Butla

Butla is a Decepticon drone from the Legends portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

Butla (バトラ Batora) is Skullcruncher's bird-type Partner Drone who helps keep his teeth clean. Butla also doubles as an excellent hostage taker/shield user.

Fiction

Transformers Legends comic

Butla was created by Tarantulas to complement Skullcruncher's new transtector, and was ridden into battle by Weirdwolf during their attack on Tokyo. When the Autobots showed up to stop them, Weirdwolf had Butla grab Chromedome and held him hostage by forcing him into the drone's dinosaur mode. Though the Decepticons were defeated, Chromedome was unable to get out of Butla and had to live his life as a dinosaur from then on. Bonus Edition Vol. 22 As such, he was in Butla when he reacted to Rattrap getting his hands on Master-Braces, Bonus Edition Vol. 28 and when he went out drinking with Hardhead after a day's work. The two were separated when Rarigo punched Chromedome straight out of Butla, who then returned to the Decepticons. Bonus Edition Vol. 30 Skullcruncher later used his Butla Shot mode to attack Ginrai's transtector, only for it to automatically repair any damage they caused. The Headmasters' Partner Drones were then defeated when Ginrai attacked them with Chōkon Power. Bonus Edition Vol. 35

Having developed a connection to Chromedome, Butla started hanging out at Axalon Trading Company HQ and came along when the Autobot Headmasters set out to battle Scorponok. Chromedome told the bird to combine with Grimlock so they could join the battle in dinosaur form, and like before the two remained combined afterwards. LGEX Headmaster Set Chapter

Toys

Legends

• Skull (Skullcruncher) (2016-07-23)
  • ID number: LG22

Available with Legends Skull, Butla is a redeco of the gun/bird/dinosaur accessory which was originally included with Crashbash. Butla can transform into a bird (which can be ridden by Skull's Headmaster stage in botmode), a dinosaur (which is completed by Skull's Headmaster forming its lower jaw and arms) or a gun that can be used by larger figures.

As with Crashbash and his redecoes/retools, care must be taken with the gun mode's handle: the handle fits tightly in many 5mm-compatible closed hands, and combined with the handle's lack of metal pin running through the joint, removing it by force causes the handle to pop out of the joint.

Titans Return mold: Crashbash
Titan Master: Hasbro: Titans Return Crashbash Clobber Overboard TakaraTomy: Legends LG24 Cancer LG-EX Grimlock Accessory: Hasbro: Titans Return Crashbash's partner drone Clobber's partner drone Overboard's partner drone TakaraTomy: Legends LG22 Butla LG34 Servant

Notes

• Butla is based on "butler" (バトラー batorā), establishing a pattern with his mold-mate Servant.
• Butla's behavior is based on stories about cleaning symbiosis between crocodiles and certain birds (though actual examples of this behavior are rare).