Trip-Up

Trip-Up is an Autobot Micromaster from the Generation 1 continuity family.

All you want to do is ride around, Trip-Up. (Ride, Trip-Up, ride.)

Trip-Up of the Hot Rod Patrol is always getting into fights. He lets his fists do the talking in just about any situation, no matter how unnecessary violence — or even the threat of it — might be. Big Daddy doesn't seem to care much about his behavioral problem so long as it doesn't actively affect the team's performance on a mission... though is is mildly worried that Hubs might start thinking he should act like that too.

His name is more-than-usually inexplicable.

In Japan, the individual Micromasters received little to no individual characterization, being portrayed on the whole as childlike.

French-Canadian name: Jambette

Japanese name: Vanishing

Fiction

Dreamwave comics continuity

Forthcoming.

Toys

Generation 1

• Hot Rod Patrol (Micromaster Patrol, 1990)

Trip-Up transforms into a Ford Mustang hot rod with an exposed engine block. He was only available in the Hot Rod Patrol 4-pack with his teammates Big Daddy, Greaser and Hubs.

Battlestars

• Hot Rod Team (Micro Trailer Team, 1991)

The Hot Rod Patrol was released in Japan during Battlestars with no notable changes. However, this version of the Team did come with Micro Trailer #2.

Trivia

• Most — if not all — of the toys pictured in the 1991 Hasbro Transformers catalog are unfinished prototypes or mock-ups, and a variety of differences from final product pop up. In Trip-Up's case, the main difference is that the catalog has him with a blue robot mode face rather than the final toy's white.

External links

• Trip-Up at TFU.info

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