Destruction Mini-Con Team

This article is about the Mini-Con Team. For the Bruticus Maximus combiner team, see Destruction Team.

We hate EVERYBODY.

The Destruction Mini-Con Team do not play well with others. Though their destructive capabilities land them in the hands of the Decepticons more often than not, they despise all Bulks, and are fierce in their goal of Mini-Con independence. So fierce that they are willing to sacrifice anyone, even their own, for their goal.

They are also sometimes known as the Road Wrecker Team.

The Destruction Mini-Con Team is composed of...

• Buzzsaw the bucket-wheel excavator.
• Drill Bit the tunneling machine.
• Dualor the Gepard anti-aircraft tank.

Fiction

Armada cartoon

The Destruction team acted as a full team for the first time in a plan set up by Megatron. They sent a signal to the Earth-bound Mini-Cons and later helped Megatron lead the Autobots on a chase while teleporting. They fired at Optimus Prime until a decided moment and then turned their attack on Megatron, defecting to the Autobot side. Vow

Dreamwave Armada comic

Drill Bit and the rest of the Destruction Team appeared to have been among the many Mini-Cons that were captured, experimented on, and enslaved by the Decepticons during the attack on Cyber City, and as such didn't get to evacuate Cybertron alongside most other Mini-Cons. Armada #2 Thankfully, this wasn't really the case, as they were on the escape vessel when it crashed on Earth's moon. Led by Dualor, the Mini-Cons on the Moon constructed a fortress base where they could live in peace, then summoned the Mini-Cons on Earth to join them. Armada #9 To deter the Autobots from trying to rescue their friends, they stuffed Rad White into an orbital mine to keep them from attacking the moonbase. While overseeing the defenses during the Decepticons' inevitable assault, Leader-1 suddenly attacked them. Armada #10 The Destruction Team were knocked unconscious and were helpless to resist when Megatron showed up and captured them. Armada #11

The Destruction Team didn't give up so easily, though. By activating a failsafe program, they overloaded the Decepticons with power and saved themselves from being used against their will. This allowed Dualor to strike a deal with Megatron: They'd lend the Decepticons their strength in exchange for some degree of leadership. Megatron accepted and handed them to Cyclonus, whom they promptly drove insane with power anyway. Fire & Ice Megatron mused that he knew that the Mini-Cons would betray him, then retrieved them alongside the unconscious Cyclonus. Armada #13

The Destruction Team were subsequently punished via Punishment Cube. Worlds Collide, Part 1 of 4 They were not among the Decepticon-held Mini-Cons released to join the fight against Unicron. Megatron was vague on their fate, simply saying that the Decepticons were "better off without them". The End

Toys

Armada

• Destruction Mini-Con Team (Basic, 2002/2003)
  • Japanese ID number: MM-04

The Destruction Mini-Con Team was released in the second wave of Armada Mini-Con three-packs. All 3 members feature a gear-wheel system that causes some part of their vehicle mode to move when rolled in vehicle mode. They can also be attached to the underside of the Armada Cyclonus mold, interacting with the Decepticon’s gear-wheel rotor system so the same part moves as Cyclonus's rotor-trigger is pulled.

• Sandstorm and Cannon with Destruction Micron
  • Japanese ID number: MS-04

• Destruction Micron Exdimensions (Basic, 2003)
  • Japanese ID number: MM-09

A somewhat more limited-edition—but still regular retail—redeco of the Destruction Team was released by Takara as part of the Exdimensions series. This deco was repurposed as the Heavy Machinery Mini-Con Team.

• Road Wrecker Mini-Con Team (Basic, 2003)

Released in the sixth wave of Armada Mini-Con three-packs, a green-and-gray redeco of the Destruction Team was put out under a new Team name, but as the same individual characters.

This set was released under the Unicron Battles branding, hyping up the release of the giant Unicron toy.

Energon

• Road Wrecker Mini-Con Team & Night Attack Mini-Con Team

An unaltered version of the original-deco Destruction Team, yet still called by the "Road Wrecker" name, was released as part of an Energon-series "Mini-Con 6-pack" with the Night Attack Mini-Con Team.

This pack was a shared exclusive to both Toys"R"Us and Walmart stores in the US.

Notes

• A team of miscolored Mini-Cons based on the Destruction Team in the first two issues of Dreamwave's Armada comic is apparently not the real Destruction Team; this trio was left behind on Cybertron when everyone else escaped, and never seen again.

• Simon Furman has said in the letters page of "Multiplicity, Pt. 3" that it can be assumed that Megatron strapped the Destruction Team to a rocket and fired them into the sun, in regards to their ambiguous fate in the Armada comic.

Foreign names

• Japanese: Destruction Micron (デストラクションマイクロン Desutorakushon Maikuron)
• French: Équipe de Destruction des Minimodus ("Destruction Mini-Con Team"), Équipe de Démolition Routière des Minimodus ("Road Demolition Mini-Con Team")
• Spanish: Los Minimodus - Equipo de Destrucción ("The Mini-Cons - Destruction Team"), Los Minimodus - Equipo Demoledor Terrestre ("The Mini-Cons - Ground Demolishing Team")