Starburst

Starburst is a Decepticon-aligned Mini-Con from the Cybertron portion of the Unicron Trilogy continuity family.

The Mini-Con on the far right has two or three other coworkers with lots of spare parts.

Starburst is a member of the Interstellar Marauders Mini-Con Team. Though a competent medic/mechanic, he is disliked by his crew members due to poor people skills and hygiene. He is loyal to Spacewarp, augmenting her through powerlinxing or by combining with his teammates into the Transwarp Blaster.

Fiction

Ask Vector Prime

Starburst and his teammates Boom Tube and Jump Drive were frozen in stasis lock in their combined form. Spacewarp won them as the prize in a game of high-stakes Triad held on Monacus. When she and Foldspace revived the team through the use of proton energy, the team swore allegiance to her. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/17

Toys

Universe (2003)

• Spacewarp (2004?)

Universe Spacewarp was an unproduced redeco of Armada Ultra-sized Jetfire, slated to come with a redeco of Comettor and the Space Mini-Con Team. Judging from Universe Ramjet and Sunstorm each being packaged with four redecoed Mini-Cons whose names were unchanged, Comettor would presumably have retained his name. In 2015, this unused deco became the basis of the separate character Starburst.

This set was initially intended as a Toys"R"Us exclusive but was shelved because no retail chain ultimately ended up wanting to carry it. Spacewarp was among several proposed exclusives that were ultimately put into retail limbo during the waning of the Universe line.

Ultimately, the Spacewarp concept was revived in 2007 as Timelines Astrotrain, one of the first exclusives available for purchase from the Transformers Collectors' Club. By this point, however, the Space Team molds were too worn out and were thusly replaced by a redeco of the Giant Planet Team as the Sabotage Team.

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

Notes

• Spacewarp and all of her Mini-Cons have names deriving from fictional methods of FTL travel. "Starburst" comes from Farscape.
• According to Jim Sorenson, his personality was loosely based on Futurama's Dr. Zoidberg.