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{{factions|predacon}} | {{factions|predacon|decepticon<!--Earth Wars-->}} | ||
{{disambig3|Vertebreak}} | {{disambig3|Vertebreak}} | ||
:''Vertebreak is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] from the [[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].'' | :''Vertebreak is a [[Predacon (BW)|Predacon]] [[F.O.S.S.I.L. Technology|Fossilizer]] from the [[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]] portion of the [[Generation 1 continuity family]].'' | ||
[[File:Vertebreak-EarthWars.jpg|right|thumb|300px|She'll vertebreak your heart. And your femurs. And your spine.]] | |||
{{ | '''Vertebreak''' may be a fossil, but she's still brimming with primal beast power! Her slight, skeletal frame, uncoupled from the usual muscular might of other beasts, may make her appear to pose a lesser threat, but Vertebreak possesses every other trick in the book to compensate. Once you're in her jaws, she will never, ever let go.<ref>''Earth Wars'' Vertebreak bio</ref> | ||
==Games== | |||
===''Transformers: Earth Wars''=== | |||
{{charstubgame|{{storylink|Transformers: Earth Wars}}}} | |||
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==Toys== | ==Toys== | ||
==='' | ===''War for Cybertron: Kingdom''=== | ||
[[File:WFC-Kingdom Core Vertebreak.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Someday someone will dig up my dried up old bones; they'll say this poor man died of thirst in the desert alone.]] | [[File:WFC-Kingdom Core Vertebreak.jpg|upright=1.66|thumb|Someday someone will dig up my dried up old bones; they'll say this poor man died of thirst in the desert alone.]] | ||
<ul class=bp>{{bp-p1|'''Vertebreak''' (Core Class, [[2020]])}}</ul> | |||
:*''Hasbro ID number'': '''WFC-K3''' | |||
**''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''KD EX-02''' | :*''TakaraTomy name:'' '''Vertebreak''' (ヴァータブレイク ''Vātabureiku'') | ||
:*''TakaraTomy ID number'': '''KD EX-02''' | |||
:*''TakaraTomy release date'': [[2021]] [[April 24]] | |||
:*''Accessories'': Tail/"bone weapon"<ref name="listing">{{citesocial|link=https://hasbropulse.com/products/transformers-generations-war-for-cybertron-kingdom-core-class-wfc-k3-vertebreak|quote=Unleash the primal power of the beasts with this Predacon raptor fossil character, called Vertebreak! Figure features the skeletal form of a raptor and stands at the new Core Class scale! The 3.5-inch mini-figure allows fans to collect a mini dinosaur toy! This Core Class Predacon fossil toy converts between raptor fossil mode and robot fossil mode in 14 steps. Pull off the tail in raptor mode and use in robot mode as a cool bone weapon!|name=Hasbro|site=Hasbro Pulse|title=Transformers Generations War for Cybertron: Kingdom Core Class WFC-K3 Vertebreak|year=2020|month=09|day=26}}</ref> | |||
{{toydesigner|[[John Warden]] (Hasbro)}} | |||
:Part of the first wave of ''[[War for Cybertron: Kingdom|Kingdom]]'' Core Class figures, Vertebreak transforms from a ''Dracorex'' skeleton (wrongly referred to as a "raptor fossil" in product description)<ref name="listing"/> to a 3.5-inch tall robot and back. Her tail can detach in robot mode to use as a weapon or store on the robot mode's back. | |||
: | :Unlike Deluxe Class [[F.O.S.S.I.L. Technology|Fossilizer]] characters in ''Kingdom'', Vertebreak cannot disassemble into weapons and armor for other figures. | ||
