • ID number: D-332
  • ID number: D-333
The seven members of Breastforce were sold individually, in the fifth year of Takara's Fight!! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers toyline, under the "Victory" banner. As their primary gimmick, each one comes with their "Breast Animal" partner, which transforms from robot animal to hand-held weapon to a breastplate that slots into a depression in each robot's chest; the Beast Animals are not designed to be swapped around, unfortunately. Deathsaurus comes with two Breast Animals, with his upper torso having a cavity deep enough to slot the flatter Eaglebreast behind the larger and more elaborate Tigerbreast.
The six smaller members can also combine into the super robot Liokaiser, notable for his atypical almost-total lack of combiner kibble.
As molds (mostly) unique to the Japanese toyline, they generally command high prices on the secondary market.
Leozack, Killbison, Jallguar, and Drillhorn were later remolded to create the Rescue Force members Rescue Force, Rescue Force 1, Rescue Force 2, and Rescue Force 3, respectively.


  • ID number: D-335
Though Liokaiser's six components were all sold as individuals, they were also available in a single Liokaiser box set. This set lacks bio cards for the individual components, having only cards for Liokaiser.
Between his status as a relatively late-run Japanese exclusive, his commanding price at release, his unique engineering, and Killbison's fragility, a complete Liokaiser is notoriously expensive; it's not uncommon to see them running for $1,000 or more.


Kre-O

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A weird but wonderful deep cut.
  • Jarugar (Kreon Micro-Changer, 2014)
  • Bag number: ***** 52
  • Accessories: Stand brick, 2 double barreled guns
The only member of Breastforce to appear in Kre-O (and the first to appear in a Hasbro toyline), "Jarugar" was part of the fifth assortment of blind-bagged Kreon Micro-Changers, and can be rebuilt from robot mode into a racing buggy. He sports Hound's helmet.
Jarugar cannot be built according to his instructions... well... sort of. The instructions say to put his harness on the neck-peg in vehicle mode, but this interferes with the hood piece, keeping you from pushing the front-end blocks all the way down the neck peg. You can either put the hood-piece all the way forward on the attachment stud (as opposed to center-point as the instructions say), or put the harness on the waist pointed back to the feet and set the windshield part a bit forward to close the gap.
This assortment of Micro-Changers was functionally available only at Toys"R"Us stores in the US and Canada, as other large retailers had all but abandoned the Kre-O line. It was later made available in the US through discount chains like Five Below.


Combiner Wars

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Cat, I'm a kitty cat, and I dance dance dance and I dance dance dance.
  • Liokaiser (Platinum Edition Collection Pack, November 2016)
  • Accessories: 2 pairs of Weapon/Combiner extremities (both white & dark gray), 2 Sword-rifles, 2 pairs of double-barreled guns (both white & dark gray), Ironbison's Tank cannon/gun, Drillhorn's Drill-gun, "Ion Scythe" Micron
Combiner Wars Liokaiser is composed of the Destrons, including "Dezarus"—who is a retool of Combiner Wars Sky Lynx in homage to his dragon-like monster alt-mode. His tooling changes include a new shuttle nose/dragon face finned helmet, and a new combiner mode face (underneath the upper half of Sky Reign's head, now used as a helmet) inspired by the original Liokaiser's. Leozack and Jallguar are unfortunately ejected from the team.
All four limbs include new, animation-accurate heads—Fellbat (renamed for obvious reasons) and Guyhawk were redecoed/retooled from Combiner Wars Skydive and Air Raid respectively (with two of their double-barreled guns each), whilst Ironbison (also renamed) and Drillhorn were redecoed/retooled from Combiner Wars Brawl (with Drillhorn using BotCon 2016 General Ramhorn's drill). Also included is Ion Scythe, a new character redecoed from Arms Micron Guru.
Unlike the original Liokaiser toy, Platinum Edition Liokaiser is designed to have his legs attached with the tank body facing forward as opposed to facing sideways. While the legs can be attached sideways to achieve a look similar to the original toy's design, doing so will rob Liokaiser of his functional knees unless you also rotate Dezarus's upper legs. Also, stock photography often takes advantage of Liokaiser's paired legs by not folding away the rear portion of the tanks (otherwise necessary to make the tanks the same length as other Combiner Wars legs), thus adding about a half-inch to the combiner's height.
Liokaiser also comes with a collector card and a huge poster based on his packaging art in a large box, as the only Combiner Wars "Collection Pack" that's co-branded as part of the Platinum Edition range. Strangely, despite having Ion Scythe serve as his main weapon, the package art omits the weapon-bot and instead depicts Liokaiser holding a blaster from one of his component robots, as well as giant nunchaku which the toy (sadly) does not include.
In the United States, this set was officially exclusive to online retailer Entertainment Earth, but was also stocked by other retailers like BigBadToyStore. In Hasbro's Asian markets such as Hong Kong and Singapore, it was available at general retail. Additionally, it was also sold at Ripley stores in Chile and at Myer stores in Australia, whereas in Canada, it was available via the Canadian Walmart website, but never sold in stores.


