Drone rocket

Not content with just being the sonic boom guy, Thundercracker is also armed with powerful drone rockets and incendiary guns.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

Thundercracker could launch a drone rocket with a range of 500 miles that behaved similarly to a cruise missile, hitting with the concussive force of 3000 pounds of TNT. Thundercracker's Universe profile

During an altercation at a Brick Springstern concert at the Municipal Stadium, Skids took out one of Thundercracker's drone rockets with a blast of liquid nitrogen. Rock and Roll-Out!

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

In jet mode, Thundercracker was armed with two drone cruise missiles that flew for 500 miles and exploded with the force of 3,000 lbs. of TNT. Thundercracker's More than Meets the Eye profile

Toys

The Transformers

• Thundercracker (Decepticon Plane, 1984-1986)

• Accessories: left & right fists, 2 rocket launchers, 2 incendiary guns, 2 rockets, left & right wings, left & right tail fins, left & right tail wings, landing gear

The Transformers Thundercracker came with two blue missiles that were identified as rockets in his instructions, and as drone rockets in his packaging bio.

This mold was also used to make the simultaneously-released Starscream and Skywarp, and was later redecoed into Sunstorm. It was also retooled into Dirge, Ramjet, and Thrust, although Dirge and Ramjet came with entirely new weapons.

After Thundercracker ceased to be shipped to toy stores in 1986 he was available as a mail-away item, and has been reissued several further times down through the years. Of note, Commemorative Series Thundercracker came with retooled incendiary guns and rockets, making them much longer for safety reasons.

Cybertron

• Thundercracker (Deluxe, 2004/2005)

• Accessories: drone rocket, Earth Cyber Key

Cybertron Thundercracker came with a translucent orange missile, identified as a drone rocket on his packaging.

This mold was also used to make Cybertron Skywarp and live-action movie continuity Divebomb.

The original toy was also released in 2006 as part of a Target exclusive two-pack with Crosswise and as part of a Walmart exclusive Tiny Tins set with a special redeco of the Race Mini-Con Team member Downshift. In 2007 it was available as part of another Walmart exclusive double-pack under the Universe banner, packaged with Excellion.