Oil Slick (Classics) - Revision history

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	'''Oil Slick''' is a member of the [[Dirt Digger Team]], a band of rowdy roughnecks whose backwoods mannerisms mask their incredible skill as spies. He is their go-to 'bot for building all manners of contraptions, as he is oh-so-good at turning even the most innocuous of mechanisms into a lethal weapon. Strangely, he never uses his complex inventions for himself. For Oil Slick, the simplest of weapons is the most satisfying, and he gets a rush out of causing a lot of destruction with very little at his disposal. On his free time, he goes on crime sprees so that he can get chased around by the authorities and cause as much mayhem as possible.<ref>Oil Slick's profile in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 17\|Club magazine #17]]</ref>		'''Oil Slick''' is a member of the [[Dirt Digger Team]], a band of rowdy roughnecks whose backwoods mannerisms mask their incredible skill as spies. He is their go-to 'bot for building all manners of contraptions, as he is oh-so-good at turning even the most innocuous of mechanisms into a lethal weapon. Strangely, he never uses his complex inventions for himself. For Oil Slick, the simplest of weapons is the most satisfying, and he gets a rush out of causing a lot of destruction with very little at his disposal. On his free time, he goes on crime sprees so that he can get chased around by the authorities and cause as much mayhem as possible.<ref>Oil Slick's profile in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 17\|Club magazine #17]]</ref>

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	==Fiction==		==Fiction==
	===''Classics''===		===''Classics''===
			[[File:TheNewWorld OilSlick.JPG\|left\|thumb\|]]
	Oil Slick was one of the dissatisfied Mini-Cons recruited by [[Broadside (Classics)\|Broadside]] to oppose the return of the Autobots to Cybertron. Along with his partners [[Grindor (Classics)\|Grindor]] and Dirt Rocket, Oil Slick sneaked into the [[trans-hyperwave caster tower]] to change the [[Data-Con\|data-con]] signal being broadcast into space. By altering the message to declare Cybertron quarantined, Broadside's followers hoped to deter the [[Bulk]]s from returning.		Oil Slick was one of the dissatisfied Mini-Cons recruited by [[Broadside (Classics)\|Broadside]] to oppose the return of the Autobots to Cybertron. Along with his partners [[Grindor (Classics)\|Grindor]] and Dirt Rocket, Oil Slick sneaked into the [[trans-hyperwave caster tower]] to change the [[Data-Con\|data-con]] signal being broadcast into space. By altering the message to declare Cybertron quarantined, Broadside's followers hoped to deter the [[Bulk]]s from returning.

	~~[[File:TheNewWorld OilSlick.JPG\|upright=1\|thumb\|]]~~

	Unfortunately, they were caught by the suspicious [[Dinobot (Classics)\|Dinobot]], [[Hacksaw]]. Oil Slick's boys triple-teamed Hacksaw, but a combination of brute strength and dirty fighting carried the Dinobot through the battle. Broadside arrived and had his own fierce (and climactic) fight with Hacksaw, but by then the damage had been done... no new signal would be broadcast. Broadside ordered Oil Slick and the Dirt Digger Team to go underground while he tried to find a way to spin the night's events to his advantage. {{storylink\|The New World}}		Unfortunately, they were caught by the suspicious [[Dinobot (Classics)\|Dinobot]], [[Hacksaw]]. Oil Slick's boys triple-teamed Hacksaw, but a combination of brute strength and dirty fighting carried the Dinobot through the battle. Broadside arrived and had his own fierce (and climactic) fight with Hacksaw, but by then the damage had been done... no new signal would be broadcast. Broadside ordered Oil Slick and the Dirt Digger Team to go underground while he tried to find a way to spin the night's events to his advantage. {{storylink\|The New World}}
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	===Ask Vector Prime===		===Ask Vector Prime===
	In [[Aurex 615.03 Epsilon]], Oil Slick was one of several Decepticon-aligned [[Mini-Con]]s dispatched on board the ''[[Doomsday]]'' the [[Beast Wars (event)#Ask Vector Prime\|Beast Wars]] of [[Alpha Q's universe]]. {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook\|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/23}}		In [[Aurex 615.03 Epsilon]], Oil Slick was one of several Decepticon-aligned [[Mini-Con]]s dispatched on board the ''[[Doomsday]]'' the [[Beast Wars (event)#Ask Vector Prime\|Beast Wars]] of [[Alpha Q's universe]]. {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook\|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/23}}
	~~{{-}}~~

