Raiden

Raiden is an Autobot from the Headmasters portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

God of thunder! And rock and roll!

Raiden is the combined form of the six Trainbots Kaen, Getsuei, Seizan, Shouki, Suiken, and Yukikaze.

Each member transforms into a different high speed or bullet train native to their home land of Japan. Raiden is an ambitious gestalt. He maintains an active rivalry with Devastator and plans on challenging the Decepticon giant Predaking next.

He is The Robot Train.

RTM dub name: The Robot Train, Grimlock

Fiction

The Headmasters

Voice Actor: Keiichi Noda (Japan)

When confronted by Decepticon combiner teams, Raiden was always ready to fight back using his terrific strength and Train Bazooka. He was the only new combiner team introduced during the series.

The Trainbot's combined train mode was used for travel between planets with the aid of the Space Bridge

Toys

The Headmasters

• Raiden (Trainbot, 1987)

Japanese ID number: C-131

Released only in Japan, Raiden's toy dates back to the Diaclone line, similar to the Constructicons. For Headmasters, the Trainbots were available individually or in a gift set. They were later re-released during the Zone series. Like Devastator, each Trainbot member becomes a specific part of Raiden; appendages cannot be swapped like the later "Scramble City" combiners.

• Raiden (TF Jr., 1987)

Trivia

"Go and fight! Something something Doot doot dooooo!"

• The Trainbots combined train form appears in the opening credits of Masterforce, but not in the series itself. The series creators seem to have intended to to use the Robot Train to travel back and forth to Athenia, more closely tying Masterforce to previous Transformers series, but the idea as quietly dropped.

External Links

• Raiden at TFU.info

• Raiden at Transformers @ The Moon

From Teletraan I: The Transformers Wiki, a Wikia wiki.