Legacy

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It was a time of darkness. It was a world of fear. It was an age of gargoyles.
The third HasLab crowdfunded figure for Transformers, Deathsaurus is an impeccably cartoon-accurate representation of the character in both robot and "griffon-dragon" modes. As a premium crowdfunded figure, Deathsaurus features a vast slew of accessories, and more extensive and intricate articulation compared to a typical Legacy figure, including an ab crunch, forward-articulating butterfly joints in his shoulders, and separate index/middle finger and ring/pinky finger joints.
Once again he comes with both "Eaglechest" and "Tigerchest", though this time Tigerchest turns into a cartoon-accurate longbow, complete with an arrow (which does not launch or anything, but it looks cool). When Tigerchest is in breastplate mode, his head must be adjusted in order to use Deathsaurus's ab crunch, otherwise the sculpting of Deathsaurus's codpiece will lever Tigerchest out of position.
All of the grips/handles of Deathsaurus's weapons use Masterpiece-style small posts on grippable handles rather than the more universal 5 mm posts and ports. However, the "Death Tailer" shield does have a 5 mm post to attach it to his right shoulder (and only his right shoulder via flip-out post-hole, another bit of cartoon adherence). He also has a plug-in shield handle to allow Deathsaurus to hold the shield in his hand. The Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon has two distinct sets of posts that allow Deathsaurus to not only wield it in robot mode, but also (rather goofily) use it in griffon-dragon mode, as he did when he first unleashed it in "Resurrection!? The Decepticon Fortress". Slots, posts, and the hollowed-out beast neck allow Deathsaurus to store his sword, flail, and arrow in robot mode. In an undocumented feature, he can hold his Masterpiece-styled weapons in his kaiju mode via slots in his forearms. His lower wingtips can detach and be held as weapons to simulate his "Death Wing" attack.
He also includes a throne (based directly on his often-seen throne in the cartoon) and flight stand for both robot and beast mode. Both make use of the display base disc, so the throne must be removed from the base and set aside in order to install the flight stand. The throne can store his accessories on its back, but if it is detached from the base the Living Metal Destroying Cannon will no longer have floor clearance.
The initial plan had been to release Deathsaurus at retail in the Legacy line, as a partial retool of Leader-class Studio Series Grimlock with the partner beasts each sold separately as Core class figures. However, the strong success of the Victory Saber campaign convinced them to move Deathsaurus to that platform as well. This made possible a bespoke and significantly larger design that, at 11" tall, can stand eye-to-eye with Victory Saber.<ref>Interview with Ben MacCrae and Evan Brooks on the Mr. Alan Supershow</ref>
Like Victory Saber, Deathsaurus cost $179.99 USD and required 11,000 "backers" to go into production. The base level produced Deathsaurus himself, his sword, and "Micromaster" Breast Animal partners (though they are more akin to the noticeably larger Core size class). Reaching 14,000 backers unlocked a "weapon pack", which included the spiked flail with articulated chain (the chain being reused from MP-5 Megatron),<ref>[1] EP1 test shot walkthrough with Evan Brooks</ref> two sets of triple-stacked Fire Blast effects (to match those that came with Legacy Victory Saber) and his Living-Metal-Destroying Cannon. When the set reached 17,000 backers, this unlocked the display stand, throne and flight stand.
The crowdfunding began on October 27, 2022, and ran through December 12, with the expected shipping date being the Fall of 2023. Deathsaurus reached sufficient backers to enter production on November 28, 2022. The weaponry tier was unlocked on December 5, 2022, and the final tier with the throne and display stand was unlocked on December 11, 2022, one day before the campaign ended. The final count was 27,442 backers, making Deathsaurus the most successful Transformers HasLab item at the time. A surprise tier was revealed on December 13 to celebrate the occasion—Boater and Pīpō Micromasters recreated with modern engineering to complement the Holi and Fire Micromasters included with Victory Saber, completing the Rescue Patrol Team!
Deathsaurus began arriving in December 2023, first reported by fans in Taiwan (ironic since their shipment of Victory Saber the previous year had been undelivered due to water damage). In the United Kingdom and Europe (who were able to order directly via HasbroPulse for the first time), the item was delayed a month to January 2024. As with Victory Saber, the Japanese release of Deathsaurus has a different box design with wireframe schematic art.
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  • Liokaiser (Mult-pack, 2026)
Legacy Liokaiser is the fifth Haslab crowdfunded figure related to the Transformers brand and the first show-accurate rendition of the character since his debut in 1989! Like his G1 toy, Liokaiser is made up of all six members of the "Chest-force" and includes their various B̶r̶e̶a̶s̶t̶ Chest Animals. He stands at roughly the same height as Studio Series Devastator.
In a shocking twist, the tier one unlock is none other than Deathcobra, who can either form the combiner's left arm (replacing "Ellbat") or form a shoulder cannon.
Several changes were made to the group from initial CGI renders, covered on the pages of the relevant individual members.<ref>Final Days to Back Liokaiser—See What’s New! at the Hasbro Pulse YouTube channel.</ref>


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Notes

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  • The term "Breastforce" is consistently romanized as "Brestforce" in every English instance of the name on the toy's packaging and tech spec materials. It may be a misspelling, or a usage of the obsolete alternate spelling "brest"; belief that it was the latter led to the "Brestforce" spelling being used in the subtitles produced for Metrodome and Madman Entertainment's releases of Victory. Although the "Brestforce" rendering avoids immature jokes, it does imply that they're [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Brest, Belarus|{{#if:from Belarus|from Belarus|Brest, Belarus}}]].
    • Meanwhile, "Beastforce" was right there how did no-one think of that it fits so well whyyyyyy
  • Following the trend in later Japanese Generation 1 series, the six combining members of Breastforce have fairly uniform tech spec numbers. Like their opposites in Victory, the Brainmasters, four of them essentially have straight 8s, with a couple numbers slightly higher or lower to indicate their specialties, and all have totals in the neighborhood of 64.

Foreign names

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  • English: Chestforce (Shout! Factory sub)
  • Mandarin: Xiōngjiǎ Bùduì (Taiwan, 胸甲部隊, "Breastplate Force"), Xiōngjiǎ Zhànshì (China, 胸甲战士, "Breastplate Warrior")

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