	==Toys==		==Toys==

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	{{disambig3\|Oil Slick}}		{{disambig3\|Oil Slick}}
	:''Oil Slick is a [[Decepticon]]-allied [[Mini-Con]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family\|Generation 1]] and [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[Continuity family\|continuity families]].''		:''Oil Slick is a [[Decepticon]]-allied [[Mini-Con]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family\|Generation 1]] and [[Unicron Trilogy continuity family\|Unicron Trilogy]] [[Continuity family\|continuity families]].''
	[[File:~~TheNewWorld~~ OilSlick.~~JPG~~\|upright=1.2\|thumb\|Just a good ol' boy, always meaning some harm.]]		[[File:OilSlick Classics bio art.jpg\|upright=1.67\|thumb\|Just a good ol' boy, always meaning some harm.]]

	'''Oil Slick''' is a member of the [[Dirt Digger Team]], a band of rowdy roughnecks whose backwoods mannerisms mask their incredible skill as spies. He is their go-to 'bot for building all manners of contraptions, as he is oh-so-good at turning even the most innocuous of mechanisms into a lethal weapon. Strangely, he never uses his complex inventions for himself. For Oil Slick, the simplest of weapons is the most satisfying, and he gets a rush out of causing a lot of destruction with very little at his disposal. On his free time, he goes on crime sprees so that he can get chased around by the authorities and cause as much mayhem as possible.<ref>Oil Slick's profile in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 17\|Club magazine #17]]</ref>		'''Oil Slick''' is a member of the [[Dirt Digger Team]], a band of rowdy roughnecks whose backwoods mannerisms mask their incredible skill as spies. He is their go-to 'bot for building all manners of contraptions, as he is oh-so-good at turning even the most innocuous of mechanisms into a lethal weapon. Strangely, he never uses his complex inventions for himself. For Oil Slick, the simplest of weapons is the most satisfying, and he gets a rush out of causing a lot of destruction with very little at his disposal. On his free time, he goes on crime sprees so that he can get chased around by the authorities and cause as much mayhem as possible.<ref>Oil Slick's profile in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 17\|Club magazine #17]]</ref>
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	==Fiction==		==Fiction==
	===''Classics''===		===''Classics''===
	Oil Slick was one of the dissatisfied Mini-Cons recruited by [[Broadside (Classics)\|Broadside]] to oppose the return of the Autobots to Cybertron. Along with his partners [[Grindor (Classics)\|Grindor]] and Dirt Rocket, Oil Slick sneaked into the [[trans-hyperwave caster tower]] to change the [[data-con]] signal being broadcast into space. By altering the message to declare Cybertron quarantined, Broadside's followers hoped to deter the [[Bulk]]s from returning.		Oil Slick was one of the dissatisfied Mini-Cons recruited by [[Broadside (Classics)\|Broadside]] to oppose the return of the Autobots to Cybertron. Along with his partners [[Grindor (Classics)\|Grindor]] and Dirt Rocket, Oil Slick sneaked into the [[trans-hyperwave caster tower]] to change the [[Data-Con\|data-con]] signal being broadcast into space. By altering the message to declare Cybertron quarantined, Broadside's followers hoped to deter the [[Bulk]]s from returning.

	Unfortunately, they were caught by the suspicious [[Dinobot (Classics)\|Dinobot]], [[Hacksaw]]. Oil Slick's boys triple-teamed Hacksaw, but a combination of brute strength and dirty fighting carried the Dinobot through the battle. Broadside arrived and had his own fierce (and climactic) fight with Hacksaw, but by then the damage had been done...no new signal would be broadcast. Broadside ordered Oil Slick and the Dirt Digger Team to go underground while he tried to find a way to spin the night's events to his advantage. {{storylink\|The New World}}		[[File:TheNewWorld OilSlick.JPG\|upright=1\|thumb\|]]

