Chain Gun

This article is about the Micromaster from Operation Combination. For Blitzwing's weapon from the Dreamwave Generation One continuity, see Chain gun.

Chain Gun is a Micromaster from the Operation Combination portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Chain Gun (チェーンガン Chēn Gan) is the leader of the Wing Team, and also the strongest of them. In fact, his strength is what got him the position as leader, along with his incredible skill at aerial combat and silent-flight capabilities. He prefers to stealthily attack his opponents from behind, catching them by surprise.

Fiction

Micromaster

Chain Gun was one of several Autobot Cyberdroids who were mutated into Decepticon Micromasters by a mysterious dimensional shockwave. After their ship crash-landed on Earth, he and his fellow Decepticons began causing trouble. A New Transformer Legend Begins!! Chain Gun and the Sixwing combiners observed the Autobots attempts to fight off the mind changer virus.Enter the Urban Disaster Relief Specialists!! Shortly after the arrival of Sixturbo on the Autobots' side, Chain Gun waited outside the Autobots' base while Missile Run infiltrated it, in an attempt to steal several Cyberdroid capsules. When the Decepticon was interrupted in his task, Chain Gun furiously called the mission off and ordered another one: destroy everything! The team combined into Sixwing to attack. During the course of the battle, Sixwing took a blast from the Autobots' experimental Vaccine Program Gun, intended to return their original Autobot programming, but instead giving the Wing Team the power of the Berserker. Enter the Decepticon Sixwing!!

Later, Sixwing was routed by the newly arrived Sixtrain, who used his "Red Mode" power to blast him back into his individual components. The team fled, leaving the Autobots free to examine the Decepticons' excavation site near a dormant volcano. Once the Autobots dug up a pair of metal plates of Cybertronian origin, Chain Gun called for another attack to snatch the prizes, the team once again forming Sixwing. Sixtrain! Activate Red Mode!!

Operation Combination

Years later, Chain Gun (now an Autobot once again) 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

• Sixwing (Micromaster Six-Team, 1992)

• ID number: TF-02
• Accessories: Rotor blade

Released in the Operation Combination portion of Takara's Fight! Super Robot Lifeform Transformers toyline, Chain Gun transforms into an Apache-style assault helicopter. He can also form the back or chest to any of the "kibble-jet" style of Sixteam, though his nominal placement is as the back of Sixwing.

He was only available as part of a complete Sixwing gift set, packed with his teammates Falcon, Flanker, Missile Run, Raker, and Supersonic.

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 the Universe Aerialbot Ro-Tor.

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

Micromaster

Here comes the helicopter. Second time today.

• Chain Gun (Micromaster, 2003)

• ID number: 1
• Accessories: Rotor blade, Sixwing legs

In 2003, the entire Sixwing team was redecoed as part of the third assortment of The Transformers: Micromaster toys, in individual boxes with a number visible to show which mold was inside each box. Unlike the two prior waves, the entire Team's colors have been extensively changed (well, in most cases, we'll get there), with all-new base plastic colors and new paint applications rather than stickers... plus they were sold as Decepticons. Chain Gun is broadly the same as his original deco, but he has more black paint in robot mode, an aqua rotor blade, and Decepticon sigils painted on his stabilizer wings.

On top of this, two out of every twelve toys in the shipping/display case were all-white-plastic, nigh-unpainted "Berserker"-mode chase figures with purple Autobot sigils. Even the combiner kibble was cast in white plastic, albeit a little more milky in tone. These toys came in the same boxes with the same instructions as the normal versions.

• More information on Destron Chain Gun at TFU.info
• More information on Berserker Chain Gun at TFU.info
• Destron Chain Gun toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk
• Translation of Chain Gun's Micromaster bio by Doug Dlin
• Berserker Chain Gun toy gallery at Transformertoys.co.uk

Notes

• Chain Gun, 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.
• Despite having 4 blades on his rotor just like a real AH-64 Apache in some appearances as a component of Sixwing in comics, every toy of his mold only has two.