Flight stand

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The flight stand is a figure mounting system used for displaying action figures in mid-air, rather than standing on a surface. This allows them to be supported in poses that would otherwise be impossible if the figures were balanced on their own. Typically, flight stands consist of a large flat base and an arm that can be used to hold figures. Flight stands will often hold figures through pegs of various sizes, claws, or other attachments designed to be as hidden as possible.

Some Transformers toys have hexagonal/circular flight stand ports that allow them to be directly fitted onto standardized 3mm flight stand joints. By the early 2010s, this had become a standard feature on many modern-era Transformers.

Known toy molds with flight stand ports

Note: The vast majority of flight stand compatible ports found on figures are at the base of the spine, or between the legs of a figure. Unless noted otherwise, they're likely found there on your figure.

Generations

Deluxe Autobot Skids/Crosscut Armada Starscream/Jhiaxus Windblade Arcee

Voyager Roadbuster Sky-Byte

Legends

TBA

Age of Extinction

• Evasion Mode Optimus Prime
• High Octane Bumblebee

TBA

Movie Advanced Series

• Classic Optimus Prime
• Classic Bumblebee

TBA

Combiner Wars

Legends Autobot Powerglide/Decepticon Viper Decepticon Blackjack/Rodimus Protectobot Groove/Wreck-Gar

Deluxe Alpha Bravo/Protectobot Blades/Decepticon Vortex/Skyburst/Stormclash Decepticon Dragstrip/Mirage Firefly/Quickslinger/Decepticon Blast Off Skydive/Air Raid/Fellbat/Guyhawk/Strafe/General Cicadacon Breakdown/Sunstreaker/Jumpstream/Wheeljack/Ravage (Located under the hood) Dead End/Protectobot Streetwise/Brake-Neck/Prowl/Dust Up/Smokescreen/Lightsteed Decepticon Offroad/Protectobot First Aid/Ironhide/Trailbreaker Protectobot Rook/Swindle/Autobot Hound/Predacon Tarantulas Brawl/Nosecone/Drillhorn/Ironbison/General Ramhorn Protectobot Groove/Afterbreaker

Voyager Constructicon Hook Constructicon Long Haul Constructicon Scavenger Constructicon Bonecrusher Constructicon Scrapper Constructicon Mixmaster

Leader Megatron/Armada Megatron

Unite Warriors

• Blast Off/Strafe/Shuttler

Robots in Disguise (2015)

• Stormshot

Masterpiece

• Tracks
• Road Rage
• Loudpedal

TBA

Titans Return

Legends "Give me a flight stand and I can start breakdancing!" Autobot Rewind/Decepticon Rumble Autobot Wheelie Bumblebee/Roadburn Gnaw (Gnaw actually has three: two found on his back, one found on his Sharkticon mode's jaw) Kickback Brawn (Found on the figure's shield, which becomes the top of the vehicle mode) Seaspray (Found at the back of his Titan Master cabin) Fastclash/Cloudraker (Cloudraker also has three: two on his jet underside, and one under his nosecone, which ends up on his back)

Deluxe Blurr/Brainstorm/Autobot Nautica Hardhead/Decepticon Quake Scourge/Highbrow/Windblade (Highbrow has one port on the landing gear under his cockpit and one on his back) Skullsmasher/Decepticon Krok Chromedome/Autobot Breakaway Mindwipe/Convobat Wolfwire Autobot Hot Rod Triggerhappy/Metalhawk Autobot Twinferno/Grotusque Perceptor Autobot Topspin/Twin Twist Sergeant Kup

Voyager Galvatron Sentinel Prime/Astrotrain Alpha Trion/Broadside/Tidal Wave Megatron/Blitzwing (Found on the turret of the tank mode, which moves to the back of the figure in robot mode, or bottom of jet mode) Optimus Prime/Decepticon Octone

Leader Powermaster Optimus Prime/Magnus Prime Six Shot/Quickswitch

The Last Knight

• Autobot Sqweeks (found in the undercarriage of both forms behind the kickstand)

Movie The Best

• Optimus Prime

Power of the Primes

Legends Beachcomber (Found on the engine of his vehicle mode, which becomes his backpack in robot mode) Windcharger

Deluxe Dreadwind Slug Swoop (Swoop has four: one in the traditional location at the base of his spine, and two more found on the front of his pelvis for his beast mode. One more is found under the alt-mode's jaw.)

