Spy Streak

Spy Streak is a Vehicon from the Beast Machines portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

I don't need hands! Do I look like a dentist to you?

Spy Streak doesn't have much of a personality, but he certainly is tenacious. "Retreat" is a term he is unfamiliar with. Specialized armor, flying skills and a powerful armament assures he is able to hold his own in most fights he finds himself in.

To be fair, he has no hands, just a missile launcher and a giant clamp. His career options were pretty limited.

He is sometimes previously known as Attack Bird.

I am the eye in the sky.Spy Streak's motto

Fiction

Ask Vector Prime

Spy Streak was originally a Predacon named Attack Bird. A forgettable Predacon, at that! Ask Vector Prime, 2015/08/28

3H comics

I'll take stupid questions for $500.

Spy Streak was a Vehicon General created by Megatron to help establish air superiority in the fight against the ever-growing number of Maximals, Wreckers, and other insurgents on Cybertron.

Megatron sent Spy Streak and his Stealth Drones to fight alongside a horde of "chase-model drones", Demolition Drones, Blastcharge, Quake, and their drones to guard an old Autobot shuttle from the Wreckers, who wished to use it to get offworld. Spy Streak's drones proved to be inferior to the Decepticons Cyclonus and Skywarp and the Predacon Rotorbolt, and the Wreckers soon had control of the sky.

As the battle drew to a close and the Wreckers boarded the shuttle, Spy Streak was pinned under some debris after a shot from Arcee. He could only look on in horror and disbelief as the shuttle blasted off, and the complex was consumed by a gigantic explosion from a bomb left by Cyclonus. Spy Streak was presumably destroyed in the blast. Departure

Toys

Beast Machines

If only I had hands, I could have been an artist.

• Spy Streak (Basic, 2001)

• Accessories: 2 missiles
• Known designers: Takashi Kunihiro (TakaraTomy)

Released in the sixth wave of Beast Machines Basics, Spy Streak is an olive, red, and yellow Cybertronic jet, resembling a heavily stylized SR-71 Blackbird. As Spy Streak was released in the "Battle for the Spark" portion of the Beast Machines toyline, his spark crystal and its housing are used to activate his nosecone-claw gimmick. In jet mode, this gimmick is linked up to his twin missile launcher, automatically firing the missiles as the claw opens.

This mold was also used to make Robots in Disguise Nightcruz and the 2003 Universe series Fireflight.

• More information on Spy Streak at TFU.info

Notes

• Inexplicably, Spy Streak was originally solicited by retailers (such as BigBadToyStore) as Attack Bird. This was later made into his previous Predacon name in the 2015 Facebook edition of Ask Vector Prime.