Stripmine

Stripmine is a Gigantion Mini-Con from the Cybertron portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

Stripmine is the Mini-Con partner to Quickmix, Gigantion leader Metroplex's right-hand mech. Presumably, this means Stripmine holds a similar position among the Mini-Cons of Gigantion. He is quite enthusiastic about whatever task he is assigned to, throwing himself wholly into it all the while cracking jokes with his larger partner. Though this makes him well-liked, sometimes it seems like Stripmine enjoys fighting just a little too much.

Fiction

My shoulder angel!

Cybertron cartoon

When Starscream began powering up the crashed Atlantis starships' main guns, Quickmix decided to cut him short by covering the entire ship in his quick-drying cement. Stripmine leapt to his station on Quickmix's vehicle mode tower, and soon the Atlantis was entombed, a job well-done! City

Stripmine later helped Quickmix and Menasor in the making of raw materials to build a new Space Bridge generator so they could return to Cybertron. Guardian

After the final defeat of Galvatron and the closing of the Unicron Singularity, Stripmine was at the re-launching of the four colony-world ships. He and the other Gigantion Mini-Cons said their good-byes to the Recon Mini-Con Team, who had decided to stay on Earth with their human friends. Presumably, he joined Quickmix as part of the crew of the Ogygia, heading into the depths of the cosmos to find new civilizations and bring them into the new Space Bridge project. Beginning

Toys

Cybertron

"Please, let me hold the enemy for 10 seconds sharp!"

• Quickmix (Voyager-Class, 2006)

• Known designers: Eric Siebenaler (Hasbro), Takio Ejima (TakaraTomy)

Released in the seventh wave of Cybertron Voyagers, packaged with his larger partner Quickmix, Stripmine transforms into a Cybertronic treaded vehicle with a cannon of some form on the top, possibly a laser-drill or a variant of a MASER tank. Whatever it is, it looks like the Negavator. He can stand on the "control panel" portion of Quickmix's vehicle mode above the mixing drum, or attach to it in vehicle mode.

Due to a design flaw, Stripmine cannot Powerlinx to most toys in vehicle mode, due to the treads blocking the socket. (You can simply bend them back so that they bracket the drill, creating a weapon mode a la several Armada Mini-con molds) However, though Quickmix's instructions fail to show it, he does have a peg that allows his big buddy to hold him as an odd rifle-sorta... weapon? Also not noted is that Quickmix's pipe blaster can peg into the Powerlinx socket to create a bigger weapon, reminiscent of the Double Targetmasters' gimmick. Quite fitting, given Stripmine's resemblance to Boomer.

In Japan, "Blendar" and "Kiribull" were only available through e-HOBBY's online ordering service. He was basically the Hasbro release complete with packaging (with the legal information covered in stickers full of Japanese legal information), in October of 2006... ten months after Galaxy Force stopped in Japan.

This mold was also used to make Universe Drill Bit.

• More information on Stripmine at TFU.info

Notes

Cybertron character model

Foreign names

• Japanese: Kiribull (キリブル Kiriburu)