War for Cybertron: Siege

Deluxe Sideswipe/Red Alert Cog/Powerdasher Aragon Autobot Hound Skytread/Slamdance Chromia/Nightbird Ironhide/Autobot Ratchet Autobot Sixgun/Powerdasher Cromar Prowl/Barricade/Bluestreak/Smokescreen Refraktor Brunt/Powerdasher Zetar

Voyager Optimus Prime/Classic Animation Optimus Prime Megatron/Classic Animation Megatron/Combat Megatron Starscream/ Thundercracker/Skywarp/Seeker Acid Storm/Seeker Ion Storm/Seeker Nova Storm/Decepticon Red Wing Soundwave/Soundblaster Autobot Springer

Leader Ultra Magnus Decepticon Shockwave/Galactic Man Shockwave

Revoltech

This one may be cheating, hence the separate category. Certain Revoltech figures come with stands and extra holes for those stands. Those figures will be noted, but all Revoltech figures have 3mm peg holes in their feet to use the base instead should they include one.

Yamaguchi series

• 19. Convoy
• 19fs. Ultra Magnus
• 25. Megatron
• 46. Starscream (figure stand included)
• 47. Hot Rodimus (figure stand included)

Sci-Fi series

• 30. Optimus Prime
• 38. Bumblebee
• 40. Jet Wing Ver. Optimus Prime (figure stand included)

Legacy of Revoltech

Legacy of Revoltech is a series of reissues of popular Revoltech toys, unchanged from their original releases.

• LR-008 Convoy
• LR-044 Jet Wing ver. Optimus Prime
• LR-049 Optimus Prime
• LR-050 Bumblebee

Flight stands

• Transformers Age of Extinction Figure Stand (2014)

This colorless translucent display stand was given away by Toys"R"Us Singapore with any purchase over $30 Singapore Dollars. It included a base embossed with the Age of Extinction logo, and two arms with claws.

• Transformers Exclusive Display Stand (2015)

This display stand was sold from the TakaraTomy Mall and marketed as attachable to the Transformers Masterpiece Series, Movie Advanced Series, and Legends Series. Made of colorless translucent plastic, it consists of a base with the Autobot logo, and a triple-jointed arm with a 3mm-peg to insert into flight stand ports.

• Transformers Masterpiece Stand (2015) (version 1)

This display stand was a re-deco of the above stand, and was provided as an accessory with Masterpiece Tracks and Loudpedal, in solid black and translucent purple, respectively.

• Transformers Masterpiece Stand (2018) (version 2)

The second type of Masterpiece display stand, with a serrated square-shaped base, was included with Beast Wars Megatron, Dinobot, Starscream Ver. 2.0, Skywarp Ver. 2.0, and Thundercracker Ver. 2.0 - with the base being recolored each time to better match the character.

• HasLab Victory Saber Flight Stand (2022)

When the HasLab crowd-funded Victory Saber project passed 17,000 backers, it unlocked the inclusion of a translucent blue flight stand featuring the Victory logo and the Autobot insignia. The stand features a removable 'arm', which can attach to the base in two different ways to support Victory Saber in both vehicle and robot modes.

• Anti-Gravity Pedestal Tenseg Base (2022)

Now you too can wield the eldritch magic of anti-gravity, for the low price of $17.99!

A decidedly odd release, these uniquely branded flight stands stand out from the rest by featuring a tensegrity mechanism that makes the upper platform appear as if it is floating in midair. A silver base is included with a redeco of Kingdom Ultra Magnus' inner robot as Optimus Prime, and two alternately colored bases are sold separately; one in heroic Autobot red and the other in EVIL Decepticon purple.