Crush-Bull

Crush-Bull is an Autobot Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.

Crush bull and work into a fine paste. Add a dash of lemon.

Crush-Bull (クラッシュブル Kurasshu Buru) is the leader of the Build Team. He's strong and deeply committed to following routine when on the job. Combine this with his deep-rooted emotional side, and he can be tricked a little too easily.

He also has an evil counterpart running around.

Fiction

Japanese Generation 1 cartoon continuity

Micromaster

Crush-Bull was one of several Cyberdroids in stasis at the Autobot Micromasters' Earth base. During a particularly pitched battle with the Decepticon Sixwing in Berserker Mode, the capsules containing the Build Team took a shock, activating them. A little while later, Micromasters resembling the Build Team were spotted wrecking human construction sites. The Build Team soon confronted them in Sixbuilder mode... only for the impostors to do the same! The green Decepticon Sixbuilder announced that the two teams were actually halves of the original whole, and that he would rejoin with Sixbuilder only after all the other Autobots had been destroyed. Sixbuilder the Ill-Fated Warrior!?

Later, after Sixtrain beat back the Decepticons at an excavation site by a dormant volcano, the Build Team began their own investigation, wondering what the Decepticons were digging up. When Raise discovered two pieces of metal, one of which bore a strange purple insignia, Crush-Bull's quick analysis revealed that both were Cybertronian in origin. Realizing something incredibly important was buried there, but not sure what, the Autobots begin to defend the site from Decepticon attacks. Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!!

The Autobots established a new headquarters, Metrobase, at the foot of Mount St. Hillary to protect the ruins from Decepticon attacks. During another excavation of the site, Joe, Crush-Bull, and Converter unearthed a strange pod from the ruins, which emitted a mysterious radiation that tore open a rift in space and time. The radiation knocked the Micromasters offline, so they didn't see the six shapes which emerged through the tear... The Menace of Landcross's Combining Formation!

Operation Combination

Years later, Crush-Bull and the rest of the Six-team Micromasters joined Guard City and the Road Corps in defending Earth from the forces of the Decepticon High Regent Scrash. Operation Combination

None of the combiner team individuals ever actually show up as individuals, only as components of the combined robot modes.

Beast Wars: Uprising

Crush Bull and her teammate Gran Arm were lost after the deaths of their Micromaster squadmates. They found sanctuary with Sunstorm, a minister at the First Church of Primus in Dodecahex. For years, they served as his attendants and became as close as family. When the Vehicon Apocalypse came to Dodecahex, the Micromasters got the congregation to safety while Sunstorm sacrificed himself to cover their escape. Derailment

Toys

Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers

• Sixbuilder (Micromaster Six-Team, 1992)

• ID number: TF-01

Released in the eighth and final year of the original Takara Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers line under the Operation Combination banner, Crush-Bull transforms into an Acco Super Dozer. He can also form the chest or back of any of the similar-build Six-Teams (Sixturbo and Sixwing), though his nominal placement is as Sixbulder's back.

He was only available as part of a complete Sixbuilder gift set, packed with his teammates Digger, Gran Arm, Iron Lift, Mixing, and Treader.

The original Six-Teams are considered among the more difficult Japanese Generation 1 pieces to find, due to their final-year release well after Transformers had faded from relevance in Japan, and thus command some hefty prices even with the molds' later re-releases.

This mold was also used to make Universe Micromaster Bonecrusher and the evil half of Crush-Bull.

• More information on Crush-Bull at TFU.info
• Crush-Bull toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk

Micromaster

The actual toy is in a shade of blue-green that is seemingly impossible to recreate in RGB. Hell, even getting this close took extensive retouching. You're welcome.

• Crush-Bull (Micromaster, 2003)

• ID number: 1
• Accessories: Sixbuilder legs

In 2003, the entire Sixbuilder team was re-released as the fourth wave of The Transformers: Micromaster, in individual boxes with a number visible to show which mold was inside each box. For this release, the team was extensively redecoed; Crush-Bull went from light green to a deep aqua-green. Instead of stickers, he was instead covered with a whole new set of paint applications.

On top of this, two out of every twelve toys in the shipping/display case were in mostly-bright-green decos, as part of the Destron Sixbuilder chase figure. The evil half of Crush-Bull came in the same box and with the same packaging as the normal version.

• More information on Crush-Bull at TFU.info
• Crush-Bull toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk
• Translation of Crush-Bull's Micromaster bio by Doug Dlin

Notes

• Crush-Bull's name could also be romanized as "Crash-Bull".
• Crush-Bull, like all of the six-team Micromasters, had no individual bio information whatsoever until his Micromaster release a decade after his original Operation Combination release.
• According to Hasbro designer Joe Kyde's design notes on Hasbro's Transformers website, the original Crush-Bull was the inspiration for the Walmart exclusive movie-verse Transformer Grindcore.