Hyperdrive (Turbomaster)

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Hyperdrive is an Autobot Turbomaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.
So Prime it hurts.

The rarely-seen Hyperdrive is the Supreme Commander of the Autobot army in the time of the Turbomasters, even out-ranking the "Commander-in-Chief" Thunder Clash.

He is really super-duper-heroic.

Fiction

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Ask Vector Prime

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In Primax 092.0 Beta, Hyperdrive was the head of the Elite Guard Academy before the Great War, teaching hundreds of Autobots who would become some of their greatest warriors, including Grimlock, Ultra Magnus, and even Optimus Prime. During the war, Hyperdrive helped thousands of neutrals flee from the town of Yuss. He also single-handedly defeated an entire battalion of Hunter-Seekers with a single shot from his Hyperion Cannon.

Hyperdrive chose to remain behind when the Ark departed from Cybertron. Knowing that the Decepticons would inevitably conquer their barren homeworld, he gathered an army of survivors and stormed Straxus's shipyards, successfully commandeering the Iron Hope and setting back the Decepticons from expanding their empire. With their new ship, Hyperdrive and his army set out across the galaxy to find a way to revitalize Cybertron. During their travels, they fought against Verminator and his army of petro-rabbits, rescued the S.S. Exton 9 from an infestation of space barnacles, and destroyed much of the navy of the Intruder Empire.

Millions of years later, Optimus Prime, after defeating a Nucleon-empowered Megatron, retired and passed the Matrix of Leadership on to Hyperdrive. As the Autobot leader, Hyperdrive took a less hands-on approach to the war and instead put Thunder Clash in charge of tactical decisions. After Skyquake obtained forestonite and nearly destroyed the Sol System, Hyperdrive, with his Apex Armor, and Rotorstorm faced off against him together and were able to defeat him.

He eventually passed on the Matrix to Pyro, though he still continued to fight regardless until the war finally ended. Some time after, Hyperdrive died of Corrodia Gravis. His death impacted many Autobots, and his legacy inspired many Maximals that would follow him. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/07/16

Toys

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Smoke me a kipper, I'll be back for breakfast

No toy of Hyperdrive was ever made, and no physical prototypes are known to exist either. He only seems to exist in art form.

Hyperdrive can be seen in one of the Megavisor slides of the Decepticon commander Skyquake. For years, the actual identity of this character was unknown (often initially being mistaken for Star Convoy), until concept art of Hyperdrive by Euro-G1 designer Masakatsu Saito was revealed in the Deluxe edition of TakaraTomy's G1 toyline encyclopedia Transformers Generations in 2004.

He clearly would have had the standard Turbomaster spring-loaded cannon gimmick... but what all else his toy would have done is unknown. The description in Generations simply states that he would have "stood above Thunder Clash".<ref>"Hyperdrive was a character planned as the showpiece or pinnacle for the 1992 European series of Transformers. He was to be the leader who stood above Thunder Clash. The mysterious warrior visible through Skyquake's scope is none other than Hyperdrive." - description of Hyperdrive by Kōji Igarashi in Transformers Generations Deluxe p. 113, translated by Amy Lipkowitz at the Obscure Transformers Website</ref>

The prevailing theory on why he was never produced is simple "cost"; he was planned to be the "pinnacle" of the 1992 assortment, which likely means he would have been huge... and the two big boys of the series, Thunder Clash and Skyquake, were already pretty hefty.

Notes

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  • According to Jim Sorenson, the universe where Hyperdrive's adventures occurred is the same one glimpsed through Skyquake's Megavisor.
  • Hyperdrive's personality was inspired by the 2005 IDW interpretation of Thunder Clash's larger than life heroism, altered to match the European G2 style of heroic leaders.<ref>Post by Verity Carlo on the Allspark Forums, 2017/02/12</ref>

References

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See also

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  • Big Bang, the other Generation 1 Supreme Commander that never was.
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