Pick-Up (Bat-Robô)

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Pick-Up is possibly an Autobot from the Estrela portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
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Pick-Up is a Bat-Robô. He goes vroom, crashes, and then becomes an invincible robot!

Fiction

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Yolopark comics

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Pick-Up assisted the vengeful "Cliffjumper" in using Caretaker XII at Antrex to investigate the multiverse for other Cliffjumpers to kill. After Pick-Up noted that 99.98% of discovered Cliffjumpers were already dead, "Cliffjumper" decided to switch gears to rescuing them instead. A Cliffjumper(s) Tale

Toys

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Transformers

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File:Estrela-BatRobôPickUp.jpg
Comes in Palmeiras and Flamengo variants (Note: Stickers missing in robot modes).
  • Pick-Up (Bat-Robô, 1986?<ref>The Bat-Robô were not in Estrela's 1985 catalog, and were only advertised in Brazil's homegrown Transformers comics in issue 11 alongside the Optimus x Malignus toys, suggesting they were a later release.</ref>)
Released only in Brazil by Estrela, Pick-Up transforms into a Datsun Truck <ref>https://ameblo.jp/56780-05/entry-12553017556.html</ref>, sharing his engineering and play pattern with his wavemate Turbo. The toy features a friction-driven motor which, as part of its gimmick, is used to trigger its transformation. After pulling it back, the truck drives forward until it hits something with its front bumper, whereupon it springs up into robot mode and then will roll back the other way as a robot.
His transformation is straightforwardly basic, with his arms spreading out on impact and the truck's entire greenhouse being impulsed forward to reveal his legs. As it might almost seem self-evident from photos of this toy, he has virtually no articulation beyond being able to wiggle his arms up and down.
Unfortunately, as with Turbo (and, albeit to a less noticeable extent, the Eletrix), the adhesive in his stickers has a rather poor quality, and as a result, most copies of these toys will have usually already lost them a long while back. To make things worse, this glue also tends to liquefy with time, which results in most stickers that have somehow managed to hold onto their original figures being stained by a "wet" look that dissipates the original colors of the graphic details. <ref>A post on the decay of the Bat-Robô stickers, as well as a restoration attempt with repro stickers, from user David Nery in the Transformers Nova Cybertron Facebook group.</ref> While neither Turbo nor Pick-Up are particularly rare or expensive toys within the Brazilian secondary market, the sticker decay means that it is very, very difficult to find either of them in pristine condition.
Pick-Up was released simultaneously in orange/black/dark grey and green/blue/light grey color schemes. It is unknown which, if either, is more difficult to come by.

Notes

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  • The Pick-Up mold, much like his Bat-Robô brother Turbo, has a long and complicated history. More can be read here, but the gist of it is that these were originally made in Japan by the Asahi Corporation in 1984 but were actually first sold as the Pow-R-Trons by the Ertl Company in 1985, with Asahi only later launching their own toyline featuring these molds with Attack Change Machine Powertron.
    • Eventually, sometime in 1993, they would also make their way to fellow Brazilian toy manufacturer Glasslite, which would release Turbo as Turborg and Pick-Up as Blocker under the Crash Tron label as part of the Mutante toyline - which was, in itself, a localization of the GoBots (albeit it's still up in the air just how official this localization was), meaning that the Brazlian market actually saw the same toy being released as both a Transformer and a GoBot!
      • In the 2000s, Glasslite would even re-release these same molds now under the "Crashmon" name as part of their localized Digimon toyline. What do robots that transform into cars have to do with Digimon? Absolutely nothing, but really, who's gonna stop Glasslite from making the weirdest and most nonsensical choices in terms of toy repurposing... Besides themselves, as they sadly went bankrupt in 2005, right before giving us Gundam kits repurposed as Disney princesses or something of that sort.
  • It is uncertain what company Estrela licensed the Bat-Robô molds from, as the only copyright stamps on them are for Estrela itself (which state the toys were physically made in Brazil). In any event, the color schemes Estrela used appear to be unique to South America.
  • Due to the lack of faction symbols on the toy or packaging, it is not explicit what faction Pick-Up fights for. However, the toy does use Hasbro's Autobot style packaging, so we're going to default to Autobot.
  • Thanks to Estrela's habit of re-using names and only giving bios to about half their products, it's unclear just who this Pick-Up is. We're treating him as his own character, but it's possible he's a new version of Gears, who was named "Pick-Up" in Brazil. It's similarly unclear what relation either of these Pick-Ups have with the evil Malignus Pick-Up. Fun!

References

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