			Unfortunately, they were caught by the suspicious [[Dinobot (Classics)\|Dinobot]], [[Hacksaw]]. Oil Slick's boys triple-teamed Hacksaw, but a combination of brute strength and dirty fighting carried the Dinobot through the battle. Broadside arrived and had his own fierce (and climactic) fight with Hacksaw, but by then the damage had been done... no new signal would be broadcast. Broadside ordered Oil Slick and the Dirt Digger Team to go underground while he tried to find a way to spin the night's events to his advantage. {{storylink\|The New World}}

	===Ask Vector Prime===		===Ask Vector Prime===
	In [[Aurex 615.03 Epsilon]], Oil Slick was one of several Decepticon-aligned [[Mini-Con]]s dispatched on board the ''[[Doomsday]]'' the [[Beast Wars (event)#Ask Vector Prime\|Beast Wars]] of [[Alpha Q's universe]]. {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook\|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/23}}		In [[Aurex 615.03 Epsilon]], Oil Slick was one of several Decepticon-aligned [[Mini-Con]]s dispatched on board the ''[[Doomsday]]'' the [[Beast Wars (event)#Ask Vector Prime\|Beast Wars]] of [[Alpha Q's universe]]. {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook\|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/23}}
			{{-}}

	==Toys==		==Toys==
	===''Classics''===		===''Classics''===
	[[File:Classics-toy OilSlick.jpg\|upright=1.67\|thumb\|Beats all you ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day he was [[Reproduction\|protoformed]].]]		[[File:Classics-toy OilSlick.jpg\|upright=1.67\|thumb\|Beats all you ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day he was [[Reproduction\|protoformed]].]]
	*'''Dirt Digger Team''' (Mini-Con Team, 2007)		<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1\|'''Dirt Digger Team''' (Mini-Con Team, 2007)}}</ul>

	: Oil Slick transforms into a genericized muscle car, a cross between a late 1960s Chevrolet Camaro, a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda, a 1970 Dodge Charger and a 1970 Dodge Coronet Super Bee. His robot-mode "hands" (actually a knife and a pincer-like claw) can be left deployed out of his grill in car mode. ~~He was only available as part of the Dirt Digger Team, part of the second wave of ''Classics''~~ Mini-~~Cons~~, ~~packaged with his teammates~~ [[~~Dirt Rocket (Classics)\|Dirt Rocket]] and [[Grindor (Classics)\|Grindor~~]].		: Released in the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Classics\|Classics]]'' Mini-Con three-packs, Oil Slick transforms into a genericized muscle car, a cross between a late 1960s Chevrolet Camaro, a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda, a 1970 Dodge Charger and a 1970 Dodge Coronet Super Bee. His robot-mode "hands" (actually a knife and a pincer-like claw) can be left deployed out of his grill in car mode. As a Mini-Con, he has a "[[Powerlinx]]" socket on the underside of his vehicle mode that allows him to attach to larger toys with compatible Powerlinx plugs.

	: He's pretty unstable when standing straight, as his feet are placed too far off to the front with his heels additionally being too short to support his back, with the result being that he often falls on said back. One ''could'' pose him to bend over to make him stable, but then he would end up staring at the ground.		: He's pretty unstable when standing straight, as his feet are placed too far off to the front with his heels additionally being too short to support his back, with the result being that he often falls on said back. One ''could'' pose him to bend over to make him stable, but then he would end up staring at the ground.

			: He was only available as part of the Dirt Digger Team, packaged with his teammates [[Dirt Rocket (Classics)#Toys\|Dirt Rocket]] and [[Grindor (Classics)#Toys\|Grindor]].

	: This mold was also used to make ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)\|Universe]]'' [[Makeshift (Universe)\|Makeshift]] and [[Iron Claw]].		: This mold was also used to make ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)\|Universe]]'' [[Makeshift (Universe)\|Makeshift]] and [[Iron Claw]].

