Brakedown (Energon)

The name or term "Brakedown/Breakdown" refers to more than one character or idea. For a list of other meanings, see Breakdown (disambiguation).

Brakedown is an unreleased Mini-Con from the Energon portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

I'm too sexy for my car.

Brakedown would have been one of the many Autobot-allied Mini-Cons who defend the deposits of raw Energon ore from the Terrorcons and Decepticons. He would have been teamed up with Clocker and Override.

Toys

Energon

Broken down.

• Ultra Magnus (Ultra, 2004 (unreleased version))

A planned redeco of the Armada Street Speed Mini-Con Team member Oval, Brakedown transforms into a Saleen S7 luxury car. The coloration of the entire team is based on the Japanese market exclusive Super Stunt Team, just with the colors rotated between the three of them (with Brakedown using Redline's colors on Flat-Out's sculpt).

Ultimately, Brakedown was never released at retail. The redecoed Street Speed Team members were displayed at OTFCC 2003, and the toys were intended to be included with Energon Ultra Magnus, but they were replaced with same-character redecos of the Space Mini-Con Team presumably at the last possible minute. Leaked packaged samples of Ultra Magnus that have made it out into the secondary market contain the Street Speed Mini-Cons in their intended colors (see also the image to the right), and the final release version still lists them on both sides of the packaging, although the back of the box shows them in the original Armada Street Speed Team's colors (as well as Ultra Magnus in Armada Overload's colors). The Japanese "USA Edition" release (in minimally modified Hasbro packaging) still lists the Street Speed Team on the front of the box, but covers the portion on the back that depicts the Street Speed Mini-Cons with a grayscale sticker depicting the Space Team, whereas the European packaging lists and depicts the Space Team (albeit still in their Armada colors).

The same sculpt is used by Flat-Out (as mentioned above) and Nightscream, and a retooled version originally used for the Cybertron version of Oval was also used for Plug.

Your bargaining posture is highly dubious. Proceed on your way to oblivion. This item has been canceled, with no current plans for release.

Notes

• A popular fan-theory posits that this change was due to the redecoed Street Speed Team's (intentional) resemblance to the Super Stunt Team colors. But if that were the case, it seems that it would have been a lot easier on Hasbro's part to simply stick with the intended sculpts and change their colors rather than replacing the sculpts themselves.
• Since Hasbro had gone through the process of trademarking the names, they were later used in the Cybertron series for three inhabitants of Velocitron (in Brakedown's case, Cybertron Brakedown).