Cobybot

The Cobybot is a machine from the Cybertron portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

This one small thing sold a whole lot of expensive redundancy.

Rebuilt from the remains of a deactivated Scrapmetal, the Cobybot allows human Coby Hansen to finally join his Autobot friends on the battlefield. Retrofitted to allow a human pilot to control it and armed with a variety of (non-lethal) weapons and gadgets, the Cobybot is a shining example of Coby's mechanical genius.

His brother Bud and friend Lori both want one too.

Fiction

Cybertron cartoon

After getting his hands on a deactivated Scrapmetal chassis, Coby set to work retrofitting it, to keep from getting too depressed over his brother Bud having gone missing. He loaded it onto the colony-ship Ogygia as the Autobots prepared to make their way to the alternate universe where Gigantion was transported to. Warp

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He's a member of the Wrenchers.

When the Autobots discovered where the Atlantis ship had crashed, Coby infiltrated the ship in his new Cobybot, locating Bud, Jolt, and Reverb, returning them to safety. Back at the ship, Coby showed off his work, even converting it to robot mode. Optimus Prime approved, and gave the machine an Autobot sigil as well.

Later, when Jolt was kidnapped by the Decepticons Ransack and Crumplezone, Coby took the Cobybot out to get the Mini-Con back. He threw a ball full of Quickmix's special instant-dry cement at their feet, giving Prime the chance to knock the Decepticons for a loop (after they'd thrown away their captive). City

Toys

Galaxy Force

Sometimes, when Cobybot forgets he's a toy, he looks at his shin to remind himself.

• Sonic Convoy (Multi-pack, 2005)
  • ID number: EX-02
  • Accessories: Sawblade-sword, Earth Cyber Key

A retooling and partial redeco of the Scrapmetal toy, the Coby Sen'yō Ramble uses the same red, black and gray plastics as the Takara red version of "Ramble", but replaces the transparent red plastic with neon yellow-green transparent plastic, and a new (sort of, see below) head. It transforms into a four-legged "spider tank" with a rear-mounted cannon. Inserting a Cyber Key into the back end of the cannon releases a spring-loaded, clear-plastic sawblade-sword from the main chamber of the cannon. This blade can be removed from the assembly and hand-held thanks to its 5 mm post base (indented to prevent it from being placed back into the cannon incorrectly). In robot mode, its fists can be covered with the tank-mode spikes, or with immobile "pile drivers". The crane-arm can be oriented on either shoulder thanks to the 360-degree swivel of the "shoulderpads" assembly; the default position is on its right shoulder.

This toy was only available as part of the "Sonic Convoy" gift set, a Japanese Toys"R"Us exclusive, with redecos of Optimus Prime and Wing Saber. None of the toys in this set came with bio/Tech Spec cards.

For BotCon 2006, attendees of the bonus "painting workshop" received two sets of unpainted, unassembled red Scrapmetal (to be made into Universe versions of Rumble and Inferno). These sets included the parts to the Coby version, which are part of the mold-sprues of every Scrapmetal toy. However, the clear-plastic colors are different from the Coby Sen'yō Rumble proper, using the normal clear-red rather than clear-bright-green.

Notes

• The head sculpt used for the Cobybot was the original vision designed for the Scrapmetal toy. Hasbro felt the sculpt ultimately looked too heroic, and redesigned it to the more bug-like form of the final product. However, since Takara had already put work into the sculpt, they decided to use it for the exclusive.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Coby Sen'yō Rumble (コビー専用ランブル, "Coby's Exclusive Rumble")