Demolition Team

When it absolutely, positively must be destroyed overnight.

Each member of the Demolition Team is an expert in engineering and construction, which makes them all the more effective at their actual function: turning things into piles of unidentifiable rubble. Allied with the Decepticons, these guys are sent in first to weaken Autobot fortifications, making it easier for the main army to swarm in.

The Demolition Team consists of...

• Broadside the tank.
• Sledge the Backhoe loader.
• Wideload the dump truck.

Sometimes they are known as the Demolition Patrol.

Fiction

Ask Vector Prime

The Demolition Team was one of several Decepticon Mini-Con teams dispatched to the Beast Wars of Aurex 615.03 Epsilon on board the Doomsday. Ask Vector Prime, 2015/09/23

Beast Wars: Uprising

Sledge and Wideload survived the Grand Uprising and auditioned for spots on the Constructicons. Wideload made it, but Sledge did not. The Inexorable March

2005 IDW continuity

Though the Demolition Team survived the Great War, they opted not to return to Cybertron once it became clear the planet was ruled by the Autobots and Neutrals. Six years later, they were recruited by Bludgeon into the Decepticon Vengeance Division, serving as the bridge crew of his Worldsweeper. At Starscream's command, the DVD set out for G Nebula 89 to do battle with Unicron. The fleet's attempt to contain and destroy the Chaos Bringer failed miserably owing to Bludgeon's loyalty to the monster who simply teleported away before unleashing the Maximals on the flagship much to the Demolition Team's fear and horror. Stranger Eons

Like the rest of the fleet, the Demolition Team was mutated into Maximal-like forms by Ore-11 to serve as Unicron's heralds when the Chaos Bringer attacked Cybertron itself. When Victorion boarded the flagship, they served as the nominal resistance. Our Finest After Unicron had destroyed Cybertron, the fleet jumped to the Sol system where the Demolition Team proclaimed their loyalty to Unicron and their inability to feel their faces. Road's End

As the fleet began their final approach over Earth, the Demolition Team noted that both Metroplex and Trypticon had vanished before the two Titans space bridged atop their ship. Assembly At Bludgeon's command, they set course for the Eastern Seaboard of the United States to wreak mindless destruction before the Dinobots boarded the warship. Even with their durability augmented by the Ore's power, the Demolition Team was heavily burnt by the Autobot commandos, dying soon after when the Worldsweeper crashed on the White House's lawn. Ceremony

Toys

Classics

• Demolition Team (Mini-Con Team, 2006)

Sold only as a complete set of three robots, the Demolition Team is part of the first wave of the Classics Mini-Cons.

The whole set of molds was used to make Heavytread, Backstop, and Knockdown from the Universe Mini-Cons 12-pack.

Notes

• The instructions erroneously say, "Reverse order of instructions to convert back into beasts."