Drag Strip (Animated)

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Drag Strip is a Decepticon Stunticon from the Animated continuity family (via Timelines).
I am gonna ask you questions. And every time you don't give me answers, I'm gonna cut something off. And I promise you, they will be things you will miss.

Drag Strip has plenty to be angry about. Not only did Scalpel protoform her into a weak Autobot body, but she has to take orders from those privileged idiots Wildrider and The Motor Master, and why? Because Cybertron is ruled by Autobots, not rightfully by Decepticons. Never mind that she plays the stupid damsel-in-distress role in Team Stunticons' fake stunt show. That's just adding insult to injury.

So don't be surprised if she takes out that anger on everyone with her laser swords.

Fiction

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Animated cartoon continuity

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Voice actor: Morgan Lofting (English){{#if: |, {{{2}}}}}
No place to hide! No place to run! The Mutant Age has now begun!

Drag Strip was sent, along with the other Stunticons and Toxitron, on a mission to break Megatron and other Decepticons out of Trypticon Prison. In the guise of entertainers, they planned to rig the former Decepticon Gladiatorial Arena in Kaon with explosives, blasting the prison walls open and killing the audience in the process.

All was going well until the Stunticons were abruptly assaulted in mid-rehearsal by Cheetor, who opened fire on the disguised Decepticons. Once the Autobot cop settled down, the rehearsal continued. Drag Strip reluctantly played the role of a damsel in distress, cornered by three Decepticons, unsuccessfully rescued by Toxitron, but then truly rescued by the appearance of a great big holographic Sentinel Magnus head.

On the night of the plan's execution, Sideswipe and Cheetor returned in the middle of the show, having worked out the Stunticons' plan. The Stunticons fought back with their stolen modifications, with Dead End and Drag Strip cornering Cheetor. The two cop-bots were cornered, but Toxitron leapt into the fray, knocking out the structural supports for a giant ramp and sending it crashing down on the Stunticons. Toxitron turned out to actually be a disguised Optimus Prime, who revealed their plan to everyone watching. Drag Strip was incarcerated in Trypticon Prison, alongside the very Decepticons she and her teammates had sought to free. The Stunti-Con Job

At some point, Drag Strip [REDACTED BY THE OFFICE OF SENTINEL MAGNUS] forestonite, leaving her with a garish color scheme. The Complete AllSpark Almanac

Legends comic

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Drag Strip was still locked in her cell while a group of treacherous Decepticons infiltrated the prison.Epiloge

Kre-O comic

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A member of Bludgeon's forces searching for the Red Bucket, Drag Strip panicked and fell over when they were attacked by Mega-Jazz. Treasure Competition! Defeat with Block Power!

Toys

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Timelines

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For the love of everything, watch the thumbs.
  • The Stunti-Con-Job (Box set, 2011)
  • Accessories: 2 swords, left & right wings
A redeco of Deluxe Class Animated Arcee, Drag Strip transforms from a yellow and black robot to a Cybertronic "rocket car." She comes with two wings, which can be attached at the rear of her vehicle mode (or her robot mode back), and two swords, which can be held in her hands or stored securely in shafts in the rear of her vehicle mode (or atop her shoulder kibble). Some have reported, with the Arcee figure, the swords fit loosely, though they are designed to click into place—albeit with a certain amount of fiddling in some cases.
She was only available as part of the BotCon 2011 box set, which also includes The Motor Master, Wildrider, Breakdown, and Dead End.
This mold was also the basis for the Japanese-card-reader-game-only Chromia, and was retooled into Animated Minerva.

Notes

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  • Drag Strip was the third character to be revealed for the BotCon 2011 set, on February 10, 2011. Her selection for unveiling as the third Stunticon was determined by a fan vote on multiple Transformers fansites, in which respondents had a choice between Drag Strip or Wildrider. Since everyone was already pretty sure Wildrider would be a Lockdown repaint, but were nowhere near as certain what to expect from Drag Strip, desire to find out led Drag Strip to win out on nearly every site that ran a poll, with the estimated total votes favoring Drag Strip nearly 2 to 1<ref>http://tf-timelines.deviantart.com/blog/37573271/</ref>.
  • Shortly before unveiling Drag Strip, BotCon's Twitter feed published a link to YouTube for the trailer of [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Kill Bill|{{#if:||Kill Bill}}]], which is a movie featuring a kick-ass sword-wielding woman wearing a yellow jumpsuit, and a yellow truck with purple/red detailing known as "The Pussy Wagon".<ref>BotCon Twitter link to Kill Bill trailer</ref>
  • While Arcee's character model had already been updated for the third season of the cartoon to look more like her toy, Drag Strip's model goes even further, adding the toy's clip-on wings and the vehicle kibble on her forearms.
  • Morgan Lofting's Drag Strip voice sounds like an evil British Commonwealth lady. Think Zarana.

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