Scattershot gun

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The Stunticon terrorist Wildrider is armed with a destructive scattershot gun that sprays laser beams over wide areas.

Fiction

Marvel The Transformers comics

In robot mode Wildrider used a scattershot gun, which could spray a fifty-square yard area with searing, ripping laser beams at a distance of ¼ mile and could demolish a small 5-story building in two minutes. Wildrider's Universe profile

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

As a robot, Wildrider carried a scattershot gun that fired an erratic flurry of laser beams, filling an area of 50 square feet over a distance of ¼ mile and capable of destroying a building in a fraction of a breem. Wildrider's More than Meets the Eye profile

Toys

The Transformers

• Wildrider (Stunticon, 1986)

• Accessories: scattershot gun, plasma-energy blaster, connector

The Transformers Wildrider came with a small black scattershot gun, according to his instructions and packaging bio.

This toy also available as a Menasor giftset and was reissued in 1990 as part of the European/Australian Classics line.

Notes

• Wildrider's bios of his Generation 1 toys released in Japanese markets have his scattershot gun roughly translated into laser shotgun.
• Wildrider was planned to be redecoed for release in the Generation 2 toyline in 1994 but this toy was ultimately cancelled. However, some packaged samples have found their way onto the secondary market over the years and while Generation 2 Wildrider's packaging bio doesn't mention his scattershot gun by name, his robot mode weapons are still described as spraying laser beams over a wide area.
• Wildrider's Dreamwave More than Meets the Eye profile seriously narrows the spread of his weapon's beams compared to his Marvel Universe profile: 50 square feet is around 4.65 m² while 50 square yards is nearly 42 m².

See also

• Scatter blaster