Slammer

Slammer is an Autobot drone from the Generation 1 continuity family.
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For a drone controlled by Metroplex, Slammer does not do much. He is usually seen in the form of Metroplex's left rear tower, though he is rarely seen in tank form.

Sometimes, Slammer is a sentient Transformer armed with the power of the C.O.M.B.A.T. technology.

Fiction

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Marvel The Transformers comics

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Metroplex can maintain control of Slammer over a maximum range of 40 miles. Slammer's cannon shoots explosive rocket-propelled mortar shells with a range of 1.5 miles. Metroplex's Universe profile

Generation 1 cartoon continuity

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The Transformers cartoon

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Voice actor: Chris Latta (English; Slammer never spoke, but Latta was cast for the part.){{#if: |, {{{2}}}}}
Slammer at left, with his alliterative domestic partners

Slammer was often seen when Autobot City looked like Metroplex's city mode, which was usually right before or after Metroplex transformed. When in tank mode, Slammer was accompanied by his partners Scamper and Six-Gun.

Slammer appeared alongside Scamper and Six-Gun when the latter interrogated the Dinobots and Sky Lynx over the recent theft of famous monuments. Thief in the Night

Later, Slammer and Scamper responded to Swindle's intrusion of Metroplex, but were disabled when the Decepticon blew a hole in the floor, causing them to crash. The Ultimate Weapon

Legends comic

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When Metroplex was rebuilt in a new body, Slammer was incorporated as a stationary cannon normally hidden inside his right arm. Metroplex used his firepower to defeat Metrotitan, then took him with him to the Legends World where Slammer and his other components assured him they'd always be together. LG-EX Metroplex

War for Cybertron Trilogy marketing material

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Closer than ever to reaching the AllSpark, the Autobots awakened after crash-landing on pre-Ice Age Earth. While battling the Decepticons, both sides were joined by the Maximals and Predacons, their epic battle changing their combined destinies.

Slammer's function was a combat drone, and he trans-scanned into a tank/tower. His Weaponizer ability and heavy artillery were his powers and weapons, and his core traits were being obedient, passive, and formidable. Slammer's message from the future was that he is part of something larger. Kingdom webpage<ref>Kingdom webpage</ref>

Toys

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The Transformers

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He still has nightmares about being thrown at stacks of Pogs back in the '90s.
  • Metroplex (Autobot City, 1986)
  • Takara ID number: C-70
  • Known designers: Kōjin Ōno (TakaraTomy){{#if: |, {{{2}}}}}
Released in the third year of the original The Transformers toyline (second in the European and Japanese toylines), Slammer is a small tank unit composed of one of Metroplex's city-mode towers with a cannon turret added on. Due to the peg used to let him become a tower, he can replace one of Metroplex's fists to act as an arm cannon of sorts.
Unlike most tanks in the toyline, Slammer lacks the usual small hidden wheels on the underside that would let him roll around. So don't try to roll him around.
Naturally, he was only available packed in with Metroplex (as well as Six-Gun and Scamper).
This mold was also used to make Metrotank.

Encore

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  • ID number: 12
  • Release date: September ??, 2008
The twelfth release in Takara's Encore reissue line, this release of Metroplex naturally comes with Slammer. However, this version of the little tank has been slightly retooled, allowing his nominally-set-aside-in-tower-mode gun turret to become the top of a building for Metroplex's city mode.

Legends

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  • Metroflex (Metroplex) (Titan, 2018)
The Takara Generations release of "Metroflex" was reissued as a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive under the Legends line, to commemorate the release of Legends Dinosaurer. The Generations incarnation of Metroplex only includes Scamper as a companion figure, but in the accompanying mini-comic, the flip-out turret on Metroplex's left arm was repurposed as actually being Slammer.

War for Cybertron: Kingdom

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It's actually: "Technical Guttural Slamming Brutal Death Metal".
  • Autobot Slammer (Deluxe Class, 2021)
Part of the fifth and final wave of War for Cybertron: Kingdom Deluxe Class toys, "Autobot Slammer" has finally gained a robot mode of his own, transforming into a bulkier version of his original tank form. He is a heavy partial retool of Earthrise Ironworks<ref>Transformers Thursday 11/18/21 Reveals: "Autobot Slammer is a heavy partial of Ironworks, featuring 5 new tools!"</ref>: he only re-uses the hips, thighs, and shoulder swivel/peg of Ironworks, and everything else appears to be entirely new. His deco seems to be heavily inspired by the unofficial Toyhax "upgrade" sticker set for the original Slammer, most notably with its black-painted details and stripes, the silver turret tip, and the silver turret hatches.
Slammer is also a Siege-style "Weaponizer", able to split apart into weapons and armor for other figures to utilize via the C.O.M.B.A.T. System (aka "a bunch of 5 mm posts and holes"). His stock photography shows how the treads can be removed from his back and combined to form an arm-mounted chainsaw, and the rest of him can be taken apart to form boots, a cannon, and back-mounted (non-firing) missile pods. On the packaging, this is demonstrated with the concurrently-released Autobot Pipes, while the instructions instead feature Kingdom Wheeljack.
Speaking of Wheeljack, Slammer's instructions contain an error concerning him. In the sequence showing how to weaponize Wheeljack with Slammer's parts, step 2 shows Wheeljack's spoiler halves being removed… but in step 3, they're reattached. In step 4 they're magically gone again, and stay that way. In other paperwork screw-uppery, his box-back product renders show him with white thighs instead of the black ones the toy actually has.
Slammer is intended to accompany Thrilling 30 Metroplex, who is covered in 5 mm ports that Slammer's parts can be plugged into—in particular, by putting the gun barrel connector on the back of the tank and standing him up so he plugs into Metroplex's shoulder, he can form a battle tower for Metroplex's city mode.<ref>TFW2005 — Transformers Team Studio Series 12/21 Roundtable Recap</ref> With Metroplex having been released some eight years prior, this feature is not documented in Slammer's instructions or stock photography.
The small connector used to attach the tank barrel to the arms in tank mode is widely reported to be extremely loose, with virtually no tension working to hold the part in place. Unfortunately, the tank barrel is too wide to hold blast effects securely.
Slammer was officially revealed via a preorder listing page at BigBadToyStore and Entertainment Earth in late September 2021, with no public announcement from Hasbro. In Japan, he was released as a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive.

Merchandise

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Transformers Trading Card Game

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  • Slammer, Combat Drone (2018)
    • Wave 1A: Metroplex Deck
    • Rarity: RT
    • Card Number: T04/T04
    • Stars: 4
Slammer, Combat Drone is one of three standard sized character cards included with the Metroplex Deck. Unlike most cards included in the Transformers Trading Card Game, Slammer, Combat Drone only has art on one side in order to reflect the character's status as a non-transforming drone. The card was included in a ready to play box set, along with Metroplex, Autobot City, Scamper, City Patrol, Six-Gun, Heavy Weapons Expert, and a 40 card battle deck.

Notes

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Foreign names

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  • Japanese: Slemmer (スレマー Suremā), Slammer (スラマー Suramā)

References

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