The Wadapan: /* Notes */ trimming for relevance, it's quite possible he post-dated those plans

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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	* Oil Slick's alternate mode and base color were inspired by the {{w\|General Lee (car)\|General Lee}}, the car from the TV series ''{{w\|The Dukes of Hazzard}}''.		* Oil Slick's alternate mode and base color were inspired by the {{w\|General Lee (car)\|General Lee}}, the car from the TV series ''{{w\|The Dukes of Hazzard}}''.
	* Like all ''Classics'' Mini-Cons, Oil Slick was originally intended to be in a ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)\|Cybertron]]'' series Mini-Con two-pack. It is currently unknown what his intended name, allegiance, and pack-in partner would have been.
	* Oil Slick was never released in Japan, though a blue [[Prototype\|test shot]] was exhibited at [[Transformers Expo]] in [[2014]].<ref>https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/transformers-expo-masabon-report.998060/#post-11459846 Post on The TFW2005 Forums by Masaon, 9 August 2014</ref>		* Oil Slick was never released in Japan, though a blue [[Prototype\|test shot]] was exhibited at [[Transformers Expo]] in [[2014]].<ref>https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/transformers-expo-masabon-report.998060/#post-11459846 Post on The TFW2005 Forums by Masaon, 9 August 2014</ref>

Fritz: /* Toys */

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	==Toys==		==Toys==
	===Classics===		===''Classics''===
	[[File:Classics-toy OilSlick.jpg\|upright=1.67\|thumb\|Beats all you ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day he was [[Reproduction\|protoformed]].]]		[[File:Classics-toy OilSlick.jpg\|upright=1.67\|thumb\|Beats all you ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day he was [[Reproduction\|protoformed]].]]
	*'''Dirt Digger Team''' (Mini-Con Team, 2007)		*'''Dirt Digger Team''' (Mini-Con Team, 2007)

S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47 at 06:15, 28 March 2021

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	* Oil Slick's alternate mode and base color were inspired by the {{w\|General Lee (car)\|General Lee}}, the car from the TV series ''{{w\|The Dukes of Hazzard}}''.		* Oil Slick's alternate mode and base color were inspired by the {{w\|General Lee (car)\|General Lee}}, the car from the TV series ''{{w\|The Dukes of Hazzard}}''.
	* Like all ''Classics'' Mini-Cons, Oil Slick was originally intended to be in a ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)\|Cybertron]]'' series Mini-Con two-pack. It is currently unknown what his intended name, allegiance, and pack-in partner would have been.		* Like all ''Classics'' Mini-Cons, Oil Slick was originally intended to be in a ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)\|Cybertron]]'' series Mini-Con two-pack. It is currently unknown what his intended name, allegiance, and pack-in partner would have been.
			* Oil Slick was never released in Japan, though a blue [[Prototype\|test shot]] was exhibited at [[Transformers Expo]] in [[2014]].<ref>https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/transformers-expo-masabon-report.998060/#post-11459846 Post on The TFW2005 Forums by Masaon, 9 August 2014</ref>

	==References==		==References==

Fanofcoolstuff27 at 01:07, 18 February 2021

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	==Fiction==		==Fiction==
	===''Classics''===		===''Classics''===
	Oil Slick was one of the dissatisfied Mini-Cons recruited by [[Broadside (Classics)\|Broadside]] to oppose the return of the Autobots to Cybertron. Along with his partners [[Grindor (Classics)\|Grindor]] and Dirt Rocket, Oil Slick sneaked into the [[trans-hyperwave caster tower]] to change the [[data-con]] signal being broadcast into space. By altering the message to declare Cybertron quarantined, Broadside's followers hoped to deter the [[~~bulk~~]]s from returning.		Oil Slick was one of the dissatisfied Mini-Cons recruited by [[Broadside (Classics)\|Broadside]] to oppose the return of the Autobots to Cybertron. Along with his partners [[Grindor (Classics)\|Grindor]] and Dirt Rocket, Oil Slick sneaked into the [[trans-hyperwave caster tower]] to change the [[data-con]] signal being broadcast into space. By altering the message to declare Cybertron quarantined, Broadside's followers hoped to deter the [[Bulk]]s from returning.

