Thermidor

Thermidor be a Decepticon from the Robots in Disguise portion of the Aligned continuity family.

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Full name: Thermidor Aux Crevettes With A Mornay Sauce Garnished With Truffle Pâté, Brandy And With A Fried Egg On Top And Spam.

Avast! Thermidor be the crustiest crustacean ever to ply the Cybertronian space lanes, a cranky ole Lobstercon who's thrown his lot in with the Scavengers after that bilge rat Clawtrap pilfered his prized ship from him. Quick with a jibe and even quicker with a claw, Thermidor's eager to keelhaul any landlubbers who get in his way. He's not fond of his Mini-Con partner Tricerashot, who has yet to develop his sea legs when it comes to lootin', plunderin', and the finer points o' Decepticon piracy.

Fiction

2015 Robots in Disguise cartoon

Voice actor: Jim Cummings (English), Minoru Hirota (Japanese), Giovanni Battezzato (Italian)

Just when you thought "Card Games on Motorcycles" was too much.

Thermidor looked on when Scatterspike and Sawtooth returned to the Scavengers' base. Strongarm's Big Score Teamed with Tricerashot, Thermidor went in search of a relic, which he secretly intended to use to retake command of his ship from Clawtrap. He located the relic in a cave, only to come up against the formidable team of Grimlock and Brother Gunter. When the rest of Team Bee arrived, Thermidor and Tricerashot fled by road. Discovering that their GroundBridge was temporarily out, Thermidor thought it would be a good idea to make a diversion by threatening to bring down a ski lift full of people, however he was neatly defeated by Grimlock. He and Tricerashot were dragged back through a GroundBridge portal by Clawtrap, minus the relic. Pretzel Logic

He and the other Scavengers tracked a signal to an automated vessel, where they found the Dark Star Saber, only for the Mini-Cons to run off in their sub-orbital craft, and for Starscream to arrive and claim the sword, using it to sweep them all into the sea. Mighty Big Trouble Using the relics they'd recovered, the scavengers were able to hold their own, especially when Thermidor discovered his relic could create energy shields. The scavengers finally managed to trap the Autobots in a net, only for Starscream to swoop in and snatch up the Mini-Cons. Mini-Con Madness Thermidor attempted to claim Optimus's Prime Decepticon Hunter, but only succeeded in shorting out the energy net. With some help from Tricerashot, the Autobots defeated the Scavengers and put them in restraints; they were then secured by Optimus Prime aboard his ship for transport back to Cybertron and justice. Worthy

Toys

Robots in Disguise (2015)

• Thermidor (Warrior Class, 2017)

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He's basically alternate universe Zoidberg on steroids.

• • Japanese release date: ???
  • Japanese ID Number: N/A
  • Accessories: Blasters

Part of the 11th wave of the Warrior Class line, and the third wave of the Combiner Force subline, Thermidor is a retool/recolor of Bisk and as such transforms from a lobster-bot into a futuristic sports car. He comes with a pair of non-firing blasters, which can slot into the top of his claws via 5mm posts. Like his mold-mate Bisk, two-thirds of his head is molded in a softer plastic to safely transform the figure without damaging any of his many spindly facial features.

Thermidor's scannable Decepticon insignia is centered on his robot front, accessible while still in-package.

Notes

• As mentioned in the section above, Thermidor shares a body-type with Bisk, but has a totally different head that lacks eyestalks and features a horn-like protrusion above his eyes (just like on real lobsters).
• Like Bisk, his name is a reference to a lobster dish—in his case lobster thermidor.
• Believe it or not, blue lobsters actually exist! They're incredibly rare, though. It's estimated only one in two million lobsters are the same bright blue Thermidor is.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Thermidor (サーミドー, Sāmidō)