: | :Vertebreak's tail is made of rubberized plastic similar to fire blast effects. As such, it can cause paint chipping (her hands, being painted, can fall issue to this) or potentially warped plastic. Similar to blast effects, it has also been reported that her tail can deteriorate and bond with the harder plastic used for most toy parts. This can lead it to stripping paint from the harder plastic on removal.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=I've left the rubbery weapon that Kingdom Vertebreak has in her hands, and after a while, I can confirm it's started to deteriorate the plastic surrounding her hand. It felt fairly tight to get out, and there's a bit of scarring inside the hand that held the weapon. Doesn't seem to have deteriorated the rest of the areas where the rubber connects to plastic (i.e. her beast mode jaw or her robot mode chestplate)... but just in case, be careful.|name=ApocalypseThruster|site=Transformers World 2005|title=PSA: NEW TOY PLASTIC CONDITION DISCOVERED (MELTED SOFT RUBBERY PARTS)|year=2021|month=06|day=12|link=https://www.tfw2005.com/boards/threads/psa-new-toy-plastic-condition-discovered-melted-soft-rubbery-parts.1107350/page-37#post-19230454}}</ref> | ||
:In Japan, Vertebreak was released as a [[TakaraTomy Mall]] exclusive. | :In Japan, Vertebreak was released as a [[TakaraTomy Mall]] exclusive. | ||
:This mold was redecoed into [[Dracodon]]. | :This mold was redecoed into [[Dracodon#Toys|Dracodon]]. | ||
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==Notes== | ==Notes== | ||
[[File:WFC-Kingdom-Vertebreak-art.jpg|upright=1|thumb|The Dragon <s>King</s> ''Queen'' of Hogwarts—uh, I mean, Cybertron.]] | |||
* At [[Hasbro PulseCon 2020]], Vertebreak was referred to using masculine pronouns.<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://youtu.be/Nk9MvMw5yWs?feature=shared&t=6375|quote=[Vertebreak] is one of my favorite guys because he's brand new. He's a Predacon. My, my little guy.|year=2020|month=09|day=26|name=John Warden|site=YouTube|title=Hasbro PulseCon 2020 Day 2}}</ref> By contrast, Vertebreak was referred to with feminine pronouns at a November 2020 virtual unboxing event.<ref>{{citesocial|quote=Vertebreak is one of the new characters introduced in Kingdom. She (yes, she according to Hasbro at the Kingdom unboxing event) is also one of the first figures in a new class of Transformers known as the "Core Class".|link=https://bwtf.com/toyreviews/generations/2019-20/vertebreak|name=Ben Yee|site=Ben's World of Transformers|title="Generations" War for Cybertron: Kingdom Vertebreak Toy Review|year=2020|month=11|day=23}}</ref> | |||
* Though Vertebreak doesn't disassemble as the properly labeled Fossilizer toys do, Dracodon was referred to as a Fossilizer at his unveiling at [[Hasbro Pulse Fan Fest 2021]].<ref>{{citesocial|link=https://www.youtube.com/live/jU1IRBw_9_c?feature=shared&t=3592|title=Hasbro Pulse FAN FEST 2021|name=Mark Maher|quote=[Dracodon] is pretty awesome. Radioactive bone Fossilizer.|year=2021|month=04|day=09}}</ref> | |||
*In a [[:File:PulseCon-Kingdom-promo-art.jpg|piece of promotional artwork]] for the ''Kingdom'' line, a mostly purple Vertebreak is shown with a different chest design, possibly reflecting an earlier stage of the character's development. | |||
* In real life, the status of ''Dracorex'' as a valid genus is controversial as the type specimen has been argued to actually just be a misclassified juvenile ''{{w|Pachycephalosaurus}}'' (a common issue in paleontology due to the frequency of immature animals looking quite different from their adult forms). | * In real life, the status of ''Dracorex'' as a valid genus is controversial as the type specimen has been argued to actually just be a misclassified juvenile ''{{w|Pachycephalosaurus}}'' (a common issue in paleontology due to the frequency of immature animals looking quite different from their adult forms). | ||
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[[Category:War for Cybertron: Kingdom Predacons]] | [[Category:War for Cybertron: Kingdom Predacons]] | ||
Latest revision as of 06:12, 29 October 2025
| The name or term "Vertebreak" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Vertebreak (disambiguation). |
- Vertebreak is a Predacon Fossilizer from the Kingdom portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.