	Unfortunately, they were caught by the suspicious [[Dinobot (Classics)\|Dinobot]], [[Hacksaw]]. Oil Slick's boys triple-teamed Hacksaw, but a combination of brute strength and dirty fighting carried the Dinobot through the battle. Broadside arrived and had his own fierce (and climactic) fight with Hacksaw, but by then the damage had been done...no new signal would be broadcast. Broadside ordered Oil Slick and the Dirt Digger Team to go underground while he tried to find a way to spin the night's events to his advantage. {{storylink\|The New World}}		Unfortunately, they were caught by the suspicious [[Dinobot (Classics)\|Dinobot]], [[Hacksaw]]. Oil Slick's boys triple-teamed Hacksaw, but a combination of brute strength and dirty fighting carried the Dinobot through the battle. Broadside arrived and had his own fierce (and climactic) fight with Hacksaw, but by then the damage had been done...no new signal would be broadcast. Broadside ordered Oil Slick and the Dirt Digger Team to go underground while he tried to find a way to spin the night's events to his advantage. {{storylink\|The New World}}

Locoman at 13:39, 22 June 2020

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	[[Category:Energon Mini-Cons]]		[[Category:Energon Mini-Cons]]
	~~[[Category:Multi-family characters]]~~
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	==Notes==		==Notes==
	* Oil Slick's alternate mode and base color were inspired by the ~~[[wikipedia:~~General Lee (car)\|General Lee]], the car from the TV series ''~~[[wikipedia:The Dukes of Hazzard~~\|The Dukes of Hazzard]]''.		* Oil Slick's alternate mode and base color were inspired by the {{w\|General Lee (car)\|General Lee}}, the car from the TV series ''{{w\|The Dukes of Hazzard}}''.
	* Like all ''Classics'' Mini-Cons, Oil Slick was originally intended to be in a ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)\|Cybertron]]'' series Mini-Con two-pack. It is currently unknown what his intended name, allegiance, and pack-in partner would have been.		* Like all ''Classics'' Mini-Cons, Oil Slick was originally intended to be in a ''[[Transformers: Cybertron (toyline)\|Cybertron]]'' series Mini-Con two-pack. It is currently unknown what his intended name, allegiance, and pack-in partner would have been.

S.H.I.E.L.D. Agent 47 at 02:31, 19 July 2016

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	===Ask Vector Prime===		===Ask Vector Prime===
	In [[Aurex 615.03 Epsilon]], Oil Slick was one of several Decepticon-aligned [[Mini-Con]]s dispatched on board the ''[[Doomsday]]'' the [[Beast Wars (event)#Ask Vector Prime\|Beast Wars]] of [[Alpha Q's universe]]. {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook\|Ask Vector Prime, 23/9/~~2015~~}}		In [[Aurex 615.03 Epsilon]], Oil Slick was one of several Decepticon-aligned [[Mini-Con]]s dispatched on board the ''[[Doomsday]]'' the [[Beast Wars (event)#Ask Vector Prime\|Beast Wars]] of [[Alpha Q's universe]]. {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook\|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/23}}

	==Toys==		==Toys==
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	[[Category:Energon Mini-Cons]]		[[Category:Energon Mini-Cons]]
			[[Category:Multi-family characters]]
	[[Category:Spies]]		[[Category:Spies]]

Ascendron at 19:29, 7 July 2016

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	[[File:TheNewWorld OilSlick.JPG\|upright=1.2\|thumb\|Just a good ol' boy, always meaning some harm.]]		[[File:TheNewWorld OilSlick.JPG\|upright=1.2\|thumb\|Just a good ol' boy, always meaning some harm.]]

	'''Oil Slick''' is a member of the [[Dirt Digger Team]], a band of rowdy roughnecks whose backwoods mannerisms mask their incredible skill as spies. He is their go-to 'bot for building all manners of contraptions, as he is oh-so-good at turning even the most innocuous of mechanisms into a lethal weapon. Strangely, he never uses his complex inventions for himself. For Oil Slick, the simplest of weapons is the most satisfying, and he gets a rush out of causing a lot of destruction with very little at his disposal. On his free time, he goes on crime sprees so that he can get chased around by the authorities and cause as much mayhem as possible.<ref>Oil Slick's profile in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 17\|Club magazine #16]]</ref>		'''Oil Slick''' is a member of the [[Dirt Digger Team]], a band of rowdy roughnecks whose backwoods mannerisms mask their incredible skill as spies. He is their go-to 'bot for building all manners of contraptions, as he is oh-so-good at turning even the most innocuous of mechanisms into a lethal weapon. Strangely, he never uses his complex inventions for himself. For Oil Slick, the simplest of weapons is the most satisfying, and he gets a rush out of causing a lot of destruction with very little at his disposal. On his free time, he goes on crime sprees so that he can get chased around by the authorities and cause as much mayhem as possible.<ref>Oil Slick's profile in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 17\|Club magazine #17]]</ref>

