Push-Button

Push-Button is an Autobot Action Master partner from the Generation 1 continuity family.

"This doesn't conform to the traditional Transformers aesthetic. Disown. Disown."

Push-Button is the hopelessly mis-matched Targetmaster partner to Mainframe. You see, while Mainframe is absolutely enthralled by programming and frequently uses Push-Button to debug his programs, Push-Button would rather be on the front lines, destroying Decepticons with his alternate proton rifle mode.

Fiction

Dreamwave Generation One continuity

On Cybertron, Push-Button served Kremzeek beverages and Energon goodies in the Autobase war room, just before Prowl briefed the assembled Autobots on threat Sunstorm posed to Earth. Original Sin

Toys

The Transformers

"He's getting away! Mainframe, quick, carry me up the stairs!"

• Mainframe with Push-Button (Action Master, 1990)

• Known designers: Masakatsu Saito (concept artist)

Part of the second wave of "basic" carded Action Masters, released in the seventh and final year of The Transformers in the US, Push-Button is an adorable little blue and yellow robot with treads instead of legs. He transforms via spring-loaded mechanism into a "proton rifle" that can be held by any Action Master figure, and can be enhanced with most Action Master rifles by plugging them into the end of his cannon barrel.

He was only available packed in with his partner Mainframe.

• More information on Push-Button at TFU.info

Notes

• The Action Master partner robots were given the "Targetmaster" classification retroactively by Dreamwave's More than Meets the Eye profile series.

Foreign names

• Italian: Orione ("Orion")