Impactor (Cloud)

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Impactor is an Autobot from the Cloud continuity.

Impactor is a member of Cloud World's Wreckers.

Fiction

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Cloud

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Impactor participated in Wreckers missions throughout the Spacetime World, fighting against threats like the Blentrons, Unicron, and the Questors. TFC-A04 With other Wreckers, he also fought against the newly reborn Hellwarp, but was easily defeated. TFC-D04

Toys

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Generations

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  • Impactor (Deluxe, 2013)
    • Series / Number: 01 / #014
    • PART 1 OF 5!
    • Accessories: Dual cannon, harpoon launcher, harpoon missile
Cloud Impactor was repurposed from Generations Impactor.
Part of the fourth wave of 2012-onwards Generations Deluxe Class toys, Fall of Cybertron Impactor is an orange and purple redeco and retool of Fall of Cybertron Onslaught, with a new robot head sculpt based on Nick Roche's rendition of Generation 1 Impactor in IDW's Last Stand of the Wreckers, and a new combiner head based on Emirate Xaaron. He transforms into a Cybertronian "missile carrier" truck.
Impactor comes with a twin-barreled cannon that can be attached to two small pegs on top of the vehicle mode, completing his "missile carrier" mode, and a brand new spring-loaded missile launcher accessory (with the missile shaped to resemble a harpoon) that can be attached on top of the twin-barreled cannon. Both weapons can be held via 5mm post, and feature additional pegs and peg-holes for mounting/storage.
In addition to his robot and vehicle modes, Impactor can also combine with his fellow Wreckers into Ruination, serving as the gestalt torso. The twin-barreled cannon can either be combined with the other Wreckers' weapons into a huge "phase cannon" for Ruination to wield, or the twin-barreled cannon can be attached to Ruination's back. As the result of a design flaw, two small tabs that are used to attach the cannon more securely are very prone to showing stress marks, and eventually breaking.
In addition to a tampographed orange regular Autobot insignia on his lower chest, Impactor also sports a tampographed light blue version of the "Wreckers" insignia from 3H's Wreckers and Universe comics. Oddly, even though both the official Hasbro stock photos that depict a hand-painted prototype (which are also featured on the back of the packaging) and the ones that depict a (pre)-production sample show the Wreckers insignia, at least one specimen from Asia sports a light blue regular Autobot insignia instead,<ref name="taiwan">TFW2005 thread with a Taiwan-based fan's photos of the Wreckers, depicting Impactor with a light blue regular Autobot insignia</ref> thus matching the one on display at Toy Fair 2013.<ref name="toyfair2013">Hasbro Fan Media Event 2013 at TFU.info.</ref>
This version of the mold was considered for The Fallen, but this Transformers Generations 2014 Volume 2 mail-away exclusive did not come to fruition. The original version of this mold was also used to make Generation 2 Onslaught.

Notes

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  • Impactor is a bit of an oddity among Cloud Wreckers in that he is not a virtual redeco nor included in the prose chapters.

References

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