Axlegrease

Axlegrease is a Decepticon Junkion Weaponizer from the Legacy portion of the Generation 1 continuity family.

me nd my pirate girlfriend [holdin hands]
me: bb ur hands r so cold
her: that me hook

The traitorous Junkion Axlegrease rocks the blue and purple look. Including her immobilizing dual impulse blasters, she wields a dangerous amount of weapons, and she "borrows" the parts of opponents she defeats, so it's a pity the Decepticons have hired her services first.

Fiction

Legacy VS500 Collection Special Comic

Axlegrease, clad in a makeshift race queen outfit, was a spectator of the second week of the Speedia 500 on Velocitron. Velocitron Speedia 500 Part 3

Toys

Legacy

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• Axlegrease (Deluxe Class, 2023)

• TakaraTomy ID number: TL-45
• TakaraTomy release date: October 28, 2023
• Accessories: Left & right engine block halves/blasters, left & right exhaust pipes, left & right thrusters, hook
• Known designers: Mark Maher (Hasbro), Takio Ejima (TakaraTomy), Marcelo Matere (concept art)

Part of the third wave of Legacy: Evolution Deluxe Class figures, Axlegrease is a retooling of Scraphook, transforming into a junky, post-apocalyptic muscle car. She includes Scraphook's exhaust pipes and hook, but instead of his towing arm and spare tire, she includes two thrusters which can be used as cannons for her robot mode. Her vehicle engine block splits to form two blasters as well. Similar to Scraphook, her lower-elbow joints are made of a softer plastic, which often causes her arms to pop off when attempting to rotate or transform them, but they're just as easily reattached.

Axlegrease's Evo-Fusion function is analogous to the Weaponizer gimmick from the War for Cybertron Trilogy toylines: her body splits apart to form armor and weapon enhancements for her allies. Her instructions specifically call out a combined vehicle mode with Crashbar despite being in opposing factions; her vehicle front end is removed, split in half, and attached to Crashbar's saddlebags. Unlike previous figures of this nature, Axlegrease does not need to be disassembled to change from robot to vehicle and back, similar to other Legacy Junkions.

Oddly, her package art depicts her cannons as being attached to her forearms via the rear peg, which does not actually work with the toy, due to clearance issues with the cannons' short rear pegs and impeding kibble.

Axlegrease's head sculpt is based on Nancy, while her color scheme is based on the Shattered Glass Junkions.

The original version of this mold was also used to make Buzzworthy Bumblebee Tow-Line.

• Designer commentary on Axlegrease from Mark Maher on Instagram

Notes

Foreign names

• Japanese: Axelgrease (アクセルグリース Akuserugurīsu)