Silver Blaze

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Silver Blaze is an Autobot from the Generation 1 continuity family.
No, the lightsaber isn't mine.

Small and proud, Silver Blaze (シルバーブレイズ Shirubā Bureizu) is a speedy Autobot.

Fiction

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Wars comics

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Silver Blaze was a migrant worker who was sent from Cybertron to Earth to work on the Scramble City Project. When Hubcap caused a furor over the lesser status of his fellow crew on the freighter they were travelling on, Silver Blaze took offense at being demeaned for being a laborer. Not taking the insult lying down, Silver Blaze bragged that he was much faster than the Minibot.

When the ship went into red alert and Deerstalker and Arcee arrived to check on the situation, Silver Blaze notified them of the fact that the Project's blueprints were stolen. Metrowars: Spy

Toys

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The Transformers

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A popular ship ever since IDW took over Sonic.
  • Bumblebee (Mini-Vehicle, 1985)
  • Cliffjumper (Mini-Vehicle, 1985)
Silver Blaze is based on the white variant of the "Porsche Type" Motorized Transformer. Released in the early part of the second year of the original The Transformers toyline, the "Motorized Transformers" (see Mini-spy#Notes) were packed in with the re-releases of the six first-year Mini-Cars (now dubbed "Mini-Vehicles"). These were the first toys to debut with heat-sensitive rubsigns, and the only way to determine whether a given Motorized Transformer toy was an Autobot or Decepticon was by rubbing said rubsign. They also use a pull-back motor to zip along smooth surfaces. They're just packed with gimmicky goodness, especially considering that they were freebie pack-ins.
Sealed specimens that have survived to the modern day suggest that the color apparently depended on the figure they were packed with (it's possible that the faction also depended on the Mini-Car figure, but that's almost impossible to tell at this point); white came with Bumblebee and Cliffjumper.
On top of that, each model has three multi-part variations centered around the pull-back assembly:
  • The seemingly most common version of each toy has an angled motor casing with 8-spoke rear hubcaps and "DUNLOP"-branded tires.
  • Rarer variants have rounded casing with a shallower, more complicated hubcap pattern and "GOODYEAR"-branded tires. This matches the pre-Transformers versions of the toys previously released by Takara.
  • Rounded-casing versions may also have blank tires with no branding whatsoever. It is uncertain at this point which is the rarer round-casing version.
These toys seem especially susceptible to yellowing. Why is unclear, but there is an undeniable difference in the feel of the plastic they're made out of. Thus it's very possible they used a less durable/chemically-stable plastic than the normal Transformers toys were made out of, what with being fairly complex freebies added to already-not-expensive offerings, likely produced at different factories than normal Transformers toys by the "Koma" company.

Notes

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  • Following Deerstalker's [[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}Sherlock Holmes|{{#if:||Sherlock Holmes}}]] theming, Silver Blaze is named after the story "[[wikipedia:{{#if:|:}}The Adventure of Silver Blaze|{{#if:||The Adventure of Silver Blaze}}]]".
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