Vertebreak may be a fossil, but she's still brimming with primal beast power! Her slight, skeletal frame, uncoupled from the usual muscular might of other beasts, may make her appear to pose a lesser threat, but Vertebreak possesses every other trick in the book to compensate. Once you're in her jaws, she will never, ever let go.[1]
Games
[edit]Transformers: Earth Wars
[edit]
Toys
[edit]War for Cybertron: Kingdom
[edit]
- Vertebreak (Core Class, 2020)
- Hasbro ID number: WFC-K3
- TakaraTomy name: Vertebreak (ヴァータブレイク Vātabureiku)
- TakaraTomy ID number: KD EX-02
- TakaraTomy release date: 2021 April 24
- Accessories: Tail/"bone weapon"[2]
- Known designers: John Warden (Hasbro)
- Part of the first wave of Kingdom Core Class figures, Vertebreak transforms from a Dracorex skeleton (wrongly referred to as a "raptor fossil" in product description)[2] to a 3.5-inch tall robot and back. Her tail can detach in robot mode to use as a weapon or store on the robot mode's back.
- Unlike Deluxe Class Fossilizer characters in Kingdom, Vertebreak cannot disassemble into weapons and armor for other figures.
- Vertebreak's tail is made of rubberized plastic similar to fire blast effects. As such, it can cause paint chipping (her hands, being painted, can fall issue to this) or potentially warped plastic. Similar to blast effects, it has also been reported that her tail can deteriorate and bond with the harder plastic used for most toy parts. This can lead it to stripping paint from the harder plastic on removal.[3]
- In Japan, Vertebreak was released as a TakaraTomy Mall exclusive.
- This mold was redecoed into Dracodon.
Notes
[edit]
- At Hasbro PulseCon 2020, Vertebreak was referred to using masculine pronouns.[4] By contrast, Vertebreak was referred to with feminine pronouns at a November 2020 virtual unboxing event.[5]
- Though Vertebreak doesn't disassemble as the properly labeled Fossilizer toys do, Dracodon was referred to as a Fossilizer at his unveiling at Hasbro Pulse Fan Fest 2021.[6]
- In a piece of promotional artwork for the Kingdom line, a mostly purple Vertebreak is shown with a different chest design, possibly reflecting an earlier stage of the character's development.
- In real life, the status of Dracorex as a valid genus is controversial as the type specimen has been argued to actually just be a misclassified juvenile Pachycephalosaurus (a common issue in paleontology due to the frequency of immature animals looking quite different from their adult forms).
Foreign names
[edit]- Japanese: Vertebreak (ヴァータブレイク Vātabureiku)
References
[edit]- ↑ Earth Wars Vertebreak bio
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 "Unleash the primal power of the beasts with this Predacon raptor fossil character, called Vertebreak! Figure features the skeletal form of a raptor and stands at the new Core Class scale! The 3.5-inch mini-figure allows fans to collect a mini dinosaur toy! This Core Class Predacon fossil toy converts between raptor fossil mode and robot fossil mode in 14 steps. Pull off the tail in raptor mode and use in robot mode as a cool bone weapon!"—Hasbro, Hasbro Pulse, "Transformers Generations War for Cybertron: Kingdom Core Class WFC-K3 Vertebreak", 2020/09/26
- ↑ "I've left the rubbery weapon that Kingdom Vertebreak has in her hands, and after a while, I can confirm it's started to deteriorate the plastic surrounding her hand. It felt fairly tight to get out, and there's a bit of scarring inside the hand that held the weapon. Doesn't seem to have deteriorated the rest of the areas where the rubber connects to plastic (i.e. her beast mode jaw or her robot mode chestplate)... but just in case, be careful."—ApocalypseThruster, Transformers World 2005, "PSA: NEW TOY PLASTIC CONDITION DISCOVERED (MELTED SOFT RUBBERY PARTS)", 2021/06/12
- ↑ "[Vertebreak] is one of my favorite guys because he's brand new. He's a Predacon. My, my little guy."—John Warden, YouTube, "Hasbro PulseCon 2020 Day 2", 2020/09/26
- ↑ "Vertebreak is one of the new characters introduced in Kingdom. She (yes, she according to Hasbro at the Kingdom unboxing event) is also one of the first figures in a new class of Transformers known as the "Core Class"."—Ben Yee, Ben's World of Transformers, ""Generations" War for Cybertron: Kingdom Vertebreak Toy Review", 2020/11/23
- ↑ "[Dracodon] is pretty awesome. Radioactive bone Fossilizer."—Mark Maher, "Hasbro Pulse FAN FEST 2021", 2021/04/09
