Power Up VT6

Power Up VT6 is a Decepticon Real Gear Robot from the Transformers portion of the live-action film series continuity family.

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Video Games will rot your brain. With lasers.

Video games rot your brain, kids. At least, this one will. Power Up VT6 can scramble and delete data in nearby machines easily, and his screen can send bad things into your head. Once an ordinary handheld game system given life by the AllSpark, he now lives to cause trouble and sow discord.

“	Gaming the System	”
—Power Up VT6's packaging tagline

Fiction

Toy bios

Power Up and Zoom Out 25X have teamed up to form the self-designated "Brain Scrambler Team" and screw with human children for kicks. Zoom Out manufactures embarrassing or incriminating videos for parents to find while Power Up scrambles the poor kid's brains so they can't defend themselves. This accomplishes nothing for the Decepticon cause really, but is good dickish fun for these two. Brain Scrambler Team toy bio

Toys

Transformers (2007)

• Power Up VT6 (Real Gear Robots, 2007)
  • TakaraTomy ID number: MD-06

• Known designers: Bill Rawley (Hasbro)

Part of the first wave of Transformers Real Gear Robots, Power Up VT6 transforms into a (non-functional) hand-held video game system. Although there isn't a single direct real-life equivalent model, his design seems to be an amalgamation of multiple different portable consoles from the mid-2000s: the overall design configuration is reminiscent of the first version of the Game Boy Advance, albeit featuring a somewhat more square-ish look that, coupled with the small size of the figure, also bears some semblance to the Game Boy Micro. Unlike Nintendo's Game Boy consoles, Power Up VT6 features four face buttons rather than two, making his controller configuration more similar to devices like the PlayStation Portable, and the large bordering around the screen also suggests some design cues from the WonderSwan. Like all Real Gear Robots toys, his robot mode is apparently at 1:1 scale.

Interestingly, the colors of the face buttons (blue, green, yellow and red) follow in the tradition of the Japanese and European releases of the Super Nintendo and the Sega Dreamcast, rather than what would be more common for a portable console within this toy's era.

There is a notable variation between the Hasbro and Takara releases for this toy. In the Hasbro version, his screen shows Cybertron Jetfire as a video-game character, as the Real Gear Robots were originally designed for release in the Cybertron line. The Takara version, on the other hand, has a sticker showing movie-characters Barricade and Optimus Prime in a one-on-one beat-em-up style game. (Barricade appears to be winning.)

This mold was also used to make Hacker X-3.

• More information on Power Up VT6 at TFU.info

• Brain Scrambler Team (Multi-pack, 2007)

Power Up VT6 was also available in a Walmart exclusive two-pack with Zoom Out 25X. Bot toys are identical to their individual releases.

Notes

• The appearance of Jetfire in the Hasbro Power Up VT6's screen is evidence of the Real Gear Robots' original release plan as late-series additions to the Cybertron toyline.

Foreign names

• French: Console Video VT6 (Canada)
• Spanish: Consola de Juegos VT6