Emergency Mini-Con Team

Let's fight the red stuff with the wet stuff!

The Emergency Mini-Con Team specializes in search-and-rescue operations in (naturally) emergency situations. Each member is dedicated and highly skilled, and have saved countless lives. Naturally, they find themseves more in league with the Autobots.

The Emergency Mini-Con Team is composed of...

• Firebot the crash-response truck.
• Makeshift the twin-rotor helicopter.
• Prowl the Cybertronic police car.

Fiction

Ask Vector Prime

In Aurex 606.0 Kappa, the Emergency Mini-Con Team assisted Red Alert, Longarm, Smokescreen, and Jolt in a battle against Landslide, Drench, and Wind Sheer. Ask Vector Prime, 14/9/2015

Toys

Armada

• Emergency Mini-Con Team (Mini-Con Team, 2003)
  • Takara ID number: MM-20
  • Takara release date: September 11 2003

• Known designers: Shogo Hasui (Takara)

The Emergency Mini-Con Team (Firebot, Makeshift, and Prowl) are a trio of tiny robots who turn into tiny emergency vehicles. As Mini-Cons, they each have a Powerlinx port that allows them to connect to toys with compatible Powerlinx plugs, activating gimmicks on the larger toys when attached to a "live" plug. Each one also has a third "weapon" mode that can be used by larger toys; Makeshift and Firebot can only be used via Powerlinx plug, while Prowl's pistol mode is designed to be both Powerlinxed and hand-held.

This version of the Team was nominally available as a three-pack, sold in third assortment of Mini-Con teams in Hasbro's Armada line. In Japan, the pack was part of the eighth wave of Takara's Legend of the Microns product in Japan. Aside from packaging, there are no noteworthy differences between the two companies' releases.

This mold-set was also used to make the Hazard Team, First Responder Mini-Con Team, Hellflame Mini-Con Team, and the Cybertron Mini-Con Council of Sages.

• Emergency Micron Exdimensions (2003)
  • ID number: MM-21
  • release date: September 11 2003

A somewhat more limited-edition—but still regular retail—redeco of the Emergency Team was released by Takara as part of the Exdimensions series, the only product released in the eleventh and final wave of Legend of the Microns. This set decos the Team primarily in dark blue and orange plastics.

This deco was repurposed as the Accident Recovery Mini-Con Team, and the Shattered Glass Targetmasters Holepunch, Nightstick and Pinpointer.

• Emergency Mini-Con Team (Mini-Con Team, 2003)

A redeco of the Team was released in the seventh and final wave of Armada Mini-Con sets. This time the Team was redecoed in a blue-and-red theme that was 2/3rds Generation 1 homage: Prowl with a rather Smokescreen-like racing theme, Firebot in light blue similar to Hot Spot... and Makeshift as the odd bot out.

Universe (2003)

• Fireflight with Firebot & Thunderwing (Deluxe Class, 2004)
• Stockade & Magna Stampede with Prowl & Terradive (Ultra Class, 2004)
• Autobot Whirl with Gunbarrel & Makeshift (Ultra Class, 2004)

The Emergency Team were redecoed for the 2003 Universe toyline, in a deco theme that is basically a darker, more desaturated version of the Takara Hazard Team. Rather than being sold in a complete set however, thet were split up among three different Autobot multi-packs.

Firebot came in a Deluxe set with Fireflight. Prowl was packed in an Ultra-class set with Stockade and Magna Stampede, and Makeshift came in another Ultra-class set, this one with Whirl.

Notes

• Designer Aaron Archer characterised these Mini-Cons as Triple Changers.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Emergency Micron (エマージェンシーマイクロン Emājenshī Maikuron)
• French: L'équipe d'urgence des Minimodus (Canada)
• Spanish: Los Minimodus - Equipo de Emergencia