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	:''Oil Slick is a [[Decepticon]]-allied [[Mini-Con]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family\|Generation 1]] and [[Unicron Trilogy]] [[Continuity family\|continuity families]].''		:''Oil Slick is a [[Decepticon]]-allied [[Mini-Con]] from the [[Generation 1 continuity family\|Generation 1]] and [[Unicron Trilogy continuity family\|Unicron Trilogy]] [[Continuity family\|continuity families]].''
	[[File:~~TheNewWorld~~ OilSlick.~~JPG~~\|upright=1.2\|thumb\|Just a good ol' boy, always meaning some harm.]]		[[File:OilSlick Classics bio art.jpg\|upright=1.67\|thumb\|Just a good ol' boy, always meaning some harm.]]

	'''Oil Slick''' is a member of the [[Dirt Digger Team]], a band of rowdy roughnecks whose backwoods mannerisms mask their incredible skill as spies. He is their go-to 'bot for building all manners of contraptions, as he is oh-so-good at turning even the most innocuous of mechanisms into a lethal weapon. Strangely, he never uses his complex inventions for himself. For Oil Slick, the simplest of weapons is the most satisfying, and he gets a rush out of causing a lot of destruction with very little at his disposal. On his free time, he goes on crime sprees so that he can get chased around by the authorities and cause as much mayhem as possible.<ref>Oil Slick's profile in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 17\|Club magazine #17]]</ref>		'''Oil Slick''' is a member of the [[Dirt Digger Team]], a band of rowdy roughnecks whose backwoods mannerisms mask their incredible skill as spies. He is their go-to 'bot for building all manners of contraptions, as he is oh-so-good at turning even the most innocuous of mechanisms into a lethal weapon. Strangely, he never uses his complex inventions for himself. For Oil Slick, the simplest of weapons is the most satisfying, and he gets a rush out of causing a lot of destruction with very little at his disposal. On his free time, he goes on crime sprees so that he can get chased around by the authorities and cause as much mayhem as possible.<ref>Oil Slick's profile in [[Hasbro Transformers Collectors' Club issue 17\|Club magazine #17]]</ref>
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	==Fiction==		==Fiction==
	===''Classics''===		===''Classics''===
	Oil Slick was one of the dissatisfied Mini-Cons recruited by [[Broadside (Classics)\|Broadside]] to oppose the return of the Autobots to Cybertron. Along with his partners [[Grindor (Classics)\|Grindor]] and Dirt Rocket, Oil Slick sneaked into the [[trans-hyperwave caster tower]] to change the [[data-con]] signal being broadcast into space. By altering the message to declare Cybertron quarantined, Broadside's followers hoped to deter the [[Bulk]]s from returning.		Oil Slick was one of the dissatisfied Mini-Cons recruited by [[Broadside (Classics)\|Broadside]] to oppose the return of the Autobots to Cybertron. Along with his partners [[Grindor (Classics)\|Grindor]] and Dirt Rocket, Oil Slick sneaked into the [[trans-hyperwave caster tower]] to change the [[Data-Con\|data-con]] signal being broadcast into space. By altering the message to declare Cybertron quarantined, Broadside's followers hoped to deter the [[Bulk]]s from returning.

