Alligaticon

This article is about the drone built from pieces of Optimus Prime. For the Quintesson guards, see Allicon.

Alligaticon is a drone from the cartoon portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

He's actually more of a Crocodilecon.

The Alligaticon is a Reptilicon drone made by the Constructicons from the remains of the disassembled Optimus Prime.

It was purportedly big and heavy.

We'd say a little of both.

Fiction

The Transformers cartoon

The Alligaticon was created by the Constructicons from the remains of the disassembled Optimus Prime after he was captured by the Decepticons. The creature was let loose into the sewers beneath New York City which was being redecorated into New Cybertron. Scrapper noted that they made good use of Prime's remains.

In the sewers, the drone encountered the Autobots Ratchet, Hound, Mirage, and Bumblebee, who believed it to be a simple mindless beast. They tricked it into an abandoned train, where it got trapped and sent down the tracks. It was only later that they realized that Optimus Prime had been disassembled after encountering his head in the Decepticon base. Hound finally realized why his scanner kept picking up Prime when the Alligaticon attacked.

They sought the creature again in the sewers, where they struggled to capture it until Prime used his remote controls to bring the beast in line. After that, Ratchet used the parts to reassemble Optimus Prime at the expense of the poor Reptilicon Alligaticon. Talk about animal cruelty. City of Steel

Kre-O online manga

The Decepticons reassembled the Alligaticon by stealing Optimus Prime's parts while he was sleeping. When they confronted the Autobots, Prime used his mental control of his body to disassemble the Alligaticon and reform a Mega-Optimus body for himself. Negligence Is the Greatest Enemy! Optimus Became a Monster!?

Merchandise

ULTIMATES!

• Alligaticon (ULTIMATES!, 2022)
  • Accessories: Optimus Prime head; Optimus Prime rifle; Decepticon tower tip w/ arm; Battle taxi

Part of the third wave of Transformers ULTIMATES! from Super7, the Alligaticon is a 10-inch-long non-transforming figure made to emulate the creature's cartoon model to pretty exacting detail (including the lack of detail on most of its flat surfaces). It makes ample use of multi-swivel joints to give its limbs a relatively wide range of motion, plus extensive tail jointing, a mid-body bend, some neck waggle, and an opening jaw.

It comes with multiple "City of Steel"-themed accessories, including a tower with Optimus's arm attached to it. The arm is permanently attached, but the hand uses the same wrist-joint as the individual Optimus figure, and can be popped off and replaced with his other hands if you like (Optimus's wrist-pegs are larger than many other figures', so sadly cross-compatibility is limited at best).

Preorders for the Alligaticon (and the rest of Wave 3) opened on December 1, 2021, with the toys projected to ship in fall 2022... and actually shipping in November 2023.

Notes

• Given the context, the Alligaticon is pretty clearly a reference to the urban legend of alligators in the sewers of New York.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Robot alligator
• French: Crocodilactican
• Portuguese: Jacaréticon (Brazil)

See also

• Alloygator