Mixing

Mixing is an Autobot Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.

The Build Team's Mixing (ミキシング Mikishingu) is... a little disturbed. He shares Road Police's hobby of gun-collecting, only moreso. He knows all manner of guns inside and out, both Cybertronian and of alien construction, and spends his free time modifying human firearms so he can use them. However...at his core, he's a pacifist, with an odd ideal theory that if he could simply obtain all guns ever, there would be no war. (He is apparently blissfully unaware of Humanity's wonderful history of atrocities committed before gunpowder was invented.)

He also has an evil counterpart running around.

Fiction

Micromaster

Mixing 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. Sireen noted from the reports of the attacks that the clone of Mixing called himself Mixmaster. 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, the Build Team helped excavate at Mount St. Hilary, finding some mysterious Cybertronian relics and technology. Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!!

Operation Combination

Years later, Mixing 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.

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, Mixing transforms into a Renault Saviem J cement mixer truck. He can also form a leg to any of the similar-build Six-Teams (Sixturbo and Sixwing), though his nominal placement is as Sixbuilder's left leg.

The toy's larger connector socket is approximately 5mm wide, making Mixing compatible with so many toys... and theoretically making him able to form a Six-combiner arm, but the only fists that can actually attach to him belong to Sixturbo, and their long "shield" parts mean they have to be tilted into a basically useless position, plus the result is a super-stumpy arm.

He was only available as part of a complete Sixbuilder gift set, packed with his teammates Crush-Bull, Digger, Gran Arm, Iron Lift, 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 Quickmix and the evil half of Mixing.

• More information on Mixing at TFU.info
• Mixing toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk

Micromaster

• Mixing (Micromaster, 2003)

• ID number: 6
• Accessories: Sixbuilder left foot

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; Mixing 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 Mixing came in the same box and with the same packaging as the normal version.

• More information on reissue Mixing at TFU.info
• Reissue Mixing toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk
• Translation of Mixing's Micromaster bio by Doug Dlin

Notes

• Mixing, 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.