Crash Test (G2)

This article is about the Decepticon Go-Bot. For the Camien Torchbearer, see Crash Test (G1).

Crash Test is a Decepticon Go-Bot from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Here you go, way too fast. Don't slow down, you're gonna crash.

Crash Test is a Decepticon sharpshooter.

Fiction

Renegade Rhetoric

A member of Megatron's Renegade Decepticons, Crash Test followed her leader out of their home reality. On Earth in a new reality, Nightracer and Crash Test raided a Sumdac Systems research facility in a new reality. The Autobot Spy Changers arrived to investigate, only to be confronted by the Society of Ultimate Villainy. Renegade Rhetoric (2), 2016/05/05 Next, Crash Test and Rumble infiltrated the International Exhibition Center in Metro City to steal Professor Morris's Brainwave Scanner. Renegade Rhetoric (2), 2016/05/09 With all their stolen materials, the Renegade Decepticons upgraded themselves into the second generation of Go-Bots. Crash Test shared the same body-type as Wheeljack. The Go-Bots were now equipped with integrated flight circuits and hand blasters, which they used to drive the Autobots into retreat. Renegade Rhetoric (2), 2016/05/12

Megatron's attempt to corrupt Optimus Prime's personality using the Brainwave Scanner turned the tables on him. "Nemesis Prime" proved to be just as ruthless and power-hungry as Megatron, leading to a split in the Go-Bots' faction. Crash Test and Frenzy sided with Nemesis Prime and abandoned Megatron's Decepticons. Renegade Rhetoric (2), 2016/05/19

Crash Test's Go-Bots attempted to steal the power of the D-5 super-locomotive. When the Autobot Spy Changers foiled them, however, Nemesis Prime was put in a position where he threatened human life directly. This overcame his brainwashing, and the restored Optimus Prime defeated Crash Test and Frenzy. Renegade Rhetoric (2), 2016/07/14

Of Masters and Mayhem

Crash Test was part of a team of Decepticons which broke Counterpunch out of incarceration on Gargoid. Upon meeting him, Crash Test crowed to her comrades that he was waiting for them just as she had predicted. The Decepticons proceeded to slaughter their way through the Autobots there, but Crash Test ended up being downed by a shot from Counterpunch's Punch personality. The Truth We Make

Toys

Generation 2

Mmm Mmm Mmm Mmm, that's a rare toy.

• ??? (Go-Bot, 1995)
  • Accessories: Rifle

• Known designers: Masakatsu Saito (concept artist)

The toy which ultimately became the basis of the character Crash Test was originally a canceled Generation 2 Go-Bot, transforming into a Porsche 962 Le Mans-style race car: specifically, a Kremer Racing 962CK6. As with its fellow "new"-mold teammates, the figure's rifle stores under the car mode. It was given the ad hoc designation "GTP Racer" in the BotCon 1996 "Toys For Tots" charity auction listings, but the character it was intended to represent remains unknown.

The GTP Racer mold ultimately saw the light of day as Robots in Disguise Daytonus and later as the 2003 Universe incarnation of Wheeljack.

The Generation 2 character proceeded far enough along in development to receive dedicated package art (at top), which would eventually be published in Legacy: The Art of Transformers Packaging under the placeholder identification "4X", alongside those of Rumble, Hound, and "911".

Your bargaining posture is highly dubious. Proceed on your way to oblivion. This item has been canceled, with no current plans for release.

Notes

• "Crash Test" was a preliminary name of Combiner Wars Dust Up. The unvisualized IDW character was named from the same source.
• Of Masters and Mayhem Crash Test was originally to be named "Oil Slick", but that was changed thanks to the name being prominently used in another Of Masters and Mayhem story.