Stripmine

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

Not as unattractive as Uma Thurman.

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

Cybertron cartoon

My shoulder-angel!

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

He was present at the launching of the four colony-world ships after the death of Galvatron, and said good-bye to the Recon Mini-Con Team, since they were staying on Earth with their human friends while (presumably) the other Mini-Cons were sticking with their larger partners. As such, it's likely Stripmine was part of the new crew of the Ogygia, though he isn't explicitly shown. Beginning

Toys

Cybertron

• Quickmix (Voyager-Class, 2006)

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. He was available only with his larger partner.

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, Quickmix was only available through Takara's e-HOBBY internet store.

This mold was also used to make Universe Drill Bit.

• More information on Stripmine at TFU.info

Notes

Foreign names

• Japanese: Kiribull (キリブル Kiriburu)