	Unfortunately, they were caught by the suspicious [[Dinobot (Classics)\|Dinobot]], [[Hacksaw]]. Oil Slick's boys triple-teamed Hacksaw, but a combination of brute strength and dirty fighting carried the Dinobot through the battle. Broadside arrived and had his own fierce (and climactic) fight with Hacksaw, but by then the damage had been done...no new signal would be broadcast. Broadside ordered Oil Slick and the Dirt Digger Team to go underground while he tried to find a way to spin the night's events to his advantage. {{storylink\|The New World}}		[[File:TheNewWorld OilSlick.JPG\|upright=1\|thumb\|]]

			Unfortunately, they were caught by the suspicious [[Dinobot (Classics)\|Dinobot]], [[Hacksaw]]. Oil Slick's boys triple-teamed Hacksaw, but a combination of brute strength and dirty fighting carried the Dinobot through the battle. Broadside arrived and had his own fierce (and climactic) fight with Hacksaw, but by then the damage had been done... no new signal would be broadcast. Broadside ordered Oil Slick and the Dirt Digger Team to go underground while he tried to find a way to spin the night's events to his advantage. {{storylink\|The New World}}

	===Ask Vector Prime===		===Ask Vector Prime===
	In [[Aurex 615.03 Epsilon]], Oil Slick was one of several Decepticon-aligned [[Mini-Con]]s dispatched on board the ''[[Doomsday]]'' the [[Beast Wars (event)#Ask Vector Prime\|Beast Wars]] of [[Alpha Q's universe]]. {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook\|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/23}}		In [[Aurex 615.03 Epsilon]], Oil Slick was one of several Decepticon-aligned [[Mini-Con]]s dispatched on board the ''[[Doomsday]]'' the [[Beast Wars (event)#Ask Vector Prime\|Beast Wars]] of [[Alpha Q's universe]]. {{storylink\|Ask Vector Prime#Facebook\|Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/23}}
			{{-}}

	==Toys==		==Toys==
	===''Classics''===		===''Classics''===
	[[File:Classics-toy OilSlick.jpg\|upright=1.67\|thumb\|Beats all you ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day he was [[Reproduction\|protoformed]].]]		[[File:Classics-toy OilSlick.jpg\|upright=1.67\|thumb\|Beats all you ever saw, been in trouble with the law since the day he was [[Reproduction\|protoformed]].]]
	*'''Dirt Digger Team''' (Mini-Con Team, 2007)		<ul class="iconlist">{{Bp-d1\|'''Dirt Digger Team''' (Mini-Con Team, 2007)}}</ul>

	: Oil Slick transforms into a genericized muscle car, a cross between a late 1960s Chevrolet Camaro, a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda, a 1970 Dodge Charger and a 1970 Dodge Coronet Super Bee. His robot-mode "hands" (actually a knife and a pincer-like claw) can be left deployed out of his grill in car mode. ~~He was only available as part of the Dirt Digger Team, part of the second wave of ''Classics''~~ Mini-~~Cons~~, ~~packaged with his teammates~~ [[~~Dirt Rocket (Classics)\|Dirt Rocket]] and [[Grindor (Classics)\|Grindor~~]].		: Released in the second wave of ''[[Transformers: Classics\|Classics]]'' Mini-Con three-packs, Oil Slick transforms into a genericized muscle car, a cross between a late 1960s Chevrolet Camaro, a 1970 Plymouth Barracuda, a 1970 Dodge Charger and a 1970 Dodge Coronet Super Bee. His robot-mode "hands" (actually a knife and a pincer-like claw) can be left deployed out of his grill in car mode. As a Mini-Con, he has a "[[Powerlinx]]" socket on the underside of his vehicle mode that allows him to attach to larger toys with compatible Powerlinx plugs.

	: He's pretty unstable when standing straight, as his feet are placed too far off to the front with his heels additionally being too short to support his back, with the result being that he often falls on said back. One ''could'' pose him to bend over to make him stable, but then he would end up staring at the ground.		: He's pretty unstable when standing straight, as his feet are placed too far off to the front with his heels additionally being too short to support his back, with the result being that he often falls on said back. One ''could'' pose him to bend over to make him stable, but then he would end up staring at the ground.

			: He was only available as part of the Dirt Digger Team, packaged with his teammates [[Dirt Rocket (Classics)#Toys\|Dirt Rocket]] and [[Grindor (Classics)#Toys\|Grindor]].

	: This mold was also used to make ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)\|Universe]]'' [[Makeshift (Universe)\|Makeshift]] and [[Iron Claw]].		: This mold was also used to make ''[[Transformers: Universe (2008 franchise)\|Universe]]'' [[Makeshift (Universe)\|Makeshift]] and [